Welcome to The Duality of Man, an original animanga role-play that features numerous supernatural creatures. Unfortunately, these various species have distanced themselves because of the war that occurred thousands of years ago, plaguing some with eyes that only see their dualism. While others meddle themself with their differences, two groups fight, each attempting to eliminate the other in for their definition of worldly peace. These two groups of the Terror Response Syndicate (TRS) and the Assembly of Phantoms (AP). With individuals fighting merely over their differences, it brings uncertainty to the outcome of this war.
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Summer 2024
Heat has broken through into a glorious summer. The snow has entirely dried through the spring, leaving to the brilliance of the warmer months. Terror activity has risen as people are brought out of their homes, leaving the TRS in a position of consistent work. Each are attempting to maintain victory in the endless struggle for power.
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[break][break]If Selina had to be honest, hospitals are lame. She will never, ever like hospitals. For her, these institutions are big and white and lame and blank and weird and everything bad that you could spell at it. Hospitals only house the weakest of people, those who get hurt so easily they have to lie in bed for two days. Sometimes Selina wondered why they haven't died yet. It's better to be dead than to be alive and bored in a white and blank room, just sitting around and doing nothing.
[break][break]...At least that's what Selina thinks.
[break][break]The young spirit makes her way towards the stairs, occasionally avoiding the white-clothed doctors as she climbed up. There were too many patients around here, so how the hell should she find her victim around here? The blonde girl huffs but continues walking. Oh well... Lady Zeredah had given her a mission so she shouldn't stop just because she thought the location of the mission was lame as hell.
[break][break]She just hoped something interesting would happen today, though.
A girl with light silverfish hair and stunning blue eyes looked out the window she was still in pain being a cancer paicent. At this point hers was terminal the doctors would say she would die any day now. Now longer able to go outside she spent most of her time looking out the window or drawing. Every staff member around had one of her pictures hanging up with her name on it. Sharing the gift they said she had. She looked out the window happy but yet her eyes read lonely. Her friends had stopped coming she didn't want them to remember her moment of passing. Soon the machines would start beeping because of the pain regulators that checked her pain levels were going off there wasn't much they could do although medication could help it a little it never lasted long. She sighed as she looked out the to the door as she saw the nurse handing her a picture she drew for her. It was of some parent birds and their chicks.
Hope you don't mind Selina being a creep as usual XD Also would you mind if Selina was actually tasked to kill Niusha but she didn't kill her anyway because, you know, she was gonna die anyway?
She's apparently in the seventh room... The young girl's spirit thinks to herself as she phases through doors one by one, without being seen. She had just texted one of her commanders and had finally gotten the accurate location to her target, but still... it was confusing yet.
[break][break]Room to room, she had seen no matching signs of her target. She was tasked to kill a dying young woman for a reason she was not told about, but every room almost contained boys and little girls. Now for one she knew that her target wasn't a little girl anymore, someone about 26 years of age. Selina almost couldn't believe killing someone older than her herself, but she'd done it almost every time. So this was no strange quest for her.
[break][break]Phasing through another door, she finally spotted a figure sitting down on a bed; straight, silver hair with blue piercing eyes, and rather pale skin... it looked like she was suffering from a fatal disease and was about to die any second now. Selina blinked and raised an eyebrow. This was something of a mistake, right? She wasn't supposed to be sent to kill a dying woman. Besides, she's gonna perish any time soon, so... why bother?
[break][break]Regardless, she came into the room anyway. Forced to dress in a simple dress fit for a small middle schooler, she manifested herself into her physical form and walked up to the young woman. She wouldn't have known by now that she was holding something to kill her.
[break][break]"Hello, miss!" She cheerfully greeted, smiling and stopping in front of the woman's bed. "How are you?"
"Hello sorry I didn't notice someone else coming in. I'm Niusha Yaxoo it's nice to meet you." Her smile was so gentle and so kind. She still was hanging in there but even her spirit seemed like it would come out at any moment. "Were you outside how is it out there in the snow" it was her favorite time of year. She looked back to the snow covered ground. Guess mom and dad are busy again that's good of them, I don't want them having to see me like this in the end even my friends don't come anymore." Even though the average person would be crying but she was containing her sadness. "I love the snow though" she smiled. "So I'm glad I get to see it one last time". She then looked the girl in the eyes "do you like the snow ".
Hope you don't mind Selina being a creep as usual XD Also would you mind if Selina was actually tasked to kill Niusha but she didn't kill her anyway because, you know, she was gonna die anyway?
When the young woman greets her and tells her name, Selina raises an eyebrow, suddenly confused. Wouldn't the average person in a hospital be surprised or even terrified that a complete stranger -- whether it be an adult or a little girl like her -- suddenly visited them while they were lying there? Selina didn't get this woman. Oh well, maybe because she was gonna die sooner or later anyway.
[break][break]She smiled so gently at her before asking if she was outside and had been playing with the snow. Well of course she was outside, wasn't it obvious? Selina nodded anyway and smiled back at her. "Yes! The snow was very beautiful today!" She replied in the most cheerful voice she could muster. Too be honest she hadn't even known there was snow yet until she had looked at the room's window. Then she sighed, almost pretending, before looking at her with a sad look. "It's a shame you can't experience the snow right now, miss. It's wonderful, really!"
[break][break]It was probably only right for her parents to not be here to see their dying daughter; they don't have to see all this trauma breaking in. The same goes with her friends. "Well... that doesn't mean they don't care about you, right? They still do." She stated matter-of-factly. Too be honest this conversation was hitting her like stones to the heart herself since she had experienced it so long ago, but she hid it all for the mission.
[break][break]She was then asked if she loved the snow, and Selina thought to herself. Really... "Well, the snow is beautiful, especially if you look out of the window," She replied, walking up to the window and smiling as she stared at the snow. "But sometimes it gets really annoying because it's so cold and you can't go anywhere sometimes because of too much snow!" She exclaimed with an annoyed pout. "Don't you find it cold here? Lying on the bed and feeling the cold emitted by the snow?"
She smiled happily listening to her when she mentioned her friends and family she nodded "yes of course I know they care that's why I'm ok with them not being here with me". She smiled back towards the window. When the other girl mentioned the cold she smiled "yes it can be cold but in a way isn't that like people, people can fall, be cold and even melt away into nothing but then it becomes spring as one persons life ends another gets to begin again all because of that snow that fell. So in a way I have become the snow and soon I will melt away just for someone else to come into this world." She then smiled at the other girl "i believe their is a reason for everything that happens in a persons life" she smiled. Soon she smiled again her eyes shown with pain but yet she was able to keep smiling. Although soon the nurses came in to give her what could be her last meal they wanted to make Selina leave however Nuisha requested that they let her stay if she wanted or she could come back tomorrow it was the girls choice.
Hope you don't mind Selina being a creep as usual XD Also would you mind if Selina was actually tasked to kill Niusha but she didn't kill her anyway because, you know, she was gonna die anyway?
Niusha smiles and tells her about family and friends, and she nods at this with a small smile. "Well... that's good that you know how you should feel about it, then." She states, then looks out the window with her. "Your family and friends, though... I'm pretty sure they won't like it once you die."
[break][break]Suddenly she hears Niusha telling her point of views in life, a thing she didn't really ask for in the first place. She turns to the young woman with a somewhat disappointed and bored look on her face. I didn't ask for this, She thought to herself, but decided to keep it in anyway. Selina smiled and nodded once she is finally finished talking. "That's a... wonderful view in life, really." She tells the young woman, nodding. Though I have to admit you're just spouting out bullshit.
[break][break]But she did agree to some of her views though. All things come for a reason, she had said. Well... not everything, because anyone could do something without any reason at all or something happens by pure coincidence. But she finds herself believing half of her words.
[break][break]Suddenly the doctors came and brings her some food. Some turn to her and urged her to go outside, in which Selina initially resisted. "Wait-- no, wait--" She tries to say something, but they keep on urging her, anyway. I can't go yet! I have a job to do! Luckily Niusha was there; the young woman had requested her to stay, or Selina could choose to go home and come back tomorrow. At their patient's statement, the doctors turn expectantly to the young girl, who stares back at them with a determined look.
[break][break]Nope, she won't come back tomorrow. She's got a job to do right here, right now.
[break][break]"...I'm staying with Niusha, if you may."
She tilted her head as she mentioned it being bullshit she didn't understand how it was or could be bullshit. "How can it be bull shit, if you think about it was does winter become when the snow melts? It becomes spring and spring is when babies are born. Like my cousin who's expecting one soon. Even though I may be gone and I know they will miss me at least they will have the baby. Then by my death they will have stories to tell the baby about me as she goes up. And I can become an example to those who are struggling to not give up. Let's also use this as an example let's say you have a man that is a their and steals, perhaps that man is trying to earn a living for his family for the good of his family. If not and he's doing it for greed it can help the ones that were stolen from to work on their sicurity more or to be more careful about who they brag to. Then let's use the example of you being here, you may have your own reasons for being here maybe your ment to be here to see me pass on so I'm not alone, even if you were going to kill me it would still be a benefit me by ending my suffering sooner. She smiled as she finished ".
"I'm happy your going to stay" she smiled as she ate as much as she could which wasn't much because of the pain from swallowing. She knew her time was coming soon. Soon she would melt away as the snow would when spring came. She knew she wouldn't last till morning. So by morning she would be gone as she payed back and looked at the snow then back to the girl that was with her. "Your very kind for coming here I appreciate it". She could feel herself slipping away as the minutes went by.
Selina doesn't utter a word at this matter. She simply watches the window ad observes the snow falling from the sky to the ground... and too be honest, the cold didn't bother her anymore. She smiles and turns to Niusha, who at that point was--
[break][break]--saying something about bullshit, questioning and tilting at her as if Selina was the one talking about bullshit here. The young girl blinked as Niusha provided examples and contradicting the said bullshit, all while Selina was left standing there, blinking while she listened to Niusha mention things that were senseless right now. First of all, why the heck was she talking about this to her? It's not as if she can read minds, right?
[break][break]Or was she thinking out loud a while earlier and didn't know it? Or did Niusha really know how to read minds?
[break][break]...What... the heck was this woman on about?
[break][break]The doctors then leave and nod once she tells them she would stay with the patient, some even patting her head softly and telling her to take care of Niusha. Selina simply smiles back at them and nods, then turns to Niusha with the same small smile on her face. Sure, she'd take care of her. Until her death.
[break][break]The young woman thanks her for staying longer, and she nods in response. "You're welcome." She replies, rather politely this time. Wow, this was probably the only time she's been polite to anyone except Zeredah. The young girl then sits on a chair next to Niusha's bed, raising an eyebrow.
[break][break]"So... what are you going to do now, Niusha?" She asks with a tone of innocence in her voice, blinking at Niusha with a questioning look on her face.
She would continue to talk to her for a while longer other visitors were starting to leave she soon closed her eyes. As she did soon everything the machines beeping wildly as the heart monitor was showing she was starting to flatline. Soon a few seconds later the sound of someone flatlining would be heard as the nurses came in tears in some of their eyes but theirs were happy ones. She would now be free from the pain she had been in for years. Soon silently a spirit would be watching them. Niusha was dead she looked at herself confused why could she see herself. She could see her body but yet looked at her hands able to see and still feel them.
She stood there in silence not sure what she should do now she left the room. She would as she thought to walk around but looked down seeing she was floating/flying. What she asked herself as she walked out of the hospital sutting in the freshly fallen snow wondering what to do now where was she to go?
Hours had passed by, and Selina had spent those long hours chatting with a young woman -- who was supposed to be her target, by the way -- and too be honest she enjoyed being her company. Although at times she would occasionally have the most unrealistic thoughts, Selina learned to be patient around Niusha as the hours passed by. Hey, she was going to die anyway, so no use wasting your time stabbing a knife on a dying body.
[break][break]But those long hours have come to an end when she felt Niusha's life starting to drain out from her body; she glanced at the small monitor on one of the drawers beside her bed. The lines were faltering, and she's slowly starting to leave this world... The young girl simply smiles and stands up from where she had been sitting, stopping by the door and looking back at the dying Niusha with a smirk.
[break][break]"I'll see you outside, Niusha."
[break][break]Selina walks outside, still in her disguise, but she knew she would have to take them off soon. Finally stepping on the ice-covered ground, she giggles happily to herself and disappears into thin air, removing her childish clothes and replacing them with the usual princess-like gown she always wears in the Assembly.
[break][break]"Ah... now that's better." She mutters to herself.
[break][break]Selina sits down on the snow and hugs her knees, looking up at the blue-white sky, snow falling down to the ground to join their kin. Her thoughts suddenly ponder over to the young woman she had met earlier, and she couldn't help but smile to herself. Too be honest, she hasn't talked to other innocent people in a while, except when she had some "business" to deal with them. Well, she did have business, but she ended up not doing it. There was no point, anyway.
[break][break]Her waiting pays off when she sees from the corner of her eye a familiar spirit walking out of the door, then sitting down on the ground. She turns her head to the all-familiar woman, grinning. Standing up and dusting off her dress from the snow that managed to fall on it, she walks up to the older spirit and giggles.
[break][break]"Hello, Niusha." She greets her, her earlier facade finally disappearing and her voice now showing her true self. "How are you in this state? Wonderful, isn't it?"
She had a coat on with a furry hood that she had found as she had left the hospital. As she sat on the steps of the hospital freshly fallen snow as, she sat there she still could see her breath in the cold air she didn't understand what was going on or what was happening. No one inside had seen her but now she was sold again how did this happen. Soon she heard the voice of someone familiar, she sat there for a bit then the memory came back of what she recognised the voice from. However, the girl was dressed differently was that really who she thought it was. As she sat there looking into the girl's eyes she knew it was her new friend but how could she see and hear her when the staff couldn't she was so confused.
Although the thought just accord to her, her new friend never told her what her name wa, Niusha had introduced herself but the other girl hadn't ever said what her name was. So she didn't know what name to call out to her since she never told her what her name was. She would wave and said hello although she found something strange her voice was so soft now almost as if it was a whisper but yet it was her talking. She could be heard so it wasn't a whisper however it was still soft and flowed together like a ghostly soft whisper. Why was her voice like that she guessed its cause at the end of her life that would have been the way her voice would have sounded if she had the strength to speak then? but she hadn't had the strength to speak. What was going on she was so confused she thought she would melt away like the snow she knew she was dead but she didn't understand. Why she was still there why am I a spirit? was I chosen for a reason? if so why choose me? Why was it that her knew a friend had known she was there? As she remembered when she stood there like a ghost, her new friend had said she would see her outside, but how? How could she see her or know she was there? How? What was happening? why was it happening? why her? Niusha’s head swirled with questions. As she thought all this it seemed like hours had passed by when it was merely a few seconds to two minutes. As she looked at her friend she finally spoke ”How did you know you would see me outside? Do you know whats happening to me or why me?” she would ask her friend. ”Also can I ask your name you never told me your name before when I told you mine.”
Niusha looks rather confused seeing her once they finally meet eyes, and Selina giggles, rather feeling amused with the young woman's reaction. "What's wrong, Niusha?" She asked, feigning concern, though it is not evident in her voice and she still seems worried for her. "Feel free to ask questions if you're confused about things." She then giggles before adding, "Well... it's probably the best time to be confused, and the best time to be asking questions."
[break][break]Selina watches while Niusha is still sitting there, silent. The young girl thought about walking off somewhere else and leaving the young woman for a while with her thoughts, but it would be amusing to hear what she would have to say... if she ever says anything after this. Otherwise she would get annoyed and probably throw some snow at her face for starting to get mute--
[break][break]Finally a question comes out from Niusha's mouth -- no, two questions -- and the girl grins, coughing intentionally. Then she stares at the young woman with a serious glint in her eye. "Are you not aware that you're already dead?" She asked back, tilting her head. "You've finally entered the afterlife, Niusha. I saw you coming outside of the hospital while the doctors didn't because..."
[break][break]She flashed a teasing wink at the young woman before continuing. "...I'm just like you."
[break][break]Selina sighs and shrugs, smiling while looking at the sky. "Yes, you heard me. I've long since died before you did and turned into an invisible hologram." She repeats the information, looking at herself before turning back to the young woman, eyes dissipating into a glum look as she says her next words.
[break][break]"There's no 'why me', Niusha. It happens to everyone of us once we die. We turn into spirits and roam the world, possibly looking for things that we didn't get to accomplish while we were still alive." She disappears out of thin air and reappears, now sitting in front of Niusha, pointing a finger at her. "That may be why you are still here in the earth, roaming around as a spirit."
[break][break]"As for your next question..." She grins before standing up once more, a bright smile painted on her face. "My name is Selina. Sorry if I've forgotten to introduce myself yet... that's just how I am."
"Well I know I'm dead. But I thought I would just move on not still be here." When she mentioned she was dead too she was slightly shocked then thought about it for a second. That actually made since I mean she was suddenly in her room past all the staff. She smiled when she understood what was going on "that explains how you got in the room without many people noticing. Although I'm not so sure what to do now" she said. As she sat there then she had an idea and went to see if she could pick up snow when she could she herd the girl say her name. "Hey salina heads up" as she tossed a snowball laughing.
Then she started running she hadn't gotten to play outside for months.
The young woman would only receive two nods from the younger girl for each statement. "Correct to both! You need to move on. And yes, I managed to sneak into the hospital without being seen. There were some who did take notice, though. Some people there and even doctors were undead people, and they did manage to see me pass through the crowd." She confirms with a sly grin. She would always consider herself a mistress of stealth at these situations.
[break][break]Then the blonde spirit sighs to herself, closing her eyes with a small smile. "So, any questions for--" It was too late to finish that sentence. Niusha yells something ahead from what she is saying, and only then does she opens her eyes when she feels her head thrown slightly aback by the impact of something cold and... wet.
[break][break]Selina stands there for a while, wondering what just happened, before finally she musters up the courage to wipe her face off the wetness and cold. Her eyes flutter open once more, and she sees the young woman running around the snow rather happily, even laughing. Only then does she realize what the other's intentions of throwing that snowball at her face are.
[break][break]Her face suddenly darkens and she cackles evilly, dropping down to her knees and clawing at the snow beneath her. "Ohohoho... you are so going to get it, Niusha!" She yells, gripping on the snow she had collected with both hands, rolling them up into a ball and finally throwing them at the older girl. She does this multiple more times before she throws them at her again, giggling merrily while doing so.
[break][break]The feeling of playing outside was new to her. And too be honest... she's enjoying it.
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