Consequences of Kindness - 1x1 - Zelly & Anime

[M3Gnificent]

Once there was a large raven with feathers like the void and eyes as green as envy. This bird, such an ugly yet beautiful creature, wore a feather charm around its neck and wrought misfortune and distruction wherever its wings would take it - most often meaning poor and unsuspecting villages. Any wise huntsman knows that a charm-wearing bird was a wicked witch in animal form. Any intelligent huntsman would shoot the foul creature on the spot and leave it to die, its meat too tainted and unlucky to eat. Sadly, not everyone is born a wise and intelligent hunstman.

There was once a kind and gentle being who lived in a forest not too far from a large and lively village. One day, as he was taking a stroll through the forest near his home, he spotted a bird with a wounded wing and torso as it bled a pool of crimson on the dirt and grass that surrounded it. Feeling pity for the poor creature, he plucked the arrow from its wing and breast before taking it to his home. It was there that he nursed the creature back to health, pampering and protecting the creature until it was ready to fly on its own once more. Eventually, once it was better, it left the benevolent man's side - but it certainly never forgot his kindness.

Long ago there was a woman, a witch with a beautiful face but wicked soul. With hair as black as the void and eyes as green as envy. Dressed in rich and foreign looking silks deccorated in feathers and gold, she found herself visiting the large and lively village. It was there that she met the man who saved the bird, and of course it was there that she got to know and see her rescuer for who he truly was. A ******** pushover. Enraged to see the man who saved her be used and manipulated by the common people, she has personally made it her goal to teach him self respect. And by self respect I mean vengeance and anger. But can she do it without outing herself as a witch? Can she do it without revealing why she wants to change him so? (Probably not.)

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Username: Animeprincess_9400
Name: Ashen
Gender: Female
Race: Witch
Personality: Stubborn and vindictive, but with a gentle side hidden by sarcasm and a short temper. She has a skewed view of the world and a strange need for vengeance against it. Ashen also has a warped sense of honor, leading her to try and pay back those who offer her kindness in the best way she can. Since she cannot comprehend most normal morals and behaviors, however, this leads to a twisted the Farmer and the Viper scenario more often than not.
Appearance: Ashen is a pale peach-skinned, borderline comically voluptuous woman with short feathery black hair that barely goes down past her chin. Her sharp green eyes, surrounded by long luscious eyelashes, always seem to hold a look of annoyance or distain. She is slightly taller than your average human male. As for what she wears, her outfits are usually made from green, black, or red silks with faux-raven feathers adorning them on the borders and other strategically placed areas. It is quite common for her clothes to have golden edges or embroidery.
Other: Ashen has an immense fear of fire.

Username: Zelly-fangirl
Name: Rune
Gender: Male
Race: Elf
Personality: Rune is....well he's a wuss. He's nice, and a big sweetie, but has cripplingly low self-esteem and the naivety of a small child. He's incredibly trusting, and will bend over backwards to help anyone that asks. He's also a complete and utter coward.
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Other: Rune's a klutz.

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

((I'm having a derp moment, are we starting with bird or going straight into witch? sweatdrop ))  

[M3Gnificent]

{Either or. On one hand acting out the prologue might make things easier in the near future as far as inspiration and direction goes. On the other, it probably wouldn't be that long and not much can be done with it aside from Rune's discovering the bird and a few summaries before her departure, all things considered.}

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

((Evens say bird, odds say witch))  

[M3Gnificent]

{Bird it is!}

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

((As a consolation, it's an excuse for me to write antics like this.))

Rune took a deep breath of fresh air as he stepped out of his forest home with a big bright smile, ready to greet the new day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and his animal friends were--No. Wait. This is stupid. He stepped outside for his morning walk to see a half-dead bird bleeding out on his doorstep with an arrow through its wing. He let out a small cry of brief terror before stooping down with worry for the poor creature. "You poor thing, it's alright now." he said while gingerly scooping the bird up in his arms and taking it inside.

 

[M3Gnificent]

{Yup! XD}

The raven, its once glossy black wings coated in the red and sticky ooze known as blood, was absolutely seething in pain. It didn't react much to the man's picking it up aside from giving him pitiful looks. And by pitiful looks I mean 'oh my god the pain is unbearable so please kill me right the ******** now' sort of looks.

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

Rune gently lay the bird down on a table before rushing around to find medicine and bandages and things. "Bandages...bandages....! Ah!" he fumbled around in the medicine cabinet, nearly dropping the medicine to go on the wound before returning to the raven's side. "This is going to hurt quite a bit, but please bare with me..." he looked at the poor bird with a sad and apologetic look as he took a firm hold on the arrow's shaft and snapped it off, tenderly slipping the remaining half out of the bird's wing before quickly applying the medicine and wrapping its wing in a splint.

 

[M3Gnificent]

The bird was oddly compliant, just laying limply on the table as it stared at the strange elf. Why was he helping her so? What made him so concerned about a near-dead bird he saw along the way? It was a quiet, almost eery thing. Nevertheless, it was also a currently meek creature, making as little noise as possible and making things as easy on itself as it could.

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

"There. You just rest now. Take as much time as you need until you can fly again." Rune smiled warmly at the little bird, petting its head gently before cleaning up and setting to work on making a little nest for the bird from a pillow and some blankets.

 

[M3Gnificent]

The bird's eyes curiously followed the male as he moved about to make things more comfortable for her stay. Were she not so reluctant to out herself as a witch, she would certainly inquire as to why the elf decided to care for her so. Or better yet, why he hadn't figured out that she was a witch or why he didn't care. Wasn't the necklace charm around her neck, with its smooth wooden beads and its tiny black feathers, enough to scream at him her true nature? Wasn't it enough reason to end her on the spot?

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

((I think at this point we can skip whenever you're ready))

"I hope you like it." Rune smiled while gently moving the bird into its nest. "Forgive me for saying so, but I'm kind of glad you're here. It'll be nice to have someone around here to talk to for a change." He sat down at the table, resting his chin on his arms while smiling back at the bird. It was then that he noticed the charm and lifted the feathers in his fingers. "What a pretty necklace you have...Did your owner give it to you?"

 

[M3Gnificent]

{Let's skip now, then~}

The bird simply gazed blanky at the man, quietly trying to rationalize what had happened. This confusion, as the weeks passed by, would soon fade as she came to a most unusual realization. The man genuinely cared about her well-being. He was showing her something she never thought was meant for her, something she never thought she would see. Kindness. On another note she also saw a debt that need to be repaid, a favor for a favor so to speak. When she eventually flew off after being healed, she shook her charm off and flung it at him with her beak. It was both a small parting gift and a nonverbal promise for recompensation in the years to come.

~*~

Ashen found herself just arriving at the town near where she had fallen so long ago. Dressed in fabulous green silks adorned with golden embroidery and tiny black feathers, she looked to be a foreigner. Even more so with the unusual style in which her clothes were made, or more specifically, the long elegant pants and sleeves instead of a skirt or duller attire. She looked as if she didn't belong in this world, let alone in a village belonging to the dirty and the poor. Her cold, judgemental eyes lazilly wandered about as she walked from stall to stall. When shopkeepers spoke to her she would take on a puzzled look and say nothing back, her lips adopting a small uncomfortable frown each time.

 

[Zelly-fangirl]

"Um, I'm....terribly sorry about this everyone...Just a few more moments! You'll get what you need, I promise!" Rune smiled nervously from behind a small stall where he sold his homemade medicines, and a rather annoyed line had formed behind a kind old lady that had decided to unload her hefty coin purse by paying in the smallest monetary units possible. He anxiously tapped his fingers on the table, the old raven's charm adorning his wrist as a bracelet, while trying to keep his smile up, his eyes flicking between the old lady and the impatient customers.

 

[M3Gnificent]

That voice. That gentle, loving voice that she remembered all too well. Was it him? Was this her savior? She started to approach but stopped, her eyes locking onto the man as he counted the worthless coins for the old woman. Curiously and quietly she watched from a distance. What was he doing? Who were those people? And why did so many seem angry?