westwhere | sa-hareth | arrival (mingle log)

1. Salt mines
[ Mina woke up in some unknown place, and while she'd usually be loud, this time she stops and assesses her situation; she has no powers currently and she doesn't know anything about this strange place, but she knows she is in some prison of sorts and people around her are in the same predicament if not worse - she can see the bones, after all. While it's unusual for her, she remains mostly quiet and tries to get to know the place she is in and tries to formulate some sort of plan -

and then she is rescued.

Naturally, she runs but not until she ensures everyone else comes along. In fact, she stays until last, waving at the other captives to move along ] This way, careful with your step!

[ and like that she moves through the corridors of salt. Whenever she comes across abandoned camps, Mina's hero instinct is to again protect others. Offer them water and food first, give them clothes that they might need. And once that is done, she takes the salt spikes to use as a weapon, and even grabs some wood to attempt to use as a shield. As usual, she makes sure no one is left behind by staying behind the group herself. ]

it's okay- [ she whispers with a grin ] We are almost there! [ she says that with a cheerfulness characteristic to her - she may not know for sure if they are almost there, but she will keep their hopes up ]

2. House of Dew
[ After arriving and being shoved behind the scenes, Mina happily takes the food offered to her. Millet is more than fine when you are starving and tired, and Mina's cheerful expression never changes, thanking everyone loud and clear with a huge grin. And once she puts the food in her mouth, she can't help but to gasp ] So yummy~!! [ that's what hunger does to you, you don't get to be picky.

One thing Mina learned was that she needed to stay hidden due to her skin color. At first, she didn't quite get it - in her world, humans come in all colors and shapes! - but once she looks around and realizes everyone looks very regular, it sinks in: she is recognizable, easy to spot and easy to track. So Mina is offered basic body paints by the lady of the House, and while the girl is thankful, it's easy to see she is... well. A bit upset? Having to hide her own skin feels wrong (even though she understands why). The horns are hard to hide but she can just say it's an accessory, though she has no solution for her eyes. While she paints herself, Mina turns to the closest person nearby while she looks at herself in a mirror ] Hi- sorry! Can you paint my back for me?

[ and finally, she also offers first aid to those in need. She is no doctor - and her powers are not medical at all - but she knows basic first-aid, which every hero must know in order to help other people. So if she sees anyone hurt or in need of help, Mina will approach with a big smile while carrying some bandages ] Hi! Do you need any help? I can dress wounds! [ and do basic check-ups too.

Whatever it is, Mina just wants to help. ]

3. Assignment
[ Coin is needed. While she is at the brothel, Mina does her best to help the workers and Lady Tamaiu, either by cooking, bringing them food and paints, or by helping cleaning and keeping the place tidy and nice; due to her age, thankfully she is graced with not having to directly deal with any -ah- sticky situation, but that also means she's very limited in how she can help the group gather the money they need to move on from Sa-Hareth.

In the end, and once her powers have returned completely, Mina gets to work: making acid! it sounds silly until you realize just how useful it is. In fact, her first clients are the prostitutes of the brothel, while she shows them that by pouring this ~mysterious liquid~ (which she won't divulge where it comes from) onto trash, it makes it melt away; amazed by this feat, they surely appreciate doing it with ease, and so Mina's little empire of acid begins.

With empty bottles she finds, she fills them up with acid in all sorts of concentration and viscosity, and eventually even asks some of the brothel workers to try and sell them to the clients - or at least to show them the product is available. That allows her some coin which she uses for basic needs - rose quartz necklace, decent food and clothes - and this also allows her to think further ahead: how to sell it outside the brothel.

Whoever passes by Mina's room will probably see her filling up bottles with acid - be careful when entering, you don't want to get your boots burned if you step in an acid puddle - and Mina herself with a thoughtful frown while she murmurs to herself. ] Uhmm... I wonder if I can just hire someone to go sell it outside.

4. Rose Quartz Network - Username: Taste of twilight’s trickled honeydew
Hey! Has anyone tried the network yet???
I might need a hand with something!!!

Also my username is SO CUTE I LOVE IT!!!!

5. Wildcard
[ If anyone would like to make some coin using Mina's acid, the ooc plotting post is here! Also, feel free to approach Mina wherever, or you can contact me through PM or plurk

vilani if you have any idea for a prompt! ]

Edited 2021-04-02 22:53 (UTC)

( He's not exactly stopping in, but he hears the question and pauses for long enough that it'd either be notable--or not, perhaps. Taking a step back, he peers inside, not sure he's really the intended recipient of the question, or what in the world anyone's painting on their back if it's not medically related.

... Until he blinks at the sight of who was, presumably, asking. )

Oooh. Ah, if you want, unless you want me to look for someone else to help?

( Poor girl, what in the worlds is going on with her hair? Skin? Those e....... okay, the eyes are the most normal thing yet. )

[ Mina greets him with a big grin and a wave of the brush she currently holds in her hand. Yes, she absolutely meant you, even if she doesn;t know you, Wei Wuxian. ]

Yeah- it's easy, just dip in the brown paint and paint over the pink skin. [ easy indeed! Because she is pink, Mina chose a darker color - she still finds it weird, but it's not terrible at least. ] I can't reach the back and it's starting to hurt my arm.

( As if this whole thing hasn't been surreal and heart clenching enough, now there's.. pink.

This is probably the kindest surprise he's run into, next to finding Lan Zhan relatively okay and whole and here. Selfish, that.

Anyway, he steps in and closer, lifting his eyebrows as he tentatively reaches for the brush. )

Should probably try for introductions if I'm set to paint you. Wei Ying, courtesy name Wuxian. ( A pause. ) Your skin, it's always like this?

[ Mina grins back at the man ] I'm Mina Ashido! Just Mina is fine. [ being called Ashido is fine, but people don't seem to use family names around here.

She turns to the mirror that she was using to paint herself, and tilts her head down to give Wuxian plenty of room while he pants her ] Hm! I was born like this.

it's because of my quirk. [ Mina sighs a little ] Looks like nobody ever saw someone who looks different, in this world. [ even though there are zombies, and apparently people find THAT normal ]

Mina is your family name?

( He's getting used to how people want him calling them, though the logic of it doesn't match what he knows. He tentatively paints a stripe down her upper back, then subtly rolls his shoulders and sets to continuing to apply the paint. It doesn't go on quite smoothly like inks do, but he can work with it. )

Quirk? ( He doesn't quite say it right, but hey. ) I don't know what that is, do you mind explaining to me? Is a quirk a common thing for your realm?

Nope, my family name is Ashido. [ mina grins ] But people usually call me Mina anyway, so it's fine. [ fine that people are using her first name even though they just met, she means. It's not something Mina cares that much about. ]

Quirk is... like an inhuman ability. Or magic, I guess? [ apparently that's a thing that exists in this world, so she will use that as a reference ] I can make acid from my skin. [ usually hands, but not just. ] And I guess most people have a quirk back home.

Not all of them make acid, though! Everyone has their own ability.

Would you mind if I call you Ashido-guniang for now?

( He smiles, but it's more of a teasing one; their relative ages means that it's a bit familiar, but not the hardest thing for him to handle. Besides, she's professed her preference. He's just glad he asked for his own knowing. )

Mina it is, then! This whole quirk thing is very different from things I know... it's not inherited in family lines? Not trained at all?

( Asked while he continues painting in sure strokes, eyes only lifting to sometimes glance at her in the mirror, his eyebrows quirked up. )

[ it's probably hard work for Wei because whenever he asks Mina something, she lifts up her head to look back at him with a grin. She likes to look people in the eye when she's talking to them, and she is also a bit of a airhead to realize maybe she should stay still while the young man paints her skin

Sorry about that! ]

It can be from a family line, but sometimes the ability is just random! And you gotta train it- [ Mina rises her hand, a blob of acid showing up in her palm ] When I was younger, I couldn't even make this much acid without getting tired. With training, I can now make tons of it!

[ she turns her head a little ] DO you guys have abilities where you are from?

( He's mostly stopping and starting as she moves, though eventually he holds up the brush and wags it like an auntie might their dinner: )

Less squirming, we'll get you painted faster.

( His tone of voice is more amused than anything else. Then he's back to doing what he can with the painting, only pausing when she's twisting around to offer up her palm and...

... tries to poke at the ball of acid there with the tip of his finger. )

Wow! Just like that? People cultivate and learn various abilities based on their capacity for it where I'm from, but it's all trained, nothing like this from birth.

Oops, sorry sorry! [ she offers him an apologetic smile but before she turns forward, she lets Wei touch the acid. It's not strong at all, pretty much will be as acidic as vinegar, but it's certainly more viscous ]

Really? Most people in mine get an ability. Do you have any? [ she can't imagine just train an ability to make it happen. ]

Fascinating.

( He pulls his finger back after poking, curious at its viscosity. Then he shifts his hold on the brush and sets to painting again, because that does need finishing, for her sake. )

Ah, hahaha, not the way you're talking about it. I was born with a greater affinity for cultivating, but even those who aren't can find ways, if they're inventive. The ability to use cultivation or talismans might be closer, but again, that's not an 'ability' passed down in the same way? Any advantage you have would be in training and using your learned skills.

Cultivating...? [ she is probably imagining something like farming, but then he also mentions talismans so she has to wonder. Mina pulls her hand away, wiping the acid against her clothes, specifically where paint has touched - it can remove stains too ]

What exactly is cultivating? [ cultivating what?

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[ As for Catra, she too eats her millet without complaint. It seems un-poisoned and perfectly serviceable as sustenance, so, having grown up on fairly tasteless ration bars herself, she sees no reason not to. Not to mention she's hungry.

But when some high-pitched voice not far from her outright gushes at the food, she looks up.

For a moment, she stares. By Hordak, the girl is pink. And cheerful. And her hair is poofy. ]

What, are you some kind of princess or something?

[ Mina has her mouth full of millet and ready to shove in another spoonful, when she hears Catra. To others, the way Catra looks might be unusual - not to Mina. Her world is full of people who look so different from each other, to the point it doesn't matter how someone looks at all.

So when she looks back at Catra, she doesn't even blink ]

What, no way! [ Mina has a friend who is rich, and she is absolutely a ~~very cute~~ princess, but Mina would never be like that. First of all, she isn't rich ] Do I look cute like one?! [ she grins wide ]

You sound annoying like one.

[ Yeah, sorry. Catra is not too hot on princesses. A bit prejudiced against them, even.

Tho technically, even if the girl isn't a princess, that doesn't preclude her being a rebel. But Catra refrains from asking, for now. She'll find out in due time.

Instead, she just glares and continues shoving millet into her mouth. ]

[ excuse you

Mina leaves the spoon inside her mouth while she places her hands on her hips, while pouting. ] I barely even said a word! [ and she totally says that with the spoon still in her mouth

if Mina is a princess, she isn't very elegant, no. ]

[ ... well. Eating with her mouth full makes her maybe slightly more sympathetic to Catra. Just a sliver. ]

You were all, [ and she puts her folded hands on her cheek and puts on a mocking, exaggerated tone ] "OHHH, this is SO YUMMY!" about the food.

That's cuz I'm starving! [ Mina is ready to put more food in her mouth ] I haven't eaten anything in ages, this is the best right now.

[ Mina shrugs and eats some more eagerly ] Who are you?

[ Catra shrugs. They're going to learn her name sooner or later, and refusing might rouse suspicion. ]

Name's Catra.

[ aha, introductions!!

Mina quickly moves closer to Catra, still holding the bowl in her hands and the spoon in her mouth ] Nice to meet'cha!

I'm from Earth, where are you from?

[ Catra narrows her eyes at the pink girl. "Earth". She's never heard of it. So it's safe to say this girl has probably never heard of Etheria.

Catra's gonna lie anyway. She gives a noncommittal shrug. ]

Eternia.

[ a pause ]

never heard of it. [ Mina shrugs and takes another spoonful of her food ] Is it like this place? With like- zombies and all?

[ Catra pauses as she takes another bite of her food. ]

Not zombies. Though some people make you wonder sometimes.

Wonder? Ohh tell me, tell me- [ she is curious! Mina never heard of other worlds, just boring old Earth. To her, catra is technically an alien ]