(Classic ID-10-T error, and then the chill one who can go with just about anything xD)

Lieutenant Dwyer

Glory thought hard for a short moment before a figure melted out of the stone wall behind them. A bipedal, not-quite-humanoid being made entirely of stone bricks. It stumbled forward a few clucky steps, the sound of rocks scraping together ringing out from its joints. The brick-creature caught its balance and righted itself, drawing itself up to its full height of about 12 feet, tilting its boulder of a head skyward and releasing a long, low, forlorn howl almost akin to a foghorn. It went on for a few seconds, before lowering its head again, looking directly at Leo, and slowy uttering in a deep, gravelly voice, "That's what... a brick wall... howling... sounds like." With the message conveyed, it collapsed into a pile of bricks, before those disappeared. She caught his glance and smiled slightly; she wasn't all bad. Capable of not hurting people, at least. "As long as you don't manage it yourself, that's the idea," She said. "Nope, you underestimate how long I can go without eating." Considering milk was just about the most nutritional thing she could acquire as a child - because god knows her father wouldn't waste beer money on feeding his only child - she'd learned pretty quickly to ration food, forage, and ignore the hunger pangs. "Well then, would you like to be my guinea pig? It's kinda hard to replicate the intricate bonks and whacks without an accomplice," Glory lilted, grinning sweetly but with a mischievous look in her eyes. Of course she wouldn't be doing any socking, beating, or walloping right now, but one could still joke about it. She laughed and said, "Well, you set the bar so low poeple are tripping on it in hell." Well, Glory's expectations for him weren't that low, but she couldn't speak for others. Namely Romanov, who probably thought Leo was just a bumbling idiot. "Hey, be careful- you don't want to give me any ideas," She said, smirking slyly, then frowned. "Hey, easy on the self-insulting. You're gonna put me out of a job." Damn was he hard on himself. But, he reminded Glory of herself, especially when she was a student here. Her strive for perfection led her to live by the phrase "It ain't good unless it's perfect." Eventually she'd learned to ease up a bit - not much but enough that she didn't push herself to the brink of death.

General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo turned so slowly he thought he heard his neck creaking as he proceeded to stare at the illusion that melted out of the wall. Honestly, if he didn't know Glory, he'd be shrieking and running in terror by now. Thinking about it... it was astonishing what she could do with the power. Whatever she could image, she could just... poof. Then it was there. The power to make people go insane. To make them see what you wanted them to see. It was truly incredible. After pondering some deep thoughts for quite some time, his expression became the slightest bit more alarmed as the thing howled, then spoke. He blinked before turning back to Glory. "How the hell have you not used this little trick of yours on me to scare me out of my wits?" He asked with fake wide eyes. "But honestly, how many people have you scared." Leo grinned widely, shaking his head. "Impressive, for sure. Definitely makes me wish I wasn't an Empath. Can't even use that one much." He huffed, then chuckled quietly. Although, a few words later, the clenching feeling of sadness and anger that she had as bad as, or worse of, a childhood than him. It was horrible to even think about. There were far too many deep, concerning thoughts there, so he attempted to move on... and make a mental note to set aside a couple hours to address the stressed issues in his mind. "I bet you can go a loooooong time. Definitely longer than me. I don't function without food." He grinned. His hands quickly shot up, a jokingly pleading look flashing over his face at her question. "No thank you, I'd love to pass on that offer. I don't think I'd make a good guinea pig." He answered, chuckling. He really couldn't guess if Glory would actually just start whacking him over the head or not... better safe than sorry. He didn't think she would, but the mischevious twinkle in her eyes suggested otherwise. "Ouch." Leo sniffed, not adding more words on the matter, as he was good at picking his battles and he guessed that was one he probably wouldn't win. Granted, he picked a lot of battles, and that may be the first in a couple years that he had decided to back down on. Meh. "Errrrmmmm.. plllllleaaaase use Flash for an example on that one and not me." Leo grinned widely, then let out a loud snort, shaking his head. "Good enough is never good enough. And I could easily put you out of the job if I actually tried." He scoffed, though it was a little more half-hearted than normal. He knew he was hard on himself, but it was... normal. Everyone had always been hard on him, so he couldn't have a nice easy life. That would never happen. He really did walk alone- there was no getting around that one. He had searched for someone to stick by his side, but his shadow really was the only thing interested. Leo knew, for darn sure, that he was not the best version of himself right now. Maybe on the outside, there was a shell of something he should be, but that shell had cracks. Like a sentence ago, when he had put himself down. Shells had cracks, and his true self was not a pretty sight. He could try and morph into whatever he wanted, just to fit what other people wanted, but that would never change who he really was- he had learned that at a young age. Now he was just covering up how broken he really was. That was all he could do anymore. Apoxy it up.

Lieutenant Dwyer

Glory grinned proudly at his expression- illusions were pretty much her specialty, depsite being merely a minor ability. She thought for a moment at his question before answering with, "I like to toy with my... victims... for a while. Learn what really drives in the panic, the trauma, the sheer terror, and then triple it. Get inside their minds and let them self-destruct with the fear..." She realized how horrible that sounded out loud, and said quickly, "I swear I'm mostly sane, people only suffer my torment if they well and truly deserve it. It's why you're not quaking with fear and begging for mercy right now." She thought for another moment then replied, "I don't know, maybe 20-ish? Almost all of them Corrupted, mind you." A sly smile spread over her face as she said, "No no, you're just looking at it all wrong. I guarantee you could really mess with people much the way I use illusions. All you gotta do is flip their emotions back and forth at random- eventually they'll break down on their own and you've won." Okay, maybe she was a little... demented, in a way, BUT in Glory's defense, it could be - and has been - used for interrogations. She believed any ability could be used for whatever you need it for so long as you're creative enough. While she'd gotten pretty good at reading people, it didn't take a genius to notice that he was troubled by her words, but she didn't feel that now was the time to assure him that her childhood wasn't all bad, even though it kind of was. "Pshhh, haven't you ever heard that hunger sharpens the mind?" She scoffed, knowing damn well that after a certain point it wasn't true. It more just numbed the mind, dulled the senses, and clouded all logic and reasoning. "Oh come on, yes you would!" She said, a sly grin playing across her face as she created an illusion of a 3-foot-tall brown and white guinea pig staring at Leo with large black fathomless depths of eyes. "Okay, maybe not..." Definitely not, and she could've made it way worse by putting Leo's face on it. "I'd rather not, he'd put up too much of a fight," She retorted. No matter how fast Glory was, how strong, how determined, Flash had always managed to be a little bit more so, and Glory didn't want to find out if that still rang true. "Nope, never settle for mediocrity. But that doesn't mean you get to berate yourself constantly- I've no doubts you could beat me at that," She said. Mediocrity got people killed, but so did pushing yourself too hard. There was a fine line one had to walk constantly, so as to not fail nor die trying.

(I swear, I come back from that military camp, look at this, and the first thing I think is: Damn, Lieutenant General isn't even a thing! It's Lietenant Colonel thank you very much! XD))

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General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo pondered for a couple seconds if he should use his wrongly named Battle Tactics power, preferably from afar, to see what making illusions really felt like. Hm. It'd be something to try out. Maybe he could at least worry Glory a little. As she started speaking, his expression flitted to jokingly horrified. "God Glory, do I need to call and exorcist?" He asked with a very fake tremble in his voice, his eyes wide. "Spare me from thine great power!" He wailed dramatically, but wasn't able to keep the act up long, as he was already laughing. "Im pretty sure you're the only person in the entire world I can hear those words from and not immediately start wondering where the straight jacket went." He grinned. "Let their minds self destruct with fear. Genius." He drawled. After the immediate joking, his mind did flit to... a couple disturbing thoughts, one of them being what his 'panic switch' was. What would really drive him past that line. It was a real question... as.. he wasn't quite sure. He had experienced far too much trauma- if he was her enemy, she'd have a lot to pick and choose from. It'd be like a whole album of ways to drive him insane. How... comforting. [Note to self... never get on Glory's bad side.] Leo thought, a bit queasily. "Mostly being the key word." He pointed out helpfully, then his eyebrows shot up. "ALMOST being the key word. GLORY WHAT DID YOU DO-" He gasped, waving a hand in the air dramatically and overall NAILING the response. If anyone would star in a play, it'd be Leo. He was one of the best actors ever. It did help that he had literally faked it almost his entire life. NO ONE could truly be as happy as he seemed to be all the time. "Thanks for the advice on how to torture people by twisting their emotions. You're such a great friend." He said with such innocence it almost seemed real, until the sparkle in his eyes gave it away. If you knew him well enough, you could always tell. "Sharpens the mind about an hour after you get hungry. After that? It's more like an old injury- annoying, and it holds you back." He snorted, knowing she knew but speaking anyway because he wanted to. Leo always spoke when he wanted to. Or, almost always. He was usually very outspoken, but there were rare occasions when you would catch him silent. Sober, for once. Not acting like... Leo. "No. No I would not." He reiterated, then grinned widely as she admitted it. "And see, there you go again, being right." He smiled sweetly. He did understand what she meant about Flash- let's just say Leo was relieved the guy was on their side. "It's a fine line to walk, eh? Now I bet you can guess why I almost die.. a lot. I don't walk the fine line. I swim in the river on the other side." He pointed out with the slightest bit of a sad smile, then looked at the guitar. "There are so many jodies running through my mind right now..." He mused, not even touching the strings as he started a continuous beat with his fingers on the side of the guitar. "Out on the battlefield covered in blood. There's an airborne sapper dying in the mud. The enemy came closing in until the soldier fell, so with one final magazine he sent em all to hell. Fallen soldiers, we stand on your shoulders, we carry your legacy, cause no one said that freedoms free." He stopped abruptly. "Meh, too sad. On a bright and sunny day, two little bears come out to play, gathered up all their money, bought themselves a jar of honey. But the fat one ate it all, pushed the little one watched him fall, now the fat ones on the run, cause the little ones got a gun. Yogiiiii bear Is dead. Boo boo shot him in the head. Yooooogi bear is dead, boo boo pumped him full of led." He sang it with such a cheerful tone that the words were just humorous. "Much better! Anyone know killing the baby seals?" He smiled a bit evilly.

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(I love how it took me 25 minutes to write a longer post than yours which took you 59 minutes xD)

(lmfao I have no military training whatsoever and it occured to me when reading the sign-ups that it wasn't a thing xD Probably because I used to read WW2 I Survived books as a kid lolll)

Lieutenant Dwyer

"Pfff, noooo. Whatever would you do that for?" Glory asked innocently. She laughed with him, considering it was hard not to, as she said, "There's your first mistake, then." She grinned with mock pride at his next words, saying, "Yup, sometimes my genius, well, it's almost frightening." She nodded gleefully and chortled, "Yeah, mostly. We're all a little screwed up, aren't we?" Then let out a choked laugh at his dramatic reaction, trying to hide her... well, shame wasn't exactly the word, but it was close enough. "Hey, some people are just asshats without being Corrupted- don't blame me!" It was generally not something she thought about much, how she'd driven two people on separate occasions teetering on the brink of insanity, threatening to give them a little shove over the edge, then pulling them back away from the abyss at the last moment, leaving them scarred for life. "You're welcome, I'm full of great advice like that," She chirped cheerfully. She nodded at his next words, saying almost cryptically, "Quite right, unfortunately. It'd be much easier not to be bound by the needs of a mortal body, but alas, we're trapped on this plane of existence." Her philosophical mood disappeared as quickly as it came, and she snorted at his disapproval of the overly large guinea pig, saying, "Yeah, there I go again, agreeing with an idiot." She laughed at his very blatant point and retorted, "I don't walk it either; I dance down it, laughing maniacally and leaving a trail of chaos and ruin." She tilted her head slightly at his song, and agreed with him yet again. "Yeah, sad." Though it only got worse with the next one, and she gave Leo an ever-so-slightly horrified look, saying, "Definitely not better! Why'd Yogi have to die?" Her face only grew more horrifed at his question. "Umm, no...?"

(Hey, don't give me that, this hotel's wifi sucks xD)

(Hi guys. I can't do the RP for a few days so can you guys just pretend that Flash is with you or smth? I have a lot of running and am getting up at 5am and then have training in the arvos and footy games on Saturday. Sorry.)

(yeah totally, no worries<3)

Sure! I mean, it's the perfect setup for Leo to finally pull his head out of the ground and actually talk to Glory, so Flash may not be there all the time, but sure xD.

I didn't pay attention to it lol. Sometimes I can notice a single word in thousands of others, and someimes I fail to notice the simplest ranking error. My mind is much like Leo's xD))

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"What- what would I do that for? Thhhhhisssss!" He exclaimed, gesturing at her with exaggerated hand movements. Leo then slowly looked around, miming looking for a straightjacket. Maybe there should be one. "SOMETIMES your genius is frightening!? You're delusional!" He yelped with a wide grin, then shook his head slowly. "All... God, I'm scared to even think about it." He teased lightly, playing the parallel of the dun dunn dunnnnn noise on the guitar. "Pffffff, who said I'm blaming you? No sirree, I'm not stupid enough to blame the terrifying psychopath who has apparently driven some poor saps crazy." As he said the word crazy, he made a... face. You could call it that. His eyes pretty much went spinning different directions. Don't try that at home, kids. "Great advice. EXACTLY what I was thinking." He said slowly, his tone indicating it was the exact opposite, but Glory knew that. For all he knew, she had a hidden power to read minds or something. "We are surely trapped in this void of sorrow, grief, despair, holding onto the hope that there'll be light at the end of the tunnel, only to find out Glory was making you hallucinate, there wasn't a tunnel in the first place, and you just walked off a cliff and are now plummeting to your early demise." He grinned wickedly. "Agreeing with an idiot is the first step to becoming one yourself. If I can't lift to your level, you're going to have to stoop to mine." He smirked, then chuckled at her description. It sounded rather accurate. They were both absolutely insane. He then proceeded to focus on the song, his grin growing wider at her slightly horrified look. "Aw c'mon, it's hilarious. Yogi was fat and stole Boo boo's honey and pushed him down! of course Yogi had to die." Leo scoffed. "Here's the other one. Tell me if it's any better." The maniacal twinkle in his brazen eyes showed it wouldn't be. "Way up north where the ice gets cold, we're runnin' out of money and we're runnin' out of gold. That's how I make my livin', Killing the baby seals ark ark! You can kill them with a bat you can kill em with a brick, you can poke em in the ey with your eye pokin stick. That's how I make my livin, killin the baby seals Ark ark!" He stopped at that, his grin even wider than it was before. "Eh?"

(Yes, ostrich boy needs to wise up xD

I'm basically made to be an english teacher, questioning hidden meanings in old literature, with the excessive amount of attention I pay to words xD)

Lieutenant Dwyer

"This?" Glory asked, looking down at herself and frowning as he searched for a pretend straightjacket. "Is this what you're looking for?" She held up one hand, where a white straightjacket - or rather the illusion of one - had appeared. "Hey, I'm the scariest goddamn thing out here, you'd better be careful," She warned, trying to be serious for a few seconds. That was actually what she'd told herself as a child, having been afraid of the dark as most kids were. That was, at least, until the darkness started obeying her commands like a dog, though she was still arguably terrifying when she wanted to be. "Yup, all of us. The poor bastards I've interrogated even moreso," She said. The few that were still alive were likely in an asylum, though she didn't know for sure. "Really, even though I lack almost all the traits of a psychopath, like a lack of guilt, fear, empathy?" She retorted. The only traits she could really fit were impuslivity and some antisocial behavior, the latter owed to the fact she anticipated being stabbed, poisoned, or otherwise harmed at any large social gatherings. She recoiled slightly at his rather unsettling face and said, "Don't ever do that again." Well, yet another... not quite skill, exactly, but something random he could do. She gave him a quizzical look and asked, "You can think?" Sarcasm, of course, though thinking didn't seem to be something he practised too often. Glory was pretty sure she'd be the one to hurt him if he ever said "Un momento, por favor" and wandered off again. "Precisely! A word of advice - If you can't touch the wall, you're about to fall," She said gleefully, meaning the lack of solidarity in her illusions. "Oh please, if I stooped any lower I'd be playing limbo with the aforementioned bar you've set in hell," She said with a snort. "If that warrants a death penalty, I'd be one heck of a murderer." Actually, not many people were brave - or stupid - enough to try to take anything from Glory, given how she was wont to use cruel and unusual punishments. She listened to his somewhat morbid words, but had to admit the rhythm was nice. "Not as terrible as I thought, though now I may want a poking stick myself," She said, though she already had a pretty wicked spear, that was almost more of a stiletto's blade fixed to a staff, though with a serrated edge.

(I accidentally closed the tab halfway through typing this and had to redo it -le sob-)

(New Nickname Aquired- Ostrich Boy xD

With the way you write, I'd have to agree with that loll))

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General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo chuckled lightly at her frown, his expression gaining more amusement as a straight jacket just seemed to appear in her hand. "No, this." He answered, snapping his fingers. A real straight jacket appeared in his own. Yes, he ... did have to know where the thing was to conjure it. Now there was a story. "You are the scariest thing out here, I'd have to agree with that. At least, until I get sleep deprived with a lot of blood loss and I'm really dizzy.. and in dragon form. Then that club can go anyyyywhere, and that's a pretty scary sight." He grinned, his enthusiastic expression countering her partially serious one. He tried not to let a look of legitimate concern flash across his face, but yeesh, even thinking up those jokes was mildly terrifying. Well, and the extreme possibility she actually had drove a couple people crazy. After studying her expression for less than a millisecond, he knew she was telling the truth. [Damn. Don't get on her bad side.] He thought with a wince. Then again, he wasn't much better than her. His dark secrets just tended to stay just that- secret. "Oh Glory, there's this thing called a joke, spelt J-O-K-E, and I believe the definition in the dictionary goes something like this. A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter." He smirked, looking innocent and guilty at the same time. As she recoiled at his interesting way to physically explain the word crazy- granted, he could've just pointed at himself- he barked out a laugh, quickly deciding the pain of laughing was worth it. "Oksy, I will do it waaay more." Leo grinned so widely his face might just crack. It disappeared within a millisecond as he let his expression settle into something stone cold and emotionless, then answered. "The process of using ones mind to consider or reason about something is not unheard of in the human world, lass. If only you were raised here." He stated such a perfect emotionless face and monotone voice that he could've been a robot. It lasted all of three seconds before he snorted in amusement though, not able to hold his bearing. After that he was just trying not to laugh, as it turned out a lot of what she said was extremely funny if he wasn't so focused on thinking up a remark. It didn't take too long to think up something to say- about 13 milliseconds- but scanning it to make sure it was appropriate for the time and conversation and person he was speaking with took way longer. Then again, he obviously didn't think too hard about the words he spoke. He really came back to reality and calmed down enough to not be able to listen when she spoke about the song. "Exactly, it's not that bad! And I have plenty, I can give you one." He joked with a sweet smile, something that did not match what he just sang. Joking aside for a half a second, he glanced around to make sure they were still.. safe-ish, eyeing the woods for a little longer. He never thought he would start to dislike woods, but these ones he wasn't very fond of anymore. Flash had upped and left, saying something about having to check on something, and now a couple thoughts slid into Leo's mind as he turned back towards Glory. Okay, maybe not a couple thoughts. More like a gazillion. He knew he was insane, but sometimes his insanity was questioning itself. He swore that he was trying to oneup himself on how crazy he could possibly be. The words kind of came spilling.. tumbling... pouring out of his mouth before he really ... thought about any of them. He did but he didn't. "I have the strong feeling you already full well know this but since I love to torture myself here goes ... I don't even know what. I like you. And I'm the best Conversation ruiner ever- I can full well boast about that knowing it is one hundred percent super true. Also, I do think, just about the wrrooooong things. You ought to know how much thought I put into whether to have bacon or sausage, then end up just making both because I couldn't decide." It was more like a torrential downpour of words, and he wasn't quite sure if she'd even catch the point, but honestly it'd be fiiine with him if it totally flew over her head and he never had to try and do this.