what has four legs and a dullahan fetish?

[indoorscholar]

Who: Shinra and you!
When: 2/6, any time
Where: the forest
Style: action/prose/baby you can have whatever you like
Status: open

[Shinra is not Shinra.

Shinra doesn't have a powerful feline body, complete with tan hide and immense paws. Shinra doesn't have his familiar human head attached to said feline body.
Shinra is not a sphinx.

Except...]

Just a dream. Just a bizarre dream. This is biologically impossible. You must have fallen asleep somewhere, and now you're dreaming about things that don't exist. Wake up. Come on. Wake up!

[Nope. Nothing.
Damn it!
Well, could be worse -- at least he knows some good riddles. He pads across a narrow game trail, slender tail swishing with irritation.]

This place is really, truly, batshit insane...

[Test your luck if you dare, he won't bite!

Well, actually...]

Comments

[indoorscholar]

['You humans' ... so even without this ridiculous curse, Vegeta isn't a normal person? Fascinating.]

Ki, that's a kind of spiritual energy, right? So you can convert that into a physical force just by thinking about it?

[He's quite literally itching to test this mysterious ki in a lab. Of all the times to be stuck in the woods without functional hands...]

You bet he's talking about Shizuo!

[saiyan_prince]

Spiritual?

[Vegeta scoffs. What kind of pansy bullshit is that?]

It's energy! There's nothing spiritual about it. Individuals that are extremely healthy produce a lot of it. I can see why you wouldn't know, most of you are horribly weak.

[He pauses to muse a bit.]

Except that one with the yellow hair that smelled like something burnt. He wasn't bad, but he had no control.

Vegeta vs. Shizuo...I'd pay to see that fight!

[indoorscholar]

[The mystery of Vegeta's power transfixes Shinra as he toys with an infinite number of medical possibilities in his mind.]

So there's a correlation between personal health and ki? What a puzzling riddle.

[His paws land with a thud as he stops short and gives Vegeta a curious look.]

...Yellow hair and no control? You wouldn't be talking about a guy named Shizuo, would you?

[saiyan_prince]

[Vegeta shrugs.]

Didn't ask his name.

[He takes out his SFC to look up Shizuo. Shizuo, Shizuo... there he is.]

Looks like that was the guy.

[indoorscholar]

[Shinra takes a glance at the SFC. Blue sunglasses, dry scowl, lit cigarette between his lips:]

Yep, that's Shizuo.

[Leave it to him to get in a fight with somebody like Vegeta. Maybe he could get more information on this ki out of him once they found a way to break this ridiculous curse.
Speaking of which...]

I'm starting to wonder if there are even any princesses worth saving in this part of the forest.

[saiyan_prince]

As am I. I'll go look elsewhere. The meadow maybe, it would be easier to fly over.

[With that, he's up in the air, his tail waving a sort of goodbye before it curls around his waist.]

Try not to eat any humans, sphinx. They don't taste good.

[Woosh! He flies up through the canopy of trees.]

[indoorscholar]

Thanks for the tip.

[Shinra lightly chuckles as he begins to double back on the path they'd been following - princess or not, there are sure to be foolish heroes in the forest, and his hunger is growing worse with each passing moment.]

Best of luck to you, Saiyan.

[He nods his head in acknowledgement of Vegeta before trodding off.]