A Historical Battle of Wits

[Erebus Black]

Erebus slowly relaxed as Sasha slowly perked up until he's smiling at the blond.

"Well... Do you want me to bring it in tomorrow?" He asked. "I can also have you come over and pick it up, if you wish?" he offered "It is more detailed and it breaks down why I would have done this or that during that time... something that I did when I was 17. But... I think you did the best you could have done during your time. I would have isolated the leaders of the revolt and break down the revolution through a controlled method of breaking down the ideas and ideology of the leaders, showing the errors of what they are doing, helping them learn a better method of showing how to let the royal family understand and give them the understanding of what is happening and what is being done to better the situation. The outcome? Unknown. But that is one of the many ideas I would have done." He shrugged.

"It is a mob affect. Sheeps being led by wolves until the party is full of angry and vengeful sharks, wanting to shred the royal family for their own gain. Well... sort of. Mob affects is an interesting thing. We have seen it over and over again throughout history, even in today's times." He shrugged again "Take down the leader, break up the party and teach them, just to see what happens."

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Erebus Black

[attr="class","hearmenand2"]Sasha heard him ask if he wanted Erebus to bring it in tomorrow or have him come pick it up.  He felt like just straight up coming over to pick it up might be a bit presumptuous.  Perhaps that was incorrect, but Sasha thought it nonetheless. 

"You can just bring it with you tomorrow I wouldn't want to impose on your free time after all."  He smiled warmly.  He heard the words about how he thought Sasha had done the best he could have during the time.  That Erebus would have isolated the leaders of the revolt to break down the revolution and break down the ideas and ideology of the leaders. 

"Unfortunately, their ideas were primarily just based around...not racism exactly because superpowers aren't a race.  But they saw superpowers in their royal family and wanted them out just based on that.  I don't know exactly what that's called despite superpowered history being my specialty."  He sighed.
"It will be interesting to see what you would have done.  Seeing the opinion of someone who was the same age as I was, only born into a different era.  It will be interesting to compare and see.  I got a duchy for my work with it, but I think that was mostly because everyone was just completely fed up of what was happening."  Mob effect huh?
"That's kind of what I was trying to do.  And it did work.  Once I executed the revolt, anyone else revolting scattered.  The general populace didn't mind the ruling class having superpowers.  In fact, I discovered later on when I was ruling my duchy that actually the people of the time often felt MORE at ease when they were led by someone with superpowers.  I started calling it the God Leadership Complex. Quite a fascinating case in psychology really.  I don't JUST study history after all."  Sasha chuckled.
"I've travelled, I've experimented.  If you have any historical events you're curious about, you can ask. I don't know if I was there but I am 520 years old I'm bound to have been at some of them."

DEATH DOESN'T COME HOW WE LIKE,

in my case, not at all

dandy ♫

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[Erebus Black]

Erebus hummed in agreement, listening to Sasha while unconsciously tapping on Sasha's hands. He smiled and bit his lip, pulling away and covering his mouth, enjoying Sasha's company.

"Well... I have another notebook filled with questions I wish to answer. There is a good chunk of them during your time of life. Like James Barry and how he was the first Irish surgeon to have a successful C-section in Africa, yet he was transgender. I... try to teach my history properly and tell my students about those who were lgbt+ during the time period." He shifted a bit "Do you have any knowledge of that matter? Are there others like me? Who were apart of the lgbt+ community during their time?" He asked.

He bit his lip and looked down at the table, hands hovering over the table while he focused on the notebooks, knowing exactly where they're at. His eyes glowed brightly with one pupil turning into a slit like a cat. Under his hands, shadows darken and expanded until there was a black mass. He closed his shaking hands into fists and yanked up, pulling out a stack of notebooks from the black mass. The black mass dissipated, leaving Erebus tired and a bit more shaky.

"Here-here are the notebooks" Erebus smiled, eyes normal. He raised his hand and wiped his nose with the back of it, hiding the blood from Sasha, knowing that it would happen because he used his powers from that far of a distance. He pulled out some food and started to eat, fatigue and drained.

"If you got any questions for me on my thought process, you can always ask. Either with sticky notes or, if you wish to do so, texting?" He offered, pulling out his phone and showing it to Sasha with his clean hand.

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Erebus Black

[attr="class","hearmenand2"]Sasha heard Erebus's questions about LGBTQ people in history and he sighed. He understood why it would be asked, but the question wasn't easy to answer regardless.

"There were, but...a lot of the ones not recorded in history are because they were heavily in the closet. And while I know they're deceased some of them were friends of mine. It feels wrong to out them." Sasha ran a hand through his blonde hair trying to think. He knew history of the LGBTQ community could often be priceless.

"There's always been individuals in history like that though. A lot of indigenous tribes in the world have some kind of record. Maybe just teaching that history would work?" Then Sasha watched as Erebus drew the notebook out of...what was that? He handed the notebooks to Sasha and Sasha's mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water. He pointed wildly at where the shadowy mass had been.

"Y-you...what...w-what...WHAT WAS THAT THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!" He saw the phone and took it before punching his own cell number in quickly and handing it back.

"There you have my number now. But seriously! Tell me more about your powers because that was totally freaking awesome. I have powers other than my healing too. I have blood manipulation. Sort of."

DEATH DOESN'T COME HOW WE LIKE,

in my case, not at all

dandy ♫

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[Erebus Black]

"I already teach what I know, but thank you" he smiled. "It is the subject of my soon to be doctorate degree." He 

He grinned around a piece of dried fruit that he pulled out, adoring the adorable man before him. After swallowing the food, he pulled out a water bottle that had flavored water. "It is my power. Shadow manipulation" he explained before taking a drink of his drink. "I am not as good as my younger brothers, but I am sufficient in it. Apollyon, the youngest, is the best at it. He has the longest range and such on our power. What do you mean by somewhat having blood manipulation?" he asked, confused.

"How about this. Twenty questions on our powers and we answer it? Or demonstrate... or both? I do not mind both" he suggested, offering some of the dried fruit to Sasha. More blood dripped from his nose, leaving Sasha to see it before Erebus could hide it. Erebus cursed and waved his hand, pulling out a box of tissues in a similar fashion as the notebooks, but it doesn't affect him as much as the books did. He pinched his nose with the tissue and glared at the dried fruit, slightly angry that it didn't help him as quickly as he thought it would. 

'But then again' he thought, 'I did almost faint, so that must be a possible reason. Will need to research a later time.'

"Anyways... blood manipulation?" He asked, as if he doesn't have a horrible nosebleed.

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Erebus Black I am so sorry for not replying sooner my muse took a dive

[attr="class","hearmenand2"]He heard Erebus talk about how he already taught the LGBTQ figures he knew, and that it was the subject of the doctorate he was working on.  Aleksandr grinned.

"Always good to have a doctorate in that part of history."  He might have had one if they'd stopped being such putzes about gays in history before recently.  Instead he had some others, some of which he couldn't use because they were too old.  Raised questions if he used them.  So he was stuck getting a degree each time he got a new 'life'.  Aleksandr listened about the shadow manipulation and his head cocked to the side slightly.

"So it isn't just you with shadow manipulation, but also your siblings...so some kind of gene for that I guess...fascinating."  He heard the question about the blood manipulation and shrugged.  Then he heard the suggestion about twenty questions on our powers and his eyes lit up.

"Both.  Demonstrate and twenty questions.  If we demonstrate we're bound to have more questions about how it works and how they manifested themselves."  It didn't escape his notice that blood was dripping from his nose.  He couldn't help but stare a moment, trying to puzzle out a solution, or why his nose would bleed from the usage.  More puzzles to solve.  Then he realized from the prompt about blood manipulation that he'd stared too long, and it was his turn.  Aleksandr made a face.  He could manipulate the blood, but it was soaking the tissues and that wasn't particularly...

"Hold on a sec the blood in your nose probably isn't the best for me to manipulate so..."  He left the sentence trail off before taking out his pocket knife and putting his hand palm up in front of Erebus.  Best to give the demonstration start to finish.  Aleksandr sliced across his palm quickly and cleanly, and it was clear from the motion that it was something he'd done often enough to get good at it.  It bled and he used his other hand to manipulate the blood into the shape of a dagger.  Then he manipulated it some more and turned it into a sphere and held it in his hand.  He held the ball in front of Erebus, and at the same time held up his other hand to show how it had already healed without a single trace.  No scar, no nothing.  A bit of bloodstain, and that was all.  Aleksandr chuckled.

"Now taking questions."  He grinned. 

DEATH DOESN'T COME HOW WE LIKE,

in my case, not at all

dandy ♫

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[Erebus Black]

"I am a set of triplets. A double rarity, I guess?" He offered, shrugging as he didn't understand how him and his brothers all received the same powers.

Erebus blinked and looked at Sasha in horror before hitting his arm and chewing him out in Spanish, pulling up a first aid kit only to stop mid word and stare at the perfectly fine hand and the ball of floating blood.

He poked the ball of blood, whining sharply as he held a packet of neon bandaids. "You are a little shit. How the fuck are you okay? Does any of it scar? The actual fuck Sasha?!" He squeaked out.

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@Erebus Black Jebus AJ, you could have told me I had a thread I hadn't replied to since August.  Feels bad man.

[attr="class","hearmenand2"]A set of triplets.  And they all had powers.  Interesting.  Sasha grinned.  He tried to focus on the present moment so he didn't turn the man in front of him into a puzzle.  That was...not so great to do socially.  Then he saw the reaction to the cut and the neon bandaids.  And heard the question.  He laughed at being called a little shit. [break][break]
"I'm 520 years old.  You didn't think I got that way with nothing right?  My primary power is actually a suped up healing factors.  The blood manipulation is secondary.  Actually...it's something I kind of gave myself by accident."  He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.  [break][break]
"It never scars.  I haven't had a scar since my powers presented themselves when I was a teenager.  It pairs rather nicely with my blood manipulation because my blood seems to regenerate pretty fast."  Then he looked eagerly at Erebus. [break][break]
"My turn.  Have you ever tried to make a limb out of shadow?  Does it take too much energy, or does it just not work?  Are the shadows able to touch the physical world or not?"

DEATH DOESN'T COME HOW WE LIKE,

in my case, not at all

dandy ♫

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[Erebus Black]

Erebus stared at Sasha and snorted, laughing to himself at the craziness of today. He put a neon green bandaid on Sasha's hand, just for the principle of it, and shaked his head. "Honestly, that sounds like something my nephew would do. You still get a boo-boo tape for being a dumbass."

"My brothers and I can gain shadow cat ears and a tail, based on certain moods. They mostly come out when we are angry but not...dangerous angry. I am more limited on my powers than...let us say Apollyon. He is the most powerful out of us three in terms of control and usage. I can not comfortably create a shadow limb without feeling faint or lightheaded. Hades, on the other hand, has no qualms with doing so and loves to create a tendril to do whatever he'd like. Mostly give Lylo or myself drinks from far away if we are working. So yes, we can interact with the physical world, but it takes more concentration and strength to do so. I uh...I tend to maybe, possibly hiss and try to smack someone if they come up behind me and scares me?" He offered, ears burning a bit. "Although he uses it a lot more with Honos. Kid is a firecracker with a large possibility to accidentally create sentient acid slime. So safety measures with Hades and limbs."

"My turn. How the hell did you 'accidentally' give yourself blood manipulation?" He asked, curious, and completely confused about this fact. "Also, how the fuck did no one realize you're The Lost Duke? They tease Keanu Reeves about being a possible immortal being and you're saying that no one has done the same to you? The fuck, man?"

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[attr="class","hearmenand2"]He saw the band-aid put on the skin that was already healed and he chuckled. Erebus was pretty damn likeable honestly. And then he heard the bit about shadow cat ears and a tail and his eyes widened. That...that was pretty fucking adorable. He hoped he'd be able to see it at some point, but he wasn't about to ask because 'hey I'd like to see your catboy features' was super awkward. Sasha heard the answers to his questions. So it depended on their level of mastery and usage. Interesting. He heard about the firecracker of a kid and it reminded him of himself. He'd given his parents a lot of trouble when he was a kid. But unlike modern times, it wasn't recorded so he didn't have to worry about anything. Then he heard the questions about the blood manipulation, and then how people didn't recognize him.

"Well firstly, I was a doctor slash scientist. I was trying to find the origin of powers and I...kinda gave myself a secondary powerset in the process. I'm still not entirely sure how I did it, I keep looking into it. As for why people didn't recognize me, maybe I just have one of those faces that people think is vaguely familiar? I don't know. It could also just be the Clark Kent effect because my entire life I wore my hair long and I keep it cropped really short now." He scratched his chin idly.

"Do you know why a cat? Like why not another type of animal?"

DEATH DOESN'T COME HOW WE LIKE,

in my case, not at all

dandy ♫

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