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[It's Marco's voice, but somehow with a darker tint to it. And it looks like his hair's been dyed black? That's not the strangest change though. The tattoo on his chest is completely removed. There's a rough scar where it used to be though, it's not bleeding, but it's clearly still healing.]

Can you believe the arrogance of those fools? First they drag me away, then they removed my father's mark, and gave me a mockery of it. [Oh yeah. He's deadpan, but it doesn't take a lot of knowing Marco to recognize that he is thoroughly pissed off. More angry than he's ever openly shown in Luceti for that matter.] But the joke's on them, oh yes. [His eyes glitter darkly, burning blue for a second, as they might have done before.] Just because my healing is slowed here doesn't make me any less a phoenix. They can remove my tattoos and piercings but that's a simple thing to restore.

Watch and learn fools. Watch and learn.

[LUCKILY the next part is filtered away from kids ten and under, though no doubt many adults would have preferred not to see it either.]

[Marco props the book up on the edge of the fountain, and leans back to lowers his neck into the water and uses a knife to carve an old school manji symbol in it, line by line. Those familiar with the nazi swastika and not the manji symbol might confuse it for that. Marco doesn't make a sound however, but his blood is clearly revolting against the treatment, blue flames trying to battle the water, and the most they can do is hold back the damage. As he finishes, Marco smirks, grabs a bottle of blue ink from a broken pen and pulls out of the water to throw the ink into it. At that he lets out a feral sound, something like a loud crow's caw, and he shakes off the rest of the ink with a smirk, the skin already still stitching over his chest and trying to cover his neck, but hitting a barrier where it's inked.]

[He fiddles with the journal again to turn off the filter and grins.]

There. I don't know about you, but I feel better already! Now who wants to get on my good side and help me find some earrings?

[[ooc: Marco's returned from Mallynap in "evil" mode! He'll have black hair, be a lot more emo/depressed/dark, and comments will come from

evilfierybluebird and

fieryblackbird respectively!]]

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If I was you, I would have only felt better by doing that to the guys who took you.

[He prays for all that's sacred that Kotomi hasn't seen that. That she won't see that. If she has... Marco's going to get the beating of his life, even if he can already tell that something is weird, display aside, and that it may be from the kidnap.]

The only way I'll feel better doing that is by carving it directly into their hearts. With my talons.

[He says FAR too calmly. With a girn.]

[Definitively weird and wrong. While he doesn't doubt Marco can say and think that -he himself does-, not that long ago Marco was saying that he wanted to cool enough to savor his revenge. Now he doesn't seem too concerned.]

Wouldn't it be more poetic to do so with your beak? Unless you're afraid of poisoning.

Poisoning? No. Just taste. That would take forever to clean off and smell terrible for weeks.

[Ikki just hums at that.]

Where are you?

By the fountain.

[Sing song chirping voice:] Why~?

[Because he's going to kill you for locking this but doing it on an open place right in front of the school.]

You filtered that but did it right in front of the school? Nice.

[Dripping sarcasm.]

So? They're hardly close enough to have seen anything. You are worrying far too much, brother.

[It's not the brats what he's worried about, not entirely at least, he's sure many of them have already seen horrible things in this place. The "brother" makes him fall silent for a moment though, as it always does, one day he will really end believing it himself.]

You know I'm going to punch you if Kotomi-chan ends seeing this, right?

[And punch him hard, probably more than once, depending on how bad it gets for her. His tone isn't angry though, just stating a fact, a fact Marco should be aware of already, but checking never hurts.]

Really? And why's that?

[Whoooooooooosh.]

You really need to ask?

Aye.

Are you saying the idea that the Malnosso removed my tattoo would upset her that much? How cute.

That too. But if she sees how you remade your tattoo she's going to be traumatized for life.

[Which is bad. And annoying for if he decides to get a tattoo himself, not that he has been considering the idea, of course. Just a big "if".]

What is wrong with the way I did it?

For you and me? Nothing. For the rest of the people for whom damaging oneself is lethal? The whole ordeal is disturbing at best. For a girl who is terrified of fire to a traumatic extend? It's far beyond disturbing.

[He really hopes you're just forcing him to say this on purpose and not because you really don't get it.]

[That does get a frown out of him. He definitely hadn't considered Kotomi-chan, but he also hadn't had all the facts.] She is afraid of fire?

[So was Sabo. Yeah, there's something about this he doesn't like.] Please make sure she does not see, I'll try to lock it from her as well.

Truly Ikki, I did not realize that.

[That pretty much clears things, doesn't it? No matter what, he's sure Marco normally wouldn't be so out of himself to not realize something like that. Even if he doesn't know about Kotomi's fear for fire, he would have known the display would have been unnerving for most. Still, it's clearly Marco all the way. So, what, did they rip off the facade he always puts? Or did they just overpower the deepest parts of him?

He doesn't like it, he always hates the idea of the people he cares for being used like tools and played with. Hopefully this won't end giving Marco trouble in the long run once he's usual self.]

Yeah... I figured so.

[He sighs.]

I'm going to meet you, still at the fountain?

Aye. Though I'm heading towards the shops. I'm hoping to find some earrings.

I heard so. I will see you there then.

[At the shops he means, and that's where he will be, waiting for Marco. Arms crossed and leaning against a wall, ignoring pretty much anyone who isn't a blue phoenix.]

Yo.

Something on your mind phoenix-bro? [Swaggers right on into the shop. No one handle his swagger, okay okay.]

[Ikki's not impressed by the swagger.]

Just checking the list of reasons why I'll beat the Malnosso slowly and painfully when I get the chance.

Did they really take all of your earrings?

Aye! [Annoyed growl.] Can you believe those arrogant bastards? I'm thinking I'll pierce their penises when I get the chance.

Maybe that's why they took them. They needed earrings for their own piercings.

[Troll.]

Gross. In that case, they may as well keep them. I'm certainly not going to touch them after that.

[Serious.]

Can't blame you.

[Ikki chuckles before he pauses and looks at Marco curiously.]

Was that the same method you used to get your tattoos the first time?

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