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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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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?

No, needles take longer but they are neater.

However, I had a point to make, and I made it well.

To the Malnosso, to the village, or to yourself?

Everyone. [Pauses.] Half of everyone. Those who did not already know it.

So basically those who didn't know you already. Or didn't know you well enough. I didn't know you cared about those getting those things.

I have my reasons to give off a few back-off warnings right now, I guess. More than usual.

[But he does think that over. Was being tortured by the Malnosso making him unnecessarily paranoid?]

I see. I won't ask, but I'm surprised that you would have reasons to give said warnings now, right after returning from being kidnapped. Unless you were going to do it before being kidnapped.

[Though then he wonders if it would have been as explicit as this one was.]

My tattoo was not removed back then.

So? You could have wanted to do a preemptive warning.

I did once. With the flag. This time, however, the flag was the one on my neck, not the roof. Although you're right, I should check on that too.

The flag is safe. Still standing in place and with empty jugs around it when I checked last time.

[Which was a few hours before you decided to put a blood show on the journals, Marco. Not that Ikki will say unless asked. And it's not as if he took it as a duty to make sure the place was safe and all while you weren't around.]

[That's okay, he saw through it anyway and gives Ikki a grin.]

Thank you, yoi. Do you really think I went overboard with this display then?

[He pauses and sighs.]

I think they took from you more than just the tattoo and earrings. To be precise, the mask you put on when dealing with others, specially with people who aren't like us. People who may not react positively to our raw selves, or something like that.

[Ikki has no real issue with it except for Kotomi's sake and because he's sure Marco won't appreciate it once he is "normal" again if something happens in which he traumatizes someone.]

[There's a genuine frown at that.] Raw, eh?

[That seemed apropos. He felt raw. Like he'd been scrubbed with acid and blades with no time to regenerate.]

Do you ever shed in spring?

Only ever since I got here.

[He doesn't really have feathers even if he raises his Cosmos and takes the form of a phoenix. And his Cloth's feathers are kind of metallic.]

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