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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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My tattoo. It's the outline of our flag.

That, uh...

Sorry. That symbol wasn't included in my cross-cultural studies course in college.

It means vengeance.

[It means balance in all things, but whatever.]

And your father's flag is vengeance.

Correct! So you can see why I would not want anyone to mess with it.

Yea. But, you kinda lost me with the flag bit.

My tattoo has the outline of my father's flag. It represents vengeance. I made it represent vengeance. [A grim sort of grin.]

Vengeance over what?

[His eyes glitter darkly, somehow missing his usual warmth.]

Whatever needs revenge pertaining to my family.

Ah. I see. I prefer a proactive approach myself. Protect my people so we don't need vengeance later.

And if I could be everywhere at once, that wouldn't be an issue, eh?

Well, no. So. Ya nip the problem in the bud.

Precisely as I am doing now.

I meant set up a system, not threaten people.

And just how do you propose I do that?

Well. Uh. You know people who know people who know people. Just get everyone to agree to have eachother's back and you're good as gold.

And what shall I do when those people are sent home, poppet? Mayhaps my chains are all falling apart around me.

Then you find more people. You said 'flag', so I figure you're used to working in a group. Of all people, you'd know that groups are better than doing it solo.

I do, but I am flying solo right now and the more I try to protect others, the more they become endangered. I grow weary of that futility, and a threat serves me well.

[A shrug.]

To each their own then. I know I've got my people here and, if they go home, there's always gonna be others. Personally, I don't bother with threats. They don't do the job as well.

Call it a warning then, because I will be more than happy to carry through with it.

Well. That works.

I hope we don't need to see what you'd do. Those flames from earlier...

You a- a wizard or something?

I am a phoenix. [Just lazily smirks at that.]

what.

Phoenix. Fire bird that raises from the ashes? Ring a bell?

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