Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran]

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Sept 19, 2017 2:06:33 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Sept 19, 2017 2:06:33 GMT

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She sat on her bed in the room with her back against the wall and her knees pulled close, pressed against her chest. Her small chin sat atop her knees and her white hair draped down over the sides of her legs as her red eyes stared down at her right palm. The bed was in the very far right corner of the bedroom and across from it was a dresser with a wide mirror adorning it, with not much else to be found on it.to the left of that about three feet away was the door and further down towards the other end of the room she had a little work table and chair.

She huffed a breath blowing her hair away from her, she was bored and she wanted to do something. She was a modified soul, supposedly this amazing thing, but she couldn't do anything. She felt like a normal being. Perhaps it was time for her to take the initiative, she did remember her father attempting to teach her and her sister more about their weaknesses and bad habits.

Still with even that being said she didn't know where to begin. She sat and pondered where it was that she could best utilize the being which was known as a mod soul. She supposed their biggest trait would be their bodies were artificial, so they could fix them if damaged, or even modi.... That was it.

Her eyes snapped wide open as she sprung from the bed bolting out her bed room door as fast as she could, heading towards the lab where she assumed Seran would be. She darted down hallway after hallway turning here and there, taking shortcuts where she knew them. She was glad that there wasn't a bunch of people working here, they didn't get in her way when she was in a hurry. Eventually she made it to the lab, stopping at the door she stepped in and spoke.

"Seran."

She called out for him by name, it wasn't unusual when she was home. The term father was for outsiders whom she didn't know nor trust. She walked in, waiting to see if he would respond as she peeked around to see if he was in.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Sept 19, 2017 6:58:09 GMT

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Post by Seran on Sept 19, 2017 6:58:09 GMT

“What is it.”

Seran’s voice echoed from further back within the laboratory, inviting Hikari to come in. He didn’t turn to meet her as she approached, still intently focused on his work. Situated atop the lab table in front of him, a large, sickly purplish black sphere sat, held up by a number of metallic rods that seemed to puncture its glassy surface. Near the sphere’s middle a white substance had formed over the surface, like scab on a healing wound.

Even as Hikari watched, small white flakes floated up from the sphere’s interior, where they were each intercepted by the spindly metallic tool Seran held in his left hand like a pen. Each flake was guided to the growing white scab, where it grafted itself upon touching. I was clear this was a slow process, the main piece likely representing several hours of work.

“You voice sounds rather chipper. That’s good, you’ve seemed rather mopey this past week.”

The sphere rippled suddenly, and Seran’s free hand flicked up to tap the surface, sending what looked like a small electric charge from his finger into the morose substance. The strange object swelled for a moment, then shrunk back, as though it had taken a deep, calming breath. Several larger white flakes drifted to the surface, and Seran frowned slightly as he was forced to quickly coral them.

“Honestly I don’t know how these things stay together naturally. By all rights they should be popping like balloons on a regular basis.”

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Sept 23, 2017 1:11:01 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Sept 23, 2017 1:11:01 GMT

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“What is it.”

She heard coming from further back in the lab. Hikari's head spun like it ws ona swivel turning to the direction of Seran's voice before she broke into a light jog making it to his location in no time.

When she got there she saw him working as usual, and as per usual she had no idea what it was that he was working on. Her eyes gazed at black orb he was working on for a minute as she became entranced by it, totally forgetting he had asked her a question not that long ago until he spoke up again.

“You voice sounds rather chipper. That’s good, you’ve seemed rather mopey this past week.”

Her head jerked towards Seran as she snapped out of it, "Huh, uh, oh yeah. No I was just bored, but I just figured out what I'd like to do."

She walked further into the room, peering over Seran's shoulder at his project as he worked, though she stayed at a far enough distance that she wouldn't get in his way.

"I'd like to learn how to modify my gigai and I was wondering if you could teach me."

She stood patiently waiting for a reply, though she didn't see any particular reason he would deny her.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Oct 7, 2017 7:01:46 GMT

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Post by Seran on Oct 7, 2017 7:01:46 GMT

"I'd like to learn how to modify my gigai and I was wondering if you could teach me."

Instruction. Seran had never considered himself a particularly adept teacher. So many of his skills had been developed on the fly; when he was forced to learn and get better or else suffer injury or death. Creating a more advanced body had been almost entirely on accident on his part, a product of trying to develop entirely different skills. So how then to teach it? He considered for a moment as he continued his work.

“An interesting request. Piloting a more powerful body is definitely a skill worth developing.”

He set down his tools, abandoning the project for the moment, and began opening drawers and cabinets around the lab, a plan having developed in his mind. The telltale sounds of rummaging could be heard as he searched amongst the mess for the tools he needed to teach.

I know it’s around here somewhere.That damn arrancar is always hiding spare bottles.

After several minutes, a satisfied grunt could be heard as he emerged from the underside of one of the counters, holding a large bottle in one hand and two small glasses in the other.

“This…”

The glasses clinked as he set them roughly on the table.

“... is your first lesson.”

With a quick twist he broke the seal on the bottle and removed the top, pouring a generous amount into each glass and pushing one towards Hikari.

“Cheers.”

With a single swallow he emptied the glass, grimacing slightly at the powerful burn of the alcohol. This was strong stuff, made by Theocelese with enough kick to intoxicate even the most resilient spiritual being.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Oct 13, 2017 3:29:48 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Oct 13, 2017 3:29:48 GMT

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She nodded her head in excitement as Seran agreed with her, glad that he was seeing things her way. Finally she'd have her own project to work on, maybe she could even build a better body than that of Serans'. Even as he began walking around the room, rummaging through draws and over table tops searching for something, her excitement still didn't abate. She couldn't wait, she was bored to death, especially since her sister disappeared. There was no one else here but herself and Seran, and he wasn't exactly great conversation. At least not her ideal partner to converse with anyways.

Still after a few minutes she grew a furrowed brow as she noted Seran was still searching. As she was about to offer her help he emerged out of whatever rubble he'd been buried in at the time with a bottle in one hand and two glasses in the other. A puzzled Hikari stood looking at him with an arched brow as he poured them both drinks and slid her a glass declaring it her first lesson. She watched as he downed his own glass quickly in one swallow, and the look on his face made her hesitant to take the shot.

She looked down at the glass for a second or two, but it felt like an eternity to. Eventually her hand reached out on its own and picked up the cup bringing it towards her face. The obnoxious smell coming from the brown liquid made her want to hurl, but she held it in and sucked it up. Holding her breath she threw the contents of the glass into the back of her throat and swallowed quickly. It burned all the way down to her stomach. She could feel her stomach flipping as the alcohol mixed inside it. Her body shivered from the sudden shot of such a concentrated dose and in a matter of moments Hikari buckled at the knees and fell forwards.

She threw a hand outwards stopping herself from completely face planting. The young mod soul looked up to her father, her eyes now glassy and some what blood shot.

"What the hell did you give me?"

She hadn't drank before, but she was pretty sure one shot shouldn't have her on the ground.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Nov 5, 2017 6:10:44 GMT

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Post by Seran on Nov 5, 2017 6:10:44 GMT

"What the hell did you give me?"

Seran smiled, refilling his own glass.

“I’m giving you a much gentler introduction to using your vessel than most mod souls get.”

He twisted the bottle’s cap back into place before kneeling down infront of his daughter.

“The alcohol you just ingested is primarily consumed by arrancar, and is specially brewed for their particular resistance to intoxication. I’m not sure of the exact numbers, but to a human this would be considered something around three hundred to three hundred and fifty percent alcohol content.”

He took a small sip from the the glass and stood, setting to back on the table next to the bottle.

“It should go without saying that even a fabricated body like yours can’t handle this much. Muscles are always the first to go, and your senses won’t be far behind that, so listen carefully before you can’t understand me. Up until now you’ve used your body like a human does, relying on the brain to tell the body what do. This is why, even now, your heart beats, your eyes blink, your diaphragm flexes to fill your lungs with air and so on, even though such things are unneeded. The first lesson is not learning, it is unlearning.”

Hikari was lucky, most mod souls only learned this lesson by being beaten within an inch of their life. It was not a fun experience, having something like your lungs collapse, or you heart stop, only to realize in that moment of panic and fear of death that you didn’t need either of them to keep going. It was a bit morose to be sure, but a necessary lesson.

“You need to stop moving with your brain and begin moving with your soul. That body is nothing more than a puppet, and a drunk puppet is of not concern to the puppeteer. We’ll start with standing up. Get on your feet and we can continue.”

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Nov 11, 2017 16:25:48 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Nov 11, 2017 16:25:48 GMT

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“I’m giving you a much gentler introduction to using your vessel than most mod souls get.”

As he spoke she could feel her head spinning and she shook it slightly trying to regain her senses. She was surprised he decided to fill his own glass again, this tasted like it was meant to kill. Her stomach churned and her right hand quickly found itself holding her core as his she could calm it with a touch. Her face was flushed and she felt hot. Her breathing was laboured and she felt sick.

Her vision was beginning to blur and his voice was starting to fade in and out. She hated the feeling, it felt like a slow and painful death. She wanted to hurl and just get it all out. Somehow, she saw getting beat up preferable to being poisoned. The young mod soul attempted to get back to her feet only to slip and plant her face into the floor. Oddly enough she didn't really feel it, she supposed that was one good thing about being drunk.

She placed the flat of her hands on the ground and pushed her upper body off the floor. It was hard to do, but she was doing the exact opposite of what Seran was telling her to do so she wasn't completely surprised. She didn't understand what he meant by moving with her soul though.

Her body was simply a puppet he said, and she was the puppeteer. Then that made her brain and soul the strings. If one set of strings were cut she just needed to switch to the other one. She focused on the reiryoku flooding her body from her pill and imagined it as her own actual body filling out her gigai. First she attempted to move her fingers and that she at least managed to do. She took a breath and prepared herself.

"Here goes," she said as she pushed up. Her body stood, wobbled for a second and then steadied. She continued staring down at her feet for a second before finally breathing and then looking up at Seran. "Ok, I'm up, so what's next?" She was almost scared to ask, but she wanted to learn.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Nov 14, 2017 6:22:05 GMT

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Post by Seran on Nov 14, 2017 6:22:05 GMT

Seran smiled as Hikari slowly managed to work her way up. She’d figured out how to move her limbs with reiryoku quite quickly, as expected of his creation. But as he watched, the reiryoku began to flow out of her skin, turning visibly to reiatsu around her.

“Focus. If you let your reiryoku bleed out like that, just moving will drain your reserves over time as though you’re maintaining an ability. You’re using too much anyway, lower the amount and tighten the control.”

He waited a moment, then held out a hand and turned it slightly to its side. The floor beneath Hikari’s feet rippled, then began to angle itself in mimicry of his hand. The whole building was made mostly from black iron after all.

“Maintain your balance. Don’t move your feet. Keep that energy low and maintained. Eyes on me.”

He rocked the floor in the opposite direction, then back, then forward. He reversed the order and held up his other hand, extending his index finger.

“Follow my finger with your eyes only.”

He moved his hand slowly to one side, then back the other way, continuing to move the floor as he did so. She needed to be capable of multitasking as naturally as when she was sober, otherwise the exercise was pointless.

“Focus Hikari. I can see your feet slipping. Don’t blink, eyes on my hand. Ignore the symptoms of the alcohol, the vessel’s brain is experiencing them but you don't have to.”

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Nov 17, 2017 21:04:34 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Nov 17, 2017 21:04:34 GMT

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“Focus. If you let your reiryoku bleed out like that, just moving will drain your reserves over time as though you’re maintaining an ability. You’re using too much anyway, lower the amount and tighten the control.”

Hikari tried to tighten her restraint on the reiryoku that was leaking out, attempting to rein it in while still using what was necessary to move around. After a short moment she caught the feeling, using just enough energy to move about as she normally would while the rest was held in reserve. It wasn't so hard once she thought about it. Though as soon as she started to get comfortable, Seran began another one of his games. The floor beneath her feet suddenly started to move like a liquid before it tilted at an angle throwing Hikari off balance. Now while she had managed to stand on her own two feet, her cognitive abilities were still somewhat off due to the alcohol. She stumbled and almost fell but she caught her footing as she threw her hands out to steady herself.

“Maintain your balance. Don’t move your feet. Keep that energy low and maintained. Eyes on me.”

She glanced up at him as he spoke keeping her feet steady as possible as he rocked the floor she was standing on like a boat caught in a storm.Here and there she stepped forwards, backwards or to the side as needed to catch herself until eventually she managed to keep her balance. Now he wanted her to follow his finger with her eyes only as she continued to stand still. It seemed simple enough. The young mod soul braced her feet and steadied herself as her eyes began to follow Serans finger, except she wasn't sure which one. She blinked trying to get rid of the double images, when she remembered she wasn't using her vessels organs. She focused some reiryoku into her eyes, clearing her vision and finally saw one finger. Her body shifted in order to keep balance as the floor rocked beneath and her eyes stayed train on Seran's finger. Soon enough she would come to grow bored with the exercise, though she did learn she probably didn't want to drink too much of that stuff.

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Aug 10, 2018 1:36:46 GMT

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Post by Seran on Aug 10, 2018 1:36:46 GMT

Seran watched for a few more minutes as Hikari continued the balancing lesson. For a training idea that he had created almost on the spot, it seemed surprisingly effective. He’d never trained another mod soul in the skills need to pilot an enhanced body. Though he had, in the past, given basic instruction on the use of modified body parts he created and placed on to other races. The concepts were the same, but a mod soul could use them on a much greater scale, and it occurred to him that perhaps a training system for such things should be developed for future endeavors. Perhaps even a set training regiment of skills and techniques in similar fashion the Gotei’s use of kidou to train the unskilled in manipulation of their spiritual power. But that would have to wait for another time. He held his hand up for Hikari to stop, and leveled out the floor beneath her feet.

“Very good. The difference between the vessel and the soul is key not only for use of your vessel, but also for general mastery of all your skills. The vessel is a tool for you to use, not some fragile shell that must be protected. Now hold out your arms.”

He held out his arms to his side as example, then stepped forward as she mimicked the action. He extended both his index fingers, which turned to metallic black as he pressed them against her arms just below the shoulder. Black iron flowed outward from his fingertip, wrapping around Hikari’s arm to form a solid band that rippled before settling into the skin like a tattoo. Seran removed his fingers and, as if on cue, both of his daughter’s arms slumped down at the elbow.

“Ignoring negative sensations is one thing. But with no sensation your actions become hard to regulate. I’ve turned off the nervous system in your arms, so now you must both operate them purely with the reiryoku in your body, and develop a way to experience a touching sensation without the assistance of biological systems.”

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Pimp My Gigai. Ep. 1 [Seran] Sept 8, 2018 6:19:32 GMT

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Post by HIKARI on Sept 8, 2018 6:19:32 GMT

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She kept going for a while as Seran watched her, she guessed to make sure she had truly accomplished the task given to her and it wasn't just some fluke. Once he seemed to be convinced he raised a hand, indicating for Hikari to stop. The floor beneath her feet ceased it's incessant movements and she was free to stand normally again. Finally she was done with that, she just wanted to take a seat now and rest. Her mind still felt groggy and while she could function like this, it wasn't a feeling she very much liked.

“Very good. The difference between the vessel and the soul is key not only for use of your vessel, but also for general mastery of all your skills. The vessel is a tool for you to use, not some fragile shell that must be protected. Now hold out your arms.”

As he spoke, a mental image of her committing suicide by a shot to the head played out as she regretted asking him for lessons. Perhaps she should have done this on her own, Seran always had some Spartan type training on his mind and it killed her. With a slight sigh she held out her hands as requested by her father figure, mimicking his movements as she too stepped forward. That's when he touched her with both his index fingers, his signature black iron leaving itself upon her skin. Just what was Seran planning on doing?

A quizzical look appeared on her face as she looked down to the areas just beneath her shoulders that he touched, then back up at him. The black iron moved like water along her skin before settling and as soon as Seran removed his touch from her, all feeling in her arms disappeared and they fell to her sides.

“Ignoring negative sensations is one thing. But with no sensation your actions become hard to regulate. I’ve turned off the nervous system in your arms, so now you must both operate them purely with the reiryoku in your body, and develop a way to experience a touching sensation without the assistance of biological systems.”

Of course it could get worse, there was always that possibility. She had just hoped that the chances were going to be particularly low on this one. It didn't turn out so well for her. So now she had to learn to move without any feeling at all. She supposed it would be handy to ignore forms of paralysis. Again, she focused, imagining her reiryoku to be the shape of her arms, only using so much to fill the mental image she had in mind. The exercise was very similar to the first in terms of getting the limbs to move. She raised her left hand with the palm facing towards her, opening and closing several times before lowering it with a frown.

The problem came with the sense of feel. While she could move her arm, she couldn't actually feel anything, so without visual confirmation she wouldn't know if she was holding something or not. She glanced over at Seran, taking a chance that he'd toss her a bone, "How am I supposed to replicate nerves using reiryoku?" It wasn't as if reiryoku itself had a feeling. Sure you could use the reiatsu to sense your surroundings, but beyond that... she wasn't sure.

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