Chivos Locos y Lobos Hambrientos

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An endless desert with white sand all around and a lonely tree under which stood a man in a dark cowl. A crooked smirk spread across a pair of thin pink lips as dexterous fingers played a tune filling the endless abyss with color. Iago often played tunes out in this abyss to keep himself from losing his wits. It was jovial and added color to the otherwise grey world that surrounded him. Life. Well. The afterlife. Needed to be less boring and music? Well. Something about it always drew him in. It was in his blood perhaps to be enamored by such romanticism.

Humming to himself now he paused for a moment placing the guitar down against the tree as his fingers became tired with it. Placing his head against the tree he let out a deep seated sigh and stared at the crescent moon above him. A celestial body with which he shared a part of his namesake. His orange eyes locked onto it. He lacked a purpose. Even if he was given his second chance he felt like there wasn't much to do. In search of it... Iago wandered the endless dunes. A man in pursuit of something.

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Iago | Silver #BEC2BC | (Post Count: 1)

[Gaz]

Orion #1

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The vast emptiness… a place more than familiar to Orion, a former Vasto Lorde that had wandered these plains in his first Hollow Incarnation aching to gain power. It was something he thought revisiting may pay fruit in the months since his awakening as an Arrancar and his second chance to become the top. Was it always this boring though? There was nothing flashy? Nothing fun going on…

Then he heard it. The music, the casual playing of an instrument. That was interesting! With a Sonido the Arrancar stepped behind the man and let his Reiatsu shake the world for a moment on his arrival. “Play your funky music white boi.” Orion spoke, without an ounce of malice in his voice. He was smiling a friendly smile as he stood by the tree of quartz.

“Please, go on. Your music is interesting.” He spoke as he made a move to sit down. His presence lifted and the feeling of the world shifting stopped. There was no point in becoming a beacon for the lesser hollows to come and try and hunt him and his new friend.

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Orion: f1cb00

[yippiesandfloof]

The flame-eyed man squinted his slender eyes at the horizon as he heard some distant shuffling in the sand. At first he expected nothing more than some scrambling hollows searching for prey. But no. It wasn't. It was another Arrancar by the looks of it. Iago calmly remained seated as he watched the ebony skinned man approach him with his reiatsu shaking the world in his presence. But there was no perceivable malice in his smile or speech.

“Play your funky music white boi.”

Oh? It was the melodies that had drawn him in? Iago returned the smile showcasing his pearly whites an action that stretched the whiskers and skin around his thin lips. He lowered his head slightly and reached for his guitar once more. His hands were tired of it... but... he wasn't about to deny an audience.

"A hidalgo approaches me and asks for music. So, music is what he'll get. Well met, señor."

With some gentle tuning he began to play once more. This time a different song... where as the previous had been inspired by the gentle rains of an arid land that Iago had once called home many centuries ago. This new one was something else altogether... so under the quartz tree began the new song was played by dexterous fingers one of capricious salt merchants from a land of snake charmers and perfume merchants were camels acted like ships in a land of endless dunes much like this one.

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Iago | Silver #BEC2BC | (Post Count: 2)

[Gaz]

Orion #2

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Hearing the new tune be played by his new friend Orion sat, sat and gave this man the respect he was due for his talent with the instrument. He listened and basked in the musical glory that this man was allowing him to hear. It was something that stirred ancient forgotten memories and sensations to be something that was fleeting and on the edge of his mind but still unobtainable, however. In that moment he felt as if he were at peace.

Once the playing stopped Orion clapped his hands together with a bright grin. “Friend! That music was splendid!” He announced, thrusting his hand forward to take the other mans in a handshake. “Call me Orion, Orion Nebulae. And you sir are one that I wish to befriend, your musical talent has done something that hasn’t been done for me in the millennia of wandering these deserts.” He spoke before standing up and spreading his arms wide as a Cero formed at the tip of each of his horns and then fired out into the nothingness in the distance.

“You entertained me!” Orion announced as the Ceros he fired into the distance exploded in a bright orange explosion that gave colour to this colourless world. If anything Orion was a showman, flashy and loud… this was the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Orion:f1cb00

[yippiesandfloof]

As his fingers stopped strumming the guitar Iago looked up at the fellow arrancar. It seemed something in him had been moved... judging by his facial expressions. Iago tilted his head as he placed the guitar to a side and pulled down his cowl revealing the silky jet black hair underneath.

"Thank you, amigo."

He stood up and gave a gentle bow an action that caused his black cloak to flutter slightly. It seemed this Orion fellow who just introduced himself wanted an immediate friendship. Odd, or at least Iago found it odd. He was still a bit cautious but the man truely seemed to lack any ill will toward him and besides in his current state he could use an ally. As it were he would be easy pickings for a shinigami or even a mid-tier hollow.

"Well met, Orion, I'm Iago. Iago Luna and it's been many centuries since I last saw a face so likewise. It feels good to see someone after so much time."

Iago chuckled.

"Hehe, it's good I entertained you. I love to entertain..."

Looking away into the distance he saw the fallen marble pillars of a building that once was sinking into the white sand. That's how he felt. Sinking into these sands. But at least he now had potential company... although... he still hungered. Hungered for a purpose... simply existing? No. He could not. Everything living and unliving necessitated a purpose.

"Why have you been wandering this desolate desert? If I may ask, amigo?"

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Iago | Silver #BEC2BC | (Post Count: 3)

[Gaz]

Orion #3

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That was a question good Iago had posed… WHY? In the lost moment of enthrallment, he had nearly forgotten his purpose in this vast nothingness. That was not to be allowed! “My purpose in this vast nothingness? I came to reclaim my lost powers!” Orion announced in a grand sweeping gesture, it was not as simple as just consuming other hollows now, power was gained in new ways.

“Before my transformation into this new form I was at the pinnacle of what being a simple Menos type hollow could offer. I was a Vasto Lorde!” He explained with a grin. “I hunted, consumed and did it all here in this vast nothing. But now… Things are different, power doesn’t come from preying on those that are weaker, it comes from experience, from the thrill of living this new life!” Sweeping his arms wide again the arrancar gestured to the world around them.

“However, I do not think we’ll be getting much out of this place though.” Orion spoke as he thrust a had forward towards Iago to shake his hand. A companion, a friend to conquer this form of life was a perfect for experiencing everything he needed to reach the top. This way they could cover weaknesses in each other and grow and make one hell of a splash in the world as they did it. “To really answer your question Iago, I want to get to the top. I want to rule not just this vast emptiness but everything! The living, the dead, the good and the bad. I want it all in the palm of my hand.” Orion added with a confident smirk.

“And I’ll do it with style.”

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