[LN] Thank Goodness We're Well-rounded Characters

[matchmadeinhell]

Kon was reading at relative superspeed. It wasn't at his usual brisk pace, because he found that the limitations of his powers meant he couldn't retain the knowledge for more than a few minutes at his usual speeds, so he had to slow it down a little, but he was still thumbing through far faster than some of the others were taking just to go through the study guides they'd quickly procured.

"Is it just the fact I'm reading this as superspeed or does this story make no sense?" Kon said, as he thumbed through page after page.

Another reality shard had fallen away and now that their brands had signaled it, it was time to go dimension-hopping. Fortunately, it was a very small shard in the middle of the wilderness in Siberia and the area of effect was spreading slowly, so they had time to prepare.

With his otherworldly wisdom, Manny had managed to help out on this one, communicating some clues about the world they were about to enter by flashing the image of a cover of a book.

A fairly terrible book. Apparently they were entering the world it was based on.

So they were doing their homework as they geared up to go and trying to make sense of the senseless.

"So what I'm getting from this is this is a world where you're not allowed to have more than one personality trait? I think? Under pain of death, you have to be a one-dimensional character."

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[staff_and_wielder]

Nico watched the way he ran his fingers over it. Reverently. Like it wasn't just cool looking, but that it was also important.

"It's a family thing, isn't it?"

It looked kind of Japanese in design. And Raph didn't really strike her as the kind of guy who was really into flowers for their own sake, especially not enough to have them tattooed on his body and look at them like that.

[othersdestructive]

He gave her a small smile, tinged just slightly with sadness.

"It was the symbol of Master Splinter's ninja clan," he said softly. "He made all our weapons, so we always had it on our shuriken."

It was important. And now he didn't need his father's symbol on his weapons. Now he had it etched in his skin to memorialize him.

"The flames are just 'cause flames are cool."

[staff_and_wielder]

Nico smiled back, eyes flicking down to the tattoo again.

"Well, I'm glad I could help," she said. "...Now you might want to get out of here, because I'm going to have to flail around until I get this back inside me and it's entirely possible I'll clonk you upside the head."

[othersdestructive]

Raph willed the illusion up again, peeking through the crack created by the stall door to make sure they were still alone, and opened it and walked out, hanging out near the sinks until she could join him.

[staff_and_wielder]

Thunk! Bonk! Clatter!

Never doing this in the bathroom again.

"Ugh. Keeping secrets."

Nico exited the stall, rubbing her arm again.

"Here's hoping I don't have to do that again until it's time to go."