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What did you just call me.

Jung Dumplingman. It's the name you were born with in this world.

[suddenly the tip of his sword is inches away from Booker's Adam's apple]

Say that again and I'll slice your throat open.

[well here is one difference between Kim Dokja and Booker Storm.

Kim Dokja would at least feign being put off by this

Booker Storm is clearly activated

puts a dragon claw on the tip of the sword]

Jung Dumplingman.

Don't take it so hard, I got 'Reid Solo'.

[what the absolute FUCK]

[hits his head with the flat of his sword. hard.]

Who are you?

[ow, it's a good thing he is already in the healing pools for this probably, loses his balance temporarily and grabs his head where he was hit]

I told you. Haven't you been listening? I know it's a lot to take in, but I wasn't lying.

[just,

runs his sword through Booker's shoulder.

you know.

for science.]

[well he pierces like any regular meaty person, not a dude with 300+ stamina.

But instead of blood flowing out little bit of story float up. Junghyeok might even recognize this part.]

[The Constellation 'Demonic Judge of Fire' does not wish for your death!] [The Constellation 'Demonic Judge of--

[and then Booker moves forward, letting the sword skewer him deeper but aiming to get close enough to grab Junghyeok's hand by the hilt and his tail whipping up for his ankle to try to trip him into the pool]

[he is immediately distracted by the story flowing out. reading it, wondering how any of this could be possible in the first place]

Edited Date: 2025-08-09 11:33 pm (UTC)

[but then this unholy Kim Dokja impostor is grabbing his hand and tripping him into the pool and DOWN HE GOES, SPLOOSH.

he lands on top of Booker, though. sword still buried in his shoulder.]

[hot

~~sorry jae who is reading this and horribly scandalized~~

and then something unlocks and Yu Junghyeok is getting a flood of interest, amusement, frustration, fun, pain, annoyance, affection, calculation -- just a whole host of emotions share, even as he realizes he is being shoved under water and absolutely cannot win this fight it's still kind of exciting and exhilarating and if he's using the pool's abilities he doesn't need to be able to talk

-You should know along with healing these pools have some other extra effects

Booker reaches a hand up to grab at Yu Junghyeok's throat]

[well at first there was only confusion, surprise and profound annoyance as he fell into the pool]

[but then he gets slammed in the psyche with a flood of unsettling and unclean and wrong and his own emotions rapidly shift into alarm, concern, an even deeper confusion, disgust, horror.

no coherent thoughts are coming out of his head, just a panicked string of the closest approximation to what the hell what the hell what the hell what the hell that goes on and on.]

[then the DOPPELGANGER FROM HELL GRABS HIS THROAT. and all thoughts get drowned by SIRENS AND ALARM BELLS]

[pulls out his sword and chops off Booker Storm's hand in a panic as he stumbles out of the pool with the same exact energy as a cat who just slipped into a tub!!!!!!]

[as soon as yu junghyeok is out of the tub he is free from the emotionshare as well which is probably a huge relief.

honestly his hand being chopped off doesn't hurt that much, Junghyeok keeps a sharp blade, and his stories continue to leak from him, swirling into the water. If Junghyeok bothers to try to read them he'll notice they aren't all stories he recognizes. Someone named Squid is mentioned, getting written up for getting into too many fights. Someone named Reid Solo waits quietly for a door to open. Someone named Booker Storm drinks coffee until 4am while following a rabbit hole on the internet...

Booker comes out of the water with a big heave of breath, coughing, and watches his hand float away from him before his tail reaches up and snag it]

...Ow.

Edited Date: 2025-08-10 12:09 am (UTC)

[.5 second interlude as his eyes skim over all of those stories]

[but then Booker emerges again and he instinctively takes a step back, holding his sword out in front of himself in a combat stance]

—WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!