The morning after (Mike)

”Yeah I don’t think I stuttered.” Michael noted as the virtual fight seemed to be coming to a close. Of course the male would try and turn the script on him, not that Michael would complain when it came down to it, he did like to talk. The dark haired ethereal cocked his head to the side as the finishing move was being performed, something about him having to answer the question first somewhat confounding. ”Well I was just wondering about unimportant things like favorite color and things like that, but I suppose I could answer first.” He said with a dramatic roll of his eyes, and a small smirk. ”Very well, my favorite color is, well any shade of pink or something like that.” Not that he was expecting the male to guess that considering that he was not wearing the color at the moment.

”I dislike country music, my favorite food is cheesecake and I like to shoot things.” Michael rattled off easily, looking to Spellstone to see any sort of reaction before continuing. ”So what about you? Any interesting information I can know about you Joshua?”

His interest in the color red was an obvious one, but Michael did not like to presume too much. ”Rhinos?” Michael chuckled lightly at the thought, picking out his next character. This one was some kind of draconian type fighter, or so it appeared by their appearance, but he could have been wrong. Then came the question of what kind of music that he liked, and Michael was unsure what that was. ”I like a lot of music, anything that catches my interest really, but I suppose the louder the better.” He noted as the fight would begin or whatever. His mind was reeling over the appropriate question to ask or something along those lines. ”So have any kind of hobbies?”

Did Michael have a favorite band? That was something that he had to think over, let it mull within his brain as his character would say something, seeming to be a more serious character than the one that he had used before. Fingers would dance over the buttons of his controller, simply familiarizing himself with the buttons. ”Favorite band? That’s a tough one, but I guess you could say I like A Perfect Circle”, though that’s just a band that I could call my favorite at the moment, I’m  moody that way.” Michael noted cocking his head to the side. As the two fighters would face off, his dragon seeming more intimidating until revealing the cigar. Apparently something about the character he chose was cool, or simply one that Joshua thought was cool. ”So, whats your opinion on the whole metahuman controversy or whatever?”

It was true that most mages he knew easily outstripped metahumans, but that was not always the case really. Some magic users were rather trivial as far as magic went, and some metahumans could potentially level cities. It was all a matter of circumstances really, ones that he thought over well enough. In fact Michael was a mage himself, and this was aware of how powerful one could be, considering that he was quite the powerful mage himself. ”Most human criminals are far less dangerous than metahumans, considering that some could knock down buildings with their minds.” Michael noted pressing a few buttons on the controller, getting used to the control scheme of the character he was playing with. The male asked what kind of magic that he used, and he was unsure how he could explain it to where the male would understand. ”I use….Ethereal magic. It’s a magic that’s powered by Ethereal energy, pretty powerful stuff and not just any mage can use it.” Michael started explaining. ”I kind of comes with being an ethereal.” he added. ”So…have you ever been in a fight with a werewolf?”

Michael personally had never been in a fight with a werewolf, so he had no idea how hard fighting one would be, but it was interesting that Joshua had never been in one either. His mind was half divided with the story and the fact that the males mouth was smeared with pizza sauce, something about it bothering Michael slightly. However Michael’s attention did snap from staring at the pizza sauce that ringed his mouth to answer the question. ”Have I ever fought one? No, I can’t say I have. I have fought vampires before, goddamn bloodsuckers. Apparently one thing you don’t want to do is receive any kind of hickeys from them though; not as pleasant as one might think.” He joked, the reality being that he eviscerated the vampire in question. Making a low annoyed sound, Michael wanted to deal with the mess but he was getting his ass kicked on this game and needed to deal with that first. ”So, I assume yesterday was your first time fighting a dragon?”

So it was his first time ever seeing one? Michael cocked an eyebrow slightly, smirking as the amount of enthusiasm he showed at actually having faced one and defeating it, though that dragon was nowhere as powerful compared to some that he knew; such as Jordan. While he knew little about the dragons power, he did know that he was a powerful dragon and one that Michael would not take lightly in any scenario, if only out of respect for family. It was amusing, then again he found a lot of the things the male did amusing, do the reaction itself was amusing.”I haven’t fought any dragons before, but I do know one or two, not that I really ever plan to fight him.” Michael noted absently before answering the question. ”Golden lady?” Michael pondered over an answer for that but nothing really came to it, as he continued to pressure Nunjustsu with what his character was good at, long ranged attacks. ”Either she was some kind of sorceress who was harnessing the dragons power or some kind of psionic manifestation, can’t really tell.” Michael hypothesized outloud, hmmming to himself as if considering it. ”Do you know what…the Titans are?” he asked casually, pronouncing Titan as Ti’taens, rather than the usual pronounciation.

”No I pronounced it right, and you are…really wrong on what they are.” Michael noted simply, though not surprised by the human mages ignorance on the subject. ”The Titans are a race of beings that feed on death, or the energy known as Nether produced when things die.” He explained as the fight came to a close, though it seemed that his fighter was the one that was victorious. ”As for the why, I was just wondering if you knew anything about them, considering that I am one myself.” He noted letting the strange glowing purple markings form along his body, creeping up his neck like vines and appearing on any sort of exposed flesh. A small amount of nether would leak into the air, a dark feeling energy that would make the hair stand up on the back of one’s neck; especially if they were so close to the source of the energy. However, he would find the small traces of nether far preferable to feeling Dark Ethereal, or so Michael though anyway. "And no, the markings are not just for decoration."

Michael smirked and shook his head at the apparent ignorance of the mage, not that he was too surprised by it.”I did say I was an ethereal, but I’m what you would call a half breed. I’m half ethereal and half titan, one parent being an ethereal and the other a titan.” he explained with a slight smirk, something about explaining this amusing him. ”Ethereals use a far different energy than Titans do, and they…are simply different races altogether.” he would allow the feeling of nether to dissipate and then a different sensation, one that was soothing and for the most part the opposite of the feeling of nether; otherwise known as Aether. Ethereals were capable of using both aether and nether, so he was showing the dual nature of such. ”Any other questions?” He would ask looking over the character roster.