Should be doing my term paper and essay exam, but blame a certain paladin and ninja/summoner for tempting me. Mostly the paladin, though.
Sync pouts, looking over at where Magnum and Shadow are both sitting. Admittedly, she knows Magnum is just teasing since they're all waiting for the dungeon to find its last dps that they need, but it's a bit… unfair, really. Magnum is running back and forth along the path between the docks and the market board, grinning and laughing and complimenting Shadow.
"Notice me, senpai," Sync laughs.
Perhaps it's a playful, teasing gesture, but Magnum seems to be pointedly ignore her. "Shadow," he sing-songs, drawing out the Au'ra's name. "I love you, Shadow, darling!"
Shadow chuckles. "Sure you do, mate," he laughs. "That's why you've sent me a pack of candy, yeah? Oh, wait."
"Shadow," Magnum playfully whines, the grin never leaving his face.
Sync frowns. "Magnum-senpai," she calls. "Notice me!"
The men go on teasing one another with rather explicit jokes for a while longer before Sync huffs and gets up from her perch on top of the roof. "I'm even wearing revealing clothing," she mutters, teleporting away.
To her surprise, Magnum and Shadow both accept the teleportation invitation. Magnum follows behind her, while Shadow takes up the rear, following behind Magnum with a playful burst of ninja-classed excitement. Normally, Sync would be all for a bit of fun – but Magnum is distracted. Likely he's messing with her because waiting for the dungeon is boring to no end for all three of them, and both Magnum and Shadow enjoy the bromance between them. She enjoys it as well because they're extremely fun to tease about it, but…
After a moment, Magnum and Shadow stop to show off to one another the different skills they have against a few weak enemies. Sync brushes past the enemies, knowing they won't need the white mage with them in order to defeat a few little gnats or boars. To them, the enemies are child's play; to her, they're slightly more threatening, but not worth her concern since they don't pay mind to her regardless.
"Oh no," Magnum jokingly laments, "it hit me. Shadow, help."
Shadow snickers. "What's the matter? Can't handle it? Just like you can't handle me?"
"Bitch, I can handle you," the paladin retorts. "That's why I ripped into you last night."
"Ooh," Shadow says, the word rolling off of his tongue with a playfully seductive tone to it.
Sync stops walking when she finds herself standing in front of a rather large, rather angry enemy. Almost immediately, an entire horde of enemies seem to notice the Miqo'te standing in the center of them. They start to move closer to her, swiping, stinging, and slashing at the white mage who has none so accidentally wandered into their home.
"Magnum, help," Sync calls, growling a bit when she's ignored. "Magnum, I'm dying!"
Neither man pays her mind, resulting in her death.
"Magnum, I'm being attacked by, like, six things!"
Nothing, except death.
"Magnum!"
Once again, Sync finds herself dying to the same attackers. She'd only returned to see if the two Au'ra would notice her, but they were captivated in their games.
Sync lets out a frustrated scream and turns, throwing a spell out at the nearest enemy attacking her this time. "I even dressed up nice for this! I'm wearing literally nothing! Why don't the boys notice me? Why. Don't. They. Notice me!"
To Sync's delight, the enemies at least seem to notice the fury behind her attacks. Despite her staggering and swaying, they seem content to back away. While a white mage is little harm to a malboro, the one attacking her appears to have realized that it won't get the satisfaction of killing her a fifth time. It doesn't quite satisfy her, though, that the enemies are leaving and neither Magnum, nor Shadow, have paid her mind yet, so one offensive spell is followed by a few buffs and a heal, and slowly it turns into many of the same pattern. Sync takes in and lets out deep breaths, steadying herself on her feet when no one attacks her again.
"Oh, Kitty-Chan," Magnum calls. "You're bleeding."
"Might want to cast cure there, Sync," Shadow advises.
Sync glares over at them. "Thanks," she growls, casting cure on herself and feeling her newest injuries heal over almost instantly.
"Did you kill all of them?" Shadow inquires, eyes widening slightly.
"Why didn't you say something?" Magnum asks. "We would've come running if we saw you fighting all of them."
Sync just stares at them both for a long while, lets out a furious scream, and teleports back to Mist.
"Why won't they notice me?" Sync laments, sitting on the roof of the house back at Mist.
"I ship it," Wisteria offers, grinning. "They'd make a cute couple. ShadowSteel all the way, except for SyncSteel. SyncSteel tops it. Although, maybe SyncShadowSteel…"
"Wist, you ship everything," Sync mutters. "And I wouldn't mind joining the bromance if they'd just notice me!"
