if you're gonna wanna fly, you gonna have to crash

[sonofthedawn]

WHO: Lucifer Morningstar
WHERE: Near the river
WHEN: March 10
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: Geese on Man violence

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He's found the interesting little vending machine during one of his sojourns out and about.

It's a pretty little thing, but it is interesting that of all the powers within it, not a single one appears to be his. It's only further evidence to him that Dad doesn't want him to have proper fun, though at least he can have some sort of a good time. It's also a shame no one thought to stock the vending machine with at least one row of Twinkies. If you're going to have the technology, you might as well best use it.

He's whistling and chipper as he selects rapid regenerative healing and makes a note to come back for some of the other extremely helpful powers that are on display. Once he's pressed the button, he now needs to make the more important discovery and see if it's worked.

No time like the present.

He recalls seeing the geese-like animals near some of the bodies of water, which is perfect. It's not so large that if this healing hasn't kicked in, he'll be dead, but he also knows that geese at home are vicious enough that he'll have quick success if he does this right. It's not far before he finds some milling about the river, looking fretfully calm. If Lucifer has a talent (of which he has many, but this is paramount), it's being able to annoy something into a rage.

"Come on, then!" he demands, shouting loudly and splashing them with water, getting right into their little fiendish faces to agitate them. "I know you're Dad's least favourite creatures," he taunts. "Come and do something about it, will you?" He's ever closer, making loud noises against each of their squawks, and eventually, enough noise, flapping of his arms, and splashing does the trick.

The nearest one lunges for him with an intent to bite and bite it does, sinking its teeth into Lucifer's skin. He lets out a howl of surprise, tinged with delight, and steps back to see if that will do the trick, looking at the punctured skin with eager fascination.

To anyone looking in from the outside, maybe they would think that he's lost his mind, but Lucifer might just have a way to get part of his powers back and he's thrumming with the excitement of it, staring at his arm like it's treasure and not just a nasty goose bite.

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[spoileralert]

Steph definitely thinks the guy has lost his mind. It's entertaining, at least. She watches from a safe distance, perched in a nearby tree as is traditional now for her. She's not about to brave the geese to try to help.

"Hey," she calls out instead, if only so he knows someone is watching and maybe thinks about how this looks. "Stop bullying the wildlife!"

[skyward_eyes]

Rounds are rounds are rounds. Nida normally starts on the outer edges of the town and works his way in, and he's already done that today. Already met a strange boy with a sword, and now that he's by the river he sees the whole thing, a bit late. Can't get close enough to swoop in to help, not until the goose has already bit. That's when he rushes forward, swinging his bpar-spear off of his back, jabbing the base toward the bird to drive it back some.

"I don't know what you're thinking sir, but you should probably get back a bit before it takes another bite."

[sonofthedawn]

"I could ask the human beings to bite me, but that might end up in situations where I can't check on the progress," he says, not leering, but his default is a flirtatious state and Lucifer can never really help the way he always sounds like he's a half-step away from sweeping someone off their feet.

This one is a bit young, though, and while he may be the devil, he does abide by plenty of self-imposed rules. Waving his hand to make the sting go away, he thinks that should do, so he steps away from the goose. "Unless you're offering to beat me up? I just need a few bruises and wounds," he says eagerly, unlike most sane people who are trying to avoid that.

[sonofthedawn]

"That's what I'm aiming for," he says with a thrilling delight, eager and determined to get the water goose to bite at him one more time, so that he can properly have a basis to go on. "Shout at it a bite, will you? I need it to get a little more vicious, if you please."

He's baiting it, yet, waving his arms about like an idiot and wanting to ensure that he won't have to do this again, sometime down the line. "I needed something vicious, a goose seemed the best choice."

[connatural]

It's the shouting that catches Ashley's attention when she was out to make her rounds of the village. Circling closer, not foolish enough to rush in at the sound of splashing. It didn't sound as if someone is drowning, though she worries someone is being drowned and she hurries up then at that fear.

Only to find this man harassing a goose. For a long moment, she just stands there, watching the spectacle as the goose lunches in, biting him.

"That's one point for the bird," she says, folding her arms over her chest. "You gonna let him get the better of you like that?"

[spoileralert]

Lucifer is just a touch older than her usual tastes, though flirting-chicken is her favorite mode of communication after puns. She raises her eyebrows.

"Wow, you could at least buy me dinner first." Then again, she definitely hit her last boyfriend in the face with a brick the very first time they met. It's a soft rule, apparently.

"You do know there are easier ways, right?"

[skyward_eyes]

Seriously? Nida gives the man a look that says he definitely thinks this man is crazy. In fact as he moves between Lucifer and the water he gathers the strength of his power, letting the bubble of green energy spread around them. Enjoy the extra durability, Lucifer, because you're likely not getting hurt again.

"You want something vicious, piss me off over how stupid you are to get hurt," Nida chides.

Meanwhile the goose apparently determines they haven't backed off enough, flaring it's wings wide to lunge in. And Nida just spins the spear and raps the bird over the head. Not enough to knock it out, enough to have it flinch back.

"Back off, goose, or you're dinner."

In fact, to further the point he gestures and a burst of wind runs past them, forcing the bird back further.

[sonofthedawn]

"I intend to let him get the better of me many times," he says with the giddy aggression of a man who has a goal in mind and plans to let a goose bite him multiple times if that means he's going to get a result out of it. "Unless you'll be so willing to offer, but I need to be wounded, truly wounded."

It's not like home, then. He's not impervious to harm, because the bite is there, but he sees it already healing. It's worked, hasn't it? It's actually worked.

[connatural]

She takes in his words, looking to his arm and back to him. She considers that a moment, taking a guess at least on one thing. I mean, why else would you want to be bit, and now there's not a wound there.

"Did you check with the inn's notes? I mean, what if it's saliva is healing?"

Smirking then a bit, shrugging as she strolls closer. "I mean, I am trained at hurting people," she admits. "So if you really want to be hurt, I'm willing to give it a try," she says. "What's the catch? How bad do you plan to hurt me in return? Sorry but I'm not into pain. At least receiving."

[sonofthedawn]

"To getting knocked about? Usually I talk long enough and someone's rushing to help," he remarks, with the self-awareness that comes with experience. Then again, he also used to have Maze, who wouldn't hesitate for a single second before she came at him with sharp objects to cut him to ribbons.

He pushes both hands out, giving her an encouraging look. "See? It's already healing, I need to test a deeper wound, a bigger injury," Lucifer demands. "I need to know I'm not vulnerable, anymore!"

[sonofthedawn]

"Oh, no, I don't think so," Lucifer says in that all-knowing way he has. After all, he did just go to a machine that sells powers and clicked in a few buttons to give him this. Unless it's gotten stuck between the coils like a bad Mars bar, he thinks that he's going to be successful.

At the same time, where's proof if not in the pudding?

He needs to actually see it happen. "No hurting, I'm a man of my word," he guarantees. "I've been put through more pain than you can even imagine, I assure you, what you do to me will be a fraction in comparison."

[sonofthedawn]

Lucifer lets out a disappointed sound when he's not only defended, but the goose is sent flocking away. "Well, now look what you've done!" he lashes out at the boy. "Can't a man try and injure himself around here to see if he's finally managed to get a glimmer of his powers back?" He's huffing and annoyed, but really, he's coming across more as a child than a grown adult.

Certainly not the devil that he is.

"Fine, no goose, it'll have to be you. Hurt me," he invites, eyes wide with the hope that he'll get his way.

[skyward_eyes]

Nida considers the man quietly, rolling his eyes at the stupidity of this stranger. And he gets grief for being young? This man clearly hasn't earned his age.

"Won't do you much good for right now. I'm radiating a protective aura that increases durability for a while. But if you come by the dojo I'll be happy to..."

He's looking at Lucifer's arm now, though. Oh. He... he gets it. And smirks. "I see. Bunker, right? And you're just someone looking for what they had at home. Yeah, I can respect that. But this is a stupid way to go about it."

[spoileralert]

That does pique her interest. She drops down to the ground to get a little closer. Not close enough to threaten the geese. She may be from the big city, but she knows how geese are.

"Invulnerable would mean you wouldn't get injured. What you're talking about is a healing factor. Why didn't you just get a knife?"

[withafnpencil]

Since his house is practically on the river, John spends a bit out there for no other reason than to do some fishing or listen to the trickling of water in the middle of the night when he can't sleep. It happens more than he cares to admit.

Today, he's out walking on the other side of the river when he stops after noticing a guy leaning over and taunting a goose. And it sounded every bit as crazy watching it as it would trying to imagine it happening.

John will just stand there watching Lucifer until he's noticed because it's both amusing and intriguing, but part of him wants to see the guy fall into the river for the sake of karma on the geese's part.

[sonofthedawn]

"Cleverness isn't something you need when you're invulnerable," is his opinion, because Lucifer has done many a stupid thing over the years. This is hardly the first and he knows it won't be the last. His eyes are bright and he gestures for the boy to stop protecting him. "Go on," he coaxes.

He wants to have a proper test of this. "Let me out, do some damage, see what we can do," he dares, feeling his heart pounding in his chest with exhilaration.

[skyward_eyes]

"The invulnerability is limited," Nida counters. "I've seen someone pick this up recently, to deal with a serious wound that almost killed him. And even then, it left him worn and tired. It still takes from your body."

What a mess, this guy just seems... Nida sighs, shaking his head. "Don't. Move."

Before he can think enough to stop he spins on the spot, boar-spear in hand. With the enhanced speed he'd picked up as well, and years of experience, he thrusts forward with the weapon, cutting across the man's cheek with just the very edge of the blade. If Lucifer doesn't move, well, he's not likely to do anything more than a scratch deep enough to bleed.

[sonofthedawn]

"Because I may be trying to test out my limits, but I'm not suicidal," he scoffs. She's right, though. This isn't truly his power, because unless the detective is around, nothing actually affects him, but he'll take a runner-up power at this point.

"Go on, then," he encourages. "Usually people don't need more than one invitation to punch me in the face, let's see how quickly I can heal, or should I go back after the goose?"

[spoileralert]

She raises an eyebrow at him, utterly unimpressed. Sure, there are all sorts of ways she knows how to hurt him- if she wanted to.

"Leave the poor goose alone, it's not even stopping traffic. C'mere." She pulls a throwing knife out of her pocket (one of many, rest assured) and spins it around her thumb once before catching it.

[sonofthedawn]

It takes a good deal more taunting, but then when it seems as if he's never going to rile a bloody goose, it finally strikes out at him, lashing with vicious goose-teeth. Dad really did one hell of a job when he'd decided to create this particular demon.

Waving his bitten hand, he now waits for it to heal, noticing that he has a very handsome audience, suddenly. "If you're here to antagonize the goose, I'm afraid you'll have to get in line. I might need a second go, depending on how this goes."

[clouded_heart]

Foggy honestly just watches for a while, because he has suspected the man was a bit insane and this seems to backing that up.

"Lucifer?"

[sonofthedawn]

Yes, but did he die?

Lucifer is still willing to bait a goose or a man or a yeti or anything in order to get hurt. If Maze were here, it wouldn't take more than a breath to get her to help. Amenadiel would probably pay him in order to do so. That said, it looks like he's about to get his way.

The spear doesn't go nearly deep enough as he'd like, but he makes a face and then turns to look at the wound, which absolutely does hurt. "This is nothing like my power," he complains, as if he's got buyer's remorse, but it slowly begins to knit and heal itself, the same as the goose-wound had.

[sonofthedawn]

He's been bit by a goose, which fulfills his only plan for the day, but the pain is rather annoyingly present, as if a reminder that this isn't actually his power. The goose wouldn't have even broken skin, if that were the case.

"Yes, that's my name, can't be worn out," he agrees, shaking his hand to try and rid some of the pain.

[sonofthedawn]

His eyes light up the moment he sees the shiny glint of a dangerous knife, since he knows that it's liable to do the exact amount of damage that he wants. Laughing with the riotous sound of an idiot who's about to get what he wants, he extends his arm out.

"Oh, do help with that," he encourages, rolling up his sleeve and sticking it out like he's anxiously waiting to give blood.

cw: blood, is this technically knife play...

[spoileralert]

She rolls her eyes while he laughs. Yeah, she gets it. The moment she could turn into a bird she wanted to move into the sky full time. Still, it’s a little creepy talking to an out-and-out masochist.

"Please don’t hand your major arteries out to strangers," she lectures exactly as though he were a child. "Most of them probably don’t know where they are." She takes his wrist and turns it with the professionalism of one who does know where arteries are, turning it the opposite way around so they aren’t so close to the surface. She has the knife up to his wrist just under the thumb before she pauses.

Maybe this is a bad idea. And if Steph thinks it’s a bad idea it has to be a really terrible idea, right? No, no, don’t be silly. She’s just skittish because the last time she was this close to blood she blacked out a little.

"Uhhhh if I pass out please use my hair tie to cut off the circulation," she says quickly, and before either of them can change their minds she cuts a fast but deliberate line that stops short of his inner elbow, carefully avoiding those arteries.

She does not pass out. She does, however, get suddenly very weak and very nauseous.