"Tristan, what a good name," Ascot said, before he was distracted by Koda putting on his mask, and the aftereffects of that. He then whirled around at the Ghost Girl once the older man was done vomiting blood, walking away from Tristan as he did so. In a rage, the boy would shout at her:

"So the power comes at a price?!" The answer was apparently yes; Koda was the 'first to undergo the change'. Ascot glared at her in response, saying once more, "You are lucky Zoe isn't here." [i]Power. Power to help people, power to bend to a purpose - the correct purpose, helping others.[/i] The boy wanted that, and so despite Koda's ordeal, he moved to put on his mask, his [i]Semblance[/i]. As the mask, the gold-and-white half-mask clamped onto his face, Ascot shouted; "I want to be strong!"

A bright golden light glowed from the young man's body, illuminating the area. A simmer of white then washed over this golden glow, and when the brightness ceased, Ascot had been remade anew. His hair was now white as snow, his vest and shirt replaced by bluish-steel armor. His trousers were now blue, and made of a silken material that was nevertheless tough as steel, and he wore boots of leather with metal toe-caps. And finally, white wings unfurled themselves from the back of said armor, four of them, two large upper ones and two smaller lower ones. His eyes opened, then, and those were unchanged; they were still black.

[i]This is so cool![/i] Ascot thought, before smiling at the Ghost Girl and saying, "So, Silverbrook, The Magician, Unfettered. That is also where we can get food and water, correct, assuming we need it? Wait, do not answer that; we have to go soon."

He then flew over to Saffron, saying to the other teen, "Hey, Saffron, are you okay? I know this is a lot to take in - it is the same for me. But to be honest, I'd like the two of us to walk to Silverbrook together, the two of us leading the way." Ascot's wings literally fluttered as he hovered before Saffron. "Then, and I am really sorry for not telling you this back in my own world, but I have a crush on you - you are the most handsome person my age I've met! So...once we've defeated our first batch of monsters - assuming we were sent to Iriss to do something like that - want to go out on a date?"

Ascot's smile was now bright, and for a while, he would forget Zoe and her disappearance.

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