The Star Man

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Cepheid gave a curious expression as he held the two parts of his costume in his hands. "G-Gah!" Suddenly, he was grabbed and was being ushered out towards the door. "A-Andy?! What the hell?!"

Not...leaving? He had no intention of leaving! Still, as he was being manhandled out the door, he quickly jammed his mask over his face and hit hat securely on his head as he was hooked onto the slider. "You are so excited about this!" Ceph exclaimed as he was pushed down the slide and towards the connected ship. Thankfully for him, he managed to get his gear on, so to any of the other girls, he was simply The Star Man. It had been so long since he interacted with people as Cepheid, he had begun to feel that his bare face was the mask.

Once he was on the other ship, he disconnected himself and looked around, glancing back to his sibling. He was wearing the mask, yes, be he was unsure who he should be right now. The Star Man or Cepheid?

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<sub>Nerys properly started to tow the smaller ship behind the much large ship that Andromeda had. Finally once the both of them were done, she would then move back over to the main ship with Andy. The man then looked over to Cepheid as he dusted himself off.

"Why do you have to keep-" He was interrupted by a squeal and a very hyper looking Selena tackling down Cepheid and cuddling him.

"Oh my GOD! IT'S THE STAR GUY!" She would promtly nuzzle him. Andromeda just stared at Selena as she did that.

"I saw him unmasked~." Nerys piped up, giving her shipmate a cocky grin.

"No way! Masked guys should never reveal their secrets." Selena pouted. "it's against their secretive nature!" Finally, Daniela and Godwine came up, just giving sparkly eyes towards him. He then promptly facepalmed.

".... What is WITH you all? What's so special about him?"</sub>

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Cepheid had only just gotten his mask on securely when he was addressed by his sibling, who could not even get his question out when suddenly an all too familiar squeal went through the air. Uh o-OOF!

Suddenly, The Star Man found himself tackled to the ground and being cuddled like a toy. Suddenly getting a sneaky idea, he'd reach up above his heat and nimbly snatch his hat from the ground and put it back on, trying to sit up while he was being all but molested by one of his many fangirls. "I am always joyed to meet one of my admirers, but I must implore that you allow me to return to my full stature." He asked in a very Star Man-y fashion.

If allowed to stand, he'd brush himself off and give a glance to his brother. Though no one could see it past the mask, he was giving his sibling a trollish grin as he exclaimed about what was so special. He was only doing this to harass him. After all, he wouldn't have need of the mask if it wasn't for you, Andy!

Turning back to the starry eyed females who had just begun to slightly bicker amongst themselves, he'd take his hat off and give a flourishing bow. "I am The Star Man, star-gazer extraordinaire!~" He introduced, before standing upright and popping his hat back upon his head. "And I take it I am in the presence of dear Andromeda's crew, am I not?~" Lacking his scope, he wasn't able to be quite as jaunty due to the missing pseudo-cane, but he still did well without, out stretching his arms at his sides as he spoke. "It is quite an honor to meet so many ladies of such a beautiful caliber!~ I must admit I am stricken by your collective beauty!~"

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<sub>Selena stopped nuzzling him and then quickly got on her feet, waiting for The Star Man to stand up. She then grinned a very eager grin, even as the man turned to focus on them. The girls, or at least Daniele, Selena, and Godwine all collectively wooed and Selena just fanned herself.

"I'm Selena Gomez Zula." She spoke up, only to be elbowed aside by the brunette of the group.

"I'm Daniela Herminia! Let me show you the place~!" Of course then Godwine spoke up finally.

"MARRY ME~." Of course then there was awkward silence, which Godwine blushed, fanned herself, chuckled, then added. "Godwine Kathi." Finally, Nerys seemed to see through this acting and she grinned, walking up to take Cepheid's hand and then glanced over at Andy, who was, byt then, nearly pulling out his hair.

"Nerys Henye. Allow me~." She did a little hop to kiss Cepheid on the cheek, which caused Andy to groan in annoyance. he then pulled Nerys out of the way and then stared at Cepheid.

"You're just doing this to piss me off. Please stop trying to entrance my girls." of course Andy wouldn't hurt Cepheid, but he looked like he was getting butthurt by all the trolling.</sub>

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"Charmed." He answered as Selena introduced herself. He let out a small laugh at Daniela's eagerness, though he wasn't able to answer her before Godwin's cry rang across the deck.

He stood there in silence for a few moments, before laughing merrily and taking a step up to Godwin. "Oh my dear girl, It's a wonder to meet you, however I know you can do much better than a wandering chart maker such as myself.~" So modest! RPer is giggling He saw Andy almost detaching his hair from his head as this continued, and he merely chuckled. Then suddenly he felt his cheek hissed and he looked at Nerys.

"Oh ho ho!~" He exclaimed at the girl's audacity. Before he could go any father on that matter, Andromeda had pushed him aside the female and was getting on his case. "I have no clue what you are speaking of, dear brother." He answered, knowing full well what reaction his words might cause. "I am simply voicing my observations and meeting this lovely crew of yours!~"

Oh Andromeda, if you could see past the mask, he was grinning to smugly right now.

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<sub>Selena looked over to Godwine as the man exclaimed himself. Oh how modest! He's so gorgeous! Those girls would be making those comments right now to each other. That is of course Nerys was in on the gig as well. She then would make a comment right as Andy pushed her aside.

"His methods are far more appealing, Andy~!. That's why we love him so~." She chuckled.The other girls nodded in agreement, as Godwine spoke up.

"Did he say brother~!? Andy I didn't know he was your brother~. That makes him twice appealing~!" Godwine then scooted up next to Ceph and then spoke up. "I hope your as good in the bedroom as he is~."

Andromeda's face went completely stiff, and he just stared at Godwine as his brow furrowed, but his eyes were still wide as if he was going to say, "WHAT." This got awkward, and fast. Even if he had no shame, did Godwine really say that to his BROTHER?

Andromeda shook his head and then poked his twin brother, glaring at him. Meanwhile, Nerys was just laughing, which was probably rare for everyone.

"Cut the act."</sub>

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Cepheid simply accepted his praise and adoration as the women acted not too differently from the normal groups of fangirls he encountered.

And then Godwin seemed to be very unaffected by her earlier slip-up, and proceeded to make some very forward advances. "I think it's safe to say that I wouldn't know the answer to that question." He replied casually, as if Godwin did not just vocalize her intentions of attempting to...do things with him. He did, however, take a slight step away from her and disguised it as moving towards Andromeda. "Protect me from the horny lady! D8"

Wincing slightly as he was poked, he completely faced his sibling who was glaring like mad. Uh oh.

"...I'm sorry?" He asked after a moment. "I fear I am unsure of what you speak of. When you live under a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. I fear that, at this point, I really do no know what is the act and what is me." He paused for a little bit.

"However, seeing as you have little to no intentions of allowing me to depart on my own, I see that it would likely be best if I provided you with the company of the one under the mask, as I'm sure that is what my precious sibling is desiring right now." Yes, Andy. He's gonna lay off for a bit. Or send the females into an even larger fervor, once the mask was off.

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<sub>The girls would keep fanning, and Godwine was just ecstatic, not even realizing that she was being a horny lady and just wanting to get in um... his cape. Yes his cape.It was a very nice cape. Selena just giggled at the advances and Daniela finally put her hands on her hips and addressed Andromeda.

"Is someone jealous~?" She gave him a sneaky look, and Selena then added to the conversation, hopping up and down.

"I think he is~!" Of course, the girls stepped back when Andromeda flenched his fists, and were about to shout out as he raised his hand...

Only to try and rip the mask off of Cepheid. Andy clearly didn't look amused by this endeavor. Only I get to lay my girls, yo! If I catch you sleeping with any of them...</sub>

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As the girls started to rag on Andy for being jealous, Cepheid smiled in amusement from under the mask, though he suddenly sobered up as the females suddenly went on the defensive.

With reflexes borne from dodging fangirls going for his mask, Cepheid took a swift half leap back and avoided having it snatched. "Calm yourself, Andy." He said, his tone more serious. "You know it was simply in good fun." Oi, if any sleeping with happens, it's because they snuck in when I was asleep!

With a light breath, he plucked off his hat and, with his free hand, calmly removed the mask once more to reveal Andromeda's face, save for the scars. "There we are. Much better, no?" He was still acting a little like The Star Man, but that would idly slip away as he attempted to act more like the 'real' him.

He really wasn't sure who the real him was anymore, though... He'd have to speak with Andy in private about the matter. they had a lot to catch up on.

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<sub>Andromeda just folded his arms and glared at Ceph when he jumped back. Either way, the guy was pretty good at fangirl dodging, even if they were a bunch of lunatics to him. He flicked his hair out of the way as the guy spoke up and he just kept silent.

"Well, it's enough clowning around either way." He spoke up, as Ceph removed his hat and mask, which caused Godwine to just... squeal and then pinch Ceph's cheek.

"Oh my goodness~! You two look exactly alive save for hair length! Are you two identical twins~?" Of course Andy just awkwardly stared at the other girls, Nerys finally piping up.

"Duh." She then stayed next to Cepheid for now, preferring a bit of his company now. Maybe she could confess to him about Andy.

"It totally makes sense now! Sort of." Selena spoke up, Daniela just looking in surprise. "But Andy never told us he had a twin.

The man went silent for a moment, looking at each of his girls and then finally walking past all of them.

"Come on, let's head inside."</sub>

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"Alright, alright." Cepheid said as he took the mask off.

Then he was suddenly pinched on the cheek like he was a child. She would probably notice that his features were a little more malnourished than Andy's, though it wasn't immensely obvious just by looking. "Owwwww!" He pulled back and rubbed his cheek, trying to get the sting to go away. "Yea, we are." He said, though he was drowned out by Nerys, who stood next to him.

He stood in silence as Andy looked to each of his crew members, and then stalked past, suggesting they move inside. "Alright then." He agreed, giving a friendly wave to the girls before he followed behind his twin into the cabin's warmth.

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<sub>Andromeda would leave the girls to their own coddling and girly stuff. He'd talk to his own brother for now. Something more serious... and get him some shirts for Christ's sake! He moved down to his room this time, letting his brother in. there was nothing too bad about it, just some drawers and a desk that was bolted down with various maps on it as well as a quill with ink.

"Heh... Heheh..." Andromeda covered his face, before running his hand through his hair and sitting down on his bed. "I can't believe it... you're alive..." Finally, all that emotion tolled down on and he just outright broke down crying in front of his brother.

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Placing his mask in his hat, he freed one of his hands so he could close the door behind the two of them. One they were alone, he sat his hat and mask down and idly undid the cape, folding it and putting it in the hat as well, before looking to Andy who had sat on the bed. The room they were in was much neater than his own study, which was completely covered in star gazing instruments, old charts, spare parchment,s ink, and quills.

As his twin began to laugh slightly, he returned his full focus to him and stepped closer. Good god...was he...crying again?

He wasn't one to talk, he himself felt tears springing up. Stepping closer, he knelt slightly and wrapped his brother in a hug around the shoulders, crying himself. "You have no idea how much I worried about you. Every time I heard your name spoken, I was horrified I'd hear that you were shot down or something." He managed to get out through light hiccups.

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<sub>Andromeda would welcome that hug from Cepheid, his own twin brother. He buried his head in his shoulder and just kept right on sobbing. Finally, he could stop hiding himself from Nerys and the girl and just let out every bottled emotion he could muster that didn't involve rape. And to someone!

"I thought you were dead! That time, long ago, when we were fifteen, I thought they caught you and were killed! You have no idea..." He spoke up after Ceph, trying to speak in as level of a voice as he could. "I missed you so much. I wanted to tear through every ship in Seria just to get you back..."

Andromeda held his brother tighter, closing his eyes and letting tears fall down. He just didn't want to let go of Cepheid, in fear he would just disappear between his fingers like grains of sand.

"I don't think I could ever be happier now... Unless she comes back."</sub>

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Sinking down onto the bed beside Andy, he continued to hold his brother as they both tried to talk through sobs. Don't worry, Andy. Cepheid would never judge, so there was no shame around him.

"Don't worry, brother. I gave them the slip with little trouble." He consoled, letting the other sob into his coat. "I missed you too, Andy. I actually took up traveling on an airship in the hope that this very thing would happen. I started to lose hope. I thought we'd never..." He clutched his sibling tighter and tried to stop crying.

He was clinging just as much as his twin was, both of them crying like children, safely behind the door and away from prying eyes and hopefullyears.

Wait....'she'...? Once they had both calmed a little, and the water works had mostly relented, Cepheid hazarded an inquiry. "May I ask something? ..... Who was 'her'?" He'd ask carefully, it was clear it might be a touchy subject.