beyond rhyme and reason

How's my Epros doing? Any critique that you have is totally welcome. ♥

Anonymous commenting is on. I think I disabled IP addresses, too. But don't quote that on me. I am still not sure how that works. All comments screened.

Ah, I had disappeared off the face of this place.
Because confusion was all I could taste.
I had received cards in a small popper.
But it was not a weapon proper.
A vision also plagued my mind.
Not from the music which caused sanity to unwind.
No, it was under a colorful cloth --
With people fluttering about like moths.
To see what trick I had to perform.
Yet I was not a puppet, this I must inform.
I was doing so of my own free will.
To entertain masses -- quite a thrill.

I puzzled and puzzled and puzzled over what feelings were brought.
It seemed more like the future than my own thoughts.
So confusing and I hardly noticed time past.
Forgive me -- this disappearance shall be my last.

[Have a grainy video of Epros lying prone on the floor of the clocktower. Takes him a moment but he slowly gets up. Down but not out?]

Ugh. Always with the rhyming. I'm so sick of it. Where did he get that idea, anyway?

[Wobbles. Unfortunately, he is not able to break that part of his Classification so easily. Sadface.]

It seems introductions must come again.
If we had them before, I don't know when.
Thou was correct with the name you called --
When I was so appalled.
The Phantom Evil King is no more.
I am Epros, yes, that settles that score.

[ooc: Aftermath of fight had? Not cool with any of the Okage or anyone else who wanted to be at the fight, let me know and I'll delete this post. ♥ Others can still talk to PE]

Forgive me, King Stan and his party.
I found something new to be my quarry.
Please excuse me while I discover the reason,
The reason this girl is now quite frozen.

[And what did Epros do this time, you ask? Why he found the Sakura-statue and promptly kidnapped it so that he could understand the reason for why it is. He also put Hatiroth on her to see if that would change anything in her condition, but it did not.]

I know for certain this girl was once alive.
But now it seems her life's taken a dive.

[While Epros -- ahem, the Phantom Evil King -- is walking about, he spied on the ground a rather fantastical purple hat. Well, giving his own affection for the color. He picked it right up and set it down on his head. Not realizing that that hat was actually a person.]

Who knew that this place had such wonderful hats.
I wonder if I get a defense bonus -- how about that?

The battle had just begun,
With that Evil King and his minions!
But lo and behold, I face them not.
I find this off-putting, annoying -- what a cowardly lot!
But perhaps it was not them that flee,
Could it be that it was me?

What great confusion fills my soul!
To be in a place that's so completely foul.
This cannot be where I used to roam.
That place I know for it was my home!
Ruined buildings and destruction as far as I can see,
I need an explanation as quick as can be.