Brithwyr

Akatsuki Academy

It'll be interesting to see Gaz react to his impromptu near-vasectomy. And the others.

Wait, isn't Juniper still on his shoulders?

Mystvale: A Modern Fairy Tale RP

Right, the CHAR tab is literally so resource heavy my phone can't load it...

WE DID IT!

Medieval fantasy RP?

Holy shit i thought this died

@LeoricAquila

It's more than a little dead...

Akatsuki Academy

Juniper Finlay

Listening to Gaz got Juniper thinking. She found herself nodding along and agreeing with what he was saying. That test was a crock. That test was against them from the very start. And she was so nervicited for getting into the academy - now that the doors were literally open for her to just step inside, she was going to walk away? That wasn't the Juniper she was. The more Gaz spoke, the less sad she got and soon there was that familiar fire burning in her eyes.

"You know what? You're right. What does that sage woman know? Like she could storm through it in one go with the equipment and knowledge we had. 'Oh you're all failures, only one of you passed'. Well, you know what? We're not Chasers yet, lady. That's your job. If anything, the fellow that supposedly 'passed' should be the one to leave. What a crock of..."

She was cut short as Gaz lifted her onto his shoulders, turning her potential curse into a squeal of delight.
"Let's start punching ovaries!" she yelled playfully, perhaps a little too loudly. "Erm, what is
an ovary, Gaz?"

Before he could answer, a nearby bush turned itself into a human, eliciting a coo from the armoured warrior. "Did you see that? He was a bush a moment ago, that boy!"

The bush-boy introduced himself as Charles and told Juniper that it was just scare tactics, not even good scare tactics. The girl nodded along with what he said.
"I know, right? It's like, sorry we're not Chaser's yet, lady, we only just started. And besides, Gaz here is a deadshot, Gyu over there is half cow, Red can move at, like, the speed of light, I took down a whole building in one hit and you can apparently turn into a shubbery, so it's not like we're total failures. We're still tough enough to take down a You-Kip anyway. She's just being mean."

Removing a gauntlet to shake the Bush-Boy's hand, Juniper extended her own branded hand to recieve it.
"Juniper. My valiant steed here is Gaz, Gyu is the horny one over there and Red is... hey, Gyu, have you seen Red anywhere?"

@Savato@Spriggs27@Double Capybara@KoL

Akatsuki Academy

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KoL's reaction is due to prior experience in dealing with Spriggs. So while although it may appear that KoL is overreacting, I assure you they're justified seeing as Spriggs has done some...questionable things in RPs before.

@TheWindel

If you say so.
It just seems like a wayward reaction to a relatively minor offence.

Akatsuki Academy

@Brithwyr@Ashifili@Double Capybara

The problem is when one of the parts knows that the other dislikes something and keeps on doing said thing despite being asked to mind their behavior. @Spriggs27 knows that I don't like that and am not laughing, mainly because I don't want to have Reiko kill or seriously injure someone just because she can.

I asked him to tone down his insults at the first time and asked it a second, the third one will be action as my next post will deal.

@KoL

He's not making fun of you! And why would Reiko kill him? All he's doing is yelling at her - surely, the head of an academy for warriors has come across some kind of confrontation like what Gaz is doing at least once in her career? It's not like he attacked her or something. If he was being a cock OOC, then maybe it would make sense, but it's IC. It's confrontation, the characters are not going to get along and they are all going to react differently. He's not going super saiyan and blowing shit up, he's just yelling at her.

Akatsuki Academy

@Spriggs27

I don't care for your excuses or not, I'm not finding that fun at all and of you can't see it then my next post will make it quite clear.

Reiko will disarm this fuck bomb once and for all.

@KoL

From what I know of Gaz, this outburst wouldn't be out of character for him. I'd be more suprised if he stayed quiet. Isn't this the same fella who told all the skinny girls to eat a sandwich back at the start?

Akatsuki Academy

For some reason whenever I'm tagged on this RP I don't get a notification (Happens with both KoL and TheWindel)

On the other 2 its fine, but on this one it doesn't notify.

@Double Capybara

Well, does this come up as a notification?

Mystvale: A Modern Fairy Tale RP

@Everyone:

I'm definitely looking to start this either sometime Tuesday or sometime Wednesday. How does that sound for everyone? If there's any complications with that schedule tell meh beforehand and I'll push the date back a bit.

Don't worry if your character isn't finished by then, you should still have quite a bit of time during the intro phase before things start picking up. (Honestly, I think you have till the end of the first part before it gets harder to introduce a character)

@HalfOfLancelot

Sounds grand to me, Boss. I'll see if I can get me relations sheet done before then.

Akatsuki Academy

Juniper Finlay

Juniper couldn't believe what she was hearing. Failure. Failure! Yeah, sure, the boss told everyone that they had failed, except one. So one person out of all of them was worthy of being a Chaser. That made her feel even worse. If she said everyone had failed, she'd shrug it off as the Boss-Lady being a grump, but whoever this one successful schmuck was, Juniper felt hatred for them like no other. They had shown the rest of the potential entrants up, and were personally responsible for making her feel the way she felt.

"Fail... failure..." she whispered to herself, her voice catching in her throat. How would she explain this to Dad? Yeah, I did what the Boss-Lady said but she told me I was a failure anyway and nothing at all like a Chaser. Happy Homecoming! She'd get put in the fields without a second thought. Anger quickly joined sadness. The way she saw it, she had done all that was asked. She got the stupid card - she managed to find a second card on the return journey and all - so if anything she was twice the winner, yet that still wasn't good enough.

No, this... this was wrong. When she was normally punished, she laughed it off. This stung. She'd been through worse than this, yet this really hurt her. What was wrong with her?

Boss-Lady #2 told the gathered First Years - Failure Years, more like - to look up. That Boss Lady #1 was only looking out for them. That there was a vision to be upheld, whatever that meant. That being a Chaser was more than a job.
"Then what is it?" Feeling decidedly miserable, Juniper sat down on the floor, staring at her armoured hands intensely. What was she even doing here? She didn't want to be a Chaser! Her Dad sent her here so she would be a better warrior, not so she would become a professional demon hunter. That had been their first mistake. The second mistake was screwing up their entrance exam. The third, she assured herself, would be walking through that hallway and being locked behind those gates until Boss decided that they were good enough.

A voice addressing her surprised her and shook her from her thoughts. "You are coming too, right Jujun?" a familiar ox-demon asked of her.
"I... I don't think so. I should just go home." Juniper's voice was drained of it's usual cheeriness. She sounded downright depressed. "This ain't my scene, you know?"

She gathered what she owned and joined the small throng of students who were taking the easy way out. She could see what was going to happen already. She would go home. She would offer her father a tearful explanation of what happened. He would sigh and cluck his tongue and send her into the fields to keep an eye on the slaves. He would look for another facility to send her to. If she was lucky, they'd find somewhere that was a little less harsh and she'd return home a champion. If she was unlucky, she'd spend the rest of her days fighting of raids and uprisings, dull and predictable.
But... there would always be that feeling in the back of her mind that she could have been something more. She stopped just before she crossed the threshold. Despite her supposed failure, the Boss was still willing to let her in. Why? Juniper didn't have an answer to that which satisfied her.

There was also the matter of Gyuuki and Red and Gaz. She didn't want to say goodbye to them, but if she left now she would never see them again. And the third thing, her stubborn pride. Of course, that was the very thing telling her to leave, that she would never be as good as that student who got it right first try, but it would not let her go out the door entirely. If she left, she was a coward. If she stayed, she was a failure. There was no third option.
"Darn it!" she growled, walking away from the exit. Her hands were tied in the most uncomfortable way. She felt like hell warmed over and she couldn't cope with the stress of having to pick her favoured inadequacy. She sat by the wall and thought over it again. And again. And again and again and again. Students left the stone courtyard one way or another, yet she was no closer to picking whether to stay or go. There were very few students left by the time she stopped thinking it over.

"This is some pickle we got ourselves into, eh Juni?" she told herself. In the back of her head, a line from an old book came forth. "To be or not to be, that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. Whatever that means."