BrokenPromise

Kurai Majokko

@Lonewolf685 I think you forgot some of your tags, sport.

Kurai Majokko

"What’s cooler than being cool?”

— Suki Oyama

Rei was cool. Being out with the droves of miseria was cool. Climbing to a perch and watching things unfold was cool. Not being transformed while surrounded by danger was cool. Giving orders with a slightly condescending attitude was cool. Not helping was cool. Calling people new blood was cool. Rei was cool.

Things that were cool were seldom smart.

Hibusa Town may have been a play pen for dark magical girls, but that didn’t mean danger didn’t lurk at every corner. Miseria were dangerous to humans. Street Lamps offered inferior footing when compared to the rooftops, which you didn’t need to be a parkour artist to reach. Just about everything Rei had done tonight would have baffled a real tactician.

But Rei wasn’t commanding people with sound minds. The people under her hand were misfits and delinquents. The lost, the corrupt, and the depraved heeded her orders. Her actions wouldn’t be perceived as foolish. She was a powerful leader, and she could be this reckless because that was just how strong she was. Some even found this bold behavior to be sexy.

The shadows under Rei surged forth, but one wrapped its tendrils around her lamp post. Red ribbons of blood hoisted a porcelain girl out of the darkness and into the sky. Her crimson eyes were just a few inches away from Rei’s. Silver hair came to rest on her blood stained dress. Sanguine red covered her outstretched arms, and formed claws on the tips of her fingers. Her lanky body swayed like a puppet attached to its strings. Rei would not have to wait long to hear her speak.

"Boss Baby!”

Obstructing your leader’s view was dumb. Chatting while a fight was going on was dumb. Being bubbly in a situation like this was dumb. Being oblivious to your surroundings was dumb, wasting people’s time was dumb.

Suki wasn’t always dumb, but she was never cool either.

"Are you cold?” She ran one of her red fingers down the edge of her dress. "I wish my costume came with a jacket. A silk dress over a leotard doesn’t scream comfort on a cold night. Heh!” Suki rambled while eyeing Rei’s clothes. "But at least we can make you more comfortable!” She pulled Rei’s hood up. "Oh yea! You’re looking as snug as a bug in a rug now! But those leggings can’t be too cozy, can they?”

There was no request for permission. Suki’s blood stained hands caressed Rei’s thighs. A grid spread across her face as she pressed her fingers against Rei’s clothes. Undoubtedly, her cursed touch felt pleasant. But Suki pulled back her hands after just a few strokes. She couldn’t turn off her magic, and it was bad form to put a curse on your boss. Without their consent at least.

"Yup! you’re leaking heat out of those pants!” Suki folded her hands behind her back. "I could warm up with a meal, but what if I’m not hungry for monsters today?” She leaned in closer. Rei could feel Suki’s breath on her ear when she whispered. "What I’m really craving will keep us both warm.”

Suki pulled her head back and puckered her lips. But she kept her eyes open. Her pupils bounced up and down in her head, as if gesturing for Rei to close the distance. Or maybe she was simply pursing her lips while waiting for Rei to respond. There was even the possibility that Suki was hoping for a kiss but didn’t want to over commit to it in case Rei didn’t approve of the behavior. No one could say for sure.

Kurai Majokko

Might be cool to have a list of the teams somewhere. Maybe on the character tab for easy reference?

Kurai Majokko

@Emeth I think @Lonewolf685 and @Ponn are teamed up, if previous OOC posts are anything to go by. In which case Earthshaker isn't up for grabs anymore.

The Storm Cycle: Reclamation

"Steel nor spell can beat our foe. ‘Tis must be laid low by power of friendship!“

— Luana Roycroft

@Rune_Alchemist@Crimson Paladin

Luana nodded along as Lonan gave his thoughts. "If the two of you are up for killing it, I have nothing better to do.“ She placed a hand on her hip. "But if you’re against returning to the castle, I don’t think we can use Lif’s cannon. Regardless, I’m glad you’re being so positive about the situation. I think we can kill it too!“ It was hard not to get a little hyped up, especially after the thrill of a near death experience. In some ways, Luana couldn’t wait for it to happen again.

Luana took her spear and snapped it in half. The upper half of her spear turned into a circlet that she wore on her head. Endless eclipse covered her right eye, showing the location of the dragon at all times. Now she was sure they wouldn’t get jumped. She reached for one of her daggers and had what was left of her spear grow around it. While not magical, a bladed weapon was sure to have some use in their next encounter.

"Oh, that’s a good start!“ Luana pointed at Ethelred. "Also, it uses its front claws for fighting, but it only has two legs for walking around. If we cut off one of its feet, at the ankle where it’s shortest, that would further inhibit its movement. It might even make it less balanced when it rolled, or cut off the tail.“ After thinking a bit more. Luana shrugged. "That’ll be up to you guys. We might also have to set up a trap rapidly, so be ready for that. But I can track it and support you with my plants. And right now…“

If the dragon was still on the move, Luana could guide everyone along the path it was beating. But if it was waiting for an ambush, she’d be a bit more cautious with her approach.

Kurai Majokko

Might post today, but count on the weekend. I have some catching up to do.

<Snipped quote by TheWendil>
For what it's worth, I'm totally down for Kiyo to be the one Suki tried to seduce before becoming a member of the Detention Club.

Seducing a fellow seducer, the best possible high school debut.

@Emeth

Even if they don't end up on a team together, I'd be okay with this. Might even be fun to write as a flashback between fights/events/etc.

You little shit!

@CamiCat

I typically don't trust people with Homestuck avatars, but you seem a'ight.

I'm down for partnering with anyone, personally. But if anyone's particularly emotional, that would fuel Tsubomi better, not that that's a high priority.

Also, I second @Lonewolf685's statement. Fight fight fight IC.

@The World

If no one else is interested, I'm interested. In fact, I'm interested even if everyone else is interested.

I also wanna see that tug of war.

Kurai Majokko

@Emeth Mmmmhmmm. Kiyo would not be my first choice, if we were going for "team cohesion." Outside of some niche situations, Suki's kit doesn't benefit from Kiyo's ability to survey an area. Though they'd be effective against other magical girls I would think. But this doesn't feel like a hard core PvP RP and I'm not looking for what's "meta" for Suki.

As for teaming up later, It's pretty easy to find a reason for Suki to approach other girls. We can meme then.

Kurai Majokko

Oros the Joyful

• Appearance:

Mundane

Former

Corrupt

• Name: Oyama, Suki “Trixy”

• Title: Oros the Joyful, formerly Nurse Joy

• Age: That age where kissing any of the other characters isn’t considered gross.

• Emblem: A gothic heart tattoo located just a few inches under her belly button, right over her intestines.

• Devil Arm: Formerly, Suki’s sweet arm was a set of heart shaped IV bags that she could control with her mind. Now she wears a bleeding hair pin. Her hands, legs, and dress are always soaked in blood, effectively making them magical weapons. She rarely fights with her pin directly, but can form the blood into other things like claws, blades, and tendrils. Effective range is just a bit longer than the length of her arms, while her tendrils can reach a meter or so further. The more wounded she is, the more numerous her attacks become.

• Magic: When Suki was a pure magical girl, her magic was based around love. Now it’s based around lust. Instead of enabling her allies as a nurse, she disables her enemies as a vampire or succubus. Though most just take to calling her a blood witch.

Anything she touches is slowly overcome by a “geas” that makes them charmed by her presence. The geas can be resisted for a time, but if Suki holds on long enough, even the most resilient magical girl will fall to her charms. She also has vitality sapping kisses, and kissing someone on the lips or neck greatly accelerates the geas, provided they have those features. Once she lets go of someone, the geas fades and her charms slowly wear off.

Miseria react strangely to Suki's lust magic. It confuses them rather than charms them, and her kisses can cause a backlash that charges up nearby monsters.

• Background:

Despair

Some girls should have never been magical to begin with.

Suki was not born into a stable family. Her father was a detective that was never home. When he was around, her parents used that time to argue with one another. It was no secret that her father wasn’t faithful, but they stayed together. Mr. Oyama didn’t want to split his assets with his wife, and Mrs Oyama couldn’t support herself without his lucrative job. This made Suki an undesirable symbol of their unhappy union. Her mother did the bare minimum she needed to keep Suki alive, and otherwise let her fend for herself. This made Suki a very needy girl.

Her parents failed to provide her with any self worth, so she tried to find validation in others. Her desperate behavior was a red flag to most, except to those that weren’t above using her. She fell in with the wrong crowd and became a delinquent. Her parents would scold her, but at least she was getting their attention. She would dye her hair, get piercings, and get into whatever trouble she could. She smoked her first cigarette when she was 11 and had her first beer when she was 13. But the other delinquents didn’t stick around forever. Most of them wised up and started taking school seriously, leaving Suki alone again. She still liked the negative attention she was getting from her parents, and pressed on alone.

Suki would get a reprieve from her mystery when she was greeted by a mascot. Naturally, she wished to be loved. The mascot already had a few magical girls under its wing, and they treated her with respect. What followed were the best years of her life. She was part of a team and was making a change for good. She saved people, even her friends sometimes. They helped her break her alcohol and nicotine addiction. They played arcade games and had sleepovers in place of causing property damage and petty theft.

But Suki wasn’t going to be a girl forever. She was turning into a woman, and her emotional needs were evolving. It wasn’t enough to be loved by a group of friends. They all had boyfriends (or girlfriends) and Suki didn’t want to be left out. She wanted to feel romantic love. The kind of love Suki had never known. She had seen how cruel the real world could be, and knew she had to pick someone from her group.

Suki set her eyes on Lada. She was a foreign transfer student, and a relatively new addition to their group of magical girls. She was kind, confident, and easy on the eyes. A real foreign beauty. When everyone talked about relationships, Lada was silent. Suki talked to the other magical girls and they were all pretty sure she was still available. Suki set out to have Lada join her on a surprise date. She was going to take Lada to a concert and then return to their hangout to ask about their relationship. She spent months saving her money for those tickets. Her other fellow magical girls were in on it, but she insisted on getting the money for the tickets herself.

Lada was surprised that Suki wanted to go to the concert, but it wasn’t hard to convince her to come along. They had a great time, and it seemed like it was all going well. But when Suki asked Lada about being her girlfriend, Lada laughed. She swiftly apologized, then informed Suki she wasn’t into girls. That was devastating on its own, but what was worse was that this all happened in front of her friends, who were hiding around the hangout. Once Lada left for the night, they all came out to cheer her up. But as kind as their words were, they couldn’t cease their snickering. She was just a joke to them.

They had never really been friends..

The following day she relapsed into her old habits as she let her despair fester. It only took a day for her dark emotions to corrupt her, and Nurse Joy became a blood witch: someone that didn’t need to receive love. She could make people love her. With Suki’s new powers, she immediately conspired to get that kiss Lada had denied her. It didn’t take a lot of stalking to find out where she was and jump her. Suki wasn’t good at stealth though, and the ensuing fight was messy. But in the end, Suki got what she wanted.

It didn’t take long for her friends to find out what happened. Suki fled to Hibusa Town where she suspected she would never be discovered, and joined the delinquent club after trying to seduce one of their members.

• Sample Post:

First kiss

It felt like everything that happened in Suki’s life led up to this moment.

Lada’s room was a mess, but that was bound to happen when two magical girls fought in a small space. The bed had been overturned, the closet doors laid on the floor, and Lada’s dressers were reduced to wood and fabric, scattered to the four winds. In the center of the room sat the victor with their prize.

Lada’s sword had cut Suki deep. The wound ran from the center of her chest down to her right hip. It was a grievous wound, and she wouldn’t had survived it if she wasn’t a magical girl. Lada, comparatively, had no wounds to speak of. But Suki didn’t need to wound her prey to win a fight. She was sitting on Lada’s stomach, with a pair of tendrils reaching out of her wound to pin the girl’s arms over her head. Lada could kick her legs, twist her arms, but she wasn’t getting free. Suki’s hands closed around her face.

”That was a nice fight!” Suki’s voice was sickeningly sweet, but her body lacked any kind of malice. She used her thumbs to follow the curvature of Lada’s cheek bones, then the bridge of her nose. She dragged her index finger down the center of her face, riding over her lips. ”Such beautiful contours, just like the wound you gave me!”

”Don’t.” Was all Lada could manage. Her breathing was becoming ragged. The geas was taking its toll on her mind, but she resisted. That wouldn’t last for long.

”Oh Lada! I couldn’t bring myself to hurt something so pretty! But we’re wasting time, and the anticipation is killing us.” Suki giggled. ”I know your first time is a little scary, but it’s my first time too! So just relax and let it happen.”

Suki closed her eyes and closed the breach between their faces. Lada’s eyes went wide, but if she could have escaped she would have done so already. She opened her mouth to make one last plea, but Suki plunged her tongue inside. Her eyes dilated and her back arched, only for Lada’s eyes to flutter shut. Her entire body relaxed as Suki probed every inch of her mouth. The tendrils released her arms, and she wrapped them around Suki.

Suki pulled her head back with a gasp. ”Oh sweetheart, that was magical!” She wiggled on top of Lada’s stomach. ”Your skin makes me want to cry! You glow like a goddess! You taste like a strawberry! Well, maybe a little more subdued than a strawberry, but-” Suki kissed Lada’s cheek. ”See? You shouldn’t have said no! We could have been having all this fun yesterday!”

”I-” Suki wouldn’t stop laying kisses along Lada’s neck and shoulder. ”I’m sorry, I didn’t, know it, would feel like, this.” Her eyes were half closed. ”But, I’m glad, you-”

Suki placed her finger over Lada’s lips. ”I forgive you. The important part is you came around!” Suki leaned in to give Lada one more kiss, only to notice she fell unconscious in her arms. ”What? We didn’t even get to the spicy part yet!”

But their alone time would be interrupted. The other five members of Suki’s magical girl team piled into the room. They already had their weapons drawn and were ready to fight.

Suki shrugged. ”Yea, she decided to take a nap. I think-”

Penny, the leader of the unit, closed the distance with a swift punch. Powerful enough on its own, more so when you considered the cyborg girl’s fist was powered by its own afterburner. Suki careened into the adjacent wall, and Penny caught Lada in her arms.

”She’s secure!”

Suki didn’t even have time to stand back up before the other four girls stood in front of them. She placed her hand on the window sill to stabilize herself. ”Good evening!”

Penny stepped between the other magical girls and looked at Suki. ”You’ve got ten seconds to tell us what you did to her.”

”Well.” Suki struggled to stand upright. ”I kissed her? A lot? But it kind of tuckered her out? I’m a little new to these powers, so I might have gone overboard. I think she’ll be fine with some rest!” The newly arrived wouldn't notice it, but Suki's wound from earlier had completely healed.

”Not what I meant, but I’m glad that’s the case.” Penny raised her fist and leveled it with Suki’s head. ”Answer this next question very carefully. Were you involved with Nurse Joy’s disappearance?”

Suki tapped her chin. ”Only that we’re the same person.”

Penny’s body tensed up as her allies gave each other confused glances. ”You’re her? Prove it!”

”Let’s see…” Suki looked over her former team. ”Lily’s favorite animal is a wolf, and she still sleeps with stuffed animals. Her boyfriend Alexander got her a plush wolf about a month ago and she wouldn’t shut up about it. Maura likes flowers, but is too shy to tell anyone because she thinks it will ruin her tough girl persona. Samantha wet the bed about a week ago, but she swore me to secrecy. Sorry girl, you understand right? Then there’s-”

”Why?” Penny’s fist was shaking. ”Why did you do this to yourself?”

”I did this?” The corners of Suki’s lips twitched. ”The only reason why I signed up to this outfit was so that I could be around people who loved me. Come on, Penny! You were my friends! I healed you, I helped you out, we did so much stuff together! don’t expect you to get it. Everyone loves you, but me? I can’t get my parents to look at me unless I do something bad. I took Lada to see a concert and the first thing she does is blow me off when we get back. You all laughed at me. A-and I get it, it was sort of funny!” She sniffed, but shed no tears. ”But you’re no different than my parents. You ignore everything I tried to do for you, but the screw ups? The mistakes? the bad behavior? Ohhhh, that’s gotta get corrected right quick! No one’s gunna make you look bad!”

Penny pursed her lips. ”I see.” She closed her eyes. ”Nurse Joy is dead.” When her eyes opened, they were glowing neon blue, and every afterburner on her body fired up. ”The least I can do is avenge her.”

”Oh, uh...” Suki touched the tips of her fingers together. ”Can I have a do over or-”

The speed in which Penny moved could be compared to teleportation. Her metal frame slammed into Suki with enough force to launch her out the window. The shattered glass haloed the blood witch’s form as she was thrown into the darkness. They never found her body, but she was never seen in town again.

• Other: I’m not sorry.

Kurai Majokko

@TheWendil Sounds like both options function more or less the same on a magical girl, but on Miseria, vitality drain is effective but risks making other Miseria stronger. I think I'll go with that, since the idea was to have Suki get beat up more anyway.

Once I get home, I'll make the edits and move her over to the character tab. Thanks for being patient with me.

Kurai Majokko

@TheWendil You answered all my questions and I should be able to move her over after making some edits, but I'm wondering if going the vitality/stamina route might be better. Would that be any more effective on Miseria? Less effective on magical girls? This should be my last round of questions.

As for teaming up, I think I'd like to see how things play out ICly before I make any calls. Especially if more people are joining. I do have a few preferences, but it seems silly to say "These two would be a good team!" When I don't even know how they act yet. So Suki's keeping her prospects open. Big surprise.