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Grimoiric Heart

Suzuya Kuzunoha

Suzuya had to admit that Tesni could provide weapon's-grade passive agressiveness with impressive speed, turning from hot blooded combatant to the cattiest girl she'd even seen without sporting a spray tan and bleached blonde hair. And if an iota of it was directed at her she might have bristled at it, but being a bystander left her muted to the monkey's words.

Camelot was not going to earn any praise from the Japanese Magical Girl for her handling of things, either in words or actions as both managed to hurt Lilac with visible effect. That all of this was public with a senior magical girl like Ozma around only made the shame of it burn her ears a cherry red as she tried to keep calm-

Her hand was wrapped around the hilt of something deadly when the floral-named Magical girl yelped. Burning Heart narrowed her gaze and deliberately released the weapon back into her tail, chiding herself for succumbing to the alien desire for violence. What she wouldn't abstain from after seeing Lilac wilt under Camelot's words was stepping between the two girls and turning her back to Camelot so sharply her tails swung like ninetuple bludgeons of fluffy reprisal.

And if they had the hardness of iron-banded cudgels to them, clearly Burning Heart was just a tad slow in withdrawing the weapons held in her tails. She was content with blocking Camelot as she enveloped Bonnie in a tight hug.

"We needed only to fight shoulder to shoulder one time for me to call you my friend. You are kind and welcoming, like the first rays of the sun breaking the night, and though I am not happy to have left my home, I think it was worthwhile to have met my....first friend." The fox with the stalwart heart found herself faltering for the first time while transformed, ears drooping as embarrasment won out even over the Grimoire of the warrior wife.

"So, you don't need to pretend for me. I, umm, did enough of that for all of us before I got my book. So let's get better at this Magical Girl duty together." Burning Heart said with cheeks the color of vibrant flame, her eyes wide and lips uncertain if she should be smiling or not.

But what she held with absolute certainty was Lilac in her arms, finding there was no question to be asked on where her arms should be.

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Sword: Unsheathes slowly.

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A shame it’s my turn to post next. Reacting to Lilac’s breakdown would have been good for Suzuya to react explosively in the name of love and Revengance.

Still gonna explode though, I just won’t be blasting “It Has To Be This Way.”

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The moment you realize you're all fighting for the wrong side.

The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

Finally some Worm content on the Guild. I'll give this a check in the morning but I'm hyped by the setting alone.

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Been a winding week for me, but I can’t post yet either. So imma just flip till I can post

Tower of Fable

Kanbaru Otoko

Though Katie was a still a danger and Riku was acting to make all the suffering they'd put the dragon through pointless, Kanbaru found herself gripped with indecision. She stood there beside the fungal skeleton, brow furrowed and gaze intense as she watched Akiko ignore her challenge. Yet it wasn't because Akiko didn't care how her actions were perceived, but it looked to her that Akiko didn't even register she was betraying Kanbaru in the first place.

As Katie plummeted and the Abyss still stood, shaken but unbroken, the whale's gaze followed the static hiss of her parasite and saw Nephy no longer deigning to conceal herself. The piss poor attempt at resolving herself was too little, too late, and Kanbaru had far less compunction with venting herself on the wolf then the feline she was steadily realizing her no basis in Kanbaru's reality.

She flickered in and out of sight, each Dash a bound closer to the wolf before appeared before her with Kanbaru's cloak billowing outwards to drown Nephy in its shadow. The JSTR didn't need to offer it's own bloodthirst when the back of her fist swung for Nephy's cheek. "For someone who ached for freedom, your hesitation tells me you'd prefer to remain here. If you've grown so soft a heart you'd rather break trust with me just to spare Katie a little pain, do speak up if I haven't dislocated your jaw."

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Suzuya Kuzunoha

Confusion was smothered. Lies went unheard. The distinction between Suzuya and Burning Heart melted under the flames of her scrutiny as she crouched with her legs coiled. It really didn't matter what either side said at this point, a certainty gripping her that she was in a savage land with savage people and she couldn't spare them a mercy they didn't demonstrate to each other.

Dynasty Queen striking with lethal intent. Camelot turning against her allies over a complete stranger. The stranger herself wearing her fathomless nature openly on her sleeve.

The sudden appearence of the Woman Behind the Curtain may have triggered a conflict if Ozma wasn't immediately acting to de-escalate the situation, trying to get all parties to back down. And...it seemed to be working. The Monkey King was backing off, though casting out enough barbs even Burning Heart felt her tails bristling.

"My Grimoire knows the joys of sisterhood. To hold close those you love with all your heart and share your heart in turn. I ache to feel it myself and not the echoes of what once was...yet I do not see even a shred of it outside of Tsubasa's minions. No wonder my predecessor chose to die alone rather then walk in such shameless circles!"

Roma Bhakti

The weight of the moon itself was set to fall upon Dynsasty Queen yet Tsubasa stayed her hand, smoke drifting from parted lips in loops and whirls as she turned from the disengaging monkey to stand with a shoulder to Tesni and the other to Ozma. Though her expression was as neutral as it had been since she first arrived her eyes narrowed with interest and her chosen tools faded like beams of light smothered by a passing cloud.

That, and the startled cries of her familiars as they found themselves between a credible threat and a fox girl who was gaining an incredibly skewed idea of Magical Girl culture, made it clear what her course of action would be.

"It seems that I shall not be finding new converts just yet, so I shall leave the monkey to her drunken ramblings. Accept this gift and my sincere hope you find enlightenment somewhere more dignified then the bottom of a gourd." The rabbit-eared girl turned fully, waving over her shoulder as she strolled towards Camelot and Ozma.

A hair pin of solid but unyielding gold formed, styled in exacting detail to mirror the very measuring device that would have deigned to crush Tsubasa, appeared in Dynasty Queen's hand. Or at least, it would have been a hair pin if it wasn't shattered in two, the ends splintered as though genuine wood and digging into her hand like the barbs of a fishing hook.

"And Ozma, it has been far too long since I have had the company of a natural red head. My homeland is rather lacking outside certain regions, but I have had a fruitful sabattical spreading my teachings beyond these foggy shores. A shame I could not convince you to come along, but I feel I have returned for a purpose that requires considerable investment of my time and resources, so surely we will have time to reconnect."

Her large, laquine ears twitched under the falling rain, the drops falling from her robes without a drop soaking in. It contrasted with the dampness soaking her long, monochromatic hair and features.

"And Camelot, do not despair. Though my countryman is right and the barbarians are at the gates, the light of knowledge I shall freely provide shall liberate those who wish to rise beyond eternal stagnation. Worry not for we shall meet again soon enough."

There was a moment she considered addressing Lilac Shimmer, but Burning Heart's restraint looked frayed enough as it was, so the tall Magical Girl made her leave from them. The tallest and most developed of her familiar's glasped her hands, the rain around her hanging in the air like beads of glass before light flashed from her person and enveloped herself, her peers, and Tsubasa herself.

And when it faded it left behind nothing but a shattered patrol and the rain of a distant pageless.

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Looks like I need to post soon. Expect Thursday at the latest.

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Suzuya: doesn’t realize standing over a downed Sempai let’s them see up her skirt. Will promptly immolate the entire city from embarrassment.