Raineh Daze

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Ah, yes, the "give children sweets I would rather eat" day. Not so big here.

@FlappyTheSpybot Whoops, forgot to mention you.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Tyaethe Radistirin

To Fanilly, the seconds ticking by with a vampire latched onto her must have seemed unbearably long before she pulled away, licking the neat marks and resting back in the water with a catlike smile, looking between the two. No reaction from the naga; that was a shame, she had been hoping for at least some expression of surprise. Still, that left the captain as an easy target for some teasing. "Everyone has to take a turn sooner or later, and how could anyone resist a cute girl in this situation~?"

There, maybe she would stop fretting so much.

Battles... well, Tyaethe's first "battle" had been nothing but a massacre. After that, her first proper battle had been a doddle. She had lots of secondhand experience dealing with first battles, but her own? "It was exciting, let's go again" was a sentiment that most knight didn't share.

Champions Have Arrived in the New World: A Problem Children and No Game No Life-Inspired Isekai RP

It's not meant to be subjective. "A snake so fearsome that a god would rather trick it than engage in battle", "the greatest swordsman in the world, easily able to cut through a storm of arrows without a scratch", "a man who can engineer anything". Big, dramatic things that would help change the fortunes of a nearly-wiped-out group.

Whilst uh... I'll be honest, one of the native characters is probably just as good at buffing and debuffing as that; doesn't require to be put in any position of gamemastery like the dragons and doesn't require the enemy to say "Yes, I'll let you make an advantage!" It's too self-limited.

Champions Have Arrived in the New World: A Problem Children and No Game No Life-Inspired Isekai RP

The scale for the isekai'd characters is supposed to be legendary but not no-sell entire concepts as nebulous as magic.

For instance, right now you've written a character who can, as far as I can see, do highly limited buffs or debuffs, and can only debuff enemies with their consent.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Ouch. I hope so.

Champions Have Arrived in the New World: A Problem Children and No Game No Life-Inspired Isekai RP

It feels like the obvious problem of taking everything that can ever be used under magic and parcelling it into a little black box that you go and hard counter. Whilst being utterly incompetent when faced with like... a mechanical dragon using no magic at all.

It's not an ability that forces adaptation; it's one that forces the entire magical world to not use magic at all. It's not exciting. It's not balanced. It's a plot headache.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

"Well, if you're insistent..." Tyaethe said, shrugging and thinking, "Well, if you don't want to wait around for the captain, then maybe you could spread the news around? Anyone trying to get some exercise in would need time to prepare."

With that, the vampire shrugged and headed into the antechamber, divesting her clothes before following the naga into the baths proper. If one were to compare their differences in physique, they would have to come to the conclusion that there was no way that Tyaethe could ever be a knight; there was far too little muscle, far too soft and pampered around the edges. And the scars... any knight of her vintage should be a veritable collection of them, not easily mistaken for someone who had never even done a day of labour in their life.

Such was the upshot of getting regenerative abilities at a young age, even with all its other downsides.

Therefore, when she slid into the bath beside Fanilly, there were two quite disproportionately sharp and pointy things to take notice of.

Her teeth, of course.

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Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

I'll get a post up tomorrow/later.

Champions Have Arrived in the New World: A Problem Children and No Game No Life-Inspired Isekai RP

Hmm, I think I under-did myself, and have come up with a rewrite:

• Name: Shiro, Vessel of the Great Serpent
• Age: Although currently looking to be a girl of only about 14, Shiro has lived from before the writing of the Kojiki to the Taishō era.
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human (Sacrifice)
• Appearance: Youthful and short. That isn't to say that her appearance is normal aside from the colouration; when agitated her eyes become distinctly less than human and her teeth are always slightly... too sharp and odd. Her torso is quite extensively tattooed, originally a clear and unmissable marking of her sacrificial status, but now a better indication of what she carries.
• Personality: Although seeming quite polite, Shiro can be quite vengeful if spited--denying "sacrifices" in the past was certainly one way to make her extremely irritable. But time has done a lot to mellow her and the serpent out, which has really brought the other things they've always had in common to the forefront... a love of drinking, and a love of girls. Cute girls, sexy girls, elegant ladies, shy ones with nice bodies... Shiro is very open with her affection for all of them. And that's even before she starts working through her prodigious alcohol resistance.
• Abilities: Shiro is, ultimately, the physical vessel of all the spiritual power of perhaps the mightiest serpent to have ever existed in her world--one could dispute whether the World-Serpent exists, or if Ryūjin would qualify, but otherwise there is little competition. This has a number of effects even when she seems almost completely human: she can talk to snakes, conjure smaller snakes, and call out to any larger or more mystical ones that may exist. But ultimately, people are aware of this discrepancy, that she isn't really that human, even before she sheds her skin to reduce her age or heal some injury, or displays more strength than her body should actually be capable of.
  She can freely transform herself towards or away from that full serpent form, growing venemous fangs, scales, or stopping halfway as some form of naga far more able to demonstrate inhuman physical abilities. Or, where size allows, she can become a truly giant snake... and then an even more giant snake... and then an even more giant snake. All the way up to a serpent capable of filling eight valleys and wrapping around eight hills, with eight heads and eight tails.
  Atop her snakelike abilities is the possession of the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, usable either by manifesting the sword itself, or simply embedding it in one limb or another. It can direct the wind, augment her strikes with a mighty gale, or just go the fun razor-wind route as the sword gets swung with manic abandon.
• Skills: Although (literally) monstrously strong and good at surviving, Shiro is not particularly knowledgeable on the specifics of how to fight, or good fighting technique, instead being all about brute force and animalistic instinct. Her use of the Kusanagi epitomises this, treating it more like a sharp club than a sword in any sense. Of course, when you can become a serpent of uncontested size, it tends to work out fairly well.
  Her basic survival skills are good, as is her ability to care for her own clothing.
• Backstory: In Shiro's youth, a mighty serpent terrorised the region, and nobody hoped to oppose it. But the serpent was somewhat intelligent and could be appeased: if families would sacrifice their daughters, then they would be spared its wrath. Indeed, in most regards, could the serpent not be considered no different from the other kami? Perhaps this is how Shiro was lucky to survive, even though already marked for sacrifice, approaching it without fear and displaying a somewhat... unwholesome interest in the serpent's choice of sacrifices. She gained a reprieve and was tasked with being the mighty reptile's messenger, the one to acquire and find further sacrifices, the priestess of such a great monstrosity.
  In the end, they over-reached, moving beyond the mere humans to the earthly kami; noteworthy enough that a certain more well known deity was able to trick the serpent and decapitate it, extracting from the body a fine sword... and leaving, of course, the carcass. Dead and harmless were it not for all the fear and reverence it had been accorded and the strength of its spirit. But it wasn't something attached to a place of nature or a concept, and eagerly sought out a proper vessel for itself: the one marked sacrifice it hadn't eaten. Over the many long years, it couldn't be said that a distinction could continue to be drawn between Shiro and the serpent, her similarities were what earned her survival in the first place and after so long... it would not be incorrect to say that Shiro is the Yamata-no-Orochi.
  During the many centuries since, Shiro did little that she hadn't been done before, albeit with less human sacrifice involved. She sought out drink and attractive maidens before moving on, bringing ruin to those that would reject or assault her in any way. After the Battle of Dan-no-ura, she took the time to retrieve the stolen sword, and then disappeared into the background of history once again, watching with boredom as the world became less... fantastic, with less supernatural intervention. More organised, with less families remotely on their own to terrorise and court... and trains. Such hazardous things, trains.
  Of course she leapt at the opportunity to move to a world where all the fantastic creatures and more were still active; where there were more cute girls to approach directly that wouldn't be so terrified of her appearance.
• Origin: Isekai
• Other: Low body temperature, and essentially an alcoholic obligate carnivore who prefers meat raw.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

@FlappyTheSpybot@PaulHaynek Something this weekend, hopefully?