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6 mos ago
Current i'm not sure the appropriate use of an OLED TV is to play random scenic train videos but here we are
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8 mos ago
swish
9 mos ago
Being truly on my own is a bit of a weird feeling. It's never really happened.
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10 mos ago
Let it never be said that sometimes extreme brevity isn't the most appropriate post, though. Everything is a tool.
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12 mos ago
a loaf is a surprisingly hard thing to make
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  • Name: Fujiwara no Mokou
  • Appearance: Figure of the Person of Hourai.
  • Ability/Skills: The very most notable ability that Mokou has in her possession is simply not dying, nor ageing--due to drinking the Hourai Elixir, the concept of death has been removed from her being and no matter what happens to her, she'll be fine pretty shortly. This does not seem to render her completely immune to the consequences of her actions; when she originally drank the elixir her hair was short and still black, and obviously dying still hurts, which leads to the most obvious path to defeat. This also appears to render her immune to slow, drawn-out death by neglect--starving is painful, but not actually fatal. She can also do housework reasonably well (as you'd expect), but somehow isn't the best at identifying what might be a deadly poison.
    Aside from the useful ability to stay alive and the ubiquitous flight, Mokou primarily focuses on fire, honed through over a thousand years of life and presumably an interest in phoenix motifs. Lots of fire, which she isn't fully able to extinguish if it catches other things alight. Whilst her hair and hakama appear to be protected against this fate, she doesn't appear to have taken the time to extend the same courtesy to her shirts.
    Although her abilities are conceptually quite simple, and her durability about on par with a common fairy's, Mokou is considerably dangerous simply through the ability to disregard her own safety and keep attacking.
  • History: As her name suggests, and her peripheral involvement in the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter implies, Mokou can only be a daughter of the Heian nobility: almost certainly the unnamed and untraced fifth daughter of Fujiwara no Fuhito, himself in one theory a child of Emperor Tenji, and the Prince Kuramochi of the story, who tried to fake the Jewelled Branch and was discovered. Although hardly a public figure, Mokou could hardly let this insult to her family go... or, at least, that's the retroactive claim.
    In truth, although Mokou wound up following the soldiers assigned with burning the Hourai Elixir, a young girl could scarcely climb a mountain on her own, without equipment, and accompanied them up to the summit. When most of the soldiers fought each other, or were killed by Sakuyahime, only Mokou and Iwakasa were left to take the elixir to another mountain. Of course, this is when the desire for immortality became quite acute and Mokou murdered Iwakasa for the medicine.
    As an immortal in a human body, there wasn't really a place for Mokou in society any longer, and she essentially dropped out of sight of the world. Then there was a period of centuries where she would kill anyone that got in her way and several more where she did nothing whatsoever. The insult towards her father lay forgotten until she arrived to Gensokyo and found the person behind it once more: cue another three hundred years of fighting one another under the pretext of revenge, but more because there's simply nothing to do.
    With Eientei no longer being so static and unchanging, Mokou too seems to have started to reach out to other people. A little. Mostly, this has her serving as a guide out of the forest, but she's started to get caught up in other incidents.
  • Personality: Mokou is something of a loner, to put it mildly. Most of the people that she guides out of the bamboo forest she won't even say a word to, though she'll listen to them fine. With people that she has some reason to spend any time with--or fight, which appear to be more or less synonymous--Mokou is a lot more exuberant, if definitely rough around the edges. Though she was both extremely apathetic in the past and extremely violent, Mokou is something of a nicer person nowadays, although she does have a tendency to get oddly curious about anything that might actually be able to kill her.
    That isn't to say she's not still cynical, though.
  • Other:
You haven't claimed Mokou preemptively so I shall do that BEFORE SOMEONE BEATS ME and I have the chance to do it.
Kaguya-hime


Inevitably, parts of Kaguya's massive order started to be brought out--particularly after the kimono-clad Servant was quick to clarify that yes, this did also include drinks and sides, and all the variations on those sides. If it helped to think of it as preparing multiple consecutive orders, just for one person who could eat as much as desirable.

It seemed that this had rather caused them to lose track of the orders that they had supposed to be preparing for the other patrons, too...




Jack the Ripper


Jack seemed to be appreciative of the hair-ruffling, if slightly confused. Or maybe she was only slightly confused about being told not to disappear whilst in a shop. There were many ways to interpret Jack's confusion, but only one of them accurately reflected the girl's internal thoughts: why would anybody need to be worried about her? She was a Servant and an Assassin, if her Master couldn't find her then it was very unlikely that anyone else would be able to. She was perfectly safe.




Saotome Hana


She needed to get a new Servant. Or get away from this one. This was impossible torture, and it hadn't even been... she didn't know, because Hana didn't have a watch and it wasn't like Guan had let her check her phone. Wait, did she even get to bring her phone along? Or her keys? She'd been effectively kidnapped with no way back in!

Therefore, when the first person took an interest in her state, she essentially threw herself at him, muttering something about needing saving.

It was probably quite unexpected to have a messy head of hair suddenly rammed into your chest.
@FlappyTheSpybot That's certainly a plan. I don't think anyone ever expects sudden snake.
Unlike Tomoko, Akari had an umbrella of her own. However, the design of the umbrella that had become a karakasa was one to ward off evil spirits... and completely missing the irony in her actions, the oni had squeezed in next to Tomoko and the umbrella youkai, not wanting to be potentially possessed or assaulted by some evil ghost.

It also meant that she was cowering behind both Tomoko and the no doubt put-out karakasa, reacting... appropriately to the initial terrifying appearance. Though with the girl's sudden shift in demeanour... were you supposed to offer ghosts something? Or was that gods? These weren't things that an oni needed to know! And giving up some of her sake would be really annoying...
Don't worry, you don't have to fight the entire world, though.
Ghosty ghost.
@PaulHaynek I'm confused, are you staying up or going down...?
Though, has anyone else decided whether they're staying up or going down?
If Yuuto had remembered that the girl he was offering a meal to was still an oni, friendly or not, then he might have reconsidered whether it was a good idea. If you wanted someone who could eat far more than was reasonable, then there was nobody more appropriate. Though the bright thanks she gave at the offer may have swayed him back anyway.

Much like Mugi, though, Akari seemed to have little idea of the actual goal of their spirit invocation, and jumped to her feet, downing the rest of her bottle. Then, seeing that the spider was occupied, and the class president was... well, a fox and by dint of that factor somewhat untrustworthy. Therefore, she instead threw herself at Tomoko, trying to hide behind the other short girl.

"Y-ya c-can't punch spirits! Don't let 'em take me!"

... that they were just here to ask the spirits questions rather than assume the spirits were behind the disappearances hadn't popped into her head.
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