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I'll sleep when I'm dead, or too tired to stay up. Stop trying to send me off damn it xD Okay, so I just vaguely describe Botan doing her thing, with Kurama maybe chuckling at Botan's panic earlier, and then I need to find some Japanese dish for Shiori to be making. Did you want them to talk after dinner about it so Botan can be adored by Shiori, or do you want to play the dinner out a little with her?

So you think that maybe Yoko and Goshi was just a matter of the lesser of two evils destroying another and Koenma maybe wrote it off without investigating for sure? Then I guess Yoko wasn't the only one that didn't take as much care as he should have. We should discuss the big hint at another time, and maybe deal with the first demon appearance the next day.

So we said two to three demons that attack them during a big gathering at school while our heroes are away from the crowd. Did we want to go with them just scoping out another target, or actually singling out Kurama in particular now that the demons are aware he's on to them more than ever? Sorry, I just want our story straight ^^'

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It looks good at first glance. I'm getting drowsy so I'll reread soon; I may need to have more material to make a thicker post. Botan's fear was adorable. So once Botan gets the readings from the library (also I have no idea how the fuck it works even after you explained it. A lot of words there xD) do you want me to return them home for dinner, and for Botan to analyze her data and sort through the bullshit she mentioned?

I agree, however, I think we might end up slipping at some point. It can't be too soon of course, but Yoko is no fool, so just one little clue might make him suspect something. This may need to be something he wants to investigate in Demon World on his own, where Goshi died, and then get back to Botan about who he believes it is. I doubt Koenma knows Yoko took care of Goshi years ago, but he'll find out soon. Yoko has some good will for that, surely? xD

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Botan can feel pain; if he can't bring fear by taking her life, then making her suffer is inevitable, but the rape may also make it even more terrifying. The stakes rise not only from her capture, but from the lasting harm he might cause on her psyche. Do you think as a grim reaper she should have some spiritual resistance to his madness aura?

Nothing but possibilities xD His encounter with Yoko might have forced him to do something he has NEVER had to do before, and that's gather intelligence. The moment he felt his presence again during the Dark Tournament, that sense of hatred and desire for revenge sparked his recovery from the state of near-death he'd been in for years. Testing his abilities after all this time is smart since he's been pretty weak for a long time, so the mock demon being sent could not only be a test, but it could be a warning to Yoko that he needs to prepare to finish what he started all those years ago. Goshi sending little mini-bosses of all varieties would help keep up the action in-between all the fluff we have.

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Yeah, sorry, I just think that there are other ways to paint someone as terrible and rape is just so freaking easy. But, maybe we can use it to the plots advantage: what if he took Botan at some point and threatened her--and Kurama by default--that if he does not come for her--ALONE--then he will soil her repeatedly until he tires of her and mounts her head on a pike. Botan's in danger against someone Yoko barely beat before and Yoko himself does not have time to waste, so he's probably going to end up walking into some sort of trap, but what choice might he have? We have a lot to cover before that point but Botan is going to be what always forces conflict that Kurama won't have comfort time to plan out. He also denied him the opportunity to contact Yusuke, Kuwabara, or Hiei, so he puts him at that disadvantage as well. Maybe Botan can eventually find her own way out of the bind and manage to save herself due to Goshi's carelessness? You know, a twist on the whole "needing to be saved" bit; she still needs to be saved but she got herself out and now Yoko only has to do half the work.

That's an interesting take on it. Maybe the peon has some sort of item of power that connects him to his master, so the aura that he gives off to certain students begins to plague them and put them through such torment that suicide is the promise of release from his horrible influence? It would help explain why Anabe looked at peace in my post. He was free from it. He talked less, smiled less, and eventually he couldn't take it anymore. If this is a WEAKER version of Goshi's aura, the real thing must be pretty insane right now. Botan might even be driven to self-harm if she's exposed to it for too long.

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I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a bit rude. Rape is just a very overused trope; I mean it WORKS to sell how despicable someone is, but I think it would be better if the rape was a minor thing compared to how much this guy kills for the THRILL of it. Doesn't matter who: Man, Woman, Child--they'll be killed because it gives him a rush he can't get any other way (other than rape) and he carves a path of destruction wherever he goes. The only way Yoko probably got him to be a distraction is by telling him he could kill, but I think Yoko believed the rumors about him might have been overdramatic until he actually SEES what this guy is capable of.

Yoko tried taking him out, believed he succeeded but didn't, and then just left it as is. The fact he isn't wreaking havoc in the world may not only be that he's still weak, but that he may be trying to force Yoko's hand to confront him where he is strongest, and it's likely to be a place absent of life to put Yoko in a weaker position. That, OR he has a subordinate making these suicides occur, and the subordinate is just a mid boss for who he's REALLY working for. What do you think?

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Yoko seems more of an anti-hero than a villain, which is why Kurama and Hiei seem to get along. They get that sometimes someone has to freaking die. So if Botan does not approve of Yoko and what he does, when it's usually in self-defense these days, she is going to recognize a true monster--worse than Toguro, who could kill his own lover without a fuck given. Botan is going to think Yoko is a SAINT!

I think it was for one job where he needed a distraction large enough to alert the entire complex. So Yoko got what he needed, but the guy went above and beyond for 'distraction' and massacred them all, and I guess if we need rape as a plot device, was in the middle of raping some of the guards or whatever.

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Yoko steals and kills if he has to, but I think even his skin might crawl with some of the pointless shit Goshi does. We can include violent rapes if we really have to but the point is that he thrives on chaos and has no tact. Put someone smart with someone stupid--doesn't always work out the best. The intense plant ones are basically only used for serious threats I imagine. Comparing him to Goshi may also be seen as an insult, so Botan better use the right wording lol. This guy's just a monster. Yoko wasn't running around killing people for no reason.

Awesome <3

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I think the core issue with decision-making here is that we need to give this foe--Goshikuro--a personality. I was thinking that Yoko worked with him for heists in the past, but his sadistic tendencies were unsavory, even for Yoko. So he wanted to end their partnership, Goshi didn't like it, they fought, Yoko came out on top in the end, injured but alive. Goshi survived and you know the rest from there.

Let's get this guy a little fleshed out before we make the choices.

Power Rangers Strike Force!

Or maybe the door isn't even there at all!

Good god, @ProPro was right, shit IS popping off. @Piercing Light, don't open that door lightly, shit is going down!

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I have math coming out of my fucking eyeballs.

A cafeteria is populated, but if they attack during a busy time wouldn't that close the school until further notice, so I'm guessing you meant that Kurama and Botan are somewhere isolated while this happens. They can attack after school and make their presence known by being the only ones not leaving out of the crowd, and just staring at Kurama/Botan--Kurama picks up on it pretty quickly so he tells Botan to stay close because they will use her against him the minute he lets her out of his sight.

The big bad guy can be name... -googles Japanese names- ...Katsu? Or do we want a more dickish name, like Goshigi or Mekukiro or some shit? Anyway, I'm agreeing to 2-3, but I think the attack should be less about winning and more about Kurama and Botan knowing that the enemy knows their true identities--OR, we could make it so that their unnaturally high spiritual energy made them targets, but that defeats the purpose of this being an old enemy, and if that happened, why did he not just do this at the funeral or something? So yeah, we'll just say this attack is a message and they weren't meant to win. So Botan can't go anywhere alone outside of the school; she has nifty tools but the second this foe gets serious, she probably cannot hope to survive unless the foe sees value in their survival i.e. torture Kurama and hold Botan against him.

Damn it Genkai, your surprises, they kill me so :C