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@Dead Cruiser I think (I am not 100% sure) what Lmpkio means by that is, you can make a Cthulu-ish monsters, and maybe even call them Cthulu, but you can't have the full power suite that a proper Lovecraftian monster should have. Because if you did, the world would already be doomed, the moment you sent one of your avatars to the world. Basically, I think the real gist of the requirement is "you need to balance around Kaiju/Giant Robots, not Great Old Ones, but you can totally be Great Old One themed/backstoried".
Still needs a song and a history section.

Hmm... I'm having difficulty resisting the urge to play a kitty kaiju. Is that alright?

Alexi, Knight of Winter

Somewhere within the eternal war and battle lines of the Nexus, on a contested Machina border.


Alexi immediately perked up, her hunkered pose against the cold straightening, as she located the source of Wolf's voice. Apparently happy and surprised at Wolf's approach. "Ah! You are .. Um... Sorry... They say we've met before, but I'm terrible at remembering swords." But as she finally spotted him, she squinted hard, before finally concluding that she sadly couldn't remember him, despite how he seemed to acknowledge her. "The only sword I'm good at recognizing is ours. We'll never be parted with each other." She patted her unsheathed blade that lay across her lap lovingly, as if stroking a beloved pet, despite how it probably was radiating her heat away. Still, as an ice mage, she probably wasn't in any real danger, even if she still preferred being warm.

"You've met a lot of souls in Hyperion? Let's see.. Hyperion... We definitely remember the cold and bright one.. Then.. There's... Um.. Hmm... The watcher of time was very soul-like, I think it had potential.. Let's be generous and count it as one, shall we?" Alexi tilted her head curiously, before attempting to count on her fingers how many souls she remembered meeting in Hyperion. She holds both her fingers before her, only reaching the count of two, "Do you remember any more?" She looks back up at Wolf, still holding her fingers out.

@Awesomoman64


Zyata


"Heeee-y, how're you doing? Haven't seen you since that event at your lab. Did my team end up winning?" Zyata's voice awkwardly transitioned from "Hey! You're insulting my skills as a hunter and my totem animal in one go!" to "Hey... You're that insanely powerful person who could probably replace my arms with snakes. I should make small talk." Still, unlike Zyata or Titanica, who had gone into the pool naked out of utilitarianism or exuberance, Hohenheim seemed to be flaunting herself.

~Great, at first everything was just chill, but now Hohenheim has to make everything awkward. Hot springs are for relaxing, not getting wound up!~ Zyata's eyes dragged themselves away from Hohenheim's intentional framing of herself over to Titanica. Titanica, who before had simply seemed imperious now had other connotations now that Zyata's mind was already in the gutter. So she again wrenched her eyes away to stare intently at the water below herself. ~Time to shut up and let the grown ups talk and try not to embarass myself further I guess..~ Zyata submerged herself to all but her nose, as if to hide herself. Sigh, someone had been eavesdropping on her, so she had revealed her secret to not only who she intended, but also Hohenheim.. Who was... Difficult to think about... Zyata felt her mouth getting a bit dry and decided to take a gulp of the water. Probably wasn't sanitary, but meh, her stomach could handle a few germs. Even Debruda germs.

Of course, keeping her mouth shut for any period of time was NOT one of Zyata's skills. She could manage it for short bursts, not unlike holding her breath to get the perfect shot, but in the presence of someone to talk to, she was going to open her big mouth again. Now she rested her arms against the edge of the pool, and laid her head against it, showing her back and not her face, hopefully "Er.. One of us? You two don't exactly look like siblings. Though, I suppose I don't look much like mine either anymore." At the word siblings, she was stealing a glance over her shoulder at their respective sizes. They were pretty much each a paragon of a completely type of woman.

@KoL@Lmpkio


Miyu

Happyverse


"Well.. This was fun for a little while, just exulting in my newfound power.. But now that that's worn off, fuck, this is boring." Miyu finally stopped her dash across the world. She'd crossed quite a distance, but the world seemed exactly the same. Well, not exactly, there wasn't Lillian or that girl or Ananta around, who all seemed nice. And the buildings were different. But still filled with cats. "I suppose I'd just ask. Hey, anyone, is this universe and the dominion of cats infinite or near enough?" After receiving an answer to the affirmative from a 40 meter tall fish serving fish to cats, she considered her options.

"Eh, that Lillian seemed nice, and the girl that warned me about not ticking off the cats seemed on the level. Guess it's plan find a job and meet back up with Lillian for beach house. Well, I hope we can find jobs that get us that. Maybe at least beach apartment. Or apartment close to a nice public beach. Or, damn, how am I still being pessimistic when my life's on such an upturn? I'm finally out.." On the verge of perhaps some painful introspection, Miyu instead distracts herself with heading back. She didn't need to get all the way there, just close enough she'd be able to sense Lillian once she found a job.

As she began making her way back, she decided to spice things up by stepping off of things that couldn't support her weight, such as signs, windows, and other fragile things, for each leap, using her Mantle on each stepping point just before she landed so her weight was spread across both it and something plenty sturdy enough nearby. "Ok, heee, there's still plenty of fun to be had just experimenting with the limits of these powers." Miyu smiled as she made her way back. "I feel like one of those Wuxia action heroes, stepping on leaves and the tiniest of branches! I wonder if I could step on clouds... Wow, I'm an idiot. I have wings." At which point Miyu simply flew back. And decided she'd find Lillian first anyway.

"Well, my scientific analysis shows the plane is at the very least, very big. So, I'm gonna go with plan find a job to not annoy the cats as that girl said. Say, did you catch her name?" Miyu asked.

"Anyway, we best get looking. Hopefully we'll be able to find something nice. Who knows, maybe this cafe is hiring?" Miyu raised the ticket, to check if there were any now hiring signs on it. She knew her pizza coupons back home always had "now hiring managers" on them, bragging about how much of a family their pizza establishment was (which was certainly why all the managers kept leaving, no doubt).

@TheWindel@Banana

Sapphire Pink



Pink did her best to avoid paying attention to the other people in the room. Most of them seemed to be viable targets as well.. Particularly that Chen had a few flashes of negative emotions she would have been happy to eat. But with a prize like Ruxen in front of her.. Well, that was all the motivation she needed to put her best face forward. “Oh for fuck’s sake, just leave me along you goddamn hippie! Why don’t you go hug a cactus or something barf for brains. I hear it’s the exact same if you actually hugged me,” "But no cactus could be as beautiful and as in need of a hug as you!" Pink pleaded, "Pleaaase, just this once? I won't bother you again.. Unless you want me too. Pleeease please pleease? :3" But before her "this is the last time I'll ask if you give in this once" argument could be responded too, "Whoo!?" Pink exclaimed as her leg was suddenly pulled out from under her, sending her toppling towards Ruxen, arms alright seeking out for a hug, now seeked for something to grab and steady herself. Unless Ruxen dodged, contact between them would be inevitable, Pink clutching ont Ruxen's leg.

If that came to pass, and if Pink could indeed eat the barest slimmer of Ruxen's immeasurable negativity, Pink's eyes would open magnificently wide, literally weeping sparkles, as the junkie hit the ultimate jackpot. "So.. Delicious.." She'd deliriously moan, clutching Ruxen's leg around the knee as tightly as she could. More, more, she absolutely needed more, as much touch as she could get, pressing her head against Ruxen's inner thigh, nuzzling her forehead and cheek against Ruxen. Naturally her ear tips were thus tickling those ever so rarely touched nooks and crannies between the legs. Even this was not enough, as Pink would then begin licking her way upwards, seemingly oblivious of where this would eventually take her. Of course, again, such events would only take place presuming Ruxen didn't simple dodge the falling Pink and let her smash against the ground.

@Floodtalon

Alexi, Knight of Winter

Somewhere within the eternal war and battle lines of the Nexus, on a contested Machina border.


"La de doo.. Ha ha.. Hmm.. Doop de dee.." Alexi sung to herself as she played an improptu game of hopscotch, or perhaps "the blood is lava". She little jumps and skips threaded the needle between sheets of frozen blood, soon to be covered be fresh snow. Her blade outstretched like some mere balancing tool, its edge was clean. Alexi had either cleaned it and herself fastidiously, or she had not taken part in the battle she now danced to.

"Mmm... You have an interesting story." She peered over at a corpse of a machina soldier, or the half of it that was left, smashed underneath a smoldering mech. "You'll have to tell us all about it! We love a good story. And I love to hear them with a warm fire crackling! Though don't be alarmed if we turn away. That's just me warming our nose!" Alexi hopped up onto the mech, resting her back close to the remains of the ammunition fire within it. She listed with rapt attention.

"What, really? Amazing! We would have never expected the bananas!" She clapped for the deceased, as the story apparently concluded. "I'm sure the nice lady will love your story just like we did. She'll probably reforge you to make a sequel. No way she'd let a mighty warrior like you go to waste! Have fun with the rest of your rest, don't hurry back too soon."

@Awesomoman64
@KoL Honestly, I'm not sure what I'll do with my downtime. I'm already wrapping up the better part of three character development collabs.
@KoL@TheWindel Go ahead and close the battle out, Atarah certainly can't deflect a meteor. Unless Maen or something shows up to save her.


Titanica and Zyata


Several hours had passed since the incident at the Oblivion Dungeon and Titanica is still looming at large. Since escaping from the hellhole that seemed to be her prison, the vassal has traveled over ten miles just by walking alone and only taking very few light breaks in between. Where she is going, no one would really know. The scent she has smelled way before has virtually disappeared. Was her target destroyed by someone? Did it disappear into another dimension? She doesn't know. All she knows now is that she is alone and awake, walking aimlessly as she tries to figure out what to do next. There's no way she's going to get herself involved with the pathetic war that has been continuing since the dawn of time, especially since Iona and Helena had rudely jumped on her while trying to persuade her into joining a side. She chose neither...

Her answer? A fight... and one that she lost due to her repulsive nature.

That wretched anger of vengeance still flairs from within Titanica's reactor-like heart, yet already the vassal beginning to loose steam. At last, she's finally beginning to calm down, granted its only slight, but its progress none the less. She can always go back to sleep for another who knows how many centuries, yet her eyes refuse to be shut for more then a few seconds. She might as well take a stroll down the Nexus and see what's going on since she last woke up.

Her trek has lead her to a thick jungle environment, one thick with foliage and full of wildlife. The sounds of life echo around the vassal naturally as she continues walking alongside the edges of the forest. Of course, some of these noises were in fact distressed screeches, alerting the nearby residents of her arrival. After all, Titanica's aura was thick, a scent which would burn the nostrils of those sensitive towards it. No doubt would it attract attention from within, for the better... or worse...



"Hmmmmm..." Zyata smiled, her tail wagging back and forth through the air as she sighted down the barrel. ~Dunno what this fool is doing messing around near the edges of the Amazonian jungle, but she'll soon find herself a pretty prize back at the market or maybe even the Colosseum!~ Zyata prayed that this might be the big prize that elevated her status higher than practically a Maiden. Concealed in brush, she aimed for Titanica's legs, waiting with all the silent breathless patience of a born killer. One who couldn't quite convince her tail to stop wiggling.

BLAM PING SQWUAK!

Zyata's eyes went wide as her bullet bounced off Titanica without the slightest effect. A mere measily mortal bullet is virtually unable to harm the vassal, let alone her kind. Her tough skin not only allows the bullet to bounce off effortlessly, she didn't even seem to notice that it actually hit her.

And then a harpy fell out of the sky between them, slamming into the ground and immediately dying, while one torn off wing slowly wafted after it. The vassal stops dead in her tracks as she glowers her eyes down at the dead bird. She moves her eyes up to see a humanoid-kitty aiming her gun at Titanica herself. She looks down at the character while her eyes seemed to twitch angrily as she flares her white-sharp teeth with a sinister-sounding growl

"Uh... Um... Harpy? They taste just like chicken." Zyata smiled her best nervous smile as she pointed her gun upwards, to try and play it off that she had fired at the Harpy, and not the immensely strong beast that could probably kill her with a stare.

Titanica slowly takes several steps towards the humanoid until she can look almost directly down at Zyata. Her grimance glare eyes the cat carefully, yet before one may suspect in the creature utterly demolishing the poor hunter-now-turned-victim, the vassal speaks to her in a low voice.

"What do you want..." she growls in annoyance as her tail sweeps away excess foliage away, creating a tiny clearing within the thick brush.

"Well... Ah.. Um... Right this moment... To continue living. If that wouldn't be too much trouble." Zyata was all to used to acting cocky... but this particular situation was definitely out of her league, and she shouldered her rifle as she put her hands up as non-aggressively as she could manage. "I'm also trying to gather enough wealth or prestige or mechanically inclined captives to get some indoor plumbing and a hot tub. Harpy doesn't sound bad actually for lunch, I'm a mite peckish. It'd be nice if I was better respected, and I enjoy a good hunt... But ah, those are more, long term goals." Zyata rear leg shifted a little bit backwards, but she tried to restrain herself from fleeing. That'd just be asking Titanica to chase.

"Er is uh.. there anything you want? Maybe I could help you find something? You're clearly stronger than me, but I know this jungle like the back of my tail! It's not every Amazon that dares hunt alone when they're not strong enough to chuck mountains at people." Zyata refocused the conversation as best she could.

The vassal continues to remain silent after Zayata's first paragraph of words, only uttering a deep and guttural growling noise as she continues looking down at her. However, then the cat woman asked if there was anything she wanted at all. That's when Titanica remained silent for a while, with only the sound of a deep exhale through her nostrils. She seemed almost conflicted, as she pauses to think on why she was awake in the first place. Another snort raises from her nose as she slowly begins to turn away.

"I'm... looking for something." she responds bluntly as she slowly begins walking away, "None of your business, cat woman."

"But I just said I could help you find something! Mhhr." Zyata harrumphed, complaining that Titanica wasn't listening to her. Before realizing, oh, if Titanica didn't want to continue paying attention to her, then that meant she was free to go! Zyata started tiptoing away in the other direction, heading for the Harpy. Lunch was lunch after all.

But after Zyata cut off the leg that looked more delicious, she turned back to Titanica slowly fading form (she was an easy person to spot after all). ~That's the most interesting thing I've had to hunt.. Ever.. Am I really letting that slip by me? You hardly live up to your precious Tiger Totem if you let one little lizard scare you away.~ Snatching the leg up between her teeth, Zyata started stalking Titanica from within the treeline, leaping from branch to branch, timing her take off and landings to match Titanica's steps and mask the little noise the lithe tiger woman made. She didn't really know whether that would help, strong people usually had crazy sensory abilities, but it'd at least make Zyata feel like she was hunting and not tagging along.

Even if the Vassal realized that it was being followed, she didn't quite care at this point. Right now she's exhausted from the encounters at Oblivion Dungeon as the rage begins to shed off her skin. Titanica just needs to rest for a few moments before continuing on with her quest. Maybe a nice warm hot springs will help her regain her strength. She has seen a large volcano nearby so it should house a spring or two right...?

Indeed, after walking for just a little longer, she finally reaches the base of the volcano and spots a large natural hot springs with steam raising from the clear natural waters. This place is perfect for her to hunker down for a bit. With an exhausted groan, she approaches the springs as her tail simply drags tiredly behind her. Titanica takes the time to shed her reptilian-esque garments, revealing both a solidly chiseled and curvy figure, as if she can show any more of her skin already. She dips her foot into the water, sighing as the warm tingly sensation floods her entire body. She hasn't entered a hot springs in several cycles, as well as being much more used to the cold temperatures of the ocean. The Vassal submerges her entire body into the water for a few seconds before rising as she snorts out the hot water. She then turns her body to the center and lays her back calmly on the edge of the pool, with the tip of the tail waving stiffly out from the water.

Another guttural sigh purrs her lips as she closes her eyes and begins to rest up, seemingly unaware of Zayata's presence nearby.



Titanica would find it difficult to maintain being either unaware or seemingly unaware of Zyata's presence as a "BANZAI!" rang out and a naked Zyata cannonballed into the hot spring with a mighty splash. Well, mighty at least in comparison to her size, rather less so than if Titanica decided to make some waves.

"Haaa, you were just looking for a hot spring?" Zyata doggy paddled over to Titanica once she surfaced with a gasp, with all the small irony that contained. "I could have easily helped with that, though, admittedly, you found a pretty good one yourself. I give this one 4 out of 5. I consider myself a connoisseur of warm waters!" Zyata took a spot nearby Titanica on the edge on the edge, and gave a self-aggrandizing flourish towards herself as she said the word "connoisseur". It gave out of her mouth a little bungled, probably the word being a little bigger than her education accounted for and she was trying to sound fancy. Still, it seems Titanica's ease had lightened the mood up a little for Zyata to be a little more of her outgoing self and less of a cat in the headlights.

But just before Titanica can get situated into her environment, she suddenly sees Zayata jumping into the pool with her while yelling at the top of her lungs. As she cannonballs into the spring, the hot water flushed over the Vassal as she sat perfectly still. The warm water seemed to have refreshed her face a bit and thankfully none got into her eyes. All she simply does is sigh in utter disappointment. Can people just stop finding or following her for one damn second?

She seemed to completely ignore the cat's response as she began swimming in the water and rating this place a nice 4 out of 5. Yet Titanica suddenly realized something... this person is a cat basically. Does that mean...?

"Doesn't your kind utterly HATE water...?" the Vassal asks with a hint of sass.

Zayata looks up in annoyance.

"I am a Tiger, not a house cat!" she retorts right back as she kicks back on the rocks, "Tigers love water... I think."

The Vassal squints at the so-called "Tiger" in heavy suspicion as she eyes her carefully.

"Define... you THINK?" she asks in a disgusted fashion as her lips flared briefly before dying down.

The cat seemed to hesitate for a bit, looking down at the water with a shameful glance on her face. She appeared to be hiding something...

"Well?" coaxed the Vassal with an eyebrow of slight curiosity.

"Uhh..." hesitated Zayata briefly while fidgeting lightly and biting her thumb, "Don't tell anyone this.. But I've never actually met a tiger."

Another sigh exhales from Titanica's mouth as she simply rolls her eyes.

"Well what are you then?" the Vassal asks unmovingly as she continues sitting where she is with her tail slowly swaying in the winds.

"I.. Uh, well, I'm an Amazon.. And, well, I really liked the tigers in the comics and images I occasionally got.. So, er.. I tried this one ritual I found in a book supposed to "Tie one to one's Totem Animal" and thought about tigers a lot, and, bam.. Here I am. Still haven't met an actual tiger yet." Zyata explained her... not exactly the most auspicious origin story, not looking the most happy with her. It wasn't all that super dramatic or amazing. Or really, anything that interesting at all. It was the absence of interesting. But still, she resolved more cheerily! "But, er! I like being a sorta tiger. The power's neat, and the tail's great. Love the tail. I'll meet one someday, I'm sure of it."

"Sooo.. What about you?" Zyata looked curiously back at Titanica, after being shyly introspective for a moment. "I mean, you've got the whole lizard.. or dinosaur maybe? thing going on. Are you a Totem Animal user too or something?"
@KoL Same battlefield. Aka, she doesn't get to fire if she's not in the battle, or if dead, or something like that.

Oh wait, thought you were talking about the revenge fire.

As for with her allies for the normal function.. Er, I dunno, same range as her sister's aoe buffs I suppose.
Honestly, Reflect Thy Boon was an ability I suggested, because it doesn't give Angels the ability to counter Machina, it just gives Angels the ability to make Machina vulnerable to demons again. It reinstates the Machina -> Angels -> Demons -> Machina, rather than the current Angels -> Demons <- Machina -> Angels. But it doesn't help the angel at all in a direct fight with Machina.

But, I can see why you don't like it. There are better ways to try and correct how Machina currently trump Demons.

~~

"When Tsukuyomi draws back an arrow, a mirror arrow is created near each ally that stands (or as is more often the case flies) with her, allowing her to turn everyone in her company into an archer. When performing an arrow barrage like this, while including anyone who is not her sister, Tsukuyomi cannot enchant any of these arrows. If the only partners involved are her sisters, she can still enchant them. When one of her sisters perishes, Tsukuyomi is made aware of what killed them, and can fire arrows through her link with her sisters and the nature of death, from the tip of her bow to the space within a meter or so of her sister for one vengeance barrage. This bow is summoned by her heart whenever Tsukuyomi makes to draw back an arrow with it."

When Tsukuyomi fires an arrow, she can fire another arrow from each of her sisters. She can also choose to fire another arrow from each ally period, but loses the ability to enchant the arrows (so, presumably, she gets a storm of ordinary arrows that can mess up unarmored targets but plink pointlessly off armored ones.) If a sister dies, she can fire one barrage of arrows from near her sister's body towards the murderer. Tsukuyomi doesn't carry the bow around all the time, but it shows up whenever she wants it, keyblade style, as she's summoning the half of her heart she sealed away before reincarnating.

~~

@KoL@TheWindel
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