#Yume of the Five tails

[cozywriter]

After two coffees and several breakdowns, I finally have my BVZ OC!

And because I don’t want to torture you guys with my horrid handwriting, all her info is typed here!

FULL NAME: “Yume Fujiwara”

PREFERRED NAME: “Yume”

NICKNAMES: “Yu” and “Mei Mei”

TITLES AND ALIASES: “The Book Keeper” and “Ms. Dazai”

PRONOUNS: She/Her

CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: 10 Years Old

MENTAL AGE: 24 Years Old

GENDER: Female

SEXUALITY: Asexual

RACE: Poppet

Poppets are mechanical dolls that are designed and manufactured by Puppeteers — people who are licensed to design and create Poppets — who are commissioned by clients to create them for any purpose. Because of this, Poppets can pretty much look, act and sound like anything. However, a dead giveaway are their ball-joints located behind their elbows, wrists, fingers, where their pelvis meets their thighs, behind their knees, ankles and toes. As creations, a Poppet’s personality depends on their programming, however in extremely rare cases, Poppets have been known to break from their pre-programmed self and become sentient. In simpler terms, although extremely unlikely, it is possible for a Poppet to become their own person despite their former programming

ORIGIN: Victoria

BIRTHDAY: Unknown

OCCUPATION: Informant/Bounty Hunter

HEIGHT: 5’1”

WEIGHT: 153 lbs

PERSONALITY: Adventurous, Loyal, Optimistic, Kind, Empathetic, Stubborn at times, Childish, Forgetful and Clumsy

POWERS: Yume has the ability to eject solid steel strings from her fingertips, which she then uses like whips during combat, tools in traversing harsh terrain and sometimes uses them to pick locks when necessary. When she’s especially irritated, she uses her strings to control her opponent by wrapping them around their wrists, knees and feet and make them off themselves. However at the same time, she also uses them to assist in her everyday life, such as using them to grab objects from across the room. All in all, her ability is very versatile, but their maximum length is only 20 feet long.

BACKSTORY: Commissioned by the Mafia, Yume was designed to be one of the first Poppets the organization would utilize to dispatch their targets or anyone who dared cross one of their own. However, after a failed assassination attempt on a high ranking Government Member of Empirica, the Mafia had left her for dead and resorted to using a protocol that forcibly shut her systems down, resulting in her memory banks being wiped. Two months later, she wakes up in a junkyard of some kind due to a lightning strike kickstarting her once more. With no clue who or what she was, she wandered and wandered until she found Sensei’s Temple, in which she trained and studied under him. She continued living her life never knowing of her past and eventually breaks from her programming and developed as her own person with Sensei’s guidance. Later on, she even comes to think of him as a father of some sorts and develops his taste in literature. Fast forward to five years later and she now owns a quaint bookstore, aptly named “Doll House” and makes a living by selling books, information on anyone people pay her to tail and a few bounties here and there.

EXTRAS:

She often forgets the keys to her bookstore at home, so she resorts to lock picking most of the time

the official time line of events is supposed to go something like this: Mafia (2 Years) -> Training with Sensei (5 Years) -> Opens her bookstore -> (1 Year) -> Starts her Bounty Hunting Career (Onwards)

before she broke from her programming, she was aloof, insensitive and lacked empathy. However, after an incident involving a lone, stray pup and one lengthy talk about responsibility from Sensei, she cried for the first time, mumbling about how it was just missing its mama and wanting a home. So with great hesitancy, Sensei let her keep the pup… Until it ran away the next day and Yume was inconsolable for about a week.

since coming to Sensei’s Temple, he had given her a new name based off of a character in one of his novels. “Yume” meaning “Dream” and “Fujiwara” meaning “Wisteria Field”. Her true name from her time in the Mafia remains unknown.

She dislikes modding her own body despite knowing how to

She does best in melee combat even without her strings.

She has a soft spot for children and baby animals, to the point she almost cries in happiness at anything they do.

She likes anything sweet but dislikes anything sour

on the same note, she prefers cold drinks over hot ones, but dislikes cold meals and prefers when they’re piping hot.

She doesn’t know that Sensei had died

She dislikes the zombie outbreak since they drive away her usual customers, but it has given her the time and opportunity to continue reading her own books, so she’s thankful for it to an extent.

[starrysnowdrop]

Top 5 Minions!

1)

Well, my #1 minion has to be the Wind-up Aymeric, because of course it has to be! It’s the one I take out the most, and canonically Hali takes her Aymeric mammet everywhere with her. Tiny Aymeric is always there to cheer his snowdrop on! 💖

2)

For me, a very close second is the Starbird. I’ll try to be vague for spoiler reasons, but the Starbird holds such significance in the overall story, not to mention this is a gorgeous bird with amazing tail feathers, so it’s just cool to show off as well. The drop rate is insanely low though, so I’m having to show it to y’all on an old pic of Yume, because it still hasn’t dropped for Hali.

3)

Coming in third is Caduceus! He’s so damn adorable and he’s the minion that drops from Hermes, so I am obligated as a Hermes shipper to have him in my top five. This took about a dozen runs of Kitisis to get him, but it was worth it.

4)

Fourth place goes to the Crabe de la Crabe, which is one of the minions your fishing retainer brings back to you from waterside exploration, and for Hali, this minion is Hali’s pet crab Beignet! So total cuteness.

5)

I feel obligated as well to put Midgardsormr on the list, aka Middy for short. For many many years, Middy here was my favorite minion, and similar to the Starbird, the minion itself hold great significance to the story, so I think that automatically earns him a spot on my list.

Honorable Mentions go to the Wind-up Aidoneus, Wind-up Philos, and the Zodiark Idol minions, with the first two being way too damn expensive for me to ever buy them most likely, but they are both very special to me. The last one is technically not out yet, but my mom has gifted me the latest EW art book that comes with the Zodiark Idol minion! Here’s a preview of it:

Thank you so much for the ask @pinxli!!! 🥰💖

[stevebattle]

Yume Neko Sumairu (AKA Dream Cat Smile) (AKA Hasbro FurReal Kitty Cat) Sega Toys, Tokyo, Japan (2006). This robotic American Shorthair cat was developed in collaboration with Hasbro. "The robot weighs around 4.5 lbs and is covered in incredibly soft life-like fur. It can blink, move its mouth and neck, rear up and lie down, and make purring, meowing sounds. If you mistakenly upset it by squeezing its tail, it will even produce hissing sounds. … It has five touch sensors located in different places on its body, allowing you to engage in tactile communication with it. Petting the robocat on its head will make it start purring and flicking its tail. Stroking it on its back makes it sleepy. And if you need to get on with your life and leave Yume Neko alone, it will fall asleep, snore and conveniently settle down into a low-power mode. The cat is nearly perfect, except for a few downsides such as you can hear the motors whirring inside its body, and unlike the real thing, Yume Neko provides no warmth when you cuddle it. Still, the cat is said to be effective in helping ease tension. A huge percent of robocat owners are patients or senior citizens, who claim that despite its obviously mechanical body, stroking and petting its fur is still relaxing and highly therapeutic." – Sega Dream Cats - Robocats, Robots and Androids.

[yumethekitsune]

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[jewlwpet]

Girl Alchemist Egg--Tale of the Rose track 1, translation

As far as I know, nobody else seems to be translating J. A. Seazer’s latest Utena album, which came out in August, to English (please correct me if I’m wrong)... so the job falls to me.

This is track 1,  知恵の竈(アルデル)実験祈祷室, or “Aludel of Wisdom Experimental Prayer Room”. An aludel is a kind of pot used in alchemy; it goes in a furnace (this is significant).

EDIT: I accidentally left out the romaji for one verse and missed a reference in the title; the version with all corrections (at least for now) is here.

EDIT 2: I changed my translation of the title to “Wisdom’s Aludel Oratory-Laboratory”. See here for my explanation as to why that’s a better translation.

金より不純物を除き それを純粋な形と成し それをうまくなし遂げる者は かくて、 賢者の石を作りえよう それは偉大な力の「石」であり 「石」と呼ばれていて石ではない 

To remove impurities from gold To shape that into a pure form The one who successfully accomplishes this, By this means, can create the philosopher’s stone  It is a Stone of great virtue  And is called a “Stone” and is not a stone.[i]

 錬金術師たち

Renkinjutsushitachi

The alchemists

ああ、永遠の知恵の錬金術   ああ、永遠の知恵の実験室   ああ、永遠の知恵の竃劇場

Aa, towa no chie no renkinjutsu Aa, towa no chie no jikkenshitsu Aa, towa no chie no kamado gekijou, gekijou

Ahh, eternal  wisdom’s [ii] alchemy Ahh, eternal  wisdom’s laboratory Ahh, eternal  wisdom’s furnace theater, theater

夢ではなく現れるドラゴン 世界創造の始めに 波の上を漂っていた神の如し

Yume de wa naku arawareru doragon Sekai souzou no hajime ni Nami no ue wo tadayotteita kami no gotoshi

It was not a mere dream; it materialized, the dragon![iii] Like unto God, who in the beginning created, Hovering over the surface of the waters.[iv] 

蒸留、昇華、煆焼、煮煎  反射、溶解、下降、凝結

Jouryuu, shouka, kashou, shasen Kansha, youkai, kakou, gyouketsu

Distillation, sublimation, calcination, decoction, Reflection, dissolution, descent, coagulation[v]. 

すべて水のなか 黒そのものより さらに黒 そして ルビーの燦然たるいろの耀き その間に発生する ああ、祝福される緑 万物芽吹かす緑

Subete mizu no naka Kuro sono mono yori Sarani kuro Soshite RUBII no sanzentaru iro no kagayaki Sono aida ni hasseisuru Aa, shukufukusareru midori Banbutsu mebukasu midori

Everything within water[vi], A blackness  still more black Than blackness  itself[vii], And, too, The ruby’s  brilliantly-colored radiance,[viii] All the  while: generation, Ahh, happy  green, Which dost  produce all things[ix]!

神の霊気の緑 カバラの緑 渦巻く宇宙 秘術師よ緑のライオンを 哲学者の火 賢者の火 鞴よ 錬金炉アタノールの火を熾せ

Kami no reiki no midori KABALA no midori Uzumaku uchuu Hijutsushi yo midori no RAION wo Tetsugakusha no hi Kenja no hi Fuigo yo Renkin ro ATANOORU no hi wo okose Behold!

The green of God's mysterious presence, The green of the Kabbala[x], The spiraling cosmos, The Magus, the Green Lion[xi]. The fire of the philosophers, The fire of the sages![xii] The bellows! Light the fire of the alchemical furnace, the athanor.

見よ 哲学の竈||実験室 宇宙の竈||実験室 散らかり放題の 貧乏吹き屋の実験室

Miyo Tetsugaku no kama no jikkenshitsu Uchuu no kama no jikkenshitsu Chirakari houdai no Binbou fukiya no jikkenshitsu

The philosophical furnace--the laboratory! The cosmic furnace--the laboratory![xiii] Scattered unrestrainedly, A poor smelter’s laboratory

われら 価値ある人間たらんがために 価値を目指す 錬金術師

Warera Kachiaru ningentaran ga tame ni Kachi o mezasu Renkinjutsushi, renkinjutsushi

For us To have value as humans To aim for value Alchemy, alchemy 

それは一月十七日月曜日正午頃、私の家で、立会人はぺるネル一人だった。人類救済一三八二年の年である。私は水銀に投入を行い、それを約半ポンドの純銀、鉱山のものよりも良質の純銀に変化させた。その後、やはりぺるネル一人の立会いのもとに私の家で、同僚の水銀に赤い石を用いて同じことを行い、四月二五日夕方五時、本当にほぼ同量の純金に変成した。普通の金より確実に良質でより軟らかく、よりしなやかであった。これは真実である。私と同じく理解していたぺるネルの助けをて、私はこれを三回実現したのである。 二コラ・ヴァロワ

Sore wa ichigatsu juunananichi getsuyoubi shougogoro, watashi no ie de, tachiainin wa PERUNERU hitoridatta. Jinrui kyuusai sen sanbyaku hachijuu ni nen no toshidearu. Watashi wa suigin ni tounyuu wo okonai, sore wo yaku han-pondo no jungin, kouzan no mono yori mo ryoushitsu no jungin ni henkasaseta. Sonogo, yahari PERUNERU hitori no tachiai no moto ni watashi no ie de, douryou no suigin ni akai ishi o mochiite onajikoto o okonai, shigatsu nigonichi yuugata goji, hontouni hobo douryou ni junkin ni henseishita. Futsuu no kin yori kakujitsu ni ryoushitsu de yori yawarakaku, yori shinayaka deatta. Kore wa shinjitsudeari. Watsahi to onaji rikaishite PERUNERU no tasukeote, watashi wa kore o sankai jitsugenshita nodearu.

The first time that I made projection was upon a Monday, the 17th of January, about noon, in my house, Pernelle only being present, in the year of the restoring of mankind, 1382. This was upon Mercury, whereof I turned half a pound, or thereabouts, into pure Silver, better than that of the Mine. And afterwards, following always my Book, from word to word, I made projection of the Red Stone upon the like quantity of Mercury, in the presence likewise of Pernelle only, in the same house, the five and  twentieth day of April following, the same year, about five o'clock in the evening; which I transmuted truly into almost as much pure Gold, better assuredly than common Gold, more soft and more pliable. I may speak it with truth, have made it three times, with the help of Pernelle, who understood it as well as I. --Nicolas le  Valois[xiv]

[i] The last two lines of this verse are from Les Cinq Livres or La Clef des Secrets, by Nicolas le Valois, a French alchemist rumored to be the deceased Nicolas Flamel, supposedly using an alias after attaining immortality through the Philosopher’s Stone. I don’t know of any English translation of this text, but the original French is online at https://alchimie.000webhostapp.com/cinq_livres_valois.html. It’s likely that the first lines are also from alchemical texts; I just haven’t been able to identify them

[ii] Eternal wisdom—a phrase from Heinrich Khunrath, used in the title of his book The Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom. There is an English translation by Peter J. Forshaw, but I have not yet been able to find it; I have, however, contacted the translator inquiring how to obtain it.

[iii] Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy: “The dragon is probably the oldest pictoral symbol in alchemy of which we have documentary evidence. It appears as the Ouroboros, the tail-eater, in the Codex Marcianus, which dates from the tenth or eleventh century, together with the legend 'the One, the All'. Time and again the alchemists reiterate that the opus proceeds from the one and leads back to the one, that it is a sort of circle like a dragon biting its own tail. For this reason the opus was often called circulare (circular) or else rota (the wheel). Mercurius stands at the beginning and end of the work: he is the prima materia, the caput corvi, the nigredo; as dragon he devours himself and as dragon he dies, to rise again in the lapis. He is the play of colours in the cauda pavonis and the division into the four elements. He is the hermaphrodite that was in the beginning, that splits into the classical brother-sister duality and is reunited in the coniunctio, to appear once again at the end in the radiant form of the lumen novum, the stone. He is metallic yet liquid, matter yet spirit, cold yet fiery, poison and yet healing draught - a symbol uniting all the opposites.”

[iv] This is a clear reference to Genesis 1:1-2. “Like unto God” recalls the story of the Garden of Eden; Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil because it would make them like God. Alchemists were also seeking knowledge that would make them like God, although the authors quoted in this song emphasized that one could not attain it without God’s blessing.

[v] These are all names for different techniques in the chemical process. Most are still used in chemistry today (only the terms “reflection” and “descent” are no longer used, as far as I know).

[vi] Valois explains that “water” means something different in alchemy. Basically, this water is a truly universal solvent, capable of absorbing anything into itself. He uses an interesting metaphor for this: “It's this Maid Beïa, which has not yet been corrupted or lost its liberty, to marry infirm and ill-shaven bodies, as captives are, who can never leave their filthy prisons without the help of men. Thus preserving liberty with its integrity, we see in a philosophical manner this luminous star making infinite circulation turns, until it came in some reign.”

[vii] Putrefaction, the nigredo, the black stage in the alchemical process. The idea is that there must be sacrifice to facilitate new growth.

[viii] The philosopher’s stone is sometimes called the “celestial ruby.”

[ix] These two lines are from The Rosary of the Philosophers; however, I used the translation of the quote found in the translation of the Exposition, rather than the original text, although that can be found in English too: http://sociedadquimicamexico.org/rosarium.pdf. Here, it’s given as, “O blessed greenness, which engenders all things.”

[x] Many alchemists, both Jewish and non-Jewish, drew on the Kabballah (Jewish mystical texts), although how well they really understood it is questionable. I myself am not at all well-versed in this, but it seems that in the Kabballah, the color green represents healing and harmony.

[xi] The Green Lion typically represents the same thing as the dragon. E.g. The Glory of the World mentions “the Green Lion that imbibes so much of its own spirit.”

[xii] The author of The Glory of the World wrote of “indelible, living, or Divine fire, of that kind which God has placed in the Sun; and wherein God Himself burns as with Divine love for the consolation of all mankind... This is the fire of the Sages which they describe in such obscure terms, as to have been the indirect cause of beguiling many innocent persons to their ruin; so even that they have perished in poverty because they knew hot this fire of the Philosophers. It is the most precious fire that God has created in the earth, and has a thousand virtues -- nay, it is so precious that men have averred that the Divine Power itself works effectually in it. It has the purifying virtue of Purgatory, and everything is rendered better by it. It is not wonderful, therefore, that a fire should be able to fix and clarify Mercury, and to cleanse it from all grossness and impurity. The Sages call it the living fire, because God has endowed it with His own Divine, and vitalising power.”

[xiii] Different names for the athanor, a kind of furnace. The alchemists viewed their work as the creation of a microcosmos, a “petite universe” if you will. “Cosmic furnace” doesn’t seem to have been common in English, but one does find the French version, fourneau cosmique.

[xiv] This passage is adapted from Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures. By attributing it to Valois, Seazer continues in the tradition of claiming him as part of the legend of Flamel. We can infer from this passage and its attribution that the two voices we hear singing this song are meant to represent Nicholas and Per(e)nelle, Flamel’s wife, purported to have been an alchemist in her own right.

[hensthings]

Was tagged by @rrosyan​ to list 10 of my favourite characters from 10 different things. Oooh boy this is gonna be hard to choose only one character per thing. :,D But I’ll try my best.

Putting under readmore because long post is long idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1. The Devil (Cuphead)

Cuphead is pretty much now one of my favorite games ever, so deciding only one favorite character was so hard, but I go with him now. He’s a bastard, but such goofy villain as well (plus fluffy crybaby). It toke me time to warm up to him, but now he’s one of my strongest faves.

2. Chika Takami (Love Live!)

I had already been watching and playing Love Live! for quite a while before Aqours came along, and when they did I was not prepared to fall for her as hard as I did. She’s just so positive and cheerful and aaaaa I just love her!

3. Circus Baby (Five nights at Freddy’s)

She’s still one of my strong faves from the franchice. She’s such a interesting and in a way tragic character. I also love her voice acting big time.

4. Madotsuki (Yume Nikki)

Funnily a character we still don’t know much about, is so close to my heart. Sometimes I wish we could get solid canon answers for what’s bothering her, but at the same time it would ruin the mystery. And what a mystery she is.

5. The Batter (OFF)

I grew to him really fast when playing the game, even if some interpret him only as a coldblooded and emotionless killer and nothing else. And because of my interpretation of him and his reasons, he’s another strong fave.

6. Miles Tails Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)

I’ve been Sonic-fan since I was five year old. Sonic 2 was my first game and Tails was one of those “love at first sight”-cases. And to this day that love for him has not changed.

7. Parappa (Parappa the Rapper)

He tries his best, he deserves the best and he’s the best pupper, who told me to believe in myself.

8. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Disney)

Like for many, my first introduction to Oswald was from Epic Mickey (and the way he was done as a character and his story in the game was so good). But he was the gateway for me to really start digging into animation history in general and get into that fascinating stuff. So I have him to thank for it.

9. Sans (Undertale)

Yeah yeah I know. Memes aside, he’s just such a cool, funny and interesting character.

10. Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)

He’s son-material, period. He’s such a lovable lil dork and it was so great to see him grow as the show went on.

I tag no one because I’m lazy, feel free to do if you want! \o/

[natsthinkitythinkthinkthonk]

Top Five Junichi Suwabe Roles

Happy 47th birthday to one of the coolest voices out there!

I couldn’t include all the roles on this list because of limited gif supply so feel free to check out the video below!

Honourable Mentions (That I Have Watched)

Takao Kawafuji - Barakamon [The guy with tattoos]

Juuzou Sakakura - Danganronpa

Tsunenaga Tamaki - Deadman Wonderland

Freed Justine - Fairy Tail

Kirihito Mouri/Akuraou - Kamisama Hajimemashita

Natsumura Kusaribe - Zetsuen no Tempest

Honourable Mentions (That I Haven’t Watched)

Daiki Aomine - Kuroko no Basket

Dandy - Space Dandy

Archer - Fate Series

Undertaker - Black Butler

Worick Arcangelo - Gangsta

Shinta Fukuda - Bakuman

Yume Sukehiro - Black Clover 

Kaname Asahina - Brothers Conflict

Greed - Fullmetal Alchemist

Takashi Komuro - High School of the Dead 

Leone Abbacchio - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Part 5)

Terence D’Arby - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders 

Ren Jinguuji - Uta no Prince-Sama

Tooji Kanzaki - Yowamushi Pedal [The one without glasses]

Keigo Atobe - Tennis no Ouji-Sama

Akira Hayama - Food Wars

Hiroshi Inaba - Cuticle Tantei Inaba

Top Five

5. Jae-ha - Akatsuki no Yona

4. Junichi Katsuragi - Kids on the Slope

3. Viktor Nikiforov - Yuri on Ice 

2. Aizawa Shouta - My Hero Academia 

1. Oda Sakunosuke - Bungou Stray Dogs

Again, this is just my opinion. I like this role because, despite its short few-episode run, it struck a chord with so many viewers thanks to its writing and strong voice acting. I won’t say much, but even if he was just supporting character, all Bungou Stray Dogs fans will say that the character has a special place in their hearts.

[theeyethatbinds]

Five things? Oh man...

Five things that make me happy??? What a question 😨😹🤔

Thanks for the lovely, lovely tag @pseudofaux , and all the thoughts that come with it 💞I can’t tell you how loudly I squealed when I scrolled through your post and saw my name at the bottom haha; your posts are always a treat, and even if I’m lax on tagging when I reblog them, please know that you hit me right in the 💘with them every time.

So, forgive formatting errors and the lack of shine; I pretty much never actually make a post, so I guess we’re Utilitarian now 😅

1. All the green directly outside (and inside) my window. I live in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere, and my house is completely entrenched in evergreen forest. That, plus my fruit trees are starting to bud and flower, and it’s long-ingrained habit to glance outside my window when I’m at my desk (which is all the time 😂) and to have my corneas seared with the blast of pleased, dignified elders surrounding me 🌲🌲🌲🌳🌿🍁🍂🌱🍃 My gardens have all started rioting with blooms and every time I go outside I feel like a school Principle looking out over her graduating students like “You did it! Yes, I gave you the tools and the guidelines, but you yourself did this! You brought yourself to flower and you look gorgeous doing it. I’m excited to see where you go from here.” 🌷🌼🌻🌺🌹🏵🌸💐 Also, all of my indoor plants are growing like crazy, which is both fun to watch and also mildly concerning in the case of my money tree, because it just keeps getting bigger and omg what am I supposed to do when it finally touches the ceiling 😱 I call that a problem for another day haha.

2. The way my cats settle down for bed 🛌. We have a nightly ritual, my two fur children and I. Whenever it’s time for bed, I’ll get up and turn off the ambient lamp in my living room. As I do so, I’ll say to my boy Tiki “It’s bedtimes! Bedtimes, Tiki! It’s bedtimes!” 😺 and then both him and my orange, long-haired girl Smalls will lead me through my nightly routine, then we’ll head to bed. They’ll let me get settled, then Smalls will chirp 📣 her way to climbing onto my hip (I’m a side sleeper lol) and drape herself over me like a very fluffy pancake, all legs hanging over me. Meanwhile, Tiki will take himself to the pillow at my face and stare 😾, very gently touching my nose with just the tips of his beans, until I lift the blanket so he can climb in and settle behind my knees. This happens every night, nearly without fail, and I’ll wake up in the morning to my feet/legs being pinned between them. And then in the morning, they’ll only get up with me if I tell them both “Good morning ⏰🌞” and rub their ears. Otherwise, well, it’s not morning then, is it? 🌛

3.The official Discord that I’m a member of for Tailor Tales. ...Seems a little weird, right, to be so happy for a Discord for an otome game? Well, weird or not, it’s been a blessing and a helping hand for me, right when I needed it the most. I’ve been out of work since September (for various reasons), and job hunting has definitely not been kind. I was experiencing increasingly extreme self-doubt as time went on with no interest or response to my applications and inquiries, to the point where things had gotten hazardous to my health. My closest friends had left the area for further education and job opportunities, and I had effectively been left behind. I was very alone and desperately lonely with it. One day, I stumbled across an otome game I’d heard good things about but hadn’t tried, and I fell in love immediately. I decided to support the creator on Patreon, and gained access to their Discord. It was hard to talk at first, from months of self-loathing and doubt, but I received one of the warmest responses from an online community I’ve ever had the pleasure of being part of. I found like-minded people who were more than happy to discuss anything and everything that might come to mind, and in the process made some friends that I desperately needed. I can say absolutely, that without the online family I fell into, things would be very dire for me right now indeed. I cannot physically express how grateful and happy I am that I’m able to be myself around them and not feel vilified because of it.

4.The beach, specifically at low tide. When I was a kid, I was alone all the time, because my parents worked very hard and for long hours. So the vast majority of my time was spent at the beach and our local marina, fishing, turning over rocks to see what was under them, swimming in the ocean, and so on. I come from a small town, so while I was alone, I was constantly monitored by the locals while I adventured, and at any point would be glad to talk about my findings. The beach at low tide has a very particular smell; damp, decay, salt, thick mud and eel grass, oyster and clam and barnacle, which all mixes together into a sort of bouillabaisse of life in a water cycle. It’s a smell I’d recognize anywhere, and whenever I drive by the water it always hits deep in my chest, like a deliberately-aimed goosedown pillow.

5. The bi-weekly phone calls from my best friend. He and I have been friends for 20 years, and I love him dearly. We’ve helped each other grow and ‘mature’ (ha), with quips and biting comments and excited gushing and commiseration over the dumbest things. We’ve had so many adventures (read: near-death experiences), witty repartee, arguments... like a Newton’s Cradle of camaraderie. He was there for me when my parents and I had a major falling out when I was a teenager, and I am still humbled that I was who he chose to call when his own family situation came to a semi-violent head a few years later. He’s moved to the other side of the country at the moment, pursuing his Master’s degree and working his tail off while doing it, and I couldn’t be prouder (while also being more than a bit lonely). We talk over Discord a lot, but when he’s able to find time to actually chat, it’s like we’re in the car on the way to Walmart at 2 in the morning again, just because we can. Boy do I miss that idiot.

Well this turned out a little more emotional than I’d planned 🙄😂🥰 But the heart is there, at least. Again, thank you so much for the tag, Pseu! I’d thought I wouldn’t really stand out with my thirst over prime Seteth content (mostly found elsewhere) and also just my general thirst levels 🤣🥵👀💦

I guess I’ll tag a couple people who might need a pick-me-up, and be interested: @towa-no-yume , @toreii No pressure if you choose against! Just sending love 💓 

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Against the water, art exhibition

Certain times of our lifes are hard to handle. Sometimes life is hard. World is a hard place to live in. Our minds won't leave us be, will not be quiet. Our souls cry. Sometimes we escape reality into dreams while we sleep or into our imagination's deepest pits. Sometimes even into imaginary world created by someone else, presented in the form of everyday entertainment. And we mirror ourselves into these fictional beings and people, finding support and safety from them.

Water is really special and familiar element in my dreams. And now, I decided to mirror myself from the surface of the water, to understand myself more and to find place where my soul can be in peace and itself without shame. What do you see on the surface?

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The Switch version of Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet will launch via the Nintendo eShop on January 31 in Japan for 1,100 yen, the game’s Nintendo eShop listing reveals. It will support Japanese, English, French, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) language options.

Publisher Prototype previously announced that the Switch version of the “kinetic novel” will be released this spring in North America, Europe, and Japan. While a release date for North America and Europe has yet to be confirmed, it is likely it will launch the same day given the Japanese release supports five languages.

Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet on Switch will have full touchscreen control support, and even single Joy-Con play (Right Joy-Con) support. It runs in 720p resolution.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Why don’t you come to the planetarium? The beautiful twinkling of eternity that will never fade, no matter what. All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.

In time for the 10th anniversary since its original release in Japan, planetarian is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VisualArt’s, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, Clannad, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and Angel Beats!

Please do not divide Heaven in two…

It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as “Junkers” plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins — a “Sarcophagus City”. In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she’s had in 30 years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try and repair the projector …

For the first time, this heartwarming and memorable title is available on Steam! It is fully voiced in Japanese, and can be experienced with both English and Japanese text.

Design, Scenario: Yuuichi Suzumoto

Music: Magome Togoshi

Voice Cast: Hoshino Yumemi – Keiko Suzuki

The Junker – Daisuke Ono

*This product is a localization of Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume Memorial Edition, originally released for Windows on April 30, 2010.

What is Kinetic Novel?

A new form of entertainment for the sole purpose of storytelling — not a novel, not an anime, not a game — Kinetic Novel. Made with the goal of providing the reader with an unprecedented sense of presence and empathy for the characters through the use of a high-quality scenario, graphics, music, and other production values.

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BPM Scholarly Contest for the Front Page -Math- (English)

Back by popular demand.

Happy New Year. Have some math.

Teacher: Alright, continuing on, I’d like to take a look at your answers for the math portion of the exam.

Everyone: Alright.

Teacher: Okay, well, first, we have number one. It’s pretty straightforward.

Please write the answers to the following math problems. (1) 7×4= (2) -24+5-37= (3) 1+2-4×6=

Teacher: Of course, you needed to utilize your ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. However, division…

Someone: There’s no division here.

Teacher: Everyone pretty much got all the answers right.

(1) 7×4= 28 (2) -24+5-37= -56 (3) 1+2-4×6= -21

Teacher: Even so, there were a few wrong answers. You need to multiply and divide before you add and subtract. That’s the general rule in math. A few of you ignored that rule. Please pay closer attention in the future.

Everyone laughs.

Teacher: Next is number two.

Please write pi in a single character.

Teacher: The answer is “π”

Chamu: Ehh…

Someone: What do you mean, ’ehh’??

Teacher: The question said to express pi in only a single character.

Please write pi in a single character. (3.14)

Everyone laughs.

Teacher: This is, of course, Kiryu’s Mahiro.

Takemasa: I figured since you started giggling after he showed us the correct answer that you did something like that.

Mahiro: I kind of thought “3.14″ was only a single character. We already figured out I’m bad at Japanese.

Mitsuki: I think you’re just bad at following directions.

Teacher: Well, I mean, you at least showed you understand what pi is and if we were asking for the definition written another way, you would have been right. That being said, Yume of Codomo Dragon… You were close.

Please write pi in a single character. (3.65)

Everyone laughs.

Hayato: It looks like the percentage of fat in milk.

Teacher: What did you intend?

Yume: I mean… I thought approximately 3.65…

Mitsuki: …Is how much fat is in your milk?

Everyone laughs.

Mitsuki: That’s a sloppy mistake.

Teacher: Sloppy indeed. Moving on to question three:

The formula for finding the area of a triangle is: (_____)×(_____)÷(_____). Note: This is a fifth-grade question.

Teacher: The answer is to take the base of the triangle, multiply it by height, and divide it by two. That’s the answer. And even so, Yume…

Mitsuki: Again!

Teacher: Yume… let’s take a look, shall we?

The formula for finding the area of a triangle is: (horizontal length)×(horizontal length)÷(3).

Subaru: You can see where he wrote “2″ and kind of added a tail to make it a “3″.

Mitsuki: Horizontal length by horizontal length…

Yume: I mean, if you…

Everyone laughs.

Mitsuki: Your way of thinking is a bit wild.

Takemasa: Is it necessary to tilt your body like that? Is that part of the formula?

Teacher: Next question.

Please write how to pronounce these three expressions used in trigonometric ratios. sin (_____) cos (_____) tan (_____)

Teacher: The answer is that they are sine, cosine, and tangent. Most people got this correct. However, Kuina… Kuina, you… when I first saw your answer, I made a doubletake… Your answer was…

Please write how to pronounce these three expressions used in trigonometric ratios. sin (shin) cos (cos) tan (tan)

Everyone laughs.

Subaru: I get it!!

Kuina: Hey, I didn’t study that ever.

Chamu: Kuina, you didn’t study it before?

Kuina: Not at all. I mean, in my second year of junior high school… Yeah, I just didn’t study it.

Teacher: Because you went to Singapore?

Kuina: No, no, the Philippians.

Teacher: It seems that this might just be a guitar problem. Takemasa.

Takemasa: Oh?

Please write how to pronounce these three expressions used in trigonometric ratios. sin (shine) [DIE] cos (cosmo) tan (tantan) [I don’t care]

Laughter.

Subaru: WHAT?

Hiyori: DIE?!

Chamu: Did you also never study this?

Takemasa: Well, I mean, sine and co-shine–

Mitsuki: It’s cosine.

Laughter.

Takemasa: Okay, so I saw sine and cosine and, well, I just saw it was written in English and I gave up. I can’t read that.

Subaru: DIE!

Hiyori: Takemasa is scaary…

Teacher: Moving on.

Please expand the drawing on the right. Note: This shape is often seen on junior high school entrance exams.

The answer is as follows:

Scattered voices: Ehh? Really? Wow…

Subaru: Ah!

Mitsuki: Oh, I get it now.

Teacher: Subaru of Royz.

Subaru: I mean, I don’t really remember…

Teacher: Let’s take a look. The correct answer… or rather, the incorrect answer… is it correct? Let’s take a look.

Laughter.

Mitsuki: What the heck?

Subaru: Well, I thought, like, if you took it… and you went like… there-there-there…

Mitsuki: What the heck?

Hayato: It doesn’t work that way.

Junji: Well, if you folded it upwards, it kind of works and you could make that  shape…

Subaru: Yeah! If you folded it like…

Mitsuki: NO THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.

Teacher: I guess it was close. Maybe it was since you got to play at Akasaka BLITZ recently and you still haven’t come down from that excitement… Yume. Yume wrote this as his answer.

Mitsuki: Is that a cherry on top!?

Someone: He didn’t even follow directions!

Subaru: That’s dumb.

Yume: I thought maybe it was a mole or pudding or a cherry… There were a lot of things it could have been. I thought we were supposed to expand on what he wanted to be when he grew up.

Teacher: There’s something wrong with you. Subaru, Yume… when I looked at the question and your answer, I could kiiiindof see where you were coming from…

Subaru: Yaaay.

Subaru reaches over to shake Yume’s hand.

Teacher: IT’S NOT A MATTER TO PRAISE EACH OTHER OVER.

Laughter.

Teacher: I get it. So, here, we have question number six, and directly below it is question seven.

Teacher: It seems someone was confused. Kiryu’s Mahiro.

Mahiro: Oh, yeah. I didn’t see the question about expanding the shape and wrote my answer for number seven in the box for number six.

Laugher.

Caption: Scatterbrain.

Teacher: Okay, so this is what you ended up writing.

⑥ Please expand the drawing on the right.

Mahiro’s answer: 25 minutes.

⑦ Two people are separated by 3 kilometers. If Person A is traveling at 5 kilometers per hour and Person B is traveling at 4 kilometers per hour, how long would it take them to reach each other?

Laughter and applause.

Someone: There’s a heart?

Subaru: Wh-What happened here?

Mahiro: I, uh, drew the moment they met.

Subaru: Ohh.

Mahiro: Yeah, so this one here is moving this way, and that one there is moving that way. So, I looked at that shape to the far right, and I thought it was a kind of course they had to run around, so I thought they started here and ran around like this–

Mahiro: …and they met on the other side. So that’s what I drew, the moment when they were finally reunited. It’s difficult. Yeah, I messed up. I shoulda double-checked.

Mitsuki: And what kind of course is that, anyway? There’s nothing there, why would they have to run around in a circle like that?

Takemasa: Isn’t that answer wrong, anyhow?

⑦ The correct answer is 20 minutes.

More laughter.

Teacher: I’m rather pleased to have so many people in here with wild ways of thinking. Alright, that about wraps up the math portion of the test, and from here, I’d like to move on to the English portion, but before that, I will reveal your scores. This test was out of a total of 20 points. There were four people here with perfect scores.

Scattered voices: Ehhhh?

Teacher: From Kiryu, both Isshiki Hiyori and Tokai Junji.

Hiyori: Yay!

Teacher: And from Royz… Tomoya…

Voices: Whaaaat???

Tomoya: This is a thing I can actually understand! I can do this!

Teacher: And the fourth person, from Codomo Dragon… Hayato.

Hayato: Yeeeeaaahhhhh.

Subaru: Yeah, yeah, I’m happy for you. Whatever.

Teacher: And that’s the end of the good news. Now, the two with the lowest score of merely five points… Codomo Dragon… Yume.

Teacher: Only five points…

Someone: What did you get right?

Teacher: There’s one more, from Kiryu.

Subaru: Oh.

Teacher: Mahiro.

Takemasa: Purple just must be bad at math.

Mahiro: I mean, yeah, it would be nice to be number one, but we vocalists, we just don’t have this kind of ability.

Mitsuki: That guy over there is a guitarist, pal.

Mahiro: WHAAA

Teacher: Alright, math is done.

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FFXIVWrite 2022

#3: Temper

verb: to be or become tempered (as by a primal, eikon, eidolon, etc.)

After reading the fairytale of Cinderella to his daughter, G’raha is asked questions about love.

“…And they lived happily ever after. The End.” With the last sentence read, G’raha closed the tome and turned towards the tiny, raven haired girl sitting next to him on the sofa with the same crimson eyes as his with a gentle smile. “So, how did you like it?”

Hikari perked her ears up and her tail swished behind her happily. “I liked it! The prince and Cinderella got married, and and uhhh… the stepmother is still a poopy head!”

His daughter never seized to make him laugh with the way she phrased her thoughts, and at the ripe ole age of five, as kids were wont to do, she tended to have absolutely no filter from her brain to her mouth. G’raha chuckled as he replied, “The stepmother is indeed a poopy head.”

“Mm-hmm! Papa I have a question!”

“Yes, sweetling?”

“Did the prince really fall in love with Cinderella after only dancing with her one time?”

With a shrug of his shoulders, G’raha answered, “That’s just how the story goes.”

Hikari sat back as scrunched her forehead and folded her arms, clearly with a deep confusion over her countenance. “But… how?”

“Well, that’s what is called ‘love at first sight’. You only have to look at someone and you just… know that you are in love.”

“Hmmm…” G’raha knew that when the confusion had not left her face, more questions were soon to follow, as she was ever the curious child. “Papa, why did you love Mama?”

The redheaded miqo’te was taken aback. G’raha had already been bombarded by Hikari’s questions about love in the past, such as what love was, but he had never been asked ‘Why?’ before.

“I’m not sure I understand your question, darling.”

“Why Mama and not someone else?”

“Well, isn’t it obvious? Besides you, my precious light, your Mama is the most beautiful person I’ve ever met, inside and out.” With a beaming smile full of pride, he turned towards the kitchen where his wife and the mother of his child was; the white haired Auri woman was standing over the kitchen table chopping vegetables, in preparation for a stew. G’raha could see that out of the corner of his eye, Yume was smiling warmly, clearly overhearing the conversation.

“But but Papa! You have also said, you said that uhhh…” Hikari was straining to remember something, and when she finally found it in her mind, her little ivory scaled hand was raised in triumph, with one finger in the air. “That ‘Beauty’s eyes are’ umm, uhh, ‘on the bejeweler’!”

G’raha strained to not laugh at his daughter, which was proving to be quite difficult in the moment. “Do you mean, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’?”

“Yeah that!”

“That I did, and it applies to Mama and I as well. When I beheld your mother for the first time, I was instantly drawn to her. My heart yearned for her, and I just somehow knew that she was the only one for me. And in the long years that we were apart, no one else could ever compare to her. And I’m thankful every day that she feels the same way for me. But it doesn’t mean that everyone feels that way towards Mama, or me. Just like not everyone enjoys the same stories, or eats the same kinds of food. Everyone is different.”

With a nod, Hikari took all the information in and quickly processed it. “Okay okay. Sooooo, you can’t fight against the feeling of loving Mama?”

“Not at all. In fact, I would never want to fight my feelings. I love being in love.”

Hikari suddenly gasped, her eyes widened and her mouth fell open, as she jumped off the sofa and began to bounce up and down. “Wait! I know what falling in love must be!”

“Oh?” G’raha smiled as he awaited her response, though he honestly was not prepared for what she was about to say.

“It sounds like tempering!” Hikari exclaimed as she threw both arms over her head, proudly declaring her discovery. “That’s it Papa! Mama must have tempered you! Like like a uhhhhh primal!”

“W-what?” G’raha’s ears and tail perked straight up. “Hikari, love not the same as tempering!”

Hikari dashed to the kitchen, and pointed accusingly at her mother, who stared back at her daughter with a smirk. “Mama! Are you a primal?!”

Yume returned to the chopping of vegetables as she smiled coyly. “I have no idea what you are talking about. I couldn’t possibly have tempered your Papa.”

“You can’t hide it from me! You’re a primal!”

G’raha just leaned back against the sofa cushions and laughed as he shook his head, speaking just loud enough for only himself to hear, “Well, if she’s a primal, then I pray that I’m never cured.”

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It’s time again for the...oc presentation ! (i confess i failed to finish anything else but that...) So this week, i was asked to do...

Kohaku Risu ! 

Writer comment about her development : I had nothing about her, like nothing then i talked about the presentation to my friend and now she’s a bit more clear to my mind.

Her character in five words : Moody, materialist, affectionate, curious, airhead.

Her quirk : She’s a mutation type, her body is the same as a flying-squirrel. It’s probably the reason she’s so small. She can actually jumps really high and glides in the sky. Her teeths and nails are sharp but overall she’s very fluffy. Don’t pet her without her authorization though, she could bite your finger.

She’s very proud of her mutation type, as she was raised in a pro-mutation family. Yet she complains a lot about it’s hard to dress. She can only attach her clothes to her neck and tail because of her “wings”.

Likes : She adores nuts in all form but peanuts butter. But her favorite thing of all time is finding a comfy spot to sleep in. The place needs to be warm, in the dark, fluffy and she needs to be able to fit in and being unnoticed once inside. Shiny things to collect and cute clothes she can actually wear. The villain “Prodress” (but she prefers to call him a “pro-active politician”), who fights for the liberation of the dressing code, he wants every mutation type to be allowed to walk nude in the streets.

Dislikes : Peanuts butter, loosing her things, when people are petting her without her permission. She hates her glasses and always says she forgot to wear it (which is very unlikable because she’s almost blind without it)

Her family : She’s an only child and was very spoiled. Her parents are both mutation type, her mother is a dormouse, and her father is something that is a mix of a cat and a mouse. Which is a joke in the family (something along the line that the mouse finally ate the cat).

Kohaku is more like her mother. People call them cute and want to protect them, so they use this power without any shame. They both like to linger off on saturday in bed, and eats with squeaky noise.

But the joke on their family is that Kohaku got her “diva side” from her father, and especially his cat side. Since they both have the tendency to purr when they’re happy to bite/Scratch people without warning when they pet them (especially when they asked for the petting) and to make things fall of the table.

Anyways Kohaku was almost never punished or scolded for her mood swings, so she totally doesn’t understand why it’s bad to just jump or people’s head and start scratching them. She only does that when they deserve it anyways.

Her family has very strong opinions about mutation type, they believe that this kind of quirk is the future of the humankind. They believe that mutation type are superior to every other type. So of course, Kohaku believes it too. She’s very close to both of her parents and like them equally.   

Secret past : She wants to be a reason for a very selfish reason. When she was a child she wanted to become a pilote, integrate the flying units. But she has a bad vision (very bad). So this career was impossible for her. Though Kohaku couldn’t imagine living without flying. The only career that allowed her to use her quirk and continue to fly was being a hero. So she’s aiming for being a hero only to be able to use her quirk everyday.

Happiest memory : Her happiest memory is the first day she managed to fly, she had climbed all the way to the biggest tree in the garden and her parents were panicking on the ground. She fell of the tree and glided to her mother’s arms without a scratch.

Saddest memory : She had a very privileged childhood, so she does not have a lot of sad memories, only a couple of inconveniences anecdotes. But once she had a crush on a boy in her class -who was not of a mutation type. And her family treated her crush as a “phase” as if her emotions were nothing at all and they knew better. The crush did end up bad too because she always had been a bit violent, and used show her love by knocking his shoulder, kicking him or even jumping on his head to deck him. So the boy just asked her one day “why are you always hurting me?” and that threw her off. She does a lot of effort to be less violent with people she cares about.

Best friends : Kenya Monmen. She likes to be with him, lick his face, and hides in his hair. She often hides her things in his hair and forgets it. He complains a lot about this tendency. Koyuki Kojima, Saiya Meduri are her best friends too. When Kohaku is not with Kenya she’s with those two. Saiya is just the type of person she gets along with, mutation type and shy so she let Kohaku do a lot of things. Koyuki is the surprise of the year, she didn’t expect to be friend with a “normie” but they share a lot of interest and her power is so interesting to Kohaku’s point of view. They met during the festival and worked together in the same team, since then they’re friend.

Get along well with : Ryuusuke Taro, Azuma Attakai, Yosuke Udebuki, Ume Sumamoto, Max Chandler. Most of them she’s friend with because they are mutation type. It’s just that simple. But there are a few other reasons, Ryuusuke is a lizard and they both like to lie down in the sun. She likes Ume’s perfum too, Azuma is always making her feel all warm with his power, and Yosuke is so big and fluffy she feels safe once she has climbed on his back.

Doesn’t get along with : Makoto Gaijin, her reason to dislike him is very silly though ; since he’s electric type everytime he touches her furr she gets a shock and has to comb her furr again. Kohaku doesn’t like Yume Genjutsu, Reika Genjutsu, too, but she doesn’t know why, she just doesn’t like their attitude, the way they act, their face. She’s just not comfortable around them and never knows how to act. Yuu Jishaku is also someone she doesn’t like but only because the girl keeps saying that Kenya and Kohaku looks like a couple. The person she hates the most in the class is Goro Nousagi, because he’s from a mutation family like her but doesn’t believe in the superiority of the mutation type, and because he always act as a big brother with her. Telling her not to speak or act like that. That pisses her off to no end.

Crush on : Kenya Monmen, though she will NEVER admit it. It’s not like she’s ashamed of loving him (since he’s mutation type too, it’s okay for her family) but she just doesn’t like people to assume her feeling. As long as people will ship her with him, she will deny being in love with him. She will not do as people expect her to do, even if her attitude is the most obvious of all.

Conclusion about her relationship in class : She’s very close to mutation type like her, or people that are useful to her. Lot of people do not know how to handle her and her mod swing, and especially her tendency to jump on people’s face to scratch them when she’s angry. So she stays with people that now how to manage her (or are too shy to stop her).

-Evaluation of her teacher All Might-

Potential as a hero : Kohaku’s power is very useful, though it’s more suited to observation and support role, she’s not afraid to go and attack. And she’s never let go once she has bitten someone. Which is a bit scary.

Weak points : Her body is very frail, and is not fitted for combat. Beside she can’t actually fly, she needs to find a high spot and jump to glide.

Strong points : As i said earlier, she does not let go once she has set her objective on something. And she’s obstinate and very aggressive. Beside her small stature and cute appearance makes people underestimate her, so they have the tendency to not see the attack coming. She’s also very quick and agile. It’s hard to catch her.

Commentary : During the entrance exam she had a lot of “victory” points, and very little of “rescue” points. The only person she saved during the exam, she hid him in a safe place and then forgot about him afterward. Please, try not to do that once you become a hero : don’t forget the place you hide civilian. Oh. By the way, you need to see me after class, you forgot your glasses again.

[yumethekitsune]

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[dragondog814]

one fu dog ref sheet down five more to go... god help me lol so this is Yume hogo-sha or just Yume (his name means dream guardian) this is also the first time a animal OC of mine has a speckled tongue, his hair and tail turns tends to turn dream sand goob when traveling through dreams or when using his powers. 

[mama-m1na]

My Dear Goddess...: Prologue

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“Kisetsu kurikaesu tabi hotsureteku kizuna wo tsuyoku, tsuyoku daki shimete

Nakusanuyou,” an eight-year-old girl sang as she sat on the back balcony, dangling her legs, “kakaeta kotoba no omotasani ugoke nakunatte tada atatakana yume ni oboreteta kizukeba kimi wo miushinai.”

“Tabane daki shimeteta sugata wo yawaraka ni chirashite akaku itai hodoni sore wa yakitsuite,” she continued as the forest seemed to sing with her, “hirari hirari hirari.”

“Rhamina!” called an older female causing the child to halt her singing and turn to her left.

A female in her early twenties who wore a long, red, hamaka, with a white haori, white socks, and wooden sandals sighed as she walked over to the child. She also had a set of turquoise prayer beads around her neck that reached just past her chest.

“Rhamina, come on we’re going to be late for breakfast,” the woman called as the child stood up.

“I’m sorry, Ms. Yuuei, the forest just looked so pretty today. I wanted to admire it,” the girl said staring off into the forest with a smile on her face as she brushed her shoulder length, black hair out of her face.

The girl’s attire was similar to the woman’s except that she wore a long red skirt instead of a hamaka and the girl’s prayer beads were of jade, obsidian, rose quartz, and pearls which hung closer to her stomach.

“It’s alright, let’s just go so we won’t be late,” the woman smiled as she ruffled the child’s hair, “We wouldn’t want Ocha to get mad at us would we?”

“No!” Rhamina exclaimed as she dashed over to the dining area with a smile on her face.

Once at the dining area with her specific housemates she took her spot at the table followed by the woman who got her.

“Finally, it took you guys long enough,” a fifteen-year-old girl chuckled.

“Hey, at least we got her before noon,” the woman chuckled, “Now let’s start our prayer first.

The twenty girls at the table took their prayer beads and wrapped them around their hands as they took a prayer position.

“Spirits of earth, heaven, and light we thank thee for thy bounty which we are about to receive. By your feast allow us to be more successful in our further studies to understand the gifts bestowed to us,” the girls said in unison.

As they spoke each individual was surrounded in a soft glow of a color which corresponded to them

“So mote it be.”

With the last four words the girls returned the prayer beads to either around their necks or wrapped around their dominant wrist before they began to eat the food in front of them.

The typical day of a Shrine Maiden usually consisted of studying, meditating, and practicing magic. On special occasions they would be in charge of rituals and rites as they and/or others passed different milestones.

They usually did this until nightfall, then they would bath and go to bed after reading some more if they wanted.

This night however, was different.

“Ahhhhh!” Crash! Bang!

Yueii ran towards the noise holding a lantern with worry written all over her face.

Upon entering Rhamina’s room she saw the lantern which was on the child’s nightstand was broken on the floor and Rhamina herself was curled up in a ball clutching onto the beads around her neck while sobbing.

“Mina, what’s wrong?” the brunette asked as she brought the child’s form into her arms.

“I had a nightmare, there- there was so much fire and-and everyone was dead!” the girl cried.

“Who?” Yueii asked as more females appeared in the doorway.

“Everyone in the Shrine! They were killed by men wearing purple and blue. They rode on horses with golden dragons on them!”

Yueii’s eyes widened and she handed the girl to another woman as she said, “Look after her for a bit.”

“Yueii, what happened?” the female asked as the brunette began walking to the main building of the shrine.

“I need to talk with Ocha.”

“So, she had the premonition as well?” the elderly woman asked once the female explained what had just happened.

“That was-was a premonition?” Yueii asked with widened eyes, “Then we-we need to evacuate now!”

“Yueii, there is no time,” Ocha answered in a calm tone, “They will be here by dawn and it will only be worse if all of us try to run.”

“Then we’re supposed to all die?” the brunette asked bringing a hand to her mouth.

“No, one of us will live,” the woman responded looking out her window, “The one who would’ve had the longest time left out of all of us.”

“Rhamina will escape?” Yueii asked, “Only her?”

“It’s better than none of us, Yueii,” the Head Maiden sighed, “She will try to help some of us escape but will not be able to.”

That morning men wearing blue and purple rode horseback up the path to the shrine where 500 women and girls stood in their red and white attire clutching their prayer beads in their hands.

As the whole property was surrounded a man with a scroll stepped forward and announced, “By orders of His Majesty, all Shrine Maidens of Tsukiko Shrine are found guilty of treason for conspiring against the King and are to be arrested for interrogation. Those who do not comply will be killed on sight!”

“We will not go along with those who are blinded by the vile man they call a king!” Ocha spoke standing in front of all the females.

The man smirked as he flicked his wrist forward and flaming arrows rained down over the females hitting some of them.

“Find and kill all of those wenches!” the same man commanded as the females began to scatter, “All five hundred of them must be accounted for!”

Rhamina screamed as the people she saw as her family were slaughtered in front of her eyes.

From under the porches of one of the housing buildings she watched as females of various ages dropped to the ground.

“Mia!” the ravenette called as she saw a twelve-year-old girl trip.

She unwedged herself from her hiding spot and dashed forward to heal the large gash on the girl’s arm.

Mia looked up with a smile as the ravenette’s glowing hands hovered above the wound.

“Mina, you need to go, if anyone of us should live it should at least be you,” the girl spoke as tears streamed down her face.

“No,” Rhamina hissed pulling the older girl to her feet when she heard feet running towards their location.

“Hey, come back here!” a man called.

Zip! Zip! Thud! “Ahhhh!”

“Mi-Mia!” squealed Rhamina as she looked behind her to see the blonde with two arrows sticking out of her back.

Zip! Zip! Zip!

The girl jumped back as three more arrows lodged themselves in where she previously stood.

As she began to run to the northern border of the shrine she grasped her prayer beads before jumping over the border fence as more arrows whizzed by her.

“Dear spirits I call upon thee please make me as limber and nimble as a fox so that I may escape my predators!” she chanted as a purple glow surrounded her form.

In a puff of smoke she had turned into a white fox with purple tipped ears and tail.

In her new form she was able to escape her death as she hid in the forest.

A few hours later she could only watch as the bodies of her companions were disrespectfully dragged off down the road by the men.

“Where is the last one?” the man who had announced the orders asked.

“We were unable to locate her, Sir,” another man said.

“Well, find her!” the first man spat, “His Majesty was quite clear when he said all five hundred of them were to be brought back!”

As she sat at the river watching the line of horses and bodies trot down the path to the capital city Hanyang, a white fox cried in despair at the loss of her whole family.

                                             ~~~Fin. Prologue~~~

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Songs used: “Hirari Hirari” by Hatsune Miku

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