I am still writing my minific! It just...is taking a long time. I am sorry.
In the meantime, a question. Can Suwako hide in her hat and use it to block damage? I know she can dig underground and recover health in the fighting games. What is that hat made of anyway? (I expect God-Wood. Hand crafted into hat form by the God of Woodcrafting on favor for his favorite Frog Goddess.)
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Parsee, actually. Also maybe Reimu at some point.
It's straw, I think. Also, it doesn't block anything - she's just in the ground, and the hat is the only bit poking out.
edited 2nd Oct '11 11:18:38 AM by Cynicmuffin
stark raving lunatic
hold on a sec, if the hat can't take damage, is that a hint that it is a separate entity whose the hat lives effective level is so high that all damage is negligible, or is it a hint that it is just a hat and therefore doesn't feel pain. if she can go underground because she is an earth goddess, and her hat can't because its just a hat, then perhaps the rest of her clothes are godly and the hat was just something she found? Or maybe anything that is suwako's can go underground but the hat really IS alive and therefore can't
i need to take breather's between thoughts
EDIT:thats enough of a breather
is the hat following where she is by sliding to stay above her, or is she consciously moving the ground underneath it so when she pops up it will be on her head again.
edited 2nd Oct '11 12:46:33 PM by JacktheSnowman
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stark raving lunatic
we need to do suwako's hat next
edited 2nd Oct '11 12:46:50 PM by JacktheSnowman
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What part of my writeup makes you think the hat wasn't the one talking?
Nonsense
The hat is an article of clothing.
There is no clothing damage until the winner of the battle is decided
Ergo it takes no damage because of public decency and showmanship.
She keeps her spellcards in her hat, I do know that.
Heart of Stone
It's time... to STOP!
I don't know whether or not the hat is alive, but I know two things:
1. I've never seen any elder god who's eye is attached by a spring... or any elder god.
2. I'm disappointed in Suwako for not throwing her hat as an attack.
I have no horse, and I must ride. I accomplish unlockments.
She's already got her solid steel hula hoops chakrams to throw at people.
Heart of Stone
stark raving lunatic
i got bored so i stopped being insane, i'm well rested at the moment so it's still voluntary
what got me was despite the fact that when i edited the post i just added the hat lives to the beginning of every line, in viewing the post it blended with the messages in almost every instance
edited 2nd Oct '11 1:07:32 PM by JacktheSnowman
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It's time... to STOP!
So why doesn't she put a chakram on the bottom of her hat, and go by the name of Oddjob?
Because I hadn't thought of that. And now I have and it's the best idea ever.
Heart of Stone
Not wood? God-Straw then. From the God of Straw, who was Suwako's college roommate. Because gods go to college. Also, I wrote this thing. Mostly dialouge. Warning: Taoists, but none of the Taoist stuff mentioned earlier. Also, fairies.
Frog in the Earth
“Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit~”
The sound of a strange frog rang throughout the Misty Lake, much to the confusion of the fairies. It seemed much louder and much more lively than the croaks of the frogs who normally lived there. The fairies soon pushed themselves into a frenzy, trying to find the “super frog”. They looked high and low, under every rock, under every branch.
Eventually, one of the fairies found a strange rock with eyes atop it sitting in the mud. The curious little thing found she couldn’t lift it. She began to pelt it with a string of bullets when suddenly it spoke!
“Aa-uuu.~ Hello there! I am Pyonta the talking hat! And you‘re a fairy!”
The fairy fell into the mud in surprise, then jumped back up and rushed to cover the hat in dirt, so the other fairies wouldn’t find it. She then turned to the hat.
“Miss Pyonta! I’m looking for the super frog! You will help me?”
“Sure-O! So tell me about this Super Froggy?”
“Froggy goes ribbit!”
“No kidding?”
“Froggy is much louder than the other froggies!”
“Sounds like a real winner!”
“Froggy sounds like a girl froggy!”
“Must be a real cutie huh?”
The fairy turned red and sunk back down into the mud. “Ah. Uh. Froggy…froggy sounded cute, Yes.”
The hat, or rather, the voice claiming to come from the hat, giggled. “So do I sound cute Miss Fairy?”
The fairy started to wiggle in the mud. “Um. Er. I. Yes! Wait, er. Um.”
The voice gave a hearty laugh. “Tell you what Miss Fairy, I like you. So I want you to fly up to Youkai Mountain and go the Moriya Shrine. Go to the shrine maiden there and ask for work.”
“Work?”
“Yeah! The Super Froggy loves hard workers! So go ask the shrine maiden for work! Tell her Suwako sent ya!”
“Ok! Super Froggy, here I come!”
The fairy flew off towards the direction of Youkai Mountain immediately. The other fairies noticed her running off so fast and began to follow her, believing that she had found the super frog. After all but two of the fairies, who were preoccupied with other things, had gone, the hat began to sink into the mud, and before long, no trace of it could be found. The goddess wearing the hat began to swim deep beneath the ground. She had someone to check up on.
Hakurei Shrine. Still standing, though not in the best shape. Some shingles on the roof could use replacing. The walls could use cleaning. That turtle always got on to the shrine maiden about it. She had different problems today though.
“Miko League Reimu! Miko League! No youkai can stop us! We can even get Miko to join!” The current pest to the Hakurei Shrine Maiden was Sanae Kochiya, the wind priestess and shrine maiden of the Moriya Shrine. This was the 15th visit Sanae had made to the Hakurei concerning an alliance between her and Reimu.
As Sanae spoke, a familiar hat appeared directly beneath her.
“Sanae, stop playing with your girlfriend and go train the shrine’s new fairy servants! Also, are those chubby thighs I see? Oh Sanae, you know I still love ya! Ribbit~”
The shrine maiden blushed “W…wha? I’m not…she’s not…Hey wait! Fairies? In my shrine? Sorry Reimu, talk later. Sanae away!” And with this, she took off into the sky, a gust of wind pushing her towards Youkai Mountain with blinding speed.
Reimu turned to thank the hat, but it had already sank into the ground. Sanae’s silliness had given her another idea for some more fun.
Suwako sank to the new place sitting in the underground, but not quite in the Underground. The newest faction to appear in Gensoukyou made their home here. The Earth Goddess didn’t want to bother the undead guard, so she simply made herself a passage into the depths of the dojo. She decided to arrange for a “private audience” with the prince.
Suwako popped herself out of the ground right in front of the female prince in the deepest chamber of the dojo. Toyosatomimi no Miko sat in meditation, or rather, in a meditation pose. As the goddess began to sit like a frog in front of her, her eyes opened and met with the eyes on Suwako’s hat, then moved down to meet her real eyes.
“Heya Headphones!”
“I’ve been expecting you, Former Goddess of the Moriya. Ever since your maiden sparked the desire to attract my presence to your shrine, I’ve been waiting for your arrival…”
“Cool cool.”
“However, I must apologize, I have been too preoccupied with planning my next move against the Buddhist faction to make any, how do you modern men say, ‘celebrity endorsements’?”
Suwako yawned, “Can’t blame you really. You sure seem awfully busy down here with your old politician pals.”
“Do you mock me, goddess?”
“Of course not! You seem like a nice enough gal. Kinda. Mostly. You just need to lighten up a bit, you know? Expand your circle of influence. You’ve been all stiff for years, no pun intended about you being dead and all, so I thought it would be for the best if you starting having some fun for once!”
“…Your desires do not match your words. Why do you instruct me?”
“Because if we fought as we are now, it would get boring fast. Even Kanako has changed a bit with the times. You? You are the same woman you were back when you were a real prince. What is the point of living again, having a second chance, if you are just going to live the same way?”
“You do not understand. I have not simply returned from the dead. I have returned as a great saint to free Japan from the grips of Buddhism and unify it into a golden age…”
“…So you are going to free Japan from something not even oppressing it? Continue with the old plan even though fate has dealed you a much different hand? So stiff and slow to change. So slow to ‘flex’, if you will. Now take me! I lost my status as Goddess of the Moriya before you were even born! Did it stop me? Not at all! I adapted, and actually prefer it this new way. Kanako is better with the political stuff anyways. Now, I know what you are thinking…”
“Actually, it is the other way around…”
“…‘Suwako, you are one to talk about flexibility! You are an Earth Goddess! The earth is solid and unchanging!’ But the earth is always changing, always adapting! And if you want to have any fun here in Gensoukyou, you’d adapt too! Goodness, I started sounding like the Yama for a sec there. Sorry Headphones. Next time we meet, I better have an interesting new sparing buddy!”
The Taoist sighed. When she rose her head from her sigh, Suwako was already gone, already swimming her way back up to the surface. She started to time herself. Could she swim all the way back to the shrine faster than she did the last time she had to go underground on business? Not that her visit to the prince was “business” really.
When she returned, she found her partner Kanako waiting for her, a stern expression on her face. Not angry, just…annoyed.
“Where were you this time?”
“Playing with fairies and saying hi to the new neighbors!”
“Speaking of fairies, why are so many here asking Sanae for work, saying that you sent them?”
“Well, I only sent one, but I’m glad the dummies moved how I wanted them too…”
Kanako’s annoyed look turned into a grimace. “Why would you do something like that?”
Suwako grinned. “I thought you’d look great with a choir of angels! You can really pull off the ‘western god’ thing.”
“…And how would that help the shrine gather faith at all?”
Suwako shrugged “…You’d look cool?”
Kanako looked over to Sanae, who was trying to bark strange orders to the crowd of fairies, then back to Suwako, who was flapping her sleeves and laughing at Sanae and the fairies’ show. Kanako sighed. At least they seemed to be happy.
Sometimes I wonder if people still read these. Eh, they do. Sorry if some parts seem "different" from other parts. I wrote the part with the fairies a bit before I got the idea for the rest. Seems fine to me, but I wrote it, so I have a bias.
edited 2nd Oct '11 1:01:26 PM by Otherarrow
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stark raving lunatic
that was awesome but it reminded me i need to learn who the characters for ten desires are, i (vaguely) know their names and i know headphones was the last boss but i know nothing about them beyond that.
other than the generic "i liked it", i'd have to say that i am astounded that suwako manipulating fairies into manipulating each other to work for the shrine didn't happen in canon. that sounds exactly like something she would do.
edited 2nd Oct '11 1:17:05 PM by JacktheSnowman
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I certainly read it. Pretty great, actually. Captures her silly (and also sorta... philosophical, I guess? Probably the wrong word, but I'm tired) side very nicely. Thanks a lot for posting it, that was definitely worth the wait.
edited 2nd Oct '11 1:18:52 PM by Cynicmuffin
One Winged Egret
New thread project!* While we cool down and have a refresher period, we establish the basics of the basics for the Ten Desires characters. No long analyses or speculative mini-fics, just get down the (basic) history, abilities and relationships so we can all start on the same page when we eventually get to covering them in detail. Pictures welcome to better attach names to faces, but no long picdumps. We're here to answer the question of "who the hell are these new girls?", no more and no less.
edited 2nd Oct '11 1:43:29 PM by Clarste
stark raving lunatic
if we do that then we need to hold off until we are absolutely sure beyond a doubt that we are done with Suwako.
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Clarste's idea gets my seal of "I'm cool with this", and if Clarste decides to even take matters into his hands in regards to that, it gets my hand-selected assortment of heart and star stickers as well.
Arrow's fic gets a seal, too. It meandered a lot and took a while to get started, but you were approaching some good ideas there, with Suwako all up and about and interacting with people, and the wisdom she had to share with Miko and all. I also like the idea of her swimming through the earth like that to go places. And messing with them Pyonta-style is great. Oh, and I'm happy that you didn't imply (or... exply?) that the fairy is Cirno or Daiyousei or so. I liked the idea that it was just a random fairy. It always seems to come down to Cirno being everywhere, but unnamed characters also exist, you know.
And the "choir of angels" thing was adorable, too. Basically, a bunch of really nice ideas kinda scattered about there.
The Fool
That is a brilliant idea and I commend you for coming up with it. Have a cookie.
It's good to see a ninja that agrees with me.
edited 2nd Oct '11 2:43:49 PM by Pulse
I sure said that!
One Winged Egret
I'm perfectly willing to take matters into my own hands if it's decided we're ready. I have two concerns though: it's extremely difficult for me to be concise in the history for some characters, and I have no idea how to embed images into the posts.
edited 2nd Oct '11 2:46:39 PM by Clarste
stark raving lunatic
ಠ_ಠ
there was a 40 minute delay between his post and yours
i am very confused
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The Fool
I didn't hit refresh enough, I guess. 0///0
I sure said that!
stark raving lunatic
BOOP-A-DOOP-A-DOOP
One Winged Egret
Given that it's been over 12 hours since anything other than Banana Phone happened, I think I'll post something about one of the TD characters. Fawriel and I decided to have one every other day (I think?) so as to not accidentally dominate the refresher period. People should still be catching up on older characters in between.
Kyouko and Yoshika will be skipped since people have had more time to familiarize themselves with them. We already did Kyouko, and for reference Yoshika is a zombie.
if you are talking about suwako then i think a new write up could do wonders for the stalled discussion.
if you aren't talking about suwako then at this point yea i think we are about in the refresher point by now
EDIT: although i vaguely recall Otherarrow mentioning he had a write up in the works and i would definitely like to read that.
EDIT,EDIT: and Fawriel said he had something as well, you know what i take it back, i think we there is still stuff to go on about suwako.
edited 2nd Oct '11 11:25:25 AM by JacktheSnowman
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