jigokuooc | May OOC Intro / CR meme!

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May OOC Intro / CR meme!

Welcome Lost Souls! And also, welcome to this round's group of new players!

What's on the plate for this month? Well there's the Substories for this month you can get started on. Generally, the city is still recovering from the disastrous ending of the Night Parade last month. Clean up has been going well, but unfortunately the ongoing turf war over The Underground between the Tamamo and Shuten clans has kept tensions from winding down. On top of that, the Daitengu crashed their own funeral and implicated the Enma as being responsible, in some way, for the incident as well as their "assassination". Things are pretty chaotic!

And what's with this sudden infection of mysterious Haniwa figurines happening now? One can't help but wonder if this isn't coincidence...

What's gonna happen? Stay tuned and find out...

In the meantime, use the form below to introduce yourselves! Just copy paste this, fill it out, and and start to get to know one another and plot for the coming month! THIS IS A COMBINATION OOC INTRO AND CR MEME, so older players, feel free to introduce yourselves!

Also as a note, as of this post, all changes discussed from the Mod Feedback response have been implemented, including changes to the Reward page!

Player Name: Whatever you want us to call you.
Contact: Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you!
Pronouns: Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are.
Tell us about yourself: Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know.

Character Name: 
Canon:
Character Age: 
Faction:
Brief Rundown: Give folks the skinny on what this character's deal is

Initial Ideas: If you're fresh to the game, don't feel too pressured to jump in TOO fully. Just list what ideas you have for your character's first month in the game. We'll do a more thorough plotting post when the event post is closer along.

CR Desires: What kind of CR are you after? Friends, enemies, frienemies, lovers, one night stands, co-workers, so on and so forth? Invite people to fill that dance card!

Anything else: Permissions, opt-outs, shitposting, etc.

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Literally anyone: I’m going to be better
Matoba Seiji here to ruin your day: hello :)))

Also there are two “”friend”” situations here there’s the gay one and the eye devouring one but he is welcome to meddle in both of them because Matoba does not have the shame to be subtle about either one

Oh my god

“RIGHT EYE

—NOT THAT ONE”

Honestly the more I think about it the more I’m like. Maybe it tries to possess him and it either doesn’t work or it forces the hashihime into Minakami??? The world is our oyster I will leave that to you

oh mty god the fucking hashihime passing back to minakami would give him a heart attack. he'd go full tilt raiden mode sprinting across the city trying to Fix It. oh my god hold on.

Haha so spirited, Tamamori-san~

If he could he would do this on purpose just to test how it works so

You know

Watch your back Tama

HE EXPECTED THIS FAVOR TO WORK OUT SOME OTHER WAY BUT YKNOW THIS MIGHT AS WELL HAPPEN

honestly he wouldnt even get mad, just very sulky

It’s for the good of everyone! And science! Probably.

If he could get away with doing it sneakily with as much plausible deniability as possible he would because that way he gets to save the favor for something else, hmmmmmmm

hey I know you responded to my CR thread and I was going to say there I've been peering over the fence at Matoba and Tama's thread clutching my face and trying not to shriek, but I just saw this and what if Minakami just expires on the goddamn spot.

I do wish the hashihime ever manifested in canon in any physical sense because the idea of it going "WHAT THE CHRIST" and fleeing to its previous home is a delight.

I am happy to enable any and all muse trauma, body horror and magic-induced anxiety ❤️

I wandered off and played videogames for a while and belatedly remembered that from Mina's perspective, the only way the hashihime would jump to him like that is either:

-Tamamori did something so selfless for someone else that she got Big Mad and left (but he'd know by then the third member of their circus isn't here and that's only other person Tama would do something like that for), or
-Tamamori literally died

It wouldn't make sense because of other factors but okay yeah okay he would have the freakout of all freakouts. Matoba why. Matoba w h y

Excellent, Matoba will be excessively casual about all of it, please completely misunderstand the situation

he'll meddle in both friends frankly, he's still going to claim he's not gay because 1922 repression culture but he will absolutely call a spade a spade with other people

also he knows so woefully little about yokai and such that he would probably end up asking about the eye thing eventually and trying to get himself an education. it's kinda long overdue since he's been seeing yokai since he was like four, but thats what happens when you grow up in a fatal frame village with casual bear murderers

Honestly relatable because rural Japan and traditional ass old family and Matoba can’t be in a position to freely admit feelings about anyone ANYWAY because if the curse and he has to get married and pop out heirs eventually as head of the clan

BUT you get the sense that he and Natori’s weird bad-friends-definitely-not-dating was a super open secret back when they were kids so it’s like. What’s a little more taboo on top of that.

(Mostly Natori is way more in denial about it than he is anyway and always has been so Matoba’s fave pastime is to be forthcoming with information and then direct people to ask him more about it because bullying Natori is also how he flirts so. Sucks to suck Natori.)

ANYWAY Matoba isn’t all that shy when it comes to talking about ayakashi so honestly he would be fine with teaching Tamamori whatever he wants to know........ Just, you know. For a price.

ngl tama realizing there is a time gulf between them and yet that stuff still exists...might have that bleak `ah. thats. something.` moment over it. he's not going to think too hard about it, or he'll feel a little too close to his antag for comfort.

ah yes, bullying someone for flirting, he knows that love language!! sadly his bully s/o isn't here ~~i'm half jokewise trying to con a friend in to bringing kawase despite said friend being busy with ryslig~~ but given he comes from kawase's ending he's still primed to be blunt about calling that out for what it is. he also will guess even if he's not on the mark, so either way it's going to be annoying. he's persistent and spiteful in his own little ways, but he's going to eventually decide that this is a Friendship Shaped Thing regardless because he's put in energy towards it. airtight logic.

buy his silence about your love life in exchange for telling him how to deal with yokai. that's clearly equivalent exchange.

Edited 2022-05-06 22:24 (UTC)

I'm really looking forward to Matoba being such an esoteric inaka weirdo that they don't realize there's a time gap for a depressingly long time. TIME TRAVEL, AMIRITE.........

~~one of us one of us~~ Honestly Matoba's reaction to being called out probably ranges from 'haha yeah, anyway--' to awkward deets, because apart from them both being ultra emotionally repressed he and Natori are also Divorced af, so Tama is free to spin the roulette of Matoba being uncomfortably frank (he will probably do it on purpose, to be petty. 'do you regret asking yet??')

.......But Matoba enjoys the back and forth with all his petty and difficult CR so, welcome to that club, Tama. His favorite kinds of people: petty and defensive on the outside, wounded and earnest on the inside.

in his experience getting someone to admit to something nasty and painful is actually a good thing, because Everyone Represses Everything In Aizu including and especially childhood traumas. so he'll never regret prying, that means it's out in the open and healing or whatever! and at least he won't judge for any of it, because after all, he is History's Greatest Monster Actually! but that buckwild mood whiplash pit of negative self esteem takes a while to rear its ugly head, so that's a random, casual topic bomb for him to drop out of nowhere, much further in to the future.

also ngl i havent sat down to watch an anime or read a manga in uh years, but i may have to for once. this ooc exchange is also sealed.

Okay first of all: Lmfao yikes bro @ Tama but also, objectively incorrect to Matoba, so that is going to be an extremely fun conversation to eventually have! There's already been a few people gently teasing at Matoba's obvious repression but no one has outright called it on its face. I eagerly await the drama.

Secondly, opens my trenchcoat and slides this across the table. Also the entire anime run so far is on Crunchyroll, except the movie and new OVA.

First disclaimer: Manga is objectively superior to the anime for various storytelling and pace reasons I could drone on about, but the art is a little uh, rough for the first few volumes, so I don't blame people wanting to go anime up through the first... 3 or 4 seasons. But eventually it evolves into its current much lovelier state! Second disclaimer is that the fan translations can be of varying quality throughout the run, but for the most part they're p decent!

one of us one of us

unfortunately tama is the bearer of bad news constantly. its probably why he defaults to tying his goddamn friends to chairs before having heart to hearts with them. as it is he comes from route 2, but the routes are...in...a timeline order...? so he remembers the previous routes subconsciously, which honestly makes him even more brazen because well

given i have had an actual years-long battle trying to collect up the scraps of a SMT manga translation via digging through the internet's proverbial trashbins, i am willing and unfortunately able to stomach and handle anything if its in service to the manga being better. also weirdly manga is easier on my aphantasia than anime for some ungodly dumb reason i will Never understand, maybe because i grew up on comic books more than cartoons. either way i will probably end up dragging van down with me, hand in unloveable hand, so stay tuned.

also oh no a link fell out of my pocket and has the entire VN's routes uploaded, granted it's the inferior switch version which does censor some Absolutely Baffling things, but still

I mean Matoba also ties the protag to a chair to have a talk with him (and also then shows up at his house and threatens to blackmail him if he won't talk to him) so he really can't shoot arrows at glass houses here!

Good doing business with you, I'll be taking that link.... that just reminded me I've been digging around all week for translations of a bunch of extremely obscure King of Fighters light novels of all things, god help me for my sins

--also I'm sorry; I just saw that he's 5'3"

what a tiny

I was thinking about it during the tdm but now Matoba is definitely going to assume he's like. a high school student at best. so enjoy that

~~FOR ONCE I AM PLAYING A CHARACTER SHORTER THAN ME ITS A MIRACLE~~ his goddamn bfs are 5'9" and 5'10" because he was born to suffer. he's like 100lbs or something insane too, because he gets too distracted and is too cheap to eat and his lodgings doesn't have a goddamn kitchen so he has to go out to eat instead of cooking and deadass how is he alive

HES GOING TO BE SO INDIGNANT but also not know how old he is, because its june when the game takes place, but it's...may...here...he can't deal with time any more he's going to give up and just say 21 forever.

also kof my love, i havent been back to fitan games in years but my childhood queer awakening was king. which tbf, its king. but also carpal tunnel kinda ruins inputs and i never until just this moment thought, duh, there's other media for tekken and kof. i'll. i'm gonna be right back.

I'm 5' so I can't talk shit but I'm going to anyway WHAT A TINY MANLET.... I love short/tall ships. Tall/short/Tall ship, amazing. Everyone in Sutoku is incompetent at eating, all Matoba buys is sweets, what a bunch of infants.

Also oh no now you've got me going,

My main fandom has been Guilty Gear for a long ass time and I played semi-seriously for a while but I also dabble in Vampire and KOF!! I only really started getting more seriously into KOF fandom stuff recently because I'm an idiot who went 'huh, I wonder what Iori that loser would be like as a Shuten'

also King, good taste, 10/10

also if you're looking for Tekken and KOF media to consume my suggestions are Harada's Bar for the former and this weird KOF CG anime that came out a few years ago for the latter, it's vaguely uncanny but the writing is really good and you can tell the production that made it really loves KOF!! It's supposed to have a new season this year sometime but it's kinda ?? up in the air still

colorized depiction of the end of the kawase route ~~that's not true kawase would drop tama in a heartbeat~~

i am rrrrrrrrrrrreal tempted by strive i gotta say, i've not played a GG in actual ass decades now it feels like ~~being a may main and watching totsugeki memes pop off made me feel some kinda way~~ but i think my hands would explode if i put a digit on a fightstick again.

also harada how do you have time for this. sir. and then in the other tab i see terry and am immediately overcome with boy feelings. my backlog grows but i have accepted this

Looool I was a Jam main since XX days and Strive kinda turned me off for, waves hands, LOTS OF MECHANICAL REASONS aside from just not having my main. I still play +R nowadays like a salty old lady cuz a lot of people are still active here, I did play Rev2 Jam for a little while after she dropped though

TERRY IS SO GOOD IN THIS ANIME, I DON'T WANNA SPOIL ANYTHING BUT THERE'S VERY GOOD FATAL FURY CONTENT..... I rewatched the whole thing in an afternoon so it's pretty quick! The episodes are real short once you chop the OP/ED segments and previews off. It only covers KOF'94 with a bit of Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting stuff thrown in but the next season is supposed to be 95-96 maybe?? They showed Goenitz so I assume it's going to be at least through 96

thats short enough to mean i can force my other non fitan friends to watch it.

you've given me a terrible gift, and i thank you greatly for this.

also it only just hit me that jam isnt on the roster because jam is Always on the roster, i really dont know what the hell strive is doing with its list esp when iirc baiken is dlc And entirely changed style-wise. admittedly i am a simple idiot enby, i sees testament's changes and i 👀 reflexively, but i also have a very complicated history with mechanic changes in fighting games. i can't remember this how do combo with my brain because of the visual problem, its all just muscle memory, so i can only do the motions on the controller i learned them on. so i barely parse mechanical changes without Feeling them first ig?? this all sounds dumb but tbf its a very dumb problem. i am all gamefeel and gamefeel has become "wrist hurt" but this will always be my first genre of videogames...now im ancient and have like 12 rpgs going right now, all unfinished...

Heheheh it sure is................

YEAH she was in Rev (I think actually she was the first DLC char for vanilla Rev, Baiken was Rev2, right,) but while her gameplan wasn't TOO too changed in that game, in Strive? Psssshhhttttt even just the basic changes to the gatling system would change her SO much that she'd be a totally different character, imo. And I'm just... not really about it, it sort of kills the kind of gameplay I like (for reference, I also play Felicia in VS lol)

I was also very happy to see Testament back FINALLY!!! At last, learned that seclusion is not happiness.... And I'm also very excited to see what they did with them, but all the Tes players I know were really (unsure) about it because Anji also was changed like so much from his last iteration gameplan that I feel like there's this reaction for any returning characters, where it's like, that's nice but it's no longer the kind of character I like to play LOL. Most people have moved on to new characters by now, too.

And yeah that's why I've stopped playing at all seriously lately- I don't have the time/energy to lab anymore and I also can't netplay because I don't have a wired connection available, and I'm still leery about going to the arcade with covid.... It's a lot 😔

yeah i def have that issue wrt a lot of, i dont like to say it this bluntly but arcsys specifically. i know other games get tired sometimes having the movepool so static, but character attachment Means something and having to learn a playstyle you dont jive with because you've followed someone for years is hell itself and i am dyink.

granted i am also old enough to be mad by even very simple stuff like "jun is dead lmao" in tekken 3, after putting my entire soul and local circuit in to tekken tag. im better at tag games and losing my ~~first lesbian ship~~ lead in was the first time fighters ever broke my heart. i think thats around when i went to kof and eventually arcsys to soothe my soul, but the scene in upstate new york was very, lets say, dudebro. so i basically dropped from local circuits because of Bad Culture lmao. even in current times at the most pristine of covid-compliant arcades the scene up here is still trapped in 1999 socially and i do not have time to deal with children anymore. i'm tired. please. my ping isnt good enough for online...

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i'm havin a real one in this chilis tonight ~~ky is my brother's name~~

edit of an edit: edit: idiot boys the entry is live and his stupid ember is up too

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