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[X] A woman who despite her mask the three all partly recognised, if for very different reasons. (Fountain of Youth arc)
Fool Bloom (A Magical Woman Quest)
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- Original Fantasy Modern
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Since Koyomi gave her the go-ahead, she will once she gets the chance to, the moment she can publish it on a platform where it can gain traction.
Also @Edgedancer so how is Yumemi comparing to Azuma in sheer awfulness levels?
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Well, with the caveat that I've just come back sick from a work trip, so I'm not exactly in the head space for in-depth analysis, I'd say that Azuma is by far the more aweful person, but Yumemi is given more leverage by the story to act on her paticular brand of aweful.
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It's all in the cards
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[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
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[X] A woman who despite her mask the three all partly recognised, if for very different reasons. (Fountain of Youth arc)
oooh i smell backstory
oooh i smell backstory
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- He/They
Ha...ha...ha...YES!
In less shitposty terms, I can't wait to see the fallout of this. Hope we get to see other online reactions as well.
Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
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[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
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- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
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- She/Her
Also, grommile caught that the white streak in the transformed Koyomi's hair was a Polgara reference before, and now I have her actually talking with a bird.
In case anyone thinks it's weird that I opened things with Hayato only to suddenly swap to Reiji, that's because I was planning to use Reiji from the start, but didn't want Hayato to get too behind in screentime (er, pagetime)
In case anyone thinks it's weird that I opened things with Hayato only to suddenly swap to Reiji, that's because I was planning to use Reiji from the start, but didn't want Hayato to get too behind in screentime (er, pagetime)
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[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
To actually try and make an argument, this gives me the vibe of a Hanazakari who is... legitimately out of their gourd. As in, they think that they're actually from a Gernsback pulp sci-fi novel, and that they just need to go retrieve the vita-salts from the Forbidden Galaxy in order to start resurrecting people.
Alternatively, they're a fiction-themed Hanazakari, and they think they can Inkheart their way into making the Resurrection happen.
To actually try and make an argument, this gives me the vibe of a Hanazakari who is... legitimately out of their gourd. As in, they think that they're actually from a Gernsback pulp sci-fi novel, and that they just need to go retrieve the vita-salts from the Forbidden Galaxy in order to start resurrecting people.
Alternatively, they're a fiction-themed Hanazakari, and they think they can Inkheart their way into making the Resurrection happen.
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I had to think very hard since both sound fun, the Resurrection sounds very hopeful.
On the other hand I want to know what's under the mask.
[] A woman who despite her mask the three all partly recognised, if for very different reasons. (Fountain of Youth arc)
EDIT: and I changed my mind despite voting late because I wanted to make up my mind
[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
On the other hand I want to know what's under the mask.
[] A woman who despite her mask the three all partly recognised, if for very different reasons. (Fountain of Youth arc)
EDIT: and I changed my mind despite voting late because I wanted to make up my mind
[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
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You make a good point. I like a bit of genre bending, and a magical girl who looks like she walked out of a different kind of story falls into that camp.
I already voted for the space suit Hanazakari, though.
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[X] A woman dressed like an astronaut out of retro sci-fi than any respectable space program, looking like she was tracking something. (I Am the Resurrection arc)
"[Found you! Oh wait, ahem, you are not 'them'. My mistake, but anyway,]" a strange astronaut-looking woman from right out of a raygun gothic pulp magazine, her suit a reddish-pink and her hair in an orange bob with a black band, appeared before them and spoke.
"Er sorry, didn't catch that," Miyako had to say, barely recognising the language.
"Alas, more Hanazakari weirdness," Reiji slumped, "Credit to Arisugawa, I see our fair town may've gotten one of the normal ones."
Koyomi ignored what Reiji had said and told Miyako, "What she's saying sounds like Polish, but I can tell isn't, so at least a Slavic tongue, maybe Baltic. Her being an astronaut, or rather cosmonaut, makes me think Russia of all countries."
"[Ah, civilians. This is awkward,]" this woman said, before she muttered to herself, "[Okay, you work with JAXA all the time, you've got the language down.] Ah, hello Japanese. I Vasilisa Mirova from ISS. I looking for crashed ship in area," she at least tried.
Rolling her eyes at her, Koyomi went "Henshin," and transformed. "It's clear from your costume you're a Hanazakari, you don't exactly see Russian cosplayers or whatever randomly show up like this-"
"Hah, shows what you know," Miyako said, before she realised, "Wait, you're talking? Oh yeah, Hanazakari can psychically communicate with their own 'flower language' duh, how could I forget?" Wait, that swan from before. No, it couldn't be...
"Oh, of course they have. Yet I still can't hear anything," Reiji muttered, arms folded.
"Heh, it's far less reliable than it sounds," Koyomi said.
"You're a Hanazakari too?" Vasilisa said, then cleared her throat, "I suppose I ought to introduce myself a second time. Zinnia in Full Bloom."
"Black Rose, but Arisugawa will do. Those are Nozawa and Yuuki," she said and pointed to Miyako and Reiji. "Also, you arrive at the site of one of the biggest Hanazakari battles and don't expect to find any more of us visiting?"
"Ah, I am not so educated on Japanese history. Russia only brings up Hanazakari in Japan when we get involved. Petty yes, but it's the same with most countries," Vasilisa said.
"Wait, if you're with the ISS, wouldn't someone at JAXA have brought it up?" Koyomi asked, then gave Vasilisa a closer look and kept going, "And what's an astronaut doing in Sekigahara if she doesn't know about its history?"
"Wow, you must be real fun at parties," Vasilisa said, beginning to twitch a little. She suddenly looked all around before she spoke again, "I suppose you're already in too deep. Alright, for international transparency, I will say the ISS has tracked an unknown spaceship to here. I was the only Hanazakari aboard at the time, so naturally I was sent, and how could I refuse?" she then beamed, "Aliens! Ah, potentially at least. So much more exciting than space food."
It took a little while for Koyomi to take that in, after which she turned to the two non-Hanazakari and said, "Apparently we've got a UFO somewhere around here, so says the ISS."
"Aliens at Sekigahara?" Miyako then beamed, "Then it's gotta be more Dandelionhearts, I knew they couldn't all be gone. Oh wait," her giddiness quickly broke, "oh no, it could be more Frost Fair reserves, if that Blue Lotus has gone and contacted any still out there."
"Blue Lotus? Hold on, and the Frost Fair?" Reiji asked, with one eyebrow raised. "Am I being left out of the loop again?"
"Miyako," Koyomi's voice grew colder. "I thought a condition of bringing Reiji along was that you'd tell him, was it not?"
"Er, um, I'll do that right now!" Miyako said with a sheepish grin, then turned around and blurted out to Reiji, "Right, so RUNE had one last Frostfarer still alive at their base, but he escaped. Goes by Blue Lotus 'cause he thinks that funny," And tried to force Arisugawa-sama to kill me, "Okay, you're all caught up now."
'Y-you're saying the Frost Fair is back?" Reiji gasped, his jittering expression showing just what Miyako had feared would happen. "The same creatures who killed Tadashi, among many, many others."
"Ah, it's just the one for now," Miyako said, then gulped. "We hope."
As Koyomi filled her in, Vasilisa put a finger to her mouth and said, "I… guess I will believe it when I see it, no?" despite having already seen a spaceship out of nowhere. "But assuming this is true, then you are most cavalier about spilling your own nation's secrets, Arisugawa. Oh, not meaning to accuse, I am impressed really."
"Yeah well, if the Frost Fair's back, even just one of them, it should be the whole world's right to know," Koyomi said then smirked, "Likewise, I'll believe your unknown spaceship when I see it."
"The 'whole world's right'? Hmm, I am with ISS, so I can respect that. And you want proof, huh?" Vasilisa said as she took out a series of photos showing... what looked like a giant vase floating in space, with giant petal-like glyphs catching what were marked as solar winds. "Ah, don't tell anyone else on ISS I showed you these. Think we can rule out Frost Fair, not their sort of design at all."
"I'll keep that in mind the next time I randomly run into an ISS astronaut. And the Frost Fair are illusionists, remember? They probably couldn't have landed on Earth at all if they couldn't disguise their ships," Koyomi said but then remembered, "Assuming they didn't just use wormholes. Can't be Dandelionhearts either since they travelled through space on their own, well unless they needed a lift."
"Yes, but think," Vasilisa said as she tapped her head, "You are a Frostfarer. You want to disguise your ship. You would seriously think 'Yes, I'll make it look like a giant vase'?" With Koyomi having no real answer for that, Vasilisa then took her hand and said, "And if the photos from ISS don't convince you, then how about I show you it in person right now?"
Holding Koyomi close enough, Vasilisa generated a pulsing barrier close enough to cover the author. The cosmonaut then leapt several storeys into the air like gravity was nothing to her, with Koyomi gasping and floundering the second she looked down.
"Arisugawa-sama!" Miyako called out and up.
"I should've stayed home today," Reiji said.
"Ah Arisugawa, you remind me how not everyone can be an astronaut. Thank you, I feel most special right now," Vasilisa said, with Koyomi not able to tell if she was being sarcastic and not liking it either way. She then pointed to what looked exactly like the giant vase in her photos, roughly parked between two nearby cliffs, and went, "See? What did I tell you?"
Given that it was an unusually clear day for Sekigahara, Koyomi, the instant she could bring herself to look down again, glimpsed a tiny green figure amid the fields, hills, and ice spikes. "There, is that your alien?" she said, partly just to get this over with.
"Hmm, good a lead as any. Poyekhali!" Vasilisa proclaimed with a raised fist, as she leaped back down in the direction of the green dot.
As Vasilisa finally landed and Koyomi could see this figure up close, she was forced to concede that there was no way it couldn't be an alien. A 'bamboo dryad' might have been the simplest way to describe what it looked like, with stalks for limbs that ranged from unusually thin to heavy and hulking. It had leaves for its hair and 'clothes' and had flowers blooming where you'd think its eyes would be.
"Stay right where you are, alien!" Vasilisa said as she then unholstered no less than a raygun, possibly Cup-enchanted, and started blasting at the bamboo dryad. And then had zero luck hitting the thing, as the dryad alien shrieked out and dodged every one of the blasts at lightning speed, becoming a bamboo blur.
Even with Vasilisa increasingly incapable of hitting the alien, Koyomi still at the mere sight of a gun cast a dark shroud over her and grabbed the weapon out of her hands. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she snapped at the cosmonaut, "Haven't had the chance to fight an alien since the Frost Decade, so you jump at the first chance you get? Is that what this is?"
"Hey, I had it set on stun first off," Vasilisa said, "I was just gonna take it back to Russia, that's all. Oh wait, unless Japan's now calling first dibs on it, since it landed on your soil…" she realised.
"Listen to yourself, it's a living being. Unless it turns out to be a monster to lock up, nobody has 'dibs' on it," Koyomi snarled back at her, edging closer to her face. Of course, RUNE will never see it that way, she had to think.
With Vasilisa disarmed, the alien then jittered as they approached Koyomi and 'said' to her, "<Thank you, thank you. I had to worry what people on Earth would be like, I'm glad to see there's good people here, and our Dandelionhearts chose well,>" lights around them glimmering as it spoke, then did what looked like the alien version of a curtsy.
"'Good people'? Look, I just did what anyone in their right mind would do," Koyomi said, glaring at Vasilisa, before a phrase the alien had used jumped at her. "Wait, you said your Dandelionhearts? You don't mean you're-"
"Pathragadan?!" Vasilisa spoke before she could.
"Explains the thought-speak, both Dandelionhearts and Frost Fair spoke the same," Koyomi said.
"<I am Pathragadan as you say. Well, to be correct I am from the skies of the Pathragadan colony world Vestavand, but biologically yes. Of the Clan Madake,>" they said, "<Ah, so when I said 'our Dandelionhearts', I meant in the general sense, someone of my station held no command over them. I am not even a Named.>" That last sentence reminded Koyomi of how the Dandelionhearts didn't have names till their Hanazakari came up with them.
"Wait, then why did the Pathragadans even send you?" Vasilisa asked.
"<Er, I was not sent, I came.>" the alien said, then would've blushed if their physiology was at all human, "<I heard about all the planets the Dandelionhearts went to, so wanted to see them myself. I knew of Earth and that a battle called 'Shin Sekigahara' was fought there, so I set my coordinates for there.>"
"Huh, says something that even an alien knows about Sekigahara," Koyomi had to rub it in to Vasilisa.
"Arisugawa-sama!" Miyako then called as she came running up, a less energised Reiji in tow. "Wow, an anti-gravity Hanazakari, that must've been exciting," she wouldn't have said had she seen Koyomi's face up in the air, before she gasped on seeing the "Pathragadan, aren't they?" she swiftly intuited, "They're kinda like a Dandelionheart but bigger and not a Dandelionheart, so they've gotta be a Pathragadan."
"You're quicker on the uptake than I was," Koyomi conceded, before she gestured at the bamboo alien and said, "Yes, and they're- oh wait, they haven't been given a name. Which means this'll get awkward fast. Look, can we at least give you an Earth name while you're here?"
"<It'd be strange for me, but if it helps,>" the alien said.
"So, a plant alien crash-landed and we have to name it? If only this was just part of a script," Reiji sighed. "Well, Arisugawa and I have plenty of experience with character names, so this should be easy- oh who am I kidding? This'll take forever!"
"Hold on, shouldn't we ask their gender first? It's important not to give someone the wrong gender name," Miyako said, flinching a little at a memory.
"<My gender? Oh yes, I have two,>" the alien said. "<I was told most humans only have one gender, which was odd to hear.>"
"As is befitting plants," Koyomi said. "The Dandelionhearts told us the same."
"Wait, the Dandelionhearts were bigender? I-I had a hunch, but never knew, most reports just gendered them male or female," Miyako said. She then told the alien, "We've got bigender people on Earth too, I mostly know about them from online but still. And I used to think I was one gender but realised I was another."
"<I see. I may have thought of Earth too simplistically,>" the alien said. Meanwhile Vasilisa just nodded along to all this.
"Also, and I am sorry, but as long as you're here you can't just… walk around as you are," Koyomi had to tell them. "The Frost Fair could use illusions," can still use illusions, she thought with a chill, "can't Pathragadans do something similar?"
"<Yes, we can disguise ourselves by manipulating our photosynthesis,>" the alien said, "<I've only met four humans and a couple of Earth animals so far, but I'll do my best.>"
"[Found you! Oh wait, ahem, you are not 'them'. My mistake, but anyway,]" a strange astronaut-looking woman from right out of a raygun gothic pulp magazine, her suit a reddish-pink and her hair in an orange bob with a black band, appeared before them and spoke.
"Er sorry, didn't catch that," Miyako had to say, barely recognising the language.
"Alas, more Hanazakari weirdness," Reiji slumped, "Credit to Arisugawa, I see our fair town may've gotten one of the normal ones."
Koyomi ignored what Reiji had said and told Miyako, "What she's saying sounds like Polish, but I can tell isn't, so at least a Slavic tongue, maybe Baltic. Her being an astronaut, or rather cosmonaut, makes me think Russia of all countries."
"[Ah, civilians. This is awkward,]" this woman said, before she muttered to herself, "[Okay, you work with JAXA all the time, you've got the language down.] Ah, hello Japanese. I Vasilisa Mirova from ISS. I looking for crashed ship in area," she at least tried.
Rolling her eyes at her, Koyomi went "Henshin," and transformed. "It's clear from your costume you're a Hanazakari, you don't exactly see Russian cosplayers or whatever randomly show up like this-"
"Hah, shows what you know," Miyako said, before she realised, "Wait, you're talking? Oh yeah, Hanazakari can psychically communicate with their own 'flower language' duh, how could I forget?" Wait, that swan from before. No, it couldn't be...
"Oh, of course they have. Yet I still can't hear anything," Reiji muttered, arms folded.
"Heh, it's far less reliable than it sounds," Koyomi said.
"You're a Hanazakari too?" Vasilisa said, then cleared her throat, "I suppose I ought to introduce myself a second time. Zinnia in Full Bloom."
"Black Rose, but Arisugawa will do. Those are Nozawa and Yuuki," she said and pointed to Miyako and Reiji. "Also, you arrive at the site of one of the biggest Hanazakari battles and don't expect to find any more of us visiting?"
"Ah, I am not so educated on Japanese history. Russia only brings up Hanazakari in Japan when we get involved. Petty yes, but it's the same with most countries," Vasilisa said.
"Wait, if you're with the ISS, wouldn't someone at JAXA have brought it up?" Koyomi asked, then gave Vasilisa a closer look and kept going, "And what's an astronaut doing in Sekigahara if she doesn't know about its history?"
"Wow, you must be real fun at parties," Vasilisa said, beginning to twitch a little. She suddenly looked all around before she spoke again, "I suppose you're already in too deep. Alright, for international transparency, I will say the ISS has tracked an unknown spaceship to here. I was the only Hanazakari aboard at the time, so naturally I was sent, and how could I refuse?" she then beamed, "Aliens! Ah, potentially at least. So much more exciting than space food."
It took a little while for Koyomi to take that in, after which she turned to the two non-Hanazakari and said, "Apparently we've got a UFO somewhere around here, so says the ISS."
"Aliens at Sekigahara?" Miyako then beamed, "Then it's gotta be more Dandelionhearts, I knew they couldn't all be gone. Oh wait," her giddiness quickly broke, "oh no, it could be more Frost Fair reserves, if that Blue Lotus has gone and contacted any still out there."
"Blue Lotus? Hold on, and the Frost Fair?" Reiji asked, with one eyebrow raised. "Am I being left out of the loop again?"
"Miyako," Koyomi's voice grew colder. "I thought a condition of bringing Reiji along was that you'd tell him, was it not?"
"Er, um, I'll do that right now!" Miyako said with a sheepish grin, then turned around and blurted out to Reiji, "Right, so RUNE had one last Frostfarer still alive at their base, but he escaped. Goes by Blue Lotus 'cause he thinks that funny," And tried to force Arisugawa-sama to kill me, "Okay, you're all caught up now."
'Y-you're saying the Frost Fair is back?" Reiji gasped, his jittering expression showing just what Miyako had feared would happen. "The same creatures who killed Tadashi, among many, many others."
"Ah, it's just the one for now," Miyako said, then gulped. "We hope."
As Koyomi filled her in, Vasilisa put a finger to her mouth and said, "I… guess I will believe it when I see it, no?" despite having already seen a spaceship out of nowhere. "But assuming this is true, then you are most cavalier about spilling your own nation's secrets, Arisugawa. Oh, not meaning to accuse, I am impressed really."
"Yeah well, if the Frost Fair's back, even just one of them, it should be the whole world's right to know," Koyomi said then smirked, "Likewise, I'll believe your unknown spaceship when I see it."
"The 'whole world's right'? Hmm, I am with ISS, so I can respect that. And you want proof, huh?" Vasilisa said as she took out a series of photos showing... what looked like a giant vase floating in space, with giant petal-like glyphs catching what were marked as solar winds. "Ah, don't tell anyone else on ISS I showed you these. Think we can rule out Frost Fair, not their sort of design at all."
"I'll keep that in mind the next time I randomly run into an ISS astronaut. And the Frost Fair are illusionists, remember? They probably couldn't have landed on Earth at all if they couldn't disguise their ships," Koyomi said but then remembered, "Assuming they didn't just use wormholes. Can't be Dandelionhearts either since they travelled through space on their own, well unless they needed a lift."
"Yes, but think," Vasilisa said as she tapped her head, "You are a Frostfarer. You want to disguise your ship. You would seriously think 'Yes, I'll make it look like a giant vase'?" With Koyomi having no real answer for that, Vasilisa then took her hand and said, "And if the photos from ISS don't convince you, then how about I show you it in person right now?"
Holding Koyomi close enough, Vasilisa generated a pulsing barrier close enough to cover the author. The cosmonaut then leapt several storeys into the air like gravity was nothing to her, with Koyomi gasping and floundering the second she looked down.
"Arisugawa-sama!" Miyako called out and up.
"I should've stayed home today," Reiji said.
"Ah Arisugawa, you remind me how not everyone can be an astronaut. Thank you, I feel most special right now," Vasilisa said, with Koyomi not able to tell if she was being sarcastic and not liking it either way. She then pointed to what looked exactly like the giant vase in her photos, roughly parked between two nearby cliffs, and went, "See? What did I tell you?"
Given that it was an unusually clear day for Sekigahara, Koyomi, the instant she could bring herself to look down again, glimpsed a tiny green figure amid the fields, hills, and ice spikes. "There, is that your alien?" she said, partly just to get this over with.
"Hmm, good a lead as any. Poyekhali!" Vasilisa proclaimed with a raised fist, as she leaped back down in the direction of the green dot.
As Vasilisa finally landed and Koyomi could see this figure up close, she was forced to concede that there was no way it couldn't be an alien. A 'bamboo dryad' might have been the simplest way to describe what it looked like, with stalks for limbs that ranged from unusually thin to heavy and hulking. It had leaves for its hair and 'clothes' and had flowers blooming where you'd think its eyes would be.
"Stay right where you are, alien!" Vasilisa said as she then unholstered no less than a raygun, possibly Cup-enchanted, and started blasting at the bamboo dryad. And then had zero luck hitting the thing, as the dryad alien shrieked out and dodged every one of the blasts at lightning speed, becoming a bamboo blur.
Even with Vasilisa increasingly incapable of hitting the alien, Koyomi still at the mere sight of a gun cast a dark shroud over her and grabbed the weapon out of her hands. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she snapped at the cosmonaut, "Haven't had the chance to fight an alien since the Frost Decade, so you jump at the first chance you get? Is that what this is?"
"Hey, I had it set on stun first off," Vasilisa said, "I was just gonna take it back to Russia, that's all. Oh wait, unless Japan's now calling first dibs on it, since it landed on your soil…" she realised.
"Listen to yourself, it's a living being. Unless it turns out to be a monster to lock up, nobody has 'dibs' on it," Koyomi snarled back at her, edging closer to her face. Of course, RUNE will never see it that way, she had to think.
With Vasilisa disarmed, the alien then jittered as they approached Koyomi and 'said' to her, "<Thank you, thank you. I had to worry what people on Earth would be like, I'm glad to see there's good people here, and our Dandelionhearts chose well,>" lights around them glimmering as it spoke, then did what looked like the alien version of a curtsy.
"'Good people'? Look, I just did what anyone in their right mind would do," Koyomi said, glaring at Vasilisa, before a phrase the alien had used jumped at her. "Wait, you said your Dandelionhearts? You don't mean you're-"
"Pathragadan?!" Vasilisa spoke before she could.
"Explains the thought-speak, both Dandelionhearts and Frost Fair spoke the same," Koyomi said.
"<I am Pathragadan as you say. Well, to be correct I am from the skies of the Pathragadan colony world Vestavand, but biologically yes. Of the Clan Madake,>" they said, "<Ah, so when I said 'our Dandelionhearts', I meant in the general sense, someone of my station held no command over them. I am not even a Named.>" That last sentence reminded Koyomi of how the Dandelionhearts didn't have names till their Hanazakari came up with them.
"Wait, then why did the Pathragadans even send you?" Vasilisa asked.
"<Er, I was not sent, I came.>" the alien said, then would've blushed if their physiology was at all human, "<I heard about all the planets the Dandelionhearts went to, so wanted to see them myself. I knew of Earth and that a battle called 'Shin Sekigahara' was fought there, so I set my coordinates for there.>"
"Huh, says something that even an alien knows about Sekigahara," Koyomi had to rub it in to Vasilisa.
"Arisugawa-sama!" Miyako then called as she came running up, a less energised Reiji in tow. "Wow, an anti-gravity Hanazakari, that must've been exciting," she wouldn't have said had she seen Koyomi's face up in the air, before she gasped on seeing the "Pathragadan, aren't they?" she swiftly intuited, "They're kinda like a Dandelionheart but bigger and not a Dandelionheart, so they've gotta be a Pathragadan."
"You're quicker on the uptake than I was," Koyomi conceded, before she gestured at the bamboo alien and said, "Yes, and they're- oh wait, they haven't been given a name. Which means this'll get awkward fast. Look, can we at least give you an Earth name while you're here?"
"<It'd be strange for me, but if it helps,>" the alien said.
"So, a plant alien crash-landed and we have to name it? If only this was just part of a script," Reiji sighed. "Well, Arisugawa and I have plenty of experience with character names, so this should be easy- oh who am I kidding? This'll take forever!"
"Hold on, shouldn't we ask their gender first? It's important not to give someone the wrong gender name," Miyako said, flinching a little at a memory.
"<My gender? Oh yes, I have two,>" the alien said. "<I was told most humans only have one gender, which was odd to hear.>"
"As is befitting plants," Koyomi said. "The Dandelionhearts told us the same."
"Wait, the Dandelionhearts were bigender? I-I had a hunch, but never knew, most reports just gendered them male or female," Miyako said. She then told the alien, "We've got bigender people on Earth too, I mostly know about them from online but still. And I used to think I was one gender but realised I was another."
"<I see. I may have thought of Earth too simplistically,>" the alien said. Meanwhile Vasilisa just nodded along to all this.
Article: For the alien's Earth name, they went with:
[ ] Xochi.
[ ] Nanashi, 'nameless'.
[ ] Arashi, for the Kyoto grove.
[ ] Zhuzi.
[ ] Otani, for a samurai who'd famously perished here.
[ ] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[ ] Write-in
"Also, and I am sorry, but as long as you're here you can't just… walk around as you are," Koyomi had to tell them. "The Frost Fair could use illusions," can still use illusions, she thought with a chill, "can't Pathragadans do something similar?"
"<Yes, we can disguise ourselves by manipulating our photosynthesis,>" the alien said, "<I've only met four humans and a couple of Earth animals so far, but I'll do my best.>"
Article: They made themselves look:
[ ] Close to their alien form, just with more skin and evenly proportioned limbs.
[ ] Like the most ordinary Japanese person ever.
[ ] Like someone prim and proper, if with male attire on one side and female on the other.
[ ] Like a stringy green-haired slacker, given they weren't that esteemed a Pathragadan.
[ ] Like a red panda, but coloured green instead.
[ ] Like Koyomi, but with green hair. (Edgedancer write-in)
[ ] Write-in
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- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
[X] Xochi.
[X] Close to their alien form, just with more skin and evenly proportioned limbs.
...The ghosts of Yuri Gagarin and his fellows must be cradling their heads in their hands.
[X] Close to their alien form, just with more skin and evenly proportioned limbs.
...The ghosts of Yuri Gagarin and his fellows must be cradling their heads in their hands.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm happy that we chose what we chose, it would have been bad if Vasilisa was their first contact
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
Arisugawa! THIS YOUR ONE CHANCE!
[X] Close to their alien form, just with more skin and evenly proportioned limbs.
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
Arisugawa! THIS YOUR ONE CHANCE!
[X] Close to their alien form, just with more skin and evenly proportioned limbs.
I was afraid of spoilers, because it was very likely to influence my vote, but was this going to be related to the Fontana family, somehow?
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It actually wasn't, I confess I'd forgotten you'd used the name Fontana. Aging would've been a theme though (being one of this Quest's themes in general), and some seemingly similar powers would've been involved
- Location
- Germany
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
Leave it to Koyomi to go on a mini-rant about morality before reacting to the huge bomb that was just dropped. At least she's really starting to get her disapointed parent voice down for Miyako?
I'm not sure if imitating Koyomi is too on the nose, but if nothing else that way the pathragadan is going to know they managed an appearance that looks like a human. Likewise, Sfira because that's the name that most sounds like it was picked by Koyomi. I think she may have just gotten herself another stray to take care of. She's totally going to love that, right?
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
Leave it to Koyomi to go on a mini-rant about morality before reacting to the huge bomb that was just dropped. At least she's really starting to get her disapointed parent voice down for Miyako?
I'm not sure if imitating Koyomi is too on the nose, but if nothing else that way the pathragadan is going to know they managed an appearance that looks like a human. Likewise, Sfira because that's the name that most sounds like it was picked by Koyomi. I think she may have just gotten herself another stray to take care of. She's totally going to love that, right?
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
- Location
- The City of Lights
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Arashi, for the Kyoto grove.
I just like Ms. Kishu a lot…
[X] Like someone prim and proper, if with male attire on one side and female on the other.
[X] Like a red panda, but coloured green instead.
I just like Ms. Kishu a lot…
[X] Like someone prim and proper, if with male attire on one side and female on the other.
[X] Like a red panda, but coloured green instead.
Allegoriest
Entomology Enthusiast Extraordinaire
- Pronouns
- It/She
the male dress on one side female dress on the other is a classic, but cant pass up the chance for the dandelionheart adjacent alien to imprint on the women with a lot of dandelionheart baggage
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ma'am, you don't know the half of it.
Miyako. Please stop acting like an airheaded magical girl heroine. You don't have the magic to back it up.
More evidence that Hanazakari are basically magic cops.
Between the specific term and the <angle brackets>, I suspect our QM has read Animorphs.
If there are two or three alien species out there, why would you assume there couldn't be four or five hundred? Aside from conservation of detail, I mean.
[X] Arashi, for the Kyoto grove.
It was this or Sfira, and I like pseudonyms that sound like names.
[X] Like someone prim and proper, if with male attire on one side and female on the other.
[X] Like a stringy green-haired slacker, given they weren't that esteemed a Pathragadan.
The latter feels right, the former sounds like it would look cool.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
This could also be fun. And it means I could draw largely unwarranted comparisons between Sfirarashi and Indivia Bat, on the basis of being magical girl doppelgangers with greener color palettes.
- Location
- Between dreams and reality
On the subject of the most popular vote, @ArlequineLunaire what does Koyomi look like any way?
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Sfira, a Hebrew word singular for Sefirot.
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
"Who are you?"
"I'm you but green."
[X] Like Koyomi, but with green hair.
"Who are you?"
"I'm you but green."
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Thing about Vasilisa is that I went back and forth on her nationality quite a bit. She was originally American before I started thinking about Russia or China, given their proximity to Japan (not that there aren't a lot of US bases on Japanese soil). While I was tempted to go for China due to its similar myths about the moon as Japan (Chang'o was even referenced in the Apollo 11 landing), I went with Russia due to their own first in space travel and since when you think retro sci-fi, you're more likely to think Russia than China.
I've been wondering when Animorphs would get brought up ever since I had Blue Lotus initially <talk like this>. Voting to have them look like Koyomi would also increase the Animorphs parallels, since Ax's human morph is said to be a mashup of the Animorphs' appearances.
The description I gave of her way back when was 'Long and messy auburn hair, wears a tattered coat and trousers in a darker shade of green and other earthy tones, with quite a few patches. Expression is rather grouchy, with a couple of wrinkles given her age.' If you need more of a reference, an inspiration on her was the character Alice Lamb from the movie Summerland, down to the name 'Arisu'gawa even.
Alternatively, you could say she looks a little like CCS' Kaho Mizuki in a really bad mood and if she barely bothered to groom herself
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