[X] Proclaim your humanity!
Rosario and Joestar
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[JK] Reject your humanity!
[X] Proclaim your humanity!
[X] Proclaim your humanity!
Dark Lord Potato
Aspiring OverLord from Canada
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[X] Proclaim your humanity!
As explained better by others earlier, this option let's try and turn the hearts and minds of monsters against Kuyo, rather than just terrify them into submission by revealing ourselves as a descendant of the Vampire Killer.
...That said, I think outing ourselves as a JoJo would also lead to some interesting storylines, so I'm not against it. If Kuyo wants to out us, c'est la vie, as far as I'm concerned.
As explained better by others earlier, this option let's try and turn the hearts and minds of monsters against Kuyo, rather than just terrify them into submission by revealing ourselves as a descendant of the Vampire Killer.
...That said, I think outing ourselves as a JoJo would also lead to some interesting storylines, so I'm not against it. If Kuyo wants to out us, c'est la vie, as far as I'm concerned.
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[X] Proclaim your humanity!
Ars Poetica
ULTIMA RATIO NEMO OBLIGATUR
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- The Kingdom of Fiore
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[x] 『PROCLAIM YOUR HUMANITY, JOJO!』
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- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
[X]You ARE the Vampire Killer's legacy. Own it.
I think there's value in pointing out that the boogeyman has been among them for a semester and proceeded to...join the mechanics club and start dating that cute yuki-onna in the tights. Yeah, we've gotten in some tussles but in a school where joining the wrong club can turn you into a snack I don't think our record looks that bad. If we can live in relative peace, why not Tsukune?
I think there's value in pointing out that the boogeyman has been among them for a semester and proceeded to...join the mechanics club and start dating that cute yuki-onna in the tights. Yeah, we've gotten in some tussles but in a school where joining the wrong club can turn you into a snack I don't think our record looks that bad. If we can live in relative peace, why not Tsukune?
Update 171 - Season Finale and Joestar, part 2
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
Kuyo doesn't look even remotely surprised to see your group gathered here to oppose him. Given the way his goons have been running around lately, you have to admit you probably should've expected not to have the element of surprise.
"Trial my ass!" Yukari screeches. "If something like procedure or order really mattered to you, then you'd let someone speak for Tsukune's defense on his behalf, you sanctimonious hack!"
Kuyo offers no further expression than to raise an eyebrow. "Isn't that what you're doing right now?"
Yukari staggers back, as if she'd been physically slapped. "Damn him!" the Witchling mutters to herself. "I walked right into that logic!"
...well. Even if Yukari's incredibly knowledgeable, she's still a little kid. It isn't surprising that she'd get distracted by such a basic mind game.
A short, Chinese-looking SPC girl with a staff aggressively starts forward, until a snarling Kuyo throws an arm out in front of her. "NO! None of that!"
The girl all but craps herself at the psychotic look on his face, before he turns back to your group and smiles. "Mister Aono's friends have stepped forward to defend him in his time of need," he explains. "I will not have them denied their chance to speak!"
You think you've heard somewhere that the German language has a specific word for 'a face in need of a fist', and Kuyo fits such a description perfectly. However, the fact that the SPC Chairman hasn't made a move, and is in fact encouraging the lot of you to speak your mind, strikes you as... off, somehow. You're not sure yet of whether it's because he's hiding a fiendish master plan, or if it's because he's just that much of a psychotic-obsessive freak about whatever twisted notions of law and justice he aspires to.
Still, if he's outright giving you all this a platform, then you may as well take advantage of it. And for all that Kuyo may have spat some truth when he mentioned that little laundry list of human atrocities and tragedies, as far as Tsukune's concerned his logic has a colossal hole in it.
"If Tsukune ever had any intention of telling the human world about monsters and youkai still existing," you bluntly explain, "then he had the perfect opportunity to do it while classes were suspended during summer break."
Kurumu nods vigorously, sounding supremely confident as she realizes the same thing. "That's right! Not only that, but the bus to the human world comes around once a month, so Tsukune's had loads of chances to run back home and tell the world about monsters! Since World War III hasn't spontaneously erupted around us," she calls out with a smirk, "then it sounds like your charges against Tsukune are totally full of crap!"
"And for that matter," Moka adds, "so what if he were to try and expose the secret? No one would even believe him! I know from experience that if he told people Vampires or other monsters were real, they'd think he was just acting out for attention! And if he kept it up, they'd call him a weirdo or a freak and push him out to the fringes of society!"
As you hear the pain in Moka's voice, it's clear that those experiences from back then still bother her; that those wounds have still not fully healed. And yet, you never would have imagined that Moka would ever come out and share that part of her history publicly. To see her call up such painful memories and derive strength from them, using that sadness and loneliness to try and protect someone dear to her...
Right now, at this moment, you're so incredibly fucking proud to call Moka Akashiya your friend.
But doesn't the depth of her devotion remind you a little of your mother, somehow?
Kuyo closes his eyes in thought, and merely nods. "You're right, of course, in that Mister Aono has had more than one opportunity to reveal the secret. However," he continues, "you are wrong in your assertion that no one would take such claims seriously. At this very moment, I can promise you that there are at least a few human organizations dedicated to the collective destruction of monsterkind, and if they knew someone like Tsukune Aono had information that would aid in their endeavor, would stop at nothing to obtain it. Neither bribery nor torture are too low for such people."
When Kuyo leans against the stage and casually props himself up on it, the sheer casualness of his action pisses you off at least as much as what he says next. "I think we can all agree that Mister Aono is a fairly average human specimen," he says while nodding to himself, "without much in the way of exceptional qualities. As rude as that may sound to say aloud, it actually makes him a reasonably decent benchmark against which to judge the rest of humanity. Even if he might have chosen to hold his tongue so far, what assurance can you give the court that he won't change his mind someday? He might live another seven or eight decades, after all, and any number of things could happen that could prompt a change of heart. Maybe he becomes a politician, and these anti-monster organizations approach him."
The bastard has the audacity to laugh, now. "Hell, for all any of us know Mister Aono may be in such a position of importance one day that he does choose to reveal the existence of monsters to the world, with help from one or more of his lovers in attendance here today, out of a genuine belief that humans and monsters can live together in harmony if given the chance."
All of a sudden, his cheer completely cuts out at once, and his following scowl is so abrupt and of such sharp contrast that it nearly gives you whiplash. "And then tragically, Mister Aono's misplaced good intentions and innocent naivete doom the entire world to a future of nuclear hellfire."
The air around him starts getting hazy, and the SPC members around him are visibly starting to sweat; some are even trying to inch away from him without being noticed. It would seem that whatever kind of monster Kuyo may be, he's got heat-related powers. ...unless it's a Stand effect, in which case any kind of speculation is meaningless at this point.
"And so I ask again," he booms out, voice significantly louder than before, "what assurance can you give the court that Tsukune Aono will remain quiet with regard to the matter of our secret society? What argument do you have that would justify my neglecting to ensure his silence permanently?!"
Good fucking grief... on one hand, you can sort of understand his concerns in a broad sense of 'nuclear war is bad, and nobody in their right mind wants it'. But on the other, this son of a bitch takes his what-ifs way too god damn far!
You can see Mizore up in a tree behind the stage, making her way toward Tsukune as per the plan. If this breaks out into a fight like you expect, she'll drop down from out of nowhere, cut the ropes binding Tsukune, and get him to safety in the confusion. You're just starting to worry, now, that if Kuyo has heat or fire powers, he could seriously fuck up your girl with no more effort than a snap of the finger.
.....Tsukune's life is in danger, the kid's so terrified of the batshit psycho running this operation that he can't bring himself to speak. After seeing Moka bear part of her soul just a few minutes ago, you don't think you could keep thinking of yourself as a man if you did any less. And if you could further divert any more attention away from Mizore and her objective, then so much the better. "And what assurance do you have," you growl with such force that it borders on a shout, "that I won't do exactly what you're talking about?! If you're picking a fight with humans over the future, then you'd better not overlook me, you smug bastard!"
If Kuyo is even remotely surprised, then he's got a hell of a poker face, since he isn't expressing it at all. "Actually," he says with his pleasant tone from before, "you don't concern me at all. While it is troubling that you've put several students and even faculty in Intensive Care for no greater stated purpose than because they pissed you off, my investigations have revealed that you've never once instigated such an incident; indeed, you've only ever unleashed your peculiarly ruthless and vicious brand of brutality in retaliation against prior wrongdoing to yourself or others."
He then chuckles. "By monster standards, I daresay you're something close to a model student."
You're not sure you've ever wanted to slap the taste out of someone's mouth quite so much as you do now. Still, there's something really odd about the way he just ignored what you said. Even Kurumu is picking up on that, and though she and Moka are gauging the crowd reactions, ultimately it's Yukari who picks up on your intention first. "What are you, deaf or something?! Jojo-senpai just proclaimed for everyone to hear that he's a human, and yet despite what you've done to poor Tsukune, you don't even give a damn?!"
"That about sums it up," Kuyo says while straightening up. "After all, I understand his family has been intertwined with the supernatural for a good three or four generations; if his bloodline were going to out our secret, they likely would have done it already."
He smirks, then, and this time it actually looks honest, like he's genuinely happy. "After all," he calls out while grinning from ear to ear, "it's in your direct self-interest to remain silent! If human governments or anti-monster organizations became aware that you're a trained Sendo practitioner, it's all but certain that they'd have you vivisected in order to gain those secrets for themselves! They'd target your family to get to you if need be, and I'm sure you want to protect them, right?!"
You really, desperately want to punch this asshole in the face, and at this point you almost assume he's pissing you off deliberately. Either he's a master of mind games, or he's just flat-out fucking insane.
"And that's not even to mention the Snow Woman you're dating!"
Your blood freezes solid, and you can see Mizore stiffen in place, mere inches from cutting Tsukune free.
"If you really care about her," Kuyo continues on seemingly obliviously, "then it's yet another reason to protect our little masquerade! And if she ever has even the slightest belief that you'd betray or abandon her, then the neighbors will call the police to report a tragic murder-suicide! The problem solves itself either way, so there's no fathomable reason I should even begin to consider you a threat to our planet's survival!"
You've seen a lot of expressions on Mizore's face before, some of which have been deeply unsettling. Especially disturbing are those occasions when she realizes you're looking, and immediately catches herself and tries to mask whatever she was thinking a moment before.
But you've never, in the whole time you've known her, seen her look as murderously enraged as she does at this very moment -- and the fact she's staring a hole through Kuyo instead of you is the only reason you aren't completely and utterly terrified.
The rest of the students, and even a lot of the SPC, also look freaked the fuck out by Kuyo's rhetoric and behavior. The last thing this giant powder keg needs right now is a spark to ignite it.
(pick ONE)
[]Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[]There's no way to keep from turning into a riot, unfortunately. The best thing you can do is wait for an opportunity to strike, try to end this clusterfuck as quickly as possible.
(pick ONE)
When things inevitably go pear-shaped, what is your TOP priority?
[]Take out Kuyo.
[]Obliterate the SPC.
[]Protect the students.
[]Save Tsukune.
"Trial my ass!" Yukari screeches. "If something like procedure or order really mattered to you, then you'd let someone speak for Tsukune's defense on his behalf, you sanctimonious hack!"
Kuyo offers no further expression than to raise an eyebrow. "Isn't that what you're doing right now?"
Yukari staggers back, as if she'd been physically slapped. "Damn him!" the Witchling mutters to herself. "I walked right into that logic!"
...well. Even if Yukari's incredibly knowledgeable, she's still a little kid. It isn't surprising that she'd get distracted by such a basic mind game.
A short, Chinese-looking SPC girl with a staff aggressively starts forward, until a snarling Kuyo throws an arm out in front of her. "NO! None of that!"
The girl all but craps herself at the psychotic look on his face, before he turns back to your group and smiles. "Mister Aono's friends have stepped forward to defend him in his time of need," he explains. "I will not have them denied their chance to speak!"
You think you've heard somewhere that the German language has a specific word for 'a face in need of a fist', and Kuyo fits such a description perfectly. However, the fact that the SPC Chairman hasn't made a move, and is in fact encouraging the lot of you to speak your mind, strikes you as... off, somehow. You're not sure yet of whether it's because he's hiding a fiendish master plan, or if it's because he's just that much of a psychotic-obsessive freak about whatever twisted notions of law and justice he aspires to.
Still, if he's outright giving you all this a platform, then you may as well take advantage of it. And for all that Kuyo may have spat some truth when he mentioned that little laundry list of human atrocities and tragedies, as far as Tsukune's concerned his logic has a colossal hole in it.
"If Tsukune ever had any intention of telling the human world about monsters and youkai still existing," you bluntly explain, "then he had the perfect opportunity to do it while classes were suspended during summer break."
Kurumu nods vigorously, sounding supremely confident as she realizes the same thing. "That's right! Not only that, but the bus to the human world comes around once a month, so Tsukune's had loads of chances to run back home and tell the world about monsters! Since World War III hasn't spontaneously erupted around us," she calls out with a smirk, "then it sounds like your charges against Tsukune are totally full of crap!"
"And for that matter," Moka adds, "so what if he were to try and expose the secret? No one would even believe him! I know from experience that if he told people Vampires or other monsters were real, they'd think he was just acting out for attention! And if he kept it up, they'd call him a weirdo or a freak and push him out to the fringes of society!"
As you hear the pain in Moka's voice, it's clear that those experiences from back then still bother her; that those wounds have still not fully healed. And yet, you never would have imagined that Moka would ever come out and share that part of her history publicly. To see her call up such painful memories and derive strength from them, using that sadness and loneliness to try and protect someone dear to her...
Right now, at this moment, you're so incredibly fucking proud to call Moka Akashiya your friend.
But doesn't the depth of her devotion remind you a little of your mother, somehow?
Kuyo closes his eyes in thought, and merely nods. "You're right, of course, in that Mister Aono has had more than one opportunity to reveal the secret. However," he continues, "you are wrong in your assertion that no one would take such claims seriously. At this very moment, I can promise you that there are at least a few human organizations dedicated to the collective destruction of monsterkind, and if they knew someone like Tsukune Aono had information that would aid in their endeavor, would stop at nothing to obtain it. Neither bribery nor torture are too low for such people."
When Kuyo leans against the stage and casually props himself up on it, the sheer casualness of his action pisses you off at least as much as what he says next. "I think we can all agree that Mister Aono is a fairly average human specimen," he says while nodding to himself, "without much in the way of exceptional qualities. As rude as that may sound to say aloud, it actually makes him a reasonably decent benchmark against which to judge the rest of humanity. Even if he might have chosen to hold his tongue so far, what assurance can you give the court that he won't change his mind someday? He might live another seven or eight decades, after all, and any number of things could happen that could prompt a change of heart. Maybe he becomes a politician, and these anti-monster organizations approach him."
The bastard has the audacity to laugh, now. "Hell, for all any of us know Mister Aono may be in such a position of importance one day that he does choose to reveal the existence of monsters to the world, with help from one or more of his lovers in attendance here today, out of a genuine belief that humans and monsters can live together in harmony if given the chance."
All of a sudden, his cheer completely cuts out at once, and his following scowl is so abrupt and of such sharp contrast that it nearly gives you whiplash. "And then tragically, Mister Aono's misplaced good intentions and innocent naivete doom the entire world to a future of nuclear hellfire."
The air around him starts getting hazy, and the SPC members around him are visibly starting to sweat; some are even trying to inch away from him without being noticed. It would seem that whatever kind of monster Kuyo may be, he's got heat-related powers. ...unless it's a Stand effect, in which case any kind of speculation is meaningless at this point.
"And so I ask again," he booms out, voice significantly louder than before, "what assurance can you give the court that Tsukune Aono will remain quiet with regard to the matter of our secret society? What argument do you have that would justify my neglecting to ensure his silence permanently?!"
Good fucking grief... on one hand, you can sort of understand his concerns in a broad sense of 'nuclear war is bad, and nobody in their right mind wants it'. But on the other, this son of a bitch takes his what-ifs way too god damn far!
You can see Mizore up in a tree behind the stage, making her way toward Tsukune as per the plan. If this breaks out into a fight like you expect, she'll drop down from out of nowhere, cut the ropes binding Tsukune, and get him to safety in the confusion. You're just starting to worry, now, that if Kuyo has heat or fire powers, he could seriously fuck up your girl with no more effort than a snap of the finger.
.....Tsukune's life is in danger, the kid's so terrified of the batshit psycho running this operation that he can't bring himself to speak. After seeing Moka bear part of her soul just a few minutes ago, you don't think you could keep thinking of yourself as a man if you did any less. And if you could further divert any more attention away from Mizore and her objective, then so much the better. "And what assurance do you have," you growl with such force that it borders on a shout, "that I won't do exactly what you're talking about?! If you're picking a fight with humans over the future, then you'd better not overlook me, you smug bastard!"
If Kuyo is even remotely surprised, then he's got a hell of a poker face, since he isn't expressing it at all. "Actually," he says with his pleasant tone from before, "you don't concern me at all. While it is troubling that you've put several students and even faculty in Intensive Care for no greater stated purpose than because they pissed you off, my investigations have revealed that you've never once instigated such an incident; indeed, you've only ever unleashed your peculiarly ruthless and vicious brand of brutality in retaliation against prior wrongdoing to yourself or others."
He then chuckles. "By monster standards, I daresay you're something close to a model student."
You're not sure you've ever wanted to slap the taste out of someone's mouth quite so much as you do now. Still, there's something really odd about the way he just ignored what you said. Even Kurumu is picking up on that, and though she and Moka are gauging the crowd reactions, ultimately it's Yukari who picks up on your intention first. "What are you, deaf or something?! Jojo-senpai just proclaimed for everyone to hear that he's a human, and yet despite what you've done to poor Tsukune, you don't even give a damn?!"
"That about sums it up," Kuyo says while straightening up. "After all, I understand his family has been intertwined with the supernatural for a good three or four generations; if his bloodline were going to out our secret, they likely would have done it already."
He smirks, then, and this time it actually looks honest, like he's genuinely happy. "After all," he calls out while grinning from ear to ear, "it's in your direct self-interest to remain silent! If human governments or anti-monster organizations became aware that you're a trained Sendo practitioner, it's all but certain that they'd have you vivisected in order to gain those secrets for themselves! They'd target your family to get to you if need be, and I'm sure you want to protect them, right?!"
You really, desperately want to punch this asshole in the face, and at this point you almost assume he's pissing you off deliberately. Either he's a master of mind games, or he's just flat-out fucking insane.
"And that's not even to mention the Snow Woman you're dating!"
Your blood freezes solid, and you can see Mizore stiffen in place, mere inches from cutting Tsukune free.
"If you really care about her," Kuyo continues on seemingly obliviously, "then it's yet another reason to protect our little masquerade! And if she ever has even the slightest belief that you'd betray or abandon her, then the neighbors will call the police to report a tragic murder-suicide! The problem solves itself either way, so there's no fathomable reason I should even begin to consider you a threat to our planet's survival!"
You've seen a lot of expressions on Mizore's face before, some of which have been deeply unsettling. Especially disturbing are those occasions when she realizes you're looking, and immediately catches herself and tries to mask whatever she was thinking a moment before.
But you've never, in the whole time you've known her, seen her look as murderously enraged as she does at this very moment -- and the fact she's staring a hole through Kuyo instead of you is the only reason you aren't completely and utterly terrified.
The rest of the students, and even a lot of the SPC, also look freaked the fuck out by Kuyo's rhetoric and behavior. The last thing this giant powder keg needs right now is a spark to ignite it.
(pick ONE)
[]Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[]There's no way to keep from turning into a riot, unfortunately. The best thing you can do is wait for an opportunity to strike, try to end this clusterfuck as quickly as possible.
(pick ONE)
When things inevitably go pear-shaped, what is your TOP priority?
[]Take out Kuyo.
[]Obliterate the SPC.
[]Protect the students.
[]Save Tsukune.
- Location
- in between
.....Well, if people haven't realised we're a Joestar yet, they will in about five minutes.
- Location
- in between
[X]Save Tsukune.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
Yikes. Kuyo is relying on the strength of the argument that 'beat' him holding strong in the public eye. But he's underestimated how much of his rep is now relying on threat of force. A human student with supernatural powers that can put even faculty in a hospital is gasoline to a flame that the anti-human students represent. That a monster is all but openly declaring 'I will kill to save said super-human human because I love him' is a bomb-load of napalm because things can still be more on fire.
Not in Person
Once Known as The Nobody
- Location
- A place
Well, it definitely wasn't a boring update. I'm starting to wonder if that singular argument that could have convinced Kuyo wasn't "I'mma JoJo your guts out if you don't".
[X] Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[X] Save Tsukune.
[X] Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[X] Save Tsukune.
tertius
drunken shitposter extraordinaire
I'm getting Big Human on Campus vibes, and I love it.
Can't they use that exact same argument with Tsukune & Moka? Well, except the murder part of course.
although it's not like Tsukune would survive for long if one particular sister got it into her head that he broke her heart, but the cast except for Moka don't know that.
- Location
- USA
[X] Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[X] Save Tsukune.
[X] Save Tsukune.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
- Location
- Israel
[X] Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[X] Save Tsukune.
This seems like the best option to pick in my opinion. If it backfires... well I don't want to jinx it. I believe making asshole here start the violence is the right course of action, and this time we can rely on [Star Platinum] to react in time to save our ass from his fire.
Also, Jotaro with [Star Platinum: The World] vs Aqua, both have prior knowledge of the other's abilities. Who wins Eva?
[X] Save Tsukune.
This seems like the best option to pick in my opinion. If it backfires... well I don't want to jinx it. I believe making asshole here start the violence is the right course of action, and this time we can rely on [Star Platinum] to react in time to save our ass from his fire.
Also, Jotaro with [Star Platinum: The World] vs Aqua, both have prior knowledge of the other's abilities. Who wins Eva?
Dark Lord Potato
Aspiring OverLord from Canada
- Location
- Ottawa, Ontario
[X] Silently urge Mizore to keep her cool. If Kuyo wants violence, make him be the one to start it.
[X]Take out Kuyo.
Taking out Kuyo seems, at least to me, like the best way to protect the other students, including Tsukune.
[X]Take out Kuyo.
Taking out Kuyo seems, at least to me, like the best way to protect the other students, including Tsukune.
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- Missouri
Hm, it smells like fried chicken in here for some reason