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STATION 72 - PERMISSIONS & SUCH.

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:42:40 GMT

BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Asellus

Canon: SaGa Frontier

Age: Physically appears to be in her late teens, early twenties, actually in her 80s or 90s-- she's lost track.

Bio: Asellus is high-energy, generally friendly, and kind of a troublemaker; she doesn't really seem to have a sense of self-preservation and will actively fight to her own detriment to protect the people she cares about or people she considers weak. She is honest, sometimes to a fault, and due both to her personality and also her bloodline, she is charming as all get-out and generally a good negotiator, when she bothers to try. She's not super intelligent-- not prone to book smarts, anyway, as she never finished high school and generally is resistant to Ildon's repeated attempts to get her to settle down and study. But she loves to be hands-on, loves to work with people, and has a very good sense of what will please someone. She's also a bit of an outdoorswoman, and while she's trying to learn diplomacy, she hasn't got much tolerance for the bullshit and social jockeying that comes with it. She has a lot of rough edges and needs a firm but gentle hand to smooth them out.

Check out her application for more, since I will otherwise become far too wordy.

SYMBIOTE INFORMATION

[RHO] - [Pheromone Manipulation]

The ability to control the expression of her own pheromones to invite positive reaction from strangers. In this form, it is more like a bolster to friendly overtones or flirtations, a very pale reflection of her already-limited ability in her own world. It won't work on anyone who is openly hostile, though it might effect people who are not specifically guarded against it and who are on the fence about her. She cannot use it for specific requests; those are dependent upon her own ability to talk someone into something.

BROOD: [SARGAS]
- Richard Gecko
- Juno Steel
- Darlene
- Luv
- November 11

BROOD PERMISSIONS
Asellus is basically a half-human vuvuzuela of feelings-- she is always broadcasting whatever's in the forefront of her mind, whether she likes it or not, and is often overwhelmingly curious and bright, with strong undertones of 'overcompensation'. If she's come across while she's being left to her own devices, she is also often a little melancholy or unsure of herself. Her insecurity is almost tangible. She's more comfortable with her brood and will actively try not to really hide any negative emotions, since she knows she can trust them.

NEST PERMISSIONS
See above. Asellus will eventually learn to control her own thoughts and exercise some form of self-censorship, but in the meantime, she mostly tries to drown out unhappy/personal thoughts with curiosity and self-distraction. She will try her best to dodge questions if any come up about the more personal feelings she has, though she will try not to lie.

MENTAL LINK
The panic of a lost child. The scent of blood and roses. A twisted castle in eternal twilight. A labyrinth of doors. Purple, purple, purple. A white rose and a black wing. A school campus. The wind in your hair and the click-click-click of a bicycle's wheels. Rearing horses. The crawling feeling of a cold hand on your neck. The sense of snuggling into someone warm and soft and rose-scented. A sword in your hand. The thrum and pull of a soul being pulled into you and the strength gained from it, tempered with the shame of harming someone else to do so.

PERMISSIONS

Physical Affection: All good, though she'll probably be weird about it if there's not a present relationship that includes it.
Physical Violence: Only if you are willing to expect her to fight back.
Romance/Relationships: Given appropriate CR, yes.
Thread-jacking: Sure.
Back-tagging: Always.
Fourth-walling: Mmm, no thanks.
Offensive Subjects/Triggers: None.
Anything Else? I can't think of anything. I'll update as things come up.

[SUU] • CONTACT @ PLURK

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STATION 72 - MENTAL LINK

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:22:49 GMT

FREEDOM I don't have to become like him.	CURIOSITY It's a real good thing I'm not a cat.
HOME There's no heart in it for me.	BLOOD Neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.

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Application for Station 72

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:02:58 GMT

PLAYER INFO
Name: Suu
Contact: letspositivethinking @ plurk
Are you over 18?: yep.

CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Asellus
Canon: SaGa Frontier
Canon Point: Post half-mystic ending

Appearance: Asellus has the general frame of a pretty skinny 17 year old girl, with a slightly unruly mop of green hair (natural, sort of) and bright reddish-violet eyes that are generally flashing with what she would call wit and charm and most other people who've had to deal with her would call "trouble". She stands at a respectable five-foot-two, well toned from years of sword practice and a metabolism that hasn't aged a day past 17, and tends toward nervous energy. She is categorically incapable of hiding her opinions from showing up on her face, unless she is actively trying, in which case she's... still not great at it. Here are some references, all by Kouya on Pixiv (my personal favorite artist for SaGa Frontier).
Age: As of the end of the half-Mystic ending, probably in her 90s? She was 16-17 when she was hit by a carriage and received the Mystic blood transplant, then she was in a coma for 12 years... and the ending takes place while she visits a friend in her old age, so that's probably another 60 or 70 years... This game is not great with dates.

Setting: Asellus' world is a series of Realms, all of which have different aspects and looks, and very different imports and exports. The one she was born in is your standard mid-90s Earth, very suburban, but she spends most of her time in Facinaturu, which is generally regarded as a legend by most folks. It's a giant rose castle-- not just decorated by roses, but literally inside a giant rosebush. The town at the foot of the Chateau Aiguille (Castle of Needles, very apt though I suspect the Japanese designers thought they could use it as 'thorns' since that's the name of the music track that plays there) is called Rootville, and is populated mainly by artisans and Mystics of too low rank to live within the castle. Mystic society can probably be related pretty well to the fae courts of most mythology and also kind of vampires-- bloodline and social rank are highly valued, and humans and lesser beings are mostly regarded as pets-- or prey. Asellus' story is a story of a girl on the run, but the locations she goes to other than the two listed above are... really not of much regard to the storyline.

History: Asellus was born in Shrike, and lived with and worked for her aunt at the bookstore there. She did deliveries and errands, which is exactly where she was when she was hit by a carriage driven by the Mystic Charm Lord Orlouge, searching for his escaped first concubine. Whether he's just a creepy dude (hint: he totally is) or he feels bad about hitting her (hint: probably not), he's drawn to Asellus' near-dead body, and decides to give her some of his blood. Her red blood mixes with Mystic blue blood and she is left with purple blood, in a coma. He takes her back to Facinaturu, where she sleeps for twelve years.

When she wakes up, it's with PTSD flashbacks and no small amount of confusion; her hair has turned green and her clothing is a wreck. She goes looking for answers but gets distracted in a garden of white roses. So distracted, in fact, that she is stabbed through the back by one of Orlouge's knights, Ciato (the Bat Knight). Her blood stains the flowers purple and Orlouge looks on, intrigued.

She wakes up from THAT pretty shortly after and continues, finding herself before Orlouge's throne, where he mocks her filthy appearance (that was 100% his fault) and assigns two of his followers to her care: Ildon (the Black Wing Knight), to ensure she knows how to fight and that she is made to look like a proper heir by taking her to the tailor in Rootville, whose seamstress has dreamt of meeting this new Mystic Prince, and his 46th concubine, Princess White Rose, to teach her basic manners. What he doesn't anticipate is White Rose's tender heart and Asellus' determination-- she recieves a tip about a way out of the realm and begs White Rose for money to escape.

Instead, White Rose decides that as she was assigned to take care of Asellus, she will have to follow her out. They escape and are chased around various Realms by Orlouge's henchmen. Eventually, they are caught in a trap and White Rose is banished to a Dark Labyrinth, where she sacrifices herself to free Asellus, in hopes that Orlouge will give up and let her live freely. Ildon joins Asellus soon after, telling her that there is talk of revolution and a lot of hopes are pinned on this rogue heir to Orlouge's power.

Asellus doesn't particularly care about that-- she wants to free White Rose, her only true friend, and if she has to take down Orlouge to do it, she figures that is just fine. She returns to Facinaturu to find that Gina, the seamstress who she first met in Rootville and the only person who seemed to understand her confusion and who tried to comfort her before she met White Rose, has gone missing. She fights her way up through the tower of the Chateau Aiguille, finding Gina transformed into a Griffin and freeing her.

Further galvanized, she continues up the tower, fighting her way through warrior concubines, the Bat Knight, and (when it is discovered that he trapped Gina as a way to try to trick her into fighting Orlouge if she was on the fence at all) Ildon's lover, Rastaban (the Pluto Knight). Determined to defy Orlouge's expectation of her becoming his heir, she defeats him and he is (according to the side book, since all this stuff was cut from the game proper due to budget cuts and Final Fantasy VIII's impending release) taken away by the InterRealm Police Offices (IRPO). She ends the game as a half-mystic-- rejected by most humans, and struggling to keep the various Mystic factions of Facinaturu under control. Immortal, she maintains her friendship with Gina, visiting the seamstress in her old age.

This is where I'm taking her from.

Personality: Asellus is high-energy, generally friendly, and kind of a troublemaker; she doesn't really seem to have a sense of self-preservation and will actively fight to protect the people she cares about or people she considers weak. She is honest, sometimes to a fault, and due both to her personality and also Orlouge's blood, she is charming as all get-out and generally a good negotiator, when she bothers to try. She's not super intelligent-- not prone to book smarts, anyway, as she never finished high school and generally is resistant to Ildon's repeated attempts to get her to settle down and study. But she loves to be hands-on, loves to work with people, and has a very good sense of what will please someone. She's also a bit of an outdoorswoman, and while she's trying to learn diplomacy, she hasn't got much tolerance for the bullshit and social jockeying that comes with it. She has a lot of rough edges and needs a firm but gentle hand to smooth them out.

Canon Abilities/Skills:
a) She's a better-than-most swordswoman, capable with her sword, Asura.
b) She has a supernatural feeling of Charm coming from her due to her blood-- she attracts people, both platonically and otherwise, and generally has a sense of otherworldliness to her. She's not the biggest fan of that, but is learning to work with it instead of fight it. It doesn't seem to effect people who aren't in close proximity to her, probably due to her untrained skill with it and her lack of real resolve to use it. She can't really control the power of it in that close proximity, though-- if she could, she'd likely never use it if it could be avoided... though it does allow her the forgiveness of her friends when she plays pranks, so maybe only then.

ON STATION 72
Symbiote Specialization: Rho.
Symbiote Ability: Pheromone Manipulation

BASIC: The ability to control the expression of her own pheromones to invite positive reaction from strangers. In this form, it is more like a bolster to friendly overtones or flirtations, a very pale reflection of her already-limited ability in her own world. It won't work on anyone who is openly hostile, though it might effect people who are not specifically guarded against it and who are on the fence about her. She cannot use it for specific requests; those are dependent upon her own ability to talk someone into something.

Drawbacks: Mild mental fatigue after usage, expressing as confusion or distractability, or a sense of 'fogginess'. If used past that point within a few hours, or if the usage is particularly intense, painful headaches and loss of ability follow, along with more intense mental fatigue.

INTERMEDIATE: In addition to the above basic level, ability is bolstered to be able to change hostile targets to more ambivalent targets, and basic requests-- with very broad concepts, nothing too specific-- can be focused on. So she might be able to get directions or a guide from a target who is not openly hostile, but would not be able to request things like opening locked doors.

Drawbacks: More intense mental fatigue after usage, as well as possible vertigo or nausea after usage. Loss of ability usage may follow if pushed too far, and she may need a day to recover after.

ADVANCED: Ability is further bolstered to be able to sway actively hostile targets to her cause, maintainable for no more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time. During this time, she can make requests for very specific things like opening locked doors or vouching for Asellus and a small group of companions.

Drawbacks: Very intense mental fatigue after usage, almost inevitable vertigo and/or nausea. If used at this level twice in a day, she will be out of commission within an hour of the second usage and need to rest for at least a day.

Inventory: Asura (a red-bladed rapier-style sword), the clothes on her back, a Harmonium Earring (in-game it just blocks sonic-related attacks but honestly it's just pretty to her and doesn't have a strong effect).

SAMPLES
Samples: A test drive meme post (ongoing)

Rescue Write-up:
Of all the things Asellus expected to happen as she returned from yet another etiquette lesson with Ildon and prepared for a much more appealing physical training session, she hadn't expected that as she chewed on a chunk of sweetbread and tightened Asura's sheathe around her waist, that the stained-glass door to her balcony would shatter, sending a rainbow of razor-sharp shards of glass into her, slicing thin violet lines into her bare legs and forearms and slicing her cheek open, sending a line of blood down the line of her throat to sink into the lace at her collar.

"Who are you!?" Her voice was high and sharp with alarm as she ran through her mental list of who would be sufficiently provoked to actually attack the Chateau Aiguille, to actually make an attempt on her life. But as the creature-- it seemed to be shifting, changing; was it humanoid? Could it be an Elemental?-- swung at her, crashing into her unprepared as she pulled Asura from its jeweled sheath and sending her flying, arms and legs akimbo, into the glass-covered bed, she gave up on analyzing. It likely wasn't any Mystic she could think of, since in most situations her Charm would have been enough to cause that punch to be pulled and if that was pulling a punch, she was in a lot of trouble. She scrambled to her feet, Asura rising to stand between her and this threat, and she flung herself to her feet, ribs complaining. At least one broken, probably more, and she could tell her chances of winning this fight were hardly worth considering. Creeping back, she edged out of the close quarters of her room, out onto the balcony-- the only direction she could go. The eternal dusk dyed the wood the color of human blood, red and bright, and the creature began to follow her, taking its time. It could, after all. She didn't stand a chance.

At least, that was what she thought. Then she saw it, something below the balcony. Some kind of transport? She didn't recognize the type but she did recognize the words, somehow rising above the winds whipping around the tower.

Jump!

She hestiated. Where was Ildon? Where were the knights?

There's no time! It's coming for you. It will destroy everything if it will lead to you-- and it will leave it alone if you are no longer the prize. There was a vision, though whether it was her imagination or something else was unclear: blue blood, spreading slowly across the broken glass-covered floor of her rooms as Ildon lay bleeding, dying. Because of her.

Not again. No more sacrifices for her. No more loss. She remembered White Rose, the sweet-petal scent of her, the clear, crystalline blue of her eyes. A gentle smile, a soft touch--

Never again.

If this would save Ildon, then...

Another lunge from the creature, one she dodged as it splintered the wood that was once behind her. No time to choose. No time to think.

Asellus feinted left and then, mustering her courage, she ran for the guidepost. Recalling her hurdling days in school, she planted her palm and vaulted over into open, cold air, into freefall. Her gut dropped as she fell, and panic gripped her for a moment, her legs and arms working wildly in the air. The chill bit into her and she almost didn't feel when she crashed onto the transport, her breath quick and shallow as the stranger-savior that had called to her caught her. Her knees went weak with pain from her ribs, from stress and adrenaline, and the world faded to black as she let herself go limp. She was only dimly aware of the cool, solid skin and build of the stranger as she felt herself fainting. She muttered something half-conscious about getting away, about saving them, before she collapsed entirely.

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Kinks and Permissions

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:17:38 GMT

Asellus Gender/sex Female Age 80-ish Orientation Openminded but still suffering from shame relating to her upbringing re: the ladies Canon SaGa Frontier	Favorite (IC) Rough play Biting Fighting for dominance Teasing or sex for fun Exploration	Others Backtagging: Yes Threadhopping: Yes, within reason PM: Yes Contact Post: Yes How's my Driving: Yes Picture: Yes
Yes please All IC favorites Teasing on either characters' part	Maybe Anything not on the NO list.	No thanks Infantilism Toilet play

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[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.

Backtagging: Not only yes but this is quite likely with my work schedule. Please prod me if I owe you tags. I promise I won't get upset and if it's not possible at that moment I will let you know when it will be.
Threadhopping: Sure, within reason.
Fourthwalling: Ehhhhh, we can discuss specific things if you want but as a general rule, no.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): I don't have any.

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This is the permissions list for IC (in-character) activity.
What other players can expect from your character if they choose to do any of the following:

Hugging this character: Sure, if she knows you well enough. If not she's gonna be so weirded out.
Kissing this character: As above.
Flirting with this character: Good god please do this. She responds very well to it.
Fighting with this character: I mean, she will fight back, but she won't be pleased about it unless someone she cares about has been injured. She can get a little carried away and perhaps a bit sadistic in those cases.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Discuss this with me first. She will redouble her efforts as long as she can remain conscious. Also she totally bleeds purple so that might have some characters taken aback.
Killing this character: Not without express plotting. It would take a lot to do it and she would do her best to take the aggressor out with her.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: She'd be pretty mad about the invasion of privacy, but you're free to try. Message me and I'll give you direct impressions of her mindset if you need them, or use them in prose.

Warnings:

Not really anything out of the ordinary; if things come up as part of her characterization I will add them here.

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