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Trails of Roses [Alicia|Open]
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Dec 30, 2016 4:12:01 GMT
Elliot pouted a little at being told not to panic. Sure, Alicia seemed more okay than Elliot feared she was, but it was still quite the alarming state to see her in! Especially when she was usually so strong-willed and determined, rather than cowed to the point of literally turning into a puddle. Hell, Sol always had something to grumble about, so him going dead silent was another cause for concern. Nevertheless, Kisara was right in that she knew Alicia's head way better than Elliot did, so he probably had to relent there. "Yeah," he said. "But you still don't gotta upset her that much. She's way too important for that." Seemed someone was being quite defensive of his big sis!
At the very least, though, Kisara stopped for now. She shrugged off Elliot's attempt at revenge way easier than he had anticipated, but she still stopped. Her stopping was less of an end and more of a delay, though, and judging by the grin she was flashing when the delay ended he'd be the next target. He swallowed a bit nervously, but did his best to muster up a grin of his own. "W-well, bring it on! I'll be ready," he said, trying not to show that he was intimidated by Kisara's teasing skill. "You might be able to mess with Alicia and Isaac, but I'm a way harder nut to crack." And yet when he did crack, he cracked spectacularly. Good thing only Asher had ever pressed those boundaries!
Elliot really hoped this revenge wouldn't happen after a certain blind date.
Isaac wasn't here. The spirits weren't here. And now there was a 10,000 year old tease master who just marked him for destruction. Briefly, Elliot wondered how else this day could pile on the chaos. However, maybe it was best not to think about that kind of thing. Life had a way of taking his most improbable thoughts and turning it into reality. Especially when in a place like this giant forest labyrinth.
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Post by karin on Dec 30, 2016 4:55:24 GMT
Karin seem to be satisfied with Kisara's answer, then turned to Elliot. Suddenly, she inches closer to him, giving a good distance between them and touched Elliot's cheek. "...Princess, huh, I admit..." her voice suddenly turned deep... Yes, Karin is one of few girls who is called ryouseirui, which is both voice. Her voice can be deep or girlish. Like when she panicked back then, her voice is totally girlish. However, now, it take more husky tone. "That you're indeed very delicate, Eli... or should I say, Elize?"
...Jeanne once again raises her bucket to eat whatever remaining there. Will she prevail!?
"So I was wondering, is it nice to make your senior blushes like that, hm?" finger clasped on his chin, raising his head up to meet his eyes with the girls own deep blue eyes. "...You're such a naughty one, Elize... To think you could drop so many bombs... you're like a sheep, but a black sheep you are... still.."
she leaned herself closer to his ear and whispered.
"...when I'm not flustered, I'm a wolf you know? Can I take a quick bit to see how you taste?" she made a motion like about to nibble his earlobe...
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Dec 30, 2016 11:09:28 GMT
The ice maiden smirked as she dropped her own pre-scheme revenge on Elliot. That little Princess comment should get Jeanne off her case for a bit while she put together a better answer for her shenanigans with Isaac. While she wasn’t as easily flustered, she was caught a bit off guard and had to improvise a bit. Well, she got out of that scrape more or less unharmed, right?
… And then Karin suddenly turned from babbling school girl to one very smooth talker in point five seconds. Seriously where was this side of Karin lurking earlier!? Even the ice maiden herself was caught off guard and had to innocuously turn away from the resulting scene. Now why was she keeping this under wraps when she could’ve simply given as good as she got? That would’ve been so much more fun! Or at least she would’ve thought that. Maybe she would’ve met her match though? Who knows! ”Looks like Elise has bigger problems then my own schemes right now…” she quipped off hand.
Meanwhile Alicia just tensed up at hearing the voice change. Was this seriously happening now!? Right after she had her meltdown of literal proportions!? Thank god, she didn’t have any involuntary reactions like… well… blushing. In her current mental state, she doubted she could avoid blushing red as a tomato at hearing that voice. Why did Kisara have to push Karin so far, she broke…? Why’d Elliot have to show up at exactly the wrong moment? Why did Karin have to snap so far, she wrapped right around into a new instigator of mischief!?
As for Sol, the dragon just gaped at the new turn of events. Had Kisara and Jeanne actually managed to corrupt Karin or had the Tamer finally had enough and decided to lash out at anyone she could reach that she thought was responsible? ”Wha… What is this madness…?” he muttered, dumbfounded. And it was rare to leave him so stunned that he was actually the one asking questions.
“… I think we’re on a runaway train, Sol… and Kisara and Jeanne have already sabotaged the brakes… Why’d I tempt fate today…?” Alicia muttered, eye twitching as she froze in place.
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Dec 31, 2016 20:20:59 GMT
It turned out, all this time Elliot may have been worrying about the wrong person. Then again, it wasn't like Elliot would expect the person he was trying to help to suddenly rear up and backstab him. Yet now Karin was walking up to him, setting a hand on his cheek and lowering her voice. The touch got him involuntarily blushing, but her words were more confusing than anything else. In fact, some of them seemed almost a little hurtful! "H-hey, I'm not that fragile," he protested, puffing his cheeks a little in indignation. "I mean, I worked hard to get here. And I'm way tougher than I look-"
However, it seemed Karin hadn't finished yet. Maybe this wasn't the best time to start protesting, especially when much more objectionable material would start coming up. Now she had dragged his chin up with her free hand, making Elliot stare into her deep, blue eyes. "B-but I'm sorry if I upset you or anything like that. I got the feeling it was starting to be a little too much, so I tried to make Kisara top, but I didn't mean to make you feel bad about it." It seemed Elliot was greatly missing the point of this discussion greatly, but the odd, husky tone in Karin's voice was still getting him blushing quite a bit.
Then she leaned uncomfortably close, Elliot finding himself shying away from her as much as possible. Considering one of her hands was against his cheek, however, it probably would've been quite easy for her to keep him held there if she wanted to. "U-um, please don't bite me or anything," he said, the discomfort of the situation making him blush really brightly. "I-I know you're probably really upset at me but you don't have to hurt me or anything like that!"
"No!"
The voice that echoed through the hall was all too familiar. Elliot immediately whipped his head around in relief to try and find where it was coming from, smile widening as some red dots appeared on the horizon. And they were approaching fast, too! Soon the dots could be clearly made out as menacing red eyes, and shortly thereafter Isaac had emerged from one of the maze's many dark corridors. "None of that! Shame on you!" he snarled, immediately reaching to snatch his brother out of Karin's grasp. Question was, would it be before or after she had already had her fun toying with him? "You're scaring the crap out of him! Seriously? What is wrong with you?"
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Post by karin on Dec 31, 2016 21:14:35 GMT
"A feisty prince" she suddenly declared. "How delightful! Yes, maidens also should have thorns with them! Oh, are you afraid of upsetting me? You don't, of course, dear Elise. If anything, I'm just... ah, charmed by how cute you are. You know, what they say? The cuter something is, the more satisfying to flirt with it! It's human's nature! C'est la vie!" perhaps at this moment is where Elliot could see that Karin's eyes are unfocused. Really unfocused. The girl probably has entered another stage of meltdown.
"Non!" Karin quickly drawed Jeanne's blade and bopped Isaac's crimson nail with the body rather skillfully. "I..." she took a rose and slipped it to Elliot's pocket. "will not have any of your protest! This is completely harmless, a fun that doesn't meant to harm, a performance of the age! If the prince is what you're going to have, ye dragon of a brother, then please kindly queue! Or you would rather... sacrifice the fair maiden instead?" she asked as she crushed a rose and blew the petal at Alicia.
Jeanne tried her best to contain her laughter, but before Isaac got the wrong idea, she flew and whispered the situation toward the Devidramon.
"Now, I thought you should probably learn from the pro," Karin continued,"of the art on pleasing the women? Truly, I would not mind the honor on doing that!"
"...Well, I have no idea, but it's probably something that gone too far and cannot be retracted, oh my~" Jeanne muttered.
"Returning to the topic, where were we, o fair prince?" she took Elliot's hand and kissed the back of it, which made Jeanne shook even harder to hold her laughter.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Jan 2, 2017 14:59:46 GMT
”Where’s some popcorn when you need it…?” Kisara asked with a smirk as Karin suddenly launched into an improv skit as some sort of knightly figure, completely gender swapping the roles. And this was some hilarious entertainment! Sure Karin was going to shoot her so many angry looks after this at the very least but that was a small price to pay for something this good! … Right?
”Kisara you truly can be so vicious at times… Karin needs help, not someone laughing at her current state of mind.” Sol mused, looking at Kisara. The ice maiden looked back at him and hummed softly. At the very least she looked like she was honestly mulling the thought over… but surely given her antics before now there had to be a catch.
”Well… given that she’s now become something of a shenanigan black hole? I’m content to just sit back and watch the fireworks. Feel free to do something if you think you can without being caught up in this mess though. I don’t think I’m able to stop it now that its hit metaphorical critical mass.” Kisara answered back, shrugging her shoulders. Thanks a lot, Kisara.
And then Isaac impacted on the scene, currently very scaly and looking very angry. At which point Karin promptly involved him in her little skit with Jeanne hastily attempting to curb the worst of the potential fallout. ”See what I mean?” Kisara quipped with a smirk. Sol just face palmed in return.
Unfortunately, now that both of her surrogate brothers were on the scene, Alicia herself had gone back into meltdown. Both metaphorically and literally as her focus snapped, and Mercurialdramon’s liquid body ‘melted’ away, leaving Alicia’s human body there blushing like mad and standing in a receding puddle of mercury. She never even noticed the rose petal brushing her cheek before settling on her shoulder, and was only somewhat listening to what was going on now.
However, it was at this point that Sol decided enough was enough. Unfortunately as Kisara noted, there wasn’t really a way to stop this madness now that it had accelerated to this point. That left only one real option then… slicing up a piece of the shenanigans for her as well. ”You know, if we’re going to let this run its course, I think there’s one more piece that needs to be included...” Sol mused as he started to shift behind Kisara.
Blissfully unaware of what was going on, Kisara continued to hum, asking off hand. ”What are you talking about Sol? I think we’ve got enough people around for top-level shenanigans.” Poor Kisara… not really though.
”Oh, nothing much, maybe another maiden… ever hear of audience participation?” Sol asked in turn. Kisara blinked and started to shift, looking over her shoulder at Sol with a question on her lips. And there said question would die as the dragon spirit suddenly shoulder rammed Kisara into the center ‘stage’ of this improv skit, leaving the woman off balance for a bit before she recovered.
However? The shock of the hit put a small chink in her composure. One that, if capitalized on immediately, could produce interesting results.
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Jan 6, 2017 7:04:13 GMT
Elliot blinked, at this point far too confused to actually be disturbed anymore. "Isaac, is she okay? I think she might've hit her head too hard when Alicia knocked her out . . . " Elliot asked, voice quivering a little. "I mean, I don't remember her being this weird when she came out of the crystal. Was she?" She certainly was not. If anything, she seemed dangerously serious, to the point of being outright considered no-nonsense. How did anyone make such a rapid transformation? He found himself edging away from Karin slightly, even twisting his wrist to dislodge his hand from hers when she went to kiss it. "Can we go back to the topic of not doing this, please?"
Isaac's eyes narrowed in frustration instead, the Devidramon reaching out a hand to protectively scoop his brother under his wing. For this, Elliot looked very grateful. "I think I'm doing fine as is," he insisted. "And even if I did want the help, I'd prefer to not see it demonstrated on my little brother." Sheesh, Karin was being worse than Asher. And considering last Isaac saw Asher, Elliot had bashfully admitted to cuddling the guy while sitting on his lap, that was saying something! "You and Alicia have fun. I think I'll go back to looking for those spirits no-"
And then Kisara was suddenly nudged into the mix. Isaac, who was just about to turn tail and leave, suddenly found this a lot more interesting. "Okay, I guess I can see how this goes just a little bit longer," he corrected, a grin of intrigue spreading across his face. Kisara had been the teaser all the time, and the teasee approximately never. While Isaac had missed Elliot's spirited attempt earlier, and probably would have found it far more embarrassing than helpful, he certainly wouldn't have minded a chance to listen in on this one.
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Post by karin on Jan 6, 2017 16:03:18 GMT
"Ah, a pity! Very well, o graceful dove, fly to your freedom!"
...Yes, at this point even Jeanne have no idea what sort of thing that Karin is talking about, but this is still very fun to her. Meanwhile, her smile got wider when Kisara joined the fray. Oh boy, this gonna be good.
"Ah, an ice maiden with heart scorched by flame of jealousy? It's alright my fair maiden," she suddenly pulled her close... REALLY CLOSE. "My love to all of you is infinite, even moreso than the space above. Of course if you divide infinite, it's still infinite irregardless, yes?" she brought Kisara's hand to her lips and kissed it. "It pains me that my cheap words might not touch your heart, so let me prove it... with my action~"
Suddenly, almost like dancing tango, Karin leaned Kisara down and rained her arm from the back of the hand to the shoulder with a kiss, and even nibbled the neck. Jeanne who saw that somehow shivered. Damn, did Yuuki practiced that to her or something?
"I do hope this is enough to melt your ice~?"
"....I should say that this is getting hot. Hope that doesn't leave a hickey--oh it does." Jeanne commented.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Jan 6, 2017 20:28:20 GMT
Sol looked over at Isaac on the comment of seeing this through a little bit longer now that Kisara was involved and promptly face palmed yet again. He feared he was going to leave a permanent indentation on his face before this day was over. There was simply too much material worthy of the face palm here. At least Kisara was about to get a taste of her own medicine. Hopefully.
”Huh?” Kisara began as Karin suddenly turned on her and pulled her in dangerously close. ”W-Well that’s so sweet of you...” And then Karin went and kissed her hand. W-Wha-! I-I’m flattered but my hea-aaaaaaaaah!?” Now she was the one being interrupted as she was suddenly leaned back, eyes wide and… was that the faint hint of a blush on her cheeks now?
For once, the ice maiden was indeed on the receiving end of the shenanigans and was very much losing her composure, stammering a bit and unable to form coherent words. Then Karin went for the jugular in both metaphorical and literal senses and all she could do was just straight shut up and blush a vibrant red, frozen there for a second. But a second is all it was.
”A-Ahaha… Where was this side lurking all this time…?” She whispered with a crooked, cheeky smirk, a semblance of her cracked composure and her attempts at still feigning control over what was going on.
Alicia, to her credit, didn’t turn into a screaming mess at the insanity that was occurring. What she did however, was slowly sink to her knees and tilt her head to the side, eyes frozen open as wide as possible as she started repeating one phrase over and over, much like if someone had broken a record. “This isn’t happening… This isn’t happening...”
”Oh for...” Sol began, face palming yet again. ”Right. No plan survives contact with the enemy… Of course she’s still having a blast with what’s happening. Why should I expect otherwise…?” He shook his head and grumbled to himself, only half paying attention to what was going on at this point.
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