[Well, Niko's been feeling a mix of relief and puzzlement once the app fades away. How strange...and just when she was starting to get used to it... But she still shrugs and moves on in her life, making sure that she still gets the jobs she needs to meet her self-appointed weekly quota of photos commissioned.
That is...until the night before the flower festival. She's already feeling down because the weather's calling for rain on the actual festival day itself. The splitting headache certainly doesn't help. Thankfully, a simple confession to her mother results in her being gently shooshed up the stairs and towards her bedroom, with the promise that Mother will check on her once dessert is ready.
Only...she never woke up, once her head hit the pillow. Not for several hours...
There's the faint sound of tiny bat wings fluttering, and a mischievous, high-pitched, female voice giggling. "I am thou~! Thou art I~ Your chains...they will soon break..."
Niko bolts awake, and looks at the time on her digital clock - 2AM, on the dot. She sighs and rubs her eyes...and then does a double-take at everything around her. Dead silence. No faint sound of sirens in the distance. No crickets chirping. Just...nothing.
Except the phone. The app seems to have returned...and is also much more gentler in its design and...new 'Contract'? Huh...what an odd form of Terms and Conditions. Still, part of her is curious enough to go ahead and agree to it - just so she can get back in touch with everyone else...]
What is your name? Natsumi Hikari
Do your think the future is unavoidable? No - it's never set in stone, and can always be changed for the better.
Do you consider yourself to be a bad person? No.
Have you ever killed someone/something? Yes, but it was the save all the worlds from Destruction.
Did you enjoy it? No.
Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! It's like team bonding, we promise! My grandfather's alternate self is an evil leader of an evil inter-dimensional organization. I had to kill that Special Someone in order to save the worlds from destruction.
[The memory is much clearer this time - and not as sad. Just a brief moment of embarrassment as she bows to the grumbling trio of customers. "Ummm...I'm sorry to interrupt!" She then stands up straight and glares at the last person in question - the young man wearing a pink, double-lens camera around his neck. "Tsukasa-kun...Hikari Secret Technique..."
Her raised hand curls into a fist, and then her thumb juts out as she finishes, "Laughing Pressure point!" She marches forward to the guy, who is now very wary - almost fearful - of her approach...until she puts her hand in front of his face in order to move out of his view. Once his guard is down, Niko--Natsumi jams her thumb into a certain spot on his neck.
The effect was instantaneous. He starts laughing uncontrollably, even as he brings a photo-carrying hand up to cover the pressure point. "N-Natsumi, You...you got me!" He laughs some more as he lunges at her...
And she merely side-steps him, feeling somewhat satisfied at his punishment being in full effect.]
Natsumi - Saleos: So Natsumi - Saleos: Does anyone else know what this Velvet Room is?
Natsumi Hikari ⚔ Saleos
That is...until the night before the flower festival. She's already feeling down because the weather's calling for rain on the actual festival day itself. The splitting headache certainly doesn't help. Thankfully, a simple confession to her mother results in her being gently shooshed up the stairs and towards her bedroom, with the promise that Mother will check on her once dessert is ready.
Only...she never woke up, once her head hit the pillow. Not for several hours...
There's the faint sound of tiny bat wings fluttering, and a mischievous, high-pitched, female voice giggling. "I am thou~! Thou art I~ Your chains...they will soon break..."
Niko bolts awake, and looks at the time on her digital clock - 2AM, on the dot. She sighs and rubs her eyes...and then does a double-take at everything around her. Dead silence. No faint sound of sirens in the distance. No crickets chirping. Just...nothing.
Except the phone. The app seems to have returned...and is also much more gentler in its design and...new 'Contract'? Huh...what an odd form of Terms and Conditions. Still, part of her is curious enough to go ahead and agree to it - just so she can get back in touch with everyone else...]
What is your name?
Natsumi Hikari
Do your think the future is unavoidable?
No - it's never set in stone, and can always be changed for the better.
Do you consider yourself to be a bad person?
No.
Have you ever killed someone/something?
Yes, but it was the save all the worlds from Destruction.
Did you enjoy it?
No.
Now share one or two of your darkest secrets with the rest of the group! It's like team bonding, we promise!
My grandfather's alternate self is an evil leader of an evil inter-dimensional organization.
I had to kill that Special Someone in order to save the worlds from destruction.
[The memory is much clearer this time - and not as sad. Just a brief moment of embarrassment as she bows to the grumbling trio of customers. "Ummm...I'm sorry to interrupt!" She then stands up straight and glares at the last person in question - the young man wearing a pink, double-lens camera around his neck. "Tsukasa-kun...Hikari Secret Technique..."
Her raised hand curls into a fist, and then her thumb juts out as she finishes, "Laughing Pressure point!" She marches forward to the guy, who is now very wary - almost fearful - of her approach...until she puts her hand in front of his face in order to move out of his view. Once his guard is down, Niko--Natsumi jams her thumb into a certain spot on his neck.
The effect was instantaneous. He starts laughing uncontrollably, even as he brings a photo-carrying hand up to cover the pressure point. "N-Natsumi, You...you got me!" He laughs some more as he lunges at her...
And she merely side-steps him, feeling somewhat satisfied at his punishment being in full effect.]
Natsumi - Saleos: So
Natsumi - Saleos: Does anyone else know what this Velvet Room is?