riding in on the intro mobile

[twomeals]

Hello hello, my name is Kestrel and I am brand new to this happy turtle land! Coming in with me is Yue from the visual novel/manga nobody's heard of, Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino! He's basically a sheltered sickly princess who as of his canonpoint has spent a total of...about two days being allowed outside his house. Which is a shrine! Because he was raised by a foxy shrine goddess and her team of ayakashi animal spirit servants. Also he's acting as a vessel for said goddess's brother, so you might occasionally find him holding apparently one-sided conversations with himself, if he thinks no-one's looking.

Also he has a vision problem where he can't differentiate humans who aren't particularly strongly connected to the spirit realm, so if you think your character might be an exception it'd be cool if you commented here!

Let's see, what else, um...I'm looking forward to playing here! And you can reach me on plurk at rikoren because it looks like that's what all the cool kids are doing. So feel free to friend me and chat and stuff!

Comments

[depicted]

They're cute thorns. /quietly adds the Kestral

Oh yay! Richard is, uh, exactly what you'd expect but Dorian is from an audio series called The Confessions of Dorian Gray so he is a little different from book (or indeed movie) versions of him.

O-oh, have you? Well I may have to. Stare intently at that.

[twomeals]

Currythorn is always cute. /quietly adds back

Ooh a magical audio version. Like a radio series? I've never listened to a proper radio series before, that sounds fun!

Here here I spend way too much time on it ahaha.

[oathwalk]

Yeah! I'm a big radiodrama junkie. It's really fun. Also, you know. Full of horror and pain but, well, the source material. see? So they're half-hour plays (well, the specials are an hour long and TPODG adaptation is 2 hours) where you get Dorian as a sort of overarching narrator telling the story, and then the rest is acted out all voice-like.

/heavy breathing THIS IS GREAT

[twomeals]

Oh that really does sound cool....I'd get it myself but I have no money ahahaha. Someday...!! Or at the very least I could go read the book, I'm sure we've got a copy around the house somewhere. Stories full of horror and pain and demons are great stories in my book, yesyes.

aaaahhh I hope you like it!!

[depicted]

i can hook you up Yes, read the book! I'll...admit that I had a hard time with the book the first few times but now I adore it. And am currently typing this on a laptop sitting on the 1890 uncensored edition.

I KNOW I WILL. I just have to grab the time and read it but I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. intensely.

[twomeals]

Hook up? I shall add it to the list, though! After I finish that Locke Lamora book, haha. So many books, so little time!

I've done almost every path so far!! Who's your favorite character, just based on the manga? I think they've introduced almost all the important characters by this point...

[depicted]

I know that feeling well, oh how I do.

Oh, really? I think it must have translated a lot since I read it! Since when I read it it was literally no more than two, three chapters tops. (And I went WAIT NO THESE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTING? GIVE ME MORE???) I think I also remember watching a bit of it patched but it not going far? Like, iirc, just going out once and then coming back and no further. So at this point I don't have a favourite! But soon I'm going to be getting one.

[twomeals]

It's a painful feeling sometimes...

There's like eight chapters now! Or somewhere thereabouts. Aaah but I didn't know there were any patched translations! But yes yes read read while I....go to bed before my mom catches me /o/;;