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Shikyoin Hibiki ([personal profile] priforprince) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-06-18 05:11 pm

Open ♔ My pri may be pri, but it’s the pri in “prince”, pri!

Who: Hibiki and you, pri
When: July 27, pri
Where: Harajuku, pri
What: An unusual ayakashi is preying upon Japan’s cutest citizens, pri.
Warnings: Pri-ating the dead horse that is Hibiki's phobia, pri. (Live horse also included. Pri.)


[ In an area of town as style-conscious as Harajuku, various fads come and go. The latest craze, however, seems to be completely involuntary: anyone visiting these two particular blocks of the area will find themselves compelled to add a cutesy suffix or “sentence ender” to the ends of whatever they say. What’s worse, the effect doesn’t seem to wear off for quite some time after leaving, and the longer people use their sentence enders, the fonder they grow of them.

This is causing no end of additional discord to erupt as friends and loved ones slowly cannot stand being around their affected acquaintances anymore.

Particularly adept or powerful gods and shinki may notice an ayakashi-like smoke issuing from people’s mouths as they use their sentence enders. The source is somewhere in town, hiding out. Lurking. Enjoying inflicting itself upon its unsuspecting victims, and growing stronger from ingesting said smoke. Why, it's even affecting any gods and shinki who wander into its territory...

Into this mess, preoccupied by dreams of revolution, rides one Shikyoin Hibiki on a literal white horse. (Don’t ask.) If she’s going to attract PriPara to the Near Shore, she imagines it’ll be touching down where Parajuku should be, as it’s the closest PriPara location to her shrine. Best scope out the area to be sure there’s nothing of use there right now….

But what is this chill in the midsummer air, and this deep-rooted sense of terror-stricken foreboding? ]
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[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-04 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. I can't say I felt it. [That only bothers her for about a moment before Hibiki clarifies what the problem had been, which...makes her look much less concerned about not knowing what the problem was.]

They were never my style, but Kirika always used them back home. I never minded it then...though if something back there is infecting people with them, running away isn't going to solve it.
declamando: (ruffled)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-05 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite often. Just "-desu", nothing particularly out there. [The way Maria pronounces it leaves the last letter silent, highlighting the "death" pun. She still seems vastly less bothered by it than Hibiki does, though that's probably not difficult.]

I didn't realise you had such a problem with them.
declamando: (you failed)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-06 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure what lifestyle has to do with it. They're just words. [Granted, Maria hangs around with people like Chris, who aren't exactly mindful of their language a lot of the time. She can understand not liking people swearing or similar, but sentence enders still sounds pretty silly to her.]

I wonder if that's all that's going on back there.
declamando: (irritable)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-07 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely you don't think it's the sentence enders themselves infecting people. There has to be a vector...and odds are it would be an ayakashi, with how rare other kinds of spirits seem to be compared to them.

[Her tone is appropriately severe for the matter of an ayakashi, because if it is one, then chances are it'll do a lot worse than spread sentence enders if left unchecked.]
declamando: (deep thought)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-09 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
In theory. [They can't really be sure, but it does seem vastly more likely than a sudden sentence-ender plague caused by just about anything else. It's a little scary that Hibiki looks that ill at the thought, but Maria just puts it aside for the moment as one of her oddities.

Nonetheless, she nods firmly.]
It's an ayakashi. That's our duty as gods. And I did bring Uta with me for other reasons.

[Yeah, so that quiet woman in the kimono who Maria didn't have time to pull onto the horse as well? She's just getting back to behind Maria now, seemingly as collected as she ever was.]
declamando: (you tried)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-11 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Maria gestures behind her, not that she really needs to.] My first shinki, before Natsuru...and the other Hibiki, however brief that was.

[Brief or not, Maria still sounds a little sad at the subject. He'd been a good shinki, and a good person. But for now, she focuses more on this Hibiki's attitude to fighting this. It seems like she might need another kick to get there.]

Those people need help. Our fans are relying on us to show them the light. [Playing to what she hopes is a priority to Hibiki.]
declamando: (dodge)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-13 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
[As long as they're getting somewhere, Maria isn't going to complain about Hibiki needing to take a moment here, and she takes the reins of the horse for the moment while Hibiki steps into the shop.]

Of course. [She has no idea what it is she might be buying, but surely it must be something vital to the mission. Surely.

For now, though, she turns her head back to Uta.]
It's time, Uta. [The soulless shinki bows her head politely, awaiting command, and Maria reaches out a hand.]

Come, Kaki! [The form of the kimono-clad woman is swathed in light, and her form shifts within it. Once it clears, a short sword not unlike Airgetlam's Armed Gear rests in Maria's palm.]
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[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-15 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Maria would really, really like to be surprised by this development, but as much as her respect for Hibiki as a performer hasn't changed, it's really hard not to have expected something like this after the fuss she was making earlier. Thankfully for both of them, she simply goes with it this time, holding the reins to one side as Hibiki mounts and then offering them over once she's gotten herself on securely.

Rather than answer verbally, since she's not entirely sure what good that will to right now, she simply nods and gives Hibiki a thumbs up before holding on again. It's a bit harder with a sword in one hand.]
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[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-19 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[As if to reassure Hibiki that she will, Maria reverses her grip on the sword to the one that feels more natural to her, and tightens her hold. One strike should be all she needs, hopefully, so now it's just a matter of finding what's responsible.

As they get closer to where they'd come from, Maria starts looking around for hints of an ayakashi, or where the source of the "infection" might be. There has to be something...]
declamando: (irritable)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-20 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[As uncomfortable as Hibiki is about this, Maria knows they'll get in and out faster if she pays more attention to their surroundings, which will ultimately be better for Hibiki. So she focuses on the people moving and speaking, turning to watch the ones she can hear using sentence enders.

The smoke is much more obvious now that she's looking out for signs, and rather than try to direct verbally in the midst of all this, Maria taps Hibiki's shoulder and points in the direction all the streams of smoke seem to be following.]
declamando: (brandish the whip)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-22 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Well, that's not a promising sign. Hibiki is her ride currently, but Maria can't necessarily trust that she's going to pull off the ride-by of the ayakashi in this state. Rather than try to convince her when whatever comes out of her mouth is probably going to be tainted by the ayakashi anyway, Maria tightens her grip on her sword.

And then she dismounts, slipping her leg off the horse and dropping neatly to the ground, starting to creep up on the feeding ayakashi.]
declamando: (broad slash)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-24 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[That is definitely a frog, and while Maria has sympathy for Hibiki's predicament, as far as she's concerned, the best way to sate her fear is to get rid of the ayakashi once and for all. It's not as if she's unused to fighting monsters where she finds them, and it seems remarkably taken with its feeding.

Taking another few careful steps forward, Maria twirls sharply and drives Uta's sword form straight towards one of the creature's open mouths.]
declamando: (you tried)

[personal profile] declamando 2017-07-27 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least Maria is fast - she snatches her hand back once it reacts, backflipping a few times so she's out of easy range of the tongues. She would've liked it to be over in one hit, because now it's going to be a lot harder to get a better shot in.

She starts to circle the creature, looking for a weak point, but also trying to keep its attention off Hibiki. She doesn't seem to have a way to defend herself from this right now, so it's best for Maria to take the brunt of its displeasure.]

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