PING SURVEY/PERMISSIONS

[ghostfromthemachine]

Goodness it's been a while since I've had to do one of these. Anyway, Kaiko gets some pretty specific pings that are not always easy for me as a player to work out, so if you plan on tagging her filling this out would be doing me a huge favor— particularly if you're not playing someone I can wiki or whatever!

If your character is a ghost or other kind of undead, artificial in some way (mechanical or biological. cyborgs also count), full of VENGEANCE or just unfairly wronged in general, bad at emotional honesty with themselves, or has a tragic backstory of the I HURT PEOPLE I LOOOOVED/shunned by the people around me type, let me know please! You don't have to go into detail; Kaiko is a baby so her ability to actually tell pings apart is next to nonexistent. They all just sort of strike her as "hey this person has something interesting going on!"

(If you want to go on for a while about what's up with your character anyway, though, I am not stopping you. I love juicy details, give them to me.)

ALTERNATELY: If your character has a history of murder or hurting other people for shitty reasons (enjoyment, making themselves feel powerful, etc.), particularly if it was tied up in other types of crime (theft, extortion, sexual assault, etc.), that is an entirely separate ping that will get her attention fast, though she won't necessarily do anything about it she isn't provoked. (Of course, if you would in fact like her to do something about it, give me a list of their crimes and we can work something out :)) Or, if you don't want her to noticing that your character has done unpleasant things, let me know! I don't want to ruin anybody's fun.

...I know this a lot of assorted fiddly stuff, so thank you!

Comments

[goatsongs]

OKAY HI

Chuuya (this dude) is a book spirit! It's not quite the same as just being a ghost because he's influenced by what people thought of him and his works, and also like if he dies you can just summon another 'Nakahara Chuuya' and he won't remember any of this Chuuya's shit. He is definitely super tsundere bad with emotional honesty. ...He also is kind of a bully but like, not a murderer, just the type to pick on people who are easy targets and he knows aren't saints anyway.

ALSO I'm sorry about the edits but - this isn't really an 'I hurt people I loved' type of backstory but he definitely has issues about losing his children and blames himself for their deaths even though like, dude, tuberculosis.

Eater (harpbeat) is a fallen angel! They don't fit any of these other pings though.

Suga (gemuinemanagement) is a human being but he also has worked extensively with night glowstone, a gem used for protection against spirits, to the point where he smells of it - so basically if she gets angry or violent around him he'll start to smell really bad and weaker spirits will probably feel like it's not worth it to stick around and they should go bother someone else. He has a tragic backstory of both those kinds! When he was a child his best friend, Shiori, ended up making a deal with the Kotori Obake (vengeful ghost, usually targets children) for her not to hurt him, and Suga made a deal immediately afterwards with the Kotori Obake for her not to kill Shiori right away (this is how he lost his voice - he smelled like night glowstone so the Kotori Obake didn't want his body, but she took his voice as payment). Then Shiori had to have her memories wiped and move away from their village for their own safety :> And Suga, who'd become an orphan with no family at that point, ended up taking over the museum that stands between the village and the ghost-infested forest and is still trying to keep everyone safe even though barely anyone believes that the ghosts exist now, and he has no friends and almost everyone thinks of him as weird or creepy :>>>

[ghostfromthemachine]

...ok i'm laughing at TB backstory edit bit because that's how Kaiko nearly lost her mom. pro tip don't work with the corpses of immunosuppressed individuals when you take such shitty care of yourself that you are also immunosuppressed. I doubt that's much of a ping but it's still funny in a terrible way.

anyway I'll have Kaiko go follow Suga around like a lost puppy once I get home/catch up on my other tags a little :3c

[goatsongs]

you are probably never going to get tag nirvana while I'm awake again

[ghostfromthemachine]

JOKE'S ON YOU I NEVER GET TAG NIRVANA PERIOD