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[ogrewhelming]

Characters: Sakura Oogami and YOU!
Setting: Any place, any time after October 21st.
Format: I shall match.
Summary: Sakura has acquired an unhealthy fixation on unusual people. Alas, that includes most of the tower these days.
Warnings: Violence, character death with permission.

When she'd awoken after the crushing sensation, she'd counted herself fortunate. Nothing unusual, at first glance. No cybernetics, no animal parts, nothing grafted or sewn to her body... Just herself in a poor choice of outfit, and a niggling feeling that perhaps such enhancements had some appeal after all. Such thoughts were easily ignored.

Well, it was an ill wind that blew no good. At this point, she would no longer require candy. If her friends had survived yesterday's drought, it would be best for them to benefit from her ignoble end. She can be found wandering the tower, looking for familiar faces. And if she looks a little too intently at some of the less familiar faces, it's hardly the strangest behavior exhibited thus far.


...Several days later, she was beginning to feel much less fortunate. What was a pirate without treasure, after all? The chest at the foot of her bed contained only a few trinkets from home, and nothing else. She had never been much for material possessions, after all. People were far more important. This tower was full of admirable and unique individuals from many distant locales. It made perfect sense to consider such people as precious treasures.

She began her search, enthused by her new purpose in life. Any resident with a visibly unusual quality, whether natural or not, may hear a hearty cry ringing through the area as Sakura strides towards them.

"You there! Your body... will you give it to me?"

Comments

October 24th

[rewindingly]

Homura had stubbornly kept herself in the running. She didn't want to die. Even if it meant forcing others to die by taking candy from them... she couldn't let herself be killed. As long as she lived she had the hope that she could go on.

So a request to take her body, the hardware that was necessary for such a task, was obviously going to be denied.

"No, I won't." She responded with a cold stare, "-- and that is not up for debate."

[ogrewhelming]

"You are a witch, are you not? I am afraid that I cannot pass up such an opportunity... and thus, I must meet your disagreement with physical force."

She's moving steadily closer, one hand on the hilt of her cutlass.

27th

[tsunball]

[ Leon is mostly just still trying to survive, one way or another. Even if it's getting difficult now - honestly, he has no idea how his classmates are faring, he's too busy being focused on saving his own hide right now. He's still wearing his ridiculous huge rooster costume (making him only more ridiculous and less subtle) but he's at least able to avoid most people who because freaks thanks to their costumes (although he has his bat with him to defend himself just in case) and instead steal candy from other normal people-- but then there's a voice. .. What.. the..

He turns around only to spot Sakura. And not just Sakura (that in itself would be frightening enough), but Sakura in a half-ripped costume, not to mention she's saying something like that.. Why is everyone here suddenly coming on to him?! ]

O.. Oogami..?

Re: 27th

[ogrewhelming]

[Sakura is well aware of Leon's top-notch baseball skills. He will make a fine addition to her collection!]

Come here. Do not try to resist, and I will ensure that it is over quickly.

[tsunball]

T-that just sounds freaky as shit!

[ In his panic he clutches his bucket of candy - there's quite some in it - tightly to his chest, as if he's trying to protect that foremost as he's staring at her, obviously still frightened. ]

So.. s.. stay away from me! I'm warning you..! [ Like he can do anything to Sakura.. nope, he's just bluffing. ]

[ogrewhelming]

[...Of course. She shouldn't expect cooperation from Leon, dear friend though he is. She advances.]

You will suffer far less than you would were you to be cornered by any other with similar intentions. I assure you, I have nothing to gain from drawing out the act.

24th.

[tohko_amano]

Tohko turned around when she heard someone yell at her. She blushed and gave her an annoyed glare. "I'm a pure book girl! I'm not going to give you my body for you to do as you please!" Of course, Tohko thought the girl wanted her body for sexual purposes, and the fact that she was dressed in a pirate costume didn't help her mood.

[ogrewhelming]

Nobody understands the value of a good collection these days.

"That is a pity. I have never seen hands like yours before... they are real, correct?"

[tohko_amano]

Tohko sighed. "They're real, but I only got them because I died while wearing that costume. Plus, they're pretty useless when you're not fighting, as it's hard to open books or tie ribbons without tearing things. It's really annoying."

[ogrewhelming]

She can see how that would be inconvenient. Parading her own good fortune would be terribly rude... On the other hand, this seems like a good opening to gain those hands in a socially acceptable manner.

"In that case, would you like to fight? If you win, I will lend you the use of my own hands for such difficult tasks."

24th

[puppy_lancer]

Lancer too had been warped by his costume, but he figured that as long as he kept eating monsters and forest animals, it would be alright.

"Body? Well, I guess you're welcome to try and take it if you give me your candy.]

[ogrewhelming]

Sakura is delighted to find someone who's not going to make a big hassle out of this.

"I am certainly willing to make a trade. Candy holds no value for me at this point."

[puppy_lancer]

"Great. So you got any on your right now?"

[warriorscribe]

This glowing man turned as Sakura approached him on the stairs, eyes widening (if she could see so through his glow) at the request.

"And what would you do with it?"

It was a level response, one of a man gauging the person facing him. Some potential uses were sins, and some were not (not all of them expected of modern minds). Her wording was odd, but Enoch was in no state to consider such a thing; his conscience still beating faintly at the back of his mind like a trapped cat might try to scratch through a plastic panel - leaving marks and making noise, but of no threat.

[ogrewhelming]

Sakura has no interest in obscuring her motives. Even if honesty comes with consequences, she much prefers it to deception.

"I would keep it in a box in the storage room. Collecting people has recently become a hobby of mine."

[warriorscribe]

Her honesty gives him some hesitance. Murder is, of course, sinful, and it's his duty to eradicate sinners. But her openness makes him curious. The costume hadn't erased that much of him.

"You...do understand that murder is wrong, don't you?"

[morituramfides]

Jin turned his attention to her without so much as a second thought or hint of confusion at her.. enthusiasm. He simply gave her a once over, and wiped a stray stream of blood away from his cheekbone before responding.

"I think not."

[ogrewhelming]

A sharp dismissal indeed... Either this man is a fool, or he has ample reason to be confident.

"Do you think you are a match for me in battle?"

[morituramfides]

"I'd rather it not have to come to that, honestly."

He'd never been a necessarily violent man. There was just so much disagreement.

"But I don't doubt the odds in my favor."

28th, hope I'm not too late...!

[pointerpixl]

[Having deemed the meadowy twenty-fifth floor safe for the moment, Tippi has slipped out of her room and made it all the way here to... well, the short version of it is that she's at least enough butterfly on top of being Pixl that getting sustenance off flowers is possible for her.

Sadly, she's all too aware of how close to a normal butterfly she looks -- it's been an easy mistake to make while she's been here. Perhaps only to increase her misfortune today, she was singing to herself a little while fluttering around, setting her just enough apart to be a potentially good target. And, being a meadow, there's really nothing but open space...]

--Excuse me?

[For a second, she's not certain if she's being addressed, but then a woman in exceptionally ill-fitting pirate garb is stalking closer to her, and it hits her.

Oh, no. Ohhhhh no.]

That's... a-absolutely not! I'm not just something you can capture in a jar!

[...The thing with a nerdy neckbeard chameleon putting her through the rough equivalent will never not irritate her. Pet peeve, TOUCHED.

Poor Tippi is a little too willing to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to "will they kill me?" lately.]

((OOC: Also, you are totally clear to squish the poor little bug. If things pan out that way, anyway... we'll see. C:))

[ogrewhelming]

I daresay otherwise.

[She wouldn't take up that much space, even in a container... Of course, for insects, the traditional method involves pins, and Sakura does approve of tradition.]

[pointerpixl]

[OH GOD even Francis didn't use pins--]

Well, I refute that! My body isn't even that terribly interesting, anyway...!

[And now she's getting nervous when her attempt at a stern reply has done nothing to deter her pursuer, so Tippi lifts off the flower she'd been sitting on and tries to drift backwards. It's sort of like a human warily pacing backwards, to watch for any sudden movements, but it also means she's moving slowly and shakily bobbing up and down in her attempts to keep herself airborne.]

October 28th? SORRY FOR THE LATE TAG...

[thornythaumaturge]

"My body? Whatever could you use that for?" She was too curious to say no outright. Her puppet limbs didn't mean much to her, but she was kind of attached to them and at this point was a little tired of dying. But if the reason was interesting enough and if she could keep her life, perhaps some kind of deal could be worked out.

I've been tagging late myself SO I GUESS WE MATCH

[ogrewhelming]

"I have no practical use for them. The collection itself is my only goal in this endeavor."

She seems to be considering it. A promising start indeed...! Whether the puppet girl will hold to that outlook is another challenge altogether, alas.

8D! Does this mean we can get matching letterman jackets for this?

[thornythaumaturge]

"The collection? You collect bodies? How wonderfully gruesome." She taps her lips in thought, considering the option. Her body used in a collection. "Would these be the bodies of the living or dead, by chance? Or do you take both where the living is willing?"