towerofanimus | Book Girl and..

Characters: Tohko Amano and you!~
Setting: Dorm Floors, Stairs (Any floor you choose), and Floor 48.
Format: Prose to start, but I'll match you!
Summary: After missing for a week, Tohko has come back, but not the same as she left. She's in Group B for the event and full details of how she's been mutilated can be found here.
Warnings: Body horror, gore, and possible death for your characters. If Tohko runs into any characters that she knows are members of the rebellion, she will give them only one chance to say that they won't go against the Administrators. If they don't..then you can expect a fight. She will also sometimes malfunction. If you want to meet her while she is doing so, please specificity in your comment.

Quietly, Tohko walked through the Dorm floors, patrolling as she usually did, keeping an eye out for dead bodies or people acting up, and ignoring the blood that occasionally came out of her joints. It was painful..but it wasn't that bad. If these changes could help her perform better, then so be it. Besides, this only better made her a book girl..and she wouldn't have to carry so many books when she could just read a few words on her arm. She couldn't read too much though. She had to stay focused. The residents sometimes acted up, and the other workers might get out of hand without her. Best to keep walking and patrolling.

Tohko walked up the stairs, ignoring the trail of blood she left behind and the pain that came with each step upwards. She had to patrol on the steps too. After all, how else was she going to keep everyone in line and patrol? Occasionally, Tohko would poke her head into a room before continuing onwards.

People often died here in the graveyard too, so Tohko could be found here patrolling, keeping and eye out on things. However, she stopped for a moment when she saw a gravestone for Ryuto Sakurai. For a moment, it felt like something inside her wanted to cry out..but it was just for a moment. It must have been an old emotion, a remnant of the life she had before the Administrators had lovingly altered her to be a better worker. She moved on, letting the sorrow die.

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[As Tohko grabbed her dagger, she quickly stood up and turned to face Enoch head-on. While she had been lucky enough to grab it, she couldn't just toss her dagger at him while he wasn't vulnerable. She needed a diversion, and while she had one, she had to be quicker about it.

So, moving backwards, Tohko would conjure up yet another lightning strike above Enoch and throw her dagger at him just as it was trying to strike him. All the while, she kept moving backwards, trying to get to the first dagger that she had thrown.]

*The lightning hits him, right in the head. The world seems to slow down to his eyes, vision flickering and fading as pain tears through his body, the adrenaline an ineffective damper through the emotional exhaustion of keeping focused on the battle despite who he was fighting, ineffective in the face of the pain of the other strikes.

As he felt his consciousness ebb, part of him knew one of the Archangels would be saying something here, encouraging him to get up and keep fighting... He had to fight!

A deep, invigorating breath is let out in a defiant yell, and Enoch leaps off air to right himself as white light swells around him, the dagger passing by him in the obfuscating light. It forms into his armor, renewed, and he charges at Tohko doggedly, bringing the Arch up to try to knock her into the air and follow her up with it for more.*

[Just when Tohko had thought she had finally killed him, finally punished this person..somehow, he had managed to come back from the brink. While an old emotion was happy and another mad, Tohko ignored both. Even if he could come back like that, she couldn't ignore her duty. Even if she hadn't managed to get to the first dagger she had thrown before he had recovered.

Quickly, she ran and grabbed her first dagger as Enoch charged at her..but she wasn't able to block his strike this time, and as she rose into the air, paper shreds from her back and blood fell. However, she kept a tight grip on her dagger, and she fully intended to try and block any other strikes that might have come before she landed on the ground again.]

*Was she fast enough to block two swipes at her midsection in midair?

Either way, Enoch wasn't making the mistake of trying to get his distance again. He needed to stay close to not give her enough time to form a storm cloud, so when he landed, he didn't move, only held the Arch out, as if threatening her.*

[She was able to block the second one, but not the first one. While she didn't show any signs of pain, blood and paper once again fell to the ground. While there was a lot of paper, it didn't make for a very strong body.

However, she didn't seem to care about how much blood she was losing as she fell, and she managed to land upright, for the most part, even if her one free hand ended up on the ground. There wasn't enough time to form a storm cloud..and a dagger throw wouldn't kill him instantly in his state. So, she righted herself and got ready for Arch to dagger combat.]

*Enoch was in a relentless haze of adrenaline and fear, a determination born of necessity. He gave the Arch another swing from his left, seamlessly following with one to the right in the fraction of a second it took to take the other side's handle. He would be momentarily vulnerable to attack when he raised it to strike down, however, if she'd managed to block or otherwise avoid the first two.*

[Tohko managed to block the strike from the right, but barely managed to block the strike from the left, which cut into her shoulder slightly.

However, the moment Enoch raised his Arch to strike downwards, she tossed her dagger again, aiming for his head. If she didn't get him with that, she would have to rely on the lightning until she could get them back.

Or try and steal his Arch.]

*It was a shame she aimed so high. The dagger was right on target, but Enoch was faster with his Arch. It knocked the dagger out of the air to land at his feet as he followed through with that swing, bringing it down towards her.*

[Unlike Enoch, Tohko wasn't acrobatic at all, so she couldn't roll backwards or properly dodge this time. In her mind, there was only one last thing she could try. As the Arch came down, Tohko tried to grab it-it didn't matter if she managed to grab the blade or a safe part of it-and tried to wrench it away from Enoch.

At the same time, another storm cloud formed, and another strike of lightning came down.]

*If the Arch's blades didn't cut through her fingers, they would indeed send Enoch off balance. His grip on the Arch is instinctively tight, it would take breaking his fingers to get it away from him.

It meant that when the lightning struck, he would be falling on top of her as what would have been a paralyzing shock broke off two of his armor stages anew. Given that she's covered in a paper shell, and that Enoch is a hundred and eighty seven pounds of mostly muscle, all of this is potentially very dangerous. Likely for them both, if Tohko survives.*

[The Arch's blades cut through the palm on her left hand, and a few fingers on her right, but that didn't stop her concentration. While it hurt, she didn't care. It was an old, useless emotion in this case.

However, she wasn't expecting Enoch to come crashing down on her, so she wasn't able to push him in the other direction, or keep herself from falling. As they both fell, paper and vital organs and bone were crushed, and while this usually wouldn't injure a normal body, paper didn't provide much protection from large weights. The injuries had finally added up..but that didn't mean Tohko was going to die without trying something.

Quickly, she summoned up one last storm cloud in an attempt to electrocute him. Sure, it would hit her too, but she was dying. It didn't matter. As blood poured out, and Tohko died, the lightning fell.]

*Enoch was too shocked by the warm, thick blood that quickly welled up and painted his armor and skin; for a moment he was paralyzed in disbelief, and then the lightning struck at the base of his skull. His armor shattered in its entirety to protect the lethal damage it would've wrought, dazing him.

He automatically rolled away from the bloody mess of paper before it hit him just what had happened. Dazed in pain, he managed to make his way to the steps before the adrenaline began to ebb, and he looked back at the body that he still couldn't recognize as Tohko's...

...He sat down on the steps and stared at the floor below, his mind numb and heavy.*

Book Girl and..

...Maybe the two should swap luck?

Only if they swap back eventually. The next generation needs it. XD

They will, knowing them. ^^; It would be terrible if the next generation was out of luck.

Considering there's someone depending on inheriting some luck...

Which means that he himself can't be low on it when the time comes.

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..What a way to go..

Blame Jason for apparently forgetting the whole section of organs not covered by bones...