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compiling some thoughts and info on an oc.
Kaori's 'canon,' so to speak, is basically a magical girl parody. Tokyo is the nesting grounds for some evil motherfuckers (sasuga Tokyo, yeah), and she dons a disguise (read: short skirt, lots of bows and frills, and a masquerade mask, clearly ingenious) to fight them at night. She's known as 'Kamen-hime,' the masked soldier who protects the city from being consumed by sorrow.
And... when I say 'she's known as Kamen-hime,' I really mean that no one has any fucking clue she's saving them from anything, at least at the beginning of her story. (She eventually gets fed up with it and gets really flashy, making a name for herself as the city's guardian, and making her life way more complicated in the process. Way to go.)
I haven't worked out all the details, but the gist of it is that on top of the mean beasts that roam the city at night and shit, there are little baddies who feed off of negative emotions and grow into those beasts. When Kaori's story starts, the only way she knows how to stop the little ones is to stop the negative emotions themselves. So she's basically this really obnoxiously upbeat girl who's constantly butting into everyone's business and trying to cheer them up and will not take no for an answer. She's not even very good at it, either; she tends to piss people off more than she succeeds in making them happy, and she's not very patient or sympathetic.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, she's pretty angry, because school and violin and studies and saving the city and everyone thinks she's totally annoying and she has to pretend to be happy all the time, and she honestly doesn't care about all these people's problems she's trying to solve.
Then there's a boy (there's always a boy), and they cross paths and she thinks he's cute, so she tries to be friends with him. Only he finds her irritating to the nth degree, because she's trying too hard, she doesn't know when to quit and she's a rich girl (which, in his opinion, means she's shallow and self-centered and a bitch, and he's not completely wrong, he's just biased).
(Somewhere in here, she makes a big show of saving the city one night and gets her 'name' in the papers.)
The harder she tries, the more negative emotions he has, etc. etc. etc., it's a self-perpetuating cycle, until she realizes that she's the cause of his negative emotions, and she kind of has this breakdown where she thinks she's just making everything worse instead of helping at all. Now she has all these negative emotions, and it starts darkening her soul or some shit, making her a vessel for some unspeakable evil.
By this point, it's been a few months, and The Boy has a conscience, goddamnit, and so he tries to kind of. subtly. figure out what's wrong with her, without looking like he cares. He ends up realizing that there's something seriously wrong with her, like wicked bananas evil going on, so he starts following her around all the time, because he's a suspicious-minded lad.
He sees her transform one night, and he recognizes Kamen-hime, but then she doesn't go off to do good, she goes off to do evil, because she's lost control of her transformation/powers, or... something. Anyway, he thinks she's evil now, on top of being annoying, so he sets out to try to stop her because, as mentioned, he has a conscience (and a hero complex, maybe).
The only problem is, when he's faced with the chance to kill her, he can't do it — he tries talking her down, instead, and by this point, it's not going to fucking work. He ends up getting seriously injured; when she goes to school the next day, she hears that he's in the hospital. She goes to visit him, finds out that it's her fault, resolves to get over her shit and get it together.
Her willpower and good intentions prevail, she unlocks some new level of power and she's able to shake off the bad juju. But The Boy, when he recovers, still believes she's evil, so he keeps tailing her and eyeing her suspiciously at every turn, and she's frustrated and apologetic and trying to prove she's not a bad guy.
Bluh bluh, she saves The Boy's life in some grand act of risky heroism, he realizes she's not evil and they join forces to fight bad guys and shit.
Presumably there are shenanigans past this point, during which time they fall in love in some order or another, and the Power of True Love proves to be the Ultimate Weapon, the motherfucking Excalibur of magical girl attacks or whatever. I don't know; I haven't gotten past this point.
what I'm wondering is, what the everloving fuck am I doing after what I've outlined? I have no plans or ideas for anything else, so this is bad.
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And... when I say 'she's known as Kamen-hime,' I really mean that no one has any fucking clue she's saving them from anything, at least at the beginning of her story. (She eventually gets fed up with it and gets really flashy, making a name for herself as the city's guardian, and making her life way more complicated in the process. Way to go.)
I haven't worked out all the details, but the gist of it is that on top of the mean beasts that roam the city at night and shit, there are little baddies who feed off of negative emotions and grow into those beasts. When Kaori's story starts, the only way she knows how to stop the little ones is to stop the negative emotions themselves. So she's basically this really obnoxiously upbeat girl who's constantly butting into everyone's business and trying to cheer them up and will not take no for an answer. She's not even very good at it, either; she tends to piss people off more than she succeeds in making them happy, and she's not very patient or sympathetic.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, she's pretty angry, because school and violin and studies and saving the city and everyone thinks she's totally annoying and she has to pretend to be happy all the time, and she honestly doesn't care about all these people's problems she's trying to solve.
Then there's a boy (there's always a boy), and they cross paths and she thinks he's cute, so she tries to be friends with him. Only he finds her irritating to the nth degree, because she's trying too hard, she doesn't know when to quit and she's a rich girl (which, in his opinion, means she's shallow and self-centered and a bitch, and he's not completely wrong, he's just biased).
(Somewhere in here, she makes a big show of saving the city one night and gets her 'name' in the papers.)
The harder she tries, the more negative emotions he has, etc. etc. etc., it's a self-perpetuating cycle, until she realizes that she's the cause of his negative emotions, and she kind of has this breakdown where she thinks she's just making everything worse instead of helping at all. Now she has all these negative emotions, and it starts darkening her soul or some shit, making her a vessel for some unspeakable evil.
By this point, it's been a few months, and The Boy has a conscience, goddamnit, and so he tries to kind of. subtly. figure out what's wrong with her, without looking like he cares. He ends up realizing that there's something seriously wrong with her, like wicked bananas evil going on, so he starts following her around all the time, because he's a suspicious-minded lad.
He sees her transform one night, and he recognizes Kamen-hime, but then she doesn't go off to do good, she goes off to do evil, because she's lost control of her transformation/powers, or... something. Anyway, he thinks she's evil now, on top of being annoying, so he sets out to try to stop her because, as mentioned, he has a conscience (and a hero complex, maybe).
The only problem is, when he's faced with the chance to kill her, he can't do it — he tries talking her down, instead, and by this point, it's not going to fucking work. He ends up getting seriously injured; when she goes to school the next day, she hears that he's in the hospital. She goes to visit him, finds out that it's her fault, resolves to get over her shit and get it together.
Her willpower and good intentions prevail, she unlocks some new level of power and she's able to shake off the bad juju. But The Boy, when he recovers, still believes she's evil, so he keeps tailing her and eyeing her suspiciously at every turn, and she's frustrated and apologetic and trying to prove she's not a bad guy.
Bluh bluh, she saves The Boy's life in some grand act of risky heroism, he realizes she's not evil and they join forces to fight bad guys and shit.
Presumably there are shenanigans past this point, during which time they fall in love in some order or another, and the Power of True Love proves to be the Ultimate Weapon, the motherfucking Excalibur of magical girl attacks or whatever. I don't know; I haven't gotten past this point.
what I'm wondering is, what the everloving fuck am I doing after what I've outlined? I have no plans or ideas for anything else, so this is bad.
plurk for advice reference!
spinoff plurk for advice reference!