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105th ♫ | this rose is our destiny
The Grooms: The fighters. Gain more power and skill from possessing their true bride and bonding with them. Can steal brides from other grooms. Will eventually go berserk without their bride and will do most anything to protect them.
The Brides: The power sources and the healers. Provide support for their grooms. Are typically submissive (not always sexually, however) to their grooms, can be rebellious. Are in charge of calming their groom down and taking care of them, as grooms can often be headstrong and not mindful of their own needs. Physical intimacy with them creates weaponry which comes from their body.
One part strength through sex, one part soulmates meme, one part sentinel/guides meme, add some fighting couples and a whole lot of (prettily packaged) mindfuck.
The Players (the short of it)The Grooms: The fighters. Gain more power and skill from possessing their true bride and bonding with them. Can steal brides from other grooms. Will eventually go berserk without their bride and will do most anything to protect them.
The Brides: The power sources and the healers. Provide support for their grooms. Are typically submissive (not always sexually, however) to their grooms, can be rebellious. Are in charge of calming their groom down and taking care of them, as grooms can often be headstrong and not mindful of their own needs. Physical intimacy with them creates weaponry which comes from their body.
Revolutionizing the World: The main goal of the existence of all brides and grooms. Seems to be creating a new world especially for the successful bride and groom pair, but its true nature is uncertain.
The Council of the Rose: Mysterious controllers of the whole dueling system. Dedicated to bringing revolution.
Duels: Fights between bride/groom pairs.
Duels (the long of it)Come one, come all, see our most beautiful of shadow plays!
We have such a story for you today. What a tale, what a legend! Listen, listen, listen if you please.
There's strength in numbers, they say (do they say?). In this world, that's good advice, but in the world you find yourself in now (which you've been all your life, oh, you're sure to realize), it's reality! For once upon a time, long ago, there were many brave warriors in the universe, spread all over. Each and every one was mighty and glorious, just as one would expect of handsome and wonderful warrior-princes and princesses. But the powers that be, the ones that control the tick-tock-tick-tock whirling hands of the planets’ gears, they grew jealous and wrathful towards the warriors. To secure their own positions, those cruel ones ripped each and every fighter into two halves: the source and the arm with which to wield that source’s power. One is useless without the other, you see.
Tells us more, you must tell us more!
More, you say? These two halves of each soul lives on, to this very day, that much is known. Of course, not everyone is reborn from those shattered fragments; some are very boring and very normal humans and creatures. But not you, my sweet listeners. For you are special, you're the players of this game where you must duel others in order to keep your place in this world. The Council of the Rose, the mysterious tinkers who make sure the chase goes on, will always find you and always tell you of your true destiny. All roads lead to the same place, the same battlefield. You are these shards living on, remaining in the forms of the brides and the grooms.
A wedding! There will be a wedding.
Be quiet. Before the wedding, there must be an engagement. That only makes sense! And we have to introduce the cast, don't we? The grooms first, then. Don't let the name fool you. Grooms can be male or female - it's the modern day, we're egalitarians! They're the warrior spirits, the muscle that swings the sword. So strong~! So brave! But that can be a bit of a problem. It's true! Without a proper bride to keep them in check, like any husband, a groom can go off the rails. All that energy with nowhere to focus it can't be good. The same thing may happen when their bride is threatened. It's of the upmost imperative for them to protect what is theirs!
When a groom meets a bride who may be their intended, they feel an indescribable longing and a need to possess them as their own, maybe even losing their own sanity the longer they stay away. Could anything be more terrible? Besides, without a bride, they can never reach their true potential. So it's not right that cold, unfeeling grooms treat their brides only as a tool or a means to an end. They should treat them like equals, like lovers, or maybe even better than themselves.
So it's essential not to underestimate the brides, again, male or female, even if they are usually submissive to their grooms (but not always in life and certainly not in the privacy of the bedroom, you know)! They're the weapon that the groom draws and the reason they can get stronger and more skilled. Not only that, but a bride can calm the ever-present turmoil inside a groom like no one else in the world can, serving as a grounding and healing force. They always, always, always support their groom and take care of them. In fact, without them, the groom will feel very unsettled, because most grooms can easily forget the importance of taking care of oneself! If a bride is rebellious and doesn't want to be one - how sad - there's nothing much that can be done...though the bride will begin to secretly feel unfulfilled until they act more kind. That's how a true romance should be, isn't it?
For each groom, there's only one bride. For each bride, though, there can be more than one groom.
What? What does that mean? Isn't that a betrayal of true love?
It is a tragedy! And all a rival groom has to do is defeat the other in combat and the bride goes to victor. That's why a bride and groom have to be perfectly in sync with each other and prepared for any challenge. They must know each others' bodies like they do their own and know exactly where the strength comes from. A kiss, full of passion, is how the groom can draw their weapon from their bride. That weapon takes a form that depends on their relationship.
We have such a story for you today. What a tale, what a legend! Listen, listen, listen if you please.
There's strength in numbers, they say (do they say?). In this world, that's good advice, but in the world you find yourself in now (which you've been all your life, oh, you're sure to realize), it's reality! For once upon a time, long ago, there were many brave warriors in the universe, spread all over. Each and every one was mighty and glorious, just as one would expect of handsome and wonderful warrior-princes and princesses. But the powers that be, the ones that control the tick-tock-tick-tock whirling hands of the planets’ gears, they grew jealous and wrathful towards the warriors. To secure their own positions, those cruel ones ripped each and every fighter into two halves: the source and the arm with which to wield that source’s power. One is useless without the other, you see.
Tells us more, you must tell us more!
More, you say? These two halves of each soul lives on, to this very day, that much is known. Of course, not everyone is reborn from those shattered fragments; some are very boring and very normal humans and creatures. But not you, my sweet listeners. For you are special, you're the players of this game where you must duel others in order to keep your place in this world. The Council of the Rose, the mysterious tinkers who make sure the chase goes on, will always find you and always tell you of your true destiny. All roads lead to the same place, the same battlefield. You are these shards living on, remaining in the forms of the brides and the grooms.
A wedding! There will be a wedding.
Be quiet. Before the wedding, there must be an engagement. That only makes sense! And we have to introduce the cast, don't we? The grooms first, then. Don't let the name fool you. Grooms can be male or female - it's the modern day, we're egalitarians! They're the warrior spirits, the muscle that swings the sword. So strong~! So brave! But that can be a bit of a problem. It's true! Without a proper bride to keep them in check, like any husband, a groom can go off the rails. All that energy with nowhere to focus it can't be good. The same thing may happen when their bride is threatened. It's of the upmost imperative for them to protect what is theirs!
When a groom meets a bride who may be their intended, they feel an indescribable longing and a need to possess them as their own, maybe even losing their own sanity the longer they stay away. Could anything be more terrible? Besides, without a bride, they can never reach their true potential. So it's not right that cold, unfeeling grooms treat their brides only as a tool or a means to an end. They should treat them like equals, like lovers, or maybe even better than themselves.
So it's essential not to underestimate the brides, again, male or female, even if they are usually submissive to their grooms (but not always in life and certainly not in the privacy of the bedroom, you know)! They're the weapon that the groom draws and the reason they can get stronger and more skilled. Not only that, but a bride can calm the ever-present turmoil inside a groom like no one else in the world can, serving as a grounding and healing force. They always, always, always support their groom and take care of them. In fact, without them, the groom will feel very unsettled, because most grooms can easily forget the importance of taking care of oneself! If a bride is rebellious and doesn't want to be one - how sad - there's nothing much that can be done...though the bride will begin to secretly feel unfulfilled until they act more kind. That's how a true romance should be, isn't it?
For each groom, there's only one bride. For each bride, though, there can be more than one groom.
What? What does that mean? Isn't that a betrayal of true love?
It is a tragedy! And all a rival groom has to do is defeat the other in combat and the bride goes to victor. That's why a bride and groom have to be perfectly in sync with each other and prepared for any challenge. They must know each others' bodies like they do their own and know exactly where the strength comes from. A kiss, full of passion, is how the groom can draw their weapon from their bride. That weapon takes a form that depends on their relationship.
Engagement
Never take anything less than a big diamond ring! It has to be that!
...well, that's true, but the engagements here, that's the first part of the contract to be together as is meant to be. The two must come together first with their bodies! How crude, we hear you cry. No, that's not the case at all. It may seem scandalous, yet sex between the bride and groom - it's only natural, and it's all right since there's no greater love than what comes from that bond. Romaaantique! The engagement is only the beginning, the trial period. There is much more physical contact to have, especially if you want to move up in the world. More and more sex (even if that does make it sound classless) just makes the connection between the bride and groom stronger, which makes the groom able to use more of the bride's energy and become stronger themselves. Then, if the sex is...shh, kinkier and more public, it can make the weapons you can summon that much more creative. So any self-respecting person should give it their all. We believe in you!
As for the wedding? Ah, that's the final key. That's a sensual ceremony and spell, you see! It forever binds the bride and groom together, making it impossible for other grooms to steal them away. Before you commit, though, it's always important to make sure you two are perfectly in step. If brides and grooms do not find their right companion, the curtains must fall. A bad match will mean that one of you could die in a duel, and without your partner, you cannot live on. You can never revolutionize this world and create your own.
...huh? What does "revolutionizing the world" mean? A good play doesn't reveal all its secrets. You'll have to find out the moral yourself!
How to Play- Comment with your character, preferences, and whether your character will serve as a bride or a groom.
- Remember, most characters could be played as either, so don't be too unwilling to bend. We want plenty of play potential here!
- If your character is a groom, be sure to describe what their weapon is like. Have fun with it!
- Comment to others.
Prompts- Discovery: You've just found out your status as bride or groom from the Council of the Rose. How do you respond?
- First Sight: Oh, who is that? Whoever it is, your heart is already racing and your instincts are kicking in.
- Engagement: It's a trial period for your bride/groom pairing, and you must get into sync.
- Marriage: You've decided that this is the forever relationship you want and are prepared for the ceremony.
- Unhealthy: In this relationship, the bride is viewed by the groom as their property. The bride themself may or may not have the self-esteem to match.
- Adoration: Unlike the unhealthy relationship, in this bond, the groom puts the bride above all else and quite nearly worships them.
- Save: You want to take away a bride because you care for them and their groom isn't treating them well. That's noble...but is it such a good idea?
- Reverse: The groom is the submissive here, wrapped around the bride's finger.
- Housewife: A bride must take care of their groom's needs, especially when they forget to take care of themselves.
- Fluff: There are actually fun, loving moments between the well-adjusted bride and groom, even in the most volatile of scenarios.
- Calm: It's a rare time of peace where the bride and groom can be almost domestic.
- Heal: Injuries and mental hurts need to be taken care of in the same way power is gained, simultaneously strengthening the bond.
- Assigned: The pairing of you and your bride or groom was not natural. You were picked strategically for each other.
- Power Up: You have to become stronger. Luckily, you can get power right from the tap.
- Need: You're desperate for your bride or groom, and your body and mind are rebelling against you because of it.
- Training: A bride and groom must work as one, and this ability to practically read the other's thoughts must start in the bedroom.
- Return: You two have been kept apart and are finally able to return to each others' presence.
- Buck the Saddle: A rebellious bride must be evened out or the process will never work.
- Step Up: You've actually been "promoted," so to speak, from bride to groom, though the origin of this change is unknown.
- Mismatched: You've fallen in love with a bride when you're a bride or a groom when you're a groom.
- Not in Step: You're a terrible pairing. The two of you together makes no sense at all, but you must make it work.
- Transformation: To duel, you have to have suitable apparel. You might have your own way of getting into those clothes. At the very least, your entrance should be impressive.
- Childhood: From the very beginning of your life, you have been brought up as the perfect bride or groom.
- Jealous: The person you really want isn't your bride or groom.
- Possession: After seeing the wandering eyes of your bride or groom, you feel the need to remind them that it's you and them against the world.
- Affair: You've decided to take your jealousy to the next level and go outside your engagement. You must be warned, physical intimacy outside of the intent to create a bride/groom pair is strictly frowned on.
- In Want of a Blade: The two of you are working on what weapon your bond will make. Remember, the more kinky the sex, the more unique and powerful the weapon.
- Before the Battle: A duel is imminent, and last-minute power recharges must be made.
- Comfort: The events of the day didn't go as planned, and one of you needs reassuring.
- Service: Related to the comforting scene above, yet here, someone - usually a bride - feels more obligated to sexually service their partner. Needless to say, this is less warm and fuzzy than the desire or need to comfort.
- Berserker: Your bride has been threatened. You must destroy anyone who could have harmed them. Can you be brought back from the brink.
- Unexpected: A bride protecting a groom? Unheard of!
- Double Trouble: At least one of you in your pair is sadistic and looks for other bride and groom duos to torment, both physically and sexually, even if they don't want to duel. The other party is willing or at the very least unable to be noncompliant.
- Kindness: You're a caring partnership that takes other brides and grooms under your wing.
- To Your Tastes: A good bride can know what a groom wants even before the groom does, including new sexual activities and kinks.
- The Sword is Mightier: It's time to draw your weapon. Physical intimacy is the way to unholster it.
- Need a Boost: Right in the middle of a duel, the groom's strength is fading. Even if it means having sex in front of an audience, this must be rectified no matter what.
- Victor: The duel ended in your favor. That's worthy of celebration.
- To Be Left Alone: Your bride or groom is leaving you. It is your duty to convince them to stay.
- Defeat: The battle didn't go your way. Your bride or groom has been slain in front of your eyes; if you're a bride, perhaps it was to get at you. Your humiliation is cinched by your being claimed.
- Groom vs. Grooms: Occasionally, grooms will choose to fight each other. There is only one way to completely defeat your opponent without your bride and thoroughly make them grovel.
- Forced to Become a Bride: In continuation of the above, some grooms have found ways to turn their competitors into brides themselves. After forcing them into their new role, an engagement is imminent.
- Betrayal: In a twist of fate, the one you as a groom should trust most, your bride, has been working against you this entire time.
- Off the Grid: The two of you don't want to fight others, you just want to live together in peace as normal lovers. Of course, that's easier in theory than in practice.
- Revolutionize: You've come out on top; no other couple could defeat you in battle. Now that you've broken the egg's shell, what will your new world together be like?
Lambda | OC
Quick ref/info here! Her being an A.I. can make it hard to handwave CR or scenarios so I am also fine with her being translated into a canon-appropriate substitute as suits the needs of a given thread!
Totally fine with leaning into all the smutty and romantic aspects of this with Lambda in particular and I have a list of nsfw prefs here! Role wise, Lambda can easily go either way – my gut says she would be a bride by default but I want insane yandere groom Lambda so bad yall. Imagine her with a chainsaw sword. You know it would kick ass. ]
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You wanna make Lambda the groom to his bride? Maybe the whole Rose Bride system is happening in online VR.]
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my immediate thought is either just prior or the aftermath of their first fight where they have to work out all the wiggly emotional bits of the system and their first acts of physical intimacy? What If You Were Trapped In A VR 😳 And We Held Hands ]
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Since neither of us is super-duper familiar with the other's character, I'm fine going either way on pre- or post-duel, but post- might give us more to work with. V would likely be pretty shaken up about the whole thing, since he is but a soft photographer who never wanted to hurt nobody, so Lambda would have a prime opportunity there to try to make him feel better.]
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Not until she'd met her bride, at least.
She's heard of love at first sight before and she thinks that it must be a feeling like this. It's fortunate that in a game made to test their feelings that she's been given a bride like V. He's so lovely. He's so soft. He makes Lambda want to do anything and everything she can to keep him safe and smiling and if that means rampaging through the duelling arena like a madwoman, cutting and ripping and tearing until their opponent conceded, then that's fine. She'll do whatever it takes.
She leaves the other groom with his bride. Lambda has no interest in stealing something that's beneath her.
She doesn't even wait for them to step out of the rose cage elevator taking them down from the duelling arena before she whirls to face him, seizing his hands in hers and beaming all over her face. Despite the ferocity she'd displayed during the duel, she's practically glowing with contentment. It's more than a little jarring. ]
So? Did you see me fight? Didn't I do an incredible job? I knew I'd be able to do anything I needed to do to protect you, but I had no idea it would be so easy!
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What feeling between him and Lambda should look like that when wrenched into the light? Should love be so vicious, something that tears others to shreds to protect itself? Is that what he was missing before: the strength to prove his love above all else? Is that why he couldn’t save…?
V presses his lips together, swallows, and inclines his head.]
Y-yes, you did. But…
[He didn’t enter this so-called game to hurt anyone. He didn’t do it to find a new partner, either. He came seeking out one of the programmers, Choi Saeran, a young man he knows he failed. If he’d known his attempt to infiltrate one of Mint Eye’s projects would present him any form of kindness, he would have steeled himself against it.
Instead, Lambda came to him, the first beautiful thing he’d truly seen in almost a year. In his virtually restored vision, she shone with a purity of intent and affection V has only seen in the natural world—the love of the sun for the flowers that drink its light, the love of birds for the sky. She sinks through his broken defenses like a steady, inescapable rain.
He didn’t think he’d love again. He can’t be sure that’s what this is, not after the ruin he brought on love before. What V does know is that, even now, with Lambda looking up at him with such hope and joy, he has to protect her. Even if it’s from the destruction she herself can wreak. Even if it shatters what’s left of him again.
He brings one of his caught hands up to gently graze her cheek.]
First, are you hurt?
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Not that she minds, of course. She'll do anything she has to do to keep him safe at her side. ]
I'm fine, I'm fine! [ She singsongs the words cheerily and lifts her own hand in turn so she can press the palm of his hand to her cheek. Her fingers are scratched and bruised in places just from the effort of wielding such a violent weapon but true to her word, she's uninjured. ] As if I'd let a half-rate groom like that land a blow on me, especially when I'm fighting him to protect you.
[ She grins at him. Her eyes are a little too bright, lit up from within by adrenaline. ]
But what's more important is you. You're shaken up, aren't you?
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Lambda... please don't say that. I'm the last person who should be important to anyone.
[How can she look at him with eyes like that, when the heart he offered her was such a monstrous work of sawteeth and chain? Why should she tear another groom to shreds for the husk of a man that he is? V doesn't want this. Not for Lambda, and not for anyone else caught up in these duels.
He brushes the pad of his thumb ever so softly across her cheekbone.]
Next time... maybe you should surrender me. Then no one else will get hurt. You'll be safe.
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... why would you say something like that?
[ It's a little strange to hear her own voice coming out of her like that, limp and tuneless. Being with V makes her feel like she's bubbling over with energy but hearing him say that makes her feel like a punctured balloon, all that buoyant air rushing out and leaving her emptied.
He doesn't... want to be without her, does he? Surely that can't be the case. There aren't any other grooms here who could be as warm and as fond of him as Lambda is, right? So why would he want to go to anyone else.
Her grip on his hand tightens. Her nails don't bite in, but they threaten too, even if it's only accidental on her part. ]
I don't want to let you go! I'm fighting like this so I can be with you, always! I won't forgive anyone who tries to take you from me and I'll never give you up to anyone who thinks you can be stolen!
[ She steps forward a little, pushing even more into his space. Up close like this, the red of her eyes is particularly piercing. ]
Don't say things like that... don't say that I should be without you, I don't want that! I don't want that at all!
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But you wouldn't have to do this. That--the sword I gave you...
[Well, it's the sword she drew from him, really, but what V's self-blame fixes on is that it came from him. Its jagged ugliness was born of something broken inside him, and he should have known better, he should have known, because he already tried once to prove he could love and look what happened. Look.
He squeezes his eyes shut, but still, moving blindly, his hand travels from where she's pressed it to her cheek to cup the back of her head. Cradling her like she's something fragile, something precious, he draws her in closer to his trembling shoulders.]
It was heavy, wasn't it? It had to have hurt to hold. I-I don't want anyone else to suffer because of me. I don't want you to suffer, Lambda.
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Doesn't he see? This is why she can't let him go to anyone else. Now that she's felt this warmth, she can't be left all by herself again. ]
It was heavy. [ She won't lie – V would see through that in a moment and it'd make it even more difficult for him to open his heart to her. ] It made my hands sting. But that didn't mean I was suffering while I held it. Don't you know that a rose is most beautiful while it still has thorns?
[ Not that Lambda has ever seen a rose or its thorns for herself, of course. ]
It was powerful, wasn't it? You saw how strong it was. That means your feelings must be just as strong. It made me so happy to know that. And it means I could bear any kind of weight if it means protecting your feelings.
Yuri | Doki Doki Literature Club
Info & permissions are on my journal! Totally fine with the shippy and smutty aspects for Yuri. I'm also down for playing some of the meta/horror stuff in DDLC if that's something you're interested in poking at and if we can work it into the meme premise!
Mostly interested in Bride Yuri in this scenario BUT I think deranged groom Yuri with a cool dagger would also be sick. OH NO I HAVE A TYPE ]
Ryoko Shinonome | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Full permissions on journal! Not interested in the smut aspects with Ryoko, but romance with teens close to her age is fine. I mostly prefer Groom Ryoko with some kind of cool gunblade sniper thing. ]
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Well, that isn't exactly true, but that's what it feels like. It's not as though Arkou is following her back to her dorm, or creeping behind her through the halls of the academy... then again, that's due to how Arkou is six foot and built like a brick shithouse rather than any moral reservations about it. Somebody else usually took care of the stealthy tailing for her.
But there's an inescapable eye on her. The feeling of being watched, almost like she's being sized up for vivisection, whenever Arkou is in the room with her. (If Ryoko pays close attention, she'll find it's not just her. That same eye drifts toward other Grooms, toward Brides, even though Arkou does not count herself among their number.) Arkou always happens to find herself in the same room as Ryoko, seemingly by coincidence, but there's a certain saying about coincidences and patterns.
Today, though, an apparent breaking point has been reached. This time, Arkou is leaning against the wall as Ryoko passes by, fiddling with a pack of... toothpicks? Huh.]
Oh, Miss Shinonome! I was hoping to catch you.
[She smiles disarmingly.]
Mind if I ask a few questions?
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If there's one thing she can't stand, it's when she feels like she's being outmaneuvered.
She's got a sour look on her face as she makes to breeze past that grows even more sour once Arkou speaks up. She's of half a mind to just carry on walking but maybe if she gets this over with, she'll be left in peace. She whips around, schooling her expression into the coldest glare she could muster. ]
I have a feeling you'll ask them whether I mind or not.
HOW HAS IT BEEN FIVE DAYS i'm sorry finals week was rough
I'm sure you have places to go and things to do, so I'll try and skip the windup and get right to the point, [said in the tone of voice of someone who probably can't resist drawing the questioning out.] This school has its fair share of mysteries. Has that kind of atmosphere, I suppose; everything seems like some kind of conspiracy or supernatural phenomenon. Normally, I'm a skeptic.
But several eyewitness accounts of pairs of students showing up on the grounds at odd hours does raise my eyebrow, especially when the pairs are pretty damn consistent and they're scraped up afterwards. I wouldn't care about fightclubs or whatever you're up to most of the time, but...
[Her eyes get a dangerous glint.] When one of the pairs shows up half-dead and is still in recovery, and everyone's doing their damndest to pretend like nothing's happened, I make it my business.
Unfortunately, trying to find where this is all happening, and more importantly why, hasn't been fruitful. [She shrugs haplessly.] I said that I was going to ask you some questions out of habit, but really, I'm here to propose a deal.
Either you take me to what's happening and show me what's going on, or I keep on stalking you with incredible tenacity for the foreseeable future until you finally slip up and I can successfully tail you. Short way or long way, I am getting to the bottom of this.
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It sounds to me like you've already convinced yourself of whatever you want the answer to be. I'm willing to bet stopping me to question me like this is just a formality, isn't it?
[ Or a bit of showboating. She gets the impression that Arkou can't resist a bit of theatricality. ]
Accidents happen. I don't know why you're so convinced that something's going on or why I would have anything to tell you about it.
Obi | Snow White with the Red Hair
As a groom, Obi fights like a ninja and prefers knives and daggers. Obi is equally available as a bride, either by original assignment or as a former groom.
I'm fine playing with the more intimate prompts, but would prefer not to play the manipulative/cruel/otherwise ProblematiqueTM prompts straight. Could definitely work out twists for them though. Obi has no strict gender preference and is by default in his early twenties, but I'm happy to adjust his age accordingly.]
Nanami Chiaki | Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Or if you really want to get existentially weird, I can play her closer to her canon reality, which was [SPOILERS REDACTED; IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW]. She is almost certainly a bride, but hey, if you have an idea otherwise I'll roll with it.
With Chiaki, I'd rather skip the outright smutty options, but am very happy to translate them into "the intense intimacy of holding someone's hand/standing close together/mere physical contact for the first time" moments. I would still prefer not to play the manipulative/cruel/otherwise ProblematiqueTM prompts straight, but can definitely work out twists for them. Chiaki has perhaps a slight preference for boys, but it's not real pronounced, so she's OTA within the high school age range.]
Therion | Octopath Traveler
Probably a groom, and he can fight with either daggers or swords. I'm fine playing with the more intimate prompts, but would prefer not to play the manipulative/cruel/otherwise ProblematiqueTM prompts straight. Could definitely work out twists for them though. Therion is 22 and bi.]