Quote:I know that, but I just don't have ANYTHING here. Getting FF7's dated MIDI music stuck in my head isn't helping any, either... (COME ON! I have Game Boy Advance games that look and sound better than this - granted, they're a couple years newer and use pre-rendered sprites, but still. For twelve bucks used, I'll give it a while to let itself prove it's "holy grail of RPG plot/play" hype, prehistoric graphics and all.) I supose the "Your brother, your problem" bit comes next, then it's Ko-gal and the Groupies... Perhaps an image for her would help?
Meh. Meh, I say. Even a couple of lines would be enough to help me keep up a back-and-forth... which, while I've never really tried it for prose, certainly makes things flow easier in conversations like this one.
Name: Tsukurimono - (artificial product; decoration; fake; crop)
Shareta - ( stylish; tasteful; fashionable)
Function: Queen Bitch
Skills: Count all the way to 100 (to properly brush her hair), Specialist: Gossip, Specialist: Dating, Journeyman: Cutting Remarks
Abilities: Enhanced endurance (Shopping), Low-pressure tolerance (High Horsemanship, Keep Nose in Air), Sonic attack (SQUEEE!)
Description: Bleach-blonde and having a deep tan with that slightly plastic look that comes from a bottle, Shareta seldom keeps any street outift for more than a month, and even her school uniforms are made from the richest fabrics and tailored as much as she can get away with. She doesn't QUITE look like a hooker, since she doesn't go overboard on the makeup, but as far as anyone in the hero cast can tell the source of her popularity is a mystery, as she is without apparent redeeming features.
Still, she attracts a crowd of sycophantic trend-following girls and has a handful of drooling guys wrapped around her finger. She makes it well known that her parents are wealthy executives and that she travels all over the world during school breaks, but they never show up for school functions and according to what someone overheard walking past the teacher's room only her governess was there when Bozu-sensei went for a home visit at the end of last term. (Naturally, said personage was THRILLED to meet him.)
Groupies: They try to mimic Shareta's look, discernable mainly in the lapse - One is too tall to be mistaken for her idol, one a bit too chubby, another's parents won't let her grow her hair that long, and none of them can quite afford the expensive fabrics she wears. They rarely say anything that she hasn't said first, and are always quick to backtrack if it seems she disagrees with whatever semi-original thoughts they might express.
Role: Fill out school crowd scenes, act as foils or distractions when a scene starts to drag.
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Much later edit to avoid doubleposting:
I just had a suddden thought RE dragon biology - their closest purely mundane terrestrial relatives, despite their saurian appearance, is most likely the duck-billed platypus. Modern birds, after all, are offshoots of actual dinosaur lines according to my vaguely remembered science show archeology, and platypi are already egg-laying mammals with a feathery coating - and feathers could surely proceed to scales if they could proceed FROM scales. They're also carnivorous, eating small insects and critters filtered out of the mud. Yes, they lack fifth and sixth limbs, but there's the whole magic-influenced evolution thing, even if you don't buy into the dragons simply having been made that way by one or another form of divinity.
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What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
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