Red String of Fate (OOC) (OPEN) (Courting)

[A m e n r i a]

I'd give it a day or two.

[Diahon]

Given that my attempt to make hay on my own terms (with a PT-focused pirate-hunting RP for a puppet) has fallen on barren ground as of late, how amenable are you to... two or three apps, one from this nation and two from the puppet?

[The Frozen Forest]

Given that my attempt to make hay on my own terms (with a PT-focused pirate-hunting RP for a puppet) has fallen on barren ground as of late, how amenable are you to... two or three apps, one from this nation and two from the puppet?

That would be fine, so long as you are able to maintain acceptable quality posts for all of them I don't see a problem.

[Diahon]

Given that my attempt to make hay on my own terms (with a PT-focused pirate-hunting RP for a puppet) has fallen on barren ground as of late, how amenable are you to... two or three apps, one from this nation and two from the puppet?

That would be fine, so long as you are able to maintain acceptable quality posts for all of them I don't see a problem.

Alright, then. I'll have to dredge up character sheets from at least two years and as much as two DEAT'd nations ago, so I haven't been active roleplayer for quite some time -- so forgive my tardiness and rust, among others.

And if I may ask -- what happened to Kuronami, by the way? Did something bad happen?

[The Frozen Forest]

That would be fine, so long as you are able to maintain acceptable quality posts for all of them I don't see a problem.

Alright, then. I'll have to dredge up character sheets from at least two years and as much as two DEAT'd nations ago, so I haven't been active roleplayer for quite some time -- so forgive my tardiness and rust, among others.

And if I may ask -- what happened to Kuronami, by the way? Did something bad happen?

Welcome back! I'm not too much of a stickler so it's fine if you're a bit rusty, hence why the minimum for posts is only a single paragraph. Regarding Kuronami, they were among a core group of RPers that I've been RPing with for a long time, among others like A M E N R I A, The Selkie, Camelone, Brettenwald, Prussian Polish Commonwealth, AHSCA, Mervay and a few others. We're all (for the most part) seasoned veterans of the site. Kuronami CTE'd a month or two ago and hasn't restored, but I keep them in my signature out of respect.

[Diahon]

Name: "Hakase Satomi. H-A-K-A-S-E S-A-T-O-M-I. Satomi Hakase in Western order, Satomi's my personal name, Hakase's the family name. Would you like the Arabic and Indian renditions as well?"
Title(s): "Technically, only the kami have titles befitting their station, buuuuuut 'Mistress'. Will 'Mistress' do?"
Nationality: "Dahoni."
House/Family: "Haka-- oh you mean royal house? Still. Not that the kith and kin are technically counted as royals where I'm from."

Family Crest: "It's a real stumper -- the crest is the standard kanji-on-a-circle thing, but for the life of me or people before me, I don't know why my forefather would choose the kanji for 'grave' and 'mound' for his name. 'Ha-Qassim' into 'Haka-se'. The family joke was that the night he chose them was the night he had hookers and sake on a joke bar at the Comic Alley. Which would be weird, given family stories talk of him as a devout Muslim Arab, but."
Place of Birth: "Yumiko City, in the capital of the Asunaro Adminis-- owait, it's no longer the ASAT. Sis now a kami in herself. How could I forget?"

Age: "I'm a fully mature 21-year old woman! With a funny hairstyle and modest chest, but who's counting? That's right, prospective royal husbands!"
Religion: "Dahoni Budhist. Don't ask me, don't care. Just don't ask me to convert. I'll nod along, but Saga -- the Hakasekami, my twin sister -- doesn't like the PR."
Languages Spoken: "Dahoni Japanese and Indian English, among others. Can also understand Moscan English, though the accents and terminology can be... how do I put it... physically taxing. Especially the Comorian subset."
Travel of Note: "Haven't traveled for a bit due to the pandemic, but I did use to go to India to do some lectures, and to Moscareinas for scientific conventions. Oh, and to countries with excellent railway systems, as I like riding trains, and because we don't have those in Dahon. Queendom loves being down home and rustic."
Personality: "How can I describe myself? I can say I'm smart, I can say I love science, I can say I'm inquisitive, I can say I'm fickle, I can even say I'm YOLO! But if you choose me, I'll make sure to... turn your castles into labs while I raise our kids to be exactly fifty percent me! Half scientifically inquisitive, half... royal? Saga has the royal thing down pat, I don't have it, but that's why I'll have you!"
Likes: "I like cakes and ale. I like kids; have you seen them grow before you? I like walking long distances; I find it jogs my mind real nice to slowly pace through changing scenery. I like scientific experiments, especially when you know what's gonna happen next. I like assembling and dissasembling little contraptions, like this Freeplay -- hand cranks this reliable were deemed impossible before Sir Baylis came along. Then he figured out how to make that spring small enough yet be able to store fantastic amounts of potential energy with a complete revolution of the dial..."
Dislikes: "The ignorance -- not of the merely stupid, but the proudly stupid. Ah, just look at the West, its democracies riven by demagogues thirsting for... but that's more Saga's forte, not mine. Politics? Another thing I don't like."
Fears: "Drowning. For the longest time I was really afraid of swimming, though I used to be a decent swimmer. Then on December 26 of that year..."
Bio: Younger twin of the Hakasekami Hakase Saga, the first kami of the Asunaro archipelago, Satomi enjoys -- and more importantly, plays up to -- her reputation as a footloose eccentric genius (between 2016 and 2019, for example, she stayed in Dahon for a total of four months). Unlike the contemporary she's often compared to, the similarly talented Suzumikami Watanabe Kiako, though, she's disavowed politics and diplomacy for scientific pursuits, once declaring herself "married to science" in an Indian radio talk show. That said, young as she is, Satomi's life has had its share of tragedy: the same 2004 tsunami had wiped out the Suzumikami's entire extended family apart from her mother (the previous Suzumikami, a delicate figure busy with her obligations at the time) and her successor also washed away the twins' parents and their older brother Satohru and very nearly killed 4-year-old Satomi herself -- she was found 8 days after the tsunami hit, seriously dehydrated from exposure as well as from drinking seawater, swimming furiously in a vain bid to find her parents and brother, and unaware and quite unbelieving that her twin sister was safe and sound back ashore.

What will you be bringing with you: "The usual: a change of clothes, toiletries, what have you. I may or may not look ever so slightly dorky in a backpack, though."
What gift will you be presenting to the King: "A scooter roll! Of course I assembled it myself, though I based it off those Razor models from the double-noughts. It's got a tamper- and-shockproof compass, a digital clock, GPS, it's lightweight enough and it's foldable enough that it can fit into a decent-sized backpack..."
Miscellaneous Information: Hopefully I can finish this by tomorrow morning. Man, I forgot writing apps is tiring!

[Kyrenaia]

Hey! So I messaged all of y'all who were active about restarting the thread or continuing on with it. Everyone that I've talked to seems down for continuing. I floated the idea of starting back into day two, but if everyone would prefer we could also just pick up right where we left off (I am absolutely fine with either).

I'm sticking a poll up for y'all to vote on which you'd prefer. I'm really excited to continue and hope y'all are as well! If we start from Day Two i'll put up a new IC thread, and if we pick up where we left off I'll get to work on a post that will be up today.

Glad to see you back.
I'm down for continuing where we left off. After all, Ivan should meet with the lassies trying to court him before he has a grand social function where he might be forced to reveal a decision. ; )

[Brettenwald]

Hey! So I messaged all of y'all who were active about restarting the thread or continuing on with it. Everyone that I've talked to seems down for continuing. I floated the idea of starting back into day two, but if everyone would prefer we could also just pick up right where we left off (I am absolutely fine with either).

I'm sticking a poll up for y'all to vote on which you'd prefer. I'm really excited to continue and hope y'all are as well! If we start from Day Two i'll put up a new IC thread, and if we pick up where we left off I'll get to work on a post that will be up today.

Glad to see you back.
I'm down for continuing where we left off. After all, Ivan should meet with the lassies trying to court him before he has a grand social function where he might be forced to reveal a decision. ; )

seconded, would be happy to pick up where we left off

[Laka Strolistandiler]

Alright, then. I'll have to dredge up character sheets from at least two years and as much as two DEAT'd nations ago, so I haven't been active roleplayer for quite some time -- so forgive my tardiness and rust, among others.

And if I may ask -- what happened to Kuronami, by the way? Did something bad happen?

Welcome back! I'm not too much of a stickler so it's fine if you're a bit rusty, hence why the minimum for posts is only a single paragraph. Regarding Kuronami, they were among a core group of RPers that I've been RPing with for a long time, among others like A M E N R I A, The Selkie, Camelone, Brettenwald, Prussian Polish Commonwealth, AHSCA, Mervay and a few others. We're all (for the most part) seasoned veterans of the site. Kuronami CTE'd a month or two ago and hasn't restored, but I keep them in my signature out of respect.

Glad to see your back. Of course I’m more than willing to continue our RP. As Lavinia is no longer IC’ly a head of Laka (was replaced by her daughter) I guess should ignore this part for this RP, if this is acceptable

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

ayy lmao


Open to continuing, as stated via TGs.

[The Saucer Pilots]

ayy lmao

Eyyy.

Nova's still waiting on Adelheid, or am I mistaken?

[The Frozen Forest]

Post is in the works! Should be up either either in the next hour-ish, or tomorrow morning.

[Scornerse]

Well let's see, it was the night before day 2 and I think Sartana was going to spar or get into an altercation with someone next scene?

[Moscareinas]

Name: Nur Raura Daburah al-Khala, "Raura" for short, as she's aware of this guy
Title(s): Her Highness; Princess
Nationality: Moscan
House/Family: Khala
Family Crest: The national seal of IRL Comoros, but the olive branches are colored the way the Moscan flag (IRL Mauritius) is.
Place of Birth: Moroni, Ngazidja, Comoros, Moscareinas

Age: 28
Religion: Sunni Islam, at least nominally. Unlike most of her family, though, her adherence to it can be charitably described as... not really observant.
Languages Spoken: Shikomori, English, French, Arabic, Swahili, Hindi, Urdu
Travel of Note: As CEO of the Khala Fund & Assistance, the largest charitable organization in Moscareinas privately run and overseen by the House of Khala, she has frequently traveled to the Middle East, east Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, occasionally alongside her older sister and celebrity sailor Maryam Khala-Kapoor.
Personality: A workaholic, but not excessively so. Can be rather airheaded at times, leading her to sometimes drift off to unexpected tangents in casual conversation. Not naturally brilliant or gregarious like her slacker of an older sister (apart from a knack at acquiring languages), dedication is a hallmark of her character. Prudish around adults; very relaxed around kids, especially her nephews and nieces.
Likes: Wooden boats and ships. "'Like'? Try 'L-O-V-E'!" Again, this is in contrast to her older sister, who rather likes the thrill of competitive sailing on state-of-the-art sailing vessels with some, but not all, of the same fervor Debra does with pleasure cruises on wooden shipping vessels. In addition, she also likes to work, talk about the transparency laws of different countries (especially Moscareinas -- she'll tend to drift to this or the intricacies of the construction of wooden boats in unguarded moments), sleep in hammocks, and go on camping trips.
Dislikes: Slacking off, technological advances (ironic, as the Comoros is the most technologically sophisticated of the constituent archipelagoes of Moscareinas), breaches of transparency laws, public displays of affection, Dragon Ball Z, travelling by plane, suffering, death, and pandemics.
Fears: Fighting, war, seeing good people die, plane crashes.
Bio: The third eldest of her generation of the House of Khala, Raura carries on the legacy of the House of Khala, Moscareinas' only royal family, descended directly from Musham al-Khala, first emir of the Comoros and nephew of Farida al-Khala, Companion of the Prophet (and who may or may not be the same person as Sabrina, trusted advisor to Pulakeshin II of the Chalukya dynasty of what is now Karnataka, India, and Yakumo Yukari, first kami of Dahon).

What will you be bringing with you: The usual travelling supplies. She'd have been accompanied by either of her elder siblings, but brother Muhammad had to see his wife give birth, and sister Maryam signed up for yet another sailing contest. So, two bodyguards appointed to her, not by the House, but by the Moscan government, according to the terms of the 1799 verbal agreement between the Sultan-claimant of the time (returning from his self-exile in Ethiopia) and the first Moscan president Lazare La Merde.
What gift will you be presenting to the King: She settled on a scimitar captured from the Omani governor of Ngazidja during the liberation of the Comoros in 1799, but she isn't sure if it would be the right gift for the King Different proposals have been bounced around to her elder brother -- a full-course traditional Komori feast, to be prepared by her bodyguards; a drone light show ("No, too techy, too unlike you, and Arab royals love them too much!"); and a straight-up bribe from the Khalas' copious reserves; even a document detailing flaws in, and proposed amendments to, Frozen Forest transparency laws -- but all were rejected.
Miscellaneous Information: thinking.jpg

[Moscareinas]

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Name: "Akira Sengoku."
Title(s): "Just 'Miss'".
Nationality: "Moscan."
House/Family: "I'm not a member oof any rooil or nooble hoose. Yet."
Family Crest: "We doon't, um, really have one."
Place of Birth: "Wellekind Hospital, Desroches Avnue, Genvette Ditritt, Hemmeville, Aurora Islands, Moscareinas."
Age: "Twinny-six."
Religion: "Rooman Cattlitt. Not in prattice, in theery."
Languages Spoken: "I can speak English an' Nihongo."
Travel of Note: "I usially travel for bisiness; my Sengoku Foods & Sweets has ooverseis brinches in fifteen countries on foor contnents. And as far as I'm concerned, wedship is exattly like bisiness, meaning it's ennirely up my alley."
Personality:
Likes: "I like boys; I've ha'them. I like chocleet; I have a fact'ry. I like bisiness; it proospers. I like kids; I have three. Mixeem allup an' y'gett --"
Dislikes: "Boollybogs. Liers. Dimetotts. Scups." ("Scalawags. Liars. Demagogues. Paparazzi.")
Fears: "Running oot oof mooney. Dying afore my kids. M'kids dying. Scups. D'usial."
Bio: The love child of a first-generation teenage Japanese Moscan and his paramour of Anglo-Indian ancestry, Akira Sengoku is the founder and CEO of Sengoku Foods & Sweets, Incorporated, a Moscan-based multinational manufacturer of artisanal confectionery and beverages and the largest of its kind in the insular Indian Ocean. Called both the "choco queen" and "the iron-jawed, iron-blooded, iron-bosomed" for her advocacy of the Sengoku Special All-Chocolate Diet and her boardoom negotiating skills, reminiscent of 19th century Moscan industrial titans Abramurthy, Seleemi, and Wellekind, she's well known for having founded the company while still in her early teens, using a small legacy her paternal grandfather left her. She's also notorious for her hookups, having had three children out of wedlock with three different men (whose identities were concealed, to the frustration of Moscan paparazzi), the first when she was fifteen, the latest in 2019. Needless to say, her sojourn to the Frozen Forest is twofold: to improve her matrimonial reputation by marrying into royalty, and to expand her company into fresh territory.

What will you be bringing with you: "What any decent woomin m'age must broot, oof coorse. Scups will call me sandloose, but I willn't mind; what matters is the results."
What gift will you be presenting to the King: "King-sized artisanal chocleet, fit foor a king. If he asks foor more, I can make more. If he wants his cuttycroo to make it, I've a book an' a link to m'site, where he can maintain an all-natural, all-artisanal, Sengoku Special All-Chocleet Diet."
Miscellaneous Information: This latest attempt to butcher the English language to bring forth a variant is brought to you by yours truly. To anyone contemplating violence upon my person for this travesty, please mask up and vaccinate before you beat the shit out of me. Thank you.

[A m e n r i a]

Posted.

[Danceria]

Prepare for trouble, and make it double-neither are here to wed the poor king, but there are certain persons who may attempt to find a quid pro quo for the Frozen Forest.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Prepare for trouble, and make it double-neither are here to wed the poor king, but there are certain persons who may attempt to find a quid pro quo for the Frozen Forest.

trollge

[Laka Strolistandiler]

Prepare for trouble, and make it double-neither are here to wed the poor king, but there are certain persons who may attempt to find a quid pro quo for the Frozen Forest.

I mean Lavinia is here to potentially marry him because the only other way for her to leave her current political position is through honorable death

[The Frozen Forest]

Prepare for trouble, and make it double-neither are here to wed the poor king, but there are certain persons who may attempt to find a quid pro quo for the Frozen Forest.

Interesting, I'm not quite sure what you mean but I look forwards to whatever it is you have planned.

Name: Nur Raura Daburah al-Khala, "Raura" for short, as she's aware of this guy
Title(s): Her Highness; Princess
Nationality: Moscan
House/Family: Khala
Family Crest: The national seal of IRL Comoros, but the olive branches are colored the way the Moscan flag (IRL Mauritius) is.
Place of Birth: Moroni, Ngazidja, Comoros, Moscareinas

Age: 28
Religion: Sunni Islam, at least nominally. Unlike most of her family, though, her adherence to it can be charitably described as... not really observant.
Languages Spoken: Shikomori, English, French, Arabic, Swahili, Hindi, Urdu
Travel of Note: As CEO of the Khala Fund & Assistance, the largest charitable organization in Moscareinas privately run and overseen by the House of Khala, she has frequently traveled to the Middle East, east Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, occasionally alongside her older sister and celebrity sailor Maryam Khala-Kapoor.
Personality: A workaholic, but not excessively so. Can be rather airheaded at times, leading her to sometimes drift off to unexpected tangents in casual conversation. Not naturally brilliant or gregarious like her slacker of an older sister (apart from a knack at acquiring languages), dedication is a hallmark of her character. Prudish around adults; very relaxed around kids, especially her nephews and nieces.
Likes: Wooden boats and ships. "'Like'? Try 'L-O-V-E'!" Again, this is in contrast to her older sister, who rather likes the thrill of competitive sailing on state-of-the-art sailing vessels with some, but not all, of the same fervor Debra does with pleasure cruises on wooden shipping vessels. In addition, she also likes to work, talk about the transparency laws of different countries (especially Moscareinas -- she'll tend to drift to this or the intricacies of the construction of wooden boats in unguarded moments), sleep in hammocks, and go on camping trips.
Dislikes: Slacking off, technological advances (ironic, as the Comoros is the most technologically sophisticated of the constituent archipelagoes of Moscareinas), breaches of transparency laws, public displays of affection, Dragon Ball Z, travelling by plane, suffering, death, and pandemics.
Fears: Fighting, war, seeing good people die, plane crashes.
Bio: The third eldest of her generation of the House of Khala, Raura carries on the legacy of the House of Khala, Moscareinas' only royal family, descended directly from Musham al-Khala, first emir of the Comoros and nephew of Farida al-Khala, Companion of the Prophet (and who may or may not be the same person as Sabrina, trusted advisor to Pulakeshin II of the Chalukya dynasty of what is now Karnataka, India, and Yakumo Yukari, first kami of Dahon).

What will you be bringing with you: The usual travelling supplies. She'd have been accompanied by either of her elder siblings, but brother Muhammad had to see his wife give birth, and sister Maryam signed up for yet another sailing contest. So, two bodyguards appointed to her, not by the House, but by the Moscan government, according to the terms of the 1799 verbal agreement between the Sultan-claimant of the time (returning from his self-exile in Ethiopia) and the first Moscan president Lazare La Merde.
What gift will you be presenting to the King: She settled on a scimitar captured from the Omani governor of Ngazidja during the liberation of the Comoros in 1799, but she isn't sure if it would be the right gift for the King Different proposals have been bounced around to her elder brother -- a full-course traditional Komori feast, to be prepared by her bodyguards; a drone light show ("No, too techy, too unlike you, and Arab royals love them too much!"); and a straight-up bribe from the Khalas' copious reserves; even a document detailing flaws in, and proposed amendments to, Frozen Forest transparency laws -- but all were rejected.
Miscellaneous Information: thinking.jpg

Accepted! Love the "gift" section, didn't expect that last sentence.

Prepare for trouble, and make it double-neither are here to wed the poor king, but there are certain persons who may attempt to find a quid pro quo for the Frozen Forest.

I mean Lavinia is here to potentially marry him because the only other way for her to leave her current political position is through honorable death

That's metal

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Post is still incoming! I had to rewrite two sections because I didn't feel they were good enough for posting. Post will be up within the next hour or two.

[Brettenwald]

Sorry for taking so long to get back in action, guys, I'm still finding my feet in college.

[A m e n r i a]

Sorry for taking so long to get back in action, guys, I'm still finding my feet in college.

Yeet yeet you no longer have feet~

There, problem solved!

[The Frozen Forest]

Sorry for taking so long to get back in action, guys, I'm still finding my feet in college.

Yeet yeet you no longer have feet~

There, problem solved!

I agree, problem solved. I now expect consistent and daily posting of no less than ten paragraphs of unspeakingly great quality posts from Brettenwald. Anything less is unacceptable. Given how much I've enjoyed basically every one of Bretten's posts, I demand that Brettenwalds college not inhibit them from posting, or i shall write a strongly worded letter to them describing my utmost disappointment and sadness.

No but seriously, take all the time you need Bretten.

Oh and post is up!

[Brettenwald]

Yeet yeet you no longer have feet~

There, problem solved!

I agree, problem solved.

how am I supposed to get to class if I can't walk ;_;

Unironically, I'll try to have a post up soon enough. Probably over the weekend.

[Diahon]

Ara ara, just one accepted? I seriously should post up those bios, then. Especially Sengoku's -- especially in Moscareinas, she's something of a serial casualist (has had many, many flings since her teens; has had three kids out of wedlock, her first at the ripe old age of 15).