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No Pressure

by Paul Taylor on September 26, 2017 at 11:02 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Alana, Atsali, Ruri, Skylar
Location: Dragon's Wall College

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Discussion (49) ¬

  1. Jeff Weiner
    September 26, 2017, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

    Well, that’s a very reserved yong woman…

  2. BarerMender
    September 26, 2017, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

    She is not looking well.

  3. themadkansan
    September 26, 2017, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

    …part-yokai, maybe?

  4. B0mar
    September 26, 2017, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

    SO! …. what is it exactly Alana listens too, or for, again? She’s a sort of Anti-Tina. I get the feeling that a conversation with her is like playing Postal Chess. Is she accustomed to a more efficient form of speech [like Digit?]

    • Guesticus
      September 27, 2017, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

      Because Ruri doesn’t speak often, or loudly, Alana needs to listen for when she does

  5. BarerMender
    September 26, 2017, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    What’s a yokaI?

    • Sjmcc13
      September 26, 2017, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

      A for of Japanese ghost

      • BarerMender
        September 26, 2017, 11:42 pm | #

        thx

      • Jeff Weiner
        September 26, 2017, 11:55 pm | #

        Ah, Castela will have a possible subject to observe when she visits Atsali.

      • gyrre
        September 27, 2017, 7:31 pm | #

        Not always a ghost, though. Quite a few have fully physical forms. There’s a whole subset that are living artifacts; the tsukumogamiusAccording to Japanese folklore sandals, teapots, umbrellas, etc can “acquire a spirit” after many years of use.

    • joecrouse
      September 27, 2017, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      yokai are spirits that inhabit objects that have had long use and are well loved then abandoned.

      • Vorlonagent
        September 27, 2017, 11:20 am | #

        I thought it was the yellow part of an egg… 🙂

      • MidnightDStroyer
        September 27, 2017, 6:05 pm | #

        So it seems like the egg is on your face, huh Vori?
        😉

      • Siarles
        September 27, 2017, 6:46 pm | #

        Not quite. Those are a type of yokai called tsukumogami. Yokai is a more general term for supernatural creatures.

  6. WEKM
    September 26, 2017, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    QUICK! Somebody plug that girl into a wall outleta

    • Great Scott
      September 27, 2017, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      “Juden Chan” perhaps? (from TokuHD?)

    • Iceburgh69
      September 27, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      She comes across as an introvert.

  7. BarerMender
    September 26, 2017, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Well, she’s an entirely new cast member.

    • gyrre
      September 27, 2017, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Which means most of us guessing who the roommate would be were wrong.

  8. Frith Ra
    September 26, 2017, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

    Makes me wonder what her powers are and why she can’t control them better.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      September 27, 2017, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm…Maybe she’s something like Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans in Marvel comics? If she speaks too loudly, things…shatter?

  9. The Wyrm Ouroboros
    September 27, 2017, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    What would be worse, that she doesn’t have them under complete control, or that they [i]are[/i] under complete control, and this is what they’re like?

    That said, this doesn’t seem to be the same Alana as previously seen in high school; the earlier one was dark-haired and entirely capable of directing the traffic of other schoolmates …

    • DinkyInky
      September 27, 2017, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Hair bleaching and colours are a thing too.

      • gyrre
        September 27, 2017, 7:33 pm | #

        Also goths dying their hair black.

  10. Tombone
    September 27, 2017, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else think that Conscience and Ruri would get along fabulously if they ever met?

  11. GrantCMcCormick
    September 27, 2017, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Finaly!

    • Grant McCormick
      September 27, 2017, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      What I was trying to say last night was, “Finally, a local!”

  12. The Old Wolf
    September 27, 2017, 4:49 am | # | Reply

    New Character! <3

  13. Sunny
    September 27, 2017, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    Is she wearing a choker or is her head disconnected? There’s some Japanese ghost like that as well iirc.

    • Siarles
      September 27, 2017, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      I think it might just be the shadow of her chin. She seems rather shady, in a literal sense, compared to everyone else. Perhaps she’s some sort of shadow creature?

      • Killjoy
        September 27, 2017, 3:32 pm | #

        Chin shadow was my first thought.

  14. Carl-E
    September 27, 2017, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what the Paranormal equivalent of chronic fatigue syndrome is?

    Or maybe she’s just a vampire, and still finds the daytime very draining.

    • Dave
      September 27, 2017, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      The medical term is “draco fatigati”. Colloquially you’d say “She’s just draggin'”.

  15. B0mar
    September 27, 2017, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    There’s not much help from Google Translate. It’s a Place name-
    “North Village.” Literal Translation is even less help with Hiroshi.
    Literally it’s “Doctor North Belly,” Hepatologist??
    Suffice to say they aren’t related. Ruri doesn’t look Fay-ish either.

  16. Great Scott
    September 27, 2017, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    What’s the food on her tray? a bowl of rice and a block of tofu?

    • Sheik
      September 27, 2017, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

      If that’s the case then we know what the problem is.
      Get some red meat in that girl…stat!

    • B0mar
      September 27, 2017, 7:19 pm | # | Reply

      HORRORS! that most terrifying of ALL Paras – A Vegan!!!

    • BarerMender
      October 2, 2017, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      I would be out of luck. Tofu doesn’t agree with my insides.

  17. Robert Nowall
    September 27, 2017, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    I thought maybe she’s Hiroshi’s sister but the last names are different. Yeah, I hunted through the archives to check.

    • B0mar
      September 27, 2017, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

      I checked that as well. Etymologically, they are the difference between a
      Yankee Municipal Corporation, and a Kidney Specialist.

  18. Ashonai
    September 27, 2017, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Terrifying, yet hot.

    • B0mar
      September 27, 2017, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Stupid HOT Yokai Vegans!

  19. Jeff Weiner
    September 27, 2017, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

    Skylar looks like “Wut?”, while Atsali seems to be thinking “Hmm…”.

  20. scantrontb
    September 27, 2017, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

    Notice where the speech bubble emanated from… it’s NOT her Mouth!, i think that Ruri is either something akin to how Tsillah is, in that “she” is actually the shadowy “smoke” AROUND the human form we see, or maybe something like she’s the living swarm of VERY tiny black “dots” that surround the human host we see… or… or… or… something completely different…

    • scantrontb
      September 27, 2017, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

      though in hindsight, Alana’s speech bubbles don’t start at her mouth either… so i guess my whole post above could be meaningless… oh well!

      • Guesticus
        September 27, 2017, 11:02 pm | #

        Most speech bubbles don’t start at the mouth, simply point toward the speaker

  21. BarerMender
    September 28, 2017, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Heck, I didn’t even notice the aura.

    • TazManiac
      September 28, 2017, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

      ‘Pigpen!’, but not so much. I’m thinking it’s Shadow, cumulative & flowing…

  22. Hinoron
    March 24, 2021, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    KitaMURA, KitaHARA.

    For a second there, I thought she might be a relation to Hiroshi (You remember, “Reginald the butterfly”?)
    Too bad.

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