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Does she happen to be friends with other original characters like Meimu and Mitori? :D


She's also great friends with my other original character, Warisa

They even have the same ability, Waster Spark
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no super marisa land without warisaware

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Speaking of CSes, I might app another char. Not really sure who though.
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Any ETA on the IC? I'm curious to see how some of the characters in here are used

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Doing it tomorrow.
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I'm currently, after some consideration and advice, doing a bit of a rework of Fiona.
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Almost done with my CS. Im just having trouble with the brief backstory...
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@Raineh Daze I have edited Fiona; I hope she's better fitting now.

Name: Fiona

Gender: Female

Appearance:
Fiona

Personality:

Fiona is above all courteous and polite, maintaining a calm outlook to anything and everything that is going on around her. Refusing to resort to violence first, she will face even armed attackers with a smile and a greeting – although if she is attacked, she will first laugh at the prospect of attacking an ambassador of death before dragging them on board her train, so to speak.

Due to her occupation and style of choice, she is something of a train mania. She has memorized railway schedules throughout the entire North American continent and is known to get excited over new trains being launched and watching trains go by. She is subscribed to the American Magazine Railway Illustrated.

Species: Dullahan

Skills:

Train Conductor: Fiona is, above all, the conductor of the Nether Express. She is competent in her duties as a conductor, managing the train and ensuring it arrives at its destinations on schedule.

Photography: During her time as a train enthusiast, Fiona has become skilled in the art of photography. Many of her pictures are framed and hung on the corridors and rooms of the Nether Express.

Off with my head!: As a Dullahan, Fiona is capable of detaching her head. However, in order to both blend into the human world whenever she is off in her rail enthusiast activities or to prevent shocking the spirits of the newly deceased, she doesn't take her head off.

Ablities:

Fiona's Danmaku usually takes on the form of regular bullets although more powerful danmanku abilities will have the Nether Express ram her opponent.

As a Dullahan, all gates, locks, barriers and doors open for her; nothing bars her path. However, she still needs to physically go somewhere and it is far from teleportation.

The Nether Express: a large, jet black steam locomotive which carries along with it several passenger, lounge, sleeping and even restaurant cars, catering to souls more for the experience of eating something they like instead of sustaining physical needs. The lounge itself is extremely well furbished and decorated, and the express itself would easily compete with the most luxurious trains in existence. Originally Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train which soon became a ghost train among locals, Fiona commandeered it and runs it in lieu of her carriage. The Nether Express is far from a normal train and is indeed a ghost train.

It should be noted that The Nether Express never has a defined number of cars and supplies. The Nether Express does not have "five" cars or "ten" cars; instead it always has "enough" cars to comfortably accommodate any number of souls who embark or fulfill any task Fiona demands. This is due in part to the fact Fiona constantly goes around the world, finding trains or cars in order to incorporate. Much like houses can become haunted houses and gain “wills” of its own , becoming a form of ghost, so too do famous trains and train cars – such as Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train – and it is these ghosts of locomotive engines and cars which Fiona collects and adds to the Nether Express – or in the case of not immediately using them, sending them off to a railyard of sorts from which she can add and detach cars at will.. As a side effect, many spirits of passengers reside within the cars, often forming a collection of ghosts and spirits from across different (train using) eras and locations. The train does not run on human-built rails but instead rails are constructed wherever it goes and vanishes whenever the train departs.

Rumors say that deep within the high class cars and lounges Abraham Lincoln may be found, chilling.

As a train which guides people to the afterlife, it normally cannot be seen by mortals and the living, although Fiona is capable of handing out "tickets" to those still living to allow them to see and board the train temporarily. To the normal human, when the Nether Express passes by it forms only as a shadow and the unexplainable sensation of air rushing by. As a Dullahan train, nothing may bar its path and it travels quickly to and from as well as around Gensoukyou by going in and out of the underworld. Through the underworld, Fiona is also able to return to the outside world with (relative) ease without upsetting the Great Hakurei Barrier.

Fiona is not the driver of the Nether Express; she is the conductor. The Driver is a mortal human – often a young fellow train enthusiast – whom Fiona met in her time among humans, taking photographs of trains and forming a friendship with before offering them the opportunity to be her driver. When the Driver passes away their spirit is escorted to one of the luxury cars of the Nether Express and Fiona goes off to find a new Driver.

Brief Backstory: A transporter of souls from one realm to the next, Fiona first immigrated to the United States from her native Ireland to follow the large number of Irish peoples fleeing the Potato Famine – one of whom had arrogantly stolen her head. Continuing her activities as a Dullahan in America, after reclaiming her head she remained in the new country and took a liking to trains and locomotives, the natural evolution of the horse-drawn carriage.

Taking one for herself and ditching her horse drawn carriage, Fiona began to continue to collect, grow and expand her collection of ghost trains and carriages as well as maintain belief in her – in a fashion – in the form of various ghost train legends throughout the North American Continent. As decades passed, Fiona eventually received a request from Shikieiki Yamaxanadu to temporarily come to Gensoukyou to help pick up some of the slack Komachi had been causing (and somewhat scare her into thinking she was going to be replaced). Having always wanted to travel to Japan to take in their bullet trains and jumping at the chance, Fiona formed a new spiritual line of Japan – Underworld – Gensoukyou – Higan.
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@ShadowKingman: I think the problem was them doing the shinigami's job, and having an invisible unstoppable rail-less train.

Again, I think making a train tsukumogami with a crew of tsukumogami based on items left behind in the train is a better way to go for Touhou.
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She could always just be a Shinigami with a train theme instead of a ferryman theme.
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No unstoppable invisible trains. Was I not clear enough on that part? Especially not trains that would therefore be invisible to almost every playable character the series has had, discounting the pair-ups and Mystic Square.

And it still doesn't fit to have a Dullahan doing Komachi's job because: A) Eiki doesn't let her slack for that long, and B) dullahan are not psychopomps.
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No unstoppable invisible trains. Was I not clear enough on that part? Especially not trains that would therefore be invisible to almost every playable character the series has had, discounting the pair-ups and Mystic Square.

And it still doesn't fit to have a Dullahan doing Komachi's job because: A) Eiki doesn't let her slack for that long, and B) dullahan are not psychopomps.


While I agree that invisible trains might be a bit much, I must disagree with you about Dullahans not being psychopomps. While being a headless horseman is the general appearance of a dullahan, they do have roots in mythology where seeing or interacting with a dullahan is a sign of death, effectively making them sorta like Shinigamis in the sense that you don't see them until you're dead/about to die.
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<Snipped quote by Raineh Daze>

While I agree that invisible trains might be a bit much, I must disagree with you about Dullahans not being psychopomps. While being a headless horseman is the general appearance of a dullahan, they do have roots in mythology where seeing or interacting with a dullahan is a sign of death, effectively making them sorta like Shinigamis in the sense that you don't see them until you're dead/about to die.


They're explicitly not psychopomps in that they don't actually escort the dead anywhere. Much like Banshees, they exist to let you know you're gonna die. And also, in their case, blind or kill anyone that happens to see them and shouldn't.
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They're explicitly not psychopomps in that they don't actually escort the dead anywhere. Much like Banshees, they exist to let you know you're gonna die. And also, in their case, blind or kill anyone that happens to see them and shouldn't.


Well in western culture the grim reaper "escorts the dead to the afterlife" but he doesn't take you by the hand to do it

he's just like "yo dead fam" and then you go to the afterlife, but he's generally seen as an escort

I think you're trying to apply eastern ideas/concepts to western myth, which won't work that well

It's funny, actually, because Shinigami being escorts of the dead wasn't something that popped up until the 70s, while Dullahan/Ankou are a millennia or more old

The most ironic part? The legends of Dullahan/Ankou inspired the legend of the Grim Reaper, which modern Shinigami are basically rip offs of

Meaning that no matter how you slice it, from a meta perspective, miss breasts is a chinese knockoff of this character
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Well in western culture the grim reaper "escorts the dead to the afterlife" but he doesn't take you by the hand to do it

he's just like "yo dead fam" and then you go to the afterlife, but he's generally seen as an escort

I think you're trying to apply eastern ideas/concepts to western myth, which won't work that well


The OED would like to have a word with you. Also, please stop posting in the OOC if you're not going to join. :/
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Still, even the grimm reaper is (occasionally) depicted as an entity that actively goes out and takes souls, even those who are not suppose to be dead.

I wouldn't want to argue against the GM too long, so all I really want to say is maybe offer some leeway for Shadow? He's obviously put a lot of work into his CS, and I'd hate to have us lose a player because we're trying to play rule lawyer myths and legends.
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The OED would like to have a word with you.


What's the word about? What particular part of what I said are you directing that at? I think it was the eastern concepts being on western myth part but i want to make sure so im not confused

Do you have a reaction to the other half of what I said, do you agree/disagree with it? I'd like to hear your opinion on it, it's pretty funny meta wise

Also, please stop posting in the OOC if you're not going to join. :/


Someone who wasn't going to join wouldn't bother posting in the OOC, and I'm bothering to post in the OOC

That'd be why I asked when the IC was up, I wanted to see if things would move forward and how much time I had to finish my character

Are western concepts just not allowed in this RP? I may need to change things around if that's the case

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Sorry, sorry, I was in class! I'm gonna address some concerns now.

Um, I think @Priscilla and @Lucius Cypher said everything I could have said about the Dullahan, so that's it there.

No unstoppable invisible trains. Was I not clear enough on that part? @Raineh Daze


I'm just really, really confused at this part. What are you concerned about? If it's the invisible part, I can easily change that. If it's a worry about it being overpowered, well...

Between a Border manipulator, a Time/Space Manipulator, basically-completely-immortal girls and a human shrine Maiden who can wreck the above three I feel like the Netherworld Express should be the LEAST of your worries.
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