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Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Kiki grins, always happy when she manages to make Avery laugh fully. She accepts his hand to get back but throws him a look. “That makes it sound like my da is here.” She says as he helps her to her feet. “Um, also, I know I wouldn’t be able to fend off an entire pack or group, but… he,” Kiki purposely doesn’t say the asshole’s name out loud. “He grabbed me by my foxes throat to make me drop my ball… Can you think of any way to help that… not happen again.”

“This sounds bloody ridiculous to ask,” She looks sidelong away from Avery’s eyes. “But I’m wondering if you could train my fox too.”

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic smiles widely, nodding his head. “Thank you for everything.” He tells Caden before he makes his way out of the gym and out the front door. He pulls out his own phone to send a text to Cass.

Alright, what is my little gremlin wanting in her smoothie?

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Nero

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Sad that the little sparring match is over and that they were no longer sitting in Caden’s lap, Nero does their little tumble onto the floor and starts walking on their hands. They know Caden is probably texting the staff about Nic, so they want to let him do that before stealing all his attention again. They also can sense that Avery and Kiki are talking about something more private, so now is not the time to try and help her out with some tips.

Archaic Circuitry: Old Code, Young Blood

Merripen “Penni” Perran

Merripen “Penni” Perran

Name: Merripen Perran (AKA Penni to friends)
Age: 20
Species: Numan
Height/Weight: (Pre-Amputation) 4’3” (129 cm) / 100 lbs (45 kg) || (Post-Amputation) 2’9” (84 cm) / 81 lbs (36 kg)
Sex/Gender: AFAB || She/Her/Hers

Appearance

A tiny thing to begin with, Merripen has large, warm, reddish brown eyes that take up most of her face that react much like earth’s Tarsier (has some of the best nocturnal vision) and has both legs amputated and replaced with short prosthetics. Her long back hair reaches past her bum and she’ll often have it in her face. Two small horns adorn the top of her head, mostly black with a hint of red. At first glance, you would think Merripen has no mouth despite the little dimples appearing in her cheeks, but on closer inspection you’ll find that the skin in the area looks suspicious. She can unhinge her jaw and open her ‘mouth’ widely, the flesh dripping and tearing each time she does so. With no tongue, teeth, or vocal cords, she is not able to speak. Very pale skin with peach and a hint of purple undertones.

Personality/History

Born to a Quasit father and Quasit-based Numan mother, Merripen was born with her magic but was also orphaned at a young age in an accident that took most of her legs along with her parents. Merripen likes to keep a low profile and not draw attention to herself. Being the daughter of a mob boss wasn’t something she was particularly proud of or willing to share with everyone, even if she was dead. The other children her age would bully her relentlessly for just about anything as she grew up, pushing her to grow her magic as soon as possible. When her stains mutated her body, Merripen no longer resembled her mother or even a Numan anymore. The bullying from other children became worse and her inheritance of the mob was questioned.

When her uncle took over the syndicate, he kept Merripen on a short leash as she became forced to work under him. Enduring treatment for the nepotism of her position, she also was regarded as trash that didn’t belong for her appearance. Merripen now keeps to herself, preferring being alone and silently observing the actions of others rather than engaging with them, much like the behavior of a skittish cat. Vhoth has always been the exception to this, his extroverted charm managing to bring the tiny thing out of her shell more. Although he’s liked by most, anyone who’s bad-mouthed her best friend usually ends up mysteriously disappearing.

What Are You Looking For?

What she says “The person who killed my parents” || What she doesn’t say “A way to get out of the crime syndicate for good”

Capabilities

• Job: Consigliere / Works for the new don that took over the crime syndicate after her parents died. Used mostly for her unique kinesis to help find snitches and disloyal members.
• Combat: Daggers / With her short stature, Merripen likes to dash between the legs of enemies, slicing tendons in their ankles or knees. Her choice of daggers are attached to her wrists with chains.
• Magic: Neurokinesis / Merripen was born with this magic

Magic Form

• Basic Kinesis ability: Happily Ever After Allows Merripen to perform minor memory creation and wiping.
  
  • Magic Stain: Life Ain’t No Fairytale Learning how to manipulate one’s memories has taken its toll on Merripen, causing devilish horns to painfully grow on her head as if punishing her for her wicked behavior by forcing her to look like a monster.
• First Spell: I Can Fix That Minor emotion manipulation and detection
  
  • Magic Stain: The Better To See You With When acquiring this ability, Merripens eyes changed, making her unable to bear any light and even warping her perception of reality permanently.

Accessible Text Colors?

@LegendBegins I think that might help, especially for people who use their mobile to respond and can’t always have a specific hex code ready. But this is just more of a suggestion, not so much a problem ^-^

Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Kiki watches Avery pace, trying to keep her eye on his hips without looking like she’s concentrating on his groin. When he dashes at her, she barely has time to watch his hips, let alone try to dodge. Seconds later, she’s starting up at the ceiling again gasping a little as she tries to regain normal breathing again. When he asks her for his tell, she can’t help but flip him off, too breathless to answer right away. She does snort at Caden’s response though.

“You’ve got those Shakira hips, bruv.” Kiki says, choosing to stay laying down at the moment. “They don’t lie.” Her reaction time isn’t quick enough to use that to her advantage though.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic straightens, still a bit concerned for Kimiko’s wellbeing but trusting that Caden will step in if needed, stands up as well. Nero looks upset that they had been kicked off his lap, but Nic thinks they’re playing it up to be more dramatic. He takes Caden’s offered hand and shakes it. “I can try to bring it up to her.” Nic says. “I’ll let you know how it goes, but I think I should be heading back to Cass now. Would one of your drivers be okay if we stopped to get smoothies before they drop me off?”

Accessible Text Colors?

I know I’m not the only one who finds some of the provided text colors hard to read on the site and was wondering if we might replace some of the more impossible to read ones (like the darker hues) with new ones that would fall in the same spectrum but just be readable.

Like this color

Or this color

Or even this one

There are sites like this one that can be used to test if it’s accessible, but I know it would going to be something time consuming to do something like this.

Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Kiki just smiles widely and innocently back at Avery for his comment until he asks for rule number three. “Observe your opponent and find their tell.” She has an idea why Avery’s is, but she wants to observe him attacking her again, even if it means breaking rule one.

“I think I know yours, but I’d have to throw one of your rules out the window to be sure.”

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic’s ears warm. “I did invite her,” Nic says with a nod and a smile before he mouth drops at Caden offering his jet. He can’t help but think of all the celebrities who receive flack for using theirs, but he also can’t forget how crowded traveling economy has become.

“If we could come up with a payment plan or something, I’d like that. I think Cass would prefer not having to act like a sardine on a commercial flight.” He adds the last part, thinking of how she had told him that crowds weren’t always the best place for her.

ArrowFell: The Wizard Queen's Court

Might be able to post tonight, might need to wait until tomorrow night - first week back at work and I don’t want to just give a quick reply 🩶

Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Kiki shoots Avery a pout when he turns, scrunching her nose a bit in a playful glare. Nimbly, she gets back on her feet and circles Avery in a manner much like Avery had done to her earlier. “Don’t let your emotions control you, even if you really want to.” When her back faces the peanut gallery, she sticks her tongue out at Avery. She’s trying her best to stay jovial, knowing if she starts to take things personally that it’ll impede on the lesson. She resumes her first position, trying to keep her legs spread just wide enough to move easily.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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“Montana?” Nic turns to face Caden and Nero more now, even if Nero is more concentrated on the sparring match currently. “I’m actually going to a medical conference there in November.” He’s sure Cass had brought up that Caden had a place out there, but he’d forgotten about asking.

Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Kiki feels a little swell of pride when Avery says ‘Good’ to her reaction. That may have distracted her a bit because the wolf suddenly has her pinned against him. Kiki would be lying if she said she hasn’t fantasized about positions similar to this, but tries to remain calm. When Avery kisses her cheek and releases her she has to take a steadying breath before facing him again.

“Don’t let them attack first.” Kiki says before running at a full sprint towards Avery, aiming her whole body as if to face him head on. At the last moment, she lets herself slide onto her knees, her hand flat as she aims to jab him hard in the back of the knee.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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A silly grin curls Nic’s lips as he imagines Cass on a horse in the middle of downtown Chicago. “Are there any horse stables around here you might recommend?” He asks Caden as a date idea forms in his head.

He watches as Nero sits up a little straighter to watch the sparring between Kiki and Avery. The small thing is making notes of moves the demon might be able to pass along to the fox as someone with small stature and fighting experience.

Chicago After Hours

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Kimiko “Kiki” Voss

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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“There’s a reason I choose to be this tiny!” Nero chirps in reply to Avery. Kiki’s eyes stay trained on Avery now, not wanting to end up flat on the floor again, only nodding in response to what Avery is saying. He’s right about the anger - even if it feels like she has more power behind punches while angry, the rage could just as easily distract her.

Avery comes at her again, his movement mimicking the first time he attacked. Kiki flushes as she tries to think of how to avoid it and retaliate, but she can only just vertical jump as high as she could to avoid the sweep this time. Landing lightly on her feet, she turns to find Avery.

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Nero

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Location: Caden & Nero’s House - Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nero watches as Nic’s ears turn a light shade of pink at Caden’s words. “If anything, I think my dad or Cass would need one more than me.” He tells Caden.

“Why doesn’t Cassi drive?” Nero asks. The little imp hasn’t learned how to either, but they plan to change that when the opportunity arrives.