[Video/Reaction] A ‘Study’ of the Heart

[koishi_komeiji]

“And this is the big sister in her natural habitat…” That was how the feed started, the camera being carried inside by a certain green youkai who had seen way too many nature shows. She was creeping almost comically through a large den with a fire lit, coming around the side of a large plush armchair. The camera took a moment to focus on the dozing form of Satori, open book and several cats sitting in her lap.

A yellow-sleeved hand reached forward, one finger extending… and ever so gently poked her big sister’s cheek once… twice… three times...

Satori was, seemingly, completely unaware of what was going on. A rare moment for the mind-reader to be resting so peacefully and not berating anyone for a change. The younger didn’t seem to wake her up immediately, the first few pokes drawing very little reaction from her.

That is, until her third eye stirred fitfully in its rest, opening agonizingly slowly and looking around with considerable confusion, pupil charged with a vaguely directed annoyance. But as menacing as it was it was a fair contrast to Satori’s sleepy and altogether innocent face. Eventually she stirred but only looked to be half-aware of the situation. But just aware enough to be displeased, go figure.

Of course, by the time Satori’s eyes opened the camera had drifted up and around, leaving Satori staring in the vague direction of where Koishi used to be. The mischievous little youkai giggled again, reaching once more out with a single finger, gently touching the center of Satori’s part. Just enough to tickle a little bit.

Satori twitched a little more this time. Her third eye searched even harder, still quite annoyed and rolling itself about blearily. She seemed to come to her senses, snap-turning in her sister’s direction and reaching up to cover her head! “Koishi…? What are you waking me up, for?” A sigh. She said, much louder… “You can just tell me normally, you know!”

There was another giggle, Koishi moving again, but she was getting more visible by the moment. “See how great she is? She’s the best big sister!” And a hand reached out to nudge an annoyed cat aside and poke her tummy…

Satori’s arm snapped out almost immediately, supported by many of her tentacles as she tried to wrestle Koishi down, inadvertently meddling with the camera. From the looks of it, she was trying to snatch up and punish her sister the only way she knew how! “...That’s enough out of you--!”

“Ah! Sis Nooo!” Apparently the punishment was tickling. Lots of tickling. Koishi was shouting and laughing, moving about wildly trying to escape the sisterly scuffle. The camera was going every which way, showing only a mass of red and blue tentacles before the device went flying through the air, hitting the ground sharply and cutting off the feed.

[ooc: You can give em a call back once the tickles have concluded.]

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[trivialization]

Hmm...

Is there anywhere that makes calamari around here?

[Worst association.]

[koishi_komeiji]

Koishi had recovered her phone, blinking at the screen, still looking disheveled from the deadly tickle fight.

"Oh. Um... I bet someone does. That sounds really good right now."

Please do not try to eat the youkai. That is an extremely bad idea.

[trivialization]

"Though you know, with seafood it has to be fresh. Those places where you bring your own catch in and the fry it up for you are the best. It'd be perfect if I could take you somewhere like that."

She's leering a bit. All in good fun, of course.

[koishi_komeiji]

"Ohh! That sounds fun! I'm good at fishing. And I bet they have something like that around Fayren's coast! Thank you for inviting me. I'd love to go and I love fish!"

Really, do not try to eat the youkai. She will try and eat you right back.

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[im_gonna_heal_u]

Am I watching some sort of uplifting horror movie?

[ Konoka can't make sense of what she's looking at, unfortunately. It feels horrifying, amusing, and strangely suggestive all at once. ]

[koishi_komeiji]

Now that her device was recovered... "Oh. Um..." She blinked. "Horror movie? How can a movie be scary? It's a picture on a screen."

Koishi, no. Don't go see modern day horror movies. You'll get too many ideas.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Ideas are probably dangerous, but Konoka doesn't know who she's talking to and thus doesn't have the guile to avoid any inspiration.

Still somewhat confused, she answered. "Well, they aren't real, you're correct on that. But humans are do get influenced and entertained by movies."

[koishi_komeiji]

"Ohhh. I get it." She was back to smiling again. "I would love to see one sometime. I'm a monster so being scary is what I'm good at!" She was the opposite of scary at the moment though. With her huge smile and cheerful demeanor.

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[pianola]

... This didn't seem to be an uncommon occurance in Chireiden. Dorothy had heard the commotion, observed carefully out of view of the camera, and did not intervene. Once the CPU flew through the air, she decided to get involved. They looked expensive. Paying for a new one might not be a problem for the sisters, but it'd be annoying, surely.

The android approached, knelt down, retrieved the discarded unit. At least it didn't seem harmed.

There was the faintest of smiles on her face, for just a moment. Then, a blank expression again. She held out the device - maybe this would invite a truce?

"Your device is undamged, Koishi." Be more careful was implied.

1/3

[satori_komeiji]

Satori opened her mouth to protest after Dorothy managed to catch this moment of sisterly bonding. She sends a slightly glowering gaze to the android before softening a little and letting go of Koishi to catch her breath.

"...How long were you there, Dorothy?" she replied, almost immediately. "Whatever you do, don't dare laugh. Or I'll be cross with--..."

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[koishi_komeiji]

Don't you dare think you can tickle and dash Satori. As soon as she had managed to take a breath, Koishi pounced back on her distracted sister. All of her tentacles were being used to either suppress her sister's extra limbs or go right for her ticklish spots.

"That's a good distraction Miss! Come help me! Sis is soooo ticklish!"

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[satori_komeiji]

The elder sister almost immediately started to struggle like mad, trying to free herself from Koishi's wriggly, wiggly clutches! Satori tried in vain to get her other limbs free of restraint, but it was too late. The poor youkai protested, loudly writhing about!

"G-gods, n-no...s-stop that! S...s-stop that at ONCE!"

[pianola]

Now and then, Dorothy considered adopting facial expressions. Not in accordance with her subroutines, having her meekly follow some script like a puppet. But, in order to get a point across, since humans - and yokai, really - both relied on nonverbals so much.

For example, at the moment, Dorothy could raise a single eyebrow at them.

That would do nicely.

But then, she thought they'd expect her to make faces at everything, and that sounded very tedious. Really, they needed to know what her silence during this performance meant, and perhaps in time, they'd be able to do so.

Instead, she said, dryly, "Ah. Sisterhood."

[satori_komeiji]

Satori's flailing eventually just barely released her from her bonds, the poor youkai finding herself quite literally tickled pink from all of Koishi's mischief! She'd end up prying Koishi off herself, tickling be damned, as she watched Dorothy's rather subtle reactions to all of this. If anything, Satori was more concerned with trying to re-establish her image than anything else. It was hard to do so whenever Koishi was involved, but she tried her best to stay typically aloof or distant from whatever was going on.

And yet, aside from very lightly tapping Koishi in the forehead with one of her now-freed tenta-limbs and turning away from her little sister in a huff, she tried to take a few deep breaths and calm down. And probably get back all that lost air from the tickle-fest...

"S-sisterhood, indeed..." she mumbled. "She...f-finds it a little harder to read the mood at times. I'm not too fond of her escapades involving me being broadcast to the world. Then again, I must seem like an awful bore, don't I?"

A small, belaboured sigh as she tries to catch her breath. "...Though I prefer not to have to make myself so vulnerable, I suppose my foolishness was...endearing?"

She says it in a way that makes it sound more than a little sickening to her. For someone so closed-off, even after many had already distantly befriended her in the past since coming here, it seems she still loathed to show such a side.

Of course, Koishi might find this as another excuse to tickle the grump out of her more, but Satori could likely see that one coming.

[koishi_komeiji]

As soon as Satori turned away in a huff, she would find the Koiball hopping onto her back and simply clinging more. She had no intention of letting her sister grump more.

"Siiiis. You're such a sourpuss sometimes. You need to not be so sour and start being sweet, okay?" Tentacles again, though not quite so tight this time. Koishi was making it her mission to nuzzle her sister's cheek. No matter how hard Satori tried to avoid it.

It wasn't tickling but it was certainly impossible to act tough when this was going on. Not to mention Koishi's third eye also seemed intent to beat her sister's in a nudging contest.

"You're not allowed to be grumpy when I'm here, okay? No more grumps."

[k2so]

That's one eye too many than the number I was expecting.

And the tentacles, I wasn't expecting them at all.

[koishi_komeiji]

"Oh! Hello there!" Koishi waved a little. "Sis and I have extra eyes. Mine is closed though, remember?"

"And sis and I have extra limbs because we're satori. They're really useful."

[k2so]

Hello Koishi, it's nice to talk to you. I didn't know you had a sister until now but I can see the resemblance.

They look useful. Squishy too.

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[no_disect_plz]

That looks like fun!

How did you make all the wiggly things come out?

[koishi_komeiji]

"Wiggly?" Koishi tilted her head. "Oh! Satori youkai have extra limbs, see?" She held up her hand, several tendrils sliding out of her sleeves.

[no_disect_plz]

[Cool tentacles! Whoa wait what. From the hand? Wait, no. It's a shimmera!]

Um, you know what? Nevermind! Pretend you didn't see me.

[A tiny thing like her is no match for a monster.]

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[youfool]

[Fake home? Fake animals? All called their "natural" habitat. A little disheartening. Thankfully there's some mirth at the end. And good intel, too.]

So you're both ticklish? That's good to know.

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[koishi_komeiji]

"Yeah. Sis is ticklish too but she's really hard to catch."

Ted. Please don't try to tickle the flesh eating tentacle monsters.

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[youfool]

[Would he do that? It'd be so...foolish.]

"That does pose a difficulty. Still, that does clear up the mystery of her unusual hair color."

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[weavemyownfate]

[Satsuki isn't really sure why but she watches the entire thing unfold, especially during a small early breakfast- Is this what people mean when they say 'it's like watching a train wreck; unable to turn away'?

You know what, she doesn't get paid enough for this. The device is turned off and she sighs as she gets to her feet and heads toward a door herself.

She wonders, if things were different, would she have ever had an experience like that with her family.


.. Oh well.

She slides a door open to check on a sleeping Anastasia, then turns to head off to work.]