[[PSA]] Skill + Question Meme

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Real Body Skill:
Tsuyukusa is a tree ayakashi. As such, his real body is literally a tree. This skill has enabled his real body to be placed in Aather.

So here's the basic info:
Location: His tree is placed behind Turquoise, where a back yard would be if there, you know, was one.
Health: He is somehow able to subsist from the shitty soil, be it because the area around his roots has been given actual nourishing soil or because Aather has shifted his makeup. Idk.
Appearance: He's young, and his tree is also very visibly young. It looks a good deal sturdier than it appears in the above picture, and is easily climbable. I would have used another image, except those that demonstrate its sturdiness also show it... well, spoilers.
Species: I headcanon that Tsuyu is a camphor tree. This means that in the spring he will flower, and when those flowers are fertilized/wither, he will bear fruit. Fun times/hilarity/etc.

ON DAMAGING HIM: Tsuyukusa can feel everything that happens to his tree. Vividly. Snap a branch off and it will feel like losing an arm, and will continue to hurt until it heals, which is a fucking slow process for trees. Because of this, Turquoise is currently questing for a way to keep him from being hurt, but until then he's pretty vulnerable.

If anyone wants to touch/hurt/climb his true body without IC permission now would be the time, before it's rendered un-damageable by team-dere/Personae. Alternatively, at a later date, one could contact me and possibly find a way to work around whatever is put up for tree!defense. I can be found on IRC as Tara, plurk as treefucker, and email at visone.tempesta@gmail. Feel free to contact me by commenting to this post, as well, if you have any questions.
 

Aaaand because I have no self control and FEEL LIKE TL;DRing... QUESTION MEME FOR TSUYUKUSA!

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PRETTY HARD MAN, PRETTY HARD. At first, at least. And then he'd realize Tree was a good dad, and then Katou would get weird and awkward about it and never bring it up again unless it made Tree tsun in hilarious ways.

What memories do you want Tree to get back most?

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.....the priestesses beating him nearly to death. Montage Of Killing People. Any memory wherein Heihachi tops the fuck out of him sheerly by being adorable. Benitobi kicking his ass.

What skill do you look forward most to Katou getting?

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See icon. Also, another picture of it.

Back at you!

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-Advanced senses.

-Fighting/general physical awesome.

-Healing abilities.

-Flight.

in other words: all of them

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whoops.

How would Katou react if one day Tree suddenly stopped tsunning?

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He'd demand to know where the real Tree was, because obviously this one's a pod person.

How would Tree react if he found out about the whole deal with Acedia and the violencesexdrugs thing they've got?

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.....In his current emotional state, or as a general rule?

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Let's go with as a general rule.

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............punch katou right in his stupid fucking face for being an idiot. and then sit on him and make sure he never is with acedia alone again.

in his current emotional state he'd either just. shut down nope fuck everything. or find a way to kill acedia.

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It is spring. Tree is in Tree!Heat. What do?

(no seriously why am i awake if i can't even care that i'm asking this)

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After realizing that Tree is on a hormonal hair-trigger (and most likely doing more of that "HOW FAR CAN I GO IN FUCKING WITH TREE'S HORMONES" thing), he'd either send Tree in Tsunami's general direction and say "GO FORTH AND GET LAID" or tell him to go masturbate already. He won't actually DO ANYTHING HELPFUL beyond that because it's this line he doesn't really think needs to get crossed with Tree. Because then that starts to get into messy feelings stuff, and Katou doesn't want to deal with messy feelings stuff.

If there was a de-age game one day, would you rather A) de-age Tree, or B) have him have to be mom for six baby Turquoise?

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.........i would probably de-age him just so i could icon his FUCKING ADORABLE BABBY FACES

but of course if i de-aged him i would probably also be cruel enough to de-age him into birddeer form.

So mommying is his job yet again.

Am I correct in recalling that the Messy Feelings Stuff is actually mostly from Katou's side?

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Yep, pretty much. Basically, Katou does not want to engage in anything overtly sexual with anyone he actually cares about. He doesn't have romantic feelings towards Tree, but he does care about him, which files him directly into the "lol nope" category for sexytimes. It keeps something of a barrier up for him. It's also why he tries not to care about too many people— he doesn't want to let people get close and risk getting hurt. Teamdere fucks that up enough as it is without getting sex involved.

Do you think Turquoise, or at least Tsunami, stands a chance of topping Tree out of his new, shiny touch issues?

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IIIIIIII honestly don't know. I mean there's a CHANCE, but any touching he would eventually permit would never be met with the comfort levels he had previously. For instance he'd be too preoccupied with Not Flipping Out to, say, tsun at Katou.

How would Katou react if Tree were perma-killed?

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Flip out and kill the fuck out of whatever killed Tree, or else die trying.

Back at you.

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D-ditto.

We're awesome.

WHY DO YOU THINK TURQ IS SO CODEPENDENT?

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Because they're a bunch of needy, insecure teenagers or teenage-types with hilariously terrible issues who cling to each other for emotional stability and support. Not that ANY OF THEM want to admit any such thing ever. Because they're also shounen retards.

Tempest's rankings of members of Turquoise, from most important to him to least important to him. GO GO GO

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Tsunami
Yayoi
Katou
Paul
Rolo
Echo
Tempest

Reflecting that back at you.

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• Yayoi
• Paul
• Rolo
• Tempest
• Tsunami
• Echo
• Katou

Curious! Do you have a different theory on Turq's codependency, and if so, what would it be?

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Nope, yours sounds pretty much exactly like my impression of Turq codependency, so!

Our idiots need to stop prioritizing absolutely fucking everything over themselves, y/n? If you could get me to app any character from any fandom of yours, what character would you pick and why would you want me to play them?

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Y, but it ain't gonna happen.

Kurai from Angel Sanctuary! I'm not sure I have a lock on what "your type" is so far, but she seems like a character you'd enjoy. She's got a lot of layers and emotional depth, and room for plenty of growth. Also, I think you'd have fun with her connection with dragons. Because who wouldn't have fun with dragons?

Back at you because now I'm curious.

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Kon or Kurotobi from Amatsuki. I can't decide which.

Kon has the sort of bad-boy IDoWhatIWant thing going, but is incredibly intelligent and has a nice sense of humor. Also his right arm doesn't work.

Kurotobi initially seems almost Affably Evil, but as the Onmyou Bureau in general becomes more and more of a presence he becomes more sympathetic. Everything he did he did for his little sister, who is about twenty times more badass than him.

Also neither of them get along with Tsuyu. At all.

TELL ME ABOUT LUCIFER. AND/OR THAT MEMORY THAT MADE YOU TRAUMATIZE LEADERGIRL.

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THOSE ARE TWO VERY TOPICS, PICK ONE.

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Leadergirl Trauma it is.

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I'm going to assume you mean the memory from the thread in your recent memory post and NOT the hilarious time where she chased Katou after he ran away without an explanation and caught him jerking off. (Which is why you shouldn't chase Katou when he says "brb" while making faces like this.)

(TRAUMATIZING LEADERGIRL. IT'S A THING.)

…Okay, so there IS a connection to Lucifer in that memory. Which was that he sliced into Katou's shoulder SO BAD that he couldn't repair the damage, and his arm was basically rotting off. So he'd gotten it replaced with this arm. He doesn't have the memory of getting the replacement yet, but he does actually remember getting his shoulder sliced. ANYHOW, that's just background information for this memory.

You see, the important thing about Katou's shape-shifting is that it takes concentration. He looks like himself because he IMAGINES looking like himself, which is why he still has things like his tattoo, track marks, etc. Because those are so much a part of how he pictures himself, that it would take MORE effort to not have them. In canon— and this is another memory that he has, but hasn't spoken about— he gets amnesia at one point, and it's stressed that before he finds a form to hold onto, HE HAD NO FACE. Nothing. He was just... basically, physically speaking, a moving doll with a spirit inside.

This wound that he has is so bad that between the pain of it and the imperfect arm graft, he's having to concentrate harder on who he is to maintain his form. THE PAIN IS SO BAD, he's starting to lose his memories, piece by piece, and it's slowly "killing" him— a death of the soul, so to speak. He'd taken to cutting at himself, to distract from THAT pain and remind himself of what's important to him, that he needs to hold on, THAT HE NEEDS TO REMEMBER. He promised Setsuna, he promised Kira. Because he hates the person he was, wants to be worth more. He wants to keep going until the very end, he wants to be MORE than just a delinquent that nobody cared about. Possibly, Uriel could've fixed him, could've helped him recover, but that would've taken him out of the fight, and that was completely unacceptable to him. He had to keep going… for his own sake, as much as anyone else's. Even if it was killing him. '-'

And then I suddenly an essay. Whoops.

Where did Tsuyu's touch issues come from?