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Who: Yusuke Urameshi

fingerbanged & YOU!
When: IC: 8/2
Where: A really, really bad Street Fighter knock-off in ViViD
What: The past few weeks and the disappearance of a friend have been rough on Yusuke, so he's taking his frustration out in the best way he knows how-- punching things. Unfortunately, with CERES machinery on the fritz, it seems like there's new (and not entirely willing) challengers being glitched into his level of Ultra Alley Brawlers...
Rating/Warning: RATED Y FOR YUSUKE aka heavy chances of violence, bad language, blood, and everything else that comes with sticking a hot-blooded shonen protagonist in a fighting game-- also potential embarrassing outfits

[So you may be minding your own business, happily playing some innocent ViViD game such as Cybuddy Raiser or Gourmet Mother, or you're in the middle of labor-intensive RPG-style session, about to finally hit that desired stat level and take on the regional boss. Or you may even just be hanging around the ViViD Center, taking a break from the energy draining effects of the machines before jumping back into the fray again.

Suddenly, the area around you shifts and pixelates, stuttering and glitching for a moment or two, before it corrects itself, and-- wait a moment. This wasn't where you were before! Instead, you're looking out at one of these slightly grainy surroundings, while the dulcet sounds of this beautiful song blares all around you. Thankfully, your attire remains the same-- unless you're one of the unfortunate few whom the game had decided needed an outfit adjustment. But it's okay! High-cut leotards are great for kicking!

Like a large, blinking sign, the words A NEW CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED flashes above your head, before vanishing into thin air, replaced by a time slowly counting down from 90. Before you can really dwell on what those words mean, however, the loud sound of pounding feet rushes in your direction, a young man in this get-up charging towards you, fist cocked and ready to fight.

... you may want to do something about that.]

[tl;dr, welcome to the not!Street Fighter simulator! It's up to you if you want your character to be glitched into a weird fighter-game outfit, keep their normal attire, or change into some alt outfit from canon! If your character isn't a fighter, that's okay! There's handicaps in place, and, given how ViViD likes to mess with things, your character can easily be super strong or super weak given how you want the interactions to go! There's potential for final boss fights and bonus modes (as well as time-up 'draws'), so go wild! If you want to hash anything out or plot, hit me up at

Urameshi!]

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[Wow, rude much, Yuna?? Clearly she was here to fight (or, at least, that's what he assumed-- he wasn't aware of any glitches as of yet), so he had no qualms rushing in for a direct attack. Others may think it was a terrible thing to do, but Yusuke wasn't about to throw a match over something like gender.

He sees the bludgeon coming his way, and he attempts to duck under it, or at least try to grapple it from her hands. However, his limbs begin to feel oddly heavy and slow, and before he knows it, there's a stick smashing into his face and pitching him away from Yuna.]

Gack!

[Welp, that just shaved off some of his health bar.]

[Yuna skips away, twirling her staff with a kind of skill she wasn't sure she had. The weapon was also unfamiliar, lacking the ball on top, but she was fairly sure she could use it to conjure and Send so that was something. Angling the pole defensively, she did her best to keep it between him and her, not knowing what was happening except that she was under attack.]

Who are you, and why are you attacking me?

[Steel laced her words a sudden sense of anger welling up in her. Why did this guy just...annoy her...on principle?]

[Yusuke struggles to get back up after that unwelcome stick to the face, gingerly pressing against it. What in the hell just happened? He could have dodged that attack, easy! Yet something had slowed him down, and he wasn't entirely sure if it was ViViD screwing with him or something else. It was a good thing that any injuries in the game wouldn't carry over back into the city, though, or else he'd have a hell of a headache to contend with.

At her question, however, he shoots her a disbelieving look, not entirely sure if she was serious or not. Judging by how hard her words were, he was guessing it was the former. Didn't she know where she was?]

Uh, that's the point of the game? This isn't 'Kitten Whiskers and Butterflies 3', y'know!

[He straightens himself up and prepares to rush her once more, sluggish limbs be damned. Maybe nhe can wrest the stick away from her before she can hit him again with it?]

We can chat when there's not a timer ticking down a penalty for my ass, alright?

[She didn't really get what it was, because fighting tournaments were simply not a thing in Spira. Life was struggle enough without events where people beat up one another for fun and amusement, so the concept was pretty foreign to her. His words, though, stirred something up on her and she stepped back. This was just ViViD, wasn't it? Then he could be a character, and not a person, right?

Which meant she didn't necessarily need to hold back, right?]

If that's what you want, then fine.

[Her hands start to twirl the staff in a vertical motion, gathering up speed. She knows how to fight with it, when she has to, even if she's not the strongest. Wakka had made sure of that, and she had more than a few other tricks up her sleeves.

As it spun, she cast a basic Fire spell, wreathing the staff in flames, and kept it going while stalking backwards and away from him. The flames grew with the staff, charging up the attack just like the fighting game knockoff character she was supposed to mimic...]

I'm sorry about this!

[Yuna stops the spin and releases the spell...and a gigantic wave of fire rushes towards Yusuke. Hope he has some sort of guard ready.]

[Spells, magic and weapons were foreign stuff to Yusuke-- he preferred his fights good and simple, fists to fists with the occasional Spirit Energy powered ability to help out in stickier spots. So when Yuna begins to twirl her staff, he stares for a moment, utterly confused. How'd she set her staff on fire? He didn't FEEL any demonic energy from her, nor any of that odd energy Rei had, so how was she doing that without screwing up her hands? And better yet, why was she moving AWAY from him? Was this some form of defense?

Before he could dwell on things further, however, Yuna unleashes the rush of fire in his direction, and Yusuke lets out a small yelp. Thankfully, he's had experience protecting himself from flames before, and a clear, slightly blue bubble of energy expands around himself at the last second. It drives off a good amount of it, but it still singes a bit of his skin and his pants, depleting a bit of his HP. He straightens up once the barrage is over, sending an irritable look in her direction.]

I said FIGHT, lady, not ROAST me!

[Because he already gets enough roasting in his life EEEYYYY]

[Well at least he's blocked it and isn't dead! Yuna's lips pull back in a scowl and she resets the staff in a defensive posture. What was it about this guy that just made her annoyed? And why did he remind her of one of those punks on the Luca Goers?]

I'm a mage, this is how I fight. Unless you want me to summon my Aeons.

[Which she can do. Really, she doesn't want to, but she's not going to just let him beat her up. That's ridiculous! She's figuring he's probably a boss fight anyway, and since it's her job to test these things, maybe that includes dialogue?]

You started this though, you don't get to cry foul!

[And that earned an utterly confused look on his face.]

Mage...? Like those RPG things?

[Or at least, that's what he's picked up from poking around arcade games and his SNES, anyway. Did those actually exist?

There is an irritable growl at her retort, though, knowing she was right but annoyed nonetheless.]

Oh yeah? Who died and made you the owner of this game?! I'm just saying it's a load of crap to use that sort of thing in a brawl!

Yes! I'm a mage! I don't know what an RPG is but I am a mage!

[She skips back further and twirls her staff in a quick circle, glowing runes and sigils flaring up all around her.]

And if it's a brawl you want...Ifrit! Come forth!

[A gateway opens in the ground between them, and a creature appears, assuming Yuna's lifebar and bellowing out a great roar. Heavy claws churn up the pixelated earth, and the earth shakes as the Aeon takes a step forward.]

... you're in an arcade but you don't know what an RPG is?

[Yes, Yusuke, because this is the most pressing issue at hand. But before he could grill Yuna any further, the ground shakes and Aeon pops out of the ground, taking him momentarily by surprise. So she was a monster summoner of some sort? He wasn't entirely sure what this creature was (it didn't feel demonic to him), but fighting a giant beast was much more in his comfort zone. A smirk plays on his lips, sizing Aeon up.]

Yep, this is much more like it. Hope you don't mind if I bring out the big guns for this!

[And he charges for the monster, leaping up when he's close enough and attempting to deliver a spirit-powered punch to it's face. Given his sluggishness earlier, it may not have been as strong as he wanted, but it was worth a shot.]

N...o?

[She sounds confused, but clams up when the fight begins in earnest. Ifrit was not her oldest Aeon, but he was by far her strongest and she was more than confident in it's ability. If Yusuke really, really tried to feel things out, he'd sense that Ifrit was actually powered by the holy despite his appearance.

Of course, he might also feel like he was punching a brick wall. The guardian of Kilika Island wasn't exactly a pushover though, and it took the powerful punch on the chin like a champ. It's head rocked back, and then creaked forward, maw open in a toothy grin. Fire and the scent of sulfur billowed out from around it, and one clawed hand shot out to punch him back, putting a lot of force into a body-shot rather than going for the face.]

[He was much too busy trying to hash out a plan on the fly than size up this beast's spiritual make-up, but it did explain why it was difficult as hell to fight. Sacred energy was extremely powerful, and while Yusuke managed some semblance to it a while ago with his fight with Yomi, he never quite pinned it down.

That said, it's also been a long while since Yusuke's punched something this resilient. It hurt, but it was also... kind of exciting? At his level of power, finding a good opponent was hard, and he grins back at the thing despite his hit having very little effect. Ifrit's hit could have been blocked, but Yusuke takes it head-on, both his handicap and his curiosity for this thing's full power making it hard to dodge.

... still, it hurt like hell, and he rockets back a good ten feet, landing in a messy heap on the ground, half of his HP already depleted. It takes a minute or so for him to reemerge, coughing a bit of blood up, but still looking quite thrilled by this. Raising a shaky hand up, he points a glowing finger towards Ifrit. It starts to glow brighter and brighter, almost blinding, until he releases it from his hand and sends it shooting towards the beast.]

SPIRIT GUN!

[Well...that's not an obviously telegraphed Super-Hyper move or anything. Ifrit isn't stupid, not by any stretch of the word. He interposes himself between Yusuke and his Summoner as the charge builds, arms crossed in a protective gesture in front of him. When the attack erupts from the end of his finger, it smashes against the Aeon's defenses, a half-domed shield flaring as the energy caromed off of it. His healthbar ticks down a lot though, from dozens and dozens of hits, the chip-damage of this attack not insignificant.

Of course, when it's done? The great beast has a counter-attack. Reaching into the Earth for strength, Ifrit starts slamming fists into the ground, kicking up a minor earthquake all around Yusuke and sending up rock-shards all around him.]

Edited 2016-07-16 05:16 (UTC)

[It's kind of hard to pull a sneak attack when your ace in the hole is a glowing blue finger, though Yusuke was hoping that it's sheer power would make up for any elements of surprise. And it does, to a degree! He's kind of proud he managed to whittle down THAT much from the large creature, and he's about to attempt a follow-up attack, when the ground begins to shake.

It was hard enough to maintain his footing then and there, but once the rock fragments begin to burst from below, he fumbles a bit into the rubble. Pushing himself despite the odd sluggishness from earlier, he flits between shard to shard, hoping to get to Ifrit fast enough before he launches his next attack.]

[Ifrit's not quite finished with it's attack though. Claws stab deep into the ground that he'd been punching, and the Aeon draws on the strength of the earth...to rip up the floor like it was a piece of astroturf and hurl it at Yusuke. Apparently he has decided that finger laser hurt, and that it did not want to eat another hit like that.

Sorry :(]

[... welp, that's sure a whole lot of floor flying at him all at once.

He can barely get a cry of surprise out before it hits him head on, hurtling him well across the stage and into a messy, debris ridden heap. That attack succeeds at knocking back the rest of his HP, save for a small, small sliver, and it seems for the moment that he's going to be lying in this stone heap for quite a bit.

... though the fact that he's starting to glow a bit may be a bit concerning...]

[Probably...but Yuna's already walking over, waving her staff to cast a healing spell or six...]

Hey! You okay?

[Judging by the fact that he's beginning to crawl out of this stone pile like some crab on steroids, these markings stark against his skin, may be answer enough. This beast was strong, but if he maybe tried to tap into his demon energy, he might--

... oh, it's that girl again. He stops mid-crawl, blinking up at her in surprise.]

Uh... yeah, I'm fine, I guess.

The hell're you doing?

[Yuna's worked it out, mostly. This is some battle game, and he's just an idiot who wanted to fight...]

Healing you, so you can get back to your game without us bothering you.

[You don't seriously want to go another round with Ifrit do you?]

[... yes, actually???

He gapes up at Yuna, not entirely sure he was hearing her correctly. It was nice of her, to be sure, but--]

What?! No way! I was just about to pull the greatest move on that guy too!

[Yuna, what did you create here......]

[Frowning at him, she looks back at Ifrit.]

You mean my Aeon? No, you weren't. He was going to flatten you if you moved again.

[Yes, she's scolding you like a child, and walking back to banish the beast with a touch and start walking towards an exit.]

HEY! Hold on just a minute!!

[Just as he finally manages to dislodge himself from the rubble pile he was in, Yuna up and makes Ifrit vanish, and the look on Yusuke's face was akin to that of a child being denied a treat.]

You can't just call the match before it gets good! That's not fair!

[And in an act of desperation, he reaches out to grab one of her overall straps, in a vain attempt to keep her in the game.]

C'mon, I was just starting to have fun too!

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... w-whoops I assumed Aeon was it's name GO ME.......

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