melodiesofeternity | I Need To Get Stronger...!

Who: Sasami Masaki Jurai (OPEN)
When: December 3
Where: Curti Center
What: After her trip to the North, Sasami has decided she needs a better way to protect herself and others.
Warnings/Notes: BAD DECISIONS

She felt awful. She could still see her freeze up when the Yeti attacked, the others there trying to make sure she was safe. Instead of doing anything meaningful, she had locked up and only attacked after she was saved. A literal damsel in distress.

She needed to be stronger. She needed to figure out the best way to watch over everyone herself. But, how?

She had went back to the Curti Center to look up the various jobs out there. Everyone wasn't keen on her with Gourmand - because of its strange attacks, a little kid like her biting and eating people freaked them out. She didn't like her Magitek Knight job - too much electronics for her to handle. White Mage, while nice, had very little she could do where she was right now. And as much as Frisk had reassured her about her Custom Job, she just didn't want to go crawling back to Tsunami...

She poked over the various jobs - Stave Master felt like something she could use as she was trained in such ways. Catmancer and Adventurer were silly but looked interesting. Chemist, Red Mage...

Of course, there's one Job that seemed to be out there - Warlock.

"Warlock? What's this?" she uttered. Everything about it was stupidly powerful, but there was one strange oddity - no one was training in it. "...but, why?

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It had taken a while for Frisk to hit their next breakthough in SOUL Mage. They designed the job, sure, but there was something that they had been missing that they needed to unlock that next level of expertise in it.

Said thing was sheer, raw terror combined with a bullheaded refusal to die. And the expedition to the Uncharted Territories had certainly provided both. Now they were experimenting with Integrity in the job lab, grinning at the extra punch that the file type provided to their skills. The defense loss wasn't much of a problem, they were a ninja so most hits were guaranteed to hurt like hell anyways.

But as soon as Frisk hears Sasami's question they stop in their tracks, staring at her bug-eyed. "Wait. You're- you're actually- why?" they stutter, looking at her like an alien. "You know Ganeshan says that asterisk's incredibly dangerous to use, right?"

“Wh-What? Why? What’s wrong?” Sasami asked, blinking in complete confusion and honestly. She hadn’t caught that at all.

“What is it anyway?”

Frisk actually took a look at the asterisk themself; they were a powergamer at heart, and the Warlock job, despite the evil flavor, seemed like an incredible tool. But seeing the normally job-obsessed Ganeshan get so somber about it had been enough to warn them off.

"It's some kind of creepy asterisk a few people came back with on the cycle I came in on after they got dragged into this weird memory," Frisk explains. "Like, really weird and scary. Apparently people aren't sure how to get it, just that if you think about it you'll get some terrifying dream about it."

“Wait, really?” Sasami said, blinking in confusion. Terrifying dreams and Sasami has gone hand in hand for a long time, but this seems odd. “Is it really that bad? Has anyone used it?”

She’s more curious than anything, even if Frisk is being worrisome over it.

"Look, I haven't seen anyone actually use the thing--most people have enough good sense to follow Ganeshan's advice--but if the sharkman says it's bad news, I'm taking him at his word," Frisk says, hand to their heart. If Sasami went all nutso on them after taking this asterisk, they would... well, probably try to talk her down, firstly.

Sasami looked down at that. It seemed that Frisk was more than certain the Ganeshan was telling the truth about this. And honestly, Sasami is starting to believe her. She let out a small sigh.

“If I got this job and something bad happened... would you try to help me?” “I know it seems bad, but... I kinda wanna try to help someone with it.”

Frisk looks at Sasami, sighs, then slumps. She was even younger than them, dammit, and they were already having a hard time keeping up with all of... this. So they couldn't blame her for wanting to take such a risk to help.

So Frisk nods. "Okay. I promise that if you sled down the slippery slope while using that... thing, I'll be there to pull you back. But," they pause, waggling their index finger, "you have to promise to be careful whenever you use it. Deal?" Frisk extends their hand for Sasami to shake.

Sasami nodded at that. She hated wanting to do this, but she really had no choice. If no one else would, then who can? It may be their only hope. At Frisk’s request, she nodded as she took her hand.

“I promise. I won’t go overboard unless I have to.”

"Alright." Frisk breathes a small sigh of relief. Well, at least there was that promise to fall back on in case Sasami got overloaded with evil or some other weird anime crap. "Just take care of yourself, okay? After what happened up North... I don't want anybody else getting hurt."

"I understand. I'll be careful, I promise." Sasami said, nodding.

I Need To Get Stronger...!

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imagine this scene in the anime dramatic flashback filter

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End after Sasami's next tag?

Sounds good!