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In which the last consequence of the battle against the Organization is revealed, the Skystreakers do the finishing tuches on the plans to stop Kaito, and a lot of people end up in confusion situations. Poor Chris.

In lieu of actual snow, the ground of HQ Courtyard is carpeted in stark white regardless – a bed of sand that would almost certainly get into the shoes of any poor soul treading upon it. Situated at the yard's center is a Christmas tree reaching slightly higher than the ground floor, decorated down to the trunk with a varied assortment of HQ residents' missing socks and strings of lights that refused to turn on. All around are tables full of food – gingerbread, candy canes, mulled wine that is neither mulled nor wine, eggnog-flavoured turkey, turkey-flavoured eggnog. Under the tree is a mound of purely decorative presents, wrapped in paper of red, green and grold.

All HQ residents are free to join this party to socialize, sample the foods, dance to annoying mall Christmas music, and most importantly, parade their best costumes around for other partygoers to make snarky (or not) remarks about them.

Please reply to this post in-character as your PPC character(s), and be sure to note what costume(s) they are wearing (this can be done with description or illustration). Then, others may reply to your comment with in-character remarks from their characters or you may reply to yourself with remarks from your other character(s), and you may carry on the conversation from there.

Sorry it took me so long to reply! I’d been wanting to read this for a while now, but it came out during finals week and I’ve been trying to get to personal writing these past few days. But I read it, and it’s pretty good! I’ll admit I haven’t read much of your spinoff besides the last mission you posted, but I think that and this helps illustrate the dynamic and background of its characters well enough that I’m only slightly confused, haha.

I also know almost nothing about Psychonauts, my only real exposure to it being a discussion on how it would work in a crossover with Omori, and the “I am the milkman” meme. There was I think maybe one moment where the focus on ‘video game logic’ took me slightly out of a well-flowing scene, but most of the time they helped add flavor to the mindscape. The descriptions themselves were great, by the way. I could picture everything solidly in my mind, and I kind of envy that ability. The conflicting memory sequence in particular was amazingly strange.

It doesn’t feel like a standard PPC story, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. I like the more tonally unique stories that show up in the setting, rare as they are. The ending was nice, too, with the open-end mysteries and realistic lack of instant emotional resolution. Good stuff all around

In which they just discuss their families and their respective naming conventions. After writing this and looking back at my previous Demonly King stories, I realized that a funky sense of humor seems to run in the Hazama clan.

I appreciate it a lot. XD Yes, in hindsight this was a gamble (long, introspective, using a fairly obscure fandom) but we live and learn! I still enjoyed the process of making it and have used that as comfort.

Thank you for commenting. Today happens to be Lucia Day, and you brought light into my morning!

I liked the Psychonauts memory retrieval idea, and I had a good time following it even though I've never played those games.

I don't have detailed feedback, but ... was good, and thought you'd want to know someone had read the thing.

And its Japanese name means "brother slayer" 😐

Folklore about it is pretty much entirely positive, not to mention its seemingly plausible efficacy at treating depression. Weirdly, Victorian floriography gives it meanings of animosity and superstition, which makes no sense to me.

But then there are other wonderful herbs like echinacea, cardamom, bergamot/monarda, meadowsweet, willow, linden, yarrow, comfrey, rose geranium, melissa, maidenhair fern, jasmine...! And we can't forget camellia (tea)! {X D

~Neshomeh

What would a narcissus be like as a Flower?

This thread is nowhere near as active as some of the ones even I have seen.

I don't have any particular objections or points to be made about where exactly a cutoff would need to be made; I've not actually read the fic, nor am I especially familiar with Loud House.

Nesh already clearly explained how to get Permission in her response, where she linked the wiki page on the subject; definitely go read.

--Ls

Wow, what a turnout! I was not expecting this many people to respond to my post. I also didn't think far enough to consider doing the project, so this was more of a glorified suggestion, though it might be completely unnecessary after hearing something that Linstar mentioned. They said that the PPC can have their agents kill the main Stu at any point if they have reached a point where the continuity has been completely ruined. This made about a certain decision made in the fic. In chapter 5, the author "revamps" the episode, The Butterfly Effect. In the show, it was revealed that none of the crazy events that happened in this episode ever actually occurred. It was all a hypothetical situation, conceived in Lincoln's head. However, in the fanfiction, all of the events happened and were not a hypothetical situation. So maybe if an agent did try to do something about this fic, they could probably spin it so that everything that happened after Chapter 5 was imagined by Lincoln. They would probably have to get rid of Laney, JD, and his mansion first. Any other agent can take that idea. But just in case, how do I get permission?

Well, Nume is easy: Stinging nettle. It's not showy and can only be handled with care, and in Victorian floriography it signifies cruelty or rudeness—but also protection. It's a nutritious herb, and in folklore it has the power to basically do a Return to Sender on curses.

Everyone else is harder, haha.

For Ilraen I'm going with bluebell. It's blue. It's associated with loyalty, constancy, and gratitude. And apparently it can be used to make a glue that used to be used in bookbinding, so that's cool!

Gall, without spending too much time overthinking it, can be a snapdragon, because it sounds good. {= ) Also has a meaning of presumption, which also sounds about right.

I'd like for Derik to be something known to exist on Pern, maybe an Artemisia species like mugwort (attested) or wormwood (speculative; has floriography meanings of absence and bitter sorrow, but also "do not be discouraged"). On the other hand, there's a flower known as lionsheart that signifies bravery, and is also known as false dragonhead, which is hilarious. ^_^

As for Jenni, I'm absolutely spoiled for choice and I can't make up my mind. She's just, like, a whole bouquet of medicinal herbs, haha.

~Neshomeh enjoyed this question.

Since Sakura's brother, Touya, has a name that is written with the kanji for "peach". And Corolla's legal identity in Sergio and Nikki's universe is that of Corolla Cherryflower, Nikki's younger adoptive sister (something they had Keiko believe while trying to keep her away from the weirdness of their pre-retirement lives).

I think an interesting pick for her would be a peach blossom. Toyota is based in Aichi prefecture and (according to Wikipedia) the city of Toyota, formerly Koromo, grows peaches as part of its agriculture. It works well with Nikki's cherry blossoms, but the peach blossom is different in shape and often brighter in colour. They're also more attention-grabbing than cherry or plum blossoms, as they have multiple flowers on a branch.

Hope this was at all useful. =]

Nikki Cherryflower, as a Sakura Kinomoto badfic clones, is of course associated with cherry tree flowers. However, while Sakura is associated with Japanese cherry blossoms (the beautiful pink ones, and what her name literally means) since Nikki is based on the Italian dub and is, well, written by an Italian I associate her more with the white flowers of the fruit-bearing varieties of cherry trees more common around here. Which fits well with her signature color being white. Hilariously, one of the spelling for "Nikki" in Japanese contains the kanji for hollylock instead. I'm actually making it a plot point in TWWA soon...

The others... I never really associated any of them with any flower in particular, though Corolla is technically the name for the crown of petals of a flower in Italian. It is not the source of her name, though, as she is a character from the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha universe and so the naming scheme comes from cars (the Toyota Corolla in her case)

Charlie: An asphalt dandelion. Yellow, difficult to kill, and does not look like they should still be alive considering where they are and what they are.

Jiwon: Korean rose, Hibiscus syriacus. Perhaps a bit stereotypical, but he's proud of his heritage, and for all that he whines and mopes during missions he's slightly hardier than appearances would suggest. Not by much, though - the hibiscus is still but a flower, and Jiwon is still only Jiwon.

Ocotillo: I have to stretch connections a little, but I really can't pass up the opportunity to go with her namesake. A cactus named 'little torch' feels apt for a dragon, even if she's the largest PPC character I've seen since, like, 2015. The plant grows fast at the base but slows considerably after, which parallels her journey pretty well as a bare-bones bit that grew a personality with seemingly no setup, but hasn't developed much further due to lacking true memories and experiences a culture implant alone can't provide (it's just missing the self-loathing voices)

Kaguya would be the sweet osmanthus, because that's the flower on his clan emblem. It's also associated with the moon in East Asian mythology, and is known for beautifying qualities. All criticisms and flames about his vanity welcome.

Momoka's name literally means "peach flower". No brainer there. The in-universe justification for her name is explained here.

Inasuke: the gypsophila; it looks adorable, and one of its possible meanings in Japanese floriography is "innocence".

Urato: red gerbera. In Japanese floriography, the gerbera means "always improving" or "hope"; the red variant also means "unending battle".

Wobbles the Clown: A daisy. Specifically, a big plastic daisy that squirts water out of the middle. It's a cheap gag, and a fake flower, but it's to make children laugh.

The Notary: A Moonlight Bloom. It's a Gallifreyan flower with silver petals - which fits her colour scheme - but was also used to symbolise cowardice during the Time War.

Doktor Trollenfisch: A neon-pink chrysanthemum bought for three quid a bunch from a petrol station. He doesn't care where you're from, only that you're happy.

Gabrielle: A white rose. She's a hopeless romantic, chronically unsure of herself, and not as delicate as she thinks she is. She's also healing.

Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne: A Madonna lily, Lilium candidum. In the Long Eighteenth Century, lilies were seen as symbols of purity and innocence; while his innocence, and that of his son, was taken by a Suvian posing as his wife, he has not given up on her, nor upon his marriage.

Lola: Sidebells penstemon. Clusters of flowers fit a commander, and the bright blue represents her colours; they are also found growing around Cheyenne Mountain, where the base of XCOM is located in her home fic.

Zara says she’d probably be a dandelion. She refuses to provide an explanation.

Diamond says she’s a Lily of the Valley because it’s elegant and beautiful just like her. She’ll get back to you on any comments about her ego.

Doom says flowers are for kids. As his author, I’d say he’s probably a cactus.

Thalia wants to be a Corpse Flower sheerly because she finds them cool. I’m not debating her tastes but corpse flowers are cool and rather pretty, despite the smell.

Meg refuses to comment.

Lindell says he’d be a cornflower because they’re blue and his favorite color is blue.