Eye of the Dragon

Aya is free of the Ring's influence and has recovered from the period of weakness/illness that followed. Things have returned to the silly/traumatizing status quo. Rex is growing nicely, and has developed a closet! I've been bad about keeping up with these updates.

Most recently, Aya helped keep Orihime and Ichigo's bodyswitch under wraps.

Aya, finally pushed over the edge by the One Ring's siren song, chased Near down, beat him up, and stole the Ring for herself. She is now wearing it, and her brain is starting to simmer as its power reacts with her own power. In short, she's gone nuts. This sort of thing has happened to her before, through her exposure to Reiki, a cursed sword her family owns with similar addictive, corrupting properties, but even its powers pale before the might of the One Ring...

Aya missed the wedding ceremony (she got caught up in training for Stan's big "attack" on the camp director and lost track of time). But it's probably just as well, given how all that panned out. Of course, Stan's attack didn't pan out either, and Aya had to run from a giant boulder--but she's okay now! It was, uh, a good workout.

So now she's mainly trying to settle in and get used to her weird cabin, even though it occasionally attempts to eat her friends.

Aya has a cabin assignment. She's in Girls' Cabin #3 (soon to be also known as the "Cabin of Leaves"), which was not built so much as born.

Aya has explained her powers to the camp in an effort to put a halt to some of the campers' more salacious behavior. This, in turn, led to a duel between Ichigo and Utena, sparked by Ichigo's protectiveness towards members of his little gang (particularly Aya and Orihime). She also made an odd acquaintance with fellow super-eye-type person Itachi.

Aya is also quite enthused, if a little envious, of Shinn and Stellar's pending nuptials.

So here's a brief (hah, not) OOC summary of what's been up with Aya since arriving in the verdant paradise that is Camp Fuck You Die.

Aya arrived on the camp grounds by foot, the bus she took from the airport having broken down at the edges of the swamp. She passed through the barrier with no problems (because obviously the blocking effect only works one way) but as she proceeded along what passed for a "trail" to the campground proper, she was attacked in a lightning-fast fashion by one of the larger local crocodiles, which had managed to sneak up quite close behind her before her Martial Artist Senses kicked in. She was able to escape unharmed, but her bag was bitten in half, which resulted in a lot of her clothes and various other things ending up in the belly of the croc.

That unpleasant experience was soon forgotten as Aya stepped through the tree line and into a lush, well-tended campground with rustic but comfortable facilities. This, however, proved to be an image created by her imagination and forced upon her perception by her ever-mischievous Dragon's Eye ability.

Once she had had a good long sulk about that, Aya began trying to make the best of her situation and started getting to know some of her fellow prisoners campers. Her first few friends included the indescribably sweet Honda Tohru, with whom she shared an interest in cooking; and the famous martial artist Kusanagi Kyou, whom Aya is a big fan of.

Aya's first camp adventure of note came when, in the aftermath of Ling Yao's attempt to slay the tentacle monster, she got attacked by two of the beast's still-squirming appendages. This has made her rather wary of Ling Yao and made her comrades in trauma with Lu Xun, who was also molested.

Fortunately, Bob the Angry Flower helped her cheer up through the power of making her dance.

Then came her foray into the mess hall kitchen with Tohru, in an attempt to establish a source of food that would actually have a less than 80% chance of causing severe food poisoning. It didn't go well--Tohru was attacked by an arm hiding in a cookpot. Aya was able to free Tohru without either of them getting injured, but that was pretty much the end of the trip. Aya then returned by herself a little later with the hopes of salvaging some useable cookware, but all she found was a portal to the darkness beyond the edges of the universe, located at the bottom of a suspiciously clean cookpot. This experience seems to have had less effect on her than one might think, but every now and then something bubbles to the surface...

And then came the flood. Aya was with Tohru when it started, but the two were quickly separated when the floodwaters began to rise. Aya managed to keep afloat by herself for a while, but just as her stamina for swimming was giving out, she ran across the raft constructed by Lu Xun and climbed aboard. She then proceeded to enjoy some lollipops with Inoue Orihime (whom she had also befriended earlier) in a truly blatant display of (unintentional!) fanservice.

And then she lost her shirt. Aya chose to believe it was dissolved by the rain, which appeared to be quite acidic, but in all likelihood it was swiped while she was in the midst of a Dragon's Eye-produced hallucination. When she came to, she was aided by the infamous Tenjou Utena, who was also a passenger on the raft. Though she was familiar with the reputation Utena had earned for herself and was thus wary at first, Aya soon decided that it was all overblown and that Utena was nothing more than a kind, misunderstood person. And before Utena could do anything to disillusion her, Aya was invited by Orihime's friend Ichigo to stay in an uprooted cabin he had anchored to the flagpole. And that's where she is right now, nice and comfortable and wearing a finely-made turtleneck that was knitted by Haku and left in the cabin (along with several other similar sweaters).

Wow, that was long-winded. I apologize; I wrote this after reading a Penny Arcade newspost and Tycho's style leaked off onto me a little.

You know, when Maya initially told me that she was packing me
off to the American south for a training journey by myself, I was
quite upset. We had just gotten you back, Souichirou-sama, and I
was so looking forward to fighting by your side once again! I still
do miss you, naturally, but I have to say--this place isn't so bad.
The scenery is lovely (such lush and verdant forests! Not at all what
I expected when my sister told me the training camp was situated in a
marsh); the staff are friendly and courteous; and the accomodations
are quite luxurious.

...That's from the letter I started writing to Souichirou-sama before
the Dragon's Eye turned off and I realized my sister had shipped me off
to a desolate wasteland infested with more corpses than
Souichirou-sama's father keeps in his basement (only these ones walk
around and groan and whatnot). I should have been more suspicious of
the stack of 10,000-yen bills Maya was counting through at the
airport.

But a rough environment makes for better training, I guess. I shall
persevere! And when I come back, I'll be strong enough to let
Maya know just what I think of this whole business!

That reminds me--I don't have my receipt or ticket stub anymore
because a crocodile ate about half of my things while I was on my way
into camp, but if I remember right, my sister bought me a one-way
ticket. No doubt she's "testing" me to see if I can make it out of
here and back home by myself. Well, I'll show her!
I'll--I'll...I...I possess data, with proof, that will absolutely
blow the lid off the present civilization. If the United States
buries 80,000 tons of nuclear waste inside Mother Earth, for our
children to inherit, then Americans will be the most evil bastards to
ever inherit a planet. A proper burial spot for nuclear waste is
under academic institutions and in Washington D.C.

What was I saying? Oh, right--I feel kind of funny. I think the
Dragon's Eye has been turning itself on and off more often than usual.
Must be something up with the energies in this place.

Hay guyz super premature test post here

DATA!