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 Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:56 am
Koko Powell was on a mission.
It was a mission to escape injustice, Evil, and a wicked stepmother, who admittedly had been just a normal mother this morning but had then punished her daughter for spilling expensive perfume all over the living room. It wasn't the tiny takoyaki's fault that perfume was so big and she was so small! It wasn't her fault that perfume was a ladylike accessory she had yet to master! Clearly she was being plotted against, and thus, smelling strongly of lily of the valley, she was off to find fairer company, and perhaps a place to wait until the scent was less than gag-me-with-a-spoon overpowering. She would go off and have a wonderful, exciting, highly proper adventure, and then Lena would feel sorry. Then she would realize just what an awful evil stepmother she was, and Koko would come home and benevolently forgive her.
Until then, though, Koko made good her escape, wiggling through the cracked open window and sliding down the tree outside. She fell on the dewy morning grass with a less-than-ladylike "Oof!" and stood up, basking in the glow of success. Now what?
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:06 am
Not too far from where Koko was, Kohi was also exploring. He'd told his caretaker he wanted to make some new friends, but without her holding his hand. Reluctantly, she watched him go, but not before making him promise to return before it got too dark.
The foxy gogo wandered through the tall grass, swatting away enormous insects as they leaped about him. He pouted and cursed whomever decided not to mow, and eventually made his way into another person's much more well-kept yard.
It was only then that he realized that he had absolutely no idea where he was going or where he might find someone to make friends with. He didn't even know the people who lived around him.
Well... no better way to find out than to look!
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:56 am
Koko struggled through the grass as best she could, but ladies were simply not made for jungle exploration! Cursing her tiny height in her head and shrieking every so often as a monstrous bug leapt out at her, she bit her lip and moved forward. Perseverance! It was a well known fact that plucky heroines suffered in stoic and admirable silence, so she would too.
However, when a giant earthworm reared its head at her, her mettle was tested. Crashing down to Earth again with a spray of dirt, it made her scream as loudly as she could, running as far as she could through the tall grass. Finally, a way away from the monster, she collapsed onto the ground with a sigh. Adventuring was hard when one was a Lady on her own, and she was getting discouraged. She hadn't even made it out of the yard yet and already there was more peril than she could shake a teacup at.
She looked up in alarm as she heard a noise nearby. More evil? Monsters? Dastardly fiends? The girl peered through green shoots nervously to see what could be causing the ruckus and say another tiny human (Maybe? He did have a few extra appendages...) figure, much to her surprise. She opened her mouth to call out, but stopped herself. Evil, she was reminded, came in all shapes and sizes, and as a young, highly kidnappable lady, the proper thing to do was observe first and make sure she wouldn't be putting herself in unnecessary danger by introducing herself.
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:05 pm
Kohi heard a scream and glanced around. He saw only a spray of dirt fly through the air nearby, but wasn't entirely sure where it had even come from. The scream sounded decidedly feminine and he was concerned. Was some woman being attacked ... or something worse? His instinct as a big, strong man was to find the damsel in distress and save her from whatever horrible fate may be befalling her.
Except, he couldn't see anyone bigger than him. Perhaps it was another gogo? That was promising, at least. He called out as loud as he could, "Hello? Is anyone out there? Are you okay?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:24 pm
Koko blinked, torn. Evil villains did not generally ask if you were doing okay in her experience. (Although they did inform you that you would not be okay for long.) She looked around quickly in case he had evil henchmen or some other telling sign of Dastardly Deeds afoot, but seeing nothing, she slipped out from between the grass, smoothing down her dress and fixing her now-messy hair as best she could. Giving him a somewhat shaky curtsy, as her nerves were still jangling slightly, she flashed the other Gogo a hesitant smile. "Takoyaki Powell, at your service." she announced politely. "I am quite well, thank you for asking, just..." she looked behind her to make sure the worm-monster hadn't followed her, "Just a little shaken. And, as this lawn is my wicked stepmother's and I am fairly sure you do not normally belong on it, may I ask who you are?" Now that she examined him more carefully, he looked sort of like a bold adventurer, which made her feel safer at least. Delicate young ladies were wise to stick around noble princes, bold adventurers, and kind heroes, and considering her mishap with the fearsome worm monster, finding one around so soon after would be a real stroke of luck. Clearly she had underestimated her yard's propensities for danger, and she felt most gratified in thinking that perhaps she had met someone capable of handling it, or at least capable of not screaming at the sight of the hideously deformed face of evil in all its many insectoid shapes.
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:42 pm
Kohi smiled at the female as she emerged from the grass. She was pretty, and did indeed look like a damsel in distress. He was pleased at the prospect of having a lady to protect. After all, he was an adventurer, and that was what adventurers were to do - besides adventuring, that is. He even kept with him an arsenal of essential adventuring tools: rope (string), a machete (or rather, a small plastic sword from a toy set which he'd whittled a bit to make it sharp enough to cut thin paper), and small bandages. Not much could fit in his little bag but he felt it was a good start until he grew a bit (which, he hoped, would happen one day) and could handle much larger and cooler weapons.
He bowed to her in response, and gently took her hand, placing a faint kiss upon it. "Sir Kohi Jutsune, adventurer extraordinaire, at your service!" he said, straightening up and giving a little salute. "I didn't mean to intrude on your stepmother's lawn, but I was exploring and looking for new friends, and I didn't know where I was going. However it seems we do live close together, which I feel is a good thing."
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:00 pm
Some people would have been surprised by Kohi, but Koko was of the firm belief that real life was almost exactly like romance novels due to the unfortunate fact that she had a mother that wrote them and thus had spent most of her life reading about tall, dark, handsome adventurers, mostly named Sir thisorthat, Lord soandso, or, in some cases, Fabio and how they repeatedly saved damsels from all sorts of danger. The fact that one would be in her backyard thus made perfect sense to her, in fact it even made her feel a little triumphant since her mother evil stepmother had repeatedly told her that they weren't real.
Take that, reality! She had an adventurer in her backyard!
She gave a little maidenly blush as he kissed her hand, and nodded firmly. "Yes, I also feel this is an excellent circumstance, Sir Jutsune, as I often get into Peril and often have I wished there was a noble adventurer around to help me! My mother was protecting me from most of it, but I'm afraid she's become inconveniently evil as of late, which puts me at a terrible risk. That's why I'm out here, you see, instead of safe in my boudoir, because everyone knows that Ladies are in grave danger in even the safest rooms when there's an Evil Stepmother about, so I thought that perhaps I'd risk escaping." She gave a little sigh. "It's turning out to be rather difficult though! How does one generally go about facing all this danger?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:20 pm
Kohi simply grinned at the fair maiden Takoyaki Powell, and listen to her spin for him her tale of woe. He knew very little firsthand of evil stepmothers as his own was fairly nice... although he did find that, once every month or so, she did become quite irritable indeed and was not very pleasant to be around at all.
"Well it seems we have great luck, running into each other like this, as I have recently made it my lifelong duty to take care of any damsels-in-distress I may happen upon. It seems to me I have found one!" He looked quite pleased with himself.
"How?" he repeated, cocking his head. He kept his outward cool but inside he was startled by the question. Honestly, he had never been on an adventure or saved lovely maidens or anything of that daring sort. In fact, he rarely left the house without his mother. Most of the "tricks" he felt so skilled in were actually learned from watching way too many Indiana Jones films (and the occasional Batman). He could not possibly reveal this to his new lady-friend. What kind of adventurer would he look like then?
"Well, you see, Miss Takoyaki... it takes years of dedicated training," he assured her with a grin, puffing out his chest to accent his manliness. "However, since normal people do not have what it takes to go through such grueling tasks, they enlist the help of adventurers like myself!"
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:24 pm
Koko nodded eagerly. "Oh yes, you needn't fear at all! My mo- My evil stepmother is constantly telling me that I manage to get into more distress than anybody she's ever met, and she's generally regarded as an expert on such things." She paused, thinking, then added, "Or, she was, until she became evil. But at any rate, I am a certified damsel in distress, and I am well trained in all the skills a damsel in distress must know! I can sing charmingly, scream audibly, and faint gracefully, and I can make practically any ensemble look charming, which is useful when one is locked up in a tower or somesuch thing and wardrobe options are limited." She listed off her talents methodically, as if she had memorized them in an organized list in her head. Blinking, she realized that perhaps she sounded a trifle prideful, which simply would not do for a lady and quickly added, "Oh! But of course, I'm sure you know dozens and dozens of talented damsels in distress. I'm afraid I haven't had much practical experience, so I may be a bit of an amateur."
She nodded sagely as he told her that being an adventurer took years of training. It was only to be expected! They had it much tougher than damsels, who really only had to look winning and wait around a lot. "Oh, well that makes perfect sense! And please, Sir Jutsune, you may call me Koko if you wish. Takoyaki is awfully formal, and I find it also makes people a bit peckish." Bending a tall blade of grass, she sat down on it delicately and looked around the lawn. "I feel awfully embarrassed asking, but do you happen to know where damsels go after escaping from evil stepmothers? I've never had the need to before, so this is all quite new to me."
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