Asakku

“Wouldn’t you love to know..” Asakku mumbled, taking a large wad of air in. Sparing him a small glance, she sighed, “so frustrating.” Fiddling with the gems of her scarf, she kicked her feet aimlessly, her heels just barely skimming the cobbled pathways. Why do I always feel short compared to people? I mean, come on. There has to be people shorter than me out there! Grumbling a few curses, she rolled her eyes, “wow, good job. You just sumed up my fantastic day,” she emphasized.

What a fantastic day it is. I am so lucky this game doesn’t see what I look like in the real world right now, I would have gray hairs everywhere! Rubbing her arm, she closed her eyes and sighed. This day is going well. Rubbing her temples, she turned to him, “what do you want from me? Im sure as hell that I’m not giving you anything,” she seethed, running a hand though her hair.

@Pick

“Even the universe agrees with me here,” she shook her head and gave him a pointed look. “This is he sign, the sign for you to stop being an idiot.. but you can’t really change that can you..?” She thought out loud to herself, scratching her head. She looked at herself, oh, it was so much worse at home. She looked up st him with a shrug, “I’ve been worse,” way worse. “Hit you? Gladly!” She gave a small devilish grin before smacking square across the face. “Your wish is my command.”

Raising a confused eyebrow, she laid back onto the grass with a sigh. “That’s a random subject. But yeah, I wish my hair grew longer.” She pulled on a strand of her hair. “My.. father, liked it like this.” She churned her head to look at him, “I bet your hair looks like a birds nest under the Nerve Gear.”

@Dustin

Nearly jumping as another player sat next to her, she slowly narrowed her eyes at him, The fuuu..? “What a fine day it is..” she mumbled sarcastically resting her elbow on the arm rest. Dear? The frick. What in the pits of hell is happening. She gave him a printed look before reverting her gaze at the floor. “Ah, a flirt. I’ve seen tons of those before,” she mumbled to herself, rolling her eyes. “Interesting name. Asakku”

And of course the lovely Orias would stare blankly at the stranger before disappearing into the midst of her shadow. “Typical..” she muttered, scoffing to herself. This is awkward. Yeah I’ve seen flirts before but not in SAO, this is kinda weird. Eugh, what kind of soul lets you become a flirt? I mean all you do is.. flirt. They don’t have two craps about your personality. I’m not too hot mentally or physically, she sighed, slouching back against the bench. “Life’s just great,” she mumbled, tugging her scarf closer to her face.

@Pick

Scrolling through her inventory on a small bench, the skinny player let out a small groan of frustration. “Unbelievable, I didn’t get anything from that hunt!” (that never happened) Stupid NPC, he told me that was a a good area, they weren’t even that strong. She leaned back, forcing a sigh, fiddling with her familiars skull next to her. ”What a load of bull, I wasted half of the day on that..” wiping off a stray hair in her face, she closed her inventory and rubbed her eyes. It’s been such a long day, this game is a pain the butt. Not to mention Mr. Hermit here didn’t do jack crap! She glared at her shadow, a small frown on her face. I know you’re thinking this is funny you dumb wolf. But on my name, when you get out of that blasted shadow I’ll have your head! Once she stopped sending daggers at her shadow, she fell back into the bench with a soft thud. Today was supposed to be productive.

@Pick

“Mad.. that’s what this game does to you. It’s what it makes you,” she murmured, rubbing her elbows. I sure know as hell its making me mad. She sighed, watching him sit down. “Yeah?I go here all there time for quests,” she recalled, pushing her palm up to her cheeks. She watched him push with rock with a small glint in her gaze ,”aw. Am I that heavy?” She joked, sparing a small glance at her skinny arms. 

She gave a small chuckle as he face planted into the ground, standing up and looming over him. “Guess I’m the tall one now,” she tilted her head and sat next to him. “Very cloud-y,” she replied, her neutral face faltering. “Comfy my arse, my butt feels like hell,” she muttered, rubbing her back. “Don’t go to sleep, you still have that quest to do,” her face morphed into a frown as she slapped him lightly across the face.

@Dustin

She looked at her familiar who was staring up at her blankly, "do you know what just happened?! I didn't!" she grumbled, walking off into who knows where. "I guess I need to find some stupid gems." She shook her head angrily, pushing her way through the town. The idiot didn't even let me catch a breath before he was already pushing me out the stupid door. Whatever.. she brushed off the thought, blinking furiously. Whatever, after today I don't have to carry that blasted skull around anymore. "Hurry up Orias!" she looked behind her to see her familiar weaving through the crowds of people. So slow.. she rolled her eyes, making her way out of town. Being an artisan better be flippin' worth it if I have to go through this load of crap to be it. I better be making some good money out of this too.. what am I even going to call my shop?

She looked up at him with bored eyes, "enough credit, hm. I'm nothing compared to those front liners, once I'm up there. I'll be strong." she replied with a mutter, putting her elbow on her knee and pressing her chin into her palm. "I'm sure you can get very strong.." she sighed in a bored tone, "but you're not there yet I suppose.." She looked up at him with an amused twinkle in her eyes. "You haven't even see me fight, how can you be so sure?" She rolled her eyes, resisting the urge to flinch as he pounded his fist into the ground. This yelling and pounding is going to be the death of me. Hazado was the same.. She growled angrily under her breath, looking him in the eyes. "You have no debt on me, I don't want your money." She frowned at his smile. 

"I'm not the best at talking. So no thanks."

@Dustin

Entering a small artisan shop, she looked around skeptically. "Ugh, this place feels like some pawn shop," she muttered, looking around for anyone. Finally finding the owner of the shop, she strode up to him, "hello, I'm her-" she wasn't far into her sentence before she got cut off.

"Finally, got that done- Oh hello, what do you want? Oh! You want to learn how to be an Artisan? I'm on a very tight schedule, but I suppose I can take time out of it to help you, but you must be a quick learner." Malachi walks off without another word, disappearing into the back. Following the Artisan, the player sees lots of gems twinkling in the light, spinning from a small breeze coming from the entrance of the store. He catches your eye looking at them, and decides that maybe you actually want to be one. "Listen, I can spare sometime to help you out, watch me very carefully, I will only do this once." With that, he goes to his work station and reaches for a gem in a box, but the box is empty. "What! I'm about to be behind schedule! What am I going to d- You! If you want to learn about being an Artisan, go out and get me five materials for my crafts. And Hurry!"

And it wasn't long before she was pushed hurriedly out of the shop with a confused and shocked expression on her face. "What the fu-?!"

Pulling her head back, she gave an agonizing groan. Sooo bored. She sighed, running a hand through her hair, "stupid floor, there's nothing on here, and I'm too lazy to go anywhere.." she mumbled, turning her head to her familiar, who was staring at her, or at least she thought he was staring at her. "What are you looking at..?" she muttered, making her familiar's head turn the other way. Whatever.. "We need something for that school of yours, no way in hell am I carrying that for the rest of your life," she gave him a cold glare, tapping her chin. "Why don't I become an artisan.. I can make something for it.. Plus I could use the cash." She turned to him and look expectedly, "look, you can be in whatever shadow if we do this okay? I don't have to your stupid skull anymore." Hearing that, her familiar jumped up and looked up at her, I hate you too buddy, she stuck out her tongue at him and started walking away, "keep your skull on, I'm not carrying it for the remainder of the day," she smirked as she heard a growl of protest but waved it off. I hope I don't regret this.

"You haven't fought yet, have you? If you knew the thrill of killing monsters, it's great," she smiled to herself. Yup, impaling things with my spear is tons of fun. She sighed, shrugging. "Reading news huh.." she mumbled. I don't think I've done that.. I guess it would be interesting to see what's going on, but I don't care anyway. "It probably is," she looked up at him with clipped eyes, "I don't know the whole story, but if you're saying it's your fault, then it's no doubt your fault." She shrugged, giving a small and bitter chuckle, "I'm pretty straight forward right..?" Her eyes turned to the ground, "It's true though. Stop weeping about your dead brother. The weakness will only bring you down." Turning her head up to him, she gave a shrug. "I can't guarantee that I won't die in here, neither can I guarantee I'll make it out of here," she said blankly, "and besides.. even if I do get out of here.. I don't think I can survive what waits me beyond Aincrad," she muttered to herself, shaking her head. "I'm sure you aren't," she said sarcastically, muttering a few curses under her breath. It's story time I guess.

@Dustin

Stretching her back, she gave a groan of relief. "Oh my god, I feel great," she muttered, storing her spear into her inventory. "It's been a while since I went stabby-stabby on something," she stared at his hand and quirked her eyebrow, "what are you doing? Whatever, we got the quest done." She gave a small yawn, blinking away the tears in her eyes. "yeah, I could finally get up some levels.." she sighed with a heavy breath. She nodded, "yeah, don't make me do all the work next time.. that sucked." Tilting her head at the friend request, she frowned, "you sure you want to friend me? I'm not the most pleasant to be around. You're lucky we were fighting, impaling stuff makes me happy," she put on a mask of a smile and shrugged. "Whatever, I guess," she accepted the friend request, putting her hands on her hips. "Yeah, sure. I'm not going to ask you for help. I can save my own hide, but it was pleasant working around you," she rolled her eyes, "your first impression was.. unique I suppose."

Well, now that that's done. I guess I should get going. I don't wanna make a forever party with this guy. I don't want to do it with anyone anyways. She started walking off, giving a small wave of goodbye. "I'll see you around. Maybe we'll encounter each other again. Don't look for me specifically, thanks. Bon voyage."

@Tyonis

She glanced over her shoulder and grinned, “I know right!” Turning back to Nepent, she gave a relieved sigh when it barely scratched her. Oh thank god his armor has evasion. She sighed in relief, holding up her spear. “Is that all you got you filthy wad of vines?! Come at me!” She pressed the butt of her spear in the ground with a small smirk.

She turned to him, “no need, I’m gonna kill it this time,” she pointed to herself before ripping her spear out of the ground and charging forward. Speeding around the creature, she leaped onto it, digging her spear deep into the abnormal mob. She watched it give out an deafening screech before exploding into a bunch of pixels. Landing on the ground with a soft thud, she sighed. Thank god.. it worked. She smiled to herself, taking a look at the item it dropped. “Aw yeah! We got what we needed!” She grinned mischievously, picking it up and holding it in front of @Tyonis. “We’re done here now.” 

“Okay..” she mumbled, planting herself on a medium sized rock in the middle of the clearing. Watching him dig, she gave a small frown, “honestly, you only made it worse,” she chuckled, rolling her eyes. “Just a lot of thinking, that’s all.” Scoffing, she scratched her chin, “your brother sounds talkative, not someone I would like to be with,” she commented, crossing her arms of her knees. Watching him finally find something, she gave a thumbs up, “great.” Scrolling through her bare inventory, she looked up. “That’s one way to become I solo player I suppose.”

She shrugged, not caring, “don’t worry about it. And he must have been pretty short,” She mumbled. “But I guess I can vouch for that.”

@Dustin

She crossed her arms and looked in another direction, “you idiot..” she mumbled, “you can’t feel pain as much as you can in the real world,” she explained, “so when we get out of here, yes. I will slap you. And it will hurt. A lot.” Bimbo. She rolled her eyes and scoffed. He’ll get a lot more than one slap if he continues this too..

”America, huh..” she breathed, pondering. “Sounds cool.. I don’t have much family around.. that I know of anyways,” she muttered the last part to herself, heaving s long sigh. It’s not like father would let me anywhere anyways.

An amused twinkle showned in her eyes, “I can’t believe you’re talking about flowers as if they’re monsters..” she chuckled, shaking her head. “Yeah, you’re right about that,” she grinned mischievously at his comment, tangling her fingers around her scarf. “That’s why I am a solo player. Not parties. No guild. No nuisance.” She replied, “I know I am too.”

@Dustin

“Oh, better than no siblings I guess” she said simply, taking note of the weird atmosphere. Well this got weird fast. She rolled her eyes st the thought and shrugged, “it’s not pr-“ she paused, frowning, “stop calling me short!” She fined, her face equivalent to a tomato. “I hate being called that..” she mumbled, I hate it. Hate it. No one knows why I’m like this. Hate it, hate it, hate it. 

She shrugged, “sure, whatever you want.” She paid attention to him talking, “ah, I traveler I see. I’ve never been out of Japan... much less my home town,” she sighed. Snorting, she gave an emotionless laugh, “sure you are.”

Shaking her head at him she scoffed, “you are something else I suppose.” Turning her heads towards him, she gave a quick smirk, “You’re the first guy I know thats scared of flowers, must have some trauma there,” she muttered saracastically.

@Dustin

Tugging her scarf closer to her face, she sighed, “I like your choice in cuss replacements..” she mused, stepping out of the town. Following his gaze, she gave in a sharp breath, “Yeah.. yeah, I bet it is,” she huffed, bringing her gaze back down. She quirked a brow as he drew his sword, “you know you’re not going to need that right?” She gave a lopsided smirk and shrugged. 

“Run, that would be the first thing I would do,” she breathed, tugging her scarf even closer to her face. When he ruined the moment with his insentive behavior, she reached up and grabbed his ear, “Dustin, stop it before you would be begging for me to get my foot off your face, capiche?” 

“Must be nice having a sibling,” she mumbled, walking past him and towards the forest.  

@Dustin

“Yay,” she said sarcastically, following him. Grimacing at his behavior, she gave a long sigh. “Oh dear lord, what have I done to you to deserve this?” She muttered, shaking her head at him as he continued to walk in front of her. “That’s what you get for being dumb, you dumbo.” Rolling her eyes, she sidestepped away from the table and gave a deadpan, “you’re making me sound like I’m a foot tall. I’m not that flippin’ short,” she huffed, crossing her arms in agitation. 

She watched him with a blank face as he started laughing his face off. Finding the perfect opportunity, she let out an innocent grin, “Mm.. blackmail,” she chuckled, watching him get on his knees and start begging with an amused expression, “nah, sorry buddy. You’re never gonna live that down.”

@Dustin

"Yes, I thank myself," she joked, shaking her head. "Oh it is. When I first did this quest. I almost died of boredom," she shrugged, yeah.. it actually was boring the hell out of me. How did I survive? She sighed, running a hand through her hair. "To the forest probably, thats what I did," she answered him, snapping her fingers. "C'mon Orias, either walk or get out," she puffed. Her familiar gave a reluctant smirk and trotted into her shadow with amusement. "I hate that thing sometimes, why do i have to do all the work?" she mumbled, picking up the skull on the ground. "I need something to hold this too, I hate holding this stupid thing," she muttered with annoyance.

Overhearing his mumbling, she gripped the skull and whacked him in the back of the head with it, "what did you say about me?!" she hissed, her cheeks puffing out. She gave a tilt of her head. "To be honest, less dumb than most people I've met," she shrugged, "thats also not a compliment." She licked her bottom lip, "past.. spooky," she muttered sarcastically, pointing towards the exit of town. "There."

@Dustin

"Hell yeah it isn't but it makes things a lot more fun!" she smirked, dashing back into the tides of war battle. Giving @Tyonisa reassuring glance, she rushed off. Please don’t miss, please don’t miss, please don’t miss. And what do you know? God [beep!] You had to pick this one specific day to hate me God? She growled, taking a large leap back from the Variant.

My energy is getting so low.. if I don’t make this next attacks, things could go down in hell..  She sweat dropped, watching her bars of health. I can just wait for him to get his energy back up. I have a bunch of health potions, I don’t think I’m gonna die anytime soon anyways. She gave a hoarse grunt as she landed next to the other player, “well.. this isn’t going as planned, but it is what it is I suppose..” she mumbled. 

Narrowly missing it's vines, Asakku let out a sigh of relief. Oh thank god, my back feels like crud. She shook her head and returned her gaze back on the nepent. Shuddering at the tone of his voice. "Okay.. just chill down a bit okay? I can handle this for a little bit." She huffed, getting ready to strike again. Gaining speed, she weaved behind the nepent, plunging her spear into the back of its chest, her familiar coming out of its shadow and forcing itself upon it too. Agh, so close.. she hissed in her head as they both backed off. 

"It's so close to being dead!" she raked a hand through her hair, "darn it!" she sighed, frowning. Looking back at @Tyonis, she huffed, "are you good now? If I don't miss my next attack.. I might be able to get it. I'm not sure." she told him, blowing a stray strand of hair in her face.

She stared at him, "I.. I don't want your pity," she frowned. I don't want people to read me any differently just because I have a big sob story. She sighed, rubbing her eyelids. I'm exhausted, whens the last time I had a decent meal either? Eugh. "Thanks, or whatever.." she said tiredly, a blank expression on her face, "Child, I'm the same age as you," she chuckled, shaking her head, "I'm just as far gone as you," she shrugged.

She shrugged off his arm, "don't touch me," she sent daggers before sighing, sitting back down. "Honey, I don't laugh.. genuinely," she added. "Don't," she mumbled, "I don't want you to feel sorry for me," she shook her head and looked back up at him, shrugging once again. "Sure, why not?" I don't think anything worse can happen at this point, she thought glumly, focusing her attention Hazado. But we'll see. 

@Hazado

Realizing that the creature was now targeting her, she widened her eyes. "Oh shi-" before she could finish he sentence, she was thrown back into a nearby tree. I'm not sure if that hurt or not.. She looked up at her health bar to see a decent chunk of it gone, "you little [beep], you're gonna pay for that!" she hissed, scrambling back onto her feet, pointing her spear right at the nepents head. 

Digging her feet in the ground, she dashed off. Her face fell as she missed it by a hair. Ahh, stupid game mechanics! She screeched in her head as she bounded away. "Oh, you little piece of crap. You're not off the hook yet," she narrowed her eyes at @Tyonis. "You alright over there?" she called, her gaze reverting back to the 'snarling' humongous Nepent. I'm not sure on how much more I can do. If I keep missing. My energy is gonna say bye-bye and we're gonna be screwed. She sighed, shaking her head.

She snorted, "Well, I'm glad you're tall, it gives me more to dislike," she huffed, giving an identical smirk. Turning back to him, she gave a raised brow and gave a bitter laugh, "yeah, uh-huh. Sure you are," she rolled her eyes, "why can't you do it yourself? I bet you're here for the beginning quest. Theres nothing hard about it." Once she heard him, she broke into fits of laughter, "d-die?!" she clutched her stomach. "You really are a dork," she rubbed her eyes with a small chuckle, "this quest doesn't make you battle anything you bimbo. You only have to gather a bunch of stuff," she shook her head, a smirk playing on her lips. 

"Chill, jeez. You look like you're going to explode," she rolled her eyes with annoyance and crossed her arms with a small smirk. "But, sure. I'll help you. Maybe something will benefit me today."

@Dustin

"Just like you, huh?" she scoffed, "did you grow with bruises? Huh? Did you?" she pressed, glaring at him. "I am nothing like you," she seethed threw her teeth. "You didn't have to buy frickin' concealer every week just so you couldn't go to foster care. You didn't dread coming every. Single. Day!" she narrowed her eyes at him, "this game is so lucky that it doesn't see how many [beep]-ing scars and bruises I have because sir," she passed, staring at him in the eye, "they would be everywhere." She gulped, collapsing onto her chair. I feel pathetic.. I revealed everything to a complete stranger. She closed her eyes and sighed. "Life is great.." she murmured, enjoying the silence.

This is so bull.. she pressed her fingers on her temple. I can't live like this anymore. It's good looking normal again at least. She chuckled, opening her eyes. "Thanks for the talk," she muttered sarcastically, "I think I'm going to leave now though."

@Hazado

She looked at him and shrugged, "I guess you do too," she mused, watching him finish off the final Nepent. Watching an even larger creature spawn, her shoulders drooped. This sucks balls.. we have to fight a giant one too..? Ugh. She frowned, gripping her spear a little bit harder. Whelp.. here goes nothing I guess? She sighed, getting ready to leap into action.

Rushing forward, she leaped onto the large Nepent, impaling the head with the tip of her spear. Ugh, gross. She nearly gagged as she pressed the spear harder into the Nepents head before jumping off. "Gross, gross." she shook her hands reluctantly, glancing over to @Tyonis. "Your turn." She grimaced as she watch the creature walk around. aimlessly. I can't believe how gross these things are.. how did Kayaba make such disgusting creatures? I'm sure theres even more gross stuff in the higher floors. Ew, ew ,ew.