They're all tools in the end. Pop-ups can be tough at times because of the uncertain nature of who's going to show up. However, at others that can be exactly what you're looking for when it comes to a scene. I use them as a reaching out to whoever interested when I've got spare time and wanna thread...

Leaning in once more, spoken quietly once again, "I'll go find them. If you can see if you can see the faces of these samurai who would poison their own people," she leans back, gives her sister a look and then parts. Moving back along the way she'd try to link back up with the other two. Finding wh...

Yuuko would part briefly so she might look at her sister, and read her lips. Nodding at first to the admission, then to the revelation. As prior miming Asako did Yuuko gave her own little performance. Bringing her hand up she waves in front of her own face, looks to her sister pointedly, and then ba...

Feeling that sense, snuck off away from the group at least. Yuuko waited for her sister to return. Having found herself a space that was perhaps just off from the main throughway, but didn't approach the individuals talking directly and allowed her sister to take the lead. When Asako returns to her ...

As the group approaches, Yuuko's focus grows in intent as she narrows in on something. Eyes tensing, but then growing calm the young woman leans in toward her sister and brings a hand over her mouth as to conceal it from view. Whispering something to her sister in the privacy of the moment she'd sli...

This very early morning brisk wasn't helping nearly as much as she was hoping to quell her worrying mind. However, it did maintain her sharpness when it came to performing. Midnight in the Garden | Skulduggery (Air), Subtle Observer, vs TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 5 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2 https://...

I don't know what the nature of the Skulduggery check in the LN thread is but if it's related to noticing something Subtle Observer would possibly apply?

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"Why'd you want to wake so early again?" Asako asked, still rubbing her eyes as she followed after her. "It's not like we can prepare ahead of time for the next trial or anything that much." Yuuko gives her sister a brief look, one lasting two seconds and no more. Giving a small shake of her head. ...

Yuuko woke early in the morning, very early. Finding a strange lacking in her typical calm, she walked her way out of the room to where the hawks were allowed to be kept. Seeing to her own, joined not long after by her sister, she took the creature out for a late night walk. Together the twins walk ...

"Maybe we should go on this walk around the premises with Suzume Rin?" she says, matching her sisters eye for a moment. Looking back to the other competitor she offers a brief dip of her head in apology. "Your performance earlier was very impressive. I do not suppose it was entirely to the preferenc...

"I do not hide behind our sensei's sentiment, sister. I embody it. Something that I think you would serve yourself better by trying to do on occasion. It might allow you to interact with others more fully, more pleasantly," she says, looking to her sister. Neutral as her expression was, composed, th...

Feeling unwell. Posting will likely be slow for the next day or so.

With a bow granted, Yuuko naturally returns. Leaving it at that for the moment, Yuuko meets her sisters eye as she joins them, sharing that look. However, Yuuko maintains it for just a little bit longer, one second, two, three. Admonishment, it couldn't have meant anything else. Returning her attent...

Stepping into the entryway a young woman with a noble presence, though perhaps not nobility herself, appraised the entryway with a quick glance. Stopping there she looks to Rin, and then over her shoulder back toward her sister. Focusing back on the other competitor she'd seen before for a few secon...

Does Strife still cause its damage-quality in events?

One-upped she would be, eventually. However, given the opportunity to perform Yuuko was one to measure the judge in question. Watching as the others performed and parsing what information she could from their own show as well that of others. When it came to being her time she stepped up with a cool ...

"We are not hawks either, Asako. We are samurai, and it does well for a resting mind to be able to rest. Our sensei would agree with the sentiment," she says, and it was a statement that could hardly be countered. After all, chances were that's exactly where Yuuko had heard such a thing said.

Yuuko measures the other woman with a gaze, but beyond that leaves her sisters statement standing. Rising from her seated position on the stage she then moves around the perimeter of it until she comes to a more natural place from which to step down. Eventually coming back around to her sister she m...

Yuuko watches her sister, the shift from a peaceful moment to the overtaking passion. Glancing away from Asako she sighs lightly. "Have you ever thought to practice meditation, Asako? Might help you enjoy quiet moments such as these," she says, there is never much inflection in Yuuko's tone but Asak...

"From a certain perspective I can understand such an action. Place the samurai of the respective clans against one another, so that you might reveal the best among them before competing against opposing clans. However, there is certainly something cowardly in forcing you or I to be eliminated by the...