Twelfth Gate [Video/Action]

[niceguypose]

[Video]

[And here is a bushy-browed youth addressing the video feed, with a mix of anticipation and dread.]

Greetings, people of Luceti! Rock Lee here! Currently, I am training hard so that I can try my hand at becoming a jounin! I would be glad to accept any and all training partners. However... Please only see me before the fourteenth!

After all, I must warn all newer people of the holiday that is coming... the day of the Valentines. On such a day, the Malnosso have been known to use their shifts to twist our emotions! They force on us... the feeling of love! Those who were caught under the mistletoe may have some idea of this effect...

My advice, is to exercise caution! In fact, I intend to seal myself within the Battle Dome once the time comes until I am certain it is over! Please do not come to find me. Alternatively, if you do find me, and I seem to be under the effect of the shift, I ask you to do all that you can to overpower me and keep me restrained until it passes! I thank you all in advance...

[Action]

[Basically, Lee can be found doing waiting at Seventh Heaven, while training at the same time. He can otherwise be found performing intense training around the village, within the Fllame Building or the forest, or at the Battle Dome.]

Comments

[stilldontgotit]

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[Lee... Really, Lee?

Riku stares long and hard, rubbing at his brow.]

It's more that you'd fall in love with the first person you talk to. That's how it happened before, anyway.

[niceguypose]

The first person...? Is that how it worked last year? [He can't remember if Izumo was the first person he talked to last year.]

What happens to the second person?

[stilldontgotit]

Well, last year was a little bit different, but in the past? That's how it was-- a real Cupid's arrow situation.

[Though whether or not Lee even knows about Cupid is up in the air.]

[niceguypose]

There are usually arrows involved? I will have to modify my training regimen!

[This Cupid must be another rival who must be defeated. Perhaps he is te scientist in charge of the Malnosso's perverted games.]

[stilldontgotit]

Actually, I was being metaphorical.

[He rolls his eyes, chuckling softly to himself.]

Cupid's basically a symbol-- a naked baby that flies around hitting people with magic love arrows.

[niceguypose]

That...

It sounds like unusual behavior for an infant.

[stilldontgotit]

Well, Cupid's also just an icon, like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. They're symbols meant to represent a holiday, so they don't have to make sense.

[niceguypose]

I see! So he is an iconic rival like Santa-sama. That is why his abilities defy logic, you say...

Please, tell me about this "Easter Bunny"!

[stilldontgotit]

Uh, there's not much to say, though. He's some made up rabbit that supposedly runs around hiding colored eggs. That's it.

[And in Riku's opinion, he's probably one of the most ridiculous holiday icons out there. What's the big deal about eggs, anyway?]

[niceguypose]

Is that so? So it's a test of skill and endurance to find these eggs... Do they contain his young?

[stilldontgotit]

...No, they're just hardboiled eggs dipped in paint.

[He pauses, rubbing at his temple.]

Well, that, or they're plastic eggs filled with candy. Either way, it's nothing special. Definitely loses its charm once you hit age six.