Aegis Monster Hunter Academy

[haremtrap]

Back in the 1980s, drilling for oil grew too extensive and too deep. Humanity started breaching ancient caverns miles below the Earth's surface. They weren't uninhabited caves either. This extensive cave network was the home of unknowable numbers of massively beasts who now regularly escaped to and rampaged across the surface.

Some of the beasts were not hostile, though. They wanted to protect the surface world, and found the best way to do so was to symbiotically bond with humans, combining the deadly power of the depths with the agile minds of humanity. People who took these creatures into their own bodies became Hosts, and they were the only hope humanity had int protecting themselves.

As most people who become hosts did so at a relatively young age, though, they still have to go to school. To learn how to control their newfound powers AND to learn how to be a productive member of society. YOU are such a Host, and YOU have been accepted in the best school in the world for Hosts:

AEGIS MONSTER HUNTER ACADEMY


Set on the Japanese coast, a few miles south of Tokyo Japan, Aegis is a marvel of modern architecture and a beacon of hope to the nation. It includes on campus housing for student, state of the art training facilities, and is practically a self contained town in and of itself. Kohaku Yuhara is just now becoming a first year student here. What adventures will the new kid have?

Possible thread hooks
- It's orientation day! Time for everyone to figure out where their classes are going to be and meet their classmates/roommates
- It's T-T-T-TIME TO DUEL! As graduates from Aegis are expected to be badass monster hunters, getting some combat experience is a must. That means it is accepted policy for students to resolve differences via public duels
- Combat training! This time it's not against each other, but against simulated monsters. How well do you work as a team?
- Class! This teacher is boring and never stops talking. Exchange whispered conversations. Pass notes. Doodle in the margins of your notebook.
- Day off! A good time to catch up on your studies/training, or to go and actually relax! Read a book! Go for a walk! Watch a movie! Go on a date!
- Or anything else you can think of.

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Kohaku Yuhara

[haremtrap]

[CHARACTER: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our protagonist. Kohaku is a 1st year at Aegis, and came here from an all boys school. However, Kohaku is a girl. It was a really weird situation, don't think about it too much. She has a boy's haircut, wears boy's clothes, and generally acts kind of boyish out of habit, so people mistake her for a boy more often then not. She kind of fine with that though, and doesn't really care one way or the other.

She is a stealth type host. Her symbiont invaded and replaced most of her nervous system, giving her superhuman reaction speeds, supercharged senses, and the ability to manually turn off her sense of pain. As Hosts go, she's not very powerful, but she is a skilled sword fighter and is clever.]

[slackdragon]

What does Kohaku do in her room during the weekend? Study? Watch TV? Play games? Skype?

Whatever it is, it is being rudely interrupted as Toyo practically (bot not actually) kicks in the door. "Kohaku!"


[ At some vague point post-loss ]

[haremtrap]

Apparently she makes card castles. The sudden intrusion creates enough vibration to knock the whole thing down, leaving Kohaku holding the ace of clubs and three of hearts two feet up over a pile of cards. She drops them both and slumps on the couch.

"You know, I think I heard somewhere that some people consider it rude to kick down someone's door."

1/2

[slackdragon]

"That doesn't matter!" Kohaku seems oddly determined today. She marches into the room. "All that matters..."

2/2

[slackdragon]

....and then she marches right over to Kohaku's bed.

And then flops down onto Kohaku's bed.

"...is that I needed a place to nap."

[haremtrap]

And she JUST made that. Yes, Kohaku makes her bed. She likes things to be neat.

"What's wrong with YOUR bed?"

[slackdragon]

She dismissively waves one of her gloved hands. "Can't find it."

Can't find. The bed.

"Buried under too much stuff."

She already has her eyes closed. She pulls one of the blankets over herself. YUP she's already comfy.

[haremtrap]

"Buried under-"

Heaven help her.

"How do you even HAVE that much stuff!?"

[slackdragon]

She nestles into the blanket. "I think the better question is how do you have so-"

She pauses a moment as she nestles into the blanket.

"Wow, these blankets are really soft. And... do they smell like lavender?"


Does Toyo know what clean sheets feel and smell like? The world may never know.

[totallyahuman]

Lunch time! A few days after orientation, when all the new students are still getting used to life at Aegis. Things seem to be going pretty smoothly this time.

Except when some kid streeeeeeetches her arm and casually grabs a rice ball off of Kohaku's tray, as well as all the trays on the way, starting to chow down on them without a care.

Incredibly rude. Clearly somebody needs to talk to her about this.

[haremtrap]

Kohaku's fingers moved with superhuman quickness, and the weird kid got one fewer riceball than she was expecting.

A few seconds later, Kohaku walked over and swallowed her bite so she could speak. The other students had started to react angrily, but then they saw that the new student council president was moving in to deal with it and sat down to watch how "he" would handle this.

"Excuse me."

[totallyahuman]

"Hrfm?" She's blithely munching on one of the riceballs, not super aware that something's wrong with what she did.

"Wrfsh mmp, sfhool prfmshidrmt?" Just. Speaking with her mouth full of rice. Great.

[haremtrap]

She has NO IDEA what the weird kid just said, but fuck it lets just dive in.

"Were you raised in a cave? You can't just take people's lunches like that!"

[totallyahuman]

Gulp. "Uhhh..." Technically she was? If you count "underneath the Earth's crust" as "a cave", then yes.

"I mean, they weren't eating it, so I thought it would be okay if I took it off of their hands." Not counting the fact that lunch has been going on for about 10 minutes, and people haven't had the time to get to that part of their meal. "See? No harm, no fowl."

[haremtrap]

"It was clearly part of their lunches even if they hadn't gotten to them yet. How would you like it if I just grabbed your stuff the minute you put it down?"

[totallyahuman]

"..."

"......"

"I dunno. I'd probably fight you for it, but if you won, then hey. It's yours. 's why I didn't go for your riceball after you took it away." Munch munch munch. Another riceball down.

1/3

[timeforbed]

Ah, lunch, the one time of day aside from dinner where she didn't need to worry about her duties as secretary or focus on her schoolwork. Nothing but eating food and recharging for the rest of the day!

And what better way to start it off than to bite into a rice ball? "Itadakimasu!" Shogo cheered to herself as she went and took a bite out of thin air.

... what.

2/4 I'm a liar

[timeforbed]

She looked at her hand. Nothing. There was nothing there. She was about to take a bite of her rice ball, and it just... vanished.

"..."

3/3 nevermind, lied again

[timeforbed]

It is at this point that Shogo promptly broke down into tears.

"M-my Rice ball~!!!"

Lunch was serious business to Hazuru Shogo, to have her food just disappear without warning was simply too much for her.

Not that the rest was gone, no, it was still there, but that was meaningless to the fact that the rice ball was missing.

make up your damn mind

[totallyahuman]

Oblivious to the soul-rending torment that she hath wrought, Jane munches on one of the pilfered riceballs. For comedy's sake, we'll say it's clearly Shogo's that she started on.

And it's not like she's trying to hide it or anything. There she is, 3 seats down, nomming happily.

Never! Also, prepare for looping. 1/2

[timeforbed]

She heard it. Somehow, she heard it. Maybe it was those weird floaty things by her head that let her hear it, maybe her connection to food was just THAT deep. Regardless, she heard the sound all the same, and it sent chills down her spine.

Turning she saw one of the new kids eating her rice ball. She knew it was her rice ball, and not someone else's despite the fact that the damn onigiri all looked the same. This was absolutely unforgivable, but it was too late to save it now...

2/2 Rewind: Mere seconds before Jane snatched the rice ball from Shogo

[timeforbed]

As Jane was about to ignorantly take someone's food, they would find their hand, instead of grabbing the packed rice, cupping the muzzle of a military-grade combat shotgun.

"Oi. Bitch." If Jane bothered to look up, she'd see the very unhappy, rice-riddled face of Hazuru Shogo, ready to defend her sanctuary. "The hell do you think you were about to do?"

[totallyahuman]

"Huh?" Jane is still in her seat.

Her arm is stretched out like putty 15 feet away from her.

"H-hey, that's my hand!" In the new timeline, Jane retracts her hand back to normal length, looking a little dejected. "Listen, I mean, it didn't look like you were touching your food, so I was gonna take it off your hands for ya. That's not so bad, right?"

So... Modeseven, huh? interesting choice

[timeforbed]

"'Not so bad'?" She parroted what she just heard, verbally and in her head. Oh. Oh this poor, ignorant girl. She doth not know what she speaketh. Obviously, it was Shogo's job, not just as StuCo Secretary, but as a person, to rectify this ERROR. Giggling to herself, she shook her head as she launched into her lecture at gunpoint.

"I don't know if I would say that. Just because we aren't touching it yet doesn't mean we aren't about to. In fact, it's actually quite rude to take the food off of someone else's plate without proper consent. If I were anyone else, why I might have accidentally pulled the trigger~!" Spoken as if she hadn't honestly been considering doing that and just leaving the remains to be sorted out by the faculty. "You're lucky that was the first time this happened, and I caught you before you could make someone REALLY mad."

Suddenly, Jane will find Shogo right up in her face. "Which is why I'll let this slide so long as you NEVER TOUCH MY FOOD AGAIN. Do that, and it'll be like this never happened, okay?" Her tone was sweet, almost angelic, but it did nothing to actually match the air around her, nor the fact that the shotgun was still pointed at Jane.

it was the best representation of "weird stretchy foreign exchange student" i could find

[totallyahuman]

"Oh." Blank stare.

.... further blank staring. There's either a lot or nothing going on in this girl's mind. At least she seems to be listening to Shogo's spiel. "Wouldn'ta been a big deal if you had blown my hand off, anyway. Woulda just made a new one. But I won't touch your food again, promise!" Her expression and her mannerisms show that she just... doesn't seem to care about Shogo's grandstanding and threatening mannerisms, just taking everything at face value.

Unstoppable force, meet immovable object.