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Yume Kuribayashi
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- Joined
- Jul 23, 2023
SUMMARY TO DATE
The Fine Print was originally hosted on Fiction Depot, running from June 11, 2021 to September 29, 2023, where it temporarily concluded due to/ahead of the site's closure. Below is a summary of the RP's events to the present.
It is common belief that, when humans die, they are destined to one of two realms: Heaven or Hell. Though this dichotomy is preached as the truth, in practice there are actually a plethora of afterlives, divided by both religious denomination and the weight of one's sins. Heaven and Hell, Nirvana and Jigoku, and among them lesser-known realms only known to those who are sent there, with very few returning to the world of the living to tell the tale. That is, if the rulers of those realms will even allow them passage out of their new homes… A recurring element of these so-called "modern afterlives" are that their rulers are often female, coming off like dominatrices moreso than traditional deities. As such, their realms are viewed as "hells" moreso than "heavens", yet for every soul sent there upon death, it was all a matter of whether they were into the sort of torments doled out by the powers that be. And it wasn't uncommon either that the rulers of these realms often fraternized with one another in pocket realms of their own making, sometimes for business but most times for entertainment.
One such fraternization took the form of a poker game, played between four of these "realm rulers". Khar Altanzul, the demonic and hermaphroditic ruler of a nameless realm that she treated more as an extension of the typical Hell than its own underworld. Kaori Nakamura, a.k.a. "The Candy Tyrant", the current ruler of Wonderland, the dementedly saccharine realm known for housing humanity's most twisted souls. Naeemah, the queen of a subset of the Egyptian afterlife, infamously reputed for trapping the souls entrusted to her possession into sarcophagi with little reason or care. Hatsumegami, the lord of a Japanese afterlife whose finer details were commonly unspoken of outside the realm in question, apart from being heavy on the punishment side of things as her name suggested. The game, a typical affair for the ladies just as it would be on Earth, ultimately came out in Khar's favor, and as such, she received the prize for victory: the eternal soul of a randomly chosen human.
Said human being Naoto Itakushi, a 23-year old Japanese man whose effeminate appearance earned him modest personal success as a fashion model. Despite this, all he worked to achieve either dissipated or came crashing down through what seemed like pure happenstance; incidents physical and medical for which he saw consistent involvement, and for which he lost his job and many of his social ties. But what he thought was a scheme concocted by a jealous rival from the shadows, was in truth Khar's means of ensuring his soul's collection was done without drawing any attention, especially to his sudden disappearance from the world of the living.
From that day forwards, Naoto became Khar's personal plaything, and by extension, a resident of her household at the center of her netherworldly realm. Among her keep were hundreds of souls, if not thousands, at her complete mercy, be they trapped within the wailing wall that was her "latex pool", or exposed for more direct torment. But being among those with enough of Khar's trust to be given freedom over their own actions, Naoto's peerage primarily consisted of Khar's "inner circle". Setsufumi, also known as "Setsu", a dickgirl oni from Jigoku, who serves as Khar's second-in-command. Hana Yun, one of Kaori's underlings from Wonderland, known as a "Jester", who wound up in Khar's realm while chasing an escapee and lucked into the position of chief disciplinarian. Yukari Konno, a mid-rank subject of Khar's who, while possessing greater freedom than most, regularly and preferably acts as her house pet, a position for which she takes the shorthand "Kari". These three would act as Naoto's closest companions on his level, though with Hana returning to Wonderland in a fit of inadequacy so soon after his arrival, Setsu and Kari were the only ones to fill those roles. Setsu, in particular, would be a reliable hand for Naoto to rely on when Khar wasn't around, guiding him through the numerous need-to-knows pertaining to his new life in the greater sphere of netherworlds, as well as the changes happening within him as a newfound denizen of this specific realm…
When a human is brought into an afterlife before their time comes, especially without going through the process of dying, they don't remain human for long. Their unjudged soul, influenced by a realm meant for only those humans who have already received judgement, morphs to match the nature of that realm and its rulers. From the moment he entered her realm, Naoto began his slow transformation into a demon, just like Khar. What's more, his "inner self" – a sort of split personality containing deviant desires he never knew existed – started to form. And though Khar played a role in helping Naoto realize his "inner self" and know what to expect of him, it was Setsu who helped him embrace this persona, his wants and his needs, everything except that final push which would allow the "inner self" to emerge at long last. In his emergence, he would merge with Naoto as he presently was, likely creating an all new being… But what would happen as a result of that merge would have to wait for the anticipated moment of emergence.
That is, the Banquet in Wonderland.
The banquet, to be held in Kaori's realm, was arranged in celebration of Khar finally getting her hands on Naoto's soul. Following her return to Wonderland, Hana found herself working the arrangements for the banquet that would occur in several days' time alongside several of the realm's other Jesters. Like Hana, Kaori's Jesters are human souls given the opportunity to exert control over the typical lot of doomed souls populating Wonderland, while remaining at Kaori's mercy (or lack thereof) nonetheless. Among those Hana worked the most closely with were the other high-rank Jesters besides her. Denieru & Mitsuru Shuji, "Den" and "Mitsu" for short respectively, fraternal twins who were the closest thing Kaori had to right-hand underlings, and as such performed whatever tasks were asked of them no matter the realm they visited; Kaito Kirinaga, "Kiri" for short, a spirited and enthusiastic femboy Jester who, like Naoto, was brought into Kaori's ranks before his time and had his personality altered to match the highly perverted (though less attractive) Jesters that comprised much of their ranks; and Theodore Sumner, "Ted" for short, one of the newest Jesters, an abrasive and entitled cultist who was sent to Wonderland upon his death and placed in his present position out of Kaori's own amusement. But not only were the five Jesters preparing the banquet to celebrate Khar enslaving Naoto, but another enslavement that was the prime reason Kaori held the banquet in the first place.
In addition to the souls sentenced to her realm, Kaori also likes to make use of those still alive that she would deem perfect playthings, if not for their still-living status. Such is the case of Yukiko Nakamura (no relation), a Japanese brothel owner/dominatrix with a notorious reputation for the rough treatment of the girls in her "care". Though nowhere near as repulsive as the war criminals and other ne'er-do-wells lining the cages and cells of Kaori's keep, the other Nakamura's attitude drew the Candy Tyrant's curiosity to the point that she wanted her. And so, after sending Den and Mitsu up to observe and, in the latter's case, infiltrate her activities, Kaori was able to lure Yukiko into Wonderland through an abandoned soapland bearing the realm's name, which contained a portal leading directly there. Yukiko entered the portal with the intent of investigating the rumors surrounding it, and in doing so left behind many of those close to her, namely her personal assistant Chie Kugimiya and her younger brother Satoshi Nakamura. And naturally, upon entering Wonderland, she immediately found herself at Kaori's whims.
Kaori's goals for Yukiko initially appeared to be simple torment: physical torture and locking her in mental nightmares of her own design, meant to break her down from the inside out for her own twisted pleasure. However, being as whimsical as she was sadistic, there was another layer to Kaori's machinations: she wanted to transform Yukiko into a realm ruler of her own, one whose aesthetic was steeped in that of the red light districts populating Tokyo in the Edo and Taisho periods. And Yukiko's nightmares proceedably doubled as internal meetings with her own "inner self", taking the form of the Madam she would become upon being granted her realm in full. She was so close to her own emergence and subsequent merge, and just like Naoto, it was anticipated that it would happen at the banquet.
With Kaori hosting the event, Khar attending as an invited guest, the Jesters providing service both menial and sexual, and both Naoto and Yukiko as the living centerpieces, it appeared that the shortlist for the banquet was as complete as it was solid. However, such a formal meeting between two realm rulers was bound to attract other visitors, be they Naeemah or Hatsumegami – expected to crash the event, as it concerned the poker game that sparked half of the overall impetus – or a guest whose attendance was all but assured, as was the case of the ruler of the Henten Realm.
The Henten Realm was the closest a modern afterlife could get to true Heaven: only the pure of heart and spirit could seek entry upon death. But unlike Heaven, the souls accepted were those whose moral integrity was contrasted by kinks and fetishes that were no doubt sinful, rejected from the pearly gates and sent towards a place where punishment was as much a reward as the rewards that came with them. Ruling over Henten is Kiyomi Ichijou, an angel from the Japanese realm of Heaven who was placed in charge as a means of preventing her from causing trouble in her native afterlife. Despite the practical excommunication that was her placement as Henten's ruler, Kiyomi embraced her status thoroughly, starting many traditions both personal and communal, and all concerning her many subjects.
Of Kiyomi's subjects, a select few were kept close as personal assistants and extensions of her will. One such assistant is Makoto, a jack-of-all-trades (or jill-of-all-trades, to be more precise) who carried out many duties as Kiyomi's unofficial second-in-command, most notably head disciplinarian and spymaster, utilizing many of the realm's inter-dimensional surveillance tools to keep her mistress informed of happenings in the other realms. Another would be Yume Kuribayashi, a cheerful girl in her late teens with a laundry list of turn-ons who, as repayment for being brought back to life after an early death and judgement resulting from a breathplay incident, serves at Kiyomi's whims as a beck-and-call toady, entering the realm to either assist or pleasure her – oftentimes both at once – whenever the "Deviant's Heavenly Queen" sees fit. In one of her most recent assignments, Yume was tasked with helping Kiyomi judge the newest soul to enter Henten: Kyra May, a 20 year-old Englishwoman who also passed from erotic asphyxiation and, being non-religious enough to avoid consideration to her nation's typical afterlives, was sent directly to Henten for processing. Her judgement would be the center of Kiyomi's attention following her arrival, though at the cost of a more dire matter taking second priority…
As with all others, Henten has had those who both failed to reach it despite acting as their destination, and those detained within other realms with little hope of returning freely. One such subject, Sumire Arakawa, had found herself in Wonderland despite judgement deeming she spend her afterlife in Henten, and in the process became an imprisoned gimp. Despite fitting the bill of the "lost souls" Kiyomi regularly schemes to bring into Henten, her concerns laid with the disappearance of another: a devoted collector of lost souls, and Kiyomi's own daughter, Aimi Ichijou. Aimi was tasked with retrieving Naoto's soul from Khar's realm, a daring effort to rescue him from a fate whose right was in her mind dubious, but found herself captured by Hana, tied down and tormented by her, and then handed off to Khar for more… intimate forms of suffering. Within 24 hours, she was wrapped around Khar's finger, accepting of her fate as the demon queen's plaything… though with a few caveats, one of which was shared by Kiyomi herself.
Naoto's soul was won fair and square by Khar in her game with the other realm rulers, and Aimi's masochistic tendencies made submitting to Khar far from a bum deal for the fallen angel she now was. But Kiyomi needed to be appeased for this two-in-one loss, and like mother like daughter, they had an ultimatum in mind to keep everyone satisfied: another of Khar's subjects was to be offered to Kiyomi in place of Naoto, and in extension to replace Aimi in Henten's halls. A two-for-one deal that all parties agreed to. In Khar's case, it was especially easy, as she already had a subject in mind she was more than willing to trade. Salranis, an incubus who was a failure in his duties despite his physical attractiveness, likely because of his tryhard fashion sense, his uncordial personality, or both at once. With little motivation to improve himself for his mistress's sake, he had taken to wandering between realms, only returning to Khar's when important developments such as Aimi's capture needed calling to her attention. She had been looking for an excuse to be rid of Salranis's interruptive presence once and for all, and Kiyomi had a deep-seated craving for putting an incubus through her personal wringer. The deal was made, and the exchange was set to happen at the banquet.
Before long, the evening of the banquet arrived. Kaori and her Jesters had prepared her personal panopticon for all the anticipated guests both invited and not. Khar and her accompanying guests – the mobile Naoto and the restrained Aimi and Salranis – arrived in Wonderland through one of the many passages within her manor. And sure enough, Kiyomi and the other realm rulers from that fated poker night were gearing up to make their intros as well. Upon the arrival of Khar's entourage, with Hana turning down the offered task in favor of helping Ted with the finishing touches, Kaori greeted them and proceeded to lead them into her keep: the towering terror looming over Wonderland, and the place where the dark magic was soon to happen. And it's from that point where this RP, 697 replies in, now resumes…
