First appearance: Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover) · watch it on YouTube
Slakura is a small, bouncing pink slime and blossom spirit, and a dear friend of Asena. It understands Common perfectly well and simply chooses not to speak it. It smells of flowers wherever it goes, and over the course of the Coriander Society crossover it served as a bounce pad, an air freshener, a healing projectile and a pocket for evidence. The Acolytes kept calling it back, and it kept turning up with what the narration called “main character status.”
Story
Fate of the Faithful Part 2
Slakura made its entrance at the best possible moment. The party had stacked their hands together in a circle before setting out. Baptiste slipped a hand in, The Seer crashed through the pots to join, and a dog put its paws on the circle. Then a small pink slime popped up on Asena’s shoulder and jumped right into the middle. John greeted it with “Dear friend, it’s been not long enough,” and Asena announced, “This is my friend Slakura.” Lyrus admitted, “I don’t speak whatever that is.” Asena translated that it said hi.
Its first real contribution was aromatic. Lyrus pressed his hand to the pavement and sensed a fiendish presence moving with the footsteps around them, and Slakura spritzed the whole area with a lovely floral fragrance. Lyrus covered smoothly: “We’re just perfume peddlers.” Then Circe, the self-proclaimed most nefarious inventor in the city of Beacon, popped up over the rooftops with a homemade ray gun. When Asena showed off her own laser and Circe’s eyes went wide behind her goggles, Slakura hid behind Asena’s shoulder. It also drew some unwanted attention. Ganyu Sinmal’s fires burned with hunger at the little blossom spirit, and later Ganyu shuddered as it passed by. During the party’s planning, Asena wondered aloud: “Plus, how do we even know this is the real Slakura?”
When the fight broke out, Circe’s “stupendous size changing ray” shrank Asena to the size of a cat, which made her the same size as Slakura. Slakura bounced happily beside her. Shrunk and struggling to land a hit, Asena got help from her friend: Slakura flattened itself into a bounce pad, and Asena boinged straight onto Circe, then laid a curse on her. Asena then slipped through the planes onto John’s shoulder, which left the two tiny friends perched on either side of him.
Fate of the Faithful Part 5
The Acolytes called Slakura back for a third time. The narration teased that it was gone forever: “I can never be with you again. I’m trapped in this other dimension. Just kidding, nerd. Main character status.” Asena’s teleport skimmed through the dimensions, and the little flower slime landed on her shoulder. “Oh, hello,” she said.
It joined the brawl too. It bounced around on an enemy’s head to distract him while Asena punched, and her second blow landed. Later, Slakura noticed Lyrus’s wounds. Asena picked it up and threw it at him, and it splatted “somewhere on your lower midsection” and healed him.
Its strangest moment came after the fight against Ralzamon. When Asena dropped him, she had torn one of the two golden clasps off his flowing green cloak. In her hand it turned into the torn collar of a khaki shirt from his expedition clothes. The collar then turned up inside Slakura. “Slakura, what do you have there?” Asena asked. Lawrence picked it up gingerly, and it smelled like flowers, as everything Slakura touches does.
Personality and Abilities
Slakura is small, pink and constantly bouncing. It is cheerful enough to bounce happily right after its friend has been shrunk by a mad inventor, and shy enough to duck behind Asena when a stranger with a ray gun turns up. It keeps its thoughts to itself and lets Asena speak for it. It always smells of flowers and can spray a floral mist on command.
Its talents are more useful than they look. It can flatten into a springy bounce pad, harass enemies by hopping on their heads, and heal an ally by splatting onto them. That last trick comes with a catch: it works once per scene. It turned up on Asena’s shoulder when her teleport skimmed through the dimensions, and it apparently has room inside it for keeping things.
Relationships
- Asena: Her friend and shoulder companion. She speaks for it, bounces off it into battle and occasionally throws it.
- Lyrus: Doesn’t understand its language, but got healed by it anyway.
- Ganyu Sinmal: Hungers for the blossom spirit and shuddered as it passed.
- Circe: Slakura hid from her, then launched a shrunken Asena right onto her.
Memorable Quotes
- “This is my friend Slakura.” (Asena, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “Dear friend, it’s been not long enough.” (John, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “I don’t speak whatever that is.” (Lyrus, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “Plus, how do we even know this is the real Slakura?” (Asena, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “I can never be with you again. I’m trapped in this other dimension. Just kidding, nerd. Main character status.” (Narration, Coriander Society — Fate of the Faithful Part 5 (A Crossover))
- “Slakura, what do you have there?” (Asena, Coriander Society — Fate of the Faithful Part 5 (A Crossover))