To celebrate the upcoming (Next week! Are you ready and excited to talk about android girls?) Manga Moveable Feast for Julietta Suzuki’s Karakuri Odette, I’m giving away a copy of the first volume of her latest series, Kamisama Kiss. Just leave a comment in this post answering the question:
How would you force your hot fox-spirit familiar to bend to your will?
Snorgles? Bungee cord? Making an excellent moussaka? Leave your comment and I’ll select a random winner, to be announced at the close of the MMF.
I’d probably just get it drunk on sake or whatever its preferred drink is. I feel like I see depictions of Japanese spirits drinking all the time so I wouldn’t feel too bad about it.
Delicious food! (It works on me, anyway.) Of course, while I like my cooking the feeling isn’t universal. So, I would probably have to convince my housemates to make something for me first, ’cause they’re awesome when it comes to good food.
Looking forward to next week’s Manga Moveable Feast!
Puppy dog eyes. Very shoujo.
I would find out what its weakness is (food, drink, comics…) and dangle it in front of them. If that doesn’t work then I’ll use blackmail, seems to work in some manga.
I would threaten to make him eat my cooking for a week because I happen to be a terrible cook.
Cold iron. Fair folk can’t stand that ol’ col’ iron.
Seriously, it’s already your familiar, that means you’ve cut all the bargains and given it what it needs, and now it’s trying to act up. If they won’t take the Essence/Craving/Need/Pact carrot, they get the cold iron stick.
“But it’s a hot fox spirit!” Hot it may be, but an ancient and crafty spirit it’s also. Give it too much slack and it’ll sneak into the unguarded chicken coop of your mind and eat the chickens what be your soul.
Flossies: no self-respecting canid can do without them! My dog looks positively stoned when she chews one, I doubt that a fox spirit could resist them, either. (It’s like catnip for dogs.) As an added bonus, the fox spirit would have greatly improved breath as well.