(open) a wizard and a fox spirit walk into a void

[kimihiros]

Who: Kimihiro&You
What: Getting to know the Void, just generally being confused. Catch-all post!
Where: Around the Void!
When: November OOC
Content Warnings: Nothing!! Perhaps spoilers?

Comments

[kimihiros]

It would be easy to get out of it if it were. (congratulations, iwa, you just met a dreamwalker.

but it doesn't feel like one, he doesn't feel his power intensify as it does in such realm and he doesn't remember entering one to begin with. all he remembers is having dinner, debating about yet another dream that has nothing similar to this blinding whiteness where he stands aside from the infinity of a void.)

Have you been here for long? (kimihiro holds his changsan, lifting it just a tad so that it doesn't drag on the soil when he moves over.)

[bluecastleace]

Nope.

[Set, set, set.]

Just long enough to know it sucks.

[Kind of sucks. He’s heard it can suck a lot worse, but it actually hasn’t been that bad so far - not that Iwaizumi is ready to admit that.

[He catches his ball, finally glances over to observe the new(er)comer.]

Definitely not easy to get out of, whatever that’s supposed to mean.

[kimihiros]

(... ah! now he realizes iwa and himself have nothing in common at all. he looks a tiny bit apologetic for just speaking like the other would know what he was on about.)

I have an influence in dreams. (he tries to solve it??? maybe??) If it were one, I could probably do something about it, but it doesn't feel like one either way.

[bluecastleace]

What, like wake up?

[How impressing - not. Who hasn’t heard of lucid dreaming? Of course, it does occur to him that maybe this guy has some sort of crazy power (knowing this place), but he won’t assume it until it’s explained with a bit more depth (God, just let someone here be normal).]

Good luck with that one.

[kimihiros]

Not only. (kimihiro just laughs politely as he looks around the best he can.) Dreams are interconnected, there is always something for me to do in one, things to retrieve or find and whatnot.

(if iwaizumi wanted normalcy, he chose the wrong stranger to approach. there sure was a time when kimihiro would give his arm and leg for a smidge of the ordinary, but that was what, a hundred years ago? also, come on, he has a fox wrapped around his neck and a golden-colored eye. nothing about kimihiro says 'normal Japanese individual'.)

I'm Kimihiro Watanuki, and you are?

[bluecastleace]

[He sees the fox, okay? Sometimes people are willfully ignorant to cope?]

Iwaizumi Hajime. [Since we’re apparently giving full names.] Just Iwaizumi though.

I’m guessing based on all that, you have some sort of weird dream power where you come from, right?

[He looks unamused and, at this point, a bit unfazed.]

From what I understand, you probably don’t here. Or at least not the way you did. Usually seems to be the case.

[He wouldn’t know cause he’s normal.]

[kimihiros]

(the void will eat you alive iwai?)

(mugetsu coos a little, like he was asking kimihiro to get moving. the void and his lack of power was starting to make him anxious, and the poor fox just shakes his head in order to get it out. kimihiro pets his tiny head in order to appease him.) Don't worry. We'll see what this is about first. (and he smiles at the spirit before turning his attention to the other.)

So it seems to be the case. I need to get him something to drink, before he freaks out more.

[bluecastleace]

You need to get him a drink? [He points.] Like what? A beer?

[Joking. Unless...that’s a thing somehow?]

[kimihiros]

Sake.

(people still give sake as offerings, don't they?? perhaps where iwaizumi is from, they stopped believing in things like mugetsu and put them aside to be forgotten.)

Where do I find some?

[bluecastleace]

[Sake as an offering hasn’t been entirely forgotten in Iwaizumi’s Japan, no, but he’s not a particularly spiritual person. That’s why it takes a second for it to dawn on him.]

That thing. [It’s definitely not a normal fox (too longe).] It’s like a spirit or something?

[kimihiros]

Kuda-kitsune.

( fox pipe spirit - longe boy, cute boy, no legs!! just a tiny little face that makes it not be a very weird brush.)

Are foxes not worshipped anymore?

[bluecastleace]

Not really - well, not by everyone, anyway. [Not by anyone he knows - maybe old people?] It would depend on where you’re from too, I guess.

Sounds like Japan, but we’re not all from the...same Japan here, I guess.

[How did he end up being the one to explain this when he barely understands it himself? It has come full circle.]

It’s weird, and it doesn’t make any sense, but it’s true.

Anyway, where I come from, it’s not that common anymore.

[kimihiros]

Wasn't all that common back home either. (he sighs, mostly because it's almost disheartening. mugetsu is right there, you know, and even he looks a little upset.) Unfortunately, of course, but I imagined sake would be as important in any Japan.

(if iwaizumi looks, there's not a hint of dismay or surprise on the idea of multiple dimensions or realities. he's used to the idea and concept.)

We are or aren't, it doesn't matter, does it?

[bluecastleace]

[Then why ask, Iwaizumi wonders. As for Kimihiro being unfazed by the idea of multiple dimensions, it’s a little exasperating - another weirdo, he thinks - but not entirely surprising in and of itself. As far as he knows, he really is the only normal one around here.]

Well, we’re definitely not in Japan either way. [He won’t argue about whether or not it matters - that seems like a conversation he doesn’t want to get into right now.] As for sake, there might be some at Heavenly Blanc. It’s a bar. Sort of.

[He glances at Mugetsu. He look sad (and kind of neat). He sighs.] I can take you if you want I guess.

[kimihiros]

(in regards to dimensional things, watanuki sure is the king of the weirdos. after all, he only exists because of it.)

That would be good. (and he nods shortly.) Thank you.

[bluecastleace]

Alright then, follow me I guess.

[And with that he’ll turn his back, wave over his shoulder and make his way toward Heavenly Blanc. It’s something between a café and a bar where the electricity only works half the time, but there’s a pinball machine and decent as hell curry, which is probably why Iwaizumi spends as much time there as he does.]

I’m underage, so depending on who’s working I may not be able to get it for you, but if you’re going to find it anywhere, it’ll probably be here.

[He says this as he makes his way through the entrance, nods toward the bar.]

[kimihiros]

(he follows, a hand still holding the changshan to make sure it doesn't get dirty from meeting with the grass as he walked. he doesn't have shoes, but it doesn't seem to be an issue.

watanuki bows before entering, allowing mugetsu to wrap around his wrist instead. there's nobody tending the bar though and he sighs.)

I guess you'll have to wait, Mugetsu. (he isn't just taking it!)

[bluecastleace]

[There’s an awkward stretch of time where no one comes to serve them, but neither of them are willing to take the drinks themselves. Eventually, one of the bartenders does approach, and Iwaizumi, seeming to know him, explains the situation and manages to get a small bit of sake from him. It goes straight from there to Kimihiro though, and Iwa nods in his direction.]

See if that’ll do, I guess.

[His eyes are on the fox spirit now, wondering how he’ll go about accepting the offer. So weird...]

[kimihiros]

(he allows iwaizumi to deal with all of that, but really, mugetsu would need much more than this mere amount of alcohol. sure, though, let's see if he likes it.

kimihiro sets his tobacco tray on a table, gently setting the pipe before mugetsu just wraps his way down his arm towards the sake dish. kimihiro just nods to him and much like a bird beaking on a fountain, he begins to drink and sure enough it proves to be insufficient. mugetsu squeaks for more and kimihiro just gives him a sigh.)

Fine, fine. I'll see if I can purchase the bottle.

[bluecastleace]

I’d just ask for it, honestly. [He says, observing the creature with an eyebrow raised in curiosity.] Money doesn’t work like that around here. I’m not even sure it’s a thing, actually.

[But he’s not sure what the etiquette on bartering for alcohol is either. You’re on your own with that one, Kimihiro.]

How much does it need?

[kimihiros]

Yokai are heavy drinkers.

(yokai are just like that. how many times has kimihiro opened over ten bottles of perfectly high quality alcohol between him, doumeki, the fox, mokona, the spider queen...

it was easy to ask for it, although he makes a mental note to pay back in the nearest future possible. he also gets a cup for himself, because well. mugetsu isn't drinking alone and iwaizumi is underage. not that it stopped doumeki any when they were younger, but kimihiro approves of the responsible thing to do.)

Alcohol is one of the biggest things in my household because of that.

[bluecastleace]

[Iwaizumi is still in that state of bitterness and shock where he wouldn’t reject a drink if it were offered, but he’s never been a terribly heavy drinker himself and it doesn’t faze him one bit not to have one now. He’s an athlete at heart after all, and that shit’s bad for you - maybe not for “yokai” though?]

You got more of these things hanging around your place back home?

Why?

[It seems a pretty natural question, though maybe that’s just normal where this guy comes from.]

[kimihiros]

Just this one lives with me, but several do visit.

(the sake doesn't go down smoothly, mostly because explaining who he is without the shop in itself is quite... challenging. he'll need another sip.)

I temporarily own a wish-granting shop and the shop itself is not of a natural origin. They can come and ask for their wishes as well.

[bluecastleace]

Not of “natural origin”?

[What the entire fuck is that supposed to mean?]

[kimihiros]

It's magic.

(Isn't that simple?)