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

It wouldn't hurt to have someone else to watch out for them... little puns are needy bastards, let's be honest. Not really fair to anyone here, since it's not like it's their fault they got forgotten. Try to watch the broom at the shrine if you're here. They're needy.

[She gestured. If his sensitivity were at all aware, he'd sense the presence of the spirit within the broom. it couldn't manifest beyond that, but it didn't need to.]

I've warned a few people what they're like before they showed up, so... we'll see.

But that old rag? It's not ... all wrong, but I never remembered any crap about Yorimitsu, and there was only ever the two of them I punished at first. But the story got around and people set upa shrine. I guess... do it once, people think you know how to do it again, so they'd buy scissors to get my attention.

I think humans just liked the idea I got beaten down one day. They like their "Heroes."

[He might have been the first that she openly admitted that, yes. She was that one. How else would she have survived the trek to hell and found a new bridge when all the others were now long gone and forgotten?]

Y--

(ah. of course. all kimihiro does is nod, because he knows the story. the smoke leaves through his nose as he hums.)

I believe we just don't see a gray area. It's either good, or bad, when nothing is inherently either.

There's a few other things. For one, guys always end up the heroes in that one, but that's a story for another day. [She grunted sourly.]

But that's where the word 'youkai' comes from. The black and whites, good and evil. Youkai don't mind being called it where I come from. Let 'em be afraid now and again. They remember us then, after all.

I too was a non-believer, or rather, I avoided it.

(kimihiro admits, tapping the pipe on his tray's ashtray to remove some of the burnt tobacco.)

I figure you already know why. (since she smelled the air around him not at all discreetly.)

You're not now, and that's what matters as far as that's concerned.

[She wasn't going to hold it against people. The lack of belief was an old thing, and the responsibility shared by a great many different people over the centuries. His comment about the smell? Yeah, she'd smelled something. She felt like she could be forgiven for thinking he was a youkai for a bit there. She'd smelled the spirit on him, after all.]

I smell it a little, yeah. You're not exactly normal. I'm still figuring out the particulars. But that's not too important. This world only just seemed to remember that I'm a spirit, not a human anymore. I feel more like myself.

The particulars are too complicated anyways. (because she's right. he looks at mugetsu after the words, he's much more spirit than watanuki could be himself, but he has no frame of reference to feel that he too is now considered to be a spirit in the eyes of the void.) Hopefully the world at least gives Mugetsu his form transformation back.

They only matter for what I'll politely describe as 'the customary reasons.' And I don't need them to fall into old habits.

[It was actually almost comforting to be around someone who grasped the nature of a creature such as her, and she just assumed he could handle being around a monster of jealousy. At least he knew how to keep things respectful without pandering.]

Powers have been... a dicey proposition. So far we've only seen them in our dreams. But I feel power now. Not much, but I feel it a little bit. It's... generic, which is strange. My power should feel more targeted. I wonder if the others like Cole feel the same thing.

Dreams are were I excel. (he's already ridiculous outside of them, inside even more so, even if recently he's struggled. the butterfly who won't give him its message easily escaping his traps, slipping right through his fingers right before he wakes up.) I haven't met him yet. How many others like yourself?

Huh. I see. Lucky you. I'm sort of at their mercy in this place, though I can at least limit the damage when I'm in one. What's the worst that's going to happen?

[She grunted.]

I think Melinoe and Merlin qualify probably? I'm still trying to be sure 'what' they are. Gods may be considered spirits after all. Cole's a spirit of compassion. You'd know him if you met him. [Assuming he remembered him. That wasn't going on right now was it?]

Ah. Merlin.

(this one he has met. mel, he'd meet not long after this encounter. if parsee is concerned about what others are, kimihiro himself would be quite the trip to understand.)

I yet have to hear your name, Hashihime-san.

Edited 2020-11-29 12:08 (UTC)

Parsee Mizuhashi. Don't worry if you don't remember it in the history books. I'm not entirely sure we're from the same Japan, and nobody bothered recording my name in the Heike. [She snorted and smirked at him.] The hero was the important one, after all.

Don't mind Merlin... he's... just odd is all.

Perhaps we're not. It's not all impossible.

(and to that, he only shrugs.)

Is anyone like us normal in any way?

There was a really normal guy for a while. Kind of pathetic actually. I miss him. He was ... surprisingly fun to be around, despite all that. Maybe he'll reappear with his brothers someday.

... He went home?

(it's almost music to his ears.)

If you're meant to meet again, you will.

That's the current assumption, yeah. I'm pretty much ok with it, since we haven't seen any reason to think otherwise So he's back with his brothers, just like the android and the harpy are back... uh, wherever they are?

I hope so.

(kimihiro sighs. locked out like this, he can't even send a message to mokona.)

[Another 'boop' to the fox's nose and she looked over at him, snorting and shaking her head while she took on a bit of amusement.]

Let me be the morose one here. I'm good at that. Might as well be optimistic, right? Besides, it's not like this place is really awful.

The dream shit's the worst we've had to deal with so far.

From your own way of retelling it, it does sound like quite the number, though.

(he sort of wishes he could have seen it? just out of curiosity?)

It's hard to even describe properly because it's so many things all at once. Like a lot of things in this place, it gets muddled because there's more than one elements, and if we sleep we might dream into it.

It's kind of annoying.

Let's see if I can be useful here then. (because really, kimihiro has this need to feel useful, to serve a purpose and that's honestly the only reason why he thinks it's okay that he's here.

he thinks there's a reason why, he just can't see it right now.)

I don't see why you wouldn't. At the very least, you've got two hands, and you're a sympathetic ear by the feel of it. That'll go a ways around here.

[They kind of shared that, and she was starting to wonder what her reason for being here was, but she didn't want to air that too openly.]

(it would be a lie to say kimihiro hasn't started to connect some dots in his head. theories, as any who arrives in the void seems to have.)

I sure hope so.

People seem to appreciate someone listening to them around here. It's kind of a stressful place apparently.

...

I'll admit I think they overreact sometimes. [She grunted.] Sometimes. Sometimes it's justified.

[Pot. Kettle. Thou art black.]

Overreact how?

So... ok. You're away from home and the ones you love. That's bad. But this place itself isn't actually bad. It's weird, and it's annoying when it figures things out like "Ok, you're supposed to eat, try eating this!" But it's not like we're in a monsterous battle or the like.

So, some of them can be ... I guess very pissy?

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