(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?

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[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?)

[bluecastleace]

Right.

[Simple enough for him!]

Being here probably isn’t that weird for you then.

[kimihiros]

Not exactly. The idea of the place is fine and I am not to contest it, but...

(kimihiro sighs, petting mugetsu's head as he drinks.)

I haven't been out of my shop in a hundred years. It's not possible for me to be here, physically. That part is weird.

[bluecastleace]

A hundred years?

[Why does he look more exhausted than dumbfounded? Prepare yourself for what’s probably a rude as hell question:]

So what, are you like a ghost or something?

[kimihiros]

No. (kimihiro just. gives out a very exhausted sigh. iwaizumi wouldn't know a ghost from a mile away. he could barely process mugetsu's existence, as it seems.)

I'm a human. (presumably. he doesn't even know what he is anymore. he likes to think that his condition didn't strip him of his humanity, regardless of how non-human like he is.) Time just works differently for me.

[bluecastleace]

Right. [Of course it does.] Well, time is barely even a thing here, so. Welcome, I guess.

Pretty much nothing works right in this place.

[kimihiros]

Time is a force in itself.

(kimihiro just gives it a shrug, like he knows the thing almost too personally.)

I'm sure things will find their way back into harmony.

[bluecastleace]

What’s harmonious about ripping people out of their homes and sticking them in some half-done dream?

[Yep. Someone’s bitter. Maybe he should have asked for that drink.]

There’s nothing to go back to.

[kimihiros]

Isn't that a matter of perspective? Going back to what we know as such.

(yeah he can tell iwaizumi is not only resistant but preeeeetty pissed!)

I intend to find out why we're here.

(he makes the decision, but quite honestly? to teach the world how to world seems like a perfectly comprehensible reason to him. mages just be like this sometimes.)

[bluecastleace]

Yeah? You wanna find out how to get out of here while you’re at it?

That’s the only sort of thing I want to “go back to”, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that.

[kimihiros]

I barely arrived and I want to get out myself.

I have ways, if only it weren't just the two of us.

[bluecastleace]

Like what?

[Not that he’s hopeful they’d work or anything, but...hell, maybe he’s just making conversation. There’s no shortage of bizarre things to hear about in this world, even when part of him doesn’t really want to.]

[kimihiros]

I have a Mokona in my shop.

(which means nothing to nobody, aside from him, the shop dwellers, and syaoran's group. gotta give that a better explanation.)

An annoying creature that can send people and items through dimensions.

[bluecastleace]

[Iwa’s eyes flash with something - interest, hope, disbelief? It’s hard to tell. But at any rate, even if that is true, this guy just said he doesn’t have anything like that here, so it wouldn’t matter.

[Unless...]

You know.

I heard that this place is formed from our memories - the people brought here, I mean.

The animals, the places, everything.

[So then, would it be possible that something like that could pop up here too? And could that mean...?]

[kimihiros]

If it does take Mokona, hopefully it takes his power over his alcoholism and annoying tendencies.

(pot calling the kettle black... he still argues that he drinks much, much less than everyone, though.)

[bluecastleace]

Hm. [A slightly irritated huff - not what he was getting at at all.] Sounds like a bucket of laughs.

I guess we’ll see.

[kimihiros]

(speaking of alcoholic tendencies, mugetsu squeaks for more alcohol and kimihiro is the one huffing as he pours.)

There are two. Hopefully, I truly am missing and they find a way here.

[bluecastleace]

[Wow, Kimihiro! Your mom lets you have two annoying creatures with the ability to send people through dimensions? Iwaizumi simply stares.]

You must lead a pretty interesting life, don’t you? [Said without a single drop of amusement in his voice.]

[kimihiros]

Depends on what you perceive as interesting.

(sorry, but also, it's true? he sleeps a lot.)

[bluecastleace]

Creatures that send people through dimensions, for one.

[Said with some irritation because what the hell is with all these people thinking that shit is normal?! God, he is so alone.]

[kimihiros]

You could have gone with any other adjective. If I met myself when I was your age, I'd find it all creepy and terrifying.

(how many times has he freaked out over something that today he would scoff at? iwai, you have no idea how much kimihiro gets being weirded out over things like that.)