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[zenryokubatankyu]

Who: Osomatsu Matsuno and Various
What: August Catch-All
Where: All around the Void
When: August or the equivalent of
Content Warnings: N/A, will update as needed

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[bridge_princess]

Eh. They're bugs. It's not a big deal. The bridge is fine for me. Easier to keep an eye on things there if I've got my home right at the bridge. Don't see any reason to stay anywhere else, so you guys can have the nice, cushy apartment.

[She laughed and shook her head.]

It's definitely better than my plan, but I suppose there's better houses. We're tuck here long enough. I suppose you could all have mansions if you want. And have the time to build one.

[zenryokubatankyu]

I just wouldn't wanna wake up with a bug in my mouth. Pretty sure I ate like, 3 of those as a kid. Good in fiber, bad in reputation. But hey, if the bridge suits you, it suits you. Nothin' wrong with that.

[He shrugged.]

And yeah, I 'spose, but that is work. And I'm not a carpenter. I guess if any time is the time to pick up new skills, though...it's now. But I don't think I'd have the motivation. Unless some other bastard started trying first, because like hell would I let someone else establish themselves as the bourgeois.

Right now, though, I'm just trying to ease into having my own apartment. It's surreal, to be living alone.

[bridge_princess]

[Cough, hack. Yeah, ok, that did sound disgusting.]

Ok, yeah. Maybe I wanna finish my house before they get bugs. That'd probably be for the best. [Blech. No, she didn't need fiber from chitin thank you.]

Heh, you've got a jealous streak in you too I see. Not that it's surprising. You're human.

[zenryokubatankyu]

[Okay, that got a laugh out of him.] Probably. Great outdoors is great until it isn't great at all anymore. You're gonna build your own house?

...You really don't know the half of it, honestly. When you're a NEET on the fringes of society, all normies look like targets of seething envy to you. There's a reason why the gift exchange my brothers and I have on Christmas most every year while every other person in Japan is cozying up in couples is 'die, die, die, die, go die.' That's just how it be~

[bridge_princess]

Yeah. that's the plan. I'm going to live in a shed down by the river. I like to think of that less as a life goal so much as a divine calling. I'm just going to be that bum they warn the kids about by the bridge.

[She snickered a little.]

Man, I don't even really need to help you much on that angle. You do it just fine yourself. One of the priestesses used to talk about how human society got like that eventually. So few haves. So many have nots. Everyone jealous.

[zenryokubatankyu]

[He cackles.] Wow. You're gonna be that person? The one of those we had back home was far uglier. Bigger buckteeth. Those things were weapons. Funny as hell to piss off, though. He hated me! But we're friends and you're not a bucktoothed weirdo who grandstands about supposedly going to France, so. Big differences here.

...That's sorta how it is, yeah. I'm not even the worst with it. I mean, I'm fairly bad off, but I don't try to pretend like I'm something I'm not. I know I'm a piece of shit. That's just a fact. My youngest brother, Totty - he likes to put on. He pretends he's some kinda hip and fashionable socialite. He's not. But he goes to the length of trying to have an entirely different life cut off from all his brothers just because he's jealous of other people.

[bridge_princess]

I've been that person before that person even existed. It's natural to me. [She snorted.] Though if I'm grandstanding it's over other things and we both know it.

A little bit of honesty can really go a long way in life. It helps keep your head in the right place to know where it actually is.

[zenryokubatankyu]

God, you're right, huh? I always forget you've been doin' this stuff since before I was born prolly 'til ya remind me. [He snickers, shaking his head.] Yeah, I definitely get the idea by now.

You're right. Which is why I'm usually always 100% honest~! No matter the circumstance! ...Which pisses a few people off, but, y'know. 's not my fault that some people can't accept that my life choice is to do nothing at all, and my brothers can't even accept me telling other people that's how they feel too, even if it's true...if they ever show up, they're gonna kick my ass for telling people. [Hue. Not like that'll stop him.]

[bridge_princess]

Heh, well... I still look the same age as when I became this. It's an easy mistake to make. Kind of amusing honestly.

People rarely take the truth half as well as they claim. They just aren't ready for it.

[zenryokubatankyu]

...Huh. Y'know, I've never looked too deep into youkai stuff. Humans can just up and turn into youkai? Like, even I could?

Right? Right? I can never tell if anyone is or isn't, but that's because I'm just bad at reading people in general, I think. It's something I never picked up all proper-like.

[bridge_princess]

I wouldn't recommend it. Youkai always come about because of a regret or something going horribly wrong. But there's kinds that were human once.

You're missing out less than you'd think. Once you've watched them long enough you realize it's always the same old shit over and over again.