Mingle for the oldies

[bb_wolf]

Who: Anyone who is immortal, inordinately long lived or just likes hanging out with old people?
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Málum on the Iskaulit
When: End of November

Broadcast: Text
[The broadcast is simple.]

Málum. Tonight. Immortal or near enough meet up. Buy your own.

Action: Málum

[Bigby is there, drinking whiskey and smoking cheap, horrible and stinky cigarettes. The rest of you can do what you want.]

Comments

[castrationfist]

Well, whatever. You were probably closer to her than I was, since our relationship only consisted of trying to kill each other. Her magecraft sure didn't feel like something only picked up after death, though...

[onlyanapple]

Huh. Yeah, he definitely never tried to kill me. We were drinking buddies.

[He gives a shrug. ]

Alternate world bullshit at it's finest, this. Never thought he'd be someone to be dragged into it but there you go. Poor Da Vinci.

[castrationfist]

It's what happens when you get too famous.

Don't pity her, though. She won, as shameful as it is to admit.

[onlyanapple]

Unavoidable. Probably best to hope that doesn't happen to any of us here, hmm?

Yay for her, then.

[castrationfist]

Well, you have to have actual accomplishments, too, so it's probably fine for most people here.

[y'all suck and are boring]

[onlyanapple]

Oh? And you have some grand accomplishments of your own, do you?

[He sounds more amused than accusatory. ]

[castrationfist]

A grand many. in fact!

[she just seems puffed up on her own ego]

[onlyanapple]

[He cants a hand towards her, gesturing for her to take the floor, as it was. ]

Well. Please do tell me more about them. I'm enthralled.

[castrationfist]

Hm... Well, I'm not unwilling, but don't you think you should buy such a pretty girl a drink before asking for her story?

[onlyanapple]

A drink for a story, hmm? Sounds like a fair deal. What's your poison?

[castrationfist]

The poison comes at the end of the story, but until then, I'll take some fine sake, if you have any.

[... it's hilarious to her, anyway.]

[onlyanapple]

A story with poison, hmm? How intriguing.

[He goes about preparing the drink, and soon she has a cup of sake waiting for her. ]

There you go. One drink.

[castrationfist]

[She takes a drink appreciatively.]

Well, then... Where to start?

First of all, introductions, I suppose. I currently use another name, due. To various circumstances, but my name used to be Amaterasu. You've probably heard the name.

[onlyanapple]

[There is, indeed, a flash of recognition across his face. ]

Back in Paradisa, the kidnapping place I was before here, we had an Amaterasu there. She was a big magical wolf-thing.

[castrationfist]

[She pouts, a bit irritated.]

A jackal, actually. A yakan, to be precise, but you don't look to be the kind who needs nor wants a primer in the basic symbolism of Chinese Buddhism... So, a jackal is good enough, though I was mistaken for a fox frequently as well. The misconception got bad enough that even once I incarnated, I was so often mistaken for a fox that I just stopped minding it.

Anyway, I'm amazed if you knew another facet. I was pretty sure after me, she would be totally done with the idea of things like wakemitama and facets and incarnation.

[onlyanapple]

After a few centuries, you just stop correcting people because it genuinely makes life easier, doesn't it?

[Anything to have less of a headache, honestly. He elans back with a thoughtful hum. ]

Could be another facet. This was was definitely a wolf. She had some strange magical drawing power? I didn't quite get it. Still, from what I understand, there are multiple versions of just about everyone in the multiverse.

[castrationfist]

It really does... And foxes are cuter than jackals, anyway, so I don't really mind the mistake. The one you knew was probably given that shape by some misconception or another... The forms we get are shaped by belief, and it does some strange things... Though, there was definitely no wolf incarnation when I was around. The real one must have made that one after my time.

How much do you know about Shinto legends?

[onlyanapple]

How about that. Our forms are more...well, optional. We just happen to inhabit human skins to keep ourselves corporeal- and able to, you know, interact with mortals and the like. Interesting yours goes another way.

[And he means that, this kind of thing fascinates him. ]

A little, not a lot though, I'm afraid. There's spirits, right? Of things like mountains and rain and so on.

[castrationfist]

And what are you?

[that's her real aim in the conversation, honestly.]

Well... That is a vast oversimplification and ridiculously inaccurate to call us spirits, but it is good enough for the conversation.

Amaterasu, you see, is the very sun itself.

[onlyanapple]

A demon. Specifically, the Serpent of Eden.

[He seems happy to share. It's no real big secret, after all. ]

Right, sorry. Not really spoken to one of you before, the wolf one notwithstanding.


That would explain the fiery markings on her.

[castrationfist]

[Her eyebrows shoot way up, interrupting her own story when she hears his identity.]

The tempter of Christian lore?

[onlyanapple]

The one and only.

[He flashes her a sharp-toothed grin]

Though we don't like it being called lore. It suggests we're not real.

[castrationfist]

Yes, well, as a meeting of gods and demons, I think my intent is clear enough.

[onlyanapple]

Always worth making sure~

[castrationfist]

Though I feel my story is now overshadowed... I may be evil, but I don't think anything I've done can beat the amount of harm you've caused. I mean, when you get right down to it, in your version of events, doesn't that make you responsible for basically everything?