Just Keeping Swimming | March Planet Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on Mafik
When: The month of March



[Welcome to Mafik, the water world! Hope you brought your best swimming gear and don't have a paralyzing fear of water, because that's all that's here! So get out those wet suits and enjoy life under the sea!

In other words, it's a mingle! ]

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[ahappylie]

I'm afraid I'm not.

Although it seems odd to me to call a female ruler an "emperor." Wouldn't she be an "empress?"

[castrationfist]

Who knows what goes through her mind?

But there were many other heroes and villains. Ones you might recognize... Oda Nobunaga, or Miyamoto Musashi, or Fuma Kotarou.

[ahappylie]

[He couldn't answer that because he has no idea who she is - the ultimate Catch-22.

But he does recognize those names, especially Oda Nobunaga. Who didn't know him?]

Oh...so even he is called into your war? As a spirit?

[castrationfist]

Which "he" do you mean?

[She has a hunch, since one of those is so much more famous than the others, but.]

[ahappylie]

Lord Oda Nobunaga. He died before his ambitions were realized... I suppose it's only fitting that he come back to fight in a different war in the future.

[castrationfist]

Oh, yes, Nobunaga... What a troublesome enemy she was. She's a walking Anti-Divinity weapon, so to someone like me, those guns were super-instant-death attacks, and having that three-thousand gun firing line was just unfair.

[yeah.]

[ahappylie]

...................................................................







[wait






wat]


....You mean "he," don't you?

[castrationfist]

[I'M SORRY FOR FATE/.]

She spoke like a man, but that body was definitely a woman. But, well... It does make sense, doesn't it?

[ahappylie]

How?

[How does that make sense at all? He's seen way too many paintings of Oda Nobunaga to ever think that he was a she.]

As I remember it, he is most definitely a man?

[castrationfist]

Oh? Did you know her yourself, then?

[she's got that look in her eyes like this is a trap- whatever answer he gives is just going to work towards her ends.]

[ahappylie]

...

[No, this is a trap and he's walked right into it, but at the same time, he is 100% certain Oda Nobunaga is a man.]

Every story and history book has him listed as a male though. Every portrait, the accounts of his life, everything.

[castrationfist]

That's right. You know how many people she defeated, how many people she subjugated, and in the end, it was only her own subordinate's betrayal that brought her ambitions to an end.

But you know, history is written by men. We women only have a few roles we're allowed to have. The harlot who destroys the nation, the witch who must be defeated, the holy maiden, the devoted wife... But not the conqueror, not the revolutionary, not the innovator who redefined warfare in Japan. Men have such fragile egos, you know? If they couldn't hide the fact that they were all defeated by a warlord named Oda Nobunaga, they would rewrite events so that at least they weren't defeated by a woman.

It's a surprisingly common story. Many women who were too powerful, heroes or villains, were recorded into history as men to soothe the pride of those who had opposed them.

[ahappylie]

[That makes a lot of sense, especially considering how few people would ever know the accomplishments of amazing women like Yamazaki Ayumu. She was their most effective spy and one of the first to lay her life down so willingly in the most brutal manner. He can understand everything she's saying to him now and yet...

It still doesn't jive with him.

He can't just erase his entire life of knowing that Nobunaga was a man because one person says otherwise.]

...Well, what other heroes were actually women then? Ones I'd know, perhaps?

[castrationfist]

Let's see... From my era, you know how all the tales talk about how Minamoto no Yoshitsune was so beautiful? She was indeed a beautiful woman. Minamoto no Yorimitsu, as well, though she had Ushi Gozen complicating matters... Genjou Sanzou, to go back even further.

[She looks at Soujirou, appraising him.]

I don't know what era you're from, however, so I'm hesitant to go more into the future than those.

[ahappylie]

Ah, well. [Seriously, wtf is going on right now. None of those people were women????]

I'm from Genji 1. I looked into it recently and that should be around...1864? On the Western calendar.

[castrationfist]

Oh, then you must know of the famed Shinsengumi?

[ahappylie]

Ah.. the Wolves of Mibu?

[Well, that was uncomfortable, but he can manage. He does it all the time in Kyoto and sometimes here.]

Yes, I've heard of them. It's hard not to hear of their exploits in the capitol.

[castrationfist]

That Okita Souji of theirs... I didn't believe it at first, but that Lightless Three-Stage Thrust couldn't have been anyone else.

[She sighs, annoyed.]

[ahappylie]

...

Oh.

[So he becomes a hero? And is brought back to life in the future? That's kind of-





Wait.





WAIT A MINUTE.


WAIT A HECKIN MINUTE.]

The Okita Souji you know is a woman?

[castrationfist]

Hm... I'm not sure you could call it 'knowing' her. Most of our relationship was trading barbs while we attempted to kill each other, you know? Well, she really hated me, I guess because of my legend, and I couldn't figure out her identity until she brought out her coat and flag... It was rare for me to be able to fight a Saber at all, but I managed until then. Then that flag summoned Kondou, and really, two Shinsengumi against one lone fox? Using her Three-Stage Thrust was just overkill.

[ahappylie]

[Okay, no, he has to laugh because?? This has to be a joke right?

Like ha ha, good one, Hajime. Yes, people called him girly all the time and Hijikata even though he'd turn out to be a good wife when he was a child, but they all know he's really a man.

Right?



Right?????

So he laughs because it's the only thing he can do.]

That is one person who I know is absolutely not a woman. Something must have gone wrong in the future.

[castrationfist]

Hm? What are you talking about?

[how do you know




have you seen okita souji naked]

[ahappylie]

[Oops, crap. Now he has to really work hard to keep his identity a secret.]

Well, I live in Kyoto and I've seen him. He is definitely not a woman.

[And yeah he has seen him naked!!! It's called a mirror.]

[castrationfist]

You'd have to be quite close to be that certain.

[ARE YOU FUCKING OKITA SOUJI]

[ahappylie]

[The answer to that question is A. Yes and B. Sometimes because self love is not a crime ok]

They often go through my area on patrols, so yes, I've gotten quite close.