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driftfleet2017-03-03 11:56 pm
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2017-03-03 11:56 pm
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- max rockatansky,
- misty day,
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- okita souji,
- ravi chakrabarti,
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Just Keeping Swimming | March Planet Mingle
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! ]
> System Information
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! ]
> System Information
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Normally he'd be rather put out by discovering someone enjoyed torture, but then he also knows that the fox spirit fled China and came to Japan and there became quite a different type of person. If everyone were judged on past actions forever, then wouldn't everyone be worthy of scorn?
Considering how much blood is on his hands, and how much will be in the future, he supposes he can't judge.]
I could, but I would prefer to ask your husband now who knows you as you are, than someone who only knew you as you were.
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Do you think someone like me could have changed?
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[He's honest about that because this is one of those questions where platitudes are just hidden cruelties. He doesn't know if people can change, even with a thousand or nine thousand years worth of time. He doesn't think he can change or stray from the bloody path he began as a child.
But he's seen people overcome amazing odds and stay true to the better version of themselves even when faced with life and death, the possibility of being murdered by the object of their vengeance or the horrific choice of becoming a murderer themselves.
For Okita, the choice was simple and clear. For Tetsu...he'd hesitated.]
People are capable of amazing things given the right motivations.
[He pulls a small aquatic eel with three tails down from the shelf. It has a seashell heart held in a pair of stubby little arms and a goofy but charming smile drawn on its elongated face.]
Especially people in love.
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Even if I love someone, in the end, I'm a monster. An Anti-Hero. I am an enemy of humanity to be trampled down by a hero.
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[She could, after all, give in and not care anymore.]
Some of us are fated to be stained red no matter how hard we try, but that doesn't invalidate the act of trying.
[He, on the other hand, doesn't really care to try. He just knows he has people he wants to protect and if that means killing everything in his way, then so be it.]
You may eventually do something evil here or at home, Tamamo-san, but I don't think that will change the way I see you.
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[That's what she can't understand. She's stated and proved her evil, she could kill him right now, but he believes in her... And she doesn't understand.]
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He holds the eel up and looks at it, turning it this way and that. He likes this one much better.]
Because you feel guilty.
[He's seen the face of irredeemable bloodlust wrapped up in greed and hatred, wearing a human face like a mask. He's seen it in himself sometimes; too often actually. He sees it when he wakes in the morning, when he goes to sleep at night. He knows that he's a horrible person, but he can pretend to be a good one for awhile longer.
Okita turns and holds the eel up to Tamamo with a smile.]
And while you may do evil things, your heart yearns for something different. You, yourself, are not evil.
Isn't this eel cute? The seashell is the same color as your hair.
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She remembers the specter of the end hanging over her. So to run away from that, she made the Millennium Capital. She made herself the harlot queen, a dictator who ruled with an iron fist, who ignored the world to indulge herself in hedonism. Because the end would come, she even tried to push Hakuno away, paradoxically because she was scared of losing her. And like that, she tried to take away everything from Nero, to wage war and rule as a Queen... To pretend the end wasn't coming, and indulge herself in all her pleasures until that end came.
That was the problem when a god fell in love with a mortal. She who had never had a happy ending, knew she wasn't fated for one this time, either.]
... It is quite cute.
[She doesn't understand this. He's Okita Souji. He who was loyal to Japan to the last should hate her, whose legend spoke of overthrowing the throne. She's even told him some more of her sins, and he still didn't mind.
Even Karna had said the same. That she wasn't evil. But the sins she'd committed... What else could she be?]
Are you sure I feel guilty? I told you before, I could cast away humanity with a smile.
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That's not entirely true - you would do it for her, is what you said.
[He squishes the eel's sides slightly, watching as the tails wag behind it.]
You call yourself evil, and even now you seem upset by that. The Anti-Hero, Daji, Tamamo-no-mae, a monster - you don't seem happy about those names.
If you were happy about them, then maybe I'd think you were evil.
[He holds the eel out to her, knowing that his childish actions and his heavy words are discordant.]
But you aren't.
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... You're mistaken on one thing. Tamamo-no-Mae is a name I am happy about. It is the name I wish to keep.
[It was given to her in a happy time, by a man she loved. And it was the name that Hakuno loved her with.]
I do not understand how you all can be so confident in that.
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[And he has not that long to live anyway. He lets go and searches for a different plush, pulling out flowers and fish and little octopi.]
And since you now know who I am, you know that having someone want to kill me isn't exactly abnormal in my life.
[Aha! He pulls out a light blue sunfish looking thing and smiles.]
If nothing else, I'm happy that I was able to meet you, Tamamo-san. [And he puts an emphasis on her name - the name she likes, the one she's chosen and wants to keep.]
Regardless of how you feel about me or what may happen.
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[She sounds more confused than unhappy, though.]
At least, I like you better than the Okita Souji I met before.
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[He smiles at her, bright and sunny in a way only he can do when he's intensely sad inside.]
But I'm glad. I like you, too, Tamamo-san.
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[is it burning him, self-deprecation, or both? it is a mystery.]
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[Also, he is just caaaasually sliding over toward the register and paying for the blue sunfish and the little eel. Yup, that one is hers now forever and she can't give it back.]
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and holding the eel back out for you to take.]
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He's just going to turn and run to the register and try to pay REALLY FAST.]
You touched it, you have to take it!