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[Video] About Ablution
From: Kairi & Yukine
Date: Dusk on July 8, 2016
[ Kairi and Yukine both look worn out and stressed. They'd each been holding a Borderline active for a very long time, relatively speaking, on top of the emotional strain of the confession they heard and the empathy they tried to give back.
The backdrop will tell anyone who knows the area that they're not far from Hakkai's school, just not directly inside it anymore. Kairi speaks first. ]
This message is for my fellow shinki specifically, although I hope gods will be sensitive to this as well. I know that we as shinki struggle with the knowledge that our gods can feel things we feel. It's not something we can change, though. The biggest thing they can feel from us... is guilt. You might have heard it called by another name: blight.
Blight is... it's like this acid on your skin. It hurts. Guilt makes the blight appear, but you can also get it by touching someone who's blighted. That goes for touching blighted gods and shinki both, but it also goes for touching ayakashi, which are nothing but blight. There's a way to reverse really bad blight - the guilt kind, because holy water can fix the kind you get by touching someone.
It's called an ablution. It's not easy and it's definitely not painless and it requires the support of your god as well as three strong shinki friends.
[ She'd started to get a little hysterical in her description of how much effort goes into an ablution, but then she pauses to take a breath. Her voice gets quieter, more purposeful. ]
... I need you all to hear this: I have witnessed two ablutions now, and participated in one of them. It's awful what someone has to go through during that, and it's awful to watch it too.
So please, if you start to feel some blight, don't hide it and refuse to talk to your shinki or god about it. It doesn't just go away like a bad cold. It gets worse and worse and worse.
[Yukine edges into frame, the bags under his eyes and tight expression worth more than a few words on their own.]
I've been telling you guys from the start to get along with your gods. This is a part of it... a part I'd hoped none of you'd have t' see. But it's happened.
When you do something you feel guilty over, admit it. Pretending to smile and acting like everything's fine does neither you or your god any good. Talk about it, fight about it. [He gives a jagged smile as he adds in a low voice,] You can go a bit crazy. Gods don't die so easily.
But after getting it all off your chest then apologize and start fresh.
... Shinki are spirits. We're just across the line from ayakashi. We're human... none of us are perfect. The darkness... is always by our side. So be careful. Don't let it in.
... Damn. That's all I have to say. I'm going to go sleep for a few dozen hours now.
[ Kairi leans a little then, like she would have given Yukine a hug but thought better of it, so he gets a shoulder lean instead. ]
Yukine brought up a good point too. Since our gods feel all this stuff, but "don't die so easily"? They're basically going through the ablution too. They're hurting just like their shinki is.
[ But she doesn't leave the focus on Yukine by that point, knowing without voicing it that he'd been on the other side of the ablution before. That had come up earlier today. So she stands back up straight and pulls her phone back so that he can leave. It's getting late, after all. ]
So that's our warning. Please take care of yourselves and your shinki friends. And please be understanding if you see some blight, offer to help with it or tell someone who can help. I know it's scary.
Thank you.
[[OOC: Both Yukine and Kairi can respond to this BBS post, but if you'd like one of them specifically you can ask for it in the subject line or tag.
Chronologically, this happens not long after Hakkai's Ablution.]]
Date: Dusk on July 8, 2016
[ Kairi and Yukine both look worn out and stressed. They'd each been holding a Borderline active for a very long time, relatively speaking, on top of the emotional strain of the confession they heard and the empathy they tried to give back.
The backdrop will tell anyone who knows the area that they're not far from Hakkai's school, just not directly inside it anymore. Kairi speaks first. ]
This message is for my fellow shinki specifically, although I hope gods will be sensitive to this as well. I know that we as shinki struggle with the knowledge that our gods can feel things we feel. It's not something we can change, though. The biggest thing they can feel from us... is guilt. You might have heard it called by another name: blight.
Blight is... it's like this acid on your skin. It hurts. Guilt makes the blight appear, but you can also get it by touching someone who's blighted. That goes for touching blighted gods and shinki both, but it also goes for touching ayakashi, which are nothing but blight. There's a way to reverse really bad blight - the guilt kind, because holy water can fix the kind you get by touching someone.
It's called an ablution. It's not easy and it's definitely not painless and it requires the support of your god as well as three strong shinki friends.
[ She'd started to get a little hysterical in her description of how much effort goes into an ablution, but then she pauses to take a breath. Her voice gets quieter, more purposeful. ]
... I need you all to hear this: I have witnessed two ablutions now, and participated in one of them. It's awful what someone has to go through during that, and it's awful to watch it too.
So please, if you start to feel some blight, don't hide it and refuse to talk to your shinki or god about it. It doesn't just go away like a bad cold. It gets worse and worse and worse.
[Yukine edges into frame, the bags under his eyes and tight expression worth more than a few words on their own.]
I've been telling you guys from the start to get along with your gods. This is a part of it... a part I'd hoped none of you'd have t' see. But it's happened.
When you do something you feel guilty over, admit it. Pretending to smile and acting like everything's fine does neither you or your god any good. Talk about it, fight about it. [He gives a jagged smile as he adds in a low voice,] You can go a bit crazy. Gods don't die so easily.
But after getting it all off your chest then apologize and start fresh.
... Shinki are spirits. We're just across the line from ayakashi. We're human... none of us are perfect. The darkness... is always by our side. So be careful. Don't let it in.
... Damn. That's all I have to say. I'm going to go sleep for a few dozen hours now.
[ Kairi leans a little then, like she would have given Yukine a hug but thought better of it, so he gets a shoulder lean instead. ]
Yukine brought up a good point too. Since our gods feel all this stuff, but "don't die so easily"? They're basically going through the ablution too. They're hurting just like their shinki is.
[ But she doesn't leave the focus on Yukine by that point, knowing without voicing it that he'd been on the other side of the ablution before. That had come up earlier today. So she stands back up straight and pulls her phone back so that he can leave. It's getting late, after all. ]
So that's our warning. Please take care of yourselves and your shinki friends. And please be understanding if you see some blight, offer to help with it or tell someone who can help. I know it's scary.
Thank you.
[[OOC: Both Yukine and Kairi can respond to this BBS post, but if you'd like one of them specifically you can ask for it in the subject line or tag.
Chronologically, this happens not long after Hakkai's Ablution.]]
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So he's just watching this post to read up on this. He's also thinking he's been lucky that some of the things others have been worried about have not caused him guilt.]
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In other words, we have to follow our conscience.
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But yes, that’s basically it. If you feel guilty over doing something, you’ll sting your god.
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So only guilt does this? The blight thing.
Also, if you need an ablution, do they have to be friends?
Can't they just drag a random shinki off of the street?
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Like Kairi said, it’s a bit different from the blight you get from ayakashi.
And you can bring in anyone. But it’s better if it’s someone you at least know. It helps.
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[He's not trying to out you, anon. But he has reasons for saying that.]
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Thank you for reminding us. You're right that it's important for gods to keep this in mind as well. Both of you make sure to get some rest.
[You too, Kairi.]
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Kairi! Are you all right? Did you get blighted? Do you need to rest?
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As long as he doesn't give any details, it should be fine.]
It was. Thanks for asking.
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First, if you don't me asking, how is everyone now?
( Kairi and Yukine look absolutely exhausted and based one everything that's been said, there are others who are probably just as tired if not more. )
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Urashima, please don't worry. Everyone is fine.
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Hers happens a little after she makes the post, oh well
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Well.] If a shinki goes through an ablution are they more to resistant to blight afterwards? [Like a vaccine--]
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I don't know. That would be nice if so.
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It's because he's too lazy for text, and was so crummy with words anyway, that it seemed easier to just say what he was worried about. ]
So uh, what you're the kind of person that can still feel guilty even after admitting what you feel guilty over? Is feeling like shit about what happens the thing that causes this blight or is it the keeping it to yourself?
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I don't know, but I'm pretty sure keeping it to yourself won't help.
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Kairi… do you need an ear? I'll listen if you want to talk.
[If she wants to rant, if she needs comfort… he is here for her.]
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Riku... Thank you. I mean that. I wasn't the one in trouble, though, so you don't have to worry about that. I appreciate the offer, honest. Do you want me to come over now?
[Because of course now she has to be the one reassuring him she's going to be fine with a little rest. She hasn't really revisited the emotional part just yet in the midst of talking to everyone.]
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Kairi?
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Hi Senri. [She even gives him a wave.] You look worried.
[And she laughs a little - tiredly - because she's sure that she's the one he's worried about.]
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[Kanji grimaces. He's still pretty new, barely here longer than his shinki, and he still has a lot to learn.]
We're supposed to be partners. Help each other. I don't want Naoto goin' through any of that shit.
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Naoto huh?
[She thinks she knows who that is.]
I'm glad you feel that way. That's the kind of thing I hoped to get across. Some people wouldn't ever do this intentionally to their friends - their partners - but maybe if more people know it can happen, even by accident... maybe other shinki won't have to go through this again.
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It definitely feels like acid. Whenever an ayakashi got me, or my god while I was their vessel, it felt that bad.
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from: carl adler (video)
This is just hypothetical, [ and at least Kairi should know by now that D2 is fairly blunt in certain ways, and doesn't want to get others hurt, so yes, it really is hypothetical. ] but if it'd become necessary to go through with an ablution, how does that work? I only know a little bit about it, and it would be good to know it in detail. [ Having the knowledge is absolutely necessary, that much is obvious. ]
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But I can tell you a bit more about it if you want. There's an incantation involved, there's borderline casting, and what the shinki going through it has to deal with too... and how to help them through it.
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