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[tadanokusuriuri]

Date: August 30th
From: Anonymous


A simple question.

Of the names you bear, does one seem to you the truest?

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[demonsheath]

No, they're not, but we can still discover quite a bit about ourselves. Especially in the case of shinki.

[tadanokusuriuri]

Perhaps, detached from who we once were, our old names mean nothing at all.

But then, why should we have been allowed to keep them?

[The older shinki weren't. It nags at him for a moment, before he catches that thought and carefully lets go of it. It wouldn't do to go stinging his goddess.]

[demonsheath]

Perhaps it's because a name still possesses power, whether you feel it's true or not.

My closest guess as to why only a particular set of us still hold onto that identity is rough, but it may be that enough has remained and survived this awakening. Much like how it is possible for shinki to remember times from when they were living. The connection had not completely severed upon the event of their death.

[ She could imagine that they were viewed as incomplete oddities, just as the new gods were. ]