Heaven's BBS - Video

[nopixiedust]

Date: October 14
From: Wendy


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Hello, everyone!

[Heeeeeere's Wendy! Looking as cute as she can possibly make herself. And she's pretty damn cute. She'd just like to remind you all of that. She's bundled up a little, to combat the cool weather, because, as the background shows, she is on the Near Shore. Shrine grounds, in fact!]

In case you don't know me, my name is Wendy! I'm on here to let you guys know that I'm unveiling something that will be important for all of us! It's-

[And she twists around, focusing the camera now on a modest little shinto shrine. It's not supremely small, but it's not super enormous, either. Livable, which is the important thing. Striding across the stone, a chicken pauses to stare at the shinki girl and clucks.]

[Anyone paying attention might recognize this as a shrine to Amaterasu.]

-the brand new Shinki Sanctuary! [Wendy turns the camera back to herself.] People are always disappearing here, which is bad enough. However, when it's a god who vanishes, they leave behind their shinki! And what's a shinki on their own without anyone? Ayakashi bait. So I asked- [She speaks slowly, making sure to get it right.] -Amaterasu if we could have funds to make a sanctuary for godless shinki to stay at.

And that's what this is! Here on the Near Shore, we're allowed to use this shrine for shinki to stay at if they don't have anywhere else. We should be able to get clothing, if you don't have any spares, and I'll do my best to make sure we have food available!

Not only that, but I'm also starting a matchmaking service here! If you're a god who wants or needs a shinki, or a shinki who wants a god for whatever reason- [No nora judgment here.] -then please stop over here and fill out a form! Everyone is welcome, you don't have to be staying at here to fill out a form.

So be sure to remember this just in case, alright? And tell your friends!


[ooc: Yep, Wendy has started up a Shinki Sanctuary and Matchmaking Service! For more information on both of those, go here.]

Comments

[nopixiedust]

[He'll be leaving here with this bento if it kills him. Not her, obviously.]

[But hey, a subject that isn't silly arguing!]

What do you think about him? He's been pretty helpful about advice for Amaterasu, and wanting to get involved in this.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun shrugs slightly.] He's got a bit of an annoying ego, but he's focused and willing to work with people, so I can't complain too much. He could do without fussing about me as often as he seems to want to, though.

[It's rare that Shun's primary complaint about anyone who expresses concern over him isn't the fact that they express concern over him.]

[nopixiedust]

Oh, it means he likes you, then.

[Which, good, Shun needs more people to watch out for him.]

[revolutionfalcon]

More like he thinks trying to coddle me will make up for his own mistakes.

[Granted, Shun's definition of "coddling" generally means "helping him at all", but the rest of it isn't so bad.]

[nopixiedust]

Is there a reason both things can't be true?

[Settling on a bench nearby, she gestures for him to sit besides her.]

[revolutionfalcon]

It means he's got ulterior motives for supposedly "liking" me if they're both true.

[Shun doesn't actually sit down, though he does cross his arms and put a foot up against the edge of the bench. He tends to take up too much bench space when he sits down anyway, but he wants to get more of a sense of this location right now.]

[nopixiedust]

[Shun, what kind of edgy ass.... Wendy will ignore it for now, and tilts her had back to look up at him instead.]

What ulterior motives are they?

[revolutionfalcon]

Wanting to make up for his own problems. Having someone he can use as an excuse to say he did better this time.

[Shun knows Archer's basic mindset regarding Shun is trying to make him not turn out like Archer himself, so regardless of being a shinki, there's some factor of history repeating in there.]

[nopixiedust]

....Oh, so just those kind of ulterior motives.

[She leans back, feet kicking out in a swnig.]

I thought you would mention something a lot more insidious.

[revolutionfalcon]

Something doesn't have to be insidious to be an ulterior motive. It just means someone's not doing something for only genuine reasons.

[Which certainly applies to Archer's motivations in dealing with him, as far as Shun's concerned.]

[nopixiedust]

So what would be an acceptable way for him to deal with his problems, in your opinion?

[Opening up the bento- which is very nice, thank you, she used Hibiki's money- she takes the chopsticks and holds up a piece of chicken for him.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun gives her a rather unimpressed look and pushes the piece of chicken back with one finger for the moment.]

Not making me his catalyst, for one thing. There's other people in his temple he could talk to about that.

[nopixiedust]

[She's not putting it to her own mouth, Shun. She'll win this war. Just... after she blinks, brows crinkling together a little.]

A catalyst is... a disaster?

[Sorry, she doesn't know a few words.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Something that starts a change. [Though Shun wouldn't necessarily argue that he's some form of disaster.]

I mean he shouldn't be using me to try and move himself. [That might just be how Shun's seeing it, but it is very much how he's seeing it at this point.]

[nopixiedust]

So... No one should ever use another person to change?

[Inch the chopsticks back...]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun's keeping an eye on those chopsticks...]

Not if they're doing it like that. It's overbearing and annoying.

[nopixiedust]

I see. And you haven't told him yet, right?

[Inch inch inch....]

[revolutionfalcon]

[He's going to be watching those things until she makes the move he's expecting her to make with them.]

I've told him plenty of times he's overinvested.

[nopixiedust]

Yeah, but that's not the same thing, right?

[The chopsticks pause, rearing back the chicken a little bit.]

[revolutionfalcon]

It might as well be. And I've said it in more words than that.

[He's going to decay that thing if she keeps waving it around, though he gets the impression she's planning to try shoving it in his mouth while he's talking.]

[nopixiedust]

[Throw it at his mouth hole while he's talking, actually, but same end result.]

Well, you might want to have deeper talks with him to reach something you're both fine with, even though I know you aren't great at that.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Same end result of him dodging it, more than likely.]

I doubt that'll change much. He's been doing it since he got here. [The very start of their first meeting had gone what Shun would almost have considered hostile until Archer had made it clear he'd been railing on the issue of Shun still training while clearly heavily sleep-deprived.]

[nopixiedust]

[dammit, shun]

But you don't know that for certain, right?

[revolutionfalcon]

He already knows it annoys me. So it's not going to suddenly change after this long.

[Then again, considering how Shun treats anything he perceives as "fussing" coming from any party, it's probably not a surprise he expects no change.]

[nopixiedust]

That's because you give up easily unless it's setting vultures on people or other things like that.

[Another chicken piece toss.]