[Video] Hark, a youkai

[royaltyloyalty]

From: Ksitigarbha
Date: November 25 (Backdated 3 days)

Yo. Took long enough, huh? Nearly two months if you count it one way, month and a half the other way.

Anyway I'm over at my temple if you were looking for me that whole time. Sorry to keep you waiting. That's all I wanted to say.

[ A little cryptic, but he's not a particularly open person over technology, especially in light of how he died, and being pretty sure the guy's still around.

OOC: Pair log over here if you're interested. ]

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[erogappa]

I don't, actually.

[ The one memory they gave him about this guy couldn't have been better designed to make him hate everything about the man. That sort of thing just made him want to get closer. ]

You got all the memories of that too. Remember?

[royaltyloyalty]

I didn't, for awhile.

[ Echoing Gojyo's phrasing on purpose. ]

As if I needed a reason to be more sympathetic to shinki.

[erogappa]

You can keep your sympathy. As far as I can tell, you "gods" are in the same shit as the rest of us.

[ He died. That's what he's saying, isn't it? That's what happens when gods die -- they forget, for a little while. So he's saying that he died. ]

[royaltyloyalty]

[ Heh. How surprised he is not that that was Gojyo's reaction. He still doesn't regret saying it though. ]

If you really feel that way, then there's more reason to just pass the sympathy around, isn't it? All of us dealing with wave after wave of shit, whether it's bizarre ayakashi or a forest. Or trying to stitch together two layers of memories.

[erogappa]

What good does feeling bad do? If you feel so bad, do something about it.

[ Just, y'know. Ideally something that doesn't get all your friends shot up. ]

You aren't Dokuwhoever. The assholes running this place thought it was funny to make themselves a Doku doll, that's all. You have his memories but you don't have to take on his debts too, okay? Your memories are never going to stitch together because they aren't real.

[royaltyloyalty]

[ This is the first Doku's heard of anything resembling Gojyo's theory so he passes it off in the most common way he can think of.

Obviously Gojyo is drunk.

So the only thing he can focus on is "If you feel so bad, do something about it." ]

Guilt is a kind of motivation. You're right, I'm in a position to do something about it, so I'm going to.

[ Might as well just leave it vague, but he does think he can do something - if nothing else about Add, like keeping tabs on the guy if Heaven isn't already. ]

[erogappa]

[ That's fine. He'd rather have the conversation about what they really are offline anyway. Welcome back, big brother, get ready for the brat's existential crisis. But in the meantime... ]

If you are thinking about asking Amaterasu directly I can tell you that it won't work out the way you want it to.

[royaltyloyalty]

Oh, you can see the future now? Come on.

[ Wait. Drunk. Cut some slack. ]

Okay what should I ask her about and how will it not work out the way I want it to?

[erogappa]

What are you saying? No, asshole, I think you shouldn't go ask Amaterasu directly about missing memories because I've tried that twice now and she really doesn't like it when people ask her about that stuff.

[royaltyloyalty]

Uhhh... I'm pretty sure *now* that I'm not actually missing anything. One part ended, the next part began, but for awhile there I could remember the first part. I can now. I get that that's not how it is for shinki, but I also get that that's not the kind of thing she could answer or fix.

I know exactly the person I'd be going to if I still had questions about what happened, but thankfully I don't need to check in on his stupid ass.

[ Namely Add, pretty much the only person he has a distinctly and justified negative opinion of right now. ]

[erogappa]

I don't think we're still having the same conversation.

[royaltyloyalty]

[ Wouldn't be the first time, he thinks. ]

I'm surprised you're talking to me at all, to be honest. Last I heard you wanted me to stay away.

[erogappa]

With the memory they put in my head, can you blame me? But sorry, I've come to accept that you're not important enough to hate.

Lost this tag, sorry

[royaltyloyalty]

Well that's a backhanded compliment if I've ever heard one.