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[unlucky7]

Posted by: Anon
Date: December 12th

Question for everyone: Who is the most attractive person in the Far Shore? Submit your nominations, pictures and comments welcome.

((ooc: ICly the pictures are posted directly, but to help with loading please link pictures, mark any that are NSFW.))

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[unlucky7]

[I'm not, I'm not.

It's so much easier doubting herself with her self-esteem at rock bottom. This post was supposed to be a distraction, a mindless, silly jape to entertain herself with and maybe flatter some people in the process - hey Archer, hey Caster - but with things turned back on her, it's hard to find humor in it anymore.

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer, she saw a display while passing through a mall. The broken restored with painstaking care, acknowledging the damage while creating something beautiful and new and whole.

That is not what shinki are. They are weapons in the shape of people, empty vessels so full of promises and possibilities, full of cracks and gaps left behind by the memories torn away from there. There are always new memories, more opportunities, but they don't fit the same way. They're wedged and forced into place, welded down with prayers and duties. Sometimes a memory returns and fits in place, or maybe someone drops them and shatters them whole.

Because now Ginia knows what happens if a shinki falls apart. And having seen it herself, it's too easy to wonder how Ayumu reached that point, how far she fell or how much further she could have kept falling.

It's too easy to wonder how close she's been to the edge, if she's already begun falling and hasn't realized it.

If she hits bottom and shatters, how many people will she take down with her?

There's nothing amazing about her. Nothing wonderful and good.

But who is she to judge the word of a god?]

You're amazing too.

[If the words of a shinki mean anything.]