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[sassywelshcatgirl]

From: Nia
Posted: Jan. 10

So here's a question for all of you.

Say sometime in the future, a way home pops up. The stars are right, or the prayers of the world unite, or we find whatever brings us here and reverse it. Doesn't matter what, the key thing is that it won't last. You've got to decide right away. What do you do?

If you're a shinki, going home means you're dead. No more life like this that you can expect. Is it worth the gamble? What if you get stuck as a shinki in your own world, not remembering anything, no other shinki or gods? On the other hand, you stay here and you get stuck with whoever's left if your god takes off. Maybe they all do and you're off to the old gods, or unnamed. Either one's a raw deal.

Gods? You got it easy. You go back and pick up where you left off. Except you'd be leaving your shinki behind. No promise on what happens to them. Maybe they'll end up with someone okay, maybe not. Maybe even if you made an arrangement with someone who'd stay, it goes wrong. Do you just abandon them? Trust that the old gods won't be so bad?

Not saying it's going to work out this way. But it might. So what if?

Comments

[rockthemonkey]

i gotta make sure we know whats goin on here and everyons okay
sum people were here and theyre not now so i cant go till theyre ok.


nia are u ok?

[sassywelshcatgirl]

I'm fine.

You'd really be okay losing your one shot to go home, if it happened?

[rockthemonkey]

who says its one shot?
i wanna go back coz theres stuff to do there but i gotta take care of stuff here first

[And he has to find Sanzo. Sanzo would be so mad if they left without him.]

im not lettin someone els decide everything ill go when i wanna go

[sassywelshcatgirl]

That's what I'm saying, you don't know if or when you get another shot. You might never.

[Color her shocked, SHOCKED that Goku is not properly adhering to the hypothetical.]

[rockthemonkey]

[Hypothetical? Goku doesn't know the meaning of the word. Literally.]

nah ill figure it out

[sassywelshcatgirl]

...that's exactly what I expected of you.

Thanks.

[rockthemonkey]

welcome?

[He's not sure what he's being thanked for but okay! Nia's so nice.]

are u worried about whatll happen?

[sassywelshcatgirl]

A little less if I know someone I trust will still be around till I'm settled.

[rockthemonkey]

[Goku has no intention of remaining in the Near Shore. He has to go back to Shangri'la eventually- and he wants to. This place is fake and dumb and keeps messing with people. But just up and leaving won't help. He has to make sure his friends are okay. He has to find Sanzo. If he has to, he'll go back without Sanzo and beat the crap out of Gyuumaoh and stop the Minus Wave all on his own, but who's to say when he has to? Not some asshole anywhere around here, that's for sure. ]

u can stay at the place they gave me whenever you want!!

[Nothing improper about that at all. It's fine, Ishi can be a chaperone.]

wuld you wanna go back to your world?

[She kind of implied not, but he wants to ask.]

[sassywelshcatgirl]

Not much point to it. I'm dead, aren't I? Nothing I can do back there but be dead.

[rockthemonkey]

[Gojyo's not dead. Maybe Nia isn't either. Goku stares at his phone for a minute before deciding he probably shouldn't say that.]

whered you go instead? anywhere you want!!

[sassywelshcatgirl]

[She's heard that 'not dead' rumor before. But here she is without so much as a heartbeat. What's she supposed to think?]

I don't think I'm any less dead anywhere else.

[rockthemonkey]

[Now you're the one not playing along with the hypothetical, Nia.]

you can go places now

[sassywelshcatgirl]

Not to other worlds. I don't think the Near Shore counts as really separate, they're like two halves of a whole. So I know I can... 'live' here.

[rockthemonkey]

[... Something about this conversation is pissing him off.]

if you could live somwhere else would you wanna go?

[sassywelshcatgirl]

So long as it's a place where I'm a person and not just a tool, try and stop me. I sure as hell don't want to stay here if I can help it.

[rockthemonkey]

[... Okay, that cheered him up. He can imagine Nia yelling that, even through text.]

if someon tries to stop you you should kick their ass

[sassywelshcatgirl]

Wrong word.

I would kick their arse.

[rockthemonkey]

i wanna too!!
i wanna kick their ass too!!

[sassywelshcatgirl]

I'm the one they're being rude to, I get first shot. You can have whatever's left, if I leave anything at all.]