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The process?
You mean how they turned you human?
I think I'd be more interested in why.
You mean how they turned you human?
I think I'd be more interested in why.
If a shinki is supposed to be a soul, how can my soul be something my human form isn't?
Mister Ankh thinks that it's because humans are the dominant species of this world and we exist under the will and wishes of humans, and gods who were once humans.
Mister Ankh thinks that it's because humans are the dominant species of this world and we exist under the will and wishes of humans, and gods who were once humans.
That's actually a good point.
With all the followers and prayers and stuff,
it makes sense if we're being shaped by common perceptions.
I never even thought of that.
With all the followers and prayers and stuff,
it makes sense if we're being shaped by common perceptions.
I never even thought of that.
My question is how I became a human.
What process would you use to transform something like that, along with perception.
What process would you use to transform something like that, along with perception.
I have a place to sleep and a place for my books. He doesn't treat me poorly.
The way you were dressed? I'm afraid I don't follow, Mister Joker.
I suppose. But I don't know how much about our forms here actually matters.
[He, after all, is not a bird.]
[He, after all, is not a bird.]
Isn't it just god magic?
[Because that's wonderfully specific.]
[Because that's wonderfully specific.]
Wouldn't I change form with each new god?
My vessel form may have changed, but I look the same now as I did when you arrived, despite my god changing.
My vessel form may have changed, but I look the same now as I did when you arrived, despite my god changing.
[Good point. Hmm...]
Then maybe the head god is the one doing it.
Amaterasu is in charge around here, right?
Then maybe the head god is the one doing it.
Amaterasu is in charge around here, right?
That's what it seems like.
[A hesitation. A second text.]
Miss Tosaka, do you think I am someone worthy of surviving?
[He asks because there's a part of him that knows she knew him. Because he was the sole survivor. Because Hiyoko can give him the best assessment of anyone here.
She'll likely say yes no matter what, because she's just like Sora and Roxas and their endless need to see him happy baffles him.
But he feels like if she does say yes, it will be honest. And she's the one who might know best.]
[A hesitation. A second text.]
Miss Tosaka, do you think I am someone worthy of surviving?
[He asks because there's a part of him that knows she knew him. Because he was the sole survivor. Because Hiyoko can give him the best assessment of anyone here.
She'll likely say yes no matter what, because she's just like Sora and Roxas and their endless need to see him happy baffles him.
But he feels like if she does say yes, it will be honest. And she's the one who might know best.]
Of course!
[The response is automatic. But also very honest.]
You're smart and perceptive and you really care about the people around you.
But survival doesn't have a whole lot to do with being worthy.
I think the most important thing for survival is never giving up.
And dumb luck.
That's pretty important.
[But being worthy sadly does nothing. She thinks her parents were plenty worthy but that didn't stop them from being gunned down by terrorists.]
[The response is automatic. But also very honest.]
You're smart and perceptive and you really care about the people around you.
But survival doesn't have a whole lot to do with being worthy.
I think the most important thing for survival is never giving up.
And dumb luck.
That's pretty important.
[But being worthy sadly does nothing. She thinks her parents were plenty worthy but that didn't stop them from being gunned down by terrorists.]
[He thinks about that in relation to the other kids. The younger kids, for the most part.
In the end, he hadn't survived anyway. But his existence was allowed to continue. Maybe that counted for something.]
Thank you.
Luck is a pretty poor thing to count on when it comes to something like living.
In the end, he hadn't survived anyway. But his existence was allowed to continue. Maybe that counted for something.]
Thank you.
Luck is a pretty poor thing to count on when it comes to something like living.
So was I. So I don't know if how we're dressed matters.
It is kind of cynical.
But luck has probably killed and saved more people than any skill or talent.
But luck has probably killed and saved more people than any skill or talent.
You're right.
It's just a matter of bad luck, then.
[That he's here. That the children died.]
It's just a matter of bad luck, then.
[That he's here. That the children died.]
[She can relate. Her parents were gunned down right in front of her. She and Ryouta were very lucky they survived. And then not so lucky because Shuu. ]
A lot of things are.
But you can't rely on luck to figure everything out.
That's where talent and skill come in.
They can help tip the odds in your favor.
A lot of things are.
But you can't rely on luck to figure everything out.
That's where talent and skill come in.
They can help tip the odds in your favor.
[That was one fucked up day for everyone involved...]
Which I suppose is how I wound up like this.
Life and death are more complicated than they seem.
Which I suppose is how I wound up like this.
Life and death are more complicated than they seem.
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