Heaven's BBS - text

[returnedfromtheline]

Posted: Saturday April 23, 2016 10:15
From: Yukine
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[Since one oblique mention of it a while ago, Yukine had been keeping an eye out.
And now it has come up on the BBS in ways he couldn’t brush off as being a mistake, even if he tried.

A few – probably quite more than a few – of the new shinki have become nora.

Biting firmly on the inside of his mouth and clutching his phone tightly in both hands, a lot of thoughts fly through his mind. Dark thoughts, like how could a group of strays be dealt with if they put their mind to something dangerous? Angry thoughts that these people seemed so damn attracted to whatever everyone else told them was abhorrent. (That was a new word he’d learned that was just perfect for this situation, wasn’t it!) Small, scared thoughts of his own defeats at the hands of nora— no, he’s not scared of them!

Should he tell someone and let them deal with it? Should he tell them off himself?
Yukine starts and deletes several messages before deciding that none of them would give him the information he wants.

Nora are dangerous and have rotten personalities. He doubts that these new nora are much different. So what he wants— is a way to protect himself and Yato from them. And that means getting their names. Their regular names are not a problem, but the new shinki are weird. They don't have names based on their kanji like normal. So that just means to be safe Yukine has to get all their names, including the vessel name.
Most of them likely don’t know the significance their name has. And the ones that do and don’t share their names... they obviously have something to hide, right?]


I saw the post a little while ago asking about having more than one god, and have seen some other people mention the same. Wow, I’m surprised that it sounds like a lot of you have become nora. I really wonder what kind of situations made you do it. I’d be interested to hear about it and how many names you have now. Or for gods, how many shinki you have now.

Comments

[returnedfromtheline]

Just looking at how active this post is should give you a good idea of why it's a big deal.

[very_goodman]

Yeah, I kinda skimmed it. All I see's a lot of assumptions being made about shinki who go nora. Why they mighta done it, what they think of their gods, whether they're up to somethin' sneaky or wrong.

So I'll tell ya right here. I've got three goddesses. They're all good girls and I'm happy to be their friend and to fight with 'em. I went nora 'cause I saw two of 'em in trouble without their own shinki around. And I wanna keep protectin' them.

That's it. Not all of us are bad people, y'know.

[returnedfromtheline]

That seems to be a theme among the new nora.

[Which doesn’t change Yukine’s mind one bit.
But having just suffered a second time-out courtesy of Yato because his frustration was stinging his god, Yukine is getting impatient to just drop this. He doesn’t particularly want to go for a third time-out.]

[very_goodman]

You say it like it's a bad thing. If you're gonna judge a whole group of people on what they are, sounds like you're the one with the problem.

[returnedfromtheline]

Nora aren't just 'are'. They chose to be that way.

[this is not 'dropping it', Yukine...]

[very_goodman]

Yeah. I did choose this. And I'd choose it again if it meant helping someone. There's nothin' wrong with that.

[returnedfromtheline]

[Can you hear a frustrated sound coming all the way from the Near Shore? Because that's probably Yukine.
In the interests of trying to not sting Yato anymore, Yukine tosses his phone down on the futon and doesn't answer.]