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[slantedcross]

Posted: May 2
From: Hedone


I have a sneaking suspicion I could find the answer to this by going through the archives, but let's give me the benefit of the doubt and say I want to be as accurate as possible and allow for new people's responses, or else opinions evolving over time... any shinki out there who wish they were gods? Or the reverse, gods who wish they were shinki? Why do you think you got the better and/or worse deal?

Devil's advocates welcome; I may indulge in it a bit myself.

Comments

private voice

[slantedcross]

Is that your professional opinion?

[The voice of personal experience, he means.]

private voice

[oneblackcat]

[There's a noticeable delay between the question and Omi's answer. When he does speak, his voice is stiff, carefully level.]

It's my question to you, because I don't understand...

[How you could ever contend otherwise. Shinki have nothing going for them.]

private voice

[slantedcross]

Of course you don't.

[Honestly, no one does. As this whole endeavor proved.]

Maybe you will, at some point. [Maybe when Mamoru saw Youji wrap a wire around Aya's neck... maybe he wanted to forget that.]

private voice

[oneblackcat]

No... I don't think that's the problem here. Youji, why are you continuing to dodge the question?

[His voice is unusually firm.]

private voice

[slantedcross]

I don't see why questioning our various situations isn't... you don't wonder, even a little bit?

[He sighs. That firmness, which should not affect him, is affecting him.]

I don't think I want to die. Leave it there.

private voice

[oneblackcat]

[Omi hears that. He starts to talk, and then stops himself, checks his watch.]

Are you at your temple? I'm coming over...

private voice

[slantedcross]

You're overreacting. What is the matter with you?

[Is he even listening? He's got half a mind to just meet him in the middle...]

private voice

[oneblackcat]

[You just expressed less-than-total confidence that you want to live. Of course he's coming straight over.]

Am I coming to your temple or am I hunting you down like I did before?

private voice

[slantedcross]

[It was also less than total confidence that he wanted to die! Be reasonable!]

How about I meet you halfway? The walls have ears, and so do the shinki.

private voice

[oneblackcat]

Name your place.

[As long as you're agreeing.]

private voice

[slantedcross]

...the art gallery seems appropriate. At least, we can both find it again.

[It's neutral, too. Public. Calming.]

private voice

[oneblackcat]

Got it. I'll be right there.

[You better be, too.]

private voice

[slantedcross]

[Like he has a choice now. Least resistance, least resistance...]

Can't wait. Think they've got a new exhibit of sculptures right now, even.

[oneblackcat]

[ooc: continued here]