thefarshore | Many Questions To Be Had

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Many Questions To Be Had

Who: Xehanort, Open
What: bothering people, and other things
When: June 13thish to maybe the 20th or so
Where:Other temples, his own after dark.
Warnings: None so far.

A

[Although it would be best if he saw to some of his prayers, instead Xehanort has picked up his notebook, a bit of tape and phone, shifted to the jackal-headed form most associate with the god Anubis, and gone looking for other temples nearby. He could have stayed in human form, but if he's intending to speak to gods and shinki both, isn't it best to be easily identified?

Once a temple is found, however, it's just a matter of looking for a door to knock on or a proper place to call out a greeting .. or even approach someone who happens to be standing outside.

He's really not that picky. God, shinki, it's all the same.]

B

[So someone wasn't home when Xehanort ventured to visit their temple. That's alright, there are a million things to do in a day. But at any temple that seemed occupied but nobody home, he's left a note.]

Greetings. I am Anubis; I visited your temple today but nobody was home.

I'd like to ask some questions about your experiences here (God or Shinki!), but since it seems I've missed you, perhaps you'd like to visit me instead, or leave me a message? I should be back at my own temple after sunset, but I can also be reached at [number] easily.

Thank you for your time.

[Visiting Anubis' temple, on the other hand, is visiting a desert. It's dry, even with the bits of oasis-like pools here and there, but it's not completely uninviting.. if it's after sunset he'll be there.]

Temple Description can be found here.

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[It does take a while, but after a little bit he stops knocking on doors and starts listening instead, those oversized jackal ears perked and attentive. Eventually it's not doors but the faintest hints of sound that lure him in the right direction.

And very gradually to the right door. It takes a while, possibly much longer than anywhere else he's been before. But he's certain someone is actually here!

.. Which is proven when a door actually opens, and for a moment he looks terribly pleased with himself.. as much as a doglike face can.]

Greetings. We have not, no. ..At least as far as I'm aware. Are you the master of this place?

[Well, his tone is friendly enough..]

[A doglike face should probably be at least a little weird, but from a world of quirks and being here for months. He takes it in stride.]

Master...? Um... This is my temple, yes. I'm Aidos on the network. Midoriya is fine though.

[Not freaking out is a good thing. So far, so good.]

Midoriya then, as you'd like.

[Aidos. Not a god he'd encountered in myth yet, more research to do!]

I wonder if I might be able to ask you a few questions about your time here, especially when you arrived? I'm working on a bit of a small project but need as much outside input as I can get.

[Straightforward and to the point!]

Oh, sure. Go ahead and ask anything. Um... What's the project, if you don't mind me asking?

[He spreads his hands lightly.]

A small booklet for new arrivals, such as myself. Hopefully containing all the information we need to know when we get here but ISN'T being told to us by the native deities and their servants. Certainly our fellows fill us in when they can, but if it's all condensed into one useful location, perhaps installed on all these little .. phones, it would possibly make transition much easier.

That's a great idea. I'm more than willing to help however I can.

Would you like to come in?

[He'll take a step back, inviting him into the living room.]

Certainly, and thank you.

[Better than standing in the hallway, though forgive him if he looks around a bit with interest. That was an awful lot of empty homes, for this one single dwelling.. maybe there's something interesting to hide!]

I'm hoping to gain some information on what sorts of things you first experienced arriving here. What things you wanted to know but couldn't find out without much asking about or digging, or things that wound up important that nobody bothered to mention. ...And further difficulties that you might have experienced.

[He has all his own issues after all, each god had to have a different experience, but there might be similar themes!]

[It's a pretty standard little apartment building. Even if a jacket looks just a little bit too big to be Izuku's is thrown over a chair. There's a few notebooks lying on the coffee table and a small pile of books nearby. His dvd shelf seems to be mostly superhero movies.

They're not the same as back home, but he can always appreciate a good hero narrative.]

I got here on White Day- March 15. There were a bunch of extra chocolates and we had to give them out to Near Shore residents. But they were corrupted with ayakashi... It's a little weird, actually, that we still don't know who's behind that. Amaterasu did issue a public apology for that but... [He shakes it off.]

I still don't know why we were brought here, or how we're split up by shinki and gods. And... [He knows Shouto isn't here right now but he still worries. It takes him a moment to gather up his thoughts.] I saw my shinki die- but I know he's still alive at home. Furthermore, my first shinki disappeared once and then came back as a god. I still don't know how that happens. My working theory is alternate universes, but that feels a little out there.

[It was amazing how many gods simply didn't at all seem to act the part. Or look it once their homes were entered and not the temples. ...He supposed he'd be guilty of it too, he had no intention of decorating 100% in Egyptian fashion.

He doesn't recognize the DVDs for what they are but they are brightly colored and had interesting names, he was going to have to find a way to ask what they were.]

... Has there been a further investigation at all?

[That seemed like it would be a pretty important thing!]

If multiple worlds are a possibility, I don't see why alternate realities aren't either. Of course if your shinki returned from whence they came, and then was taken a second time, it wouldn't require another reality.. just a bit more time.

[He sounds thoughtful. From some pocket or other on his person is drawn his phone, which he seems to be using more as a notetaking device than anything else by the way he sets to typing on it.]

May I ask how you know your shinki is still alive?

Amaterasu said she was looking into it months ago, but I haven't seen anything like a follow up in the months I've been here.

Because I'm from further along in the timeline than he is. I saw him die during a rescue mission, but he was still alive after that. At least in the reality I'm from. He wasn't hurt at all then.

Perhaps I'll have to ask directly, if it's possible to speak with ehr.

[Further implication, piecing with other work: the native gods may be inept. Did they even have someone keeping track of everything? He wasn't going to volunteer, but it doesn't prevent the low rumble of disapproval that rises. Disorganization was seriously the worst.

Happily, this matter of timelines is far less irritating, and he taps the back of his phone thoughtfully.]

It's also possible that he was taken from that point, which would not affect your timeline's progression at all. It could still be one reality .. but a little distressing to think that one could be plucked up now, or ten years ago, or fifty years away.

Sometimes she's at the events where people first arrive. But only sometimes. It's probably easier to talk to one of the people in her service than her directly.

[They might not be inept, but Izuku's not sure they care much.]

Man, I'm glad I wasn't picked from when I was a kid. I'd be so far out of my depth here.

Truly? I wonder if she was at the recent one. I didn't see anything overtly unusual. .. Aside from the winged orange boy and the wolf with the red markings..

[One of which happens to be a different Amaterasu, which wouldn't have helped at all.

But the idea of having missed such an opportunity was intensely disappointing. He would have to keep watch for the next inevitable wave and see if she'd be there, and then pounce. So many questions awaited!]

Kids adapt fast, at least. When everything is a new wonder, strange new wonders like this aren't too out of place. The idea of young children as gods or shinki though.. fighting those creatures..

[Even Xehanort (currently) has lines he's not comfortable crossing. It's best that most of them seem older.]

Winged orange boy...? Wolf...?

[He really needs to pay more attention to these things if these are the "new hires" so to speak. Maybe they're just very specific quirks... powers, really. Most people who come here aren't from Izuku's world, after all.]

I didn't have my quirk then and I'd have no experience fighting at all. ... I'm glad most of the people who end up here are teenagers and older.

[There's a slight nod. He's not exaggerating at ALL. Though Davesprite had been here for a little while as far as he knew, Amaterasu was recent. Probably there were even more unusual people about.]

..A word of advice, don't ask the orange boy if he might be a friendly ayakashi, he did not take it well.

[When you're new, you just don't KNOW these things, like 'what an ayakashi really is'. Frankly he'd looked a bit like one! But lesson learned, and now he can impart that lesson to others.]

I agree. .. By context, 'quirk' might be magic of some sort?

[Hey that's a word he doesn't know, but he can make guesses.]

Ah... I don't think anybody would take that well. I won't ask him that.

[Especially when he's felt the change from shinki to ayakashi from his bonds.]

Magic? Uh... it's more like a genetic thing. Where I'm from most people have a quirk of some kind. It can be something like super strength or making things float or generating explosions. They can really be anything.

[Xehanort has yet to encounter an actual ayakashi. Once he does, the differences will definitely be obvious enough that he wouldn't make that mistake again. Being told they were 'monsters' and seeing ONLY humans afterward seemed to suggest things..

..He'd learned otherwise.]

Ah, I see. What's usually known as superhuman powers back home.

[Same idea, different words.]

May I ask what your quirk is?

It's basically physical enhancement. Increased strength, speed and reflexes.

[Not durability though, that he has to work on.]

Can you use it freely whenever you choose? How does it work for say, hand-eye coordination?

[Although he's obviously curious it doesn't seem like he has anything particular in mind when asking about it. The need to know was enough of a drive!]

Yes. It works for that too, as long as I've activated it. Otherwise my hand-eye coordination is pretty normal.

[Though "pretty normal" of somebody on this earth and somebody in a world filled with superpowers might actually be very different.]

That's very interesting! I wonder if you might be interested in running a few tests just for fun sometime?

[Tests. For FUN? But he does seem to mean well, and is genuinely interested.]

I'd like to see how it works in practice, and what the results are. And if the effect can stack with other similar gifts. ..Though that means finding someone else who can do it too, hn.

[How quickly the gleam of sudden interest dims at the prospect of having to find ANOTHER person like that, it'sj ust chance he found one at all!]

I guess that depends on the type of tests?

Mm... It should stack. My god... power, I guess, is to share powers with one other person. Uh, mine is a little difficult to use so the person I'm sharing with has to be pretty strong to begin with though. If they aren't, they'll... it's dangerous. Anyway, I can use it with Todoroki-kun, since I know he's about as strong as me, when I don't have my quirk active.

[Anything like concern is immediately waved off. He had nothing awful in mind.]

Little things, like pick up that rock. Now pick it up after a little boost, how much easier it is. Or tossing darts at a board, how much accuracy changes, or how fast one could run from here to over there and so on.

[It is really simple stuff but to him it would also be vastly entertaining.

Had been. That pause, and then 'it's dangerous' sounded .. potentially questionable.]

When you say 'dangerous' do you mean minor injury, major injury or potential death?

I wouldn't mind doing that. [He can only use about 5% comfortably, and 8% if pushed, but even that is enough to break concrete.]

It depends on how strong the person is to begin with. If... say somebody wasn't already physically strong, they could explode. That's, uh, how it was described to me.

[Except now he has to weigh in the possibility of people exploding. That wouldn't at all help with any sort of tests that might be done, and would definitely ruin the evening.

If he looks a little shocked, it's probably reasonable.]

I think if we do try such tests we'll have to vet your partner in this experiment very carefully, I do not wish to be responsible for someone exploding.

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