Hi! I'd like to introduce you to Carmilla. [a little puffball of a batkitten flies down and lands on the armrest of her chair, blinking owlishly at him]
And there are two choices. One, you come visit me and meet her in person and accept your present or two, I find you and give you your present.
Option one is by far the better one. I'd go with that.
[the fact that he does go with audio only is a bit concerning. she remembers how Lance didn't want to be seen as corruption progressed and hoped the same wasn't happening to Sasuke]
My eye is stuck in its Sharingan form. While normally I can control the power of it, it seems to be initiating genjutsu on its own accord. It primarily seems to be focusing on creating hyper realistic illusions, usually pulling out painful memories of my own or from whomever looks me in the eye.
...sweet Mistress. That's horrible! To show your worst memories the way an omni can show a movie, that's--it's such a violation.
I won't come over now because your memories are your own. [though, she's pretty sure she wouldn't mind him getting one of hers. most of her pain back home had been rather pedestrian in nature--a falling apart marriage, a sick son]
Is it okay if we talk for a little while? Distraction talking, not focus on the problem talking.
I'm used to people knowing my past. But I don't wish for others to have to experience it first hand. [ The pain he's seen those he's starting to care for go through has been far more troublesome than reliving his own issues.
There's a pause at the request, not used to people just wanting to talk to him still, and he finally gives a nod before remembering she can't see him. Woops. ]
Well, I don't and I won't unless you offer to tell me freely. [she says firmly. she's had bad experiences with someone using Tinya and her memories for the other's purpose, even tricking Tinya's husband. she'd never want the same to happen to someone else, especially not Sasuke, her first and perhaps best friend here]
All right. I'll tell you about...whatever you like, really? Space. My adventures as a super-hero. My family. [a small laugh] My cats along with Moonlight and Carmilla?
I, well. I try? It's easier to be kind than cruel. [a pause] What do you feel comfortable sharing?
I was in a team. The Legion. I joined after I found a bomb planted by terrorists to blow up the United Planets' assembly hall. [a pause] That wasn't the last time we heard from them and I still expect them to come back. The upper echelon are in prison, but one can't imprison a person for their thoughts and opinions.
Mm. My childhood, ninja training, memories of my village. My time as a terrorist, though that's not usually anything people want to hear.
[ He's quiet for a moment, wondering if the Legion is anything like the kages, but not sure how to even phrase that kind of question. ] Well. They could imprison people for it, but it's good they don't. What did your Legion do?
...is it something you want to talk about? I promise I won't judge if you do.
[more like the Legion of Overly-Emotional Teenagers, all with potentially lethal super-powers] We fought intergalactic threats. Things which were above the pay grade of the Science Police and the military Mother formed. We were the best, the smartest, the toughest. We were also very popular with the average citizen. Maybe a little too popular.
...strange in a good way or bad way? Terrorism doesn't exist without cause.
Yeah. We had fans. They had no boundaries. And the holo-personalities watched us like hawks, waiting for the slightest hint of drama or discord. Which the fans ate up, so the holo-personalities only got more and more invasive.
Both, maybe. Sometimes the cause is just to make others suffer.
Hn. That sounds like a waste of energy. But I've never understood the obsession with celebrities. My friend, Naruto... He's a famous hero now, too. Everyone thinks they're entitled to a piece of him in some way.
Sometimes. But that's the exception, not the rule. Even those terrorists who'd planted a bomb in the United Planets' assembly hall had a cause. Even the terrorist who killed me, he had a cause. One I disagreed with wholeheartedly, but still a cause.
It is. I've been fighting off holo-personalities since I was a little girl, though. My bloodline...well, you know it's important back home.
But I never understood it, either, maybe their own lives were so dreary, they wanted to live vicariously through people like us. [a pause] And who is Naruto? You've never mentioned him to me.
... You died? [ He's seen people come back from the dead before so this isn't as shocking to him as it might be to most, but it's still a concerning thing to hear. ]
Mm. The Uchiha clan was highly well known. It still is. I understand.
[ There's another pause. Thinking about Naruto makes his heart ache, knowing he'd been on his way to see him again, but now he never knows if he ever will. ]
...yes. I burned to death at the heat vision of someone who thought himself superior to me by accident of birth.
I'll tell you about my foremothers if you tell me about your--your forepersons? [a pause] The Uchiha clan. Are you its current standard-bearer?
[it seemed an easy enough trade. she was so used to not being what her foremothers wanted her to be that it seemed like she could never please them.
she waits patiently during the pause. she wants to know more about Sasuke, but on his terms. not hers. but one thing stands out] You said once that I remind you of someone from home. Is it him? Or am I being egotistical and full of myself? If so, feel free to tell me off.
I'm sorry. That's a terrible thing to have to go through.
[ His forepersons. Sasuke swallows, before giving a small grunt of confirmation. Standard-bearer is about right. ] I'm the only one left. My entire clan was killed when I was a child.
[ He's surprised for a second that she remembers, before he lets out a soft chuckle. ]
Yes. It is. Though he's more arrogantly confident and hyperactive than you.
no problemo, as long as the cats are safe! and this is the most introspective icon i have whoops!
It is. It was. Pretty much everything that followed, including me as a ghost, sucked.
[her mother is the standard-bearer of the Wazzos. her great-great grandmother and her daughter have retired as dowager queens, only to be roused when some nobody wanted to do a holo-tribute to somebody] ...sweet Mistress. I'm sorry. That---it has to be awfully painful. May I...may I ask how old you were when it happened?
[she's been taught by her mother to remember everything. one of the few positive lessons her mother left to her. and, lightly] I can increase the arrogance? And the hyperactivity? [lightly teasing, at least she hopes so]
no cats were harmed in the making of naruto or i probably couldn't watch it lol
[ His voice gets a little more quiet, not because he's uncomfortable talking about it all, but simply because it's the only way to keep his voice as even as it usually is. ] Seven and a half. The half felt like it was somehow important back then.
[ There's a soft groan, though it's not as annoyed as he wants it to sound. ] Please don't.
Mm-hmm. When my body died, I managed to survive as a ghost. At first, only a few people could see me. My husband. My mother. But I was able to find another me and now I'm back to being myself again.
[she listens intently, worried about him and what he might say. any age is too young to go through what he did] ...sweet Mistress. That's. I'm not sure there's a strong enough word for what happened to you. To your family.
[but that brings a small smile, although she's still badly thrown by the idea of losing one's entire family at seven and a half] All right. Just because I'm being nice.
Interesting. [ Shitty that she had to go through it, but he can't help but be fascinated by the way death works in other worlds. Maybe it's because of having been exposed to it so young that he became more obsessed with the idea. ] In my world, ghosts are simply the essence of ones chakra manifesting. The only way they can get a new body is through a forbidden jutsu that's extremely difficult to perform.
[ He's starting to at least get used to the reaction towards his clan, though. People here seem to be almost more upset by it than people back in Konoha, but he's also learned his world is apparently a lot more fucked up than he gave it credit for. ] It is what it is. I spent enough time being angry about it, but ultimately, you can't change the wrongs of the past.
[very shitty. she still has nightmares where she's intangible to everyone and couldn't become sold again. the irony was that here, she found it next to impossible to become intangible. the one time it worked, her nose started bleeding profusely] Chakra? I'm not sure if I've heard that term before. [and side-stepping the part about the forbidden jutsu because what she was forced to do to get her body was pretty bad.
that would be a hard lesson to learn] Anger...that's understandable. But no, there's no changing the past, much as we might wish it to be otherwise. [she sounded resigned. there are so many parts of her past she'd change if she could]
Mm. It's the name we give the life force that flows through all things. Some planets don't have it, but it can be obtained by eating chakra fruit for those who weren't born with it, or spread and harnessed through the practice of ninshū, a creed in my world that is the basis for ninja techniques.
Really? That's amazing, it really is. I...honestly don't know if my world has it or not. I do have a teammate who's an expert martial artist, but he's never mentioned it before. So I guess we don't have it.
May I ask...what all you can do? And what ninshū involves? If that's not too much? I completely understand if it is.
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Hi! I'd like to introduce you to Carmilla. [a little puffball of a batkitten flies down and lands on the armrest of her chair, blinking owlishly at him]
And there are two choices. One, you come visit me and meet her in person and accept your present or two, I find you and give you your present.
Option one is by far the better one. I'd go with that.
voice; un: taka
Seeing me in person currently can have its risks.
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Oh? May I ask which risks there are?
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I won't come over now because your memories are your own. [though, she's pretty sure she wouldn't mind him getting one of hers. most of her pain back home had been rather pedestrian in nature--a falling apart marriage, a sick son]
Is it okay if we talk for a little while? Distraction talking, not focus on the problem talking.
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There's a pause at the request, not used to people just wanting to talk to him still, and he finally gives a nod before remembering she can't see him. Woops. ]
We can talk as much as you'd like.
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All right. I'll tell you about...whatever you like, really? Space. My adventures as a super-hero. My family. [a small laugh] My cats along with Moonlight and Carmilla?
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What sort of super-hero are you?
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I was in a team. The Legion. I joined after I found a bomb planted by terrorists to blow up the United Planets' assembly hall. [a pause] That wasn't the last time we heard from them and I still expect them to come back. The upper echelon are in prison, but one can't imprison a person for their thoughts and opinions.
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[ He's quiet for a moment, wondering if the Legion is anything like the kages, but not sure how to even phrase that kind of question. ] Well. They could imprison people for it, but it's good they don't. What did your Legion do?
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[more like the Legion of Overly-Emotional Teenagers, all with potentially lethal super-powers] We fought intergalactic threats. Things which were above the pay grade of the Science Police and the military Mother formed. We were the best, the smartest, the toughest. We were also very popular with the average citizen. Maybe a little too popular.
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Too popular?
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Yeah. We had fans. They had no boundaries. And the holo-personalities watched us like hawks, waiting for the slightest hint of drama or discord. Which the fans ate up, so the holo-personalities only got more and more invasive.
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Hn. That sounds like a waste of energy. But I've never understood the obsession with celebrities. My friend, Naruto... He's a famous hero now, too. Everyone thinks they're entitled to a piece of him in some way.
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It is. I've been fighting off holo-personalities since I was a little girl, though. My bloodline...well, you know it's important back home.
But I never understood it, either, maybe their own lives were so dreary, they wanted to live vicariously through people like us. [a pause] And who is Naruto? You've never mentioned him to me.
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Mm. The Uchiha clan was highly well known. It still is. I understand.
[ There's another pause. Thinking about Naruto makes his heart ache, knowing he'd been on his way to see him again, but now he never knows if he ever will. ]
He's my closest friend and rival.
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I'll tell you about my foremothers if you tell me about your--your forepersons? [a pause] The Uchiha clan. Are you its current standard-bearer?
[it seemed an easy enough trade. she was so used to not being what her foremothers wanted her to be that it seemed like she could never please them.
she waits patiently during the pause. she wants to know more about Sasuke, but on his terms. not hers. but one thing stands out] You said once that I remind you of someone from home. Is it him? Or am I being egotistical and full of myself? If so, feel free to tell me off.
cw for mass murder woops
[ His forepersons. Sasuke swallows, before giving a small grunt of confirmation. Standard-bearer is about right. ] I'm the only one left. My entire clan was killed when I was a child.
[ He's surprised for a second that she remembers, before he lets out a soft chuckle. ]
Yes. It is. Though he's more arrogantly confident and hyperactive than you.
no problemo, as long as the cats are safe! and this is the most introspective icon i have whoops!
[her mother is the standard-bearer of the Wazzos. her great-great grandmother and her daughter have retired as dowager queens, only to be roused when some nobody wanted to do a holo-tribute to somebody] ...sweet Mistress. I'm sorry. That---it has to be awfully painful. May I...may I ask how old you were when it happened?
[she's been taught by her mother to remember everything. one of the few positive lessons her mother left to her. and, lightly] I can increase the arrogance? And the hyperactivity? [lightly teasing, at least she hopes so]
no cats were harmed in the making of naruto or i probably couldn't watch it lol
[ His voice gets a little more quiet, not because he's uncomfortable talking about it all, but simply because it's the only way to keep his voice as even as it usually is. ] Seven and a half. The half felt like it was somehow important back then.
[ There's a soft groan, though it's not as annoyed as he wants it to sound. ] Please don't.
Thank God! The kitties must be protected!
[she listens intently, worried about him and what he might say. any age is too young to go through what he did] ...sweet Mistress. That's. I'm not sure there's a strong enough word for what happened to you. To your family.
[but that brings a small smile, although she's still badly thrown by the idea of losing one's entire family at seven and a half] All right. Just because I'm being nice.
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[ He's starting to at least get used to the reaction towards his clan, though. People here seem to be almost more upset by it than people back in Konoha, but he's also learned his world is apparently a lot more fucked up than he gave it credit for. ] It is what it is. I spent enough time being angry about it, but ultimately, you can't change the wrongs of the past.
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that would be a hard lesson to learn] Anger...that's understandable. But no, there's no changing the past, much as we might wish it to be otherwise. [she sounded resigned. there are so many parts of her past she'd change if she could]
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May I ask...what all you can do? And what ninshū involves? If that's not too much? I completely understand if it is.
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