[ i actually copy pasted this. i have a template. i suffer because some memories i only have text transcripts for and no video links, so look. several of these, i have written up just for the sake of this event.
anyway.
for her part, she's still in her corner of the room, auxiliary and unnecessary functions such as the ones that normally keep her simulating humanity knocked temporarily offline as she processes.
ah, so it's like that, is it? it is one thing to hear about how the village apparently had to kill everyone to bring them back. another to be, if briefly, one of the combatants responsible for ensuring that it came to be, it seems.
those created to be tools are similar, it seems, in regarding emotions as disposable at best, and hindrances at worst. regardless of whatever familiarity there might or might not have been before this, when they are given their missions and orders it comes down to this: there is an enemy in front of you, and it must be dealt with.
(is that what dying feels like? perhaps she already has, given-)
she stirs back to life, settles, and deliberately begins to knit. ]
[ to be honest, he is grateful that there isn't a sudden flood of questions, asking for details, for clarification, for why ookurikara did what he did. it's a reprieve he hasn't realized he needed.
he slips the note into the drop box. ]
...You were made to be a weapon, too. Is that right?
[ he could only understand so much about this "doll" thing, in her memory. but they can both relate to this part, at least. ]
[ the past matters, she won't say that it doesn't, but only as much as anyone wants to let it on any given day. some let it drown them, drag them down. some use it as a lifeline.
sometimes it just is. far be it for her to wonder, even if she is curious. ]
I was. I suppose you swords would be the most likely to understand, in a way, even if the methods of our creation differ.
I think the best way I can put it is ... you are the spirits of your weapons themselves, correct? You came into being when they did, or gained cognizance over time, somehow.
[ she doesn't strictly know what a tsukumogami is beyond the abstracts, but her language modules ping some definitions here and there. not many; japan was a nation that hadn't fared well in the collapse, and after global communications had taken the blow they had, updates from that far away...
in any case. ]
I was created first, and then gained my weapon Imprint after. Not long after, considering it'd been my purpose from the moment I was made, but I did come first.
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Date: 2020-07-06 04:50 am (UTC)anyway.
for her part, she's still in her corner of the room, auxiliary and unnecessary functions such as the ones that normally keep her simulating humanity knocked temporarily offline as she processes.
ah, so it's like that, is it? it is one thing to hear about how the village apparently had to kill everyone to bring them back. another to be, if briefly, one of the combatants responsible for ensuring that it came to be, it seems.
those created to be tools are similar, it seems, in regarding emotions as disposable at best, and hindrances at worst. regardless of whatever familiarity there might or might not have been before this, when they are given their missions and orders it comes down to this: there is an enemy in front of you, and it must be dealt with.
(is that what dying feels like? perhaps she already has, given-)
she stirs back to life, settles, and deliberately begins to knit. ]
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:20 pm (UTC)he slips the note into the drop box. ]
...You were made to be a weapon, too. Is that right?
[ he could only understand so much about this "doll" thing, in her memory. but they can both relate to this part, at least. ]
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Date: 2020-07-11 03:07 am (UTC)sometimes it just is. far be it for her to wonder, even if she is curious. ]
I was. I suppose you swords would be the most likely to understand, in a way, even if the methods of our creation differ.
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Date: 2020-07-11 04:01 am (UTC)...Though I'm not sure I understand the difference.
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Date: 2020-07-12 06:26 am (UTC)[ she doesn't strictly know what a tsukumogami is beyond the abstracts, but her language modules ping some definitions here and there. not many; japan was a nation that hadn't fared well in the collapse, and after global communications had taken the blow they had, updates from that far away...
in any case. ]
I was created first, and then gained my weapon Imprint after. Not long after, considering it'd been my purpose from the moment I was made, but I did come first.