[ sometimes, a doll nearly get captured and sold off by the local crime ring. it's. fine, maybe. ]
... 9? She's the only one who'd ever refer to me as 'big sister'...
[ which would be the only reason anyone would, you know, think that whoever they saw was her little sister, but that only narrows down the pool of what he's seen by so much, since. 9 calls her 'big sis' a lot.
anyway, what she saw. right. well, hopefully the descriptor she's about to give is fairly specific (it'd kind of suck if it was a more commonplace occurrence). ]
A dog. You were young, and it attacked you while you were trying to eat.
I think so! You called her Reina... She showed up to give you a hand, since you were being accused of crimes you didn't commit.
[As opposed to the ones she apparently did?? He gets so little of the lingo he heard in that memory dear LORD.]
--Ah. [WELL, on the plus side, at least he doesn't seem bothered by it. On the other hand.] I was on the streets for a little while! The dogs weren't very kind, hah.
[UNLIKE BEFORE HE IS INDEED GOING TO ASK because wh. What does that MEAN.]
I'm not sure I understand? [??? His brow furrows and his head cants to the side, bird-like in his confused curiosity.] Does it have something to do with - the way they referred to you? As dolls?
[That sure is true though, huh? He only huffs out a somewhat dry little laugh in response. People are people are people... For better or for worse.]
Tangentially. More or less, we're beings who were created for the sake of humanity. Whether we're guardians, caretakers, bartenders, bodyguards, maids- it's illegal for us to not have a registered owner or master.
[ hmmm, how do you dumb these explanations down to a point a ye olde can understand... ]
Most of us don't get much in the way of autonomy, though usually it isn't quite under threat of death. But if you end up stuck with thugs like those, like she was, then it's just all the more unfortunate, I suppose. [ pause, a moment to think, then she taps at her temple. ] There was an order, at the back of her mind. If she'd ever disobeyed, she'd be forced to kill herself on the spot. They'd enslaved seventeen other Dolls this way, too, so I dismantled the connection, and destroyed the unsightly thing responsible.
It turns out that while doing that, I picked up a stray.
[WOW ALL OF THAT IS VERY BAD!! It's definitely a little hard for a ye olde to grasp properly, but she's a very good dumb-things-down-to-ye-olde-levels teacher. He certainly gets enough to be Offended on her behalf, in any case. There's a flash of something displeased in his expression, before he frowns.]
What a horrific thing to do... ["Beings created for the sake of humanity" means NOTHING TO HIM okay. Clearly 45 is a wholeass person in the same way the swords are wholeass people, though he also... understands now, that sometimes they don't have an easy time viewing themselves in that way.]
Hah - it's no wonder you picked up a stray, then! Of course they would want to help you out for the work you'd done for them.
Oh, no, don't give her so little credit. She tried to trick me into taking her place so she could free herself. It's just a shame that she both underestimated me and made the mistake of feeling guilty for trying to leave me in a trap I easily dispelled.
I mocked her thoroughly for not running then. Told her plainly that she was freed, owed me nothing, and that staying with me would only bring her trouble.
[ and like, considering that she basically hacks into a criminal enterprise's servers on a whim, not wrong, ]
[FEELING GUILTY FOR LEAVING HER IN A TRAP oh my god... She sounds like an interesting person though, whoever she is. And he's more curious about 45 now than before, even though he'd already been decently curious. He huffs out a little laugh.]
People like that tend not to care when they run into trouble anyway, I've found.
[Troublemakers flock together... Birds of a feather, right??]
Things turned out alright after that, I take it? If it was an old memory.
I made the mistake of telling her she reminded me of myself when I was younger, so she went and decided we were kin afterwards. Went to the effort of dressing like me, too...
[ thus, 'adoption...' she really did just pick up a wholeass stray for a twin sister. ]
[SHE'S NOT WRONG ON ANY COUNT HERE and he laughs a little, quietly amused. Maybe there's something about their wildass lives that just catches the attention of the Powers That Be... Thinking similarly:]
Hah! I'd say not a soul among us has managed to live a life they could call "boring" by any normal person's standards, true enough. [A little quirk of a grin.] To the point where I'm sure some of us wouldn't mind a boring life at all.
[Maybe, like. Two of them. The rest are all maniacs who love their insane rollercoaster lives.]
[Belph deserves a peaceful retirement but he just keeps getting the pain of survivor pool. Terrible.]
Just this and that. [NOTHIN MUCH.] I'm a cultivator, so I handle spirit-related matters! If you live like a ghost, then I suppose I live like a ghost hunter, haha.
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Date: 2020-06-30 05:21 am (UTC)... 9? She's the only one who'd ever refer to me as 'big sister'...
[ which would be the only reason anyone would, you know, think that whoever they saw was her little sister, but that only narrows down the pool of what he's seen by so much, since. 9 calls her 'big sis' a lot.
anyway, what she saw. right. well, hopefully the descriptor she's about to give is fairly specific (it'd kind of suck if it was a more commonplace occurrence). ]
A dog. You were young, and it attacked you while you were trying to eat.
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Date: 2020-06-30 06:39 am (UTC)Me? I would never! [HE, AN INNOCENT WEI WUXIAN...] But what do you think? Do you think now's a time where you need to be gentle?
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Date: 2020-06-30 08:36 am (UTC)I think so! You called her Reina... She showed up to give you a hand, since you were being accused of crimes you didn't commit.
[As opposed to the ones she apparently did?? He gets so little of the lingo he heard in that memory dear LORD.]
--Ah. [WELL, on the plus side, at least he doesn't seem bothered by it. On the other hand.] I was on the streets for a little while! The dogs weren't very kind, hah.
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Date: 2020-06-30 03:59 pm (UTC)Oh. That's ... a fairly old memory. I'm almost surprised. In any case, she all but adopted herself into the position of being my sister.
[ funny thing, considering their strong physical resemblance? it's like they could be twins. ]
The streets aren't very kind to anyone, are they?
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Date: 2020-06-30 04:27 pm (UTC)Now I definitely know you're fishing for compliments. The soup's fine. But you didn't need me to tell you that, did you?
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Date: 2020-06-30 11:16 pm (UTC)Is she not your sister? [He does not understand... the doll gun lore. But he does offer a little smile at that, a brief and dryly amused quirk.]
No, they don't seem to be. Strange, isn't it? The sort of things that stay the same from year to year or world to world.
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Date: 2020-06-30 11:17 pm (UTC)Never hurts to have different sources reaffirm it! Everyone has different tastes, after all.
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Date: 2020-07-01 12:16 am (UTC)[ maybe ask, and he shall receive an explanation. it can't be that much more complicated than swords, right, ]
Well, I suppose society is made up of much the same people in the end. It's just the stage setting and dressings that change...
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Date: 2020-07-01 02:35 am (UTC)I'm not sure I understand? [??? His brow furrows and his head cants to the side, bird-like in his confused curiosity.] Does it have something to do with - the way they referred to you? As dolls?
[That sure is true though, huh? He only huffs out a somewhat dry little laugh in response. People are people are people... For better or for worse.]
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Date: 2020-07-01 02:44 am (UTC)[ hmmm, how do you dumb these explanations down to a point a ye olde can understand... ]
Most of us don't get much in the way of autonomy, though usually it isn't quite under threat of death. But if you end up stuck with thugs like those, like she was, then it's just all the more unfortunate, I suppose. [ pause, a moment to think, then she taps at her temple. ] There was an order, at the back of her mind. If she'd ever disobeyed, she'd be forced to kill herself on the spot. They'd enslaved seventeen other Dolls this way, too, so I dismantled the connection, and destroyed the unsightly thing responsible.
It turns out that while doing that, I picked up a stray.
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Date: 2020-07-01 02:48 am (UTC)[ so many people complaining, and she can't relate, because she doesn't strictly need to eat... ]
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Date: 2020-07-01 04:57 am (UTC)What a horrific thing to do... ["Beings created for the sake of humanity" means NOTHING TO HIM okay. Clearly 45 is a wholeass person in the same way the swords are wholeass people, though he also... understands now, that sometimes they don't have an easy time viewing themselves in that way.]
Hah - it's no wonder you picked up a stray, then! Of course they would want to help you out for the work you'd done for them.
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Date: 2020-07-01 05:07 am (UTC)I mocked her thoroughly for not running then. Told her plainly that she was freed, owed me nothing, and that staying with me would only bring her trouble.
[ and like, considering that she basically hacks into a criminal enterprise's servers on a whim, not wrong, ]
But as you can see, that clearly didn't work.
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Date: 2020-07-01 05:29 am (UTC)Mm, I'm actually impressed! More people could tolerate a decent level of spice than I expected.
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Date: 2020-07-01 07:02 am (UTC)People like that tend not to care when they run into trouble anyway, I've found.
[Troublemakers flock together... Birds of a feather, right??]
Things turned out alright after that, I take it? If it was an old memory.
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Date: 2020-07-02 02:00 am (UTC)[ thus, 'adoption...' she really did just pick up a wholeass stray for a twin sister. ]
But I suppose it's been fine, yes.
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Date: 2020-07-02 02:37 am (UTC)Do you usually find it otherwise?
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Date: 2020-07-02 04:20 am (UTC)Hah! How quick, how quick. What an impression you made! [To collect a duckling at the speed of light...]
"I suppose" doesn't make that sound too convincing, but I'm assuming you just live a very intense life in general, to be honest.
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Date: 2020-07-02 04:20 am (UTC)I do get a lot of comments about the amount of spice I tend to put in my own food, at least...
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Date: 2020-07-02 03:13 pm (UTC)It's an interesting life you live when you live as a ghost, Wei Wuxian. I imagine yours hasn't exactly been boring either.
[ like, most people who end up in a murdergame don't exactly have normal lives, she's putting it out there. ]
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Date: 2020-07-02 06:02 pm (UTC)Hah! I'd say not a soul among us has managed to live a life they could call "boring" by any normal person's standards, true enough. [A little quirk of a grin.] To the point where I'm sure some of us wouldn't mind a boring life at all.
[Maybe, like. Two of them. The rest are all maniacs who love their insane rollercoaster lives.]
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Date: 2020-07-02 08:36 pm (UTC)[ maybe belph can go into real estate and snooze around all day??? the rest of them, on the other hand, ]
And just what do you spend your days doing, hmm?
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Date: 2020-07-02 08:37 pm (UTC)I suppose that's one way to ensure that your food doesn't get stolen...
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Date: 2020-07-03 04:14 am (UTC)But it's terrible when you just want to share!
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Date: 2020-07-03 04:15 am (UTC)Just this and that. [NOTHIN MUCH.] I'm a cultivator, so I handle spirit-related matters! If you live like a ghost, then I suppose I live like a ghost hunter, haha.
[Kill him for this joke.]