Yuuko Ryuukishi (
all_that_glimmers) wrote2013-05-16 04:26 am
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Who: Yuuko+Mineto
Where: After game start
What: Gossip swap~
When most people talk to their plants they don't expect the plants to talk back, let alone lean into water like a cat looking for attention. It had been a hot day and humans and youkai weren't the only ones feeling too hot. One of these days Yuuko would remember to install air conditioning in the shop but her water magic was keeping her cool for now. Other people in the shop would be less fortunate.
"Have you heard the news?" Yuuko asked lighty as she fussed over the plant.
Where: After game start
What: Gossip swap~
When most people talk to their plants they don't expect the plants to talk back, let alone lean into water like a cat looking for attention. It had been a hot day and humans and youkai weren't the only ones feeling too hot. One of these days Yuuko would remember to install air conditioning in the shop but her water magic was keeping her cool for now. Other people in the shop would be less fortunate.
"Have you heard the news?" Yuuko asked lighty as she fussed over the plant.
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"Now you're just being blatant not charming," he said. "It's unflattering."
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"Do you really think you're the first one who's tried?" he said. "I don't think you're very good."
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Looking genuinely curious, "Has anyone actually tried and succeeded?"
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"Not with those eyes, but I've experimented before." He sighed. "Are you asking me this for a reason? Or are you just searching?"
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"Actually, what sort of things would an old sword spirit even be into that way?"
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"Things with a bit of a double-edge," he replied, with his voice dropping to a wicked tone.
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"So the guy or gal you experimented with was this sort of double-edged sir or lady?"
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"Not exactly. She was his wife."
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"What was she like then, if she wasn't the double-edged type then?"
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"I don't really remember," he said. "It was a long time ago. Over a thousand years."
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"Doubtless what you think our relationship may be, this isn't something I wish to discuss," Mineto said, and it was probably the most unfriendly he had ever been.
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"I'd tell you about my romantic entanglements but they'd be sooo boring. Even when you date a youkai they're just like human guys, but with more restrictions and worries they may try throwing a curse at you for breaking up with them."
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As Mineto yawned his boredom, he brought out a rather disapproving look, in the way that he was admonishing a child. He decided to speak to her in the way that he was used to.
"That happens to the desperate people who date those sorts. It's quite common."
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"My first boyfriend though, he was a winner on the douche scale. Sure he was popular and fairly good looking but no one should be supporting the hair gel industry that much. And the arrogance! Assuming just because it's him forgives everything makes me laugh and laugh when I remember he too also went at some point."
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"Went? What do you mean?"
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"There are apparently vengeance youkai very partial to the plight of young, innocent teenage girls for the right price. They took him on a field trip to correct him of the error of his ways. When they brought him back he was a better person for it though when I saw him a few years ago he ran away." She sighed. "So ungrateful."
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"How weak," he said. "You should have been more ruthless and executed him as an example."
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"In my defense, I was only seventeen at the time. A young, innocent girl-" but she still laughed at that, as though not fully believing that. "-and in the human world, saying you killed your boyfriend because he was a douche gets you locked up instead of fear and respect! The bakeneko, unfortunately, was also pretty early into my magical life.
"You also forget that having a living example does have it's pluses. They live, yeah, but they have to live with what they've seen and experienced while everyone else is stuck wondering just what went and caused that sort of fear and retribution."
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"Useless," he began saying, "a person uninformed is a person who cannot fear you." He was looking at Yuuko studiously. "Even you should know it's easier to replace a dead person than to accommodate them."
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"Plus, you don't use a hammer for every job. It works wonderfully to like, kill your enemy, kill their family, and then the their friends and pets for kicks sometimes but it's so inefficient for every job. In this case, the power of human imagination works perfectly because they're better at coming up with whatever freaks them out the most without me having to set the bar. For little hob goblins or other youkai pulling pranks, they already have a high bar. Then I would need a hammer."
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There was also another truth. Many youkai knew better than to lecture one of his age.
"Tell me, do you always show such disrespect to your elders?"
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