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Kaito Nagano ([personal profile] nagano) wrote in [community profile] logs2022-11-04 07:39 pm

november catch-some!

WHO: Kaito Nagano and Probably You
WHERE: Various areas
WHEN: Pre-event unless otherwise specified!
WHAT: Shenanigans! Continuations from Netherwork posts, plotted things, whatever.
WARNINGS: There may or may not be Violence™
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-05 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmm. His eyes study Kaito without roaming Kaito’s figure at all.

At least the aura returned to him is reassuring. Not that he assumed a man asking for combat-ready people to go into the Hinterlands with would be someone without any skill. But reassuring all the same.]


Yes. [He stands there very much like a cryptid statue, waiting, the black cape draped nearly closed around him.] I’m ready.

Is there a reason you’re looking for the shards?
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-05 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[As surprises would have it, D also has a scarf! A striped thing twined about his neck beneath the stiff pauldron collar. They are now buddies by scarf association. Kaito can have a scarf and a cape.

Kaito goes, and he follows after at the side, stride easy. The star could very well vanish, but he doesn’t think it will, so he has little hurry.

The looks from the guards don’t even get his attention; he’s accustomed to having people look at him in worse ways. He walks on, quiet and not pressuring Kaito to answer.

But getting it finally makes him realize it’s quite a wholesome one. Not a bad thing.]


I heard it can be used to forge in place a soul. I would like to find out if that’s true.
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-07 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Max friendship level means they tie their scarves together instead of holding hands (no).

With heightened senses, he's listening out for them. He's watching, too, but relies more on the ability to smell or hear. Kaito receives his undivided attention anyway, as is polite.]


I'm not against harvesting a soul from a spectre, or a rogue reaper.

[He isn't afraid to admit this; his job before was a vampire hunter, so it's in a similar vein.]

But I would prefer a method like this, if it's sustainable.
Edited (i thought about this all day and had to fix it gomen) 2022-11-07 21:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-07 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[AAA HELP thank you i forgot they were actually broke in october f

His eyes linger on Kaito for a moment, then he glances ahead of them. There isn't anything wrong with Kaito's morals on it, and he isn't here to change Kaito's mind. So his silence is an acceptance. Kaito wants to try for alternative ways, and D doesn't disagree.

The question doesn't pull his eyes away from the horizon.]


No. I don't eat very often.

[The answer is honest. And also extremely weird and cryptic, but he doesn't offer any kind of explanation readily to clarify the strangeness of it. It doesn't seem like he's trying to hide anything, however.]
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-08 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[us gaming the system by working hard]

You misunderstand. [Kaito just old-person coded him in teasing? Mean. But D doesn't say this angrily. He's strangely as stoic about it as he has been with everything else. Like he has accepted this about himself and does not dwell on the lost sentiments.] I choose not to eat because it isn't a requirement.

[He should have just clarified earlier. But to answer Kaito's question after giving it a bit of consideration:]

Thyme and cheddar cookies. Chicken stew. I didn't eat them, but I remember how they smell.
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-08 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[The first comment makes him look at Kaito. The gaze is somewhat flat, as expected, but there is a hint of curiosity in how it’s given. Something rather clinical.

But he continues to sort of stare with no shame at the rest of what Kaito says. He’s not sure he understands why Kaito would go through the trouble for someone he just met, work-related no less. It feels like he has instigated the notion; maybe he shouldn’t have answered.]


It would be wasted on me, [he says in his quiet voice.] I don’t receive any benefit from it. The smell only reminds me of times when humans were kind.

[To him, but he doesn’t say that part. It comes out sort of implied against his will.]

What did you mean by primordial?

[The curiosity hasn’t gotten away.]
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-09 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaito is ethnic momming him. There is nothing left to do but accept the food and be grateful for it. (He would be grateful.) So he doesn't make any other attempt to reject what's offered. He's getting thyme and cheddar crackers and stew, he guesses.

The answer to his question, though, gets the same quiet and thoughtful reaction from him that it did on the Frontier. When the people there attuned to something more spiritual tell him he feels like a dangerous or bad man. They aren't wrong. A creation goddess, huh.

He can't say he isn't old, unfortunately. He is, even if the dark aura may not have too much to do with his age.]


What is the goddess like?

[Will he continue asking questions so he doesn't have to explain anything...? Yes.]
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-10 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Carefully, D's gaze turns toward the horizon where he can hear a distant, strange sort of crackling and where the smell of heat and flame is drifting. They're on the right track, at least.

The cheating is a little mean, but surprisingly, D had been familiar with having it done to him here and there on the Frontier. Nothing as riveting as having some spiritually-inclined old woman tell him he had the same aura as the first god-like, vampire creationist. Beautiful and petrifying.]


You're Japanese. [He looks at Kaito again. He's meeting so many people from Japan here! Japan... which hadn't existed anymore for him in the far-flung future.] Wouldn't she have your soul once you finally died?

[Impatient...? Not counting being here.]
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-10 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
If she was promised your soul already, [he corrects,] why didn’t she just wait for you to die as you normally would?

[The rest isn’t something he disagrees with at all.]

It’s unlikely I died, but not impossible. I don’t know yet if we’re fodder for what’s eating away at this place, or if it’s something else. One of the Hierarchy encouraged us to stave off the unsavory by finding a soulmate.

But it’s true information is guarded.
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-13 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[KAITO?]

I see.

[It makes sense. He can't say Nobles wouldn't also be impatient and shrewd when humans wouldn't do their bidding.]

I had no intentions. If you can feel my aura, then you know why. It would be dangerous for many of those here. [To carry the burden of his stronger self, he means. To be linked to him without the same kind of composure and control he's built up over time.] But I have considered it more, knowing how easy it is to be influenced by the voice.

[The Shadow.]
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[personal profile] damnpire 2022-11-28 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Curiously, he glances in Kaito's direction, waiting on the follow-up of being soulmates.

Secure, huh? He thoughtfully shifts his eyes back to the direction in front of them. It really does sound all great and wonderful. But he's still mildly a skeptic, not in he thinks it doesn't work. Only... he wonders what happens when it doesn't.]


Have you had any adverse reactions yet? Is everything always in agreement between the two of you?