audience: tsurumaru

[cyclists]

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[preowned]

Seeing other people in main ends up being painful for you, right?

[ he hums lightly as he thinks about it. ]

... I think I know how that feels, even if I had to learn what it actually was.

[doublebladed]

Sometimes it does, yes. But sometimes, in a way, it's also a relief. [Hm.] What did you think it was before then?

[preowned]

Hm... just something that made this hurt?

[ he places a hand over his heart. ]

[doublebladed]

...hah. Maybe you guys really aren't so different from us after all.

[preowned]

... well, we're learning, at least.

[ even if sometimes it's not always a nice experience. ]

[doublebladed]

I'd rather learn than not. It's the only way to ever understand anything that's going on anymore anyway, even if it means finding things I can't fix. But in a way it's nice to know.

[It helps that Tsuru and Mikazuki are also both adapting as they go.]

[preowned]

[ wow.... he is so fond of roxas. what a good boy. ]

... and honestly, I think sometimes this perspective makes you understands thing in a way that someone who grew up normally with these things wouldn't notice.

[doublebladed]

You think so? [That's a relief because Roxas spends most of his time internally screaming about not knowing what's going on.] Maybe because effort has to go into understanding. [Hmmm...] Or humans take it for granted. But there are some that I've learned from, too, that understand the heart better than most people.

[...Sora's an idiot, but Roxas has learned a lot from him.]

[preowned]

Mm... this was the most time I've spent with humans outside of my original form. Even on missions, we try our best to not mingle with them too much.

[ there are too many concerns about accidentally fucking up the timeline ]

[doublebladed]

[He raises an eyebrow at that.] Out of choice? Or out of necessity? We weren't really allowed to be seen on our missions either when we were on different worlds.

[preowned]

The History Revisionists' goal is to change history by disrupting key events that shaped Japan. It's usually fairly straightforward-- they try to make an important figure die early, or live past the event that killed them, or something along those lines.

Every now and then their plan on how to act changes slightly. When that happens, they're a little more difficult to predict. We need to be careful of our movements so that we're not accidentally helping them.

[doublebladed]

[...yikes.] That sounds really complicated because it means knowing how someone's going to behave in any sort of situation. Plus there's usually a lot of you on those missions, right? You don't act alone.

[...] What would happen if something did change the events you were trying to stop? Would the entire world fall?

[preowned]

It thankfully hasn't happened yet. But let's say, there's a very powerful warrior who is known to have died in battle, and their death completely changed the direction an entire nation could have progressed to. If the Revisionists allowed them to live instead, Japan will be a different place.

[ ... ]

... we can't allow major disruptions in time. Sometimes small things get changed, because it's more or less expected when you said a group of people there. But if history is changed too much it'll hurt time.

[doublebladed]

And then when your world's thrown off, and if that world changes, it'll change all of the other worlds out there. [He just blinks slightly, thinking this over quietly.]

Our worlds really aren't that different then. But I think I understand more about all three of you now.

[preowned]

It's not too surprising to think that Mikazuki wouldn't discuss his situation too much... he likes appearing mysterious.

[doublebladed]

He's not that mysterious if you know what to look for...but I always just sort of thought he just didn't think it was worth discussing because it wasn't anyone else's burden. He takes on a lot more responsibility than he needs to. And Ookurikara explained a little when I asked, but I didn't want to talk to him more than I had to just in case he got even madder.

[preowned]

You'd be surprised by how many people disagree with that.

[ being one of the five great swords mean that there are a few who do keep a respectable distance from mikazuki due to respect. tsuru is a meme, and thus does not care. ]

Plus, he... he's the type to always be thinking about something else, on top of whatever we're doing.

[doublebladed]

So how do you make someone like that stop? [Sounds familiar, but Roxas isn't a meme and therefore has Questions.]

[preowned]

... I don't think he'd stop for anything.

[ but hm ]

Well... I think it may be possible to get him to slow down or change trajectory. But to outright stop is... harder.

[doublebladed]

Like a distraction or something? Isn't that only temporary?

[preowned]

You'd be surprised by how powerful a good distraction can be. Sometimes they can even change your whole life.

[doublebladed]

Speaking from experience? [Tsuru...then again, it's not like Roxas hasn't had his own experience with such things, but this isn't about how shitty his life was.]

[preowned]

Well... pretty much!

[ there's no point in lying or being coy about it ]

Mikazuki is a person who likes it when things follow his particular plans, and while he's okay with some diversions... I think that if it gets too out of his hands, he'd be forced to regroup. And while that may be annoying for him, it doesn't mean it's bad.

[doublebladed]

[There's a slow nod. That makes sense. Granted, there's Roxas who kind of gave up on making plans and has since defaulted to just doing whatever makes sense, but he gets it.]

Things went off of our original plans almost from the beginning. But you wouldn't really know it just from talking to him. I guess it just keeps being sort of impressive.

[preowned]

... mm. He doesn't like it when he doesn't have at least some sort of control of a situation.

[ ... ]

There's still a lot about him that I don't understand or know about, but I feel like I understand a lot more than I did before we came here.

[ because he annoyed jiji into talking about feelings ]