Group Intro

[oi_theoi]

Who: new kids
When: Day 51, evening
Where: shrine area
What: intros

[YES THESE AGAIN! at least the monkeys are gone]

[Tsuyukusa | Kayneth | Diarmuid (AU) | Sola-Ui]

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[deretsune]

--No! N-no, no, not at all--

[ shrieeeeeeeeeeeek THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM WITH THAT TOO ANYWAY. ]

[calkyuulator]

*She's kind of chuckling now.* I apologize if I've treaded uncomfortable ground.

[deretsune]

[ what is my life .///. ]

N-no, I apologize... R-regardless, there are too many people I care about, here...

[calkyuulator]

*Ran just kind of thinks you're darling...* Bonds are precious, especially to our kind. And you have many of them. Is that something to apologize for?

[deretsune]

...N-not at all, I just... hadn't meant to imply anything bad, or wrong, about being with one person in this place.

[calkyuulator]

Don't worry, you haven't.

And you are still young.

[deretsune]

...Mother says that a lot, too.

[calkyuulator]

Well, it is true.

Tell me about her. A servant of Inari, you say?

[deretsune]

Yes'm. One of Inari's tenko, but she says she's bad at it and they never summon her because she's difficult to work with.

...Mother... is not someone who bonds easily to people. Not like me. We're... very little alike.

[calkyuulator]

And yet she keeps her place. Is it for her devotion, or that of the deity?

There's nothing wrong with forging one's own path. Or would you like to be more like her?

[deretsune]

I don't really know...

[ ...Shakes her head. ]

I couldn't ever be like her.

[calkyuulator]

I did not ask whether you thought you could.

What would you like, Natsume-chan?

[deretsune]

[ ...Oh, this kind of question again. Just staring at the floor. ]

...I would like to go home, to my circus... more than... wanting someone to love, or wanting to be something.

[calkyuulator]

A circus, how interesting. You'll have to tell me more.

...but first, would you do the trouble of bringing me a leaf from the window?

[deretsune]

Oh-- no, wait--

[ Pulls a leaf or two out of her pocket :V And handing one to her. ]

...I carry them around with me.

1/2

[calkyuulator]

Ah. Clever girl.

*And letting the leaf rest on her head, right on the slope between her eyes.* One moment, please--

[calkyuulator]

*Poof.

Now, she still has her fox ears and all nine tails quite visible, but she otherwise looks as human as any other.* Perhaps I should have matched your form in kind earlier. But it's nice to spend time in that shape now and again.

[deretsune]

[ ...oh no it's cute

wait i mean-- ]

Ah... N-no, it isn't anything, I often walk around in my other form as well...

[calkyuulator]

*Why get rid of her tails? They're fluffy, warm, and adorable. Ran never understands that part of shapeshifting.

Also, now she's taller. Which is nice; looking up was starting to hurt her neck.* Over the centuries, this body has become as natural to me as any other. It's far more convenient for my duties.

[deretsune]

...It's... very similar, for me, but I'm not that old yet...

[calkyuulator]

I'd think not. You've barely seen your second century, haven't you?

[deretsune]

...I just reached the first.

[calkyuulator]

And as such have barely seen the beginning of the second, yes. The tails betray you, I'm afraid.

[deretsune]

[ ...embarrassed... ]

...A-ah, you can see...?

[calkyuulator]

I see much that others do not. There is no shame in it.

You're a very shy young lady, aren't you?