[D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Shosuro Hikimasu » Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:54 pm

"Honestly I don't know, this is the first I'd heard of them. I picked it up in the market here earlier in the afternoon", he admitted. "And what I meant was...Kato argues for very manly things, because he was raised as a man and has aggressive tendencies, it comes out in his painting. The author doesn't state it bluntly, but you can see it there, and so he's very overbearing and demanding with his talent. Kayo is strong as well, but her style is more elegant, refined, but cold as ice. I think, from the way their first conversation goes so quickly into an argument nether of them can win, the author is trying to lure men into thinking she will be the one to tame him, and trying to lure women readers into thinking Kato will be the one to get her to open up emotionally...when I think the truth is they'll both be competing for the third character, Misaki, by the end of it."
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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Seppun Unsei » Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:55 pm

"Oh always. If there's a third character, it ends up as a love triangle and the main character is going to have to pick between the two of them. I've never understood that when there's a perfectly good option of just having a threesome and staying all together, but nobody ever thinks of that. Probably would be too scandalous otherwise." They shook their head solemnly.
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"You might've heard of me. I was the Imperial that broke their toe falling out of a tree at Shiro Kuni."

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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Shosuro Hikimasu » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:01 pm

"Life is rarely a story", the Shosuro observed. "You might be happy for the moment doing the more unusual thing. It might fulfill something, but that's just believing in self satisfaction. In the end you'll still move on to something else, don't you thonk? No matter how hard you fight or claim otherwise, you'll always have regrets. You just need to choose the regrets you can live with."

An interesting thing for him to be saying, but he was just fulfilling, unwittingly, the assertion he'd made earlier in the day to the Kitsu he met.
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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Seppun Unsei » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:13 pm

"I don't know if I'd really agree with that. At least not entirely. I think there's a way to be happy and satisfied for the rest of your life. Sure, you will have regrets, even if it's a sin and all that, but that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy how your life has gone so far or what you've done with your life. Just look at those incredibly rare marriages where the two were in complete love and they weren't antagonized in some other way by someone jealous. Or even in the marriages where the two understand that it sucks they didn't get to marry who they wanted, but still made it work and like where their life has ended up, even if it wasn't what they wanted."
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"You might've heard of me. I was the Imperial that broke their toe falling out of a tree at Shiro Kuni."

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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Shosuro Hikimasu » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:19 pm

"Hindsight is a good method of fighting regret", he shrugged. "Though it takes years, your no longer in those moments. And it could be argued you are rewriting your past instead of embracing what it was." He fiddled with the book slightly. "Some don't regret because at least they tried, that is moving on in the moment, everything else is just...well, covering it up, painting over it."

He picked up his tea cup again. "Mind, I don't begrudge that, dealing with your present can be stressful."
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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Seppun Unsei » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:28 pm

"Is it truly though? Some are able to understand that they likely couldn't have changed the outcome, but that doesn't mean everyone will be able to. Some are still stuck in the past, unable to look forward and see how much their life has changed since then. Some are unable to look forward. The mind is a fickle place and trauma can wear down even the most sturdy of minds, leaving them stuck in the past or too forgetful. What of them and their regrets? Unable to paint over them and forever caught in such an evil cycle."
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"You might've heard of me. I was the Imperial that broke their toe falling out of a tree at Shiro Kuni."

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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Shosuro Hikimasu » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:35 pm

"Well...don't you think it possible some people paint their pasts darker than they were? If you only see unfortunate things, and think that's all you have to look forward to, it becomes a great excuse to not bother with anything", he said, speaking from experience.
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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Seppun Unsei » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:44 pm

"Oh most certainly do. I saw it a few times when I was visiting the Crab lands for a bit -and by the way if you ever heard of that Imperial that broke their toe at Shiro Kuni by falling out of a tree, that was me- but they just need some help to get past that. To see that there's a lot more in the future to look forward to. I should know since I can divine the future! It's not that bad."
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"You might've heard of me. I was the Imperial that broke their toe falling out of a tree at Shiro Kuni."

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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Shosuro Hikimasu » Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:55 pm

Narrator: The Future was BAD.

Hikimasu nodded. He was suspect of fortune telling. He was of the mind that it was a proper guide for the uncertain, and something easily blamed for misfortune. Though this was a Seppun, who had apparently broken their toe at Shiro Kuni.

"Well, I have always said that since the past is a dark place to terrible to look upon, and the gazing to the future is an endless source of anxiety, that the present, no matter how harrowing and unforgiving, is by process of elimination, the best thing for me to focus on."
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Re: [D0, LA] Late Afternoon is for Tea (Open)

Post by Seppun Unsei » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:08 pm

Unsei, with a gun to the narrator: Make it better.

"I suppose I can sort of respect that. Not everyone will agree on the same things and I do understand that I haven't had the same life experiences as you, thus will not always see things the way you do, nor you see things the way I do. So you life day by day then?"
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Wears: Unsei often is seen wearing star-covered robes in shades of black, dark blues, and gold. In the center of their forehead is a small birthmark in the shape of a diamond/star, and they always wear a hat with a short veil and tassels on it. Their hair is kept in a long ponytail that reaches down to their ankles.

"You might've heard of me. I was the Imperial that broke their toe falling out of a tree at Shiro Kuni."

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