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[reluctantjinrou]

[As far as brooding teenage boys, he certainly looks the part, glaring at the device in hand. He looks in fact, like he needs a shower, dirt and blood smudged on his cheek like he's been in a fight.]

Something tells me this isn't the afterlife.

[His voice is somewhat sarcastic.]

Is there some sort of god I should be...offering my thanks to?

[Not that that thank you will be especially pleasant.]

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[pumpkinmagic]

[Have a purple cat in a hat.]

Not sure myself dear, but at least you're alive. This place is complicated, especially to Blair.

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[mortal_son]

[ Broody teenagers, assemble!

Scoffing: ] Nobody claimin to be a god has stepped up. So far.

[reluctantjinrou]

You say that as if it's a good thing.

Complicated doesn't surprise me anymore.

[reluctantjinrou]

[As they should.]

That's somewhat disappointing, because if such a thing did exist I'd have many choice words for them.

[mortal_son]

[ Narrows eyes ]

Are you sick of people sayin they're a god, or ...

[ Or disappointed you're not dead? That this isn't the afterlife? The question might hang in the air, but Shinjiro cuts himself off before he asks. ]

[reluctantjinrou]

[He scoffs lightly.]

No, I've never met anyone like that.

[It's very much the latter. He sighs, looking tired.]

[mortal_son]

[ Casual ] Well, those kinda people are assholes, so. Good for you.

[ He gets it. He really does. Which is why Shinjiro isn't going to call attention to it. Personally, he's also exhausted, but much too practiced in hiding it. ]

[reluctantjinrou]

I have certainly met many people I did not care for lately. I suppose I can only hope this grace offered to me was not extended to Tatsumi.

[That would be something, really. He's just had a really rough night.]

[mortal_son]

Who's that?

[ ... Shinjiro imagines, if he had been dying trying to take somebody out, rather than while trying to protect somebody else. And then if that guy followed him here. It gave him an uneasy feeling, but. If only because that person would have been Takaya. ]

[reluctantjinrou]

[He's quiet a moment, mulling over how to put it so it would make sense.]

Someone incredibly vile who assisted in a plan to wipe out an entire town of people, one at a time.

[mortal_son]

[ It's not like he had any reason to trust this stranger's word on it. But, he could at least state the truth: ]

Pretty sure there's a lotta people here who could easily put that guy in the ground. Again.

[reluctantjinrou]

It's not that easy. He's a jinrou.

[But his lips quirk slightly.]

If only they'd do me the same courtesy.

[mortal_son]

A what? [ Curious.

But then. All right, this was starting to make him uncomfortable ] Listen ...

[reluctantjinrou]

His master decided that, called him a werewolf. Think of it as some type of enhanced vampire.

[He sighs a little.]

If it makes you feel better, so am I.

[mortal_son]

Whatever. Werewolf, vampire, there are a lotta people here who are pretty powerful.

Trust me. They ... you aren't alone in that, from what I've seen. And I ain't been here long.

[ Shrugs ] Dunno why it matters, anyway.

[ As if this guy's life was somehow worth less, because he wasn't human or something? God damn it, it went from uncomfortable right into something which pissed him off. But he kept up a good poker face. ]

[reluctantjinrou]

It matters because they were murderous creatures that pretty much destroyed Sotoba.

[He sighs, something he does frequently when he's in a mood.]

I have no desire to participate in that kind of destruction. As far as I am concerned, I have already died.

[mortal_son]

Just sayin, I've got the impression that random destruction ain't really tolerated here.

[ There's a pause, where he almost echoes the sigh. Furrows his brow ]

Yanno, lotsa people say this place is ... a chance to start over.

But, just remember. All that shit you left behind? You still brought your own shit here.

You're still you, so. Decidin not to ... destroy stuff here? That's part of that.

[ Living didn't have to be such a bad thing, he was trying to say, if you could make choices that you wanted to live with.

It was a shitty kind of way of trying to make someone feel less like dying. This, he also knew, from personal experience, really. But he'd tried. ]

[pumpkinmagic]

Then you'll be just fine.

What's wrong with staying alive?

[reluctantjinrou]

[He's quiet, it's not because he's being rude, but rather he's always been a thinker.]

I suppose I haven't really been given a choice in the matter.

[It's not like he can just make more explosives appear, and if someone, or something wants to keep him alive, there's no telling they wouldn't stop him again.]

This was only meant to be temporary, I can't be sure the long term effects of remaining this way in the least.

[reluctantjinrou]

Very little surprises me anymore. [He sighs, yes it seems irrational but his plans are anything but.] Everything when you were intending to die in the first place.

[mortal_son]

[ Oh. That's something he knew very well, intimately well.

This time, he did sigh. ]

Did anythin work before?

To ... [ Guesses, here ] to stay human, keep yourself from goin berserk and wreckin shit?

[pumpkinmagic]

[A sigh.] Same. If it's surprising to see me talk... Nyaow, the person wouldn't survive in Blair's world.

[Well, that made Blair sad when she heard that. If it wasn't for her hat, her ears be folded down. She had to make due with the frown and eyes.]

Maybe cute guys weren't meant to die. You can cuddle Blair if you want.

[reluctantjinrou]

It hasn't really come up, I've only been like this a month.

[He shrugs, still looking sullen.]

And yes, I bit someone. He gave me permission. It was to keep his head clear in case someone else bit him and it was successful.

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[reluctantjinrou]

I suppose not, I've had an eventful summer.

2/2

[reluctantjinrou]

[Oh dear, cuddling a cat would be totally adorable and not at all stoic like he means to be. He can't hide the blush that spreads across the bridge of his nose.]

I...I'm good.

[He has an image to maintain!]