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[deontology]

This is Abe no Sousei. Leave your request promptly.

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[deontology]

sousei is fine.

an obake is a shapeshifter, like a kitsune or the like. do you shapeshift into a coyote, then?

[scenting]

ok

no

[ can't hold all these limes i mean lies ]

[deontology]

are you lying to me?

[she suddenly sure got succinct there.]

[scenting]

[ there's a long pause between texts here ]











yeah sorry

why do you want to know

[deontology]

[wow that was easy.]

it is fine. please do not lie to me in the future.

i was simply trying to confirm a hunch. that is all. naturally, i will not tell anyone either, if you are keeping it a secret.

[scenting]

[ she really doesn't like lying 8( ]

ok thanks its supposed to be a secret but no one really cares here and i dont get it. im not like ashamed or anything its just

weird

[deontology]

do what makes you most comfortable. you don't have to take back what you haven't said.

but it does not bother me that you are a shapeshifter.

[scenting]

yeah

werecoyote. thats what i am

[deontology]

i see. thank you for telling me.

i come from a family of people who deal with such things as shapeshifters and non-humans. as you said, it is not that strange for many people here.

[scenting]

really what kind have you met and do you have someone in charge like an alpha

wait are you a shapeshifter too

[deontology]

no, i am human. my family line is famous for onmyodo--that is, cosmetology, divination and magic, so i am somewhat familiar with these matters.

and no i have not found an alpha for you, nor do i intend to look.

[scenting]

magic?? so your like a druid but i guess not like a druid i know oh

i have an alpha already ! i have a whole pack but none of them are here i would NEVER replace them

[deontology]

i personally am not, no. i'm not practiced in it.

then why were you asking?

[scenting]

why not

i just want to know how other people like me work

[deontology]

i chose to study the way of the sword instead

you mean creatures of a pack mentality, then?

[scenting]

swords instead of magic? is it worth it

no. kind of. i mean non humans.

[deontology]

[...is it worth it. That's a question he's been asking himself on the daily here; he'd never doubted its worth before, but now...

Well, Malia of all people doesn't need to know how much he's been agonized over this since coming here.]

it's the decision i made, i don't intend to regret it.

you asked after alphas.

[that's kind of.......not that subtle.....]

1/2

[scenting]

no i

wait

2/2

[scenting]

[ switching to video now!!

she's sitting cross legged on her couch, cerevice hovering in front of her. she pulls her hands back as she steadies it and drops them into her hands. ]

I'm not good at texting, sorry. I really mean just... if you have a family like that, do you guys have some sort of... head? Or something. I don't know how it works with onmyodos.

[deontology]

[You know, he's still fighting ViViD monsters.

That was the initial point of this thread, and it is still a thing.

He ducks behind a rock, and blinks at her.]

... ... ... Onmyouji. Would be the word for them. And there is a head of the family, I suppose, yes.

I don't know much more about it, I'm afraid.

[scenting]

[ yeah but it's not like malia's paying attention to that. she does look a little surprised but if he was REALLY busy he wouldn't answer, right??

that's not the answer she expects though. ]

But isn't that your family?

[deontology]

Hold on a moment.

[He drops the CereVice in his pocket and ducks out from behind the rock. There are definitely monster-fighting noises, but a few moments later, he's back and not even out of breath.

What a show-off.]

They're only my family in name. I was raised elsewhere. It just means that I may not have all of the answers you want.

[scenting]

[ oh. well she knows those kind of noises but she'll wait, yep.

doot doot doot. ]

Oh, that's why you use swords. That makes sense. So, you can't do magic at all?

[ she's just going to keep asking questions until he tells her to stop oops ]

[deontology]

I'm not particularly well-practiced in it, but that is not why I use a sword. I chose to become proficient in the sword instead.

[Don't take away his agency, okay, it's important to him!!!]

[scenting]

Seems like a poor trade off since no one ever actually uses a sword these days.

[ sorry, sousei. pick up a gun instead! sadly malia doesn't think she's being particularly insulting, just that this is the train of logic her mind follows. if you want to be prepared, why not use the best weapon around? ]