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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319826: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:08:44 PM

Well, it's pretty silly if you ask me. Rich, fancy types don't tend to take it very well if you don't include all their titles. It's a good way to get shown the door.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319827: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:11:05 PM

Oh, pfft! Yeah, I shoulda seen that coming. You ever get booted for fumbling on one of them?

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319828: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:14:07 PM

Only time I was around any of 'em, they didn't have the luxury of kicking me out the door. Got to make them squirm, which was pretty fun, I'll admit.

But I hear from people who used to run with that crowd all the time. I've heard lots of stories of them being... less than magnanimous.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319829: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:15:17 PM

(grins)

Man, that must be a load of fun. I should try it out, the royalty of my home country kinda hates me.

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319830: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:19:20 PM

What'd you do? Get mixed up in the line of succession? That's always a headache even when it's working normally.

edited 15th Jun '18 3:19:50 PM by ramuf

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319831: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:22:30 PM

Ehhhhh... not quite. I'm a swordsmith, had a lot of clientele from all over because Japan was at the peak of a civil war... and at the end of the whole bloodbath, the winning shogunate kinda ended up on the wrong side of Muramasas one too many times.

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319832: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:26:15 PM

Can't say I know the first thing about any of those names, but I get the point. Petty, pointless grievances with no real reason behind them other than wounded pride.

-Catches himself frowning and quickly corrects it-

But! That's all in the past now, I'd imagine. Couldn't make a single bit of difference, and I'm sure that's just how you like it.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319833: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:27:47 PM

Eheh! The Tokugawa dynasty had a lot of fun spinning out this legend about Muramasa Sengo being a madman whose swords were eeeeeeevil.

(shrugs)

But I don't mind it at all. Heck, it's got a fun charm to it. Not everyone can call themselves a villain, y'know?

edited 15th Jun '18 3:28:06 PM by foxmccloud4387

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319834: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:31:31 PM

Ah, no, they can't, can they? But I'm sure that most people would rather be a hero than a villain.

Or at least be known as one. Takes a real crazy sort to want the real mantle that comes with that.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319835: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:34:46 PM

Hey, being a villain is a lot less pressure on you. Heroes need to be conscious about their reputation - one misdeed, whether or not you meant it, and you'll earn ten times the scorn you would've had otherwise.

But being remembered as a villain? You can betray people's expectations without having to do anything. Doesn't take a lot for them to think "hey, Mura-chan's not too bad after all".

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319836: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:39:22 PM

I guess that's one way of looking at it! Can't say I agree, personally. If the wider world thinks you're a scoundrel, your life's gonna get real shitty, real fast. Especially if whoever's running the show has the same idea.

Enjoying your bad reputation is better than stewing about it and being scared of it, though! You've got that part down at least.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319837: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:43:41 PM

Well... yeah, you got a point there. Though I'm kinda displaced from my normal time and place, meaning my legend's gotten distilled into a folktale. Albeit one that modern authors draw a lot from.

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319838: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:45:33 PM

A splinter dimension and then time travel? Oh, now I've heard everything, haven't I? Heh.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319839: Jun 15th 2018 at 3:48:06 PM

Oh, it's not time travel per se... hmm. How to explain it...

D'you believe in ghosts, Varace?

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319840: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:02:00 PM

More or less, but I don't know if you could properly call them ghosts.

-Shrugs-

Point is, sure.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319841: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:03:17 PM

Yeah, basically - imagine this database outside of space and time that records every human soul that can be considered a "hero". Now imagine... uh... imagine that this database is a real thing. You know what I mean?

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319842: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:13:52 PM

Database is a funny word for it, because it makes it sound like it's on a physical computer. But yeah, I think I know what you're saying. Some kind of cosmic, ethereal thing.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319843: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:17:44 PM

Basically! Yeah, now imagine that said database is, like, the antibody of mankind. Shored together to create an army of Heroic Spirits on the chance that an external enemy will attempt to destroy the planet and humanity... which so far has only happened once, but fingers crossed it won't happen again.

Now imagine that, hmm... y'know how people can manipulate their antibodies? Not just for vaccines, but for other things. Yeah, imagine that but with Heroic Spirits in place of antibodies.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#1319844: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:21:09 PM

   -Lynne Firehair, the heavily armored evil looking knight, is enjoying a slice of pizza in the kitchen-   

   ...   

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319845: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:21:20 PM

So you're saying that you're a hero out of time, plucked out of a godly library by someone clever enough to read the books inside of it?

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319846: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:25:14 PM

(fingersnap)

Exactly. Well, in my case, I'm classified as an "Anti-Hero", which is really just a loanword for "villain" in this whole system.

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319847: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:29:13 PM

Well, I'd say that's pretty strange, but I'm not one to talk. I've seen, and been in, my fair share of bizarre shit.

edited 15th Jun '18 4:29:28 PM by ramuf

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319848: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:31:24 PM

Yeah? Hit me with one of your top 3.

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#1319849: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:37:58 PM

Hm... well, I hope you're not offended, but I'm not sure it's something I'd like to spout off about. Not that it's awful or makes me look bad. It's just a bit personal for me. I'm sure you'd understand.

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#1319850: Jun 15th 2018 at 4:40:47 PM

...Ah. I getcha, I getcha.

(stretches her arms)

So, you hungry or anything? There's a kitchen over there, don't ask how it's constantly stocked but it hasn't killed or mutated anyone so we just shrug it off.


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