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[cultivatingsin]

What abilities should a sword have?

[Be basic. Be creative. Spring is about renewal, right? He wants to upgrade his Jiangzai.]

If you say it should cut parchment, I will curse you. Anyone can sharpen a blade. I want to talk about magic.

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[fujimaru]

It was my first day, so I'd only talked to maybe... five of them

[ Including the staff. Including the poor Director. Yikes.

And yikes again at the torture reference. She frowns a little at the words, but--it's not like he's the first person who's bragged about that sort of thing to her face. It's less off-putting than it should be, which is honestly the stranger thing, in her opinion. ]

I'm not really a vengeful person (￣Д ￣)
But I did find the guy who did it and when it came down to a fight
I won
So I guess that kind of counts

[cultivatingsin]

Of course it counts! Doesn't it feel better to know what happened to you...to them...is over?

[How optimistic! Violence, tragedy, loss is never over. He snickers at himself and then sighs.]

You may not like vengeance, but it's the only way to make sure your bases are covered.

[fujimaru]

It's not over though
Even if you beat someone who's beaten you, it doesn't undo those injuries
Killing someone who killed someone important to you doesn't bring that person back
Vengeance just seems like it's too much effort

[ She doesn't have any illusions that she'll change anyone's mind. The username isn't familiar, and she doubts that he's some hidden Avenger-class Servant who slipped under everyone's radar, but one doesn't have to be an Avenger to be fixated on revenge.

It's just that it isn't her style. ]

Anyway, it doesn't matter if one thing ends
Give it five minutes, there'll be some other disaster to worry about

[cultivatingsin]

[She strikes home a little too hard with that logic. Vengeance has gained him nothing. Taking a chance and opening himself to another, however, has shown him a whole new way of existing. But Xue Yang will never be soft and sweet to anyone but his precious daozhang.]

Don't be lazy! Life is all about effort. If there's something you want, you have to work for it.

[Even if it's not what's best for you.]

Disasters are endless. Everyone learns that the hard way. That's why the first disasters stick with you.

[fujimaru]

I WANT to be lazy but I can't
My life is hard that way (；′⌒`)
I'll work hard for a lot of things, but not revenge
That can be for other people
I'm not saying I don't understand it
I just don't think I'd ever get satisfaction out of it

[ Part of her wishes she could. There've been plenty of times where she's wished she could have some satisfaction in beating someone who thought they had gotten the better of her... and it's never come. It's forever beyond her. ]

[cultivatingsin]

No one can be lazy. Not in Avalon unless you're ridiculously rich and protected by your hoard of knights. But even then, there are dragons to slay, you know?

Don't tell your enemies that. [He used to be the type of person that would test her resolve. No revenge? Ever? He could make her hurt enough to break.]

And don't presume you'll never have enemies either.