text | un: Helios

[fruitknife]

[Granted, there's exactly one person here who might understand Shinji's choice of user name, and that's a pretty big 'might.' But it wasn't taken, and it's not like the Iwatodai crowd know nothing about Greek mythology. There's just another layer to it.]

So. Money's presumably a thing here, since this isn't a void between worlds where you can just think shit into existence and I don't just have Mitsuru levels of it on hand. (Anyone else who knows Mitsuru: Yes, that much money is exactly as weird as you think it is.)

What do people do for jobs? I can cook and I can hit shit.

Comments

[konpeito_aji]

Are root pies not a thing? And sheep pies? Though after petting one I don't want to eat them. It seems wasteful, like eating a horse.

[It was a wooly, but whatever.]

I have to be romanced before intercourse.

[Or he can just trust you, because you saved his life. But then he's doing the fucking. And thanks to Olivia making fuck seem like the worst kind of rape; Nobunaga says, "Not with force."]

[fruitknife]

Meat's gotta come from somewhere. Sheep are pretty multipurpose, though. Anyway, it'd be carrot cake, not carrot pie.

...Don't most people who're into that? Where'd you even

oh. Language bullshit. 'Fucking with' doesn't have anything to do with sex. I meant someone was messing with your head.

[konpeito_aji]

What's the difference?

[Yes, Shinji, teach him the wide variety of pies and cakes. This can only end well.]

I surmised your meaning from context, but it's still entertaining to conceive of! Though it seems I have misunderstood them; pies being like mooncakes and all.

[fruitknife]

Pies have a crust. Cakes don't, unless you really screwed something up in the process.

[konpeito_aji]

[Adds it to his notes!]

Is spinach pie any good?

[BRB playing with the translator until he stumbles on it correctly!!!]

Spanakopita?

[fruitknife]

Can be. Phyllo pastry's finicky as shit, though. Not worth making from scratch if you don't have to.

[konpeito_aji]

I see, I see! Humanity's come so far!

[He will never be bored here.]

[fruitknife]

[Would he be bored anywhere?]

Be great if we could stop making the same damn mistakes.

[konpeito_aji]

[Sengoku Japan with no one to kill. Or before that if he wasn't allowed guns or... killing.]

Like what?

[fruitknife]

Most of it comes back to 'treating people like shit because they're different.'

[konpeito_aji]

I thought removing power from the monks would decrease the enforcement of the castes, and untouchables class.

[fruitknife]

Well, that is... less of a thing.

Take away one sign of difference and people are real good at finding others, though. And how much money you have still gets rich people to turn up their noses.

[Most of the time. Mitsuru was pretty good at not doing that, but also fucking clueless about how normal people function.]

[konpeito_aji]

Nobility? Can lords and samurai still murder indiscriminately? Can peasants achieve their dreams through merits alone?

How is the money acquired? Through banditry and marauding? Pirates?

[fruitknife]

Samurai aren't really a thing anymore. Not sure when that happened. [For that matter, neither are nobility or peasants, by and large, but Shinji's really not prepared to try to explain democracy.

Or why Japan doesn't have a military, for that matter.]

You get money from working, or sometimes from inheriting it. In theory, anyone can work their way up. In practice, it's easier if you're rich and have a penis. Why anyone assumes women can't handle shit, I have no fucking idea. There are people who think working means crime, that's probably never gonna stop happening.

In theory, no one's getting away with murder, either. But in practice it's easier for rich people to buy their way outta trouble. Class shit got a lot more subtle.

[konpeito_aji]

Three steps forward, two steps back.

Humanity has a long way yet to go.

[fruitknife]

Like always.

[konpeito_aji]

So long as it keeps moving.

[fruitknife]

So far so good.

Not that people haven't tried makin' that not be the case, but. So far so good.

[konpeito_aji]

There do seem to be an awful lot of morons who'd prefer stagnation over change. I wonder the best way to eradicate them all.

["Eradicate" is so freaking ominous from him!]

[fruitknife]

Not killing 'em. Sooner or later that's just gonna piss people off, and then the change isn't in your favor.

[konpeito_aji]

Leaving them to kill others is bad math. Have you ever played Go?

[fruitknife]

Also been in more deadly fights than I care to count, but it doesn't hurt that much to try talking first, if there's a chance you can reason with 'em.

[Mitsuru, ever the diplomat, always did like trying diplomacy first. Maybe if Marin Karin fucking worked more often, it even would've worked.]

[konpeito_aji]

500 years to the future sure is different!

I had very long negotiations with all my enemies. A point will always come where words fail.

[fruitknife]

The fights were... mostly specific to some home shit. If that happened more than

No, can't even say 'if that happened more than once,' we're prone to timeline bullshit for some reason. If it happened in a majority of timelines that's especially fucked up.

Maybe, but turning everything into combat doesn't get anywhere. Aki might like to think he can punch all his problems until they're not problems anymore, but that ain't how it works.

[konpeito_aji]

Perhaps that's why humanity's only come so far.