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[owarifool]

BEHOLD THE FOOL OF OWARI, THE GRAND UNIFIER OF JAPAN, THE DEMON KING OF THE SIXTH HEAVEN

i come to u all with a question!

so uh some lady who wanted me to pay for a "reading" back in that faerie place said my "star sign" was "cancer" the hell does that mean?

who goes around calling people cancers? thats super rude, right? so i was right that i didn't pay her, right?

seriously what gives?

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[sighsheavily]

Indeed not, yet such context is part of the answer given to the question you asked in the first place.
A practice of astrology here bears a sea-creature symbol named "Cancer." And yes, while it does bear the same spelling and pronunciation as the disease, that is the name of it here, and has been for some time.
That you are offended by this is likely not the tipping point which will change this, considering it is simply the way it is for a majority of the people here.

[owarifool]

UUUUGH UR BEING BORING

look okay maybe she wasnt being rude but she WAS probably scamming me so i say im right by proxy. so there. can we please talk about something cooler now?

[sighsheavily]

[Cecelia squints at her phone for a few moments, then looks out the window like she's staring at a camera in The Office.]

As you wish.
It was your inquiry that prompted all of this, after all, so you are free to shift topic as you please.

[owarifool]

okay sort of the same topic but not about semantics; whats the astrology system where u come from?

[sighsheavily]

[after another delay:]

To water it down, there are two primary fields: One focuses on the documentation of history through the constellations, the other is related to divination.

[owarifool]

cool cool

which one do u care about more? talk about that one.

[sighsheavily]

They both have their merits and uses, but I do not excel in divination, so I can only admire it as more of an outsider.
Many cultures in the realm I come from have labeled the stars and written histories among them - a veritable library in the night sky. I find that admirable, for as the written and spoken word may change, the stars themselves seldom do.

[owarifool]

lmao tell me about it. to think of the japanese i spoke in my time and the modern japanese, hell modern conversation in general, is wild. but even if i was summoned two thousand years after my time had come and gone, i could still look up and be under the same sky.

[sighsheavily]

Or at least a discernable one.
The stars are in unfamiliar arrangements under this particular sky - at least in my own regard. Perhaps they sit properly for you.

[owarifool]

oh i dont really know, lmao. i mean i guess the navigational stars are still the same? i hadnt noticed if those were different, but i havent really needed them yet, either.

[sighsheavily]

Busy with more important affairs, I assume.

[owarifool]

nah i just havent needed them! we got like. maps on our phones here.

[sighsheavily]

Fair enough. Few tend to look up in general, I've found.

[owarifool]

but then that just makes stargazing feel more special. u do it because u want to, not because u have to. u do it because it stirs your passions.

[sighsheavily]

Does frequency dilute your passion for something?

[owarifool]

well do u find urself excited by stuff thats mundane?

[sighsheavily]

The things I have no care for, perhaps, but I rarely find the things I love dull, no matter how much I indulge in them.

[owarifool]

its not just about frequency. its just the frequency gets a lot more noticeable when u arent energized by it, u kno?

[sighsheavily]

I can concede to that; one's faculties can be disturbed or drained by this or that. It's a rather broad thing to speculate on.

[owarifool]

as for me, i only followed what ignited my ambitions. turns out that came to define my whole life. its what people remember my name for, a man who sought to unify an entire country under a single banner.

[sighsheavily]

That puts you in very storied company.

[owarifool]

hell ye

in some of those stories, im the villain, even. thats just so cool, right?

[sighsheavily]

Have those tales found you here on this isle, by any chance?

[owarifool]

nope but anything that happens while im a Heroic Spirit kind of exists outside the strict confines of history OR fantasy tbh.

[sighsheavily]

Can you explain what you mean by that? "Heroic Spirit," specifically.