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[parrygripp]

"Can You Handle Your Emotions?"

Emotions are... eh. We all have them, whether we want to or not. Some people have control over their emotions, and some people let their emotions control them. Where does your character fall on this spectrum? More importantly, what's their relationship with their emotions like? Do they bury everything deep, deep down inside, or are they the first one to cry over a sappy movie? Do they even know how they feel about what's going on inside? Pretty meta stuff.

• No blank top-levels.
• Instead, characters are to respond to the proposed question: can you handle your emotions? / are you in touch with your feelings?
• Get deep. Look within. Hear, think feel... or don't.

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[bonecannon]

[ There's a tilt of Renji's head, a gesture of agreement. Yes, he'd also prefer if people who didn't have the temperament for combat would kindly stay out of the way and in their own lane. However, if as Kiyoaki says, emotions are a new kind of war, well... ]

And what happens when you're drafted?

[oldwarsfinished]

( A long pause. Kiyoaki looks off to the side, breathing slowly, evenly, as if the thought he's entertaining lies heavy on his chest. He thinks about his grandfather enshrined a hero, though he died from age. And Kiyoaki who hates everything that reeks of militarism, but might die in combat even so. Even metaphorically.

Finally, he turns towards the shinigami, chin tilted upwards in an angle of you know what happens. )

I lose myself to it.

[bonecannon]

[ It's unfortunate that Renji is so intimately familiar with the meaning of that expression that he almost instinctively glances away. The look of a man who's loathe to gaze at his own reflection. ]

Resigned to earning a shiny medal, are ya.

[ What's that anachronistic human expression... "I was martyred in the war on emotional honesty and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"? ]

[oldwarsfinished]

( A huff, almost a laugh, although it sneaks up on him like a surprise. Like he surprises himself, laughing at all. It's all the answer that the shinigami gets. )

What about you? What spoils are you going to take home?

( He has no doubts the other man will win, that's not the question, is it? )

[bonecannon]

[ Renji isn't the type to pry, so he lets the non-answer slide with nothing more than a dubious look.

Besides, the question serves as a tactical distraction. What would he even get out of getting a firmer handle on his own pesky feelings, anyway? Other than like. Being a better person and living a more peaceful life and all that crap.

He has to really think about it. ]

......Gloating rights?