YOU WANT, UH, A TISSUE? MAYBE SOME SOAP? NEW CLOTHES?

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COVERED IN BLOOD MEME So you're a bit of a mess. Or you're stumbling upon a mess. What happened? There's blood everywhere, what the hell? Is it your blood, animal blood, the blood of someone you murdered? Hell, maybe you ran out of tampons. Anyway, no matter how it got there, you're (or someone you know is) covered in blood. Can it be explained away? If not, is someone going to prison? The hospital? Going to die of blood loss? Get in trouble for playing catch with the blood bags? Man, we don't know. The point is you have a mess to clean up. Or roll around in gleefully, you nasty fucks. • Top level your character. Include any details you might think are relevant. Or don't. As always, we're not the cops. • Reply to other people's top levels! • While this meme is bound to have a lot of potentially triggering content, content warnings for anything ott or very extreme are probably a good idea! • Have fun!

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[reunite]

I don't assume it is your mother who makes your meals normally, is it?

[He is totally asking about Enki's life and circumstances here, couched in a small talk as it is.]

[choseanidiot]

[That? That's Rokuta snort-laughing after a stunned moment of silence, shaking his head so his mane flies around him.]

Don't--- really have, a, uh, mother. [The smirk freezes a little as an old, old memory (it still feels fresh, for all that, old resentment, dim fondness, and understanding blending together) of a worn woman with her arms around his siblings, watching the city burn - replaced by a flicker of white and the softness of Yokuhi's feathers. Or, well. The memory of such, though a shadow curls, brief and light, around his ankle before sinking back into the couch properly.]

Other people make 'em. Unless I just pick fruit while I'm out. [A shrug, perhaps not as nonchalant as he's trying to make it, but telling Ragnar some details of how he works is pretty different from revealing anything that implies importance.]

[reunite]

What do you mean by not really have?

[It's a matter that should be handled more delicately, probably, but he's curious now, and the not!kid brought it up himself, so he might be inclined to explain.]

[choseanidiot]

[This, he's actually willing to talk about, and cocks his head as he leans forward a little, an amused little smile on his face.]

Where I'm from, children aren't born from mothers. There's these trees, and everything comes from the fruits produced by 'em. [A pause, Rokuta watching Ragnar for a silent moment before he continues.] Children are prayed for at particular village trees by the couple that'll be their parents, and animals and such come from other trees.

[A shrug. Of course, as a kirin he didn't have two people who'd prayed for a fruit, but he didn't need to mention that.]

[reunite]

[Ragnar gives the not!kid a long stare, trying to decide if this is at all believable or just some odd variant of the stork story. Because it really sounds more like an odd variation on the stork story than a factual tale.]

And where is that place?

[choseanidiot]

Beyond Kyoukai. [If he's joking about all this, he's very straight-faced about it and shrugs, and after a little pause adds;] The Void sea. It's both a physical sea and a...

[Another pause as Rokuta frowns, waving a hand around in a slow, aimless gesture. He'd said the sea was too large to travel between the two worlds to Kouya, but Kouya had been a child back then... Ragnar was decidedly not that.]

Metaphysical barrier? Crossing between Hourai--- [Snorting softly at himself, he gives an apologetic one-shoulder shrugs.] Japan. This world in general and mine, can't normally be done. So that's where.

[And then, because he can't resist it, Rokuta grins, completely mischievous.]

[reunite]

So you're saying you're the only one who can cross between here and there?

[He raises and eyebrow in disbelief (it's mostly an act. He's seen enough shit like that - Giovanni forcing their will on ghosts, Werewolves stepping into nothingness and vanishing, Lasombra stepping into the darkness. Most of the time he barely escaped with his life. People crossing such barriers tends to spell trouble).]

[choseanidiot]

No. [Rolling his eyes, Rokuta snorts and waves a hand in the air again.] There's others who can, but not very many. Happens accidentally too, on both sides, through these storms. We call 'em shoku.

[He's hardly about to admit that he's one of the very, very few who can cross not just under his own power and intentionally, but without causing any damage, either..]

... Guess they're like collections of energy that break the barrier and manifest as storms.

[reunite]

And they are just natural phenomena, nobody causes them?

[He could see both, but if someone controls them, that... well, it would be something to stay away from as much as one can. It would be either way, really.]

Are there signs of them being what they are?

[choseanidiot]

Yeah, they are. [Rokuta shakes his head... and declines to mention that the shoku he can create are, of course, not natural, as far as shoku are natural phenomena. But since kirin-created ones are small and focused and doesn't cause damage, he doesn't... feel particularly bad not saying anything.]

Not really. Makes it hard for people back home, of course, or even over here, since sometimes someone here gets pulled through the storm and ends up over there. Nothing much to do 'bout it, though...

[Cocking his head, he gives Ragnar a small, though rather humourless smile, because while he is perfectly relived most people aren't in danger, it doesn't mean those who are aren't important.]

Y'don't have to worry, though, since I think the... place where the Void Sea connects with this world is between Japan and China, so here a shoku won't happen.

[reunite]

[Well, Asia is a very different place as far as his own part of reality, of the world, is concerned. Not a place his gods go, not a place he's been.]

How did you end up here, then, if your world connects to China and Japan?

[Europe is rather some distance away from both of those countries, after all.]