divus | GODLY AUDIENCES: SENRI

[i hope this is the right video]

Our dream team, back together again!

[i think it is

and he'll reach his hands out for a double high-five!!]

You bet!! And I can't believe Sasuke joined us for a week - that's hilarious.

[DOUBLE HIGH-FIVE!]

Yeah, I'm not expecting him to stick around, but a boost's a boost, you know? More people might join me if it looks like I'm on the rise. [...] Pretty sure that's how Ambition's getting people to keep joining her.

I think so too.

[senri grins]

I'll try to see if we can steal Madopyon back next week, and maybe someone extra so you're on the come-up again!

> Sounds like a good plan to me. Heck, if you manage to get someone to switch away from Ambition, that would be even better!

Ughhh, can you believe that once I taken into account all the alignments I know, and the ones I don't, the remaining people just have a 50/50 chance of being Bambi? 8 missing alignments, 4 Bambi followers I don't know.

This shouldn't feel like it's getting harder, Cheri!

Hey, look at it this way: you've got a 50/50 chance of screwing her over if you pick someone whose alignment you don't know.

I don't know if I actually want to screw Bambi over?

[please don't say it like that,,]

... I just don't know if I buy into her world yet, or if I can convince her into easing up on her current framework.

[senri why]

Hey, hold up! You just had to switch because of one of her powers, you know? What if you'd been with me then? Knocking down her numbers a little is the smart thing to do. The fewer people who can use Advancement Opportunity, the better!

Edited (dont say a word) 2019-03-19 16:32 (UTC)

[guh don't scold him cheri]

But I don't have Advancement Opportunity! And I don't know how to convince someone off a winning team - I mean, I'll try? But that's so hard!

And won't Bambi be able to see that? She'd be so mad at me!

She's a fourteen year old girl, what's the worst she can do.

[SENRI.]

She could be really mad at me and decide to stop being my friend.

[senri,]

[senri says that like it's a bad thing, but. would it really be a bad thing?]

Dude, are you listening to yourself? That's not something you should have to be afraid of when it comes to real friends.

[stop being biased in your brackets britt

senri opens his mouth like he's about to say something, and then immediately closes it.

. . . . ]

It... might also be a failsafe... Cheri said that depending on which god wins, even followers not on your team might still be able to get something out of being here, right...

[so senri is driven by 70% friendship 30% self-preservation]

[ambition is the worst and i won't apologize for saying so]

Right. Some of 'em might be willing to try if they have favorites that are on other teams.

Edited 2019-03-20 05:10 (UTC)

Right. So... well, keeping positive relationships no matter what is important to me, you know? I'm trying to get there with as little lying as possible now, at least.

[this is character development?]

If you're sure... just don't get hurt. Maybe being around everyone here has given her some kind of change of heart, but she's not the kind of person I'd see you getting along with normally, Sen-chan.

... well, she reminds me of Hari. [and senri just snorts faintly] The Prime Minister's perfect son that I told you about. Apparently she's in a position like that too.

Hari always has to be perfect. He was born on the first day of the first month of the year - and one minute. So he's still number one in everything. It's kind of crazy? He was so annoying and hard to get along with at first because he was so haughty, and would treat people like servants just because they looked like they were of a lower class than him.

But... well, he didn't have friends, so he never got to learn.

Bambi reminds me of him a lot - good intentions, kind of weird execution because she's in a different world from everyone else.

Yeesh, you really are one of the nicest people I've ever met.

[except for, like, piety]

I mean, there's a chance you aren't wrong. [it's true, because he's able to say it] A strong chance, even. If people like you have been spending more time with her than Disorder and Cunning have...

[he shrugs]

She's young. She can still learn. But, like, you've got fourteen years of bad behavior to overcome with her. I think most people who knew her in her world gave up on her.

[senri pauses at that and admittedly hesitates because - ]

No, that's not... I'm not...

[he's not nice? he's really not. senri is actually painfully aware that he's pretty bitchy and mean on the inside, it's why he has to work so hard to cultivate good first impressions where he smothers all of his rude comments. hearing that from sincerity of all people....]

.... I guess I've just known what it's felt like - to not have anyone care about what became of you.

I just don't want anyone else to feel that way - because it can be hard to like any world, if you think you're by yourself in it.

Yeah, you are. It's easy to be nice to people when it's second nature, but not so easy to do it when you struggle with it. Treating people nicely and trying to be considerate of them that way even when it's not easy?

That' what it means to be nice.

[ . . . . . senri looks away at that]

I thought that's what... [made him a liar. to tell people what they wanted to hear, even if it wasn't true. because it made them happy.

but.]

... It's probably more complicated than that....

Ah, you're too nice to me all the time, Cheri. You're the nice one....!

Uh, hello? God of Sincerity? Can't freakin' lie? If I was able to say you're nice, you're nice.

I know, I know but still...! It's weird to like - face it.... Especially from someone like you.

I'm sure you have no trouble being nice to people at all? You seem like the kind of person who's beautiful inside and out.

Dude, are you joking? Being nice to people is a struggle. Sometimes people are just begging to be made fun of.

[it's the truth... so he'll say it...]

You just gotta remember that deep down everyone's... well, a person. So, yeah, tease 'em about being all about the jellyfish or the trains or the old men or the Three Kingdoms or the kimono or whatever all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that they're unique. And it might be a little weird, but it's not entirely a bad thing either.

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