GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

[A chuckle.] Believe it or not I don't get as many people summoning me as, say, Love or Sincerity. I don't think many people know we have skills either.

[bakaomi]

Did more people come cause you were hosting, or...?

[divus]

Yup. I think that was the intention, but I think most people were focused on Justice. [The tone suggests this doesn't bother him in the slightest.] It's what host weeks are for, Taka. We put ourselves out there to give you guys an easier way to talk to us and try to sway the numbers. Sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't.

[bakaomi]

I'd prefer if it worked...

[ taka is a bitch and less forgiving.... ]

[divus]

...it worked enough. Trust me. [But that's all he says.] You still have another question don't you? [Gentle prompting.]

[bakaomi]

...

It's about the voice from that hole.

[divus]

[...yeah good thing Taka started with the other question.] ...okay. What about it?

[bakaomi]

I heard you tell someone else that the west wing was your doing. How it was designed this week.

... so why was that there?

[divus]

...it's mine, yeah. Did you take a look yourself or just hear about it?

[bakaomi]

I checked it out. It was a kid's voice.

[divus]

Yeah. You ever just subconsciously think about something and it comes into your thoughts without warning? Like remembering something but instead of parts you get everything.

[bakaomi]

... yeah.

[ ty i need you to know i read that as pants for like five minutes and then i tabbed away and came back and saw it was parts ]

So you didn't mean for that to show up.

[divus]

[I swear to god. ]

Yeah. At least not like that, but guess it's still on my mind even if that was part of the old life.

[bakaomi]

... can you say if that was someone you knew?

[divus]

[A pause.] Pretty sure it was my sister.

[bakaomi]

Oh.

[ hm ]

... was she okay?

[divus]

Oh yeah, she was fine. I saved her. [...] She wasn't what was in that hole. Just a memory.

[bakaomi]

Did anyone get down there?

[ he hasn't noticed that the voice is gone but like

he also has mostly been avoiding the west wing so ]

[divus]

Here? Nah, I don't think so. There wouldn't be anything down there anyway even if they did. I tried to block you out as best as I could once I realized it was there.

[...] I should've designed something better. Maybe then the lake wouldn't have cracked.

[bakaomi]

Now you're doing what I'm doing.

[divus]

The difference is that I knew better. It was my memory. [But...] ...but maybe you're right.

[bakaomi]

It's not like you knew they were going to go for the water when you made the place, right? So it's the same thing.

[divus]

I didn't think it'd crack. I tried to design it specifically so it wouldn't. [Listen Merriment's been internally flipping out since Friday about four people drowning.]

But...your next hosts should be better-suited.

[bakaomi]

[ there's a pause




and he places a hand on merriment's shoulder ]

[divus]

[...glad this is just a thread of two very awkward people who are allergic to emotions, god. Merriment's tense under Taka's hand but he doesn't move, so maybe that says enough.]

...thanks. [For what? He doesn't clarify.]