GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[bakaomi]

I'll see if I can get one within the next few days.

[divus]

You're a detective. It shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out.

[bakaomi]

It won't be.

[ talking to people is just annoying ]

[divus]

Go on, then. Unless you had other questions?

[bakaomi]

Hm...

Have more people been visiting you?

[divus]

Recently? Yes. People are finally wising up that I'm not as bad as everyone said the first week.

[bakaomi]

You did get a pretty bad rep after the Shiki thing.

[divus]

That was totally ridiculous. [She grumbles, just thinking about it.] How stupid would I have to be to order a hit on my own follower?

Never mind the fact that we can only suggest, not order. I want to win this. Getting people who believed in me enough to choose me in the first place killed after a single argument would just be idiotic.

[bakaomi]

That's what happened with Disorder too, isn't it? After Chuuya started started talking about their argument, everyone thought she was going to kill the shit outta him.

[divus]

Which was totally unjustified. She never said she was going to kill him. He came up with that ridiculous idea all on his own.

[bakaomi]

Yeah, she told me the story when I first met her.

I didn't know him but he seemed dramatic.

[ he's dead you rude fuck ]

[divus]

He was a jerk. And we all saw that stupid poem because Sincerity wouldn't shut up about it.

He hadn't met any of us, but he decided to go and insult all of us.

[bakaomi]

Usually it's hard to change your mind once you form an opinion on someone.

[ he's quiet for a second ]

But you guys really aren't that bad.

[divus]

[hey what the fuck

ambition stares at him for a few long moments]

Did you hit your head or something? You're the last person I expected to hear that from.

[...]

No. Second-to-last.

[bakaomi]

I mean, you guys are easily offended, decided to choose leadership in the most over the top way possible, and don't really seem to know what you're doing.

[ taka, ]

But you're all trying your best, and aren't bad to talk to, so I can't say you're bad.

[divus]

...

[TAKA,]

It took you that long to figure that out?

[ambition is just being rude because she doesn't know how the fuck else to respond]

[bakaomi]

No, I figured it out a while ago.

[ there is a reason he keeps talking to the gods so much and it's because he actually likes them, which is terrible ]

But it's not like I want to tell you something like that more than once.

[divus]

Fine, don't tell us that again. But maybe tell some of them that.

[She huffs. By them, she means the participants.]

Even with the new rule, some people are just talking to Fortune when she's out there [on the public mingle] and calling it quits. Which works, I guess, since no one is aligned to her, but that's the easiest way of doing things and it doesn't actually teach them anything about the rest of us.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ah, he frowns.

taka is too much of a fortune stan for this. ]

She said that they just feel sorry for her...

[divus]

That's my point. They're just feeling sorry, and they're not getting any new information, so none of them are learning anything from this rule.

[bakaomi]

... well, I'll see what I can do.

It's just annoying if they don't try harder.

[divus]

It's ridiculous. Totally ridiculous! They'd better shape up.

[bakaomi]

Have your followers been talking to you at least...?

[divus]

They have. Well, most of them, anyway. I don't have any complaints there.

[...her voice actually softens at that? She likes her followers. Amazing.]

But at the end of the day, it's about the numbers. I need to keep my current followers and get new ones. But people find it off-putting if I'm too aggressive, so just ambushing them won't work...

[bakaomi]

[ hm ]

What do you think might be working for other gods?