GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

Probably. That's when you get smarter and learn to put out the flames faster.

[...he's just grabbing a slice of pizza.] All of this cryptic stuff is kind of exhausting by the way. So. Can we just talk like normal people for a bit?

[bakaomi]

Yeah, sure. Since technically this isn't an audience.

[ it's just two dudes eating pizza while people have a crisis about guy outside ]

[divus]

Cool. [Chewing for a bit...] Not that I really know how to do that anymore, but whatever. I always figured that'd be something to get reacquainted to in the new world.

[bakaomi]

I mean, I was forced to do it here.

[ it's been terrible ]

[divus]

And yet you spend most of your time with us. What's up with that? [Finishing his pizza slice…] Not that it's a bad thing. Supposedly a lot of the others are learning things from you guys anyway. If rumors are to be believed.

[bakaomi]

[ wow don't call him out on not having friends ]

... it was just easier talking to you guys.

[divus]

Because everybody else is a bunch of do-gooders who want to hold hands and make friends and overshare? [He sounds. Exhausted.] Making friends isn't as easy as everybody seems to think it is anyway.

[bakaomi]

[ he snorts ]

And then it turns out you have to actually talk to people to learn anything in a game like this.

[divus]

It's a shitty design either way. On the one hand, you're earning your information. On the other hand, some people won't talk to you or listen to what you have to say anyway, so how are you supposed to get information like that?

It's not even about talking to people. It's about talking to the right people.

[bakaomi]

... the only reason I even have my closest connections is because of Senri.

[ taka is reminded every single day of how dead he'd be if it wasn't for his boyfriend ]

[divus]

[A small scowl.] Is that why he kept pressing the whole idea about being open and trusting people? No wonder.

[And that's why Senri pissed Luke off, frankly.]

[bakaomi]

He thinks he's only good at getting info.

[divus]

Yeah. That used to be me. [An aside...] He's definitely nosy enough to get all kinds of info, but he's good at connecting with people. Ambition and Disorder seem to like him enough.

[bakaomi]

He's the favorite of a lot of people.

[ including taka ]

[divus]

I'm pretty sure he's going to avoid me for the rest of the game, so I'll take your word for it.

[bakaomi]

Oh.

Yeah, pretty sure he's just going to assume I'm going to keep talking to you so he won't have to.

[ i mean he's right since taka is

once of cunning's few stans

even more now since he knows he's hot ]

[divus]

Fine by me. You're easier to talk to than he is anyway. [Casually insulting? But it's fine, he doesn't have anything against Senri other than he should maybe mind his business a little more.]

...you guys really are dividing us up, aren't you.

[bakaomi]

[ there's a pause as he

considers this ]

Shit. We are.

[divus]

Gotta say, I'm trying to decide how I feel about that. Seems to be sort of working out? [A shrug.]

...but I can see the difference. I don't mind, but I'm surprised it took me so long to notice.

[bakaomi]

[ taka didn't even realize they were doing this so he, too, is surprised it took this long ]

I guess if we ever divorce it'll be easy to decide on who gets who...

[ ha ha that's a joke they're never breaking up ]

[divus]

Good thing you've got that sorted now. [Also a joke. Kinda.]

Lucky for you, a couple of us are used to one-parent households. We're used to being split.

[Nope okay that was a little too real.]

[bakaomi]

[ well taka is not sure he wants to poke that, considering he knows that cunning does not like hermes ]

... sorry.

[ he doesn't mean for like, the family drama, just if he touched onto territory cunning would prefer not to breach. ]

[divus]

For what? I brought it up, and I wasn't just talking about me anyway. [There's a shrug.] Aside from your god, I'm the oldest. I've had time to get over stuff like that.

[He says, after literally killing himself while trying to get revenge on his family. But Taka doesn't need to know that.]

[bakaomi]

[ considering he flat out admitted to becoming a god to be a better one than his dad, taka has a hard time believing that but you know

again

he is not touching that ]

How old are you anyway?

[divus]

[This is why Taka is a good. ]

23. Most of us range from late a little older than you to early twenties...and then you have guys like Justice and Merriment.