GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[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.

[bakaomi]

Small robot child and Santa.

[ he is not santa

taka get over your fascination with santa ]

[divus]

[A chuckle.] Right, exactly. A lot of us were just plain mortal, too, before the ascension but the other part of us had abilities and skills before then.

[...] Dare you to call him Santa to his face.

[bakaomi]

[ there's a long pause

and then a sort of embarrassed admittance: ]

I did.

[divus]

[...lmfao.]

You're not afraid to be blunt, are you?

[bakaomi]

You don't know the Easter bunny, right?

[ he needs to make sure the easter bunny isn't somehow a greek mythological figure ]

[divus]

I'd say he's not real, but Merriment would argue with me. [He rolls his eyes.] I never really believed in those kind of figures anyway, so no worries.

[bakaomi]

Did all of you meet just immediately after ascending?

[ like.

did they say yes and then suddenly it was just "what's up here's a bunch of other gods" ]

[divus]

More or less. I don't think it's that weird since most of the people I met before were under questionable circumstances, but it might've freaked the rest of them out. We had a few minutes to figure out who we were and then suddenly we were part of the new pantheon. We got to talking and to arguing about what we were supposed to do, our combusted...and now here we are.

[bakaomi]

Wait.

So... what was the approximate time table between meeting and this game forming?

[divus]

Man..about a month? Then Piety stepped in and we called out to you guys. We made the rules, put in bids for you and brought you here.

[bakaomi]

[ CLOSES EYES ]

[divus]

I know. Don't give me that, we were working with what we had. Besides, I've made friends and enemies even faster than that.

[bakaomi]

I think that was the case here too.

[ see: senri ]

[divus]

Probably. [There's a shrug.] ...I met my best friend inside a dragon's cave. We traveled across the country together for a few years after that, until somebody found us to bring us back to camp. You'd be surprised how fast you can get along with people in situations like that.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

Not too surprised, I guess...

[ he went from wanting to 1v1 senri to being married. so. ]

[divus]

[The difference, of course, is that Takasen maybe get a happy ending and Thalia kicked Luke off of a goddamn cliff.]

...it's a weird thing to think about, but all twelve of us kind of split into our separate groups right away. We found people we were drawn to for whatever reasons. Merriment went to Justice and Piety because of his whole thing with kids. Love and Beauty are both actors of varying degrees, so they get along. They get along with Indulgence on a lesser level for the same reason. Ruin liked me because of the things I was capable of...makes you wonder what would've happened if we did have more time.

[bakaomi]

[ taka doesn't know that and luke's backstory like oozes TRAGIC AND ANGRY vibes and the last time taka touched sad backstory he broke tamaki ]

... yeah, you never know. Your relationships could be very different right now.