GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

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[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.

[divus]

[Thanks Taka.]

We would've had the same problems I think. That's the one downside to all of us being from such drastically different worlds. It's the other reason I want to create something fair.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

Do you think that being here might have changed things for some of you?

[divus]

...you're good at keeping secrets, aren't you? Keep this one. Things absolutely changed for me and it's kind of been freaking me out.

[bakaomi]

[ he blinks in surprise ]

Really?

[divus]

Yeah. My ideas for the world and everything haven't changed or anything, but approaching things and motivations might've.

...ever come up with a plan and go through with it because you think it's gonna be the end of the line, but then things turn out differently and you have to live past what you planned for? It's sorta like that. I've had more time than I wanted to actually think about things.

[bakaomi]

... a little.

[ he assumes both of their contexts are different though. ]

It makes sense. No matter how much you prepare, sometimes things just happen and you have to... figure things out as you go.

[divus]

I didn't think I'd have to figure out how to do things after things in my world. I had a plan, and yeah, fine, becoming a god wasn't as easy as I assumed it'd be. But it was better than the original plan.

[...] ...clarity. That's what this is, and that's the weird part about it. I want to create a fair and good world, but I keep remembering things I've been forgetting.

[bakaomi]

[ he reaches out for another slice of pizza, but he nibbles at it more than anything. ]

Do you think it's helping?

[ because he knows that what the gods have learned while here have been varying greatly, and some lessons have been more positive than others. ]

[divus]

[There's a brief time he's considering that.]

...I don't regret what choice I made when I voted to make this a killing game, because you guys still get to come back and that's a luckier situation than some people ever get. But I think if I'd known then what I know now I would've thought about it a little more before immediately backing Ruin's suggestion.

[bakaomi]

... I'm still mad about that, but I can't be too upset because I agreed to come here.

[ he is just. so traumatized because he is the wrong genre for this. he was so unprepared for this level of bullshit. ]

But... in the end, I think there was more good than bad. The bad still sucked though. A lot.

[divus]

You did. ...but I get it. Sometimes you agree to stuff without realizing what the hell you're getting into. The bad sucks a lot. Dying sucks a lot. The whole thing kind of sucks a lot but if you're getting something good out of it maybe we didn't screw up that much.

[He takes another slice of pizza just because.] ...it's almost over. At least it's just a couple of months.

[bakaomi]

People can forget if they want, right?

[ since merriment had implied they could, a few weeks back. ]

[divus]

Yeah. It'd be kind of a dick move if we didn't give you that option. Thinking of taking it after all?