GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[bakaomi]

I think it's... you won't really know how you'll react to something until you're put into the situation.

[ he gestures around them. ]

Like here. I learned a lot about myself from being here that I would have never found out if I never came.

[divus]

I suppose that's true...even though the potential has always been there, it may have been buried until the right time. I think that's maybe less about knowing yourself and more about exposing the other parts of yourself.

But not a bad comparison to make.

[bakaomi]

Maybe.

I'm not a very philosophical person.

[divus]

You're still young. With time I believe you will get there. [He says, as if he isn't only a few years older.]

[bakaomi]

...

You're not that much older than I am...

[divus]

But I have immortality on my side. That has to count for something.

[bakaomi]

You're like a baby immortal right now. It doesn't count yet.

[divus]

But the two years I have over you does. [...] You're close enough in age that I understand, at least.

[That's cryptic and unhelpful, thanks]

[bakaomi]

You sound like an upperclassman...

[ it's muttered

even though, technically, if they were in the same school then tamaki would be his senpai ]

[divus]

Aren't I though? I was close to starting my third year of high school before the ascension.

[bakaomi]

I don't even call my actual upperclassmen 'senpai' so I definitely wouldn't call you it.

[ he is a punk bitch underclassman ]

[divus]

[An eyeroll.] The twins don't call me senpai either. Haruhi does sometimes. I suppose it's a matter of preference even if it makes you incredibly rude.

[bakaomi]

How does it make me rude? Just because someone tells you to do something doesn't mean you should.

[divus]

[He doesn't immediately argue, but there's a curious hum.]

Why do you say that?

[bakaomi]

Things like honorifics and bowing don't really mean anything. Why do I have to give someone a title of respect when I know nothing about them, just because they're a little older than me?

[divus]

Because it's proper. [And yet he doesn't seem to blame him, necessarily.] What would a person need to do in order to earn your respect?

[bakaomi]

Not immediately expect it, for one.

[divus]

Besides that. There must be more to it than that.

[bakaomi]

[ it's been over a month since plasma ended and taka is still getting psychoanalyzed by gods ]

... I don't like fake people. I can't respect someone who's actively trying to earn it, because it doesn't seems legitimate.

[ can you see one of the reasons he immediately disliked senri ]

[divus]

[Yeah that tracks.]

Doesn't that just bring up the question of what is and isn't fake?

[bakaomi]

Huh?

Then, what do you think it is?

[divus]

Let me ask you something. [Is he ignoring him? Sort of.] Do you believe there can be circumstances that a person has to be fake? Or are those still unjustifiable?

[bakaomi]

You're really asking me that after we sat through the worst two months of all time...

[ he frowns ]

It doesn't make it any less shitty.

[divus]

I'm not talking about for the sake of violence, Takaomi-kun. I mean for other means. Such as self-preservation, or the happiness of other people. If it's with more selfless motivations, does it still make it as bad?

[bakaomi]

You don't think that's depressing? That people feel like they can't be themselves to make others happy?

[ he does get what tamaki means, he really does. but... he shrugs. ]