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Lady Lili "chad energy fuckboy" An ([personal profile] coastal) wrote2016-02-01 11:18 pm

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[personal profile] gravesite 2016-02-18 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh, lili...... that's so shoujo........ but those are words that sound a bit familiar, give or take the phrasing of them; most of the swords have heard this, in some form or another — but, that isn't to say that all of them accepted it perfectly. (for some of them, they need it repeated a few times, and even then... they only barely manage to wrap their heads around it, like tsurumaru.) ]

Because, it's not like asking people, do you love that person?. Instead, it's about asking people, do you love that object? Can it protect you? Is it beautiful to look at? If it's not beautiful to look at, or if it doesn't work properly in battle, can it be fixed?

[ he knows that if families have enough power, they're capable of terrifying things — redoing everything but the blade, or shortening the blade altogether, and while tsurumaru doesn't know what the latter is like, he hears that it's kind of painful??? ]

I think that's something we hear often — that we're free to determine our own actions and be who we want, as people, but it's difficult. When you've been a sword for longer than, say, nine hundred years, being told that you suddenly get to do anything that your heart desires is a bit...

[ he trails off, stuck between complicated or unusual, or both; but there's a part of him that's already realized, too bitterly, how little that swords can truly do without human action, because at the end of the day, they're just objects; and even this place — if they ever leave this place, they'll return to being objects.

still, maybe he can start learning now, on how to live a bit more freely. ]


My name is Tsurumaru. [ he beams at her, and for the first time today, he sounds more like his usual self (not that she'd know what his usual self is like, though). ]

I hope this isn't too big of a request for someone that I've just met, but... from now on, will you help me understand what that means? That anyone is deserving of love, and what it's like, to be your own person?
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[personal profile] gravesite 2016-02-20 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, he's had over a thousand years to learn the fine art of piecing together his words. what she can't hope to achieve, he's spent centuries learning from the countless nobles and rich folk that he's stayed with. ah, but he's not too fond of nobles, shh.......

but he listens to her speak, as she introduces herself, and throughout it all, he can't help but to smile and to laugh, ever so gently, the back of his hand pressed lightly against his mouth. while his request had been just as sincere, he knew what he was doing, with his word choice and phrasing...

he's not laughing at her, by any means — he just finds her purity to be refreshing; it reminds him of a child's, and tsurumaru is always inclined to have more faith in children than in adults, and it distracts him from his sadder thoughts. ]


You're an interesting person, Lili... Do you know that?

[ it's rare to find people as sincere as this, given that he's seen enough of humanity to be convinced that most of them are thoroughly rotten inside.

but he's swift about his answer, because it'll certainly be enough — what she can do for him, with all of who she is, will suffice. ]


Of course I'll accept it.

I don't know what I can give you in return, though — a lifetime's knowledge of surprises? Or, maybe some cakes that I saw in a store a few days ago...
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[personal profile] gravesite 2016-02-21 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah... she looks away!! he finds that kind of cute, actually. but there's something about how she wants nothing in return that alarms him, because for all her sincerity, and her childishness that he finds endearing... she's still human. and if there's anything that his experiences have taught him, it's that humans always want something. ]

For me?

[ there's a pause, as his expression changes into something unreadable, before he breaks into another smile. ]

No, no — you should at least let me get you something! It doesn't have to be too expensive, either.

[ but as much as he's trying, it's obvious that he's, well, trying; maybe he's smiling too brightly, or his tone is just a bit more cheerful than it really has to sound, and after today's events, there's no point in pushing himself any further than he needs to. so he gives up his brief ruse, before explaining: ]

You see, when humans offer to do things for me without asking for anything in return, I feel as if they're lying to me.

I'm a valued blade — it's not uncommon of them to want to win over my favor somehow, because they have hidden motives. It doesn't have anything to do with you personally, but it's hard to unlearn something that you've learned for centuries.

So even if it's just a small gesture, please let me do something for you, too.
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[personal profile] gravesite 2016-02-22 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ not that tsuru's aware of it in any way, but lili not mentioning her noble status in her explanation is a good thing. it's because of wealthy nobles that tsurumaru distrusts humans in the first place; nobles with lots of money, nobles that demand obedience, nobles that act entitled and are ridiculously pompous and feel the need to have their way with everyone and everything.

and had he tried to protest — apparently, rich people really, really don't like it it when their samurai-sword-turned-court-decoration talks back to them.

but he understands the point that she makes, although he's grateful that she comes to a compromise nonetheless — and ah, so he didn't sound completely crazy to her, when he'd told her that he was a sword. there's a mental note to mention something to kashuu and mutsu later, but for now — ]


Why Kashuu and Mutsu in particular, though? Do you liiiiike them?

[ leaaaaning forward!! he also sounds like the most annoying five-year-old in the world, though. do you like them, lili? or do you..... like-like them?

but that aside, he finds himself amused by the simplicity of the nature of her request, and it's with a relieved tone that he answers. ]


Asking me to do something that I already do on a daily basis... That's certainly fine with me. Is there anything else, or will that be all?