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VIN PArT TWO
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2024-06-26 03:28 am (UTC)
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[ah. this is an ending that's familiar to him too, but it feels different now, with Vin here to recall it,]
...I'm sorry.
[even if those were their last words, the fact remains that he can remember how important he was to her,]
He shouldn't have had to make a choice like that.
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2024-06-26 10:04 pm (UTC)
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...I'd prefer not to talk about it.
[it's not cold or angry in tone, but it's firm enough.]
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2024-06-27 05:12 am (UTC)
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[he nods, accepting her answer. though a part of him will always want to know... but what's life without a little mystery, even for a historian?
he opens his mouth to say something else,
and then
a memory interrupts.
]
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2024-06-29 12:17 am (UTC)
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[ah... she's quiet for a moment, removing herself from the grief and the shame, the regret. once she's taken a moment to process:]
...Are you some kind of historian?
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2024-06-29 02:58 am (UTC)
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[he makes a face, but just at the principle of memory sharing which is rich when Lavi was so nosy earlier,]
A different type, but yeah. I'm a Bookman. We record the parts of history no one wants to talk about or acknowledge -- which is usually war.
It's always war, actually.
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2024-06-30 03:57 am (UTC)
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[there's a little humorless laugh at the last part.]
That sounds about right.
[...]
It's good that someone does it. Family business?
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2024-06-30 09:52 pm (UTC)
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Yup! There's only one at a time, but the rest of us support 'im. That's my Gramps right now, and when he's gone -- it'll be me. Hopefully.
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2024-07-01 12:41 am (UTC)
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Hopefully...?
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2024-07-01 02:21 am (UTC)
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In case I get sacrificed to a demon goat or turned into a monster!
[don't be so cheerful about it lavi...]
Or if I get killed by an Akuma, or if Gramps thinks I'm not fit for the job in some other way.
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2024-07-01 05:16 am (UTC)
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[she gives him a look for the exact same reason as that bracket text]
What's an Akuma?
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2024-07-04 06:32 am (UTC)
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[STOP LISTEN]
They're weapons powered by human souls. They look like regular humans until they transform. And by the time they transform, it's usually too late before you're dead.
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2024-07-08 02:25 am (UTC)
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Ah... So - some kind of shapeshifting monster?
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...I'm sorry.
[even if those were their last words, the fact remains that he can remember how important he was to her,]
He shouldn't have had to make a choice like that.
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[it's not cold or angry in tone, but it's firm enough.]
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he opens his mouth to say something else,
and then a memory interrupts.]
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...Are you some kind of historian?
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A different type, but yeah. I'm a Bookman. We record the parts of history no one wants to talk about or acknowledge -- which is usually war.
It's always war, actually.
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That sounds about right. [...] It's good that someone does it. Family business?
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[don't be so cheerful about it lavi...]
Or if I get killed by an Akuma, or if Gramps thinks I'm not fit for the job in some other way.
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What's an Akuma?
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They're weapons powered by human souls. They look like regular humans until they transform. And by the time they transform, it's usually too late before you're dead.
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