mun has been rereading the canon and misses some old games.

[taijiya]

Look. I won't try to stop you if you want to pick me up again, but think about it first? There's barely anyone I used to know left in Adstringendum--not that I would remember them if I went back, anyway. You don't even have enough hours in the day as it is, and you would almost certainly have to drop your other muse--whom you've already been neglecting--to pick me up again.

Just because you've been getting nostalgic doesn't mean things will be the same. Just remember that before you get in over your head, alright?

Comments

[lookslikekikyo]

Sango!

excuse the sucky icons, my paid ram out and left me with some awkward ones lol

[taijiya]

Hello, Kagome. It's been a while.

It happens :)

[lookslikekikyo]

Too long.

So there's a chance you'll be around a lot more?

**ran. Oh, the joys of phone tagging.

[taijiya]

It seems so, unless she loses interest or decides to do something more productive with her time.

Though with muns and general, I'm almost certain we're safe from the latter.

[battleoverbroads]

Isn't this cute?

oh hi :D

[taijiya]

I would say it's nice to see you again, but I generally dislike blatant lies.

fancy seeing you here ;)

[battleoverbroads]

Who're you kidding? I was the most entertaining thing in that place.

indeed! :D how have you been?

[taijiya]

If by 'entertaining'you mean 'irritating,' then I'm inclined to agree.

[princeofthemoon]

Hn. Your mun should have nothing to worry about. One presumes they at least share your species.

[taijiya]

...Do youkai muns even exist?

[princeofthemoon]

Not that my own mun has heard of. Of course, she remains ignorant of much.

[Shut up he knows the answer is 'no not really' but nobody has proved that have they]

I just creeped on your journal and saw the "many expressions of Sesshy" post and laughed really hard

[taijiya]

[It's okay, Sesshoumaru, you know you're looking for reasons to call your mun a lesser being anyway :')]

Stubborn as always, aren't you? Does that mean you're getting out too much or not at all?

that's what it's there for! :')

[princeofthemoon]

I was beginning to think she'd seen the error of her ways.

[No, not at all.]

<3

[taijiya]

There will always be error in her ways though, won't there? She's human, after all.

[She says this with a dryness that suggests she knows he considers anything associated with humans to be erroneous.]

[princeofthemoon]

[Sesshoumaru doesn't even bother doing anything other than looking an odd mixture of scornful and satisfied. WHY WASTE WORDS WHEN SHE JUST SAID IT?]

[taijiya]

[Dear Sesshoumaru, you're dumb. Love Tolerate, Sango.]

Or so you like to think, anyway.

[princeofthemoon]

Humans are flawed.

[taijiya]

So are yokai.

[princeofthemoon]

Hn.

[This is the closest you'll get to agreement take it and run]

[taijiya]

Such arrogance.

[princeofthemoon]

And you are surprised?

[After all, if you're better than everyone you have a RIGHT to be arrogant.]

[taijiya]

Considering it's you we're talking about, not particularly.

[princeofthemoon]

[Browcock was that supposed to be a veiled insult or something?]

[taijiya]

[In order for it to be intended as an insult, one would have to think that the statement would actually bother the person in question.]

Still. Being cooped up in the headspace all the time gets stuffy, doesn't it?

[princeofthemoon]

[LOOK HE'S SENSITIVE OKAY]

A temporary inconvenience. It is best to think of it as a temporary reprieve.

[taijiya]

From...?

[princeofthemoon]

[He looks over with something like interest because really?

Really, all the crap constantly going on back home and you're gonna make him say it?]

[taijiya]

There's no reprieve until it's over for good. Until then, being here is just having it all... put off, so to speak. Not that it's not to be enjoyed at times, but it only makes the things back there seem more worrisome.

... gosh idk where this came from

[princeofthemoon]

[For just a moment there is the barest, flickering glimpse of just how old he is. All the centuries of his life, all the long, endless procession of it- and then the glimpse is gone again, the porcelain mask smoothed back into place, as opaque and bland as ever.]

Nothing is ever 'over for good.' Life progresses, and brings all that is associated. Why not, then, progress in the moment? If you allow yourself to imagine too freely, there will always be regrets of the past or fears of the future, waiting to smother you.

Don't try to bear the weight of destiny.

Philosophy with Sesshoumaru, Sundays at 8.

[taijiya]

[That is probably more words at once than Sango has heard out of Sesshoumaru ever. She kind of just stares in mild shock for a moment.]

Progressing in the moment doesn't necessarily mean I must forget what waits. If I don't bear my own destiny's weight, who will?

that 'gosh I hope I'm still in character' moment

[princeofthemoon]

It will follow at your heels regardless - why, then, concern yourself?

[Sesshoumaru's view of time is interesting - if, after all, he did anything but live in and for the moment, his long life would be quite a curse.]

shh you're fineee

[taijiya]

Because I would rather influence my destiny than let it influence me.

but he's talking and everything

[princeofthemoon]

Should you be so weak as to allow such, you never had a hope.

you're good shhhh

[taijiya]

My way of accomplishing that, then, is to bear the weight as a reminder from which to draw strength.

Your way to live is not the only way to live, Sesshoumaru-sama.

[princeofthemoon]

And how will an unnecessary burden become a source of strength?

[It's an odd question, balanced halfway between being rhetorical and being honest.]

[taijiya]

It's a human thing, it seems; hard to explain. But...

Compare it to this. You'd call the burden a weakness, correct? I might assume that in regards to Inuyasha, you would call Kagome a weakness. And yet despite that, it's for her sake that he rises to such great heights when called upon, that he accomplishes so much despite all odds.

Likewise, though destiny is a heavy thing to carry, it is the future--my friends, my brother, and more. I care about those things that compose it, as your brother cares for Kagome. And so though some think it would make me weak, it is the reason that I strive to accomplish the things that I need to; for its own sake.

Some burdens are really just a special kind of motivation, in the end.

[princeofthemoon]

Not a weakness but a weight. Shackling yourself to things or ideas will accomplish nothing but to drag at you.

[taijiya]

Then let it drag me straight to my grave if it must; better it be that than that I would give up my goals and my friends for the sake of an empty life. If I am shackled it's because I turned the key in the lock.

[princeofthemoon]

[He says nothing, but all but radiates a kind of silent disdain at her declaration.]

[taijiya]

[She knows a glare when she sees one, even if it's one as inexpressive as Sesshoumaru's. Her response is a cocked eyebrow. Stubborn human is stubborn.]

[princeofthemoon]

Hn.