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[adorabrawler]

[ ? ]

That's pretty impersonal for a guy I've only just met to ask.

[hasteful]

[ ? ]

Is it? Sorry - normally everyone I know just rolls with it.

[adorabrawler]

[ .... ]

Well, if you want to...

[hasteful]

[that makes him laugh a little]

I only want to if you're okay with it - it's why I asked. Sorry, I'm still getting used to figuring out how to chat with humans like this.

[adorabrawler]

With—humans?

[ she looks him up and down ]

[hasteful]

Mm!

[nodding along before placing a hand over his heart]

I was summoned in this form, and I know that it appears very human but - well, that was only three years ago so I'm still learning the ropes to be honest.

[adorabrawler]

O- oh.

[ HUH??? ]

... Then what are you?

[hasteful]

Mm, are you familiar with a tsukumogami?

[i forgot he's holding an ikea shark, he lifts it up as if to demonstrate - ]

If an object like Dash here lives to a hundred years or more, they can sometimes develop their own consciousness. Based on their experience and history, and then - my Master summoned me in this form, this human-looking one, even with all that history.

So I guess I'm something in between of object and person.

[adorabrawler]

... Oh.

[ what!! ]

I know what tsukumogami are—I am Japanese, you know. But that stuff's usually just stories.

[hasteful]

Ahaha, I can't tell with everybody here! But that's good, it's really reassuring!

[and he does seem a little relieved - it's nice, that they persist on even in stories]

Well... I guess this is your way of discovering that the stories can take on lives of their own. So please treat your antiques gently, and be nice to them.

[help,]

[adorabrawler]

[ this is so weird help ]

Um, sure, I'll... do my best. I don't think I own anything that old though.

[hasteful]

I guess most people don't, especially in the modern era.

Hmm... Then be nice to the ones you see in museums, I guess. I imagine they get a bit lonely.

[adorabrawler]

Hmm... Do they? I would have thought otherwise, since people come to visit them every day.

[hasteful]

Not all of them, and not all the time. There's some that get put into storage by humans, or aren't available for public viewing.

I imagine the windows they get to see people are pretty nice for them.

[adorabrawler]

I can't believe you're making me feel bad for a bunch of stuff.

[hasteful]

[he laughs a little bit]

I don't mean to, I don't mean to!

Ultimately, we swords were forged to serve humanity - so whatever you decide is fine. I just think it's nice to be remembered, sometimes.

[adorabrawler]

So that's what you are—a sword?

[hasteful]

[nods!]

That's right. [and he'll make a gesture to the blade at his hip] This is also me.

[adorabrawler]

[ .. ? ]

If you're here, how are you also there?

[hasteful]

Ah, our Master summoned us in these forms - these human bodies - so that we could wield ourselves. That's part of being able to complete our missions.