u know what? ok. i trust netzach

[hasteful]

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[abstractart]

You can just call me Netzach...

[he blinks at the hand on his shoulder, but sure, why not. he's chill with this.]

I guess?

[that sounds like effort

he can just ask buzen to carry him later if he gets tired of it, so... sure.]

[hasteful]

[a beat, and then sheepishly]

Mm, if that's what you'd prefer I can try but... I struggle a little with names and sounds I'm not familiar with... But I don't want to be disrespectful...

[what do you do when you're an idiot who doesn't know loan words, let alone foreign names,,]

But awesome, let's go.

[he'll just let his arm settle around netzach's shoulders as they walk along, all familiar and buddy buddy. touch week!]

[abstractart]

...Netz is fine, too. Don't need to be respectful or anything.

[he's not the kind of person who anyone needs to respect, anyway.

touch week! he's less active about it, but he lets that arm settle easily enough, his own hand resting on buzen's back. they are vibing now.]

[hasteful]

Eh... You're really understanding, Netz-san.

[but he seems relieved. that said it probably comes out a little closer to Nettsu-san, but it sounds similar enough,, he's doing his best.

buzen doesn't even so much as react to the hand at his back. hell yea touch week, he loves it here.]

You seem really easy-going.

[abstractart]

It's not usually worth getting worked up over stuff, so...

[netzach is the 'nothing matters...' half of the nihilism meme, probably.]

I guess you could say I am.

[hasteful]

[buzen would be the 'nothing matters!! :D' half so that's cool,

he's just. similarly easy-going and just laughs]

I'm sure your coworkers back home appreciate it.

[buzen just assuming? netz seems so nice :) ]

[abstractart]

Don't know if they'd agree with you about that. Not on cleaning day, anyway...

[everyone loves the easygoing guy when they want to stop by for a beer. not so much when they want the floors mopped.]

[hasteful]

Ah...

Easy-going about chores too... I get it now. We have a comrade like you...

[he's totally thinking about akaashi i just want to make sure you know]

[abstractart]

Yeah...? I guess there's always one of us.

[just. no sense of shame about it.]

How many do you have?

[hasteful]

Ah, well, there's six of us Gous already and then...

[




narrows eyes]

A lot...

[abstractart]

So there's... your relatives, and then everyone else?

[gou is just like, his last name, right.]

[hasteful]

Ah, I wouldn't say we're relatives. We share the same swordsmith, but our relationship is more like...

[ . . .

tilts head]

People who unexpectedly fit together, I guess. Ame-san said 'fate and connection' once... I think that feels more right than family.

[ok dramaticass]

[abstractart]

The same... swordsmith?

[hello? he's studying him a little more closely, but not in a disbelieving way. more like he's trying to see if there's anything different about him, maybe.

sure, people can get their entire bodies replaced, but he'd probably be calling it something different in that case...

explain that he'll get to the rest]

[hasteful]

Oh! Okay, okay, I've got this.

[does he?]

We're like the reverse of you books, Netz-san! [he's so excited because this is a new shorthand compared to the other explanation he's been doing,] Imagine this - a blade that's gathered all its experiences over hundreds of years, and then suddenly it gets summoned by a somebody else in a human body! So instead of a person becoming an object, an object becomes a person!

[he just sighs afterward, patting netzach's shoulder afterward]

Phew, I'm proud of myself for that one!

[abstractart]

So you had a body created for you, too...?

[objects becoming people is still new to him, but... well. he's seen a machine start to become more human, so it really doesn't seem so farfetched-- like something that could happen without it being an abnormality of some kind.]

...yeah, I think I get it. The comrades you talked about are probably the same, right?

[hasteful]

Yeah, yeah!

[nodding happily, wow he's so pleased he did a good job explaining]

You got it exactly.

[abstractart]

I guess you're not all that different from us librarians, then. Just... mostly in where you come from.

Was it weird?

[hasteful]

The weirdest thing I've ever experienced.

And I know some weirdos.

[be nice,]

[abstractart]

... I'm a little curious what the weirdest part was.

[hasteful]

People just.... wake up and feel? Like all the time?

[buzen, perplexed: you live like this?]

[abstractart]

Like, physically, or...?

[hasteful]

Both.

Touch is kind of a new sensation - to hold onto things, instead of just being held. But mostly the emotions part... Having a heart really lays my comrades out sometimes. They really struggle with it.

[abstractart]

Oh. Yeah, that part can be pretty rough. You know you can fix that, right?

[hasteful]

[ ? ]

Fix how?

[abstractart]

I always used enkephalin, but there's probably other stuff that works... it does make you hallucinate at first, though, you gotta build a little tolerance.