[Yaha-kui zaShunina would never call anyone an idiot, least of all a human. He likes humans, even if he has difficulty understanding them and vice-versa as a consequence of their astronomical differences. Atsushi's brain is simply too optimized for this universe and its limitations to understand anisotropy for the time being.
But zaShunina does offer a slight smile when the boy accepts the change in topic, and he tucks his arm back beneath his cloak.]
Prismatica is not Earth, but there are many similarities. Culinary preferences appear to be one of these.
The planet I was visiting previous to arriving here was Earth, yes. However, it is not my origin. [But he likes Earth despite its cramped dimensions. Still, if Atsushi had a difficult time grasping just how his arms worked, then he won't bother trying to explain the anisotropic in simplified terms... frankly because he doesn't know how to simplify it even more without losing an unacceptable amount of information in translation.]
[To be fair, he had just met him. The idea of being in another dimension--on another planet-- had been a concept beyond him only a little while ago, but here he is, eating takoyaki with an alien dimension traveler.
[Overseers. Administrators. It's not dissimilar to the roles of the anisotropic beings, but this 'afterlife' concept... he knows of it through his reading, but by all logical conclusions, should not exist. Consciousness is a chain of electrical signals through neurons in the brain. Once these signals cease, so does consciousness. There is nothing beyond the cessation of biological function.]
Of course. As Supreme Kai, myself and others of my ilk are charged with overseeing and making sure the universe grows and evolves. This includes all worlds that lie outside of the mortal realms, like where the gods live, for example. There are worlds reserved for mortal souls once they die, and those are managed by our subordinates and beings from the demon realm. And well...
[There wasn't much to it other than that, really.]
That's all. I'm simplifying it, of course.
[He's not sure if he's clarified well enough, or if he covered what zaShunina wanted to hear. He hopes he has.]
[Different conditions. Different rules. Valuable information. Yaha-kui zaShunina thinks he would like to explore these "worlds reserved for mortal souls once they die." If human consciousness can be separated from the limitations of their ephemeral existences, then he would like to study it. To Know it.
In his "world" (if it can be called that), life itself was a fluke. A miracle that against all probability came into existence purely because the initial conditions of its cocoon were favorable to create the singularity that evolved into life on one tiny planet.]
...It is a sufficient explanation. [Though there is a distinct pause before his answer, and he breaks eye contact with the Kai to look down the rows of food stalls. Truthfully, he does want to know more, but lacking his Boundary Unit, there would be little point in probing for more information on this topic as Shin would only be able to explain it as a theoretical. He can't show it to him if they lack the means to exit this cocoon.]
I would like you to show it to me once the capacity to do so becomes available.
If you are not already able to access these places, then I cannot take you there.
[Not that he can't. He won't. He's only made one exception to this rule, and it was a mere few days ago that it happened. And only for a very good reason.]
I'm sorry. Please understand there is a balance to maintain. We must keep disruption to a minimum.
[He stops to think for a moment, however. This guy can already travel to the space between universes, so he needs something clarified.]
However, if I am understanding your capabilities correctly, you should already be able to travel there by yourself.
[Though it may be a struggle, the white-haired man does attempt to lessen the strain by moving his legs in a walking motion as best he can despite how uncooperative they're being. Perhaps it may help a bit that the skin connection between their hands grows warm, and it only takes a minute or two of this contact before his steps are more confident and able to take more of his own weight off her her shoulders. He's still leaning heavily against her, but moving at least should be a little easier.]
The plants leech Chroma on physical contact. As a result, my supply has been exhausted. [In the future, he'll be sure to extend his Fregonics' area of effect to prevent physical contact at all, but he hadn't taken any such precaution this time, and depletion was the result. Which, while uncomfortable, he doesn't regret, as this feeling of weakness and exhaustion is in itself valuable information worth consuming.]
I'll help you. Look, over there looks like a safe place to stop for a moment.
[She leads him to one of the level's extravagant parks, now devoid of most people due to the evacuation order. Despite the eerie presence of the now-empty children's playground, this area is out in the open air, which means they'll be safe from the strange odor she smelled back in her lodging.
She eases them both down to sit on a bench.]
Here.
[Nyuu doesn't mind hugs. In fact, she enjoys giving them as much as she enjoys receiving them. Even though this man is a stranger to her, he hasn't done or said anything to make her feel uncomfortable, which is why she doesn't hesitate with wrapping him up in a warm hug, adjusting her head so her chin is hovering right above his shoulder. She would have let it rest on his shoulder, but Nyuu thought that might be a little too much for someone she just met.]
[By the time she helps him onto the bench, zaShunina's legs have regained most of their mobility, but it's still a struggle to access Novo with his limited supply of Chroma. Apart from his head, hands, and feet, the white-haired man's body is completely clothed, so even though the hug is pleasant, it isn't especially efficient at restoring Chroma without direct skin contact.
Pale fingers reach up to thread through Nyuu's hair, while his other hand settles on the back of her neck. Then more hands appear, first two, then four, setting their palms against any stretch of exposed skin they can find on the girl's body. If Nyuu can recall their first encounter, she might recognize his ability to make his arms appear detached, but he'd never demonstrated this aspect of that capability to her before.]
[With Lucy and Nyuu unable to share memories, the feeling of extra hands makes Nyuu jump in their embrace and gasp from surprise. She's completely covered from the toes up to her collar bones, except for her hands.
When one of the man's strange hands comes into her line of sight to touch her face, Nyuu's eyes widen and she pushes herself away from him, or tries to if the other hands are holding her in place.]
W-What is all this?
[There's a trace of fear in her voice. She didn't mind hugs or holding hands, but she's never experienced someone else touching her hair besides Kouta. Then the only time other hands touched her body was if she and her female friends were washing each other's backs in the onsen at home.
She might have brushed off, or forgotten, the fact that Chroma was best restored with direct skin contact.]
[A fourth-dimensional plane? Then he does exist in a higher state of being, but still... zaShunina gives him a small smile. Not of pity, but compassion.]
The anisotropic would add an additional thirty-six dimensions to the the four you are familiar with.
[One additional dimension would still not nearly be enough to be able to conceive of it. Lower-dimensional brains are simply incapable of functioning at that level.]
There exist other anisotropic beings. [But he can't say he misses them. They as a whole have no concept of interpersonal relationships that can be translated to anything language can define. The best way to explain it would be that they have an Awareness of one another. There is a single human from Earth he does miss, but even zaShunina himself doesn't understand that the painful clenching of his chest he feels when he thinks about him is longing, and so he doesn't answer.]
Th-thirty-six? W-Wow. So...you can m-make d-dimensions or, something like that? [ That's pretty amazing to even think he was talking to a being so powerful. ]
S-So there are more of-of you. Th-that's good, that m-means you're n-not alone. Did you...e-ever talk to-to them? Oh! Th-they must be curious a-about what you've l-learned about E-Earth, too.
[ Takato looks at him curiously before smiling. ] Wh-what did you do on-on Earth? Is-is that where you w-were before a-arriving?
[Yes, assumptions were made. He doesn't regret them, however, as it was a valuable learning experience.]
I do not. [It's an honest answer. Why should a being who couldn't even be classified as "alive" by virtue of predating the existence of the concept of life and death have survival instincts? Even after gaining an understanding of the concept, Fregonics prevents nearly all external damage to a body with which he isn't even truly integrated. Even should it be destroyed somehow, Yaha-kui zaShunina himself would remain unharmed in the anisotropic.
zaShunina is silent as he holds Jakob still beneath him, taking in all of the human's physical reactions. Accelerated heart and breathing rate, heightened blood pressure, flushed countenance...]
Are you sexually aroused? [His tone is not accusatory in the slightest. Rather, it reflects nothing but pure curiosity.]
Whoever raised you has failed you terribly. [The thought of reaching for his staff and whacking this guy in the back is tempting. His free hand is beginning to reach for it.] Because If I was, you would currently be feeling a-
[Well, if it was from the closeness and weight of a person on him, he was now slightly flushed at stopping himself from saying anything further.
Jakob is just gonna stop right there when he realizes what he's about to explain. Does this guy even know what to feel when-. Wait. No. He is NOT about to have that fucking conversation. Not here. Not when this man was this close to him and on top of him. With a growl, there's a hand in zaShunina's hair, attempting to tug him back just enough to stop pressing against the butler's forehead. ]
[He almost corrects Jakob's incorrect assumption that anyone raised him. He is an anisotropic being, after all.]
-an erection. [He finishes the human's sentence, and glances downward with eyes that have begun to regain their color... and then his face is getting pulled away by his hair. It doesn't hurt-- fregonics sees to that (it seems the small contact they've already shared has restored enough for that phenomenon to take effect). His hands stay on Jakob's face, loathe as he is to fully break the connection and stem the flow of Chroma.]
[Well, if this was a challenge to embarrass Jakob, zaShunina was winning. Unintentionally, likely. Because there's a frustrated sigh as the hand tangled in white hair was loose now and less pulling. While the hair was soft, Jakob wasn't about to be giving compliments. But Jakob thinks he can focus now, and ignore the loud pulse inside. He thinks. He's still hyper aware of hands on his face so his head turned to look elsewhere. Purple eyes averted from red ones.
Though he felt his own fatigue begin to fade (goddamn this Chroma....), it didn't take away the tenseness of the human of the two. He's still going to give this man his emotional spikes judging from his incoming sarcasm. However, bless his soul, he might be wrong...? ]
Congratulations, you might just be as human as the rest of us if you can gather that much on your own.
[He's going to raise his staff that he reached for with his other hand. (The idea of attempting a whack in the back is tempting , still) He's trying to determine if there's anything that can speed this up. But whether the healing magic would even reach the anisotropic, at all... Well. Guess the butler will find out as he attempted a healing spell. Anything else or was it really just Chroma depletion? Jakob dealt with people not honest with injuries... ]
[Undignified for Xemnas, perhaps. For the shorter man propped up against him, on the other hand, "dignity" itself is a foreign concept, so he sees nothing wrong with using Xemnas's body to keep himself upright.]
Contact with the plants proliferating in the immediate area resulted in compromised motor functions and chroma depletion. [And yet he can still talk with the calm evenness of someone not currently suffering from exhaustion and mild paralysis. As if discussing his body's condition with the same objective detachment as someone talking about a broken-down machine.]
[The tone zaShunina's using is ... not unfamiliar, at least. Not when Xemnas himself has spent more than a decade unable to feel genuine emotion. In fact, in absence of anything else to go on, he's mostly assuming zaShunina is something very much similar to a Nobody.]
I see. Perhaps it would be easier to continue this conversation somewhere you would be able to sit down?
It would. [He concedes, not because he's tired, but because it's difficult to stand when your limbs don't want to work. Hope Xemnas doesn't mind helping the shorter man to a bench or the ground or something, because he isn't terribly inclined to move on his own.]
[Fortunately, Xemnas absolutely doesn't mind. It does, admittedly, take a bit of work and he ends up sort of half-carrying, half-dragging zaShunina over to the nearest bench, but he's more than willing to lend a hand all the same. Admittedly, he also doesn't take a seat himself, but that's more to do with the fact that he's perfectly content to stand for the time being than anything else.]
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:07 pm (UTC)Atsushi
Date: 2019-03-27 07:08 pm (UTC)[Yaha-kui zaShunina would never call anyone an idiot, least of all a human. He likes humans, even if he has difficulty understanding them and vice-versa as a consequence of their astronomical differences. Atsushi's brain is simply too optimized for this universe and its limitations to understand anisotropy for the time being.
But zaShunina does offer a slight smile when the boy accepts the change in topic, and he tucks his arm back beneath his cloak.]
Prismatica is not Earth, but there are many similarities. Culinary preferences appear to be one of these.
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Date: 2019-04-01 09:38 am (UTC)In which case, the gift of food outweighed the confusion, for now. He could consider the arm weirdness like an ability... probably.]
Ah... yes! It's a pretty common snack in Japan, actually. So you're from Earth? Or....?
[He feels like there's a 'no' coming, after the universal talk.]
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Date: 2019-04-01 02:19 pm (UTC)Shindo took me to a Bon festival.
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Date: 2019-04-03 05:39 am (UTC)...
...Life was pretty strange, sometimes.]
Oh! Were you in Japan, then? I'm from Yokohama.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:15 pm (UTC)[Overseers. Administrators. It's not dissimilar to the roles of the anisotropic beings, but this 'afterlife' concept... he knows of it through his reading, but by all logical conclusions, should not exist. Consciousness is a chain of electrical signals through neurons in the brain. Once these signals cease, so does consciousness. There is nothing beyond the cessation of biological function.]
Clarify.
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Date: 2019-03-28 12:27 am (UTC)Of course. As Supreme Kai, myself and others of my ilk are charged with overseeing and making sure the universe grows and evolves. This includes all worlds that lie outside of the mortal realms, like where the gods live, for example. There are worlds reserved for mortal souls once they die, and those are managed by our subordinates and beings from the demon realm. And well...
[There wasn't much to it other than that, really.]
That's all. I'm simplifying it, of course.
[He's not sure if he's clarified well enough, or if he covered what zaShunina wanted to hear. He hopes he has.]
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Date: 2019-03-28 04:30 pm (UTC)In his "world" (if it can be called that), life itself was a fluke. A miracle that against all probability came into existence purely because the initial conditions of its cocoon were favorable to create the singularity that evolved into life on one tiny planet.]
...It is a sufficient explanation. [Though there is a distinct pause before his answer, and he breaks eye contact with the Kai to look down the rows of food stalls. Truthfully, he does want to know more, but lacking his Boundary Unit, there would be little point in probing for more information on this topic as Shin would only be able to explain it as a theoretical. He can't show it to him if they lack the means to exit this cocoon.]
I would like you to show it to me once the capacity to do so becomes available.
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Date: 2019-03-28 10:56 pm (UTC)If you are not already able to access these places, then I cannot take you there.
[Not that he can't. He won't. He's only made one exception to this rule, and it was a mere few days ago that it happened. And only for a very good reason.]
I'm sorry. Please understand there is a balance to maintain. We must keep disruption to a minimum.
[He stops to think for a moment, however. This guy can already travel to the space between universes, so he needs something clarified.]
However, if I am understanding your capabilities correctly, you should already be able to travel there by yourself.
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Date: 2019-03-28 03:39 pm (UTC)[Though it may be a struggle, the white-haired man does attempt to lessen the strain by moving his legs in a walking motion as best he can despite how uncooperative they're being. Perhaps it may help a bit that the skin connection between their hands grows warm, and it only takes a minute or two of this contact before his steps are more confident and able to take more of his own weight off her her shoulders. He's still leaning heavily against her, but moving at least should be a little easier.]
The plants leech Chroma on physical contact. As a result, my supply has been exhausted. [In the future, he'll be sure to extend his Fregonics' area of effect to prevent physical contact at all, but he hadn't taken any such precaution this time, and depletion was the result. Which, while uncomfortable, he doesn't regret, as this feeling of weakness and exhaustion is in itself valuable information worth consuming.]
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Date: 2019-03-28 09:35 pm (UTC)[Now she remembers thanks to his mentioning it.]
I'll help you. Look, over there looks like a safe place to stop for a moment.
[She leads him to one of the level's extravagant parks, now devoid of most people due to the evacuation order. Despite the eerie presence of the now-empty children's playground, this area is out in the open air, which means they'll be safe from the strange odor she smelled back in her lodging.
She eases them both down to sit on a bench.]
Here.
[Nyuu doesn't mind hugs. In fact, she enjoys giving them as much as she enjoys receiving them. Even though this man is a stranger to her, he hasn't done or said anything to make her feel uncomfortable, which is why she doesn't hesitate with wrapping him up in a warm hug, adjusting her head so her chin is hovering right above his shoulder. She would have let it rest on his shoulder, but Nyuu thought that might be a little too much for someone she just met.]
Is it working?
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Date: 2019-03-28 09:55 pm (UTC)Pale fingers reach up to thread through Nyuu's hair, while his other hand settles on the back of her neck. Then more hands appear, first two, then four, setting their palms against any stretch of exposed skin they can find on the girl's body. If Nyuu can recall their first encounter, she might recognize his ability to make his arms appear detached, but he'd never demonstrated this aspect of that capability to her before.]
It will take a measure of time, but yes.
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Date: 2019-03-28 10:20 pm (UTC)When one of the man's strange hands comes into her line of sight to touch her face, Nyuu's eyes widen and she pushes herself away from him, or tries to if the other hands are holding her in place.]
W-What is all this?
[There's a trace of fear in her voice. She didn't mind hugs or holding hands, but she's never experienced someone else touching her hair besides Kouta. Then the only time other hands touched her body was if she and her female friends were washing each other's backs in the onsen at home.
She might have brushed off, or forgotten, the fact that Chroma was best restored with direct skin contact.]
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Date: 2019-03-28 04:00 pm (UTC)[A fourth-dimensional plane? Then he does exist in a higher state of being, but still... zaShunina gives him a small smile. Not of pity, but compassion.]
The anisotropic would add an additional thirty-six dimensions to the the four you are familiar with.
[One additional dimension would still not nearly be enough to be able to conceive of it. Lower-dimensional brains are simply incapable of functioning at that level.]
There exist other anisotropic beings. [But he can't say he misses them. They as a whole have no concept of interpersonal relationships that can be translated to anything language can define. The best way to explain it would be that they have an Awareness of one another. There is a single human from Earth he does miss, but even zaShunina himself doesn't understand that the painful clenching of his chest he feels when he thinks about him is longing, and so he doesn't answer.]
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Date: 2019-03-31 03:05 am (UTC)S-So there are more of-of you. Th-that's good, that m-means you're n-not alone. Did you...e-ever talk to-to them? Oh! Th-they must be curious a-about what you've l-learned about E-Earth, too.
[ Takato looks at him curiously before smiling. ] Wh-what did you do on-on Earth? Is-is that where you w-were before a-arriving?
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Date: 2019-04-01 03:55 am (UTC)The information within the universe is being read at a constant rate. They are aware of my actions, though we do not retain communications.
You ask many questions without waiting for their answers.
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Date: 2019-04-02 03:41 am (UTC)I-I've just...never met s-someone like you b-before. I-I think you're p-pretty amazing, um, I-I don't think I told you my-my name. I-I'm T-Takato Wakahisa. What-what's your?
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Date: 2019-03-31 02:25 am (UTC)[Yes, assumptions were made. He doesn't regret them, however, as it was a valuable learning experience.]
I do not. [It's an honest answer. Why should a being who couldn't even be classified as "alive" by virtue of predating the existence of the concept of life and death have survival instincts? Even after gaining an understanding of the concept, Fregonics prevents nearly all external damage to a body with which he isn't even truly integrated. Even should it be destroyed somehow, Yaha-kui zaShunina himself would remain unharmed in the anisotropic.
zaShunina is silent as he holds Jakob still beneath him, taking in all of the human's physical reactions. Accelerated heart and breathing rate, heightened blood pressure, flushed countenance...]
Are you sexually aroused? [His tone is not accusatory in the slightest. Rather, it reflects nothing but pure curiosity.]
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Date: 2019-04-01 03:48 am (UTC)[Well, if it was from the closeness and weight of a person on him, he was now slightly flushed at stopping himself from saying anything further.
Jakob is just gonna stop right there when he realizes what he's about to explain. Does this guy even know what to feel when-. Wait. No. He is NOT about to have that fucking conversation. Not here. Not when this man was this close to him and on top of him. With a growl, there's a hand in zaShunina's hair, attempting to tug him back just enough to stop pressing against the butler's forehead. ]
....Never you mind. But I assure I'm not!
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Date: 2019-04-01 04:10 am (UTC)-an erection. [He finishes the human's sentence, and glances downward with eyes that have begun to regain their color... and then his face is getting pulled away by his hair. It doesn't hurt-- fregonics sees to that (it seems the small contact they've already shared has restored enough for that phenomenon to take effect). His hands stay on Jakob's face, loathe as he is to fully break the connection and stem the flow of Chroma.]
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Date: 2019-04-02 02:53 am (UTC)Though he felt his own fatigue begin to fade (goddamn this Chroma....), it didn't take away the tenseness of the human of the two. He's still going to give this man his emotional spikes judging from his incoming sarcasm. However, bless his soul, he might be wrong...? ]
Congratulations, you might just be as human as the rest of us if you can gather that much on your own.
[He's going to raise his staff that he reached for with his other hand.
(The idea of attempting a whack in the back is tempting , still)He's trying to determine if there's anything that can speed this up. But whether the healing magic would even reach the anisotropic, at all... Well. Guess the butler will find out as he attempted a healing spell. Anything else or was it really just Chroma depletion? Jakob dealt with people not honest with injuries... ](no subject)
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Date: 2019-03-31 03:11 pm (UTC)[Undignified for Xemnas, perhaps. For the shorter man propped up against him, on the other hand, "dignity" itself is a foreign concept, so he sees nothing wrong with using Xemnas's body to keep himself upright.]
Contact with the plants proliferating in the immediate area resulted in compromised motor functions and chroma depletion. [And yet he can still talk with the calm evenness of someone not currently suffering from exhaustion and mild paralysis. As if discussing his body's condition with the same objective detachment as someone talking about a broken-down machine.]
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Date: 2019-04-04 03:30 am (UTC)I see. Perhaps it would be easier to continue this conversation somewhere you would be able to sit down?
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Date: 2019-04-06 04:40 am (UTC)Was there any suggestion as to whether or not this condition could be reversed?
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