No - no, I know how to decapitate someone, that's not what I meant. [ closes eyes, ] Just - have it reattach like that. It's some sort of magic, isn't it?
he pauses. and then, by way of explanation - ] Sorry. There's not any magic in my world - that's the first time I've ever seen something like that. [ oh god is he turning into shen yi? getting excited over things like a NERD? ]
[look, sometimes you undergo a lot of memories and this is the first time someone has reacted with WOW!! COOL MAGIC!!!!]
Mmmmm. It is akin to a familiar. I create them as servants, and can make them in the shape of people, if I wish, with the power of my onmyoudo. I can then inhabit them with my will and use them as extra bodies, too...that way, if one dies, then I simply move onto the next body.
[Pseudo-immortality! Gotta love it!]
Really? No magic at all? What an unfortunate world...
[ a judgement free zone, apparently! that or he just doesn't care about the actual event itself, which is actually more likely. gore and weirdness isn't that far off.
gu yun listens though, nodding along. ] Interesting. Is that a common thing...? I've never heard of an 'onmyoudo', either.
[ sounds useful, though. a beat, and then, with a wehehehe gremlin laugh: ] That's quite the party trick, though! It is true, we've got no magic at all. Our 'dragons' are made of iron and steel, so to speak. It seems I'm something of a minority, when it comes to this place - if someone had told me magic existed a month ago, I would have laughed myself off of a cliff. To see it in action's quite interesting!
Ah, it's "onmyouji". I practice the art of onmyoudo. Its a practice that incorporates yin and yang, cosmology, exorcism, and the master of the five elements to tell fortunes, get rid of evil spirits, and the like.
[A complicated practice, for sure!]
Mmmm, well, in the modern era, it seems magic has become isolated within families who choose to pass it off as the stuff of fairytales to fool the rest of the population that their lives are boring and dull! Ah, there could be magic in your world...it may just not be available to you.
[ that last bit makes him laugh, actually!! a bright, amused thing, delighted at the idea. ]
Maybe you're right! It does sound a bit like the cultivation books, when you put it that way, Douman. [ the way like literally any other danmei i play would be all over that. alas. ] I'm not sure if it's for me, though - can't say I'm much of a friend of the cosmos, at any rate.
I suppose there are rumors that the Heavenly Tribes of the North practice some sort of mystic arts, but I don't know much of it - or how much of it is truth. I can't say I have much contact with them that's friendly enough to ask.
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[ WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE MAGIC???? ]
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[THIS IS SUCH A CONFUSING QUESTION TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT DOUMAN JUST STARES FOR A GOOD LONG WHILE]
...Well, yes. It is. That body was a shikigami.
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Mmn. What's a shikigami, then?
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wait.
he pauses. and then, by way of explanation - ] Sorry. There's not any magic in my world - that's the first time I've ever seen something like that. [ oh god is he turning into shen yi? getting excited over things like a NERD? ]
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Mmmmm. It is akin to a familiar. I create them as servants, and can make them in the shape of people, if I wish, with the power of my onmyoudo. I can then inhabit them with my will and use them as extra bodies, too...that way, if one dies, then I simply move onto the next body.
[Pseudo-immortality! Gotta love it!]
Really? No magic at all? What an unfortunate world...
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gu yun listens though, nodding along. ] Interesting. Is that a common thing...? I've never heard of an 'onmyoudo', either.
[ sounds useful, though. a beat, and then, with a wehehehe gremlin laugh: ] That's quite the party trick, though! It is true, we've got no magic at all. Our 'dragons' are made of iron and steel, so to speak. It seems I'm something of a minority, when it comes to this place - if someone had told me magic existed a month ago, I would have laughed myself off of a cliff. To see it in action's quite interesting!
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[A complicated practice, for sure!]
Mmmm, well, in the modern era, it seems magic has become isolated within families who choose to pass it off as the stuff of fairytales to fool the rest of the population that their lives are boring and dull! Ah, there could be magic in your world...it may just not be available to you.
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Maybe you're right! It does sound a bit like the cultivation books, when you put it that way, Douman. [ the way like literally any other danmei i play would be all over that. alas. ] I'm not sure if it's for me, though - can't say I'm much of a friend of the cosmos, at any rate.
I suppose there are rumors that the Heavenly Tribes of the North practice some sort of mystic arts, but I don't know much of it - or how much of it is truth. I can't say I have much contact with them that's friendly enough to ask.
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[And a light shrug.]
Still, its something new to experience! If I had it here, I would gladly give you a good show. I'd love to see your jaw drop.