Otono-Tachibana Makie (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
therewerefifty) wrote2013-11-21 02:43 pm
therewerefifty) wrote2013-11-21 02:43 pm
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[Makie has been feeling restless lately. Usually content to live her days out in obscurity, she finds herself going out of her way to sit and people-watch more and more. It's still much the same thing. She's just...being obscure in company that doesn't notice. Yes. Or something.
If she were honest with herself, she'd know she was looking for someone in particular. She's been thinking of similarities lately. It's a nostalgia and a hurt, deep inside, knowing she will never go back to the person she truly loves. If this is her life now, here in Luceti...surely it's all right to move on and consider another? Even if the similarities she noted are stretched thin by further meetings...
But Makie is rarely honest. So she fidgets and is restless, and today after work at the restaurant, she breaks from usual routine to go shopping. The clothing store, trying on different outfits that aren't as traditional as her normal kimono. She remembers wearing jeans fondly in her other life. She ends up going home with a pair today. (She may never wear them, but hey. You never know.)
She goes to the item store for a more serious look at any hair ornaments she can find, and finds herself faintly regretting she ever cut her hair short. That one last memory, of fingers gently letting her hair down in the moonlight on the bridge. Only the more she thinks about it, the more the faintly disapproving face of her memories is replaced by another.
She goes to the teahouse to try and calm the unsettled feeling to her nerves, and ends up staring into space for a long time, unless interrupted by passers by.
She doesn't visit the battle dome at all, for once. Instead, once she's done at the tea house, she explores the village, hoping for a glimpse of someone in particular. It's...not unusual. She just enjoys the company of someone so intelligent. That's all it is.
There is nothing wrong here whatsoever.]
If she were honest with herself, she'd know she was looking for someone in particular. She's been thinking of similarities lately. It's a nostalgia and a hurt, deep inside, knowing she will never go back to the person she truly loves. If this is her life now, here in Luceti...surely it's all right to move on and consider another? Even if the similarities she noted are stretched thin by further meetings...
But Makie is rarely honest. So she fidgets and is restless, and today after work at the restaurant, she breaks from usual routine to go shopping. The clothing store, trying on different outfits that aren't as traditional as her normal kimono. She remembers wearing jeans fondly in her other life. She ends up going home with a pair today. (She may never wear them, but hey. You never know.)
She goes to the item store for a more serious look at any hair ornaments she can find, and finds herself faintly regretting she ever cut her hair short. That one last memory, of fingers gently letting her hair down in the moonlight on the bridge. Only the more she thinks about it, the more the faintly disapproving face of her memories is replaced by another.
She goes to the teahouse to try and calm the unsettled feeling to her nerves, and ends up staring into space for a long time, unless interrupted by passers by.
She doesn't visit the battle dome at all, for once. Instead, once she's done at the tea house, she explores the village, hoping for a glimpse of someone in particular. It's...not unusual. She just enjoys the company of someone so intelligent. That's all it is.
There is nothing wrong here whatsoever.]
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[Konan is in the teahouse to pick up some tea for home. She plans on enjoying a cup here - it's a pleasant way to warm herself amongst the colder weather. Ultimately, though, she just wants some for home, to either enjoy alone or with the occasional guest that stops by.
Which reminds her. She wants to reach out more to others. If there's one thing she learned from that fake reality that she's willing to acknowledge, it's that she likes being surrounded by people she cares about. She likes that, and here, she has a chance to have the peaceful life that she never could back home. All she needs to do is remember not to take that for granted, and to actively seek out the company of others.
When she spots Makie at the tea house, she gestures to the seat across from her.]
Hello again, Makie. Is this seat taken?
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Not at all. Please, sit.
How have you been, Konan?
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[Which reminds her. She really should introduce Nagato to more of the friends she's made here.]
I spent some time at Casino Land, though. How about you?
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I did attend the celebration, though. Did you go? [She wasn't there for very long.]
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[In part because he's her best friend, and in part because she was concerned over his Malnosso-inflicted phobia of the colour red. She'd found him blue-tinted glasses to negate some of the effects, but still watched over him.]
I was surprised to see so many people there, even knowing about the existence of the other enclosures.
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Nagato is... a friend from your world?
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Nagato and I grew up together and we've fought side by side many times over the years.
[There's no one she trusts more than him. There are plenty of people she likes well enough, and some she trusts to an extent, but he's the one who knows her thoroughly.]
...in that strange alternate reality, he and I were married.
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That must have been very awkward after the fact. At least... I didn't know the person I was supposed to be married to in that reality.
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[There was only one detail that really upset her. She'd been pregnant and just freshly on maternity leave in that reality...and then found out it was all a lie.]
It...was interesting to see how things could have turned out.
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Strangely, in that world I had nothing but a succession of men I used to love. But I had a loving family, and a son I cherished.
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I'm glad. We had an adopted daughter and a baby on the way.
[She's glad that she ran into Elie for a while at Malnosso World. Her not!daughter still wanted to associate with her. Although she would have understood if she didn't...it was nice.]
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[Complete with all the false memories of what morning sickness and other pregnancy related discomforts feel like.]
Even as my memories started coming back, I was reluctant to fight just in case I actually was pregnant.
[It rankles that she'd been taken in so thoroughly by what was essentially just elaborate genjutsu, even knowing that so many others had been as well.]
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They made me believe I was dying. But when the illusion wore off... the fact that I wasn't just made me happier. {Well, wasn't anymore. An illusion of what could have been.] But giving you that added life, only to take it away...
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[She does regret that she wasn't actually pregnant with the child, even now, but experiencing the symptoms of a terminal disease sounds far worse than experiencing the symptoms of pregnancy.]
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I suppose it is, but... it's a disease that I did have, and would kill me in my own world. The fact that it can't here... it showed me I had a better chance of a good life.
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Ah, I see. I'm glad, then, that you have that chance. This place has been somewhat of a second chance for me, too.
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I see.
[Her voice is soft.] I suppose the two of us are... some of the few that might consider Luceti somewhat of a blessing.
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[The next time she encounters the cultists, she's got a number of plans for taking them out. Some of those plans involve small, well-placed explosives.]
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...unlikable. [Perhaps that's the best word. A few months ago, she would have said it's all she deserved. But now...]
I prefer Luceti. The Third Party is... a threat that can be dealt with.
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[Konan's tone is resolute. There are enough people who she's grown to care about here that she's willing to strategize and fight for everyone's benefit.]
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She hesitates only a moment.]
Yes. By any means necessary.
[If she can find her place here, she doesn't mind at all killing monsters in the name of protection.]