Otono-Tachibana Makie (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
therewerefifty) wrote2013-05-04 11:18 am
therewerefifty) wrote2013-05-04 11:18 am
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[Makie has had the facts of this place explained to her already, by a gentleman in a... fairly awkward situation.
It doesn't prepare her for the reality of a village with occupants like none she's ever seen before. Some of you aren't even human, Luceti. The hell. She wanders the path of the village from Community Building #1 down toward the plaza still in her New Feather dress, just like a gawking tourist, and spends some time staring at the fountain and plaza itself. Uh.
...right. Okay. Time to begin glancing through various shops in her attempts to find the places she was told her things would be. She finds her clothes with a measure of relief, and her shamisen at the item store-- and after she picks it up, she frowns. It's too light. She doesn't need to open it to know she's missing something.
Eventually, she'll find her way into the forge to pick up the last of her things, pays a visit to the Welcome Centre-- and then finally fetches up at the tea shop, which is the most familiar-looking thing here.
...sort of. Never really loses that dazed and confused look.]
It doesn't prepare her for the reality of a village with occupants like none she's ever seen before. Some of you aren't even human, Luceti. The hell. She wanders the path of the village from Community Building #1 down toward the plaza still in her New Feather dress, just like a gawking tourist, and spends some time staring at the fountain and plaza itself. Uh.
...right. Okay. Time to begin glancing through various shops in her attempts to find the places she was told her things would be. She finds her clothes with a measure of relief, and her shamisen at the item store-- and after she picks it up, she frowns. It's too light. She doesn't need to open it to know she's missing something.
Eventually, she'll find her way into the forge to pick up the last of her things, pays a visit to the Welcome Centre-- and then finally fetches up at the tea shop, which is the most familiar-looking thing here.
...sort of. Never really loses that dazed and confused look.]
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[She fidgets herself, clearly not liking this any more than her new friend.]
The Malnosso don't seem to care one way or another how...wrong it is. But children are the ones most carefully watched by allies, though that's a small comfort I suppose.
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How many children are in this village? I've met some girls in their late teens, but no one younger.
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...are they alone? Do their families come with them?
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[She gives a small, bitter smile.]
Sometimes friends show up. Sometimes not. Is...there someone special you hope to have come?
[Everyone has one...]
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Still. Her feelings haven't changed, regardless of her choices in life.]
There is. But I think I would rather... he never came here. This would be far more of a prison to a man of his ambition than it is to a woman like me.
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You are a very...selfless woman, Makie. Even I sometimes pine for my friends, despite knowing how much of a cage this can be.
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[Well, it's easy enough. I have no friends. Briefly she thinks of Omatsu... even Rin, but Rin is just as deserving of her ambitions as Anotsu is. Her mother is dead. It's...not something that matters, is it?]
I think I will miss him. And I would certainly be happy to see him again, but he wouldn't take well to this place at all. I don't want to see him caged.
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[She...is still not sure she could say the same]
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So how do you spend the hours here? If you don't mind my asking.
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[She's grateful for that, Makie.]
I play music, train at martial arts with friends, cook, and generally try to help people where I can. Sometimes I just explore, and I read a lot. And I teach shamisen to some friends as well.
What do you do, in your spare time?
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Up until recently, I didn't really have much. I was very busy... working.
But I do enjoy playing the shamisen. And walking. And...
[She trails off.]
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[She sounds slightly concerned, hoping things are alright]
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...I was just trying to think of other things. I must seem rather dull.
[But really, she was tossing up whether to tell Saori the truth about her shamisen. Some things are too much on the first meeting. Maybe another time. She makes a silent apology.]
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[Still shaking her head, she waves a finger to show she doesn't mind.]
Busy, perhaps. But aren't most people?
[Those without an eternity, anyway]
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I shall have to think of ways to keep myself busy.
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[Saori's smile is bright and warm, and hopefully steadying.]
Shall I show you to your new home, then?
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