First Transmutation

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[As the small boy wakes up, dressed in his green jumper and hat, he shivers slightly and notices all the snow around. Standing up, he tugs on one of his ear flaps and slowly looks around the island. Clearly, he was lost. Was he alone?]

How did I get here? Or rather, where is here...?

[He'll be walking around with no real destination in mind.]

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[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Is it possible to forgive people for their mistakes, Kukaku?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[She stops for a second, a little startled by the question, since it touches really close to what was on her mind.]

...Of course it is.

No matter how bad someone screws up, they can be forgiven.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[Maybe he was mistaken, but it almost sounded like she was hesitant about her answer.]

Um...are you okay?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

...There's a couple people I know who probably don't deserve forgiveness. As far as i can tell, one of them fucked up immeasurably, and the other just enabled him to keep fucking up.

But as soon as I find them and I'm done beating the shit out of them for leaving me 'n Soi Fon, I'm gonna forgive the hell out of them.

So whatever trouble it is your brother got you into, if those two idiots can be forgiven you don't need to worry about you and your brother.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

I hope they have good explanations for their actions, but please don't hurt them too much, you're very strong.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Good explanation or not, they're both getting punched int he goddamn head.

But don't worry about them. They were both Captains. Hell, Yoruichi taught me pretty much everything I know about fighting, and I'm sure she at least hasn't let herself get soft while she's been gone.

I may have to beat Kisuke within an inch of his life though, the goddamned idiot.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

The women where you are from sound really tough. Are they all strong-willed like that?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

All the ones who are shingiami, yeah...

I guess probably some of the ones who aren't probably are pretty tough too but there are also plenty who probably aren't.

But you gotta be pretty tough to be a shingami, man or woman. Of course we're all pretty different and some of us don't look as tough as we are. Like Ru sometimes, and Miyako, 'n Captain Unohana.

They all seem pretty docile and you wouldn't think at first they could hold their own in a real fight but hell all three coulda kicked my ass three ways to Sunday...

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He laughs] You really can't judge a person by how they look.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[She laughs and shakes her head.]

Heh.. Not at all.

[She frowns a bit, since as much as there are good implications to that phrase, she's learned there are some not so good ones as well, but she quickly shakes her head and shoves that out of her mind. It's all after her time. She can't control it. So she doesn't want to take it on as another burden.]

Looks don't mean much of anything where I come from... I mean look at me. Rough around the edges, missing an arm, fighting monsters, blowing stuff up...

[She laughs and shrugs.]

You'd never guess I'm a noblewoman.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[That takes him by surprise, since he's not expecting to hear that. He doesn't fully know what a noble is, but he knows from the sound of it, the title was for important people.]

Y-you're a noble?!

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Heh.. Yeah. You wouldn't know it by looking, but I am.

It's all a pain in the ass, and I'd ditch the whole thing if I could, but Kaien thinks keeping the title's good for us. It gives us "influence", but I've never been as good at using that to my advantage as Yoruichi was.

But I just don't see the point of burying myself under rules and etiquette and confining myself to things I don't believe in.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

It is better to follow what you believe, but what did you mean by 'influence'?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

It's hard to explain. We're not really part of the government or anything. Well, I am, since I'm a Vice Captian but that's not the point.

But we're kind of put on a pedestal. People look to us as an example of things. So what we do is looked at pretty closely and our decisions hold a lot of weight.

Really, it's all total crap. If it were up to them I'd sit around not doing a damned thing but waiting for someone to come marry me, and that's boring as hell. I'm gonna fight and blow things up and drink and do whatever the hell I want. It's my life and I'm gonna live it!

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Um, I'm not sure about the other things and its not my place to say, but I think its better that you became what you are now because since people look to you, then maybe they can be influenced to do something good.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[She smiles a little. She knows she's not the best role model, what with all the drinking and cursing and blowing things up, but somehow Fletcher seems to have come to think rather highly of her and she doesn't want to burst his bubble.]

Yeah, really That's all I can hope for.... But it's just one of those thing where if you take it too seriously you just come across looking like a jerk.

So I try not to think about it and just do what I feel is right.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He's somewhat easily taken by those who seem to do positive things and know what they want. Its partly due to the fact that he is inspired, since he struggled with right and wrong before.]

[chuckles] Somehow, I'm not surprised to hear you say that.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Heh... I just do what I do. Ain't always the best choice but they can't all be winners, y'know?