folklorist | ϡ - Chapter Three; the normalcy of everyday [action/voice]

[ Regardless of the light snowfall now going that won't deter the ever wandering headmaster who is carrying various bags of groceries from his recent travels back to his new apartment. He’s just whistling a little tune as he does so not really paying much attention; he might even trip a little but he doesn’t fall ~~yet~~ the bags he’s carrying rustling with the action. If you happen to run into him as he’s standing outside community house #7 you’ll see his bag is filled with all sorts of foods, and a lot of bags of sugar…like three or ~~ten~~ four. ]

Only a few weeks here and I've already been subjected, or at least everyone around me has, to one of those so called shifts. Amazing! I wonder how they're doing it...a spell? Incantation? Perhaps some sort of voodoo? Hmm oh! Maybe it's these wings it's hard to say but I think...[There's some shuffling as he puts down the various bags. He laughs and clears his throat. ] Oh...I forgot this was on! And here I am talking to myself, haha!

Now then...which room was it? Floor...five. Oh dear...er. Ted, or Lazlo even, haha I seem to have forgotten the room number. Ah my memory isn't what it used to be! [ There's another light laugh. ] At least I found the building!

[ Or there’s the reason that he never asked, derp. There’s some rustling as he puts down another one of the bags scratching the back of his head to disperse the snow now clinging in it and because he's totally forgotten where to go. ] It's Valentine's Day soon...isn't it? Well in terms of days back on Earth, at least I think. I had almost forgotten.

[ His voice sounds completely emotionless with that sentence if not a bit sullen. A sigh comes over the transmission, albeit its constrained and distant as if Helios moved away from the journal so as to not be heard. This holiday is always the hardest on him, but he won't concern anyone with his problems. ]

I do hope everyone enjoys themselves it's such a nice holiday, lots of sweets to be had and all that! A very rich history to it as well. Maybe we'll even be graced with a visit from Cupid himself. [ And his voice goes back to being its usual happy self and he laughs. ]

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Really? I've never heard of such a thing. Sounds....demonstrative. What world does it originate from?

[ He just laughs at that. ] That's one way of seeing it. It's from Earth.

Ah, well [smirk]-- yet another earth. Sounds like something mine has missed-- by time or just place.

There seems to be quite a few variations! Who would have thought for Earth to have so many, hm?

Indeed. Seems no matter how well you think know your own world, there is always an infinity of mystery...

I can certainly agree to that. Mystery, hm? And what sorts does your Earth hold?

Oh-- I wouldn't presume to know about very much of my Earth. I lived in Japan-- and in an earlier time than many other I've met here, it seems. I was a mushi-master.

So something like feudal Japan or is that a bit too far back? Mushi-master? [ Interest it has been piqued! ]

[embarrassed smirk] You may very well know better than I do, looking back from the future. I was always busy in fishing-villages and mountains-- but it was a time of peace for the most part, and some trade with the West.

Mine was not the kind of work to disrupt the flow of history.

[[ooc...**headdesk** it would be helpful if the mangaka knew too, now wouldn't it? She says between Edo and Meji ;) Why yes, I AM a dork]]

Hmm peace and trade with the West. It sounds similar to the...Meji era actually.

Oh? Is that right. Then perhaps it added to it?

((ooc; I always wanted to know when it took place too. Why she never tell!))

Nothing so significant. I only worked to maintain the balance that nature already maintains well on its own. I traveled a good deal-- and used my skills as a mushishi wherever they were needed.

((ooc: to maintain the allure of Ginko's AURA OF MYSTERY?))

A noble profession! Like an ecologist... Mushishi I'm afraid I've never came across the term! But you've traveled a good deal, you must have seen some amazing things in Japan. The land is so rich and vibrant even in the future despite all of industry's encroachment upon on it.

((ooc; yeah maybe~ y so mysterious Ginko. He just needs a top hat and a monocle now. ))

[Nooo! Not industy! You will break his heart DX]

That's an awful thought... but yes. It is certainly full of life. Mushi are a kind of life in my world-- which I've been learning aren't found everywhere. Although, I admit I wonder if that is simply because they are harder to see in other worlds. Not everyone can see them in mine. They exist on a plane somewhere between this world and other.

And yes, [smiles fondly] they certainly make for some amazing sights.

((LOL at that picture. But Adashino would never forgive him for infringing on his look))

Ah it must be to a man such as yourself. [ He listens silently to the other. ]

So they're like spirits, maybe? Or perhaps ghosts...but then again what criteria does one need to see them, hmm. I've heard of varying planes of existence but never anything quite like these mushi. It's rather fascinating!

((He could buy him off. With like mushi chop sticks or something.))

[You called mushi fascinating. He likes you already]

Many of the things people call ghosts in my world are actually mushi. The ability to see them is simply something you are born with-- not an especially common ability, at that. There are ways to force that ability, but it is a forbidden technique.

(("So what is it you want for this hmmmmm?" "Your monocle." "...." "Shut up."))

[ That's because Helios is a DORK. ]

Amazing, so ghost stories are merely tales of these mushi? It must be frightening to have such an ability and not know you have it. One day just all the sudden being able to see that which is unknown. Although some might even enjoy it. Oh my that sounds ominous I suppose you wouldn't suggest it then. [ He chuckles. ]

((ROFL exactly. xD))

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