jikan_rpg | Catch-All

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Catch-All

⌛ Who: Prompto Argentum, Aerith Gainsborough, Duo Maxwell, Xie Lian, Rude and you, maybe?
⌛ What: Shenanigans. Permanent catch-all.
⌛ When: Anytime.
⌛ Where: All over.
⌛ Warnings: R. Language.

✽ Xie Lian

Cooking With Xie Lian

Busking Adventures

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Prompto Argentum

Chocochicks!

Travelling Cameraman

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Rude

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

✽ Duo Maxwell

Lovers Tiff [Closed to Wufei]

Event: Trial of the Soul

I Can Explain! [Closed To Wufei]

✽ Aerith Gainsborough

Rock Garden

Event: Trial of the Soul

Event: Waterpark Waves

Gems In The Making [Closed to Maglor]

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[ Since that was the case, Xie Lian was in the same boat as everyone else here and since he didn't harvest his energy from the kidnapped and unwilling Sephiroth let go of his former idea. For now. If he found out differently, he would act accordingly. He didn't think he was wrong though. Xie Lian struck him as an honest person.

Sephiroth's posture remained relaxed. ]

And what are you the god of?

Right now? Not much at all.

[Xie Lian tipped his head back to look up at the sky and issued a soft sigh. Just what was he the god of?]

Scrap. Probably.

I was a Martial God of the North. But after my banishment... well, that isn't true anymore.

Scrap.

[ Sephiroth's tone both made it a statement and showed just how impressed he was with that. But just in case he had misheard: ]

What do you mean?

[ He did subtly perk up a little bit at the term martial god though. ]

[Technically speaking he was still a Martial God. That was his path of cultivation. Martial arts was his love.

But he did give a soft laugh at the question.]

It was a way to make a living, living as an immortal, banished from the Heavenly Realm... what else could I do?

I could also be considered the God of Misfortune if you'd like. Some would say that I am.

[ Sephiroth gazed at Xie Lian for a moment and then, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world: ]

Fight.

[ It's what he would have done in the other man's situation and also technically what he was doing, albeit this could be construed as continuing to tread the path of his ever more complicated loyalties. ]

Fight?

[A little surprised sound and then a low laugh. Fight, he says. Isn't that what had brought him to this point in the first place?

How to explain...]

I am over 800 years old, Sephiroth. I fought long and hard at to start, but the more I fought the worse I made things. Like this, my impact on the world is lessened. I am happier living a simple life.

[At least that had how it used to be. The moment he had joined the world again that bad luck had followed him again, though somehow that luck hadn't really followed him here, and Xie Lian wondered about that...]

[ Sephiroth gazed at Xie Lian for a long time as he weighed his words before his own slowly emerged. ]

I understand.

[ He did. The other man didn't know it but this had touched a chord in Sephiroth that he hardly wanted to acknowledge, even to himself. His loyalties, his past, all were...complicated. He shifted on the bench as he dismissed the uncomfortable association back down into the depths of his subconscious where it belonged. There was something new to him though. The beginnings of respect was in his eyes and his tone when next he spoke. There weren't many worthy of such in his eyes but it seemed Xie Lian would be one of those few. ]

What will you do now?

[He could have gone into detail but he had only moments ago met this man. Telling him his entire life story would have taken a very long time... or maybe a painfully short one. While Xie Lian didn't often feel shame he did have many past regrets that he did not always enjoy remembering.

A lot of his past he had forgotten, until recently those memories had been brought back to the forefront. And now he was here in Nippon and he had not yet had the chance to find out just why his past had been stirred. Maybe once he returned?

Either way, it didn't much matter how that he was here and in this strange world.]

I will continue to move forward at my own pace. A friend told me to do that once. To carry on doing things my way, and so I will, until that way becomes impossible and I have to find a new path.

[He looked down at a hand, flexing his fingers for a moment before he smiled.]

I can make a home here for now. Continue on the Path I have chosen.

[ Sephiroth acknowledged that with a brief hum. ]

You have a good friend.

[ He could tell from that alone. The advice was sound and it spoke to Sephiroth as well. Odd, how much he resonated with this stranger, but Sephiroth didn't question it. He chose instead to tilt his head to the sun and experience a moment of peace there with the sun bathing them both. To others it might have looked as if he was listening for something and he was in a way. The water that passed underneath them both was softly murmuring. ]

He was a very good friend. My first in... a very long time.

[Hundreds of years in fact.

Xie Lian supposed he could blame his poor luck on that, but honestly he'd just never believed he deserved something as wonderful as a friend. He was constantly on the move, too. Living a poor, nomadic lifestyle didn't always make it easy to find friends who lasted.

And then he met San Lang.

San Lang who was actually a the Ghost King Crimson Rain Sought Flower. Hua Cheng. And who, for some reason, had found reason enough to stay by his side and help him.

Xie Lian missed him. He missed everyone and couldn't help wondering how everyone was doing...

But in the end he shook his head and glanced over, only to find Sephiroth gazing up at the sky. Curious he turned his own gaze up to the heavens. And wondered...]

Is there a Heavenly realm to this world? I wonder who I would ask...

[ Yet another point of similarity. Sephiroth chose to ignore this one though, even to himself. After all, it wasn't a very comfortable area of exploration for him.

He turned his gaze on the other man and said with some measure of seriousness: ]

I have yet to encounter any so-called gods here.

[ What Sephiroth meant by that and the words that actually came out of his mouth were most likely two different things. Xie Lian seemed benign enough and Sephiroth acknowledged that he was a god in his world. However, Sephiroth had come from a place called Aellyn where such supposed beings kidnapped and controlled offworlders, and thus Sephiroth didn't have a positive impression of such beings. Thankfully, this place was very different. ]

[There was no offence meant and there was none taken. At least, Xie Lian didn't think that Sephiroth was being deliberately rude. There were many people in his life who had, at least in the last several hundred years, been rather disparaging over his godly status. And even moreso after this third ascension.

After all. He was considered the 'Laughingstock of the Three Realms'. And he wished people had said words like that behind his back and out of earshot. They did not. Xie Lian heard every word.]

You have had bad experiences with Gods? Are they so different from your world?

[Xie Lian asked with genuine interest. Learning about the worlds of others was something he found very interesting since appearing in this one.]

Not on my world. Aellyn.

[ Sephiroth said it as if it explained everything. It took him a moment to realize it did not--such was only possible because of all Aerith had taught him over several years now. ]

I was...taken somewhere else before coming here.

[ There. That should do it. ]

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