jikan_rpg | November Catch-All

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November Catch-All

⌛ Who: Lan Jingyi, Wen Qing, Ye Baiyi, and Tay
⌛ What: November catch-all
⌛ When: November
⌛ Where: Varies
⌛ Warnings: Will be marked on thread

Lan Jingyi
[Kizuna traits- Jingyi has a small streak of pink in his hair, his eyes turn a shiny emerald green color whenever he's around Jiang Cheng and a light blue whenever he's around Sizhui. New additions: Jingyi now has pale blonde ears and tail of a labrador.]

Wen Qing
[Kizuna traits- Wen Qing is slowly getting more noticeable owl feathers in her hair.]

Ye Baiyi
[Kizuna traits- Baiyi can and does usually hide this, but his chest/ abdomen is covered in thick, white bear fur. He's just gained a small, white nub of a tail too, but he also hides that.]

Tay
[Kizuna traits- Tay has cute cat ears, one white and one black, and a white, long-haired cat tail with black patches.]

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Of all things Baiyi expected to hear, this was far from it.

"You follow Buddha?" Is it possible these men with the questionable auras are Buddhists?

"We're not devout." They eat meat and, you know, murder people.

He breathes a soft laugh at that and nods. Of course they aren't.

"And you don't believe in righteousness."

Edited 2022-11-07 06:59 (UTC)

"The First Noble Truth identifies the presence of suffering. The Second Truth seeks to determine the cause of suffering. The Third Truth is the end of suffering. And the Fourth Truth is the path to the end of suffering. Where in any of that is righteousness?" Vegas snorts. "Ever hear 'history is written by the victor'? That proves that 'righteous' men are simply the ones who subjugated others and get to tell their perspective."

"To identify the presence of suffering is to acknowledge a need of others. It's a matter of compassion and valuing life outside of your own. To seek the cause of suffering is about using your own time, strength, and courage to discover the darkness in the world and bring the truth to light. The other two are about bringing justice and battling the wicked who are causing harm." Baiyi doesn't disagree that those who are victorious often can slant history a certain way.

"Because others tarnish the name of the righteous doesn't mean they are, in fact, among the righteous. It's the difference between acknowledging there is a code of ethics or morality despite so few actually following it. You've obviously suffered at the hands of someone who has abused this word. In spite of that, I hope you find peace and a way to rise above it."

Edited 2022-11-07 19:45 (UTC)

"All that shit is subjective. Truth, righteousness." Vegas cants his head and gives him a serious look. "Have you ever tried not being insufferable? Trying to be right about everything and everyone isn't a good look."

Baiyi smirks and there's a hint of jest in his tone. "I already know I'm right about everything and everyone. I don't have to try at that."

Still.. point taken. He takes a breath and thinks of Riley. "What I'm 'trying' here is to understand you but it isn't working. Your viewpoint makes no sense to me, why else would I be putting in the effort to discuss it with you?"

"You're never gonna understand anyone if you think you're right about everything." Vegas huffed a sigh. "If you're always right, that means everyone else -- everyone is wrong. That's no way to approach other people. In any time."

"Have you met people?" Baiyi asks. People are really, really dumb!

"But that was a joke, young man. Of course I know I can't be right about everything. I was wrong about who the host of that party was and I didn't know how attached Ley'er already was to you. Although, you were being terribly rude yourself."

"Rude? Because I wouldn't stand for the aspersions you were casting on my character without even knowing me for ten minutes? Not sorry, I don't deal with bullshit."

"Where I come from, there's a lot more respect given to a man's senior and guest." Baiyi frowns. "Also, I'd just found Riley in a vulnerable state in midst of strangers and I can sense a number of things about a person by the energy they give off. Like I can sense your strength is still taxed, but your wounds have healed. You have blood on your hands. And you were goading me."

He shakes his head. "I don't understand why you think I was attacking your character."

"You found Riley because I was good enough to tell you where he was. You found him safe and sound because me and mine were looking after him. Did it ever occur to you that I coulda just let him walk home like he was gonna do; left him alone to fend off whatever other monsters are out there? Fuck man, you're a piece of work."

Calm, Vegas, be calm. Your stop isn't for a while yet, shit.

"Where I come from respect is earned."

Baiyi nods and replies as calmly as he can. "It did occur to me. That was the only thing I could think about when I saw him. Why do you think I was so angry at him? And I was going to thank you too before things turned another direction."

He sighs at the last part. He could keep talking about how that was a miscommunication or.. and this really is only for Riley's sake..

"Thank you for calling me."

"You're welcome."

That's it?

This is a good example of why Baiyi has stopped saying things like 'please', 'thank you', or 'I'm sorry'. It hardly seems worth the effort.

He nods his head, acknowledging he heard the response before falling silent.

What does he want? A cookie? A 'thank you' is met with a 'you're welcome; where Vegas comes from. Even a very belated thank you. This could very well be the most uncomfortable train ride in the history of train rides.

A returned attempt at an olive branch would've been nice. Did he actually expect it? No, not really. As far as he's concerned he has nothing else to say.

That's just about the moment the train comes to a jolting halt. He catches Vegas before he is thrown onto the floor like the majority of the other passengers.

He's accepted Baiyi's thanks, it's not like he's expecting an apology for his rude ass behavior. Vegas accepts that he's not always the easiest person to deal with. Hell, even Kinn gave him some kudos for trying to walk away instead of stabbing someone with a fork.

When the train jolts, Vegas grabs for the nearest... anything with a quietly hissed, "Shit!"

Baiyi looks about them, trying to see what caused this issue but couldn't see anything. They weren't in a car near the front of the train and no one else seemed to know what was going on.

Sighing, he looks back at Vegas. He slowly releases his grip, careful not to let the young man fall. "Are you hurt?"

Vegas meets his eye and shakes his head. "No, I'm good. Thanks. You okay?"

The ancient man studied Vegas for a moment longer before accepting that answer. He didn't seem to be hurt.

"I'm fine." He gives the crowd around them one more hard look before sighing. "Although I'll likely not step foot on another one of these cramped boxes for a while after this."

"There must be something on the tracks," Vegas mused as he turned to help a woman up who'd been seated nearby. "We might be here a while."

Baiyi sighs heavily and turns his gaze downward. If only he could simply check out, but he's too wary about their situation to do so.

"I already hate these things. I've never had to deal with crowds or being caged in like this before." It feels very unnatural. If it wouldn't damage everyone else here, he'd slice a hole in the side of this thing and leap out.