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First Blossom [Video]

[The man that appears is standing in the middle of the street. He is wearing a black kimono and a white haori bearing the number '6' in kanji beyween his shoulderblades. He is holding a key and a card in his right hand, signalling a new arrival to those who have been here longer.

His left sleeve is completely torn away, and his left arm is bleeding. It looks like it's been sliced into by a lot of tiny blades.

He doesn't look to be in pain, though. He's paying no heed to the injury. Mostly, he is looking vaguely irritated and decidedly unimpressed with his current situation.]

The explanation as to how I came to be here when I am supposed to be elsewhere was wholly inadequate. I am expecting a better one.

[His tone means 'right now, or else...'. He truly expects to be listened to and answered.]

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[LOL that disdain in your voice is so not making Blaine think any better of your potentially possessing ways.]

You'll have to translate that. I don't know what a shinigami is.

It means 'God of Death'.

[Long. Pause.] No wonder we can't see you. At least death looks good.

Oh, but you said 'us'. How many 'shinigami' are there?

There are thousands of us.

Huh. Just walking around and people can't see you?

There is no need for them to see us.

I'm sure they'd have a different opinion about that, but you should go get that arm checked out. If you have any other questions that no one else gives you answers to, you can ping me later.

Living souls are of no interest to us, and we do not kill humans. We only escort their souls to Soul Society after they die.

[He glances at his arm again. Nope, still not concerned about that.]

This is unimportant.

Huh, good to know. Though you'll be bored here, since they bring us back to life if we die. Supposedly.

... Humans manipulating death?

[Now that's dangerous.]

[A bit of a smile at that shock] Assuming they're human, yes.

Fools.

They have no idea of what they're playing with.

Feel free to enlighten them. What happens when you do that, anyway? Bring people back to life?

If this were my world, I could answer very easily. It would destroy the world.

Good thing it's not then.

There is no telling what it will do to this place. Unsettling the natural order of things never ends well.

I can agree until I'm blue in the face, but unless someone figures out how to stop them from bringing people back from the dead? [/shrug]

I suppose if you are human, that is one way to look at it.

What's the other way?

Fighting it. But no human would willingly volunteer to restore death if there was a way for them to avoid it.

There are plenty of hero types here who would beg to differ on that, I'm sure. I'd rather not die at all, regardless of if I 'come back'.

I mean that in a world where people do not die permanently, you would be hard pressed to find someone who would restore things to their normal order.

People look for second chances wherever they go.