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totsuka "tragedybait" tatara ([personal profile] skilful) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2013-12-08 03:44 pm

[video] backdated to 3rd December!

[ The feed opens up to one girl recognisable to be Kougyoku Ren looking into the camera, clearly held up by somebody else. ]

So when it starts recording, I should speak to it?

[ From behind the camera, a voice chuckles, sounding amused. ] Kou-chan, it’s already started.

[ The girl gasps and blushes, covering her mouth in surprise. ] I’m sorry, I didn’t... Oh, how do I begin? Um, h-hello... everyone. I mean, greetings! I mean...

[ A whisper from behind the camera: ] Introductions, Kou-chan, introductions~

Yes, you’re right. It’s not like I haven’t introduced myself before. [ She turns her head a few degrees away from the camera. ] I am Kougyoku Ren. I am… eighteen years old. I am from the Kou Empire, and I, I like fashion, fighting and… um... Anyway, I. I am looking for friends.

[ Again, from behind the camera: ] So, if you’d like to be her friend, please reply to this video!

[ Kougyoku immediately smiles and faces the camera after that line. It’s as if her personality did a complete 180. ] Did I do good, Tatara?

[ And, once more, the voice behind the camera chuckles as the feed shuts down: ] Very well done!

[ note; Tags will be coming separately from Kougyoku and Totsuka separately! ]
fraternize: (but then the fights...)

[personal profile] fraternize 2013-12-08 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...that you're earnest? I imagine that people prefer sincerity over lies, certainly...

[but quickly, the other side of it: about the video.]

Even if they don't like it, it's not as if you can't become friends with them later. [he'd know u_u he bluntly (accidentally) insulted a man during their first meeting and got wine thrown in his face for the honesty. that man went on to become his best friend! ...one of his very, very few friends!]
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[personal profile] redsea 2013-12-09 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's true. She remembers her first encounter with Alibaba. He had almost lost his country to hers, and their meaningless political battle was less than pleasant. Yet they managed to make amends and he even became her first friend! The memory brings a smile to her face. ]

Yes, I suppose. It is just that this place is foreign and I worry.
fraternize: (are you brave enough?)

[personal profile] fraternize 2013-12-12 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[at least she's smiling again!]

...as long as you make the effort to understand them, they'll come to understand you as well. [most of the time, anyway, sometimes there are just people who... well :C] Friendship shouldn't be one-sided, after all.
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[personal profile] redsea 2013-12-12 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes. [ She thinks of Judar. ] Yes, it shouldn't.

But sir, does that mean I should only befriend people I can understand? What if I can't ever understand them?
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fraternize: (it's as if you've lost your heart.)

[personal profile] fraternize 2013-12-12 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
...I suppose that would be up to you. [and he thinks of levi, of lacie, of why, and shuts down that thought before he gets angry about it. there's no point, not right now.]

If you can accept that you'll never understand them, you would have a choice... to pursue the friendship, or to stop trying. [can you truly be friends with someone you can't understand? he wonders.]
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[personal profile] redsea 2013-12-12 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a little depressing. I suppose I'm still in the process of understanding everyone... I'll learn soon enough.

[ That makes two of them. There's a beat, then she covers her mouth with her sleeves as if she had done something wrong. ]

I'm sorry. I must be asking foolish questions.