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Application for Kusuriyuri from Mononoke

Mar 24, 2008 14:43

((OOC: the character is known only by his occupation title. In the show Ayakashi--Samurai Horror Tales (specifically the third story arc) and in Mononoke, he is unnamed. He is from the Edo Period, which was from 1603-1868. There are also trains in the last arc of Mononoke, closer to 1920, he is ageless...more or less ( Read more... )

laura palmer, wishbone, application, sadako yamamura, kusuriyuri, albus dumbledore

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sada_chan March 24 2008, 21:50:39 UTC

"Oh look, a little toy. Hello, little toy."

edomedpeddler March 24 2008, 21:53:58 UTC

Kusuriyuri turns to the speaker. He knows her to be ayakashi. She is not tied to this world the way mononoke are. "A toy, am I?" he asks, speaking slowly, his amusement trickling into his voice on the second part of the question by the drawling of the words.

sada_chan March 24 2008, 21:55:57 UTC

"So confident. It's cute, really. Do you know where you are, little toy?"

edomedpeddler March 24 2008, 21:59:29 UTC

He glances around the room. The walls are stone, unlike any building he's been in, save one. "A prison?" The thought that an ayakashi instead of a mononoke would be attached to a prison intrigued him. Maybe he'd read her wrong. "And you are?" he asks. He doesn't expect an honest or true answer, but the answer will reveal something of her truth.

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wh0_kill3d_m3 March 24 2008, 23:36:42 UTC

Laura frowned darkly at the answer to the sexual harassment question.

"Okay. What exactly is a mononoke, and why do you have to kill it?"

edomedpeddler March 24 2008, 23:39:37 UTC

A slight bow. This one looks and feels human. "A mononoke is an evil or restless spirit who is bound to this world. It will destroy those around it, killing many." He knows. He's seen a mononoke kill a whole family before he could kill it. "It is needful that they are killed, is it not?" he asks, knowing what the answer is, but it is more polite to allow the other person to seem to reach their own conclusions. More true.

wh0_kill3d_m3 March 24 2008, 23:46:24 UTC

She hesitated, choosing her words.

"In this place there are people who have returned from the dead by means of white magic, and are just themselves as they were in life," she said finally. "Could you distinguish between one of those and a mononoke?"

edomedpeddler March 24 2008, 23:49:18 UTC

"Hold out your hand, extending one finger. I will show you something." With an unseen gesture, he opens the medicine case without touching it.

((The scale will land point down on your finger))

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woocha March 25 2008, 02:58:51 UTC

What's a mononoke? Is that like a shinigami?

edomedpeddler March 25 2008, 06:01:04 UTC

The only tell of surprise is the slight frown. "I have never met a shinigami, but based on what they are called, I would be inclined to say no." This place, full of those who could be but are not mononoke. He may need one of his own medicine powders for the slowly developing headache.

woocha March 25 2008, 23:17:37 UTC

I met a shinigami. She was nice. Are you nice too?

edomedpeddler March 26 2008, 04:34:25 UTC

"Nice?" He pauses before answering. "No, I cannot say that." He is practical, manipulative, willing to do what he must to find out truth, form and regret. Nice does not accomplish that. "It is not in the nature of my occupation to be nice." Neither occupation.

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ijk_mno March 25 2008, 19:17:41 UTC

"You are a kind of doctor?"

He honed in on the medications part.

edomedpeddler March 25 2008, 19:20:26 UTC

"Doctor?" Kusuriyuri echoed. He thought for a moment. Doctors were more of a recent development. "That may be so," he allowed. "I travel and sell medicines." Among other things.

ijk_mno March 25 2008, 19:23:31 UTC

"That is what the profession is called these days. I think you are from a different time than the one you are in now."

Given his dress and manner of speech.

edomedpeddler March 25 2008, 19:31:10 UTC

"A different time?" He looks around the room again. "That may be," he allows. "It was the second year of the Shouwa period." ((1927, since the last arc depicts a subway opening and that's when the Tokyo subway opened)).

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lemondrop_party March 26 2008, 00:58:59 UTC

Gone is the grandfatherly twinkle so often seen in Albus Dumbledore's pale eyes. He fixes this kusuriyuri with a steely, steady gaze.

"I am Albus Dumbledore, and I have indeed returned from the dead."

edomedpeddler March 26 2008, 04:08:16 UTC

"Is that so?" he answers slowly. "The one from the questions?" A trickle of amusement laces through the question, mostly revealed in the slower drawl. "It seems to happen here." And that very fact threw off all his instincts and his tools. Were these mononoke or were they something else? Were they benign or harmful? He still didn't know enough to say for sure, so he might as well continue investigating.

lemondrop_party March 26 2008, 17:49:18 UTC

"The one from the questions," Albus confirms. "Is your true intent to kill me?"

Something in his stance, the way the old man stands straight and tall (even with his withered hand, even in his ludicrous high-heeled boots), some commanding aura about him suggests the task of killing him may not be very easy.

It may, in fact, be something only possible by his own collusion.

edomedpeddler March 26 2008, 17:55:20 UTC

"Are you mononoke?" Kusuriyuri asks softly. "If so, then I must." Though, would mononoke answer that question truthfully? "If you are not, then I cannot unsheathe my sword." Granted, there are many ways to kill without his sword, but he is loath to use them. They are unseemly and murder tends to draw mononoke. "Mononoke must be eliminated. They are harmful. I do not know yet about 'returned from the dead' yet."

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