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[Anon. Text / Voice]

Nov 28, 2011 14:31

[At 9:25 am, an anonymous text flashes briefly across several networks, among them the one intended for newcomers.]

At pater infēlix, nec iam pater,
"ubi es? quā tē regiōne requīram, Īcare?"

[At 2:17pm, there's a still and solemn quiet, and then a careful, ponderously deliberate voice, so much more painstakingly chosen than most of his time and words ( Read more... )

c: asano rin, c: godot, c: ciel phantomhive, c: red x, c: franz d'epinay, c: re-l mayer, c: destiny, c: franziska von karma, c: misato katsuragi, !: daedalus yumeno

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/puts on philosophy hat youcandielater November 28 2011, 21:46:03 UTC

Names are just names. It's up to the people who bear them to make their own choices and not be weighed down by some supposed legacy.

gaveherwings November 28 2011, 22:04:58 UTC

Even so, I've always thought it to be a bit cruel of a nod.

youcandielater November 29 2011, 20:12:18 UTC

The Katsuragi was a Japanese aircraft carrier in WWII. It never saw battle and it was badly damaged in an airstrike. Two years after it was built, it was scrapped.

My family's had that name for years. You'd think it would mean we were a bunch of useless people, doomed to be on the sidelines and end up casualties, but that's not me and it never has been. Cruel nods or not, we take the old associations and forge new ones, otherwise we're just doomed to repeat the same mistakes. And no one can afford to focus on details like that.

gaveherwings November 29 2011, 20:17:25 UTC

Even when it is staring your own life in the face?

Yako is a Katuragi too ... perhaps you are related.

youcandielater November 30 2011, 05:32:08 UTC

That's when it's the most important.

[An awkward pause] I think Yako's too well put-together to be a member of my family.

gaveherwings November 30 2011, 05:35:43 UTC

Too well put together?

youcandielater December 1 2011, 21:39:15 UTC

In that she's not falling apart. She has her head on straight. It's more than I can say for a lot of people. [Then again, she might be damn good at hiding it. It wouldn't be the first time.]

gaveherwings December 2 2011, 05:06:06 UTC

You... seem to have your head on alright?

youcandielater December 6 2011, 08:58:38 UTC

Thanks, but I guess that just proves that appearances are deceiving.

gaveherwings December 6 2011, 19:03:49 UTC

Fair enough, then.

Yumeno, if assumed to be of Japanese origin... that translates roughly to "of dreams", I'm told... is that right?

youcandielater December 8 2011, 09:00:39 UTC

Mm-hmm. Maybe your parents were trying to make a point.

gaveherwings December 8 2011, 09:04:15 UTC

My guardians? How silly!

youcandielater December 8 2011, 23:37:20 UTC

What? [Color her confused man.]

gaveherwings December 9 2011, 02:36:11 UTC

Nothing.

Citizen names are not selected by the ones who rear us.

youcandielater December 9 2011, 06:55:43 UTC

That's a weird way of putting it.

gaveherwings December 9 2011, 09:24:18 UTC

Don't mind it, then.

I'm just wallowing in a little self-pity.

Shiroe was an important young person, to me.

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