seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

[commandertoolbelt]

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[branches]

Yeah. Though, I mean... I guess with the way things go, it's going to be shitty either way.
[With the puppeting.]

He's an idiot, and he's annoying, but he doesn't deserve to go out like this.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ he leans against a counter. ]

It's not fair.

[ he can agree with that, even if the situation doesn't seem as simple as possession or mind control to leo anymore? ]

But if you look at it logically - it's probably better that he's the one up tomorrow. He didn't remember anything - so that made him a wildcard. But By, we could hazard a guess at. And we'd have a better chance of stopping her than a giant lizard man.

[branches]

[He just falls quiet for a minute, but then he just, punches the countertop.]

How? We're always knocked out when people get murdered. It doesn't matter who it is that sticks around, none of us can do anything.

[commandertoolbelt]

Prep beforehand, is what I mean. Use those coupons we've got, confiscate that weird sword of hers, put in for some way to restrain her with the vouchers - handcuffs, ropes, I don't know. I just think there's got to be something more that we can do now that we know who's killed someone besides waiting around to let it happen again.

[branches]

.... Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Provided that Dimitri guy lets us. That could work.

[A pause, but then he taps out THANKS on the counter. Tsun...]

[commandertoolbelt]

We can try to talk to him, tell him it's to try and prove her innocence. I can't guarantee anything, but he listens to us, sometimes.

[ to the taps... responding with "you're welcome" or something would feel kind of terrible right now, so he just. nods. ]

Honestly, though, my guess is that she'll be a target next week, and he won't allow it based on that alone. But we won't know unless we try.

[branches]

... Yeah. I can't really... say whether she deserves it or not. I've killed people before I was here, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[Sighs.]

So all I can try to do is help whoever we have left.

[commandertoolbelt]

You're not.

[ funny how confident leo is in saying that ]

I don't think anyone really deserves it, as long as it's part of the whole "role" thing. You're right, though - there's no point if we don't try to help who's still around. It's just a matter of finding out how.

[branches]

Yeah.

[Listen he saw Leo turn a goddess into powder that probably counts as killing.]

Are there really tv shows like this? This is something people would watch?

[commandertoolbelt]

[ is that all he was talking about 🤔 ]

Sure are. Murder mysteries. Crime dramas. It's a huge thing, but I don't think I'll be watching any if I make it back home.

[branches]

[He figures Leo is probably smiting gods on the reg it's fine.]

... Humans are weird.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ there's a little puff of air, somewhere between a laugh and a sigh. ]

Can't deny that. I am one, after all.

[branches]

[Looks at him.]

Yeah, you are pretty weird. But that's ok. The first two human friends I made were weird too.

[commandertoolbelt]

Sounds like you've got a thing for weird. Good taste, if I do say so myself.

[ please kick him again ]

[branches]

[He will kick him again, though not as hard this time.]

Unlike you, Toki and Heihachi are actually stupid, instead of just choosing to be!

[commandertoolbelt]

[ leo takes the hit and laughs. ]

They've got to have some redeeming qualities if you hang out with them anyway!

[branches]

[TCH!!! But... It's still post trial which means time for contemplative moods.]

I guess both of them... they felt for me and my friends, even though they're ayakashi... Most humans don't think of ayakashi as equals, but Toki and Heihachi are different.

[Conveniently, a brief memory.]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ ...ah. for such a quick memory, there’s a lot that leo could ask about - a lot he doesn’t really understand. ]

Was that one of your friends?

[branches]

[Nods.]

That was when I first met Heihachi. He didn't even barely know me but he helped me save Imayou, the fox spirit he was talking about.

[commandertoolbelt]

Ohhh, okay. Sounds like a nice guy, even if he is just another weird human.

[ ...he could ask about the others that tsuyu has apparently lost, but honestly? it's already been a rough day. leo doesn't want to push him too far. ]

And the - uh. [ he makes a gesture around his forehead. ] You were horny?

[branches]

[I'M FURIOUS TSUYUKUSA DOESN'T SEE A JOKE HERE.]

Yeah, because my ward got disrupted. So I was starting to revert to my real form.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ can't tell if he's disappointed to not have a kick aimed at him or not?? he was trying to lighten the mood a little but oh well!! ]

Tree form...? Hey, what kind of tree are you, anyway? I've never heard of a tsuyukusa before.

[branches]

[Sometimes you are old timey and don't know what horny means.]

Tsuyukusa is just my name? My tree is a gingko.

[commandertoolbelt]

Oh. See, they're just named after their trees back home? I've never heard of a gingko, though.

[branches]

Are there only one dryad for each type of tree, then?

You're not the first to tell me that, though.
[Also I'm dumb it's spelled ginkgo not gingko.]