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[dayific]

HELLLOOOOOOOO, NIPPON!

IT'S SURVEY TIME!

help a newbie get prepared for what's to come by answering these simple questions:

1. what's been the wildest Kizuna effect you've experienced?
   
2. what did you do to make that effect happen?
   
3. would you do it again, knowing what the consequences would be?

I wanna know everything that's fun to do, so I can make sure to do all of it as! soon! as! possible! so COME AT ME with all your suggestions and recommendations.

thank youuuuuuuuuuuu!!
( ꈍᴗꈍ)

Comments

[sakotis]

I think so, and I'm not looking forward to finding out if they have anything more extreme on the table. I don't know what I'd do if I had something like a beak to deal with.

Honestly anywhere in Kyoto is fine if you want to take in Japan's scenery, but byodoin temple in uji has a few nice ponds. And cherry blossoms when they're in season! Japan has really nice foliage.

Not that this is really Japan. Or I guess it's a Japan. The different loops and planes thing gets confusing.

cw: bug/snake mention

[dayific]

ooooh, yeah... I guess it really would depend on what kind of animal you get features from.
rabbit legs would be cute. centipede legs, not so much.
and imagine if you got a snake body and then had NO legs! no legs is one thing if you have no torso, arms, or head to go along with it, but if you're going to have all those, then you're definitely going to want legs to match!

I'll definitely check out that temple!
and I know what you mean about it being confusing. I haven't spent a ton of time in Japan, but from what time I have spent there, this feels kind of...off, to me.
what's that phrase?
uncanny valley
it's like Japan was in the 20's except really, really not.

[sakotis]

I'm trying to picture a person with rabbit legs and it's not happening. A snake person I can see a bit better.

I didn't go to Japan in the 1920s but I remember seeing pictures and books about it. It's like someone looked at them for a few minutes and then tried to draw them again by hand. But also they really liked science fiction.

I guess it's similar enough that it's not totally off-putting, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

[dayific]

I'd try to draw you a picture but I'm a really bad artist, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do the image in my head justice. just trust me that it would be super cute.

it really is very science fiction-y, and fantasy-y, too! I'm not really into that kind of stuff, but my sister used to stay up all night reading Jules Verne and Isaac Asimov stories. I'll have to ask her what she thinks about all this magitech stuff.

[sakotis]

It's okay, I'll keep working on it in my own mind. Now I'm really interested in how that would anatomically work.

You've got a sibling? They didn't show up with you, did they? It seems like this place is pretty good at separating people.

[dayific]

no, Shade's here! I was scared I'd be by myself at first, but thankfully we found each other in Kyoto. I guess I got lucky, in that way.

[sakotis]

Oh that's great news! Not that I've been here a long time, but it still seems rare with how random things are in this place.

Since you're asking questions of others, it would be nice to know more about you. Where are you and your sister from? Did you like it?

[dayific]

[ It seems like such a simple, boring question, doesn't it? "Where are you from?" And yet, the answer it's going to get is so wild. ]

we're from all over, really. but we spend most of our time in the sky. it's nice up there, but it can get kind of lonely, which is why we like to pop down to Earth here and there when we can.

where are you from? OH and what's your name? you can call me Sunny.

[sakotis]

That's actually fascinating. Is that assuming you're not human? Unless you're an astronaut or pilot, I don't know how many human people can say that.

❰ that's okay, his answer (being fully detailed) is equally wild. even if his name kind of answers the question...but not really. at least it makes him ambivalent enough to ask someone's status as a human. ❱

I'm from Earth, and I'm Lithuania! So if you're familiar with geography, the first question might answer itself a little more.

[dayific]

nope, not human! are you not human either? unless you are human, and your parents just got really creative and patriotic when naming you...

[sakotis]

Not human at all. There's actually a pretty even split between human and non-human refugees here somehow. I'd never interacted with a non-human person who wasn't another country before being here. ❰ unless you count like...a space alien, but he's thinking in terms of more humanoid forms. ❱

I never thought there could be such a variety, I suppose.

[dayific]

I didn't even know that countries could be people! where I'm from it's pretty much just humans and then gods like me and my sister. and most gods aren't really around much anymore, as people stop believing in them.

it really is kind of neat, isn't it?

[sakotis]

❰ it's a weird world when being among gods doesn't phase him anymore. ❱

A god? I know there's a few of the Grecian dieties around (I haven't met them). Did you have a certain sect of people who worshipped you — when they did? And what are you and your sister the Gods of?

[dayific]

oh, wait, really? I haven't seen those guys around in YEARS!

I'm the sun, and my sister is the moon. the people who worshipped us and turned us into what we are now are long, loooooooong gone. but the sun and the moon still have jobs to do, so we're still kicking around!

[sakotis]

That makes sense. Sects of worship come and go. Especially if you're old enough to know Grecian gods.

How do you feel about being a corporeal being in a place like this? Not that it's the most modern place, but I don't know how different it might be from what you're used to.

[dayific]

I'm actually not totally and completely unused to being corporeal. sometimes my sister and I will take human form and hang out on Earth for a while, when we're not working.

the weird part is not being able to go back up in the sky. I guess Gaia has its own solar god/dess so it doesn't need me, but I do kind of miss it, you know?

do you miss being in Lithuania?

[sakotis]

Oh, I guess that would be weird. I know I'd feel strange and I'm honestly not so different from humans, so I can't imagine the switch from a ball of gas to a person.

I don't know if I can say I miss it. It's a different feeling. I'm too intrinsically tied to the place, so it'd be like saying I miss myself. I'd say it's frustrating at times that I can't be there. Like the emotional equivalent of knowing you put something somewhere, but it's decidedly NOT there and you can't find it. But you get used to it after a while.

❰ he has a LOT of practice. ❱

[dayific]

that sounds strange. I'm sorry you have to get used to something like that. maybe the people in charge here will let you visit the Lithuania of this world, if you ask nicely? I know it likely won't be the same as being in your own Lithuania, but maybe it will help stave off that unsettling feeling?