Audience: Gojou Satoru

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[they nod little.] You're closer.

[... a pause.] It's not an unreasonable request. I want the same thing, I just don't expect to have it.

[mukagen]

It's nice to have someone that gets it, though I'm sure several of us do. But some are more willing to share it than others.

[ Anyway. ]

Yeah. For most people, they don't get to decide how or when... They can only write down their wills, then ask for specific funeral rites. [ ... ] Maybe we'll both get lucky. There are the very few that go out on their own terms.

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[they pick at the popcorn a little again.]

I don't like to rely on luck, but I understand your meaning. [they are just a very unlucky person in general.]

[mukagen]

I don't, either. Power mitigates the need for luck, but sometimes the world hates you.

[ Kind of irritated, he waves his hand idly. ]

How strong are you, Pride?

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[snort.]

Depends on what you mean. Physically average.

[mukagen]

Overall. Power isn't always about physical strength.

[ The ideal is smarts and brawn, but we aren't perfect like that. ]

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Overall I can hold my own. I know how to plan, and how to improvise.

[mukagen]

Did you stay with the gang? Or did you end up leaving when you didn't need them anymore?

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They kicked me out when I turned ten.

[mukagen]

[ .......................... lmao i ]

Your luck is awful!

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I did just say I don't rely on luck.

It was a gang for children. They didn't take kindly to anybody over the age of nine. [... a pause.] Not that I knew exactly how old I was. I was guessing.

[mukagen]

In hindsight, silly, but they are a group of kids trying to make it.

Thanks for telling me a bit about yourself, Pride.

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... You are surprisingly easy to talk to.

[:\ yw they guess]

[mukagen]

[ what thef uck, ]

Really? I thought you'd hate my guts.

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[dryly:] I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you if I did.

[mukagen]

[ .................... what pride says confuses him because people still stick around and hate his guts? that's normal?

IS THAT NOT NORMAL? ]

... I guess you're right? I like you, too, Pride!

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[gojou nothing about you is normal]

I wouldn't go that far. [is that a joke]

[mukagen]

[ wow....................... ]

I never said it has to be mutual.

[ HA. ]

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Hm.

[they seem a little awkward, but.] ... Did you have more movies?

[mukagen]

More ghibli movies?

[ Hmmm. ]

Or did you want to try something different?

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[shrug.]

I don't have a preference. [though gojou might have noticed how super into mononoke they were.]

[mukagen]

Okay, let's try this one then?

[ i looked up movie recommendations for Pride i swear. Stranger: Mukou Hadan. ]

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... Sure.

[and they can watch this movie, too!]

[mukagen]

[ and they can watch this movie....... then i will yeet so he can talk to pride on an emotionshare week ]