text; @The Seventh Crown of the Seventh Demon King;

[unrequite]

[ Four lines of text. ]

This is written in Victorian.
Kore wa Laterano-ji Higashi-go de kakareteimasu.
This is written in Higashinese.
This written by in Yanese. (Might be bad. Sorry.)

Please do let me know how many of these sentences you understand.

[ The first is in what would be considered Earth English, the second is what would be known as Japanese written in Romaji, but he's called it "Laterano-ji Higashinese". The third was written in Japanese, the fourth was written in some rather poor Chinese. He's called the languages themselves clearly incorrect names. What's more important, though, is that only the second one should parse as phonetic, and should only be understandable to fellow Japanese speakers. The rest are in whatever language is most understandable to whoever reads it. Funny, huh? This city sure is strange! ]

Comments

[petsthedog]

[Hrgh. There's a strong temptation to leave the message on read and fuck off rather than engage in anything more serious than the vague condolence, but. There's one bit here that rubs him wrong, so:]

it doesn't really matter if people accept it or not
what people say about it ain't gonna make much of a difference in someone bein gone

was just tryin not to be a jackass about it but whatever

[unrequite]

[ Ah, understandable. This person has reason to believe they're dead, after all. ]

I find a great many things forgiveable, dear stranger. Honesty is certainly one of them. I'm rather of the opinion that death is something that happens to the living, but I can't say that's a comforting idea at all, either.

[petsthedog]

you talkin the people left behind?
same thing pretty much
nothing anyone's gotta say'll make it suck less
nobody knows unless they know and it's still gonna be different for everyone
someone could get just a sorry or a wholeass poem and it wouldn't change anything
people just say shit to not be a jackass when someone tells em about it

[unrequite]

[ At this point, Midnight is aware that this person is probably speaking from personal experience. ]

Sounds terribly unpleasant. Makes one wonder why we go around dying in the first place. Seems terribly rude to inflict such unpleasantness on other people.

[ ... And his response is jokes. Sure! ]

[petsthedog]

[So much of this conversation is hitting uncomfortably close to home, frankly.]

eh
sometimes bein a rude prick's still the less shitty choice

[Or at least, that's what he's been telling himself ever since he woke up on that train. #coping]

[unrequite]

[ ... This place certainly caught this person in a bad way. ]

That's a terribly difficult sentiment to answer. Mostly because I don't mind people, perhaps.

[petsthedog]

[At least he's not far enough gone as to outright say that liking people in general is different from having him around--though he is lowkey thinking it.]

aint much to say
its just true sometimes

[unrequite]

I don't understand, then. Tell me why that is.

[petsthedog]

hard pass

[Being vaguely self-loathing on the network is one thing. He's certainly not about to talk about the details of his death and what led up to it in public to a near-stranger.]

[unrequite]

Fair enough. If you ever change your mind, find me.

[ Only one way to stop being strangers, after all. ]