text; un: aragaki

[petsthedog]

[Alright. He didn't want to be the first one to bring this up, but now that there's already been some Nonsense™ involving (attempted?) murder, he might as well.]

so how sure are any of us that we're actually alive here anyway
i dunno bout anyone else but i was definitely about to bite the big one before i woke up on that train
and if people don't actually remember it if they try to kill someone or when they're about to die here maybe it's because we're already dead and this is some kind of fucked up afterlife

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un: The Seventh Crown of the Seventh Demon King

[unrequite]

I would have died in my sleep, then. I wouldn't be terribly surprised, I suppose, but it would have been slightly before my expiration date.

[petsthedog]

[Honestly give him a moment here, he's distracted by that mouthful of a username. Did you cut yourself on that edge, buddy ...]

there's a lotta ways i could take that and none of em are exactly encouraging
let's take it from the top, though
why wouldn't you be surprised if you died in your sleep, exactly?

[unrequite]

[ He honestly does not see a single problem with his taste in naming schemes. Not one. Not a one. It enough to make one weep. Me. I'm the one. Fuck. ]

Well, there are a lot of ways I could answer the question. I think the most direct answer, though, is that I live in a facility that is partially military in nature. While it doesn't happen often, not too long ago, an intruding force broke through our defenses and infiltrated several floors of the ship. The level of firepower and experience one would need to do so and succeed at the endeavor is quite high. Had I been in the wrong place in the wrong time on that day, I could certainly imagine myself dying in my sleep.

[petsthedog]

[hm.™]

so all that about your expiration date was just you bein dramatic
you got no good reason to think you could be dead at all except bein a soldier who could get their ticket punched anytime
i got that about right?

[unrequite]

Well, I did say I had more than one way to answer the question. What if I said "yes", though? That all I had in my future was a sudden, violent death from exactly one cause. Would you be pleased that you were on the nose about a stranger being wilfully obtuse?

(To answer your question directly, though: No, but I wanted to give the most likely answer.)

[petsthedog]

i ain't pleased about any of this

anyway
there's immortals in the mix now, so the 'we're all dead' theory's pretty well sunk
good for you not being dead i guess??

[unrequite]

Thank you. I like being alive.

[ private; ]

I think I also owe you an apology. My tone was rather aggressive. It's less that I forgot that you were coming from the memory of your own death and more that I felt attacked about the circumstances of my own. Still, that's no reason to get so testy, nor was it a reason to assume too much about your motives. I do apologize.

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[petsthedog]

[He could have handled the possibly-sarcastic thanks on its own, but the apology on top of that?? that's more sincerity than Shinjiro is comfortable with over here.]

don't worry about it
ain't really a big deal to me
we all got our expiration date eventually