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[tindery]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[voring]

So you're like the mayor or something, basically?

[He could be president someday...]

That's a lot of people to look after who are probably being wronged all of the time.

[tindery]

'Boss' is easier to say and understand.

[ he's just... Da Boss!!!! 'special delegate' blah blah yes but everyone just calls him boss ]

It is. [ he won't deny it. they struggle a lot specifically because of who they are and the work they do ] But previous delegates would just line their pockets with money like assholes and not do any work.

If it's not me, it's probably someone worse.

[voring]

[DA BOSS.

Anyway he just kind of observes Tobari for a moment, taking all of this in...]

...You're kind of a busybody.

[tindery]

I have to be.

[ which came first, the role as boss or the desire to look after other people? the chicken or the egg?

anyway, ]

What about you? You don't eat people anymore, but what do you do as a god? Is it all self-serving whims or do you have your own goals?

[voring]

You don't, though?

[Duties are all self-assigned in the human realm... Tobari you really chose this...]

We have goals, yeah. Right now we're looking for someone!

[tindery]

Consider it my own self-serving whim then.

[ it's the opposite of self-serving ]

Besides the Tokinaga guy you mentioned...?

[voring]

Different guy! Dunno who they are yet, just that they're out there.

[THIS IS PROBABLY FINE.]

I'm the only one looking for Tokinaga.

[tindery]

[ ? ]

What're you looking for this other guy for?

[voring]

We'll figure it out later!

[Which just sounds like the headass flippant answer of an idiot which he IS but is mostly just because he does not want to discuss the actual lore.]

[tindery]

Hm.

[ the way that tobari assumes it's the latter anyway because it doesn't make sense to look for someone without knowing why and he doesn't think obikawa would bother with it since even as an insane god he seems to have some level of reasoning

but maybe he's being too hopeful and once again trying to apply rationality to an eldritch creature ]

You don't need help looking for him?

[voring]

[EVEN AN INSANE GOD SEEMS TO HAVE SOME LEVEL OF REASONING... He does, it's true...]

Tokinaga? Nope! As soon as we get out of here, I'll just go back to looking for him.

[The way he'd have been looking for Tokinaga even before remembering he was here to look for Tokinaga, stupidass.]

[tindery]

The other guy, I mean.

[ he's not surprised about the tokinaga bit ]

[voring]

Oh. No to that, too! All of us gods are looking, so there's nothing humans can do, really.

[THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS MYSTERIOUS ASS PERSON IS YET BUT IT'S FINE.]

[tindery]

[ ? ]

Something innate about being a god? Or something you all learned over time?

[voring]

We knew it from the start! Or pretty close to it, anyway.

[tindery]

[ the way the metaphor here is like sea turtle babies who immediately head toward the sea but tobari has never seen turtles or the sea so he can’t reach for it

anyway ]

Like instinct? Huh.

[voring]

[If the sea turtle babies were returning to the sea to kill it yes...]

Sure! But that's not my problem for right now.

[tindery]

[ KILLER BABY SEA TURTLES

but tobari shrugs ]

Was just curious.

[ can’t deny he wants to know about gods and other worlds when all he’s ever had is his little bubble ]

[voring]

[KILLER BABY SEA TURTLES. thinking about how you love [redacted] so you'd probably find the concept of these gods hilarious.]

Hey, did you come here looking for someone, too?

[tindery]

[ help me ]

… ah.

[ little affirming grunt

and instead of say he’ll just show the shard in his pocket where there’s an image of the sweetest girl in the world asleep in the bed of flowers. with her eyes closed she doesn’t bear any real resemblance to tobari except for the fact that they’re both wearing extremely fine, luxurious silks ]

[voring]

[I AKI THINK SHE'S THE CUTIEST!!!!!

Unfortunately this is how Obikawa sees humans when he has not yet assigned enough emotional investment to start recognizing them on sight so he has no idea whether she does or doesn't resemble him. Sweet clothes, though...]

Friend...?

[tindery]

[ this is so funny ok obikawa

tobari shakes his head ]

Family.

[voring]

[HE KNOWS SO LITTLE ABOUT FAMILIES BECAUSE TOKINAGA IS HIS BLUEPRINT FOR HUMANITY AND THAT BITCH LIVES SO ALONE DESPITE HAVING TWO SISTERS.]

Oh. So she's important too, then?

[tindery]

[ tokinaga call your sisters i'll kill you

but tobari just frowns, a flash of something unsettled in his expression before he shuts his eyes and turns away slightly ]

... the most important in the world.

[voring]

[He has a lot going on... WHY ARE YOU LOOKING UNSETTLED.

This seems fair to him though so he just nods. Yeah!]

So you just gotta get to the flowers and grab her and leave!