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For Ryuusei, Koyomi, Jiu Wu, Kamio, Nagi, and Ma Chao.

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Jiu Wu | Kotoha

[powerisyours]

[ continued from here

he's scratching his head a little awkwardly ]

Would you mind refreshing my memory a little?

[moefortono]

He's one of the greatest tacticians and fighters ever. And one of the most intimidating, and most ethical.

[powerisyours]

Oooh. So he was the type of person you would've really looked up to, correct?

[moefortono]

I still do! When he was here, he said he'd like to spar with me, but I never got the opportunity.

[powerisyours]

That's quite unfortunate. He sounds like a nice guy.

[ my gosh you are cute when you're excited about things ]

[moefortono]

I think he was. Most people were pretty afraid of him, though.

Probably because he only had one eye and he was really strong.

[powerisyours]

[ chuckling ]

I suppose I could see why they might be afraid. Especially if he had something of a rough way of speaking.

[moefortono]

He did. But he wasn't just some big scary monster man, or anything.

[powerisyours]

To be fair, just about everyone's big compared to you, Kotoha.

[ he would hope the tone of his voice is very clearly teasing in good fun ]

[moefortono]

Well, yes.

[powerisyours]

[ grinning ]

But it's good he wasn't that sort of person. Just sometimes a little hard for some people to approach, I take it?

[moefortono]

I think so. I didn't know him very well, but I read a lot about him when I was growing up, so I know his history.

[powerisyours]

I can only imagine what it would've been like to meet someone like that.

[moefortono]

... surprising, mostly. I was caught very off-guard.

[powerisyours]

Because of who he was, or because he sneaked up on you?

[moefortono]

Because of who he was. He just started talking to me one day while I practiced calligraphy and I had no idea until he finally told me his name.

[powerisyours]

Well, you couldn't have really known, right? Most history books don't really carry accurate depictions of the people they're speaking of.

[moefortono]

I didn't think it was possible back then. Meeting someone who died hundreds of years before you were even born, I mean.

[powerisyours]

I probably wouldn't have believed it, either. I have something similar here with Huang Zhong and Ma Chao, but they're not the same people as the ones in the books and historical records.

[moefortono]

Mm ... I don't know those names but they don't really seem like they're from history.

[powerisyours]

Their story's . . . close, in that they have similar names and followed similar paths, but they're not the same people. The historical Huang Zhong and Ma Chao were military generals during the late Eastern Han dynasty and into the Three Kingdoms period.

[moefortono]

Oh, I see.

I assume there were chickens back then.

[powerisyours]

[ trying not to laugh but failing miserably ]

Yes, there were still chickens back then. That was two thousand years ago, for all intents and purposes.

[moefortono]

They told me they were extinct.

[powerisyours]

They almost are, in their dimension. But as I said, the ones here are not the same ones from history. They merely share similar--and not necessarily identical--names and circumstances.