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Obi-Wan Kenobi ([personal profile] hadthehighground) wrote2020-06-28 11:55 am
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-07-29 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can, in fact, touch him! Though there's something kind of odd about the fabric of the shirt. The texture is right, it definitely feels like a normal cotton dress shirt...but the give of it is all wrong. Something about it just seems unnatural, as though the fabric were somehow a part of Shuichi's skin, rather than clothes being worn by him. The fabric also doesn't seem to have taken on any body heat, bur rather feels more or less the same as the air around them. Room temperature, as though the flesh that is both beneath and part of it isn't actually generating any heat of its own.]

[But aside from those two things, the contact is completely normal. The young shade glances down at his shoulder for a second, then looks back up and offers Obi-Wan a very small smile. A real smile, since now he actually has a face with which to make the expression properly.]
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-07-31 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuichi will allow it, but the gesture clearly wasn't what he was expecting. As the Jedi wraps his arms around him, the shade's body goes completely still and stiff. But after a moment, he recovers. His body relaxes as much as something lacking muscles can relax and he slowly, hesitantly, brings his own arms up to wrap them around Obi-Wan in return.]
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-04 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuichi looks up into the nymph's eyes once he's pulled away, but he's unable to maintain that eye contact for long. As Obi-Wan speaks, the shade sort of shies away a little, lowering his head as a very small, slightly bittersweet smile tugs the corners of his mouth.]

[Eye contact his hard. Even after all these months, sometimes it's still really hard for him to maintain. And this is one of those moments...though at least it's because he's really touched rather than because he feels inferior or ashamed. So that's...something, at least.]

[Touched, and also reminded forcibly of friends from back home...friends who also reminded him that he's not alone. That he doesn't have to try and shoulder everything by himself.]

[The shade nods.]


I don't know about deserving better, but...I won't forget that. [A slight giggle as he then corrects himself:] I can't forget that. Thank you, Ben-san. For both the reminder and...again, for helping me out of that dream I was stuck in.

[Yup, he remembers too!]
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-06 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
A-Ah! Right...sorry. I didn't mean to distract you from that...

[The shade turns his head back in the direction of the light switch, which flicks itself back on. In that instant where darkness becomes light, Shuichi's body dissipates. Like a puff of smoke, he's suddenly nothing but shadows hovering in a seated position over the couch again.]
diffidentive: bookstore shirt when we fucked. Ironic yet appropriate. (unsure ✯ I was wearing my "Get Used")

[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-06 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, um... [The shade gives a nervous little laugh, raising an overly large, shadowy claw to rub at the back of his neck.] Well you didn't need to worry about that. I can't drink or eat any more, after all.

[Which explains why he only brought one mug out with him.]

But it's the same for me...there are plenty of teas here that are similar to ones in my world, but there are just as many that seem to be completely absent here. But it was nice to try all the different varieties here, when I still could!
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-07 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Mm! [He nods.] I will, if that time comes. Which...I guess isn't totally impossible, given that it happened once already, thanks to the poachers...

[As much as he hopes they've been put out of business for good...maybe someone else will find a way of changing a person's monster type further along down the line. Shuichi can only hope.]
diffidentive: relationship isn't constantly mistaken for a homoerotic love affair, are you really friends? (neutral ✯ If you and your best friend's)

[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuichi is more than happy not to talk about the poachers. He was lucky enough to not be taken, but the latest mess has still impacted him. Taking care of Kokichi has been hard...not in the sense that it's particularly difficult for him to do, but rather it's just been hard for him to see the damage they did to his closest friend.]

It's been pretty uneventful apart from that, not that I'm complaining. I'm more than happy with uneventful. Mostly I've just been working and spending time at the library or with Oma-kun.

[The answer is not much. He does not do much with his time here, Obi-Wan. Shuichi is kind of a boring kid.]
diffidentive: bookstore shirt when we fucked. Ironic yet appropriate. (unsure ✯ I was wearing my "Get Used")

[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[The shade's shoulders seem to sag a little bit, but he recovers quickly and gives a feeble little chuckle.]

I've...never been a particularly outgoing person, I guess. [More like the exact opposite. He's almost debilitatingly shy, on top of being the sort of person who doesn't like to bother other people. He's trying to get better about it, but his friend circle is still pretty small.] I do have some friends that I've met here, we just...don't spend as much time together.
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-12 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

Yes...to both, actually. I like pretty much all kinds of books, though. I suppose mystery novels or non-fiction books would be my favorites, but I really enjoy action and suspense stories too.

[Reading about action is more than enough to satisfy him, honestly. He doesn't need to be out living it.]

But, really, so long as it looks interesting and is well-written, I'm willing to at least give it a try.
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-14 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuichi's eyes widen and he gives a sort of appreciative little gasp.]

That does sound like the sort of place I could easily spend hours at a time in. [He giggles.] Maybe even days at a time if there's a whole galaxy's worth of information in there. I've always liked libraries, and I really love learning new things...

[Though he tends more towards history than science, himself.]
diffidentive: when you have a mystery bruise and youre unsure if it was from crazy sex or getting bitten by a duck. Life. (unsure ✯ You know it was a weird week)

[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-16 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yes, but hopefully not all at once! [Shuichi is the sort of person who loses great dollops of time at once to reading and researching...but even he isn't so hopeless that he'd let months slip by without his noticing. That's what he meant.]

So is that where you learned about the Force, then? The Archives?

[You promised you would tell him about the Force, someday, Obi-Wan! Consider: today.]
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-18 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Surprisingly, the fact that Obi-Wan was enrolled as a student when he was only three years old doesn't seem to faze Shuichi very much. After all, it's not uncommon for some Japanese parents to send their children to kindergarten at that age.]

[Though he also doesn't realize exactly what "brought to the temple" means...he's kind of assuming it's like school. That he'd go to the temple for a set number of hours a day, then return to his family, rinse and repeat.]


I see. So...what exactly is the Force? You said you could feel the world and life through it, right? So it's some kind of...unseen connection between all living things, then?
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[personal profile] diffidentive 2020-08-22 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shuichi listens quietly, his shadows undulating in their usual slow, steady rhythm.]

I see...in my world, there were many cultures that believed in something like that. A life energy that flows through everything. But nobody's ever found actual evidence of such a thing...so it's never been more than a spiritual belief. But I'm guessing that's not the case in your galaxy?

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