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CHOSO. ([personal profile] deathpainting) wrote2025-03-30 08:16 pm

KARTERIA: INBOX.

INBOX

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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
wow i'm your buddy

felwinter is not different, you should both be with others
maybe, here's a crazy idea, go TOGETHER
be wilderness buddies
do it for me
you have to stay safe in order to keep me safe you know

it does trouble me
i worry ok
(。•́︿•̀。)
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
choso i can't get mad at felwinter for going out alone and then let you get away with it
if he finds out you're going out alone then he'll stop listening to me about him not going out alone
and he already barely listens to me about that
and is almost definitely sneaking out more than i know about

i don't want you going out into the wilderness alone
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
occasionally, but i don't really get much DONE when i go with him

it's you
idiot
and fel

i literally do not go out without one or both of you


[ He scouts away from one or the other a fair bit, which gives him plenty of freedom to encounter others out in the wild, but generally always plans to check back in with his wilderness buddies once every hour or two.

Oh wait.

The hunting. ]


.........

uh

except for all that hunting and foraging i did at the beginning of the month

shit

how are we all three hypocrites?

fuck
Edited (it wasn't clear enough that the last bits were meant to be small) 2025-07-01 20:36 (UTC)
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
fine
can we make an agreement that we will try our best to not do anything stupidly dangerous and
strike that there's no way i'm managing that

to not go out into the wilderness alone
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
it does
i've still got absolute buckets of cursed energy
no ability to use it beyond RCT, Infinity, and my embarrassingly limited Six Eyes

but yeah i remain untouchable, unkillable, and i've got enough energy to power all that for YEARS

except for how patho-gen can apparently just nerf all of that whenever they want
which is disturbing
but i'm taking care to play nice with them because of that
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
aww thanks babe
you're sweet
i want you safe too
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah
we sniped at each other a bit on the network
and i've gone out of my way to annoy him in passing a couple of times

but i've been good

i'm going to redeem him
feeling a bit more optimistic about that today
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
oh? you want regular updates?
shall i report in if i've been behaving
i expect to be told i'm a good boy
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
i ... am. huh.

i mean, i've got concerns. it's a difficult situation.

but i'm grateful for a second chance.
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
choso



[ the typing dots keep appearing and disappearing for a while ]



are we dead?
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-01 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
i've met so many people here who have told me that they're dead

they remember dying

and, like, i don't feel like that's the sort of information that gets offered easily in casual conversation

i mean i know we've gotten hit by confessional drugs a few times but still

the rate of people who have told me that

makes me feel like

statistically

it's all of us

and i don't understand why they remember their deaths

but i don't
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-02 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gojo stares at his phone for a long time without typing anything, then goes off to distract himself for a bit before finally coming back to consider the question again.

He could just ask what he wants to know without offering his reasoning for changing his mind, but he finds he wants to tell Choso why.

And, maybe, he wants to work it through for himself along the way.

He's found that Choso is good for enabling that. (Whether Gojo wants it or not.) ]


i've found myself asking a lot of people here what they intend to live for
now that we're separated from the things we lived for back home
i've found that for me, it's the people
you and fel especially

i want to ask suguru that
and i want to help him find an answer to it, whatever that answer is for him
but somehow i feel like
it's important for him to know that he died (he already knows)
in order for him to find what he wants to live for
let the old self die
become someone new

if i'm going home, if we're getting out of here, then ... i'm living for that, too
but--no. i don't think i am going home.

if i believe that i'm going back home, and i'm waiting for that to happen, working toward that goal ... then i'll never become someone new
i'll keep waiting to resume my real life back home

and let's be honest
if you gave me the choice to go home alive
or to stay here with suguru

if i am dead, then i can be reborn
samsara
(not quite samsara--but if this place is the afterlife, then ... the equivalent of samsara)

if i died, then i failed a lot of people
i don't want to know because i don't want to face that failure

but i think i might like to be reborn

if he is dead and this place can help him to become someone new
if i want that second chance with him

then

let the old self die
become someone new

am i dead, choso?
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[personal profile] mrblueeyes 2025-07-02 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd expected it, braced for it, and had thought that there would be a rush of guilt for the failure of having died and let down everyone who counted on him.

But there isn't, not really. He finds that he'd already felt much of that pre-emptively, already grieved it for his time in the prison realm. He'd already failed and been removed from the world, leaving his students and his friends on their own. He wishes he could have done a few last things to wrap up his affairs--maybe he did. Choso said he'd gotten out of the prison realm. Maybe there'd been an opportunity in there to settle a few last important priorities.

He just feels relief, and he's a little surprised to find that the reasoning he'd just given holds true. It's freeing.

He's glad, too, that Choso offers the information about his own death. He'd wanted to know, and had originally asked are we dead, but he hadn't intended to include Choso or to ask him a second time.

Choso summarizes it well with the simple implication surrounding his name, and Gojo's glad that he understands the strange nuances of it. Gojo, just Gojo, is an avatar of his family, an emblem of power in a half dozen ways, and it's a role that lets him feel safe, to keep people at a distance. Gojo Satoru is a demi-god, a weapon, an object of awe, with all the responsibility of the world on his shoulders and no equals. Satoru, just Satoru, is a person. And so few people see him that way.

But that's different here, where he's not the strongest.

He's not the strongest.

(He's still a force to be reckoned with, and he damn well knows it, he's still one of the strongest here both in capability and sheer force of will.)

He can just ... be ... Satoru. ]


Thanks, Choso.

[ He'd thought, too, that he'd ask for how. He'd thought, laughingly to himself, that he'd ask 'did I at least die a cool death?'

But it doesn't even matter.

He's free of all that.

He goes out to take a nap in the shade in the garden. It's nice out there. Sunny. ]