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[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Ageswapping
When: July 15-17
Where: Everywhere
Summary: A breach in the space-time continuum is messing things up.

Continuing from HERE!

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[justclaws]

Certainly.

[I am sorry.

[He doesn't say it. Let's just get this over with. Kija flips open the book he has been holding, skims over the incantation - yes, unfortunately, it is still exactly the same as it was, still every inch as presumptuous and absurd - and then, over the page, there were the names. As if Ao didn't already have a name!

[Perhaps he did not--

[That hardly made renaming him less wrong.

[The incantation - the prayer, the spell, whatever name it went by - is meant to sound portentous, Kija is sure. It is meant to be intoned reverently and with dignity. It is not meant to be hurried over by an angry, frustrated young man who just wants the whole horrible business behind him so that the other half of the equation can get on with his life. Kija rushes it anyway, the words tumbling over one another in his haste to get them out and over, a child reciting a lesson he has by heart, but is damned if he will be made to like, too.]

My name is Kija. Grasping your true name I bind you here. With borrowed name I dub you my servant.

[Oh, this is awful!

[He really wants to stop. There has to be another way--]

The name answers, the vessel to sound, I call you as my divine instrument. The name, Ao. The vessel, Kan. Come, Kanki.

[There.

[(He hates himself for it. It demands too much. It feels all wrong.)

[We are stuck with one another.]

[oldblue]

[ While the kanji for Kan appears on Ao’s arm and Ao turns into his own sword, Kija gets the vision of his little brother as a child and his guardian, with Ao finally going completely blind, yelling about finally being blind and about being human, and then crying, apologizing to him for leaving him alone, and then collapsing on the ground and dying. You’re welcome.

Now, Ao could just think what he thinks about that whole spiel, but that wouldn’t be any useful, would it? ]

That’s the most fucking pretentious garbage shit I’ve ever heard.

[ Not that he has heard a lot, considering he has, what, 20 minutes worth of memory, maybe? But still, that is really fucking pretentious. ]