[It's exactly the wrong thing to say, and it's exactly the right thing to say. Paying no mind was what the world required, what instincts told him he had to do and what everyone else warned him to do or else. To advise otherwise was to advocate for a shinki's self-destruction.
It was also, just as this brilliantly white visage of a person acknowledged, something of an impossible task to put one to. And there's an unspoken level of comfort and relief and gratification that someone understands just how ridiculous it is to expect someone to simply accept such things as they were.
Omi bows his head for a moment, then looks away, almost in shame.]
What should I do? I don't... I don't know how to pay no mind to having no idea who I am, or where I came from or what purpose my life served. Those things matter, don't they?!
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It was also, just as this brilliantly white visage of a person acknowledged, something of an impossible task to put one to. And there's an unspoken level of comfort and relief and gratification that someone understands just how ridiculous it is to expect someone to simply accept such things as they were.
Omi bows his head for a moment, then looks away, almost in shame.]
What should I do? I don't... I don't know how to pay no mind to having no idea who I am, or where I came from or what purpose my life served. Those things matter, don't they?!
[Don't they...?]