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Who: Nanako and anyone!
When: Mid-August
Where: All over the Far Shore and wherever she can find other gods and shinki.
What: Nanako is on A Mission.


A: Photographs and Memories

[ After talking with Izumo a few days before about his plan to make a wall of memories in his bar of all the gods and shinki who have come and gone, so they'd be remembered, Nanako can be found wandering through the Far Shore and near the temples she comes across, borrowed camera in hand. While she's quicker to approach people she knows with her request, she will often wander up to strangers as well, trying to hide her shyness and nerves behind a hopeful smile. ]

Hi! Can I take your picture?

B: Practice Makes Perfect

[ Nanako has been very determined of late to get better at her abilities, whatever they may be. So it's not unusual to find her practicing at her temple, or perhaps out somewhere on the Far Shore for a change of scenery. There might be a tiny girl wielding a bow and arrow, taking careful aim at her target as she practices again and again on improving her aim.

Or perhaps it's the light show that's drawn you in, a tiny hovering angel surrounded by a warm glow and occasionally trying to figure out how to direct that light where she wants it to go - with varying degrees of questionable success, though she remains looking determined, even when she fails. ]

C: Safe and Sound

[ Nanako is crouched beside her shrine, peering underneath the planks of wood that make the walk that surrounds it, looking distressed. And apparently pleading with someone - something? - hidden in the deep shadows underneath. ]

You can come out now, I promise, the scary storm is gone. Don't be afraid! I won't let anything hurt you.

[ Or perhaps you've stopped by on a sunny afternoon to find her sprawled on her stomach on the dock that stretches out over the lake, bowl of crumbled bread crusts beside her as she feeds the fat lazy fish circling beneath her. Watch out for the pelicans, though. They sometimes like to swoop at unexpected visitors. ]

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[ Possibly?

She doesn't look convinced. ]

I dunno. Goten's pretty strong, too, so if he was impressed, I think that means there's a reason. [ But she gives him a bright smile, because that doesn't really frighten her. ] He's been helping me train!

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[ Yeah, he's not about to demonstrate or show off around the kid. Instead, he'll take that chance and move on to the related subject. ]

Yeah? Training you in what?

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Mmmm, I asked him to teach me how to throw around the balls of light like he does.

[ Sort of. ]

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Those energy blasts?

[ Man, how is it that all these people have actual powers and can do things like that? He doesn't have powers, just accidents. ]

Then you got the same kinda powers as him? Huh.

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Oh! No, I can't do what he does. [ She's quick to shake her head. ] He's way stronger than I am. But when I got powers here as a god, I can make light, and sometimes it scares away ayaskashi - some of them don't like it very much. But when I first found it, I could only make it around me. I'm trying to learn how to throw it at them like he does.

[bartenderizing]

[ ... Oh good. This means that Goten won't be bringing a small girl to their training sessions. Shizuo already feels bad enough going against Goten, despite how he obviously can take it well enough, but he couldn't do that to someone like her. ]

Ah, that makes more sense. Have you been making progress with it?

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[ I mean. Probably. Although that would be hilarious in its own way... ]

Mmm, not very much yet. [ She looks disappointed about that. ] But I'm still practicing anyway. besides, it took me a long time to figure out what my god power was to begin with so maybe if I keep practicing, it will help.

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Well, it can take a while to find new ways to do something with a power you don't completely get. You'll figure it out.

[ Kids seem to be pretty good at doing that. Then again, Goten was his only reference for someone that young. ]

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Did it take you a while, too? [ She peers up at him curiously at that. ]

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Still working on it, even.

[ Then again, he's got a lot of work to go through for even the basic ways of using his 'powers' ]

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[ That makes her smile, a little shy as she ducks her head for a moment before glancing back up at him. ]

That makes me feel a little better. So you practice with Goten and Izumo, too?

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Sometimes, yeah. Other times I practice with Sharak or on my own.

[ Most of the time he naps. ]

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Sharak? [ That's not a name she knows yet. ] I practice with Goten sometimes, and with Niles, and Homura, she's my shinki.

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[ ... Niles, he swears to all the gods here, if you're doing anything inappropriate or being a poor influence on this little girl, you're not going to be able to enjoy having or grabbing people's dicks again. ]

You'll probably get a lot of stories about her by asking Goten. It sounds like you've been working pretty hard with how many people you've been practicing with.