[Closed] The only thing that's black and white / Is that you don't have to walk alone this time

[handsome_genius]

Who: Yoon and friends
When: Various
Where: Various
What: Two prayers and a lunch chat

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Prayer #53 with Hitsugaya and Alibaba:

I used to dream of being up in the clouds, high above everything... not anymore, since my accident.
-- Drive off or defeat the flying ayakashi that is causing accidents in dreamers
-- 20 comments

Prayer #43 with Keith:

They say that nora are like stray animals - cats, dogs, monkeys, etc. I'm going away for a few days and I don't know if these poor stray cats will get fed while I'm gone. I'd feel better knowing someone was watching over them...
-- Care for some stray animals in a metro area
-- 10 comments

Comments

[handsome_genius]

[Yoon laughs a little, prepared to make a joke about being a genius. Then he mentions "with Hitsu" what he becomes. And that makes Yoon stop to think for a second... because he really could've sworn that Goten was strictly Aymeric's shinki. That was why he worried about Goten's reaction. The way that Goten said that though, there's no mistaking it. Something to keep in mind.]

Well, so a weapon in both cases. Are your names similar too? I was wondering if that mattered.

[sonofson]

Uh....I don't think so?

[He blinks slowly. He's really bad at remembering his names.]

I can show you them if you want? Maybe that'll help?

[handsome_genius]

Sure. I think I should be able to read them for you.

[Maybe with enough repetition, Goten will remember his names. And maybe it's not even that they're pronounced similarly, but have similar elements to their characters? He'll know if Goten shows him, at least.]

[sonofson]

[Goten nods, undoing the black belt around his waist as he slides off the top of his gi and pulls off his dark blue shirt. Despite all the fighting and training he does, there isn't a mark on Goten aside from his name. Chinki - 珍 on his right shoulder and 犠 - Giki on his upper back. He tries to glance at them himself too.]

See?

[handsome_genius]

Hmm...

[He touches Goten's right shoulder.]

This one is Chin - I think it means unconventional.

[That was straightforward enough. Then he moves around to Goten's back, placing a hand there.]

And this one is Gi... which is...

[He thinks, 'Am I reading this correctly? Victim? Sacrifice? Why would anyone name a child that kind of awful thing?']

Target, I think.

[The target of someone's malicious intent, surely.]

[sonofson]

Does that mean they're similar?

[He's curious now but after another minute or so he does start to pull down his shirt and shrug back on his gi.]

[handsome_genius]

[Yoon shakes his head no, but then remembers he's behind Goten at such an angle the boy won't see that. He moves until Goten can see him again.]

No, not really. They aren't even written with similar strokes in the characters - patterns of the brush when you write, you know?

[He tries to think a bit more before the memory of those characters leaves him. Is there any other similarity...?]