usogi | [ canonmates who don't trust each other for shit babey ]

That would mean everyone agreeing on which god should win.

[ which may be difficult considering they're all strangers and also don't know what the fuck conversations people are having with their gods. ]

... are you okay with yours?

He's nice! We get along well.

[ . . . ]

How about you and yours?

I don't have any reason to switch.

[ take that as you will. ]

.... that doesn't tell me anything.

[TAKA DEALT WITH SENRI'S BULLSHIT ALL SCHOOL YEAR]

They're not annoying.

[ unlike SOME people ]

Even if they were, that doesn't mean you'd switch!

[senri tried harder to get away from taka and they both know it]

It seems easier to switch your allegiance here than it is to get a new partner back home.

[ so shut up ]

[mmmmmph]

Maybe but -

[ . . . . ugh. there's something he wants to talk about more but he's not sure how to lead into it the way he wants.]

... You hear a lot of scary stuff, when you're doing your detective cases, right?

... yeah. It comes with the job.

[ senri doesn't usually ask about his work, so he's waiting to see where he's going with this. ]

Right - and I told you not to pick any fights with anybody here.

[he sounds unsure of himself, like he's not sure how to navigate this conversation.]

- because my god said there's two ways to play. Everyone chooses the same god, so one team completely absorbs all the others and if we do that, then no one has to get hurt. So if we can rally all... what, forty people? To follow the same person, we'll be okay.

[ he just looks at him, waiting for senri to finish. ]

[thanks taka, he hates this.

his fingers curl into the sheet of the bed and he turns his gaze to the floor.]

And some gods might not want to wait for all forty to come to a consensus - so they'll just try to kill people to reduce the numbers instead. Since if you're - not alive, you don't count as a follower anymore.

Gods are damn annoying.

[ there's a long pause after he says that. and when he talks again, he is trying to keep his voice even. ]

Patience said that if you say no to their requests, they can't do anything to physically harm you, but they might still curse you.

[ . . . ]

Even if it's not her week?

She said she's going away after this - and when I asked, we don't know if there'll be a way to reach her aside from offerings.

So I don't know if her 'No' rule will still count.

I think it should. All of the gods made a bunch of rules between them for how this is going to work, and they made some sort of divine promise on them so they can't break them. That's probably one of them.

[ senri stop trying to aggressively friendship the gods ]

[no]

Did your god tell you that?

Uh huh. I asked them a question about something, and when they tried to answer they were physically unable to. It would break one of their rules on giving out information.

[ which is annoying but whatever. ]

I didn't run into that...

[senri doesn't ask interesting questions]

What did you ask? I'll ask my god and see if we run into the same problem, just in case.

It was just about how long they've been gods.

... apparently they're new to the whole deity thing? Or a bunch of them are, anyway.

[ . . . hmmm. senri kicks his feet at that as he tries to remember]

I think Passhi told someone else [rabbits have good ears and senri is a canon eavesdropper why] that they got the offer to be gods, and didn't see a reason to turn it down.

Maybe they can't reveal anything about themselves to us right now - sorta like how they're all wearing masks? Passhi said she won't remove her mask or tell her real name for fairness too, but we might be able to find out later.

Yeah, it sounds like they'll be allowed to tell us more as time passes.

[ granted they have no idea what they're not allowed to know until they ask a million questions. ]

But it does seem like they want to at least make an attempt at keeping it fairish, so while they might add more rules I don't think the "no" one is going away.

Do you think if we say no to anyone that tries to hurt us, they'll have to stop?

[he tries for a smile and - honestly misses. it's hard to talk about.

he's not good at conversations that are so difficult]

[ honestly it's weird to have a conversation where they're not yelling at each other. ]

... we're at a disadvantage if it comes to that. There are a lot of people who could easily kill us if we wanted.

[ according to the statues. ]

Mm, I think I need to find someone nice that'll help teach me how to... not die, at least. Majima-san looks scary at first but he's pretty nice. And there are the -

[oh wait hold on

his expression totally breaks from morbid contemplation to light up]

Wait, wait, you have to hear something.

[oh no]

....

[ considering they're talking about murder he wonders what the fuck is making senri smile like that. ]

What?

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they're having this conversation in the hostel now bc dana's a dumb bitch

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