002 - Backdated to the end of the event

[degozaruyo]

[Video]

So...it seems that many of us weren't quite ourselves the last few days. This one certainly was not. [He bows deeply] This one apologizes for his behavior. Please be assured that this one is no longer that person.

As for the young lady this one drew a sword on...this one cannot apologize enough. This one hopes you can find it in your heart to forgive him, though he understands if you cannot. That behavior was inexcusable. This one is so very, very sorry.

Comments

voice;

[ahappylie]

....Himura-san?

So it was you that I saw that day.

Re: voice;

[degozaruyo]

Yes. This one as a young man, many years ago.

Re: voice;

[ahappylie]

And you saw me as the child I was many years ago. How strange, that we should meet again like that. Your sword is very interesting.

Why do you have it like that?

voice;

[degozaruyo]

It's a promise. A way to protect those who need protecting without having to kill.

voice;

[ahappylie]

You said such a thing before.

[He narrows his eyes at the book.]

Why would people need protecting?

voice;

[degozaruyo]

Because there are those who suffer and are oppressed, even now, in the new era of Meiji. It's not much, but perhaps if those within this one's sight can be protected, it is enough.

It is also an atonement.

voice;

[ahappylie]

Atonement? For what?

voice;

[degozaruyo]

A great many things. The lives this one took. The sakabatou is a vow never to kill again.

voice;

[ahappylie]

Were you part of the war?

voice;

[degozaruyo]

And if this one was?

voice;

[ahappylie]

It would just be interesting. I've been reading up on that time period a lot lately. Thought I might recognize your name.

voice;

[degozaruyo]

You may find a Himura in your books, but this one isn't so sure you'll find a Kenshin, Okita-dono.

voice;

[ahappylie]

So we did know each other before coming here.

OH SHI--

[degozaruyo]

Oro? Did you know a Himura in Kyoto, then?

PENS ARE COMING

[ahappylie]

I didn't have the pleasure, but most of the ronin we ran into weren't the sort we would learn the names of.

But you obviously know of me - and if you were in Kyoto then, there's no way you wouldn't know me.

NO, NOT THE PENS!!! Quelle horreur.

[degozaruyo]

Oh, this one was well acquainted with an Okita Souji, but you and he look rather different. This one has read that people from many versions of the same reality seem to pop up in Luceti. Perhaps that is the case?

Or perhaps this one's memory fails him. It's been more than ten years since the war, after all.

Kenshin should be irrationally afraid of pens for the Halloween event

[ahappylie]

Perhaps.

Just how well were you acquainted with your version of me?

Oh, he's going to be. 8D

[degozaruyo]

Our swords never crossed, if that is what you mean.

[This is true; Kenshin may have killed several Shinsengumi underlings during his time as the Hitokiri Battousai, but Saitou Hajime stepped in before Kenshin could fight Okita. Because tuberculosis.]

This one is much better acquainted with Saitou Hajime.

[ahappylie]

[But just because they didn't cross swords, doesn't mean Himura didn't cross them with his squadmates or other Shinsengumi.]

Describe him.

I know you're on hiatus, but if you're ever down for backthreading let me know.

[degozaruyo]

Tall, thin, gloomy. He's a police officer now.

[ahappylie]

[That follows the history that Souji knows of him, as well as the description.]

And his opinion of you?

[degozaruyo]

[Oh dear. This was going to be somewhat harder to sidestep.]

Rather complicated, this one should think. Not exactly friends, but also not necessarily enemies. Allies.

[ahappylie]

I suppose after the war, the different sides would have to find some way to make peace, wouldn't they.

[Testing the waters here]

[degozaruyo]

They seem to have, yes. Though wounds from the war still remain--on both sides.

[ahappylie]

Such as that scar on your cheek?

I recall you had callouses on your hands as well, Himura-san. Do you no longer believe in what the Joui preached or was it just that you won and no longer had need for them?