winepouring: nervous laughter (taking my doubts)
Shi Qingxuan 🍂 师青玄 ([personal profile] winepouring) wrote2019-06-18 07:49 pm

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inuko: (consider | i'm crankin' up)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-05 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... something like that. Mostly their belief seems to be a deterrent to spirits with mischief or harm in their minds. Or in their energies. A jealous god is a good guardian of all their believers, I guess.

[ He says this with a shrug, because in his experience, it's proven true to an extent. Murasame can certainly break apart those barriers, but that's almost what his existence is meant to be: something which levels demons, gods, and formless things to mortality, technically.

Not that he concerns himself with this for the most part. Shino's not interested in demonhunts, let along godhunts, and is primarily interested in bead hunts back home, because once he repays Rio Satomi for his help five years ago, he'll be free.

To do what is a question he has no answer to yet, other than to be with Sousuke in whatever he does, doing his church work perhaps, and to support Hamaji as she continues toward her goal of becoming a doctor. Even if he has to sneak her all kinds of suspicious books in the process.
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Hm? Me? [ He finally lifts his finger away, looking at the two bits of ribbon remaining, and reaches out for them... a little tentative. ] Are you sure? If I mess up, you'll have to redo them yourself.

[ He says this, but he's taking those end pieces and repeating Shi Qingxuan's motions with more fumbling, but clearly having paid attention to the other man's work with the intricate knot. It's not perfect, far from it, but it doesn't look as bad as Shino was expecting, so he's pleased... if bothered that it doesn't look smooth enough. ]
inuko: (smile | to land in your head)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-09 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Who said anything about protecting believers... it's more what protects the church in the Imperial Capitol, but as he didn't clarify, and sees no reason to do so, it won't come up that he sees this one God as jealous about letting any other Gods into His territory.

Instead, with that encouragement, he feels torn between taking the praise and looking for an insult... but it's not in his nature to assume the worst, and so he smiles, rubbing the back of his neck in mild embarrassment. He can see how imperfect it is, and far from being up on the ideal of imperfections being part of an artform, it's more like failing to have lived up to an expectation. Next time! Next time he randomly needs to tie a knot out of ribbons around a tree, he'll get it right!
]

Doesn't mean it looks so good. But it's fancier than a plain knot, so... here's to being fancy friends?

[ ... that makes no sense. He groans as he says it, stomach rumbling, and he rubs his face and shoots Shi Qingxuan a sheepish look. ]

Or maybe food friends? I haven't eaten well the last few days.

[ He makes to start climbing down, his hand coming to rest on top of Shi Qingxuan's foot on accident. He tries to pull his hand away but instead finds..................... it's firmly stuck there? He tries to pull away again, and it's obvious he's leaning away, but his hand just. Stays there. ]

What the—
inuko: (shout | who lost control)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-15 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Don't lean back?!

[ Meanwhile, here's Shi Qingxuan, lifting his foot and boot, which ends up... lifting Shino? He's losing his footing on the lower branch, and then while he's trying to find a new one, making all sorts of panicked wait wait wait noises, his hand brushes against Shi Qingxuan, and he finds a new foothold branch, going to once more pull his hand away.

It almost works, and he finds himself loosening his grip on Shi Qingxuan's foot—except then just as inevitably, he's taking hold of his hand, their fingers lacing together seamlessly, like it's fated.

What's worse is how Shi Qingxuan, without even straining, continues to lift his hand, with Shino attached.

Which means Shi Qingxuan now has a dangling Shino staring wide eyed at him, second hand having come up to grab onto Shi Qingxuan's arm, using that to lever himself higher.
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How strong are you?! It's not enough you're so tall, you have to have super strength too?!
inuko: (think | once or twice)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-15 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Spiritual power? How does spiritual power do this?!

[ Not that he fights being lowered onto the same branch, but while one hand releases Shi Qingxuan—the hand which he'd brought up to join the one whose fingers laced through the taller guy's fingers—their joined hands remain as they are.

Standing side by side on the same branch, Shino uses his free hand to grab onto whatever branch is closest, which happens to be more or less behind them both.
]

I'm not choosing to hold your hand. [ In fact, he starts shaking their joined hands. ] I'm trying to let go. Will you relax your grip, huh?
inuko: (surprise | show you the harder)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-15 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Spiritual powers? They work like that?

[ He's addressing the "harmless, unpredictable, hard to deal with magic." After having said... or groused, over what Shi Qingxuan's spiritual powers are doing.

Then again, he supposes out of the people he knows who've all ended up bound to demons of some kind, they all have greater powers that are probably energy related? Just not... spiritual? Or are they? Not worth the headache of trying to figure out.
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And this magic... [ he squeezes their held hands. ] You're so calm about this? We're stuck up in a tree, you know!

[ It's that, not being so close to him, not the fact that they're moonlacing and its flowing up his arm, not even the magic... it's them stuck in a tree. How long are they going to stay like this? ]
inuko: (determined | your leaving)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-16 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's so much cooler than what that stupid monk tried doing...

[ Congratulation, cultivation is cooler than a monk cultivating demons to attack, well, demons.

Anyway.

He's about to object that they can figure it out if they coordinate efforts, but holds off as Shi Qingxuan proclaims with such certainty he can get them down. Shino blinks, thinking of the brothers and their oni forms, then blinks again.
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As long as you don't call down a typhoon, we should be okay.

[ He accepts the wind use without much comment, because frankly, he can call down rainstorms, the brothers can call thunder and lightning along with rain, and there are far more mystifying things (like electronic money) to him here. Wind use?

Novel, yes, but much more familiar.
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What do you need me to do?

[ Hang on to him? Get around him so they can move their arms so he can get on his back? ]
inuko: (smile | i whisper truce)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-16 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't need to, but it feels stranger just holding hands and waiting for whatever's going to happen, so he as nonchalantly as possible loops an arm around Shi Qingxuan's waist and tucks himself against his side. Which, being on the branch, means shuffling and not using their joined hands, but he'll ignore that for now.

Being scared of heights isn't one of his problems: the whole event happens so quickly he's more caught off guard by suddenly finding themselves gently set on the ground without their hair even whipping around in their faces that he stays pressed to Shi Qingxuan's side, eyes wide and blinking, trying to make sense of what the heck just happened.Magic's good enough as a word, okay!Still hugging him, and really having forgotten even if he's feeling the moonlacing as a pleasant sort of buzz, Shino stares back up into the tree, spies their floppy knot, then whips his head back around to look up at Shi Qingxuan's face. Which is more craning than usual, he's so close, but he'll choose to overlook that continuing fact of his life for the time being.
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Can you do it again!? How far can you fly? How high can you go?
inuko: (smile | to land in your head)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-18 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
You could fly us to eat—

[ He points out as he lets go and steps away, or lets go as much as he can considering their fingers are still laced together. He can cope with this, he just stands off to the side he's joined to and stretches as if having climbed up and been flown down a tree is a great affair.

Mostly it's to disguise how he almost tries folding Shi Qingxuan's arm behind his head along with his own arm. It's not like he's forgotten he's holding his hand, but he has, temporarily, forgotten it's not so easy to simply let go.
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Anyway, recommendations, Lord Windy?

[ kazesama, more or less, okay! ]
inuko: (smile | i whisper truce)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-18 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lord Windy, Wind Master, don't they imply similar things? He's still excited by this idea, though again, now he's turning his head toward Shi Qingxuan and smiling up at him, in an instantly better mood than earlier. Easy to please, or just simpleminded? Dealer's choice. ]

Shino! Shino's fine. What about you? Lord? Windy? Master Windsome? Shi Qingxuan? Qingxuan? Shi?

[ Give him something or else he's likely going to default to Too Familiar for Shi Qingxuan's tastes, because his general opinions on things are distance measures are best served to people you cannot stand. ]

As for food, I love meat! Beef, chicken, squid, anything but liver! Spicy, sweet, sour, I'll take it all!
inuko: (smile | no i'm not what you think)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-18 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd be more respectful, it's true, because he has more respect for gods and demons (who aren't being stupid) than he does for humans, and he's... not even aware of that bias. Or how it's slowly been growing, because of his awareness of the power most supernatural beings hold compared to an average human.

Doesn't mean he doesn't still piss people off, or walk into areas he shouldn't be uninvited, but at least he has a sense of what it is to be respectful.
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Qingxuan, then. Lord Windy when you're being impressive.

[ He may or may not later lower his face into his hands if he ever learns Shi Qingxuan is, actually, a god. It's. Just let him be for now.

Regardless, he grins, shrugging his shoulders and swinging their joined hands a bit while staying in place. The fan makes more sense now, as something he otherwise tends to associate with women by his point in history, or with actors.
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What, a meat-lover? Who doesn't love meat! But if you know a place, then let's go!
inuko: (smile | there is no time to waste)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-21 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ He is like a child in some respects, and carefree mannerisms are one of them; then again, Shi Qingxuan is the one subtly looking for praise and showing off. They're in good company. ]

I don't hate other things, but meat's the best! And sure, sure.

[ He's in such a good mood with the idea of food coming along soon that he steps out and faces Qingxuan, wrapping his free arm around his waist. It leaves him facing him, honestly, though he looks out over his own shoulder, their joined arms tucked up between their chests because it was the easiest way for Shino to position himself when it's all just a touch awkward. ]

Whenever you're ready, fly us away, Lord Windy!
inuko: (smile | you're leaving)

[personal profile] inuko 2019-09-24 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shino is soaking up the affection and attention. The moonlacing is something he's getting more used to, like a cat sprawling out in the sun, because the sheer pleasant warmth of it is addictive to someone who already believes in casual physical affection for his family, the people he cares about.

Extending it to strangers is... part of why he's on board to make them friends. Strangers could be the whole of everyone on this planet. Friends are what he really needs.

He squeezes back, more of an I'm ready than a I'm reassured. He's already placed his faith in Shi Qingxuan, and just like that, he has no particular doubt. It's Shi Qingxuan's confidence that helps lend Shino that faith, and he's grinning without realising as soon as that fan moves and the wind around them lifts them up.

The robes hitting his lower legs put him in mind of Rio Satomi as they rise higher, and higher, and for a moment, up here, he feels like they're like birds, higher over the park. Not as high as Murasame might fly, but this isn't a view Shino generally has, and he's wide eyed soaking it in, grin morphing into a smile of pure pleasure.
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We're flying.

[ He states, and yes, it's obvious, and no, they're not magically birds, but it's such a thought and a reality that stating as much has him laughing, purely spontaneous. It's not what he'd have expected. He could probably fly with the brothers if he needed to, but it's still a little different, and after days of distress and the stress of this place settling over his shoulders, this?

This is freeing.

He can't pull his eyes away from what they're seeing at first, but when he does, his bright green eyes are sparkling up at Shi Qingxuan.
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What do I think? This is incredible, Windy!

[ See, there's the nickname for use when something's impressive. Which again, if he knew, if he knew he was talking to a god... eh. He'd still be enchanted with flight. He'd just also be more aware of how fickle such a state might be. Gods and demons, as he knows them, are not steady, unflappable personalities. ]

You're totally showing off, but it's great! How long can we stay up here?

[ Is he still hungry?

Yes.

Is he distracted from that by this whole new experience?

Yes.

Give a guy a break, he's eaten every day of his life that he could manage, he's never flown or hovered like this!
]

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