notabluesbro | 8th Confession [Voice/Action]

[Morning ritual: sit up groggily, smoke a cigarette, kick stupid cat back out of bed after the umpteenth time. Fortunately, he'd managed to not want to pop Vash's head off his shoulders today, so he takes this as a good sign. And after he manages to regain his thoughts and get some breakfast in him, he cracks open his journal to see what's what.]

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So there's a shitload of new people... Hard to think I've been here this long, but you veterans probably snicker at a few measly months, right? [The sound of smoke leaving him, and it's obvious now he's been at the same usual bad habit.] Good to see these new guys got to miss the crappier part of this place, at least.

[And a charmingly added:]

It's not so bad when you get used to it, promise.

[Wolfwood really didn't find too much eventful this fine morning—it was a little chilly out, so he coiled himself in a black scarf, but... it was strangely relaxed today. It's something he feels ill-prepared for, even. Along his route of wandering, the preacher-man happened into the item shop on an interesting day; he'd spent so much time referring to the dangers of his world, he didn't consider that the neutral or even... nice things would snake their way into Luceti.

As such, he found a small weathered chest the that he could carry under one arm—a familiar one.

He drags it out, sits on a bench, and inspects it... and the first thing he happens across is a picture. He's not sure whether to burn it or laugh, so he just looks at it for a moment, noting the withered edges and shitty weathering. What a blast from the past. Like looking into the face of time.

He can be found here by whoever wants to be a creeper, or on his way back home with his cross on one shoulder and this small chest on the other. Clearly, he works out. But alas! Something slips out of the back of the chest without him noticing and floats quietly down to the ground.]

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Perhaps luck's on your side? Or maybe fate.

[Said lightly, a little prod to see how your point of view works. It's a nice way to learn more about a person, Wolfwood's come to find out—bring up fate and a man's bitterness, strengths, fears, anything, emerges. Short answers, long answers, humored ones: they're all a step.]

Or maybe you'd prefer to call it the natural flow of time meeting places and people? Coincidences falling in line to form a timeline?

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[It's like... talking to himself, that way. Ehe. He smirks a little wryle-]

Maybe all of the above. [and you'll find, Wolfwood, that that simple open-ended acceptance is what defines him more than anything]

...but your world sounds more dangerous that mine.

All of the above, huh?

[A friendly little 'humph', before he blinks at that last line.

...Gunsmoke. Well, the name tends to say it all.]

It's not exactly Eden, no. Beyond the lack of plants and water, there's a lack of pretty much everything but bullets. It's been that way since before I can remember, and then some.

-- why is that? Because of the scarceness of resources?

That's the root of the problem, really—it all started that people had little to nothing, and sharing in a time like that could be deadly. I guess it evolved into people not caring about fixing up something they thought was doomed to stay barren.

There are decent towns with some decent people, but sometimes that's not enough.

Sounds like it's something that could happen to any place. [it makes him thoughtful] People can lose touch with their humanity... when there's no food, no rain. [You know. Sacrificing their kids. Things of this nature.]

I never cease to be surprised that Vash has lived in a world like that and still believes what he does so firmly. [it's clear he really just means surprise-- it will nearly always be more bemusement than irritation, from Ginko]

[He sits with an elbow on his knee, picture dangling from his fingertips.]

He's not the first optimist I've met, but he's one of the only ones who's still alive after all this time. [A pause. That was an awful thing, really, to think about. Vash and Milly really were the only ones he could think about.] I was raised to think that it's survival of the fittest, and to make a choice, even if there are downsides to it, before you don't have any left.

[Sigh.]

And then he comes along and tells me there's always a choice to save everyone, in any situation. But how can I possibly believe that?

[It was one of the biggest issues he's ever grappled with, the idea that everyone can be spared. But even then...]

Hmm. [there's a part of him that says it's because "survival of the fittest" is simply the way things are-- but other voices protest that, even in his own mind. But he hums at the question. How, indeed.]

He's not the only one I've met like that-- who believes that something is possible, no matter how stacked the odds. [thoughtful, with specific people in mind] Maybe they have the strength to make it true.

But that's a hell of a lot of pressure, to force yourself to live up to a standard like that.

And when they can't live up to it, they fall damn hard.

...but I guess it's not too bad, having the over-optimists around. At least it's better than people who are overly hopeless.

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