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With matters of one's heart and soul so close in mind, due to the recent holiday and all the romantic connotations therein, I ask that you forgive the possibly morbid nature of the question I have for you tonight:

The state or condition of one's soul is often brought into question when their deeds are brought to light or held up for scrutiny; the concept of the damned and those destined for salvation aren't new concepts by far. However, I have to ask what that means for all of you - do you accept your soul as existing only as a metaphysical concept, a matter of faith, something unproven and intangible? Or is it something undeniable where you come from, not a matter of faith but rather proven to exist? Does it fail to exist for you at all?

Or, perhaps, is it something else entirely - something that was rendered from one of the above options into another?

I suppose I should apologize for such heavy subject matter; I imagine some will find it rude to attempt to quantify such a thing. However, it's been something I've had reason to consider lately, so no apology is forthcoming.

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Sounds, physical sensations, scents, tastes, the way they're taking in the world. Fool the mind to fool the body, and the body will convince the mind what's going on. Usually took me a while to layer on the really elaborate ones so I'd ambush a sleeping cousin if they harassed me enough first. Favorite thing was to make them think they weren't awake. Sooo much scandalized everything if someone would say things they thought wouldn't be remembered.

...you really don't play fair, do you?

Neither do they, so I had to do it better. Whole world is filled with jerks you know, and my family was way high up the percentage.

Ah, fair enough! Of course, I suppose now is when I should tell you that surely they can't all be that bad, but I'd think you would know better than I.

Well, after I died one of them killed all the others. I don't know why, but that would attest to their overall Jerkness I think.

It might; it's not my place to pass judgement on that, for a few reasons.

Yeah, that makes sense. Just... personal bitters I guess. I wasn't really appreciated back home by many people and I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about everyone I knew being dear or different.

It's a bit jarring to deal with, perhaps, but at the same time this world tends to give others a second chance, at least with regards to not being appreciated by many. It's done me a few favors in that way, actually.

I traded one baby cousin for another myself. Older for younger. I can't talk about the older without really hurting the younger but...

It's obvious that he values me a great deal.

I suppose you have my congratulations, then.

I have one person from my own world that seems to value me in that way; we have a bit of an unpleasant history together, but we seem to have moved past that at least somewhat by now. The others I've come to be reasonably close to have all been those I met here.

It's a rare experience that we've been given, being able to meet those from different dimensions; I don't intend to squander that.

Exactly. I've been going out of my way to try to talk to everyone who might possibly share an interest with me... and so far I've met people I want to talk to again. Like you for instance.

Well, I won't try to say it hasn't been an interesting conversation. It's appreciated, by the way.

Well, in that case, you're welcome. If you ever want to talk to me instead of vice versa I know I bomb the network from time to time with my random stuff so, yeah. Learn anything to think about while I was here?

Many things, actually. Including not to anger you, lest this place return our powers to us and I begin believing that I'm the prettiest princess at the ball.

[You get video for that one, and he's grinning at you.] Sounds good to me. I'm Obito by the way, you?

[...all right, fine, you can have it returned, you.]

Solf J Kimblee. It's a pleasure.

Full name is Uchiha Obito. [If anything, he looked happier at the return.]

Nice to meet you too. Which part do you like being called by?

Ah, just "Kimblee" is acceptable.

[He's had someone call him "Solf" before. Shit's weird, bro.]

I tend to refer to people by surname, for the most part - I assume that would be "Uchiha", in your case? Unless you're in the same habit, of course.

Yeah, it would, but there's two Uchiha around and who knows if more will show up. Obito is better. Nothing like someone shouting for 'Uchiha-san' back home and getting like ten answers.

Something of a large family, then. I can't exactly commiserate, but I can imagine.

It happens to a few of the clans back home if you're close enough to one of the family groupings. Usually simpler to call for the one you're directing comments at, you know?

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