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[explosivecombat]

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.

Comments

[explosivecombat]

[There are approximately a million comments to be made here; making any of them would involve him unburying his face from his hands. Good lord, some things never change. Leave one world where someone just ate God, get dragged to another and find someone else who wants to replace God.

Kimblee's life is wonderful, jfc.]

I assume your death had to do with this failed challenge against the Composer.

[yoctogram]

[Sho is less an acquaintance than he is an experience. An amazing experience, unique in all the worlds.]

Only the most recent two. The first one was when I was a Player.

[explosivecombat]

[That's...probably the nicest possible way that one could put that...]

So you've died multiple times, then? Do I want to know how...?

[yoctogram]

Don't remember the first one. Then my Level i Flare. Then the Composer dropped a car a vending machine, and several other things on me.

[explosivecombat]

[...well, at least it's a forward-moving conversation. Morbid, but he can handle morbid.]

So does death hold next to no meaning for you, or is some sort of toll taken each time?

[yoctogram]

That's a very personal question.

[AKA: canon doesn't tell us. Sho's rather unique as far as we know.]

[explosivecombat]

Ah, is it? My apologies, then.

[Hey, if he says it's personal, then...well, Kimblee's going to be morbidly curious, but at the same time, he wasn't exactly too thrilled about anyone prying into his own death, either.]

[yoctogram]

Tell me more about your pseudo-physics.?

[Belated realisation that he should make it a question, not a demand.]

[explosivecombat]

[He's going to assume that was either a typo or the most weirdly polite interrobang variant that he's ever seen, lawd.]

I'm skilled with a practice called alchemy - and in the event that you've heard of something like that already: no, I can't turn lead into gold. Yes, I'm certain I could if I tried. No, I'm not interested in trying, because it will do nothing but upset the economy, there are better materials to use than lead in the first place if one really wants gold that badly, and it's a hideous waste of potential besides.

What I do is based in energy manipulation - bending potential and kinetic energy in various materials to my will, creating and conducting irregularities and imbalances in said energy and redistributing their flows as I see fit, and utilizing all of that in combat situations.

To put it in the most oversimplifying terms possible, I use the energy present in all things to make those things explode.

[yoctogram]

[There's a pause long enough that it's clear that he's either thinking about this in general, or has wandered off. Eventually, though.]

Does it still work here? I miss being able to make people things explode.

[explosivecombat]

[he wouldn't be surprised either way tbh]

It doesn't, no; most abilities of that nature seem to have been removed from all of us, unfortunately.

You're capable of something along those lines, then?

[yoctogram]

Back home, yes. Instant teleportation from most danger, Noise summoning, Taboo Noise summoning, energy bolts, level i flare, use of Taboo sigil to raise myself after using the level i flare.

[explosivecombat]

[...okay, as weird as you are, where does he subscribe to your newsletter]

You've mentioned this Level i Flare before; might I ask what that is, exactly?

[yoctogram]

i is equal to the square root of -1, it is a factor of 1, which is a factor in all real numbers; and because i is the most basic imaginary number, it is also a factor of all imaginary numbers. Thus the ability targets a creature of any power level, rather than one of a specific level in any and every area and vibe possible limited only by the expanse of my imagination.

I am somewhat insane. I have a very good imagination. Should have killed that isomorphic ω-limit set but he managed to escape. ⊚⋭⋍⊊⊹!

[Trust us, in Sho-speak that was some really vulgar language.]

[explosivecombat]

...Well, I suppose I admire your being so forthcoming regarding the insanity aspect. I suspect I should be more off-put by that than I actually am, but such is life.

As it stands, you're an interesting individual, so I can't say that I mind.

[yoctogram]

...It's not like it's hard to tell.

[Seriously. Even he knows his crazy is obvious. He just thinks he's awesome anyway.]

Youngest GM in Shibuya's history. I'm both interesting and amazing.

[Not modest. Not even remotely modest.]

[explosivecombat]

Perhaps not, but you would be surprised as to how many people deny it anyway, despite being completely obvious themselves.

Although with an ego like that, it isn't surprising that you wouldn't.

[yoctogram]

I don't like being limited by flesh. It makes things much more difficult. It was better when my ego and my powers were linked.

[Yes, the sulking very nearly came through the text.]

[explosivecombat]

Honestly, I can't imagine anyone particularly likes the limits this place imposes on us, myself included.

How long have you been here?

[yoctogram]

18, approx. Spent a lot of it sick, though. Stupid lungs.

[explosivecombat]

I'm sure that put a bit of a damper on things, yes.

I don't believe I caught your name, by the way.

[yoctogram]

Minamimoto Sho. You?

[explosivecombat]

Solf J Kimblee - it's a pleasure.

[yoctogram]

In so much as we're both - powers & - our worlds, yes. It is.