( graveyard: we're cursed..........3 )

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[ since there's more of us now, let's set up a scene...ish. we're at the beach! hooray!! it's our government mandated party game!! hopefully everyone is going to be well behaved because law won't give two shits. he's already arranging this for some reason unknown to man. indulgences? indulgences....... everyone get your sins in. taps on watch???

of course there is booze because there is always booze. law does not perceive the meth. (if there is any.)

NOW!! EVERYONE. TWO TRUTHS & ONE LIE. ]

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[Gu Yun did.

Anyway terribly he perks up both visibly and emotionally when Douman Is Here, Talking To Him. He's picked a new bully favorite!!]

Influential German writer! His works focused on sociopolitical stuff of the time and blended fantasy and realism a lot, and he wrote popular books like Prometheus and The Metamorphosis.

[He genuinely seems to enjoy talking about this... God.]

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...I've never heard of him, but likely he was after my time.

[They are but a Ye Olde, after all.]

I didn't take you for the reading type, though.

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Yup. He wasn't born untiiil... I think the 1880s?

[Why can he remember this but apparently cannot remember more than One Human Name (now two one and a half, thanks Vlad).

The amusement takes on a bit of a playful slant.]

Not many do! But that's how I learn about humans.

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That's...

[Pretty far in the future! Wow!]

Why would you want to find out about humans, though? Isn't your role to antagonie them?

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[Meanwhile Mahito here like "haha, old! Classic novelists."]

Yup! [That IS his role! actually i forgot to mention it but any time he interacts with a regular degular human here, there's what feels like a reflexive hint of disgust or disdain that tends to underlay the rest of his emotions. Terrible.

At the same time, when he talks about this, his emotions lean in the opposite direction?? A fond sort of amusement.]

I still like learning about 'em, though. The way they view themselves through their art and writing is interesting! And I was born knowing a lot already, but there are still tons of things I don't get. I had lots and lots of questions! Like, why do humans grieve? How do they believe in other people? How can they betray? You can get answers through conversation, but not many humans can see me.

[So he became a Voracious Consumer Of Human Content.]

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...

[This is...all very confusing. Sure, the disgust and everything is expected, but this...amusement?]

[It just perplexes Douman, who has seen nothing but the worst of what humans have to offer.]

You are...a very bizarre being, Mahito.

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[He SURE IS, and he beams about it!! This is what happens when humans are listed under both your likes and dislikes.]

Haha, yeah, I've heard. Humans really do write some good things, though!

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I suppose they do.

[Though they haven't read much, honestly.]

Do you like anything besides Kafka?

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[It's fine, he's read more than enough to make up for literally anyone here who doesn't read a lot. GOD. Case in point:]

For authors? I do, yeah! Virginia Woolf, Daisaku Ikeda, J.R.R. Tolkien, Thich Nhat Hanh, Li Bai, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Haruki Murakami...

[He could truly just go on and on, so he just trails off with a little shrug.]

I like movies, plays and poetry, too. I can recite a lot of poems!