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[naturalcure]

So I guess Desde told I had a freak-out, huh.

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[wherethewildthingsare]

She downplayed it, but I can imagine.

[naturalcure]

...

I almost snapped.

I came closer than I have in a long, long time.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Probably wouldn't have been good.

[naturalcure]

No, I imagine not.

But I saw him copy Desdemona's card and...I dunno. I remembered Demeter and I lost it. All of a sudden, I was back there, years ago.

When I....wasn't well.

I directly used my powers on him. Desdemona got in there before I could do anything, but...

...if she hadn't, I would've hurt him. Really, really bad.

[wherethewildthingsare]

...That kind of thing happens.

Even if your situation is a little different.

[naturalcure]

I thought I was past that kind of thing.

Guess that was pretty naive.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Isabel.

I've had god damned intrusive thoughts since I was 15.

Even now that I can clear my mind, they still happen, I can just get rid of them.

[naturalcure]

I know.

I just thought.

Part of me wanted to believe the Sacred Tree fixed me, okay? Or at least. Fixed this part of me. This. Stupid, terrible part of me that can still completely lose control.

[wherethewildthingsare]

...Nothing's ever that easy.

[naturalcure]

Wasn't that easy, it took me forever before I could actually hear what the Tree was saying...

...I guess I'm just gonna have these. Switches in my head, forever, huh. Stuff that, if something hits me wrong, I'll just have no idea how it'll make me react.

[wherethewildthingsare]

If you know they're there, you can work on them.

[naturalcure]

How?

[wherethewildthingsare]

...

What I would do, is I'd recreate the scene in my head. Really accurately. Or scenes like it.

If I started to lose it, I was on the right track. Then I'd work until I could control it. Not...get over it, cause you can't do that. But control it.

[naturalcure]

...

That is a really, really scary thought, Jinn.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Yeah, well.

It's not any different from training, you know?

Someone pointing a gun in your face is scary, but you have to know how to deal with it.

[naturalcure]

Training to disarm a dude with a gun is a lot different than this.

[wherethewildthingsare]

It is, but to me, it's the same kind of thing.

"I have to do this or something bad will happen."

[naturalcure]

Yeah well, your mind isn't a time bomb if it gets poked wrong.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Yeah, I can only rip a normal person's arms completely off like a gorilla.

[naturalcure]

Hffff.

I'll need to get some help, but I'll. Try it.

Thanks.

[wherethewildthingsare]

...But this isn't why you're talkin' to me, is it.

[naturalcure]

...

Hnnm.

What makes y'say that.

[wherethewildthingsare]

I mean I figured you'd have some kind of valuable insight, or to tell me to avenge you, or something.

[naturalcure]

Unfortunately, I don't have much more insight than what Desde's already revealed, at least not that I can think of right now.

...and I don't really want to be avenged on this one.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Based on what Desde and Kiko told me, I got a pretty good profile on this guy going.

Not 100%, but I am relatively certain I am right.

[naturalcure]

And what's your profile?

[wherethewildthingsare]

...okay.

Firstly, I don't think this guy is a 'new' signer.

I think he awoke as a signer before any of us.

Meaning more than a decade ago.

[naturalcure]

Y'mean before any of you, but, yeah, that's the feeling I got too.

[wherethewildthingsare]

So.

From there, we can draw a couple conclusions.

One, this guy is young. Probably a little past 20 at the oldest. They were a kid when they got this dragon. That's why we never heard of them before. They either were so young Blackfeather stopped them, or more likely, they simply didn't have the agency to get to Domino. Probably either foreign but with Japanese parents, or from somewhere way in the sticks here in Japan.

Two, they have a chip on their shoulder for that exact reason. They know the Dark Gods and the fucking.. that WRGP stuff happened. they have to. And they didn't get to help with either.

[naturalcure]

Yeah...I think that sounds like it could be what we're dealing with.

[wherethewildthingsare]

...There's more.

Kiko says he's probably the one that fixed AFD.

So it sounds like he's pissed we weren't on that.

He never gets to do his job as a signer, grows up, comes to Domino, we drop the ball, he's pissed and wants to prove himself on people he's considering beneath the roles we were given...

...There's one last thing but it's what I'm least sure about. He said he was the 'heart of the signers' right. Like, not 'I have the heart'. But he called himself the heart.

[naturalcure]

Yeah. I heard that part.

[wherethewildthingsare]

....

I think they might be an orphan.

Cause their behavior and that line makes it sound like they consider being a signer the core of their identity.

So they identify that strongly as a signer, never get to act on it, and see us fucking around...

[naturalcure]

...so he decides to set us straight one at a time.

It's not airtight, but...

...certainly sounds possible.

[wherethewildthingsare]

The problem is I now have no idea what to do.

Even if one of us kicks his ass, it probably won't set him straight.

And talking probably work either.

Right now I'm leaning towards 'infuriate'.

[naturalcure]

Whaddaya mean?

[wherethewildthingsare]

To go so absolutely far off their script that it breaks.

[naturalcure]

...

Whaddaya mean?

[wherethewildthingsare]

Okay so.

They probably have mentally prepared for me to try and talk to them, or to try and fight them, or to try and duel them.

So I figured I could do something else.

[naturalcure]

Like what, challenge him to a dance off?

[wherethewildthingsare]

I was more thinking the opposite of anything he'd like me to do.