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[blastiafreak]

[As the screen activates, Rita is rifling through some of her papers. She's about to speak when she notices something and pauses.]

Huh? ...This is definitely my writing, but I don't remember...Oh. This is from--that parasite. This is so stupid. I just want to forget that whole thing.

{Filtered to deities // very difficult to hack}

Hey, deities! You're listening, aren't you? I want to make a trade.

[ooc: Strikes not there!]

Comments

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

We are, yes. Our organization has been in place thousands of years.

The lower level ones are no threat to me. I am a vice captain. Arrancar are a threat, however.

[blastiafreak]

That's longer than any civilizations I know of, that's for sure.

I'm guessing these Arrancar aren't so nice...

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

Many shinigami are hundreds of years old- I myself am relatively young.

They are... "evolved" hollows.

[blastiafreak]

Hm. No wonder some cultures refer to you as gods, then--besides the special powers.

So uglier and nastier, basically. Is that about right?

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

Technically, they are "less ugly". Hollows usually have bestial forms and masks over their faces. Arrancar gain a more humanoid form by breaking their mask and releasing further power.

[blastiafreak]

Well, if you want to be technical...

So does that mean the mask holds back their power? Why do they wear the things in the first place?

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

They are created with them- because they are created from a single corrupted human soul. While they are still one soul, they remember their pasts and their crimes- and out of guilt, hide their faces from the living in that manner.

[blastiafreak]

They just hide out of guilt? ...And feeding on other human souls is what causes them to stop feeling guilty about their crimes--is that how it is?

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

It is how they become more powerful- and the only thing they know how to do.

Have you heard stories in your world... for example, a man dies and his wife follows him soon after? And people explain it in various ways... dying of grief, for example. In my world, that is the work of Hollows. Their first victims are those they knew in life.

[blastiafreak]

What? I-I've never heard of anything like that before. That's...just in your world, right?

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

I have heard similar stories from other worlds- but I can not be positive as to the cause in others.

[blastiafreak]

M-maybe those people just...I don't know, give up or something? That's a pretty lame way to die, but there's nothing like that in my world.

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

That is possible.

[blastiafreak]

Well, where I come from--once you're dead, that's it. There's nothing else afterward, right?

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

... that is not necessarily so.

Humans in my world are unaware of Soul Society's existence. They cannot sense it.

[blastiafreak]

But nothing like that's ever been recorded, or measured, or--I get that it's possible under the rules of a different universe. It's just not like that in my world!

[...Denial much? :D]

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

I see. It is quite possible there is no afterlife in your world- all worlds are different.

[blastiafreak]

Exactly. The dead just don't come back to haunt people or eat souls in mine.

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

To be positive, I suppose you would just have to wait until your death.

[blastiafreak]

S-sure. I'll know for sure then, but it's not like it'll matter, being dead and all. Anyway, I'd prefer to avoid dying anytime soon.

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

Mortality is indeed someone most don't wish to face- I am sure you have some time before needing to do so?

[blastiafreak]

W-well, yeah. Living creatures are pretty much wired to fear death.

I'd like to think I'll have plenty of time before I have to be worried about that. I'm not sick or anything.

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

That is fortunate.

[blastiafreak]

Yeah. I mean, accidents could happen at any time, but if I spent all my time being paranoid about every little thing I can't control, I'd just end up worrying myself to death anyway.

[sciencedaughter.livejournal.com]

Another true statement. Stress can indeed shorten one's life span.