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Kazuo Yashiki ✦ DEATH MARKRESIDENCE ✦ ???
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You've reached me. Oh, that is... you've reached Yashiki. I'm afraid that I'm not here. Um, obviously. Really, what's the right way to leave a message like this? Isn't it okay to let it keep ringi--
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Date: 2021-05-27 01:19 am (UTC)[ zero punches pulled... ]
When you say spirits, would you be able to elaborate? Upon that and upon the government's involvement with your family.
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Date: 2021-05-29 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-29 12:41 am (UTC)2/3 whoops
Date: 2021-05-29 12:45 am (UTC)Like, the grandfather clock that is in my family home. It's alive due to how it was created. An ancestor of ours carved it out of a special chisel that is imbued with spiritual energy that gave it life. [ 'Course, the reason that their ancestor did that probably was for better reasons than why the chisel is used presently. ]
These days, the government only calls upon me to clean up messes that my family caused under their orders. [ Gosh, that's so serious. ]
LOL
[ There we go. That livens it up. ]
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Date: 2021-05-30 11:31 pm (UTC)2/3
Date: 2021-05-30 11:32 pm (UTC)[ first of all ]
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Date: 2021-05-30 11:32 pm (UTC)1/2
Date: 2021-05-31 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-31 02:45 am (UTC)Granted, I was told that it was something that they just gave a high-ranking general to kill time, and didn't think anything would really come of it. When something did, they came to view my family much differently.
Yes, he imbued energy into the clock intentionally. I believe originally it wasn't meant to be anything big. I'm sure it was to just create a clock that could wind and take care of itself. But it has high affinity for the Kujou despite the kind of people that we are, and always wants to protect and look after us.
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Date: 2021-06-04 02:02 am (UTC)It is only regrettable that they would look first to applying these gifts towards the pursuit of violence. It is, however, human nature.
Do you find your work fulfilling?
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Date: 2021-06-04 10:23 pm (UTC)It's unfortunate but I have to agree with you.
I will say that it wasn't always this way. Our family spent generations dealing with supernatural occurrences and entities in order to keep Japan safe.
I think that the war changed a lot of things, and made it so we wanted to use our abilities to harm rather than heal.
As far as fulfilling goes, that's a difficult question to answer, Commander Spock.
It's good to be able to put spirits and other beings to rest after they've been driven to madness due to their grudges.
However, I'm sad that their existences were trampled upon so completely and utterly that they could only lash out in anger to alleviate any of the pain that they were suffering.
I feel wrong saying I feel fulfilled in this work.
It's too selfish a comment to make, and I don't want to take anything more from them.
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Date: 2021-06-05 08:43 pm (UTC)I would urge you to consider that while you need not take pleasure in what is required of you, you may still see its worth and acknowledge your existence as necessary and positive.
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Date: 2021-06-10 04:27 am (UTC)Uh. How to put it? Should he say it? He frets about it. How did they get on this topic... ]
My family caused a lot of harm to the spiritual world. I feel a lot of the spirits that are around now are a result of something that they did. [ Thankfully, it isn't EVERY spirit, but it is a large majority and he can't help but feel it's in poor taste that someone of the family that hurt them the most is putting them to rest. It's proper retribution, he supposes, but... ]
There may be worth in it. I'd rather not have those spirits continue to exist without someone who can sympathize or try to understand their pain. I'll think on it more. I'd rather teach others to care for them as I care for them, so someone who didn't hurt them can carry on saving them.
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Date: 2021-06-20 06:51 pm (UTC)[ But that's easier said than done and doesn't address what he believes is the more complex and contentious of Yashiki's points. He reads his words twice over, silently debating them under the umbrella of sheer logic... but what Yashiki speaks of is guilt. Guilt is one of the most illogical emotions of all. ]
You have a responsibility. What is not your duty is to guess at the feelings of those hurt by your family. Their perspectives are unknown and likely differ. All that remains is for you to act in accordance with what you do know they need.
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Date: 2021-06-21 03:04 am (UTC)I guess if I put it into words, I'm no Jim Kirk. [ If he thinks about what skills he lacks, he can think that he doesn't have any of the skills that Kirk have. ] I'm not Spock, either. I feel like if it were you two in-charge of this matter that it'd be handled much better.
[ Yashiki nods. The amount of guilt that he feels over what has been done by his own actions, by his family's actions, doesn't measure up to the feelings that the spirits and people are feeling. Is that what Spock is getting at? Probably not! But-- ]
You really think about these things quite well. I'm not sure how we got on this topic, but you're really a person that just cares a lot about people, aren't you, Commander Spock?
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Date: 2021-06-26 04:16 am (UTC)Spock's bias where Kirk is concerned, whether he'd like to dress it up with claims of logic or not, is undeniable. There's no one he would compare to him, save for perhaps his previous captain Christopher Pike, and thus there is no argument for him to make – isn't Yashiki being too hard on himself, even still? ]
I am a representative of the Federation. Our aims are peaceful and, to the extent that they can be, friendly towards those we encounter. If I am able to help you, then I will.
You must first be willing to help yourself, Mr. Yashiki.
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Date: 2021-06-29 01:07 am (UTC)[ Even if the spiritual entity is hostile, it is something that is just hurting and just needs sympathy and understanding to escape its pain. That's the most logical response to take, isn't it?
But what's that about Spock saying that he has to first be willing to help himself? What does that mean? Help himself do what? He wonders but he feels a little anxious talking about himself so much to Spock.
Um. ]
Commander Spock, why did you join the Federation? I'm sorry. It probably seems so sudden to ask such a question, but I wonder why it is that you joined them. It was to help other species?
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Date: 2021-07-02 02:05 am (UTC)[ Because it is open-ended enough for him to draw his own conclusion using logic... and perhaps merely his own wishes as well. Not that he'd admit to such a thing. ]
I was, however, born a member of the Federation. My planet and its people were founding members of the alliance, one which has been in place since the mid-23rd century.
What I believe you intended to ask is why I joined Starfleet, the Federation's exploratory and military branch. I can say that it was not to aid other species, though it would be preferable to be able to claim so.
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Date: 2021-07-13 03:03 am (UTC)[ Ah. It is something like that, huh? ]
It wasn't to aid other species? Is it all right to ask why it is that you joined them?
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Date: 2021-07-14 02:31 am (UTC)No Vulcan had previously joined. I wished to test myself for my own reasons.
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Date: 2021-07-14 02:36 am (UTC)No Vulcan had? Why?
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Date: 2021-07-17 05:21 pm (UTC)[ Which isn't... something he wishes to have to say either, but there's no lie in it. ]
Many Vulcans find humans to be unnecessarily violent and regressive. Therefore to be part of any sort of military organization with them is challenging.
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Date: 2021-07-17 07:30 pm (UTC)That's understandable.
But I'm sure a person like Kirk has put a lot of their concerns aside, right?
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Date: 2021-07-18 01:56 am (UTC)loveslikes. ]The captain commands a certain amount of warranted respect, yes. However, he is one man. His influence is great but it is easy for my people to consider him an exception and not a rule.
Vulcans have allied with humans but to trust them without misgivings is, to them, illogical.
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Date: 2021-07-18 02:47 am (UTC)But I feel the more humans that interact with him, the more they will change for the better, too. Then, he won't be the exception but the rule that others will follow.
Though, saying that, I fear that puts a lot of expectations on him. However, I don't mean it like he has to do it, but it is something that seems like it will happen naturally.