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うちはイタチ ᴜᴄʜɪʜᴀ ɪᴛᴀᴄʜɪ ([personal profile] jikogisei) wrote2013-04-23 07:13 pm

One Necessary Lie ✧ Video

[The video feature flicks on but it's completely black and is silent for a minute. Perhaps it was done on accident. But wait, no, that's not the case. There's a man's voice, unidentifiable except to those who know him. Either way, he sounds unamused.]

A world where you collect animals and let them do the fighting for you. Seems cruel. Or perhaps you just don't see it that way. Using creatures to collect ridiculous badges. What good will it do you when you leave this place? If you leave this world.

[Itachi pauses, silence fills the moment.]

How many of you still continue your own physical training as you level up your creatures? Would you be capable of taking down your enemy without the aide of your Pokemon? Would you be satisfied if you couldn't? [Yes, Sasuke. Those last two questions were specifically aimed towards you.]

It also appears that the dead walk among us. [Does he know about the other shinobi or simply referring to himself -- hard to tell. Some might not even recognize him by voice alone. So finally he shifts it around to reveal his face. Itachi doesn't have the hitae-ai sitting upon his forehead like usual and his surroundings are hard to pinpoint. The maroon cloak he's wearing doesn't help as it covers the rest of his clothes.]

[He sighs as if this is all a big bother or an annoyance.]
I suppose it's only polite to introduce myself. My name is Uchiha Itachi.
islandshore: (RIKU used LEER!)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-04-26 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I do. Now more than ever... Standing on the sidelines leaves you completely defenseless. And this place is downright deadly when it wants to be.

[And... Uchiha, huh? Riku won't mention he knows Sasuke just yet, but that's definitely got his attention. Hm...

Also, he looks older than the icons indicate-- 18 rather than 15.]
islandshore: (unsure)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-04-26 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Mostly sword play, but I do try to squeeze in a few workouts and stamina exercises.

[After all, it's important to be able to hold up in a fight even unarmed, and being able to last while running definitely helps, particularly when foes use the Pokémon like weapons.]
islandshore: (peekaku)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-04-27 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of. Real weapons don't exactly fly around here, but I've got a few wooden ones for sparring and a little something I whipped up as an alternative.

[There are always loopholes. A blunt, metal weapon is legal, even if it's less practical than a cutting weapon. He's no professional blacksmith, but at last it gets the job done.]
islandshore: (stop eating berries you derp)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-04-27 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Creative and cautious. Long as you aren't waving it around in public, the cops will usually let it slide. This place just has a messed up power hierarchy coupled with eerie amounts of pacifism.

Been here three years, and they never seem to care about disasters for long.

[He groans and shakes his head. Seriously, Team Rocket's bombed a train, and they still expect people to play nice and battle for fun alone.]
islandshore: (Riku used MEAN LOOK!)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-04-27 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Longest anyone's been here, as far as I can tell. There's a handful of us, but even more have left at least once or twice.

[His expression sours. Some of the people have left even more times... or never returned in the first place.]
islandshore: (wary)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-05-03 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
No. I've never even gone into one of those comas where people's consciousness goes home while their bodies stick around.

[In a way he's glad, but on the other hand, his future is such a huge mystery.]
islandshore: (unsure)

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[personal profile] islandshore 2013-05-08 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of.

[He sighs.]

Most people don't last that long. There's probably been at least a hundred people who've left within just a few months. Most of the oldbies got phased out over time, leaving just a small handful of us.
islandshore: (yeah right)

[personal profile] islandshore 2013-05-11 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
People have tried plenty of times, but it's never worked out. Heck, there was this stupid rumor a while back that collecting badges was our ticket home.
islandshore: (unsure)

[personal profile] islandshore 2013-05-16 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I think everyone has at one point, but nobody's even come close to sorting it out. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it or patterns to who pops up in the first place.

They just do.