[closed]

[deontology]

Who: Abe family nerdlords aka deontology & snakebait
When: IC: 12/17 // OOC: 4/9
Where: Around....ish.
What: Can the pseudo-ancestor-descendent duo actually get along--stay tuned
Rating/Warning: None!

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[Sousei takes a different path home every single day from work in an attempt to better understand how this entire place functions, and to know the lay of the land--so to speak. Really, he's just paranoid and doesn't like sitting complacent ever.

At least this makes him feel like he's being useful. Even though he really isn't.

Either way, that's why he's wandering in this direction, and finally crosses paths with the not-ancestor that he hasn't seen in quite some time. Last time, he was in not so great shape, so at least he's not about to pass out from the shock of losing an arm this time.....?]

...Abe no Hirari.

[Sousei finally does approach, if only because he feels some vague sort of obligation to check up on him. Even if he still doesn't know what to think of this guy, exactly.

Hopefully he's not interrupting anything important.]

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[deontology]

No, they don't. They are committing the same crimes they always have.

[alas......]

It does not matter. In my case, I was taken in instead by Kumou Taiko, the 13th head of the Kumou family.

[life with the kumous is pretty good, so.]

[snakebait]

[ Lucky Sousei. Hirari on the other hand had been stuck with the other Abe for many years, the same words being burned into his brain over and over. ]

How did you get involved with the Kumou?

[ For him it had been because of Botan, but had him meeting Kagemitsu tied their families closer together in any way or something? ]

[deontology]

Kumou-sensei found me.

[Quite frankly.

He just found tiny 6-year-old Sousei and dragged him home. Like finding a puppy in a box in the rain.]

... In that way, I was lucky.

[snakebait]

'Sensei'?

[ So does being an idiot come in waves in that family or? Kagemitsu; Brat, Tenka; brat, this Kumou-sensei; not a brat(???) ]

They didn't let anyone go like that in my time.

[deontology]

[... Look, hot dad Kumou was really cool, okay. (but also kind of a brat).]

... We were simply kept elsewhere for observation, in the end.

[After all, that had been one of the Yamainu's original purposes.]

It was not as though we escaped that fate.

[snakebait]

Are they ever going to stop being such assholes?

[ It's more to himself than to Sousei, but nevermind that. ]

Do they still say the same things?

[deontology]

[Hirari sure is more vocal about it than Sousei ever will be...though he doesn't necessarily disagree. They're assholes. Worst family, would not recommend.]

I couldn't say without knowing what "the same things" are.

[But. He suspects he knows what those are, and he suspects the answer is "yes".]

[snakebait]

[ Well, he's done what he could. He didn't die, so he didn't do what he was supposed to, but he was of no more use to the Abe. They wouldn't want to be associated with him now.

He remembers their words perfectly though. They've been etched into his mind and he wouldn't be able to forget no matter how much he would have wanted to. ]

"You must not think of living. No mercy towards others or yourself. You must throw away your compassion."

[ It had been repeated countless times to him, to the other unfortunate children taken in by the Abe. ]

[deontology]

[... He's heard it.

He's heard it all before. Admittedly, he was more a case of neglect than outright emotional abuse; he existed to be a possible Orochi vessel, and that was all.

But even so...]

...I'm not unfamiliar with those words.

[A noise, deep in the back of his throat, disgusted. He's..sick of this sort of thing. Sick of this awful human character.]

It would appear the Abe family truly has not changed.