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shinichi "bad sad and mad" okazaki ([personal profile] mindthebass) wrote in [community profile] jigokucho2022-08-04 09:10 pm

text: shin.o. / age???

just wondering something.


what year were you born and how old are you? i'm from 1983, and last i remember, it was 2001. there are people who are close in age but are from different years in the future, making me old relatively, and i hate this.

... am i old to you?


(nope, 1985. still, he's sad.)
ryototsukai: (sons of a battlecry)

[personal profile] ryototsukai 2022-08-05 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
eh, eventually i set off on my journey at that point. i was about 13?

musha shugyo is the official term for it, a samurai's pilgrimage. though i didn't really have a destination in mind other than getting strong enough to prove my father wrong.
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[personal profile] ryototsukai 2022-08-05 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
enlightnment, to find a lord worth serving, a cause worth fighting for, all kinds of things.

to grow stronger, to find your horizons and go past them.

for me, it was for my sword to reach "zero". see, my dad may have taught the jitte, but he was so great a swordmaster his blade was considered "one", the pinnacle, the utmost any warrior could hope to reach.

so i wanted to go beyond even that. "zero". the sword of "nothing".
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[personal profile] ryototsukai 2022-08-05 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
well i don't know about "cool", but thanks!

and my journey's not over yet. i've got the road ahead of me still.
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[personal profile] ryototsukai 2022-08-05 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
of course i can! the journey goes on, no matter where my feet land.
ryototsukai: (missing the inner heat)

[personal profile] ryototsukai 2022-08-05 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
you too! whatever shape yours takes!