四 - sì

[getsomesleep]

[A deft and swift hand is sketching across the paper. The image takes form quickly, and when done, looks something like this.

Beneath the rather freakish vision, Huo's neat handwriting:]

Appearances do not necessarily reflect character.

True colors make one wonder.



[OOC: Mod word sez, can see thestrals even if don't remember having seen someone die. Thanks, mods!
Picture not mine, linked with permission. All credit to the original artist.]

Comments

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

I think I saw one of those from far away but damn.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They are shy, and their appearance does them a disservice.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Does them a what now?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

They have the appearance of monsters, but the behavior of tame animals.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you get the opposite too.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Have you been down to the castle, Smoke-jūn?

Oh fudge timeline

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

At first, not the castle itself. I was thinking of women, primarily, when I said that.

Eek, did that joss any plans of yours? O_O

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I would say the principle holds true not only for women.

No we just haven't actually *logged* going to Hogwarts yet

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Just take this place for example.

Is no biggie I guess ^^

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

And all of us, with little to no knowledge of who we truly are. I wonder.

Oh getting all esoteric 8| At least you're nicer than Moon.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

You make a new identity for yourself with each new lifetime. Don't see how this is any different.

Buddhist philosophy get!

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

And what about karma, Smoke-jūn?

Indeed!

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

What about it?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Will you deny it entirely?

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Naw man, but karma from the past you can't change. You can do all the good stuff and not be the same person you were last life.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

If your nature allows it.

As compared to canon... he has evidence here to believe it

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Huh? People change. May take awhile, but it happens.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

People change who are willing to change, and there can be no atonement without awareness and acknowledgment of the fault.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Assuming it was ever your fault in the first place.

/cryptics on

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

It is the virtuous man's duty to find out.

/not so cryptic

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

And when you find out it wasn't?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Then there is no need to change.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

And yet we change anyway.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Can any man foresee the full course of his life? To change is not bad; all growth is change.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

There's growth and then there's forced traumatization.