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Huo [Zhuge Liang, styled Kongming] ([personal profile] getsomesleep) wrote2010-08-14 02:44 am

一 ; yī

[New handwriting today, and it's quite beautiful. Those who read the original Chinese characters might appreciate the skill behind the expert strokes: flawless calligraphy, itself poetry of sorts, yet not slow and cautious but decisive, the writing emerging complete and without hesitation. Those who get a translation miss out on some of the finer points of the art, perhaps, but the effect is the same in every language.]

Warmest greetings to the residents of Edensphere.

This humble servant, the lowest of souls, begs leave to dwell among you and hereby be known, in lieu of a more appropriate name, by the character ‘Huo'.

Although I do not yet know my own measure, and indeed expect that it be the very image of mediocrity, it is my outmost desire to be of some use in the undertakings of the city. I will take up whatever profession is required, and toil in that capacity to the very best of my ability.

Sincerely, I offer my prayers of good neighborhood in the hope that they be accepted in the same spirit in which they were made.

-- 火
ghost_of_00: STARING AT A DOOR (Thinky think think)

/culture FAIL.

[personal profile] ghost_of_00 2010-08-14 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Why do you think of yourself that way?

00

... me? X_X

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-15 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Humility is a great virtue, paired with courtesy; and besides, I cannot boast of skills that I do not yet know myself to possess.
ghost_of_00: STARING AT A DOOR (Take off every zig)

[personal profile] ghost_of_00 2010-08-15 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Oh no, not at all! I meant that 00 doesn't get that he's just being courteous by Ancient Chinese standards. She thinks he's expressing genuine low self-esteem l-lol. Sorry for the confusion ^^; ]

Lack of memory does not mean you are worthless.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[OOC: Oh, whew... sorry, I'm kind of paranoid about the culture thing XD.]

Nor does it mean the opposite; merely that there is much to rediscover and prove.