moonlight party

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Characters: Date Masamune, The Moon and you!
Location: The Park
Rating: PG
Time: March 26, Evening
Description: Date Masamune has a stareoff with the moon. That's right, a stareoff with the moon. Because it's looking at him. Stragglers, insomniacs or those who just want a walk in the park - you're invited to watch.


Masamune knew the sun had a face. That was one of the first thing he noticed when he first arrived in Death City - the creepy sun. Mouri Motonari, Sundouche Extraordinaire would probably like it because of his shouting about how he was the child of the sun, but it didn't sit too well with him that the sun was actually watching everything. He liked the sun, he liked standing under it but watching it was a whole new level.

Okay. Nothing big. Just the sun then.

He never actually bothered looking up in the evenings, because lord knows the moon was like. Granted it was a little unfounded assumption that the moon would have the same kind of creepy face but then again, he never bothered to find out.

Until tonight.

Masamune was strolling in the park to clear his head after a shift in the Entertainment District as part of his duty to The Watch. Nothing big, just his way to unwind. His helmet glinted in the evening light and he, absentmindedly glanced up at the sky as if he were back in Oshu.

What he saw made him step back in alarm. He knew very well the moon had a face, but he didn't expect it to be THAT kind of face. The face unpleasant people like Ishida Mitsunari had.

So he recoiled, but he didn't stop looking. Masamune crossed his arms over his chest in defiance. No, he was still staring at the moon as if it had personally offended him (and in a way, it did.)

There you have it, Death City. There's a warlord having a stareoff with the moon.

Comments

[shendefeng]

Oh, that takes him aback a little.

He's quiet for a minute or two, trying to figure out how to exactly say it...

"It is probably because of my Captain who helped raise me."

Of course it had to do with a lot of his own brand of personality because the others were rather informal in Britain...

"Or perhaps it can also be attributed by my breed. Celestials like myself are expected to be scholars, not fighters."

If it were anyone other than Date, he would probably have made a comment about how he is not a mere beast as he had once told Ishida Mitsunari. However, Date recognized him as a real dragon, and even amongst the corps, they were called 'beasts' at times. Not from his own Captain, of course, but amongst some of the crew, and even they knew to cow themselves when dealing with him, in a way.

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The person who raised you often left a deep impact on your life, Masamune knew this. He learned a lot from Kojuro and it was only now that he was moving to take steps away from that, now that they couldn't be together anymore. His back felt vulnerable, but that was why he was working harder to cover up his weaknesses. So he got it. He really did.

"And here we are, fighting a war. Weird, huh?"

[shendefeng]

"Oh, I was fighting a great war between my country and another which tried to invade ours, so I am no stranger to that."

He mused a little, wondering what the young man here was thinking. A fighting one that had a lot of courage and strength to do what he does best, yes, just like himself. He was born in an age where war was ravaging Europe with the ascension of Napoleon as Emperor. He knew not what Date had lived through, but to be a warrior himself he knew he must have gone through something equally as great.

"But the people around us do help shape us as we are. I should think that our partnership should see something of that as time goes on, Masamune."

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"Yeah, something like that."

He's affecting a cool front here, not really wanting to seem like he was getting too emotionally touched by this conversation.

"I dunno, when I was looking for a partner I was looking for someone who was full of hot blood but you were probably what I needed. You're cool. You need someone who has a cool head in your life, especially in a war."

Whoa this is getting way too sentimental.

"Uh. Yeah."

Masamune coughs.

[shendefeng]

"If I've learnt anything, Masamune, is that one can be both. There is that element of Yin and Yang in all of us in certain ways, I am quite sure you should know about that."

There was some silence for a moment, before he continued on.

"You see, when I am not in battle I am rather calm and have no real reason to be otherwise. I am as you say, cool. Yet when there is a battle to be waged, I get serious about it, keep a level head, but I do fight viciously if need be."

At least, in wars with other dragons he did not mind having to kill them if it meant the difference between living, getting injured, or dying.

"Still, I think we shall do well in our endeavours together."

With this, he lightly nudges Masamune's shoulder with his snout, to sort of show his affection for the young man.

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He stays silent, sighing quietly to himself. Masamune's grateful for the affection, grateful for the dragon's understanding. Clearly there's still a lot on his mind so this gazing at the moon is no mere play, it's really an attempt for him to clear his thoughts.

And with Temeraire's help, he may have accomplished it.

"Do you want to go back?"

[shendefeng]

He is a little confused, as he had originally been here staring up at the moon in the first place.

However, he was not one to make people do whatever it is that he personally wanted to do without thinking. Unless it was Laurence, perhaps, and even then he's seen what that can lead to, and it was not all that good. That's why he's now learned to try to think rationally on his decisions, or at least he tries to. This is one of those times when he does so.

"If you would prefer to do so, then we can. Perhaps we can have some tea after we get there?"

Best thing to calm anyone, or so he thinks. Better to have some and have a good night's rest. They both will need it.