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[tigerpoet]

[It's Atsushi! Without his glasses, and with his hair pushed back, and looking 95% more grumpy than anyone has seen the 'usual' Atsushi, but it's definitely him.]

My other half told me that I need to make more friends. [Speech patterns are definitely Inner's, but it may come as a shock to anyone who hasn't met him yet.] I don't care, but if it'll satisfy him I'll ask.

People willing to be sparring partners preferred. No one too noisy or annoying. If the other Atsushis don't like you then I hate you already, so don't bother replying.

[This is how you friendship, right?]

Comments

[noenvy]

If it's true it's not rude.

[tigerpoet]

I-I'm sure you're right, but I still... erm... sorry.

[This is why he has Inner to keep people from walking all over him. He's a doormat.]

[noenvy]

Don't be sorry.

[A good thing to have!]

It's fair to worry about those sorts of things, and I've definitely gotten in trouble for saying the truth that others don't want to hear before.

[tigerpoet]

I admire people who can be that forthright, without worrying too much about what other people will think. I could never do that myself.

[noenvy]

Well, you have someone who can help you with it, right? So you balance out.

[tigerpoet]

That's true. I'd be lost without him - he really is terribly important to me, so I want him to have other friends, too.

[Hence this post.]

[noenvy]

Well, he has an interesting way of going about it. But! I can't say it's wrong. Some of my closest friends I met by clashing swords first, even the person I married!

[tigerpoet]

Well, it's true that you should share the things you love with your friends, isn't it? Even if it's fighting.

[noenvy]

You can also tell a lot through fighting someone. It's a good indicator of skill and character.

[tigerpoet]

What did you learn fighting him? If it's okay to ask.

[other than that he has an ego-]

[noenvy]

He's very self-confident, he doesn't respect his opponents very well, he upholds his terms and he value's his well being.

[At least, that's what he was guessing. It was a bit different from going against another cultivator.]

[tigerpoet]

That sounds like him. He doesn't like to get hurt too much because that's the same as hurting me too. And he's the only one of the Atsushis with any self-confidence at all...

[Yes there's more than two of them.]

[noenvy]

That's interesting, to be so different from others who are similar.

[He doesn't think too much of there being multiple of some people, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. He had already met his own double, though their similarities were perhaps a little more than their differences.]

[tigerpoet]

Well, I've heard all Atsushis have a tiger in them somewhere. Mine is him.

[The other Atsushis have a more literal tiger.]

[noenvy]

Interesting. So there's more than two of you, but you are more different than the others?

[tigerpoet]

There's four here, counting I and my other half as two. The other two are separate people, and they have the same name as us and a number of similarities, but they've lived much closer lives to each other than to me.

[noenvy]

Interesting. I know of worlds that are similar but different. But I never thought there would be worlds vastly different with a few similarities to match up to people in at least a small way.

There is someone here that's similar to me as well, though also different.

[tigerpoet]

Honestly, I don't think it would be a big deal at all if it weren't for the fact that having four people with the same name in one place makes it hard to talk about them in a not confusing way... My other half goes by 'Tiger' sometimes but he's the only one of us who has a common nickname.

[noenvy]

I feel perhaps you and you and your other-self are a bit unique in this.

[Since they shared a body and a name, it was a bit less confusing in a way.]

Though, have a lot of people with the same name is difficult. Especially if you share a lot of the same friends.

[He was pretty lucky in that there wasn't too much of a need to talk about his other self often.]

[tigerpoet]

We have a lot of the same boyfriends - err, I mean, friends.

[...the boyfriends thing is also true.]

[noenvy]

You're dating the same people? Or... the people you're dating also have doubles?

[This was now getting confusing.]

[tigerpoet]

...technically both?

[given that some of them are dating each other...]

[noenvy]

...

Haaa?

[He needs a diagram.]

[tigerpoet]

[Honestly, so does he sometimes.]

J-just forget I said anything.

[noenvy]

Are you dating your other self...?

[It was his next guess. He couldn't just let it go.]