[Anonymous]

[tigerpoet]

I need something to occupy me that doesn't require me having control of my body.

Split personality. There's less we have to fight here, so I take control less than I used to, and I'm bored.

I'd take offers to spar but you'd have to run it by the other half first.

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[tigerpoet]

[It's actually 2019, but Atsushi didn't feel like giving exact numbers.]

Maybe where you're from. Where I'm from it wasn't common, at least not for adults.

Alchemy.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ He'd be from future Earth... SQQ would only wonder what such a place was like, for all it's only five years later. Almost a perfect parallel in time for his second life. ]

Where were you from? Which country?

... Huh. For what purpose? Anything to do with that fighting you talked about before?

[ Okay now he's just fascinated, Anon Bro-Man, what in the world... ]

[tigerpoet]

Japan.

There were enemies that normal humans could not dispatch, and we were summoned to take care of it.

[peerlesscucumber]

Oh. Japan.

[ what is with Japan really? ]

Summoned as in... you both are a summoning? Does that make you bound to the original summoner? If you had no summoner, would you not exist?

[ he's! stupidly! curious! and has no idea who he's talking to, because anonymous, but still! ]

[tigerpoet]

[Japan sure has a lot of weird and anime things going on.]

It's technically a transmigration and not a summoning, but the full explanation is stupid so I didn't listen.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ ..................... IT WAS A TRANSMIGRATION?! ]

You were transmigrated after dying? In 1942?

[ IS HE NOT THE ONLY TRANSMIGRATOR FROM BEFORE THIS PLACE?!? ]

[tigerpoet]

That's what I just said. Don't make me repeat myself.

[why is this guy(?) hung up over unimportant things like how he came back to life!!]

[peerlesscucumber]

[ Because it's how he came back to life too, okay! Okay! The only other person he knows who had this happen isn't here! Though he was, amusingly enough, an internet famous author. ]

Did you get to keep your original body???

[tigerpoet]

No. It's been eaten by maggots by now.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ STOP SAYING DEPRESSING THINGS also why no cremation tho ]

Then whose body are you in?

[tigerpoet]

[because I don't feel like looking up japanese funeral practices from the 1940s let me live]

Ours. It's a new one.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ LMAO no no it's all good SQQ just gets to angst about thinking about worms eating his original body now and that's horrifying so thanks

also this is WILDLY FUCKING UNFAIR he tried making a body like his original one and THAT FAILED (but not as much as he thinks right now) ]

... How the hell did you know it was new?! Instead of healed or something?

[ aka something he had happen in this MOST RECENT TRANSMIGRATION i'm so sorry atsushi ]

[tigerpoet]

[you're welcome!!]

The old one was human. This one isn't. Hard to mistake them.

[peerlesscucumber]

Ah, well. Okay. That makes sense. What... is your body now?

[ there's no not awkward way to ask about someone else's body is there ]

[tigerpoet]

Tsukumogami, or something close to it. Again: the explanation was long and useless.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ this reply takes longer because that meant nothing to him, so he went searching online and found... very little to help. He has, however, concluded it's something from the islands of Japan. ]

Not a term I know, but if I'm trusting what the internet says (I'm not sure I do) it seems like you'd need to be a spirit of a tool? Given physical form, which is... your original form.

[ Too weird! He doesn't get it! (Go meet the swords, Shen Qingqiu, you'll at least understand it a bit better.) ]

[tigerpoet]

Yes, exactly.

[The swords would at least be more helpful than Atsushi.]

[peerlesscucumber]

What tool were you... from?

[ The swords are also cool but he will wonder why they're all... Japanese... he wants to know why he's meeting so many people from Japan in Neon Space City and there will never be an answer ]

[tigerpoet]

A book we wrote. Nothing else would be appropriate.

[peerlesscucumber]

[ Airplane Bro, looks like you're not the only author dealing with transmigrating related to your written work... ]

More convenient than transmigrating into the novel, transmigrating from the novel.

What was it about, out of curiosity?

[tigerpoet]

No. I have to at least try to keep my anonymity.

[Yes, this is where he draws the line: not the parts about being a dead author who died in that specific year and was brought back with alchemy, but the part where someone might have read his book.

To be fair, it is required reading in some schools.]

[peerlesscucumber]

[ And the rest of the stuff was anonymous enough?! Just how well known is this guy supposed to be?! Too bad he has no access to Baidu: nothing here is going to help with searching up information anyway. No, scratch that, VPN to another search engine!

Same trouble, however: what he doesn't know he doesn't know, and he's... less curious about figuring out who this man is than what the content of the novel might have been. Since that's not getting volunteered, he leaves well enough alone. Okay, okay! Aggressive side of transmigrated author's personalities! He won't press! ]

Understandable.

[ From one Anonymous Bro to another, he does get it. ]

What are you both making of this second transmigration?

[tigerpoet]

[Sometimes, when people are required to read your stuff, you assume that people have read your stuff perhaps. Especially Japanese high schoolers, of whom there are at least a few here.

Maybe a copy of Atsushi's work will appear in the library someday. That's what bonus points are for.]

He's making friends, so it's not terrible.

[Aggressive author's personality has very simple priorities: stabbing and making sure his other self is alright.]

[peerlesscucumber]

[ Meanwhile Shen Qingqiu bets his life on no one being from modern China with the same shitty reading tastes he had, or else things would be really awkward, really fast.

And there are indeed quite a few Japanese citizens here... it does, however, incline him to believe that it's a book potentially read by people from Japan, enough that it's identifiable, and likely covered in some level of compulsory schooling. Which tells him little enough about contents, but a bit more about context! (He would read that book so fast if it did.)

Meanwhile, it's sweet that half of himself is so concerned about the other half of himself. Or disturbing. He has no idea what to make of such significantly split personalities. Self-care is important? So that's good? Probably?! ]

May he continue to have good success with forming those bonds of friendship. Likewise for you... or at minimum, having his consent to getting times where you get to practice your own preferred form of bonding as well.

[ Fighters want to fight. Liu-shidi has always been an excellent indication of this, along with the rabble called disciples of Bai Zhan Peak. ]

[tigerpoet]

[Sometimes, self-care is restraining yourself from punching idiots because your split personality likes them.]

I'm not the kind of person who has friends. But you can keep wishing him well.

[He appreciates it, not that he'll ever say something like that.]