[homophonic] catchall for kazuki

[dendroculi]

KAZUKI

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week 7, monday

[dendroculi]

[when kazuki focuses and opens up his senses again later, nahida flickers into view in front of him. she's holding an old-fashioned lyre.]

Hehe... hello again.

[teenrebellion]

[ he lights up immediately. ]

Hey, I can actually see you this time. And you found something after all?

[ kazuki, meanwhile, has an acoustic guitar. definitely not his usual. ]

[dendroculi]

Mhm. I'll have to put it back once we're done, though.

[she looks intrigued by the guitar.]

Is that one new?

[teenrebellion]

Yeah, I picked it up from the music store last week. I got some stuff for the electric, too, but I figured this is better for the Aranara's song?

[dendroculi]

Mm, I think that works perfectly. The Aranara use a lot of stringed instruments.

[teenrebellion]

Like the lyre? You were using something similar last time, right?

[dendroculi]

[she nods]

Mhm, exactly. That's the sort of instrument they favor. They're pretty small... smaller than me, even! ...so they can't really use anything too big.

[teenrebellion]

Ehhhh. [ smaller than nahida is a feat. ] Couldn't they make their own instruments, then? Then they wouldn't have to be as limited, you know?

[dendroculi]

They do... actually, when people find some of the instruments they've made, they think they were made for children.

[teenrebellion]

Oh. That... sounds kind of cute, actually?

[ he's. trying to picture it now but he doesn't even know what an aranara is supposed to look like in the first place. maybe they are just mini nahidas? ]

[dendroculi]

They're very cute creatures, in my opinion.

[hmm. maybe she'll have to draw him a picture of one sometime.]

[teenrebellion]

...Well, now I'm just curious.

[dendroculi]

One moment!

[she blips out of his view




a few minutes later, he receives a text message on his phone from onepx - it contains a picture of a pen drawing on a napkin, depicting kazuki playing his guitar with three aranara around him, each of them playing the lyre]

There, what do you think?

[she is a disembodied voice now.]

[teenrebellion]

[ the disembodied voice thing still creeps him out a little, but he pulls up the picture and can't help a vaguely embarrassed smile. nahida really didn't have to draw him, too!! ]

...Okay, you're right. They are kind of cute. And somehow they're exactly what you'd expect forest spirits to look like.

[dendroculi]

Hehe. Some people think they're just from fairy tales... they don't realize that what they remember of them are actually from their own memories.

There's a merchant in Port Ormos who makes carvings of them. They've gotten very popular.

[teenrebellion]

The more you tell me about them, the more I wonder if there's something similar where I'm from. Figurines and stuff from folklore are still pretty popular there, too - like, teru teru bozu are supposed to make it sunny, if you hang them upright?

[dendroculi]

There might be! There are a lot of very interesting things like that in the world. I've never heard of teru teru bozu before, though. [she looks fascinated] Have you tried it yourself? Does it work?

[teenrebellion]

They're just these little dolls made of cloth that you hang outside of windows. Since you guys are in Shibuya, you might be able to find some out there somewhere.

But uh... Maybe a couple of times when we were kids? It's hard to say whether it actually works, though.

[dendroculi]

Ooh, maybe! I'll look for them...

I wonder if they have a similar tradition in Inazuma? ...hehe, if it's possible, it'd be nice to take you to visit Inazuma someday. We could compare the things there that are similar to your world.

[teenrebellion]

Let me know if you see them? I'm kind of curious now.

That could be fun, though. And Jonas and I were talking about how it'd be nice to be able to visit each other's worlds later - not just between our team, but for everyone. It'd just be too weird going home never being able to see you guys again, you know?

We could make a whole field trip out of it, if it works out.

[dendroculi]

Hehe, I will!

[and then they'll all die and fall out of contact with each other so she will not, actually. but they had high hopes.]

I'd like that a lot. I don't want to say goodbye to any of you permanently. If it works out that way, please come visit! ...and if it doesn't... well, people from other worlds have found their way to Teyvat before. I'll have to compare notes with them, but with enough time I should be able to figure something out.

I am an archon, after all.

[aka: anything is possible in a psl no matter how endgame goes]

[teenrebellion]

[ :yell: ]

If we can, I definitely want to. I want to meet the Aranara, too.

...Is that a common thing, in Teyvat?

[dendroculi]

Mm... not the most common. But, one of my close friends came from another world. They're journeying through Teyvat right now and were planning to set out for Fontaine soon, but if we get back in time, maybe I'll be able to catch them before they leave.

[...]

But even if it's uncommon, I know it's possible. That alone gives me hope I'll be able to figure it out.

[teenrebellion]

Really? Huh. Maybe they'll have some tips for how to do it, then. And if not, the Irminsul would know, right? You said it records everything.

If we have to wait a bit, though, I don't mind. As long as it's not too long.

[ he's teasing but he can be patient. ]

[dendroculi]

Well... it records everything that belongs to Teyvat. There are no records in Irminsul of the Traveler, because they're not of my world. But that also means that changes to Irminsul don't affect them, which can be beneficial in its own way...

[she smiles]

Hehe, don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long.

[her sense of time is kinda skewed though imagine she shows up when kazuki is like 80 years old because that doesn't feel like a long time to her]