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[bluebasketballed]

powers nerfed & gained
❆ - superhuman strength: nerfed to the point he couldn't destroy, like, a building in one hit, but even hakuji as a human could punch people's bones apart so good luck!
❆ - self healing: nerfed from instant to delayed 5-10 minutes.
❆ + conditional sunlight immunity: an enchanted anklet that nullifies the harmful effects of sunlight and sun-based magic so long as he is wearing it.

deaths & resurrection prices
none..... YET

other permanent changes
❆ scarring - november 2025: a solid scar the width of his fist at the crux of his ribcage and at the same height on his back, implying impalement. any sensation to this scar, including pain, is shared with kyojuro.


weasel's note: akaza's handwriting is the very sad and choppy scrawl of a man who barely knows how to write. the netbook is just polite enough to make it legible. i just type it in all lowercase bc i'm too lazy to pick out the spelling/handwriting mistakes. thank u for your understanding. i'm having fun now thx

he lives at the inn, the room next to kyojuro's. his window is boarded up from the inside. it is very dark in there. mentitycave

he lives at the soryu dojo south of the river, in koyuki's old room. he offers unarmed self-defense training at the dojo.


plotting contact: PM // discord @ fuckweasel

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[bluebasketballed]

[even during their fight to the death, when akaza offered what was to kyojuro the greatest insult possible, the man never spoke to him like this. that tone, paired with kyojuro's own reaction to it, at least tells akaza that kyojuro doesn't fully intend its vehemence. part of him wonders whether that makes it better or worse that he was able to wrench it from him.

still, he listens to what kyojuro has to say. it isn't what he wants to hear, and as usual, he doesn't fully understand the human social nuance. but he accepts the message; he can't help kyojuro right now. the finality of it is enough for him to get a grip on himself, but he can't wear a smile so easily, and he doesn't try. nor does he continue insisting on getting his way. he just looks down and away, steadying his breath as he did his face.]

... Will you at least promise you'll try to find someone who can help right now?

[tempurahair]

[It isn't fair, how deeply Akaza seems to care even now. It makes his entire soul ache, only to be compounded by the guilt that surges through him for even feeling that way.

Not like this. Not right now.]

I... promise to do what I can.

[He doesn't know who is out and about right now. It's not like he's going to burst into someone's house while they are settled in for the evening. Truthfully, there are few people he trusts in that way. Akaza was one of the few he counted in that number, and, well...]

Is it too much to ask for you to do the same?

[bluebasketballed]

[it's probably a foolish ask. most of the people akaza would consider himself remotely "close" with are children on whom he would never want to place this sort of burden. the adults, he doesn't necessarily feel he can talk to, if only because he finds talking so godsdamned difficult.

kyojuro is even more of a social butterfly than he is, but even so, akaza shouldn't expect that his network is in any better condition. at least, he shouldn't make kyojuro promise things he physically can't guarantee.]

It isn't too much to ask. [yet, he doesn't make the same promise.] I think I'm just going to rest.

... Don't get some stupid idea like you're not welcome here, alright? Come home when you're ready. [maybe that wording might hurt a bit, considering everything, but... it's important that he use it, anyway. it's important that kyojuro still consider this his home.]

[tempurahair]

[Home. It does indeed fracture through his heart, first one way, then echoing back onto itself. This was not his home. It had been their home, and as Akaza had pointed out, they aren't those people anymore. There was a reason Soryu had been part of Akaza's life and not Kyojuro's, he is certain of this.

But he doesn't argue. Not for his own sake, but for Senjuro. He has already settled down, and Kyojuro will not be the reason he is upended once more. More than anything, his brother deserved stability. And it has always been Kyojuro's role to offer it.

(Everything he does, he does for other people. That has always been his way.)]

I will. It should not be more than a few hours. [He turns toward the exit.] Thank you, by the way. For your honesty. I... meant all that I said.

[He still feels Akaza is good. Maybe he wasn't once. Maybe he still had much to make up for. But Kyojuro thinks that the man in front of him, as he is now, is wholly good.]