❀ Kim Kitsuragi

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[Kim's standing by the city wall, looking out to the foggy distance... but what he soon sees instead is Tsurumaru and the crane. His daemon, a great skua, sits perched atop a piece of the wall.]

Don't go out so far. It's dangerous.

[He manages to raise his voice to be loud, clear, and authoritative, without sounding agitated.]

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(Ooooh. Authority.

But fine, he's already stopped. It's as close as he's willing to get to comfortably which is still too close for the crane. )

Ah, doesn't that must make you wonder what's out there, though?

(Like... isn't the danger exciting? Who wouldn't want to go some place they aren't supposed to go? Tsurumaru Kuninaga is a rebel menace.)

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It does. [He does not sound excited about it, though.] I was hoping I might be able to see something beyond the coast, but no such luck.

Then again... [He gestures to his glasses.] I may not be the best person to attempt such a thing.

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(Once more, with spirit, please.

But he's going to come over and hold out his hands to him like?)

Oh? Let me try.

(Wearing the glasses.)

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[He raises a single eyebrow.]

The glasses are not going to help.

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(i'm throttling my notifs)

Then what's the point in wearing them? It can't be style.

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[Ouch.]

Hyperopia, mainly.

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Say what?)

Eh?

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Farsightedness. I've had poor vision since childhood. These [He gestures at the glasses.] are for correcting it.

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So you can only see far away and not close...

(He looks at the distance between them. It isn't much. Probably a comfortable distance?)

Can you see me?

(He's trying to learn.)

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[... Is that a real question.]

Yes. It would be very hard to miss someone standing right in front of my face.

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(He's being serious!!)

What if you took them off? How far can you see without them? ... Or near? Hm.

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[Kim doesn't take them off to humour him. He just answers.]

Everything would just be a blur of colours. Close objects, even more so.

Far away... it's only marginally better. I can see large, distinct shapes, but the details blur together.

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A blur of colors...

(It doesn't sound so bad when it's like that. He thinks it might even be better than seeing clearly sometimes.)

I see. Do you prefer being able to see clearly ahead? Or would you rather embrace uncertainty?

(He assumes the former considering he's wearing the glasses but he still has to ask like the vague cryptid he is.)

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The novelty of seeing the world like it's an abstract painting wears off after about twenty seconds or so.

So, yes, I would rather see clearly.