[ how many humans have dreamed of peace? how many take up their swords and spears to wage war for the sake of ending it? and how many spirits have bathed their steel in red, hoping that the day may come that they will no longer be needed at all - that they won't simply be reduced to works of art and replaced with newer, stronger weapons, but that they may not ever hear the sounds of war again?
zhongli isn't the first. neither is ishikirimaru, or nobuyasu, or gohei. when it comes to this simple wish they share, there is nothing unique about them - except, perhaps, the belief of whether it can truly come to be someday. for ookurikara, however, it's hard to imagine believing comes so easily, when it means the end of everything they've known, sword spirit, god, or human. ]
But he seems to believe that they can actually achieve it here.
[ a question goes unasked, one kara can't bring himself to voice again, for fear of allowing himself to hope too much. that's always been the core of why he acts the way he does, isn't it - while tsurumaru escapes that through surprises and tricks and games, ookurikara escapes by pulling away, and never allowing himself to get close at all, lest it slip through his fingers again, as everything he wants always seems to do.
but his heart still wants to know: is a world without war even possible? what will become of them, if it is? does that even matter, in the end?
tsurumaru won't have those answers, but no one else would even hear those questions, so there is no one better to trust them with. ]
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[ how many humans have dreamed of peace? how many take up their swords and spears to wage war for the sake of ending it? and how many spirits have bathed their steel in red, hoping that the day may come that they will no longer be needed at all - that they won't simply be reduced to works of art and replaced with newer, stronger weapons, but that they may not ever hear the sounds of war again?
zhongli isn't the first. neither is ishikirimaru, or nobuyasu, or gohei. when it comes to this simple wish they share, there is nothing unique about them - except, perhaps, the belief of whether it can truly come to be someday. for ookurikara, however, it's hard to imagine believing comes so easily, when it means the end of everything they've known, sword spirit, god, or human. ]
But he seems to believe that they can actually achieve it here.
[ a question goes unasked, one kara can't bring himself to voice again, for fear of allowing himself to hope too much. that's always been the core of why he acts the way he does, isn't it - while tsurumaru escapes that through surprises and tricks and games, ookurikara escapes by pulling away, and never allowing himself to get close at all, lest it slip through his fingers again, as everything he wants always seems to do.
but his heart still wants to know: is a world without war even possible? what will become of them, if it is? does that even matter, in the end?
tsurumaru won't have those answers, but no one else would even hear those questions, so there is no one better to trust them with. ]