Inbox: Ximilia

[singlelogbridge]

// Wei Wuxian

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XIMILIA

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[blackfire]

（ all of the awful tales told to frighten children into obedience about the exploits of uchiha itachi, as it happens, are entirely true. exaggerated, perhaps — but true at their core. what horror can be improved upon, when it comes to a man that murdered his own kin? ）

Hm.

Well, I have never seen you interact with an innocent maiden.

Perhaps there is something to these tales after all.

（ gallows humour for two. ）

[singlelogbridge]

[He gasps in delight.]

I am telling Gwen.

And who has time for seducing anyway? I spent all of my days being nagged at by Wen Qing and being her personal pin cushion! But we've already covered that part.

[blackfire]

Gwen would agree with me.

（ would she?

idk, probably. ）

Perhaps, then, I should have focused on the startling lack of crops aboard the Ximilia.

（ them curses at work ig. ）

[singlelogbridge]

Ahaha, you think you're very clever don't you. And what about the babies?

[blackfire]

（ he can joke about the other things but really did not want to touch on, you know, the murder of infants for obvious reasons. ）

I think you likely have better culinary taste than that.

[singlelogbridge]

Glad to know you have some faith in me.

Hey, one more question for you I meant to ask earlier. The characters in front of うちは on the poem you gave to Gwen. That's your name, right? That's "Itachi?" Is that the only way its written?

[blackfire]

The characters are katakana. They are shorthand fragmentations of kanji, illustrating sounds rather than logograms.

鼬 would be the representative kanji of my name, though the pronunciation differs in all but kun'yomi.

（ its native reading. ）

1/3

[singlelogbridge]

2/?

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3/4

[singlelogbridge]

[What the fuck]

[singlelogbridge]

Are weasels auspicious?

[blackfire]

They represent death and ill luck.

[singlelogbridge]

[It's bad taste to rag on someone's name and there was probably some reason for it. Maybe it was a family name. Maybe the honor of naming him went to an extremely elderly relative. Like extremely elderly. Maybe it was an accident. He can't believe he's just been casually calling his friend weasel this whole time.]

Ah. Well. Perhaps your parents had a different sort of encounter with a weasel. And anyway, you haven't brought me any ill luck.

[blackfire]

（ he can hear those gears turning from here, and so — ）

There is a clan of ninja weasels.

My grandmother had a contract with one of them, credited on numerous occasions with saving her life.

Cultural connotations aside, weasels have long been friends and allies to my family.

[singlelogbridge]

[Oh thank GOD Itachi, he was grasping at straws over here.]

A weasel who defied expectations and rose above the assumptions made about it! I understand. Noble character matters far more than presumptions.

[blackfire]

（ death and ill luck suit him far better, but — ）

You were that concerned for me, I see.

（ you weirdo. ）

[singlelogbridge]

[Don't make fun of him, he was struggling!]

Not concerned! Who am I to question the name your parents gave you? But I may have been ready to start brainstorming a courtesy name for you. Maybe.

[blackfire]

A name is just a name.

（ a body is just a body. both are simply tools. ）

But I appreciate your （ his...? ）you-ness.

（ nailed it...? ）

[singlelogbridge]

My me-ness! I'm glad.

Hey did I ever tell you what I named my sword?

[blackfire]

No.

（ it's going to be something ridiculous, he already knows. ）

[singlelogbridge]

Whatever

[blackfire]

（ why are you literally the worst. ）

Nothing in what you have just said surprises me.

[singlelogbridge]

[Please know he is cackling out loud.]

Then I am clearly doing my job! I'm glad you understand me.

[blackfire]

At times it is against my better judgement.

[singlelogbridge]

[Alright look, he doesn't get emojis and he doesn't use them. They're weird and he doesn't quite understand them, but in lieu of a face to face conversation, there is only one proper way to respond to this.]

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