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yinsukin:
Roman
Roman watched Sakura do her magic with wide eyes. He wondered how long it took to be able to cast magic like that. Still, if it did what she said it did, then she was being disingenuous. She said she didn't care, yet she casted a spell to prevent others from hearing their conversation. At the very least, Roman considered that maybe it wasn't wrong after all to feel so defensive when they first met. She wasn't very honest with herself. But then again, maybe it was better to judge after he heard her out. After all, she was opening up to him now.
"All in the past huh?" he said, echoing her words. As he spoke, he sat his tinier ass in the chair opposite to hers. "Does having all that power allow you to put the past behind you? I always wondered about that. People who made it never seem to care much about the past, or at least don't bring it up."
SINIB:
--- Quote from: yinsukin on January 17, 2021, 04:28:08 PM ---Roman
Roman watched Sakura do her magic with wide eyes. He wondered how long it took to be able to cast magic like that. Still, if it did what she said it did, then she was being disingenuous. She said she didn't care, yet she casted a spell to prevent others from hearing their conversation. At the very least, Roman considered that maybe it wasn't wrong after all to feel so defensive when they first met. She wasn't very honest with herself. But then again, maybe it was better to judge after he heard her out. After all, she was opening up to him now.
"All in the past huh?" he said, echoing her words. As he spoke, he sat his tinier ass in the chair opposite to hers. "Does having all that power allow you to put the past behind you? I always wondered about that. People who made it never seem to care much about the past, or at least don't bring it up."
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Sakura
Sakura rested her arms on the armrests and began to idly strum her left hand against the fabric, while continuing to run her fingers through one of her long purple drills with the other. "No, of course it doesn't. Money and power doesn't make it any easier to get over your issues. What it does help with is suppressing them or ignoring them in favor of one's present luxury."
She leaned back, and crossed her legs. The fabric of her dress was naturally tight, and happened to give him a fairly good impression of the curvacious nature of her legs. She didn't seem to notice, or she didn't care in the first place. She continued silently strumming her fingers against the chair for a few moments before speaking up again, and began to tell him of her past.
yinsukin:
Roman
Huh... oddly self aware... Thats what Roman thought as he rested his chin in against the palm of his hand. Roman frowned, staring at Sakura's shapely legs. Maybe then money wasn't the kind of power he wanted. Looking at that attractive body she got just from training, maybe the benefits of physical power were better. After all, doesn't it give you more confidence in yourself or something like that? Plus in this city, if your strong enough, you can just take the power for yourself. Growing up, he always heard about districts occasionally being taken over by groups of strong individuals.
"I see. Then what about your training? No its alright. Tell me about that when you get to it."
SINIB:
Sakura
A pair of prop-glasses generated on her face dangling on the tip of her nose, and she frowned. She couldn't deny she had reservations-she wasn't sure why she'd agreed to open up to him so readily. It was a decision she'd made in the heat of the moment, flowing directly from the stream of her consciousness, devoid from any logical decisions which she'd usually make.
She'd already said it, but she almost wanted to go back on it now. It was nerve-wracking, especially looking directly at Roman. She could feel her heart beating rapidly, throbbing in her chest with nausua building up in her gullet.
Still, backing off now would be majorly inelegant. She'd look like a fool, so she steeled her will and pushed on. "Yes, allow me to start at the beginning. We'll be here all day if I'm jumping around in this conversation from point to point." She wagged her finger at him for a moment before continuing on. "I was born as the second daughter to a family of mages known as the Tohsaka, hailing far away from the center of magical culture. They specialized in gem magecraft, storing magical energy within gemstones..."
As Sakura spoke, she thought back to those simpler times. She didn't remember much of them at all anymore. It was so long ago, and perhaps, she hadn't even wanted to remember those times. She couldn't really recall the face of her mother, only her soft smile.
It was a worthless smile. She'd been a weak woman, a woman whose only response to sending her own child halfway across the world to Finland had been that weak, detestable, sad smile. No complaints, only a quiet, calm goodbye at the airport, never to be seen again. She talked about her father, how he was an average man, a completely average mage whom viewed himself as a member of the upper crust. He'd been the one to make the decision to send her off. It'd been so she'd be taught magecraft which better suited her, to allow her to become a mage herself. She'd leaned back into the chair after recounting her broken memories, more for herself at this point than Roman, before she got into her sister.
Rin had been perfect-favored by their parents, able to cast magic from all five elements, top grade magical potential—she was the obvious choice to become the heir. Sakura stared longingly at her sister from behind the airport checkpoint, clutching tightly at the one keepsake she'd been given as she was lead away by a tall, dark-haired man. A small red ribbon, wrapped tightly around her clenched knuckles-it got fuzzy, after that. She couldn't remember the specifics anymore, but she recalled that Rin had called out to her, one last time...
Finally, Sakura stopped-for a while, she'd been rambling, spilling her guts out at what amounted to a complete stranger. She took a deep breath as she felt her heart racing, a cold sweat beading up at her brow. "Haah..."
yinsukin:
Roman
It was hard to listen to, not because of the severity of it, but because it hit so close to home. Even so, he couldn't stop listening. This sort of traumatic backstory, it wasn't something he was a stranger to. Quite frankly, the citizens of the nexus were no strangers to some form of trauma. It was the fact that it came from a person like Sakura, so powerful, someone who seemed to have at least most of it figured out.
Roman's eyes widened and he spoke with a soft voice. "Slow down.... You.... I want to know, but you don't have to tell me anymore if you don't want to."
He didn't understand all of it yet. It was too incoherent. Her sister Rin leaving for the airport? Her weak parents? Was it the pain of being abandoned that set her off or the sister...? Yeah it was the abandonment wasn't it? She was hurt by the people closest to her.
"But... I do want to know...."
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