synopsychic | backdated to the end of the tournament/after the illuminated do their thing

Seems like now might be a good time to get ourselves on the same page.

[To put it lightly. They've had days to wander around, get acclimated, listen to the gossip...and now between everyone wrapping things up to return to their places after the tournament, and the infodump so thoughtfully provided by the local mage-types, the real work begins.]

People are packing up to head home. That leaves us with a lot of possible leads to follow. I know at least a couple of us were thinking of following Jaeger back to Flamegard; Verreuil was talking about following the guy in yellow.

Westgard's hiring knights, and from the way people were talking when the notice went up, it sounds like the offer is unusually generous. Might be a good way to get in the loop on that; it's sounding more and more to me like the throne is why we're here. Keeping an eye on the nobles is probably in our best interest.

And I doubt that's everything worth looking into, obviously - that's just the shit I've already heard about. Anyone got anything to add? We're gonna have to divide and conquer here, but it helps if we know what we're dividing to begin with.

[And after a moment, he adds -]

All of mine from back home, consider reporting in here an order, not a courtesy. [Because goddamn he's got too many of you to keep track of, throw him a bone here.]

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An order? Man, you're even stricter than my Hijikata-san. I kind of feel bad for them! ["them" being all the hakus from the history universe. clearly, souji is just dealing with this entire situation in the best way possible.

by being totally useless, because he's still far out of his element and not sure how these investigations work.]

If you walk into a war without being able to follow orders, you're not going to walk out of it.

[Not that most of them were able to walk out of it anyway...]

[don't tell souji that part, his innocent ears can't handle it.]

I guess Hijikata-san still cares enough to do that much, even if he tries to act like he doesn't. [both versions have that much in common.]

I'm responsible for all you chucklefucks, aren't I?

[And this Souji by extension, even if he has his own Souji already.]

I didn't know I was one of Hijikata-san's "chucklefucks." Should I be grateful or offended by that?

[snort. he's kind of amused hijikata even knows a word like that.]

[He didn't have much to do in his downtime on Belljar Island aside from learn interesting new slang and get roped into selfies by his Souji, alas.]

If your Hijikata ever shows up, you can be one of his chucklefucks again, but I'm damned well not gonna sit around and watch you get yourself killed in the meantime.

Even if he showed up, he may try to pass me off to you. [this is where he's sighing. and blatantly disregarding that last bit, even if it's a perfectly valid train of thought.] I really hope that doesn't happen... Two Hijikata-sans would be too much trouble.

We confused people enough without lookalikes.

[Even having two Soujis who didn't look a thing alike was enough to throw some people off. And now...

He's got a headache already.]

That would just make it even worse. The resemblance is uncanny, really.

[he squints at hijikata, as if trying to figure out how he'd tell them apart if they were dressed from the same era.]

Do we look that alike?

[To some extent - sure, that's obvious, but more like he's wondering - if this Souji is obviously ten years younger, and it's at least enough for the people who know either one better to tell, shouldn't there be something like that to differentiate him from this Souji's Hijikata?]

Mm! I think this Hijikata-san probably needs a little more sleep, but it's not that much different, otherwise.

[they look close enough in age — maybe only a few years separating them, but it could just be a but of stress that differentiates it. they both manage to be fashion disasters as far as he's concerned, and are largely indistinguishable otherwise.]

I get plenty of sleep.

[ this is bullshit ]

Did anyone ever tell you that you're a shitty liar, Hijikata-san?

[he can't be fooled, his hijikata is definitely slightly more rested. slightly.]

Shut it, Souji.

There you go again, sounding exactly the same. Really, it's hard to believe you're different at all.

You want to give me a reason to sound different, feel free to stop being such a pain in the ass.

I don't really think acting different than I normally would is going to change how similar you two are.

I could say the same shit about you two.

Oh? You really think we're that much alike too?

You're both complete pains in my ass.

I don't think I could have cause you that much trouble. We haven't even known each other very long! It sounds like you may be exaggerating just to put us on the same level.

The fact that you haven't shut up yet is enough to get you to "complete pain in my ass."

Is that so? Ahh, Hijikata-san's standards for that are pretty low, then!

I'm not inviting you to find more ways to prove you're a pain in the ass.

Who said you were? I was just making a point.

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