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Who: Anyone
Where: Hotel and vicinity
When: Day 41, morning

[ MEMORY MINGLE who is up bright and early and trying to broadcast their memories first thing before too many people are awake to watch? Seems like a good plan! ]

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Quite the high-stakes gamble nonetheless. On one hand, the shock of it all might have made it so he never returned to you on any terms. Or he could have killed you at your request.

Maybe it was a test for both of you.

Was putting yourself at risk a way to prove your own humanity? To prove you could triumph over your own survival instinct.

I had faith in Kagehira, and know myself to have nothing so base as a survival instinct.

[ as if that is something to be proud of ]

Edited 2018-09-25 05:42 (UTC)

[This is really the most enlightening conversation]

And why did you have faith in him? How can you tell when a puppet is capable of becoming a real boy?

Because he is entirely incompetent as a puppet. You saw him in the memory with Tenshouin, despite being told to multiple time he could not keep a civil tongue in his head. He clearly has his own priorities, he simply refuses to acknowledge them. What I told him was true: I could not throw him away because at no point did he ever belong to me.

Edited 2018-09-25 05:58 (UTC)

[Nods in understanding. Seems legit to him]

An interesting philosophy.

And having just recovered that part of yourself, does the current you believe the same?

[ Folding his hands and resting his chin on them, while saying definitively: ]

I stand by all statements I made in that memory.

Ha! Then I can only assume that you're working on a new pet project.

There is no one on my unit that needs half the corrections Kagehira did.

Who said they had to be on your unit?

I have far less claim to those who are not.

And how important are unit boundaries to you? As important as they were in your previous idol life?

The way the unit are set up here is not comparable. Rather than being self-produced with our images and line-ups at the control of the unit leader, our mysterious production company has handled and decided all of it. I would be eager to discard it, but with the way units must work together during games means I cannot ignore it entirely.

Both of which are fair points.

Unitmates aside, do you find that Taisho appeals to the same aesthetic you had before?

Non. ☆ZRAEL is the unit that matches what I recall of my tastes and designs. Taisho is not offensive, but if I were given my say it is not what I would take to the stage to make my impact on the world.

And how good are your relations with ☆ZRAEL?

I scarcely know them, though I have been to their dorm once and I find Aradia agreeable. I advised the young man with sharp teeth to not keep corpses in his closet, lest the stench sink into his clothes. Honestly, I do not think they know what they have been gifted with.

They installed the moon in their ceiling. I think they understand their own aesthetic quite well.

And if that's the aesthetic that is most true to you, why not forgo your current one for it?

Our aesthetic is hardly our primary messaging, here. The impact we make upon the audience is not one of a show of our own choosing, but how we choose within the constraints given to us. If I were to swap units the only choice I would be making would be to straight-jacket myself into another set of confines, neither expressing nor creating anything worth giving the world.

So how are you going to bypass the confines? You're a true artist, correct. So you'll continue your art despite --- or should I say in spite --- of this situation.

I have been integrating my own aesthetic into the outfits I've received, but the games appear to be what the audience has the most interest in. The matter of how to make a statement in them is one I'm considering— the difficulty in predicting them adds factors I do not care for. I despise a stage I do not control.

[You and me both, bro. You and me both]

I look forward to your actual debut then. I'm sure it will be nothing but the highest form of art.

[And while that comment doesn't sound exactly sincere, well--- at least he sounds intrigued]

Hah! Spare me your empty flattery. When I debut, my skill will be shown or it will flounder and I should receive only scorn for my poor showing!

[ He shouldn't sound so egotistical about that, but he sounds very confident that if he fails he should be reviled so don't bother complimenting him now. He has yet to prove himself here! ]

[God Kuzuebiko you are like always on point. Painfully and completely on point at all times]

The flattery is not empty, I assure you. Either outcome will be a show stopper.

And I don't even know which outcome to bet on.

Hmph. Then I will graciously take your confidences in the spirit they were meant, until the time comes to unveil the answer!

And you, what of your work?

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