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fashionably_strong[Though she typically prefers video communication, Bulla deliberately selects voice. It's difficult to tell whether she sounds a little off because she's tired, depressed, or sick, but she's definitely not her usual upbeat and sociable self.]
Hi, everyone. I could use some suggestions for a distraction or three. Preferably something where you don't have to move around much.
[Truthfully, she's tired, depressed, and not feeling well, though it's due to an injury rather than illness. Her mother has vanished from Luceti, and she's recovering from the worst injury she's ever had in her life courtesy of a cultist.]
...and if you're suggesting reading, please suggest a specific book, because I've already read everything I have here in the house.
Hi, everyone. I could use some suggestions for a distraction or three. Preferably something where you don't have to move around much.
[Truthfully, she's tired, depressed, and not feeling well, though it's due to an injury rather than illness. Her mother has vanished from Luceti, and she's recovering from the worst injury she's ever had in her life courtesy of a cultist.]
...and if you're suggesting reading, please suggest a specific book, because I've already read everything I have here in the house.
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Date: 2013-08-25 05:21 pm (UTC)Your mother returning home is likely for the best. Better that than to have her deal with the Malnosso's experiments. She seemed like a nice woman, and I'm sure it's upsetting for you and your father, but at least she'll be spared ordeals like this.
[Then, swallowing, she goes on.]
And I'm sorry. About Neji.
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Date: 2013-08-27 09:49 am (UTC)Yeah...
[Though it won't spare her mother from the ordeals in their homeworld that she has yet to experience.]
It's okay...it hurt, but I'm not angry now. It's going to be pretty weird seeing him around town, though.
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Date: 2013-08-27 03:31 pm (UTC)It's strange for me too. He was my brother, in that false life.
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Date: 2013-08-29 02:34 am (UTC)[She feels guilty for it, too. How could she forget any family members or friends from back home?]
I'm glad you took out the creep responsible for this.
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Date: 2013-08-29 03:07 am (UTC)[She looks away, still feeling quite guilty about that]
I just did what any decent person would do. Fought with all my heart.
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Date: 2013-08-30 09:41 am (UTC)Still, there are plenty of people who wouldn't have been able to fight someone like that at all. That jerk was pretty powerful.
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Date: 2013-08-30 10:49 am (UTC)If I'd known I could fly, I'd have killed him from a mile away and spared myself the trouble.
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Date: 2013-08-30 02:43 pm (UTC)[Although the idea of helping a friend really goes without saying, Bulla's mildly surprised at herself when she realizes she would actually fight instead of leaving it all to her father.]
...assuming it happened before the thing with the cultists. I wasn't in any condition to help anyone after that.
[On the plus side, she'd protected him, and he'd unleashed some super-Saiyan whupass on the cultists.]
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Date: 2013-08-30 06:26 pm (UTC)Well, it's alright. It happened after that, I know. I ran into your father during the fighting. And I'll tell you what I told him, it wouldn't have been a fair fight.
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Date: 2013-08-31 11:19 pm (UTC)[In fact, everyone else had to live with more lasting effects, while the one responsible for all of this wasn't amongst the living, period.]
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Date: 2013-09-02 05:45 am (UTC)[Frankly, Saori was happy to have it be a duel. In a warped sense, it was more satisfying that way. Moralizing is just a means to justify it.]
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Date: 2013-09-04 02:22 am (UTC)To be fair, fighting him directly in a two or three on one fight after he messed with the heads of just about everyone here for no good reason is still pretty far from acting like him. We'd be no better than him if we pretended to be on his side and then sneak attacked him from behind.
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Date: 2013-09-04 06:01 am (UTC)And if I told you that was just the justification I used to make your father feel better, would you believe me? I was happy for a duel. That's the way of my people.
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Date: 2013-09-05 02:04 am (UTC)I think he'd be just as satisfied with the explanation that you were happy for a duel, even if it meant that he didn't get the chance to ki blast that creep into oblivion.
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Date: 2013-09-05 04:05 am (UTC)[ Action]
Date: 2013-09-06 01:17 am (UTC)[Bulla smiles. Sometimes the most moral choice isn't always the most practical, but she supports the moral approach as long as it doesn't get the people she cares about killed.]
It does. I don't think anyone would have judged you if you did fight as part of a team, though.
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Date: 2013-09-06 01:24 am (UTC)[ Action]
Date: 2013-09-07 09:44 pm (UTC)Fair enough. As long as he gets his turn to fight, I think he'll be okay with it. We beat up some cultists together before I got hurt, so it's not like he didn't get to fight at all.
[He'd done far more of the work, but she didn't stay back and leave it all to him the way she might have six months ago. A few of the cultists learned the hard way that her being the weaker of the two targets they were trying to apprehend didn't mean that she was anything resembling weak.]
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Date: 2013-09-08 02:44 am (UTC)[she leans back in her seat with a tired smile.]
I'm sorry you got hurt, though. The fighting must have been intense.
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Date: 2013-09-08 03:06 am (UTC)[Which is an accomplishment for a girl who never considered herself a fighter.]
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Date: 2013-09-08 05:00 am (UTC)[ Action]
Date: 2013-09-08 11:11 pm (UTC)[Which took a few days before she stopped hurting completely, but she'd actually managed to keep up for nearly eight hours with only a couple of short breaks in between. At the end of it, her body had just given out and decided it couldn't take any more punishment for the day.]
I only promised an hour every other day so Dad wouldn't decide to train me the way he used to train Trunks. I still wanted to have plenty of time for friends and my hobbies.
[Although at least half of her friends like meeting up for sparring types of things anyway.]
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Date: 2013-09-09 01:12 am (UTC)[ Action]
Date: 2013-09-09 02:20 am (UTC)[There's also some sense of achievement that she can't really deny she enjoys feeling at seeing herself get stronger, but the number one reason is being able to protect her friends, and any little kids who might get drafted.]
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Date: 2013-09-09 07:23 am (UTC)[ Action]
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