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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: 2013-09-05 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]
Date: 2013-09-10 02:28 am (UTC)We might as well do what we can. There's enough things that happen here that can't really be protected against effectively, too.
[Like when the Malnosso bring people here and take them away, but she's trying not to let herself be more depressed about the latter part than she has to.]
At least Mom will be safer at home. Sort of. A lot of dangerous things happened before the world got to enjoy peace for a while...
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Date: 2013-09-10 02:31 am (UTC)[Saori looks up at a passing cloud, thinking about Bulma and all of that for a moment before responding.]
Bulla, your mother is from before your time, yes? But she makes it to your time, in your own right?
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Date: 2013-09-11 02:40 am (UTC)She does...and I know she's a resilient person. I just know there's a bunch of bad stuff she's going to have to endure before the world gets to enjoy fifteen years of peace...
[Such as Vegeta sacrificing himself for his wife and son. Even if he's alive now.]
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Date: 2013-09-11 04:12 am (UTC)[ Action]
Date: 2013-09-12 01:23 am (UTC)[There's a slight smile on Bulla's face. It's a far less poetic way of phrasing it than Saori did, but about the same message.]
What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger?
[Well, that's certainly been the case with Saiyans and half-Saiyans in the past...]
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Date: 2013-09-12 03:33 am (UTC)[She sticks out her tongue teasingly.]