JNHRO Muramasa handles
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Lord K
Looking at Chisuheri's phone, and the group chat she was currently in, Tomokako frowns in the middle of her nosy invasion of the buddhist's privacy.
"What the hell is with all your contact's names?"
Looking up from where she is preparing an entirely vegetarian meal for herself at the table, the diasho sword set raises an eyebrow.
"What do you mean? That is just my family chat."
The kitsune practically waves the phone in the tsukumogami's face.
"SupernaturalFandom? InitiaLotuSutra? Waterwitchy-poo? What kind of handles are those?"
Completely missing the point, Chisuheri's face brightens.
"Oh, we just thought we would be silly, and pick all our chat names for our LINE group based on our names."
"Wat."
Happily oblivious, Chisuheri takes the phone off Tomokao and begins scrolling through the conversation.
"Those three are Ishizuki , Myoho Rengekyo, and Umitsubame, what with the whole "names meaning Thousand Slashes, Lotus-Sutra, and Waterwitch respectively" thing. And then that's me, using "Bloodlust Blade". Admittedly it's not particularly inventive, but at least it sounds more impressive than Suisei just using "Fading Comet". "Blade of Nietzsche" is Kagotsuruhe, Kyoshu went with "Alzheimer's" because of the whole "Sword of Faded Memories" angle, and of course Norimune had to use "KamoDidNothingWrong", but then what do you expect from someone who's name means "Unrepentant"?"
The Kitsune stares at the Muramasa sword set for a long hard moment.
"You know, sometimes I forget weird you swords can still be, underneath how normal all of you that have managed to make it this far seem on the surface."
"Hey! We're not that bad!"
"Remind me who went into a blood rage and tried to break every limb of a poor, unfortunate spider yokai?"
Chisuheri raises a finger to make a counter point, only to pause. After a few moments, she then awkwardly lowers it.
"Well.... I didn't kill him."
"No, but then I suppose that's to be expected of the most extreme of the Demon Blades?"
Chisuheri almost manages to look a little affronted.
"I'm sorry, but how exactly am I, the blood rage and berserker healing inducer, more extreme than Juuchi's impossibly sharp and indiscriminate cutting ability, Kyoshu being able to doctor memories, or Kagotsuruhe leaving people feeling like they've been attacked by Dementor's with her "Aura of Hopelessness"?"
"I don't remember any of the others welding themselves into their scabbards in order to flip off Kamo."
The Daisho sword set looks at the katana hanging next to the wakizashi on her belt
"That.... okay, I concede to that. But that's besides the point. We are the surviving outliers. Most of the others aren't even enchanted beyond the usual preservation and self-maintaining effects. We're allowed to be weird and have our moments. Our non-enchanted sisters aren't nearly as bad, and rarely were to begin with."
Tomokako grins
"Are you sure about that? What was it you were saying about Akutoku a while back? You know, the one about the thing in Edo. In the Castle Library. With Matsudaira Geki. In 1823.
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"Hey. Hey Geki."
"What Akutoku? What on earth is it this time?"
"Aren't those guys Honda Iori and his friends?"
"Yes."
"Are we gonna kill them today? Or are you just going to keep arguing with them?"
"No Akutoku, we aren't going to kill them."
"Aw, but you should! That would totally solve all your problems! You'd never have to argue with them again!"
"I'd also be in jail."
"Kill the jailors! Let nothing stop you! Fuel the revolution of your future with blood! Hail the new Shogun! Via la Nippon!"
"What are you even- No! I'm not killing them Akutoku. And I'm not killing anyone else today, for that matter, and that's final."
"Aw.... this is why I miss the Sengoku period.... well what about tomorrow then?"
"What about tomorrow?"
"Will you kill them tomorrow?"
"No!"
"What about overmorrow?"
"The what?"
"The day after tomorrow? Will you kill them then?"
"No!"
"How about the day after that?"
"No."
"Do you think the day after the day after overmorrow might be better?"
"For the love of- No! Get this through your vapid little head, you death obsessed, over grown kitchen knife! NO! MEANS! NO!"
"...oh... okay then...."
"...."
"...."
"....thank the kami, she finally shut up...."
"Hey Geki."
"GRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"Hey Geki. Hey. Hey. Hey Geki. Geki. Hey Geki. Hey. Hey. Hey."
"What Akutoku? What is it?!?! And it had better not be a suggestion to kill someone, or I will personally see you turned into a cannon ball, and shot into the sea!"
"You're disturbing the other library patrons."
"......oh."
"Yeah, some of them are looking at you funny."
"Ah... okay then."
"You're welcome~"
"Sure."
"....but you know that you wouldn't have to worry about disturbing anybody if we killed them all.
"ARGGGHHHHH!!! NO! NO! I WILL NOT BE FUCKING KILLING ANYONE!!!"
"Oh hey, look, Iori must have heard you flipping your desk. Here he comes!"
"What the hell Matsudaira?!?! The fuck has gotten into you now?!?!"
"Such impudence! You should totally kill should him Gek- HOLY SHIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DRAWING ME?!?!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Matsudaira! WHAT ARE YO-"
"YAY!!! BLOODSHED!!!"
"He just killed Honda Iori!"
"Matsudaira's gone mad!"
"Kill them Geki! Kill them all! Weeeeee!!!!"
"Wait! Stop! Gahurk-!"
"Oh Please NOOOO-!"
"Double Combo! This is fun!"
"Open the damn door!"
"He's killing everyone!"
"Oh hey, there's two more over there! Let's see how many you can nab before they get you!"
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Chisuheri shifts uncomfortably.
"That is unfair to Akutoku. That was still almost 200 years ago."
"True, but she writes and draws doujinshi for a living now," points out Tomokako.
"So?" deflects the tsukumogami awkwardly as the kitsune grins. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Pretty fitting occupation for someone who's full name means "Sword of Corruption" don't you think."
"At least she's channeling it productively and into something other than making people want to kill each other." defends the aforementioned blade's sister, with no small amount of embarrassment and awkwardness.
"Yeah," says Tomokako with a pair of waggling eyebrows. "Instead she's reducing the population and corrupting people, by contributing to Japan's rising population of otaku and hikikomori instead."
*-*-*-*-*
"Dragonkind" also just seemed a bit too obvious/on the nose, so instead I went for a nod at Cactus Jack as well
As an aside considering all the talk about sword spirits, here's an interesting tale I came across
Thou shalt not shorten me
Harry Leferts said:
There's already a Muramasa tsukomogami mentioned in story as part of the J.N.H.R.O. and that she herself is not murderous in the least. To be honest, she might well like Harry and the whole blood thing is to show one's worthiness in a sense. You do not draw a weapon unless you are willing to use it for the purpose it has, basically.
Harry Leferts said:
Well, we had one spirit of a Muramasa sword show up as being manifested, though that was mainly because she had lived in a Buddhist temple for a long time. Though that becomes odd due to how many sword tsukumogami you got in fiction (Touken Renbu being a recent example), it could be a case here where if the soul manifests they're simply placed under that classification.
*-*-*-*There's already a Muramasa tsukomogami mentioned in story as part of the J.N.H.R.O. and that she herself is not murderous in the least. To be honest, she might well like Harry and the whole blood thing is to show one's worthiness in a sense. You do not draw a weapon unless you are willing to use it for the purpose it has, basically.
Harry Leferts said:
Well, we had one spirit of a Muramasa sword show up as being manifested, though that was mainly because she had lived in a Buddhist temple for a long time. Though that becomes odd due to how many sword tsukumogami you got in fiction (Touken Renbu being a recent example), it could be a case here where if the soul manifests they're simply placed under that classification.
Looking at Chisuheri's phone, and the group chat she was currently in, Tomokako frowns in the middle of her nosy invasion of the buddhist's privacy.
"What the hell is with all your contact's names?"
Looking up from where she is preparing an entirely vegetarian meal for herself at the table, the diasho sword set raises an eyebrow.
"What do you mean? That is just my family chat."
The kitsune practically waves the phone in the tsukumogami's face.
"SupernaturalFandom? InitiaLotuSutra? Waterwitchy-poo? What kind of handles are those?"
Completely missing the point, Chisuheri's face brightens.
"Oh, we just thought we would be silly, and pick all our chat names for our LINE group based on our names."
"Wat."
Happily oblivious, Chisuheri takes the phone off Tomokao and begins scrolling through the conversation.
"Those three are Ishizuki , Myoho Rengekyo, and Umitsubame, what with the whole "names meaning Thousand Slashes, Lotus-Sutra, and Waterwitch respectively" thing. And then that's me, using "Bloodlust Blade". Admittedly it's not particularly inventive, but at least it sounds more impressive than Suisei just using "Fading Comet". "Blade of Nietzsche" is Kagotsuruhe, Kyoshu went with "Alzheimer's" because of the whole "Sword of Faded Memories" angle, and of course Norimune had to use "KamoDidNothingWrong", but then what do you expect from someone who's name means "Unrepentant"?"
The Kitsune stares at the Muramasa sword set for a long hard moment.
"You know, sometimes I forget weird you swords can still be, underneath how normal all of you that have managed to make it this far seem on the surface."
"Hey! We're not that bad!"
"Remind me who went into a blood rage and tried to break every limb of a poor, unfortunate spider yokai?"
Chisuheri raises a finger to make a counter point, only to pause. After a few moments, she then awkwardly lowers it.
"Well.... I didn't kill him."
"No, but then I suppose that's to be expected of the most extreme of the Demon Blades?"
Chisuheri almost manages to look a little affronted.
"I'm sorry, but how exactly am I, the blood rage and berserker healing inducer, more extreme than Juuchi's impossibly sharp and indiscriminate cutting ability, Kyoshu being able to doctor memories, or Kagotsuruhe leaving people feeling like they've been attacked by Dementor's with her "Aura of Hopelessness"?"
"I don't remember any of the others welding themselves into their scabbards in order to flip off Kamo."
The Daisho sword set looks at the katana hanging next to the wakizashi on her belt
"That.... okay, I concede to that. But that's besides the point. We are the surviving outliers. Most of the others aren't even enchanted beyond the usual preservation and self-maintaining effects. We're allowed to be weird and have our moments. Our non-enchanted sisters aren't nearly as bad, and rarely were to begin with."
Tomokako grins
"Are you sure about that? What was it you were saying about Akutoku a while back? You know, the one about the thing in Edo. In the Castle Library. With Matsudaira Geki. In 1823.
-------------------
"Hey. Hey Geki."
"What Akutoku? What on earth is it this time?"
"Aren't those guys Honda Iori and his friends?"
"Yes."
"Are we gonna kill them today? Or are you just going to keep arguing with them?"
"No Akutoku, we aren't going to kill them."
"Aw, but you should! That would totally solve all your problems! You'd never have to argue with them again!"
"I'd also be in jail."
"Kill the jailors! Let nothing stop you! Fuel the revolution of your future with blood! Hail the new Shogun! Via la Nippon!"
"What are you even- No! I'm not killing them Akutoku. And I'm not killing anyone else today, for that matter, and that's final."
"Aw.... this is why I miss the Sengoku period.... well what about tomorrow then?"
"What about tomorrow?"
"Will you kill them tomorrow?"
"No!"
"What about overmorrow?"
"The what?"
"The day after tomorrow? Will you kill them then?"
"No!"
"How about the day after that?"
"No."
"Do you think the day after the day after overmorrow might be better?"
"For the love of- No! Get this through your vapid little head, you death obsessed, over grown kitchen knife! NO! MEANS! NO!"
"...oh... okay then...."
"...."
"...."
"....thank the kami, she finally shut up...."
"Hey Geki."
"GRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"Hey Geki. Hey. Hey. Hey Geki. Geki. Hey Geki. Hey. Hey. Hey."
"What Akutoku? What is it?!?! And it had better not be a suggestion to kill someone, or I will personally see you turned into a cannon ball, and shot into the sea!"
"You're disturbing the other library patrons."
"......oh."
"Yeah, some of them are looking at you funny."
"Ah... okay then."
"You're welcome~"
"Sure."
"....but you know that you wouldn't have to worry about disturbing anybody if we killed them all.
"ARGGGHHHHH!!! NO! NO! I WILL NOT BE FUCKING KILLING ANYONE!!!"
"Oh hey, look, Iori must have heard you flipping your desk. Here he comes!"
"What the hell Matsudaira?!?! The fuck has gotten into you now?!?!"
"Such impudence! You should totally kill should him Gek- HOLY SHIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DRAWING ME?!?!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Matsudaira! WHAT ARE YO-"
"YAY!!! BLOODSHED!!!"
"He just killed Honda Iori!"
"Matsudaira's gone mad!"
"Kill them Geki! Kill them all! Weeeeee!!!!"
"Wait! Stop! Gahurk-!"
"Oh Please NOOOO-!"
"Double Combo! This is fun!"
"Open the damn door!"
"He's killing everyone!"
"Oh hey, there's two more over there! Let's see how many you can nab before they get you!"
-------------------
Chisuheri shifts uncomfortably.
"That is unfair to Akutoku. That was still almost 200 years ago."
"True, but she writes and draws doujinshi for a living now," points out Tomokako.
"So?" deflects the tsukumogami awkwardly as the kitsune grins. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Pretty fitting occupation for someone who's full name means "Sword of Corruption" don't you think."
"At least she's channeling it productively and into something other than making people want to kill each other." defends the aforementioned blade's sister, with no small amount of embarrassment and awkwardness.
"Yeah," says Tomokako with a pair of waggling eyebrows. "Instead she's reducing the population and corrupting people, by contributing to Japan's rising population of otaku and hikikomori instead."
*-*-*-*-*
NotHimAgain said:
My dad's not as big on WWE as he'd like us to think, but he really likes Mick Foley. There were a few lines that made me think of that one Mankind fight with the Undertaker. You might know the one.
Yeah, I was a bit inspired, just because of how iconic and recognizable some of the commentary wasMy dad's not as big on WWE as he'd like us to think, but he really likes Mick Foley. There were a few lines that made me think of that one Mankind fight with the Undertaker. You might know the one.
"Dragonkind" also just seemed a bit too obvious/on the nose, so instead I went for a nod at Cactus Jack as well
As an aside considering all the talk about sword spirits, here's an interesting tale I came across
Thou shalt not shorten me