Extreme makeover [Open, bendytimed to... whenever makes sense]

[zouichi]

Somehow, he'd gotten himself into a bet. He didn't even really remember how it had happened or how they had gotten on the subject. But then suddenly the bet had been accepted and it was too late to back down, and now he was sitting at the very same Mess Hall table Sakura and the others had been sitting at the other day while they'd been discussing the source of the ship's mystery meat food supply.

To be fair to Sakura, he'd picked a shade of pink to match her own, natural hair color. But the results were... jarring. Also, hopefully no one would recognize either of them.

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[moms_temperment]

He gaped at Zouichi in shock. "You can't say that, of course there's a reason for you to exist!"

Hana didn't look too impressed at Zouichi's reasons for him though.

[zouichi]

"What's the point of a protector with no one to protect?" asked Zouichi. A hypothetical question, more or less.

"Anyway, I think the world would be a pretty grim place if it was just people like me."

[moms_temperment]

"You're way of talking is pretty grim." Hana chuckled.

[zouichi]

"It is, isn't it?" Zouichi smiled a little. "Among my siblings, I was the strange one."

[moms_temperment]

"More like the cool one! I wish I could do half the stuff you do."

[zouichi]

He blinked. "Well, I guess it can be pretty fun. But I think it'd also be nice to talk to ghosts and spirits, like you can. Where I come from, once you're dead, you're just gone. At least, that's what science tells us. I'm sure there are a lot of people who wish they could talk to their loved ones one last time..."

[moms_temperment]

"Well, it's not too hard, I mean, I just talk to spirits like I talk to you."

He gave a sigh. "Besides, you usually wanna avoid that whole situation of letting people know you can talk to dead family members, if you can."

[zouichi]

Zouichi smiled a little sadly. "I still think it'd be nice. Why do you have to keep it a secret, though?"

[moms_temperment]

"Think about it, what would happen if we let humans know what we can do? They'd want to control the power." Hana shrugged. "Besides, humans are scared of things they don't understand. It'd end badly."

[zouichi]

"But... you are a human." Zouichi paused. "...Right?"

Sometimes it was hard to tell, okay?

"I do think I understand what you're saying. We didn't really have a lot of trouble with people with unusual powers, per se, but there were always those out to use whatever means they could go get what they wanted."

[moms_temperment]

"Well, yeh, but it's easier to say 'humans' and 'Shamans' when you're trying to seperate them. 'Powerless humans' and 'Shamantically capable humans' are kinda long."

[zouichi]

Zouichi raised an eyebrow. "Powerless, huh? I guess you could put it that way. On the other hand, I owe them my existence..."

[moms_temperment]

"I don't mean totally powerless. Like I said, it's hard to put into words. Everything is born with a small amount of power, enough to survive. Shaman's just have much more."

[zouichi]

Zouichi shrugged his shoulders. "Where I came from, some people were born with unusual abilities. But those who were interested in it could pursue power. But humans were humans. Even the ones that didn't look or act much like them any more."

[moms_temperment]

Hana suddenly burst out into a grin. "Yeh, well, your world is kinda weird."

[zouichi]

Zouichi smiled back, although it wasn't quite a wholehearted one. "I suppose you're right. And maybe, if the Daligig aren't selling us a total bill of goods, I'll go back to it someday. Not that I know of anything that can fix an entire universe."