[OPEN] he just couldn't stay away

[catmemes]

WHO: Kaijin (catmemes) & OPEN
WHAT: Catch-all for general catventures and TDM prompts
WHERE: All over
WHEN: August-ish
WARNINGS: will add as needed




[ Prompts below, feel free to throw me a random start or poke me through PM or talkincodes for something specific. ]

Comments

[justscribing]

I don't have much hope that will work. [Mostly because getting enough people to really believe so hard they birth a god is a lot to ask even for people of the same planet, let alone if they know it's an experiment.

But a question he can more immediately satisfy involves shifting his hand and slowly drawing it back to see if Kaijin really will fall over in chasing skritches, or manage to stay on his feet.]

[catmemes]

[ He does stumble just a little, but luckily cat reflexes aren't just a joke. Somehow he all but teleports right back against Alhaitham's hand, any indignation forgotten in the face of a more pressing question.

Hope? ]

You want to create a youkai here?

[justscribing]

[Oh, good catch. He can't exactly read cat facial expressions, unfortunately, but neutral interest is still interest.]

I'm curious if it's possible or if the nature of this place prevents any sort of spiritual imprint.

[catmemes]

I don't know.

[ It's an interesting question, if a slightly unsettling one. There's a lot of implications there, and it makes Kai blink at him again. ]

It does seem like this place...suppresses spiritual power. Do you feel it?

[justscribing]

[He shrugs.] I'm not spiritually sensitive, so I wouldn't know. I can agree it's suppressing our power, at least.

[catmemes]

What do you feel?

[ If you can't feel the echoing emptiness, then what is it like? Still weird, Kai will assume, given how he's seen other people talk about it. But he can't help but wonder, and Alhaitham has seemed willing to indulge him so far.

Plus he's still petting, which puts him in Kai's good graces immediately. ]

[justscribing]

[What does he feel?

As a Vision holder, he would normally be granted a greater sensitivity to elemental energy than others. And while most of Teyvat is touched upon by the elements in some way or another, there's a different sort of spiritual sensitivity that it doesn't assist with. He couldn't sense a ghost or consciousness locked away, or know someone is a youkai. And how does one quantify something they don't truly experience as an absence? The world does not feel less quiet to him for it. He can be told that he is, in a way, blind, but he's unable to truly feel the lack of it.

So he answers:] Nothing.

[catmemes]

[ And Kai just nods, looking unsurprised. Or as close as he can get to it with his current features. ]

It's weird, right? The emptiness.

[ Maybe it would be even worse if he was at full power. Maybe it's better to not entirely know what he's missing. But either way it's good to know it's not just him. ]

[justscribing]

The lack of overall life besides ourselves is strange. [He can agree to that much.] Have you ever seen a place like this before?

[catmemes]

Like this? No.

[ Not that he's seen all that much, but still. Kai is aware enough of both the spirit community and the various online cryptid groups that he's fairly sure he would have heard of something like it. ]

Even abandoned places have echoes, usually. Not just...nothing.

[justscribing]

I see. [It's all a small piece of the puzzle, that this place is spiritually anemic, but it is a piece. Only with enough of them slotted together will they reveal the picture.]

... You're not going to get tired of being pet anytime soon, are you?

[catmemes]

No. Why?

[ And he is indeed still pressing himself as close to Alhaitham's hands as he can get. The conversation is a good distraction and all, but Kai has a very clear goal here. ]

[justscribing]

I have other things I want to do. So if you still want attention, you're going to have to come with me.