itsjustdust | Kunai the Sixth: [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

[Oddly enough, the gear is set down on the table, his goggles mostly obscuring the rest of the room where his Charmander and newly evolved Servine are off to one side having some sort of staring match. The voice that came over the line was indisputably human though, and thoughtful.]

I've been in this place for nearly a month now. A lot has happened in that month. I've met family, I've met friends, and I've realized that my life wasn't as much of a failure as everyone always liked to tell me it was back home.

My teammate, the one I died for, and yes, I died before I woke up here, very thoroughly and messily I might add, apparently changed his entire life based on a few things I said to try to be more like me. He even uses a phrase I screamed at him once as a motto I've heard. I kind of want to see what he's like without being so bitter, but that clearly won't happen unless he shows up here.

But... Everyone else forgot about me. I'm just that guy that gave my famous teammate his Sharingan, an eye for the unaware, and I'm not even known for my own name. My baby cousin, the one here, hadn't ever heard of me. That's my own fault, in some ways, I died before he was born, but did I really do nothing worth mentioning after my demise?

It was a war, and a lot of people die during wars, I know that, and I know I've made a huge difference in the world just by a final set of actions, but... I'll never see it. I'm not sure it's satisfying.

I'm afraid to ask if anyone but that teammate made it out of the war. What if no one knows? What if no one wants to say?

But I'm drifting off topic here.

What I wanted to say was that I don't think that just pokemon change from level to level. A whole different personality to go with a whole new body, right? How many people feel like that happened to them too?

So yeah, a lot of things happened since I got here, good things, bad things... but who else feels like they were changed in some permanent way just by getting here?

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Well, there's change, then there's CHANGE. But... I guess you have a point. Just not-staying-dead is big enough to warrant it, isn't it?

Depends on what you do with not being dead. You did, as you've just told the entire network, but not everyone would change just from that.

But I haven't met very many people that didn't change just from being here. And the longer you stay, the more it gets to you.

[Him included, but he doesn't like talking about that so much because it still confuses the hell out of him.]

You say that like being here is a bad thing, or a virus or something. Do you really look at it that way or is that just personal reflection?

[He pauses, considering his answer for a moment.]

It's not bad, most of the time. It just makes things complicated when they shouldn't have to be.

[He looked a little puzzled now.]

How?

Back home, I knew what my goals were and I knew what I was.

Coming here and meeting the people I did changed that, and now I couldn't go back even if I wanted to.

[Unfortunately, this is about as specific as he'll get on the subject. He probably wouldn't have even shared this much if Obito hadn't said so much already.]

Ah. Because you don't want to because you have a horrific future ahead of you? I mean, either sucks and I'm not asking you to confirm or anything.

Still... Do you really have no goals here?

[He just snorts.]

It's complicated. And I do have one goal still, but I can't achieve it until a certain person shows up here.

[Because no amount of friendship magic in the world is going to stop him chasing Hohenheim.]

As for other goals...I don't know, not screwing myself over with what I've gained would be a good one. [He pauses.]

What's your name, anyway? Since I already know just about everything else about you.

I wouldn't say you know that much really, but Obito. Uchiha Obito.

I know a lot more than I know about most people I've just met.

[He shrugs, completely casual. He's smirking too, but that's just his normal expression.]

Name's Envy.

[He flashed him a grin.] Okay I'll give you that. It's a pleasure.

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