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was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

if somebody requires that i communicate to them in A Certain Way, how am i supposed mindread my way into knowing that. unless they explicitly say, “hey, i need you to communicate with me like This because otherwise we might end up on different pages,” i’m probably going to default to whatever method of communication has caused the least amount of strife in my experience. i’m DEFINITELY not going to pick up on a need for communication style-change if the style in question is one i was explicitly raised to believe is rude, callous, disrespectful, inconsiderate, and aggressive. like how am i supposed to know. how can i know what a need is if the need was never communicated in the first place?

thinkin of a dunmeshi post!canon series of episodic oneshots written in the style of mushishi, featuring a world-traveling falin who exorcises spirits through a combination of Special Interest Spirit Facts, and hyperempathic compassion, offering solace, invitation, and patience in place of attack and banishment. she extends her services as final witness, historiographer, and psychopomp to all the souls tethered by the words they couldn't say - and in exchange collects the experiences, stories, and tidbits of knowledge that would've otherwise been lost