@tomoe.mikage

[jinshi]

I need advice on how to pretend to be human.

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[apathet]

That or you be yourself when people talk to you, and they'll go away

[jinshi]

That's how I treated the human world at home. But since I have no shrine here, unless I want to hide away forever in that dilapidated building everyone has been referring to as a "safe house", I imagine I'll have to deliberately engage with humans at some point.

[apathet]

So what you're actually asking is how to be a tolerable human?

[jinshi]

I'm asking how to blend in with humans when I can't understand mortality.

[apathet]

Do you look human and under 40?

[jinshi]

Mostly human. I lack human ears, and I have fox ears and a tail.

Under 40, yes. I went to a high school to follow my master, so apparently I pass for youthful.

[apathet]

[ That's a whole lot of something, but weird is relative. She's seen enough weird in the last few months, home and away, to give it a pass without comment. Something to dig into later. ]

If you can pass for a high schooler, mostly you don't give a shit yet. You get a free pass, you're too far away from being old to realise you're going to die so it's whatever. Do whatever you want

You want to go a little older, you can play with having really woken up to the idea that your life's getting shorter every day. You start chafing. Either you've got a sense that your life's going to amount to nothing and you've only got so many days left to change that, or you figure it's all meaningless and stop caring.

Second option creates soulless assholes, so if you want to switch it up, pick the first. I'd guess basically every decision after that point is built around the knowledge that you're wasting time and finding the shortest path to whatever it is you think is going to make you feel like you've made it

[jinshi]

Ah. That's the most useful information I've been given, so you have my gratitude. I think that I can make sense of that.

Basically, I should pick something "significant" to accomplish and my actions as a human can revolve around achieving that goal before I succumb to mortality. Alright. That seems a simple enough act.

[apathet]

It'll get you by

What're you going to do about the ears, wear hats?

[jinshi]

I'd rather not, but I will if I have to. Most people seem to take it as some strange manner of body modification which is apparently possible here.

[apathet]

Better get ready to bullshit where you bought it all

[jinshi]

They can be content with "it's none of your damn business" as an answer.