No, because that sort of thing is supposed to be secret and I wasn't someone with special powers when alive. But it's par for the course now, happens all over the world.
Also, since my other half was going to let you walk all over him again even though he hated this conversation: our library's envoy from the government is a talking cat, we have ink for blood, and the other genre Edogawa Ranpo is famous for is eroguro.
And what's wrong with being weird? I work in a detective agency full of people with special powers that defy logic and reality-- I was just implying we're birds of a feather.
[How can he explain Atsushi's fears and insecurities? Spending too much time in his own head, doubting his own thoughts, his perceptions? How a man who yearned just to know for certain that something was real came to associate the bizarre with the unreal?
He hid his other half because he didn't want to be treated differently - sick, like he was in life, but also strange.]
He wouldn't call it a bad thing for anyone else, but he doesn't like being called that himself. Even if it's objectively true.
[He doesn't really have to explain it. The fact that he seems to have manifested an alternate personality to do and say the things he himself isn't comfortable doing or saying says a lot more about his mental state than any explanation possibly could.]
Then I'm sorry for calling you weird, Atsushi-san.
We don't know each other very well, and it's hard to tell how you're feeling when talking through text.
[He makes sure to address this part to Atsushi-san -- it's text, so he'll see it later regardless.]
[Atsushi actually laughs when he realizes that Ranpo isn't going to continue that message. And when he gives control back to his other half, Atsushi surpresses a chuckle when he gets to that part, too.]
Thank you. I'm sorry for overreacting.
I'll try to be more straightforward about these things in the future. But I do like talking to you, in general.
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Are you saying people regularly summoned ghosts to fight monsters back when you were alive?
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[They're both weird, man, they just gotta accept it.]
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Ah, but I did meet Tiger-kun, by the way! Not sure how aware you were when he took over in that elevator.
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[Because he wasn't!]
Not very aware at all. He's completely aware when I'm in control, but when he takes over I only get bits and pieces. Less if he's in a bad mood.
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[Ranpo you shouldn't just tell people that??]
Then you must have missed out on a lot, because I think I made him pretty mad.
Unless he threatens to stab everyone he meets for the first time?
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[So... not everyone, but it happens.]
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But it's fine! I asked him to be friends with me, so we're cool now.
[TOTALLY COOL........]
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Also, since my other half was going to let you walk all over him again even though he hated this conversation: our library's envoy from the government is a talking cat, we have ink for blood, and the other genre Edogawa Ranpo is famous for is eroguro.
[Guess who showed up.]
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If he hated the conversation, he could have just left me on read.
[He doesn't want to waste his time talking to people who don't want to talk to him??]
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[...w-which probably happens to Ranpo a lot, since he's obnoxious.]
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He doesn't hate talking to you in general. Just when you're calling him weird.
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And what's wrong with being weird? I work in a detective agency full of people with special powers that defy logic and reality-- I was just implying we're birds of a feather.
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He hid his other half because he didn't want to be treated differently - sick, like he was in life, but also strange.]
He wouldn't call it a bad thing for anyone else, but he doesn't like being called that himself. Even if it's objectively true.
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Then I'm sorry for calling you weird, Atsushi-san.
We don't know each other very well, and it's hard to tell how you're feeling when talking through text.
[He makes sure to address this part to Atsushi-san -- it's text, so he'll see it later regardless.]
And as for you, Tiger-kun--
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Thank you. I'm sorry for overreacting.
I'll try to be more straightforward about these things in the future. But I do like talking to you, in general.
Ah, this is me again.
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