Imagination 22 | Video

[nocawsforconcern]

[The feed opens up with... a far-too-close zoom-in on Enna's eye. But then once she's satisfied it's on, she leans back, and nods to herself.]

Hello! So, Vee did that game where everyone got to ask it three questions. And I thought it seemed kinda fun. It would be a fun way to get to know everyone here. So I think it should be a game for everyone to play.

If you can do this.... Caw, ICP? Thingy. And talk to people. Let people ask you three questions and use it to get to know people! And even if you're the kind of person who doesn't care about getting to know people, it's still worth trying, because if we're all on teams and going on missions together, the more we know about each other, the better we can work together. Tactics, battle strategy, abilities, knowledge, strengths and weaknesses... And things like personality, history, all of that. The more we know about each other, the better we'll be.

Ready? I'll start!

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Koumyou Sanzo | OTA

[its_dad_sanzo]

Toua Koumyou Sanzō Hoshi-sama the 30th of China.

That means I'm a real fancy Buddhist priest.

Ask me whatever you want, and see what kind of answers you get!

[namethattune]

[Turnabout, fair play, etc. etc.]

And what exactly is it that you do as a 'real fancy Buddhist priest?'

[its_dad_sanzo]

Besides confuse everyone?

[namethattune]

Yes.

[its_dad_sanzo]

At my rank, my job is mostly to protect the sutra.

[ Or sutras, as had been the case for most of his tenure. ]

And to confuse everyone.

[namethattune]

I suppose the confusion helps with the protection.

[That doesn't mean he has to like it, but he can at least understand that.]

Why does it require such protection?

[its_dad_sanzo]

It's one fifth of the power that made all of existence and nonexistence, life and death, and everything in between.

[ None of this has been any kind of secret, so why not. ]

And where there's real power, there's always people who want it for themselves.

[namethattune]

[...what]

[If any of that is true, that is a massive amount of world-altering power to be entrusted to this]

[this]

[...this person]

[...he needs some time to wrap his mind around this, don't mind him.]

...and this power is entrusted to a single human to protect.

[its_dad_sanzo]

I used to protect two of them!

[ For something over twenty years, no less.

But yes, he's just going to

cheerfully

break your brain, Siebren. ]

...Of course, anyone who thinks they could do a better job is welcome to try to take it from me.

[ Emphasis not given, because it's not needed, on 'try'. ]

It would certainly make things interesting for a little while.

Re: Koumyou Sanzo | OTA

[mtsilver_conquor]

Buddhist? I'm assuming that you're super high up in the clergy though, at least.

[Yeah, she's got no clue what Buddhist means, Koumyou.]

[its_dad_sanzo]

I answer only to the Gods themselves, and only if I feel like it.

[ Super high up in the clergy. ]

You don't have Buddhism where you're from? That must be nice, it's a very confusing philosophy to try to wrestle with.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Only if you feel like it???

[Hang on a second, she'll get to the rest in a second.] That... That doesn't make sense...? If you answer to the Gods, you always answer to them, not just when you feel like it.

[Eva, your gods are near literal forces of nature.]

[its_dad_sanzo]

Sometimes they talk too much.

[mtsilver_conquor]

...people-shaped gods then?

[She's still not sure what to make of all these worlds with people-shaped gods.]

[its_dad_sanzo]

...Yes?

What shapes do they come in where you're from?

[mtsilver_conquor]

Pokemon, of course. Arkea's is dominated and ruled by them and the most powerful of them all we call god-species. I can show you pictures of the Four I follow and the pendant that marks me an adherent to the faith of the Four?

Re: Koumyou Sanzo | OTA

[only_one_wei]

Have you heard of Baoshan Sanren?

[its_dad_sanzo]

I have not!

[only_one_wei]

What kind of Buddhism do you practice?

Like Daozhang?

(saiyuki mixes lots of different variations into one philosophy)

[its_dad_sanzo]

Just... Buddhism? I'm not half as knowledgeable about it as one might expect from the title. I slept through a lot of lectures.

Re: Koumyou Sanzo | OTA

[dreamtamer]

That's a really long name!

What do you do?

[its_dad_sanzo]

Technically, the only part of all that that's a name is Koumyou! But using my holy name by itself in inappropriate, so 'Koumyou Sanzo', or even just 'Sanzo', is what I actually go by.

[ That wasn't a question, but Koumyou's willing to give that bit of info away for 'free'. ]

At my rank, I mostly just protect a sutra.

[ And actively avoid any other responsibilities. ]

[dreamtamer]

Oh. So should I call you Koumyou? Or Sanzo?

What's a sutra?

[its_dad_sanzo]

Of the two, Sanzo.

[ As for the sutra question, the priest plucks at the green and white paper draped over his shoulders, visible on the video feed. It's covered in black writing that can't quite be read. ]

This.

[dreamtamer]

[Takato peers at the sutra through the feed, but its fairly obvious from his expression that he had no idea what he was looking at.]