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Speaking of which, we could ask Goku how he copped with feeling the deaths all the time....

*Thinks on his battle mania*

On second thought, let's ask Mato.

*Thinks on flashbacks of the death of earth*

Perhaps we could try to figure it ourselves first?
 
As a seer we are uniquely equipped in that we see not just the death but can also see what come after, the trick how to utilize that.
 
Or we could, you know, ask Gohan? The sane one? :p
The one he learned it after he died and spent his time since in the afterlife? I don't think he can quite relate to it.

Kakara's mother would be best. She has Elite teaching so her teaching Kakara about death would make the most sense.
She can only teach about skills she knows. Kakara is a bit unique at the moment on how she experiences ki sensing, I am not sure she can relate.
 
I think we're good to go. The vote is open.
Oh thank God.

So are we just in a phase of figuring out what Kakara does day to day in this new formate? Or are there actual things happening right now? I assume it can be both, but want to be sure.
Bit of column A, bit of column B. This is a period where I establish what all you want on the to-do list and what the day-to-day is like, and also the little bit where you might be starting a civil war at some point during the next seven days.

It's a mix.
And on an unrelated note, do our parents require that we have a formal education from the humans or that we just get an education? Because I'd think that time wise it might be more worthwhile to find tutors among the Saiyan population to teach us since it wouldn't take too high of a power level to be much more efficient in objective time and a custom built education would be more effective than the public education she currently gets. All it's really good for is being able to socialize with our friends some and being an official education on the human side of things.
Especially now that you're a public figure and your people are trying really hard to sell the message that the Exiles ("spiritual warriors," being the increasingly-popular human-facing name for the group) are humans like any other, Dad has actually decreed in his capacity as Lord that you're going to public school.
It seems odd that Kakara would only hear fragments. I would expect her to be able to hear everything in the school and beyond.p
Sure she does, but I didn't want to write the full text of-

*counts*

-six different conversations. I wanted to portray an atmosphere.
This looks like a job for multiform. We are planning on using it more in order to train it.
You do have one more use left in this twenty-four-hour period.
Huh, so we can sense death and it's slowly fucking us up.

Worrrying.

Welp, calm Kakara with the fact that dead does not mean gone? She's talking to her ancient ancestors like all the time. Life is just step one in the cycle of existence.
Catholic doctrine preaches that good people go to heaven when they die, but no Catholic funeral has dry eyes.

Knowing -- in whatever capacity one might claim to know these things -- that death is not the end does not make it a happy occasion. For that matter, Kakara's problem is not really that she's sad about insect #3,094,582,394,827 dying, it's that she feels it go, and that's fucking disturbing. Just like knowing that sorcery is useful and really ethics-neutral doesn't make it feel less badwrongew for her, knowing that anything which dies gets sucked into Yemma's Great Vacuum Up Yonder doesn't make it feel better to feel all this life to which she feels increasingly connected just stopping while on her mental radar.
 
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Catholic doctrine preaches that good people go to heaven when they die, but no Catholic funeral has dry eyes.

Knowing -- in whatever capacity one might claim to know these things -- that death is not the end does not make it a happy occasion. For that matter, Kakara's problem is not really that she's sad about insect #3,094,582,394,827 dying, it's that she feels it go, and that's fucking disturbing. Just like knowing that sorcery is useful and really ethics-neutral doesn't make it feel less badwrongew for her, knowing that anything which dies gets sucked into Yemma's Great Vacuum Up Yonder doesn't make it feel better to feel all this life to which she feels increasingly connected just stopping while on her mental radar.
Well shit.

I doubt we can turn it off either...I guess we either need to learn how to sense souls, or focus on the ki of newborns?

Or, no wait, better idea. Realize that death doesn't destroy ki, but disperse it into the area. I think. Hopefully.
 
[x] Just leave.
-[x] Have that visit to the Senzus now, actually.
--[x]Have a multiform meditate in the mountains to help further develop your ki sense. Alibi.

Catholic doctrine preaches that good people go to heaven when they die, but no Catholic funeral has dry eyes.
I might just be cynical, but I often get the impression that religious people don't actually believe that. They don't act like you would expect someone who believes that to act. They act like someone that believes that they should believe it. Make believe if you will.

If Bara died I expect that Kakara's grief would last exactly as long as it would take her to arrange a visit and reassure her self that he is alright.
 
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I might just be cynical, but I often get the impression that religious people don't actually believe that. They don't act like you would expect someone who believes that to act. They act like someone that believes that they should believe it. Make believe if you will.
Yes, you're cynical.

[x] Just leave.
-[x] Have that visit to the Senzus now, actually.
--[x] Have a multiform invite the Misfits over to your house to hang out, and maybe train later. Alibi.
 
Well shit.

I doubt we can turn it off either...I guess we either need to learn how to sense souls, or focus on the ki of newborns?

Or, no wait, better idea. Realize that death doesn't destroy ki, but disperse it into the area. I think. Hopefully.

We need to do what normal people do: Put things in their proper place.

Kakara needs a certain sense of detachment and reasonalization for death to not be a deal breaker here.

I might just be cynical, but I often get the impression that religious people don't actually believe that. They don't act like you would expect someone who believes that to act. They act like someone that believes that they should believe it. Make believe if you will.

If Bara died I expect that Kakara's grief would last exactly as long as it would take her to arrange a visit and reassure her self that he is alright.

I mean, Jesus cried when Lazarus died, even though he had the power to bring him back and, indeed, brought him back not too many minutes afterwards.

I've had family members hospitalized with the full expectation that they would be back and running in a couple of weeks and that still didn't make the experiences any less stressing or depressing.
 
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If anything serious happens, a mind-dive will be requested, and it's much harder to avoid that. Alibi are very difficult for us.
...Dude, we literally talked to our grandma about our plans early in the day, and we do need to do the meeting, so if something happens and we end being mind-dive then we're fucked anyway.
 
...Dude, we literally talked to our grandma about our plans early in the day, and we do need to do the meeting, so if something happens and we end being mind-dive then we're fucked anyway.

I understand that. I'm just not clear in what situation an alibi would be helpful, because either we don't get caught, we make an A+ excuse for being there, or we ger mind-dived.
 
[x] Just leave.
-[x] Have that visit to the Senzus now, actually.
--[x] Have a multiform invite the Misfits over to your house to hang out, and maybe train later. Alibi.
--[x] and check out Drama Club

If we're using Multiform anyway, we might as well do 3 things.
 
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[x] Just leave.
-[x] Have that visit to the Senzus now, actually.
--[x]Have a multiform meditate in the mountains to help further develop your ki sense. Alibi.
 
Well shit.

I doubt we can turn it off either...I guess we either need to learn how to sense souls, or focus on the ki of newborns?

Or, no wait, better idea. Realize that death doesn't destroy ki, but disperse it into the area. I think. Hopefully.
We need her to gain perspective, really. It's not about "refocusing" her attention. I think it's going to be about her accepting that these things happen. They're natural.

[x] Just leave.
-[x] Have that visit to the Senzus now, actually.
--[x]Have a multiform meditate in the mountains to help further develop your ki sense. Alibi.


I might just be cynical, but I often get the impression that religious people don't actually believe that. They don't act like you would expect someone who believes that to act. They act like someone that believes that they should believe it. Make believe if you will.

If Bara died I expect that Kakara's grief would last exactly as long as it would take her to arrange a visit and reassure her self that he is alright.
"And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.
We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. So encourage each other with these words." - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 [NLT]

You're just cynical.
My grandmother passed away a couple of years ago. I helped carry her coffin myself. I sat next to my family, watching my mother mourn her own mother (who we'd watched slowly slip away inch by inch thanks to Alzheimer's) with tears that we all shed. I barely kept my composure (meaning not breaking out into full-on gut-wrenching sobbing) as people walked by expressing their grief and sympathy.

I also still believe I will see her again, restored in glory, singing hymns and baking amazing meals.

So I'll thank you to not tell us whether religious people "actually believe that".

We need to do what normal people do: Put things in their proper place.

Kakara needs a certain sense of detachment and reasonalization for death to not be a deal breaker here.
It's not about "detachment" or "reasonalization".

It's about perspective.

Reach out and feel the grass once more.
 
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