[ That's a fair question, and it comes with a long explanation mostly studded by names of people she's come to know. First, she offers him an airy response, in a tone someone might carry if they were trying to sweep something under the rug. ]
A lucky guess? [ Even as she says it, she knows it's probably not acceptable. She hums before continuing, trying to figure out how to explain it. She can't imagine it being particularly useful information: she has no way of proving it, after all. If anything, she wonders if she's wasting Kim's time.
Then again, no harm if she's wrong, right? She hears the scribbling of a pen against paper as she speaks. ]
Shuten guys... they're bigger. In a lot of ways! [ Brawn foreword— people who have powerful bodies and designs to use it for themselves, whatever that might be. She wouldn't categorize it as a selfishness, necessarily. There's room for expansion... and moreover, room for whatever their clan head's orders would be. ] And the Enma guys? Maybe... it's loyalty that defines them? [ She thinks of Six in particular, who throws a wrench in much of her other observations about the Department of Enma, and plucks out a defining trait of his she's noticed time and time again. His loyalty just isn't to the law or right and wrong, like other Enma-ites she's met. A thoughtful grunt leaves her, and Aerith cants her head.
Kim is, clearly, neither of these. Helpful, willing to play along with her, with a patient voice: he doesn't suit either of those clans, in her mind. ]
But my friends in Sutoku... [ Hm. She thinks of Emily, who had eagerly gone with Aerith when she'd asked her to. It's not trusting, necessarily. Perhaps it's merely a coincidence. But, Emily's defining trait is that she'll work till her hands bleed before letting someone else do the work. ]
They work hard and like to do it themselves. And it's usually for the benefit of someone else. [ She looks back at him over her shoulder, brown bangs just barely obscuring her green eyes. ] But I guess that's more like process of elimination. Was it good for your notes, though?
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A lucky guess? [ Even as she says it, she knows it's probably not acceptable. She hums before continuing, trying to figure out how to explain it. She can't imagine it being particularly useful information: she has no way of proving it, after all. If anything, she wonders if she's wasting Kim's time.
Then again, no harm if she's wrong, right? She hears the scribbling of a pen against paper as she speaks. ]
Shuten guys... they're bigger. In a lot of ways! [ Brawn foreword— people who have powerful bodies and designs to use it for themselves, whatever that might be. She wouldn't categorize it as a selfishness, necessarily. There's room for expansion... and moreover, room for whatever their clan head's orders would be. ] And the Enma guys? Maybe... it's loyalty that defines them? [ She thinks of Six in particular, who throws a wrench in much of her other observations about the Department of Enma, and plucks out a defining trait of his she's noticed time and time again. His loyalty just isn't to the law or right and wrong, like other Enma-ites she's met. A thoughtful grunt leaves her, and Aerith cants her head.
Kim is, clearly, neither of these. Helpful, willing to play along with her, with a patient voice: he doesn't suit either of those clans, in her mind. ]
But my friends in Sutoku... [ Hm. She thinks of Emily, who had eagerly gone with Aerith when she'd asked her to. It's not trusting, necessarily. Perhaps it's merely a coincidence. But, Emily's defining trait is that she'll work till her hands bleed before letting someone else do the work. ]
They work hard and like to do it themselves. And it's usually for the benefit of someone else. [ She looks back at him over her shoulder, brown bangs just barely obscuring her green eyes. ] But I guess that's more like process of elimination. Was it good for your notes, though?