An attitude like that isn't cultivated without a healthy dose of self-indulgence. I expect he's used to getting his own way -- And I expect he has the capability of ensuring that he gets his own way.
It doesn't have much power on its own, so it has to latch onto another animal in order to live and give birth to its offspring, which in turn lives the same parasitic life. It just so happens that the affect this has on the human is that their 'times' are synchronized together; the human goes through an entire lifetime in a single day, just like the mushi.
There are countless number of heart-breaking stories in the world. My job happened to run into a good lot of them, since that was how I made my living as a mushishi.
They're...strange neighbors to the rest of the life on the planet, an existence beyond life or death, hiding between light and shadow. It's hard to describe, but simply put, they're supernatural creatures of innumerable types that permeate all the world, visible only to a handful of people.
As a mushishi, it's my job to research them and help humans to live in the same world as them, keeping the balance.
What kind of mushi could do that to someone, Ginko?
[Let mun explain! I could be misusing the word entirely, but in searching Wikipedia I discovered that mushi be the Japanese word for bug, so...yeah, I'm nerding out and having X assume that. XD]
They're quite a bit different than normal bugs, actually; it's just a term that's been coined over the centuries as humans studied these creatures. They're a supernatural being that exists somewhere between light and dark, life and death. Their numbers are countless, and even though they cover most of the world I come from, only a handful of humans can actually see them.
(( Yup, it's perfect! Characters in Mushishi assume that often, too~ 8D The difference is that the supernatural 'mushi' is a kind of half-made-up, half-old-fashioned version of the kanji for 'bug'. ))
[A momentary jii at X's journal with a face like this, Ginkorama.]
Then, what you described...they're supernatural parasites. If so few people can actually spot these mushi, and they've been in your world for centuries, how...how did humanity survive?
They're not all bad; just like plants and animals, they're just doing what they can to live they way they are.
Only a small percentage are really all that harmful to humans, so long as humans don't stick their noses where they obviously don't belong. Most of humanity goes on peacefully without knowing about their existence.
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You spoke with him? What kind of impression did you get?
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Best to be on your guard, all the same.
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What exactly is a "mushi" though, and what did you do as a "mushishi"?
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As a mushishi, it's my job to research them and help humans to live in the same world as them, keeping the balance.
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Don't think I haven't been looking.
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Even though I haven't run across an asshole mushi, that doesn't mean I shouldn't check there, too.
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What kind of mushi could do that to someone, Ginko?
[Let mun explain! I could be misusing the word entirely, but in searching Wikipedia I discovered that mushi be the Japanese word for bug, so...yeah, I'm nerding out and having X assume that. XD]
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(( Yup, it's perfect! Characters in Mushishi assume that often, too~ 8D The difference is that the supernatural 'mushi' is a kind of half-made-up, half-old-fashioned version of the kanji for 'bug'. ))
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Then, what you described...they're supernatural parasites. If so few people can actually spot these mushi, and they've been in your world for centuries, how...how did humanity survive?
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Only a small percentage are really all that harmful to humans, so long as humans don't stick their noses where they obviously don't belong. Most of humanity goes on peacefully without knowing about their existence.
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