七十 (Text/Voice Post, Japanese)

[onikui_tengu]

[Voice]

"Oni yori haruka ni tsuyoi"...

"Stronger than any demon."

[BZZZZAP!] ...again? Isn't it enough that I'm thinking out loud so that others can hear me like this?

[He takes a deep breath, and then slowly lets it out in a sigh.] Fine. I don't normally ask questions like this, but I'll try it this time. As long as it will appease your little spies, or this stupid machine.

[Text]

I have been thinking about names, and how the nations here have human names. It was something that the one called China told me about some time ago.

Why must humans name everything? Nothing is real to you until you've named it, given it limits.

Why does something need to be named, and what does the name you've been given mean to you?

Comments

[kan_chyan]

Thinking about the meaning behind your name?

Names are power, they can make something more powerful than it was before, they can focus something when before it was chaotic, and of course they also provide a means to hold and bind.... A name can bring meaning.

Humans no doubt desire to name everything, because we are weak and strive for a place in this complicated and confusing world.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I have been for awhile... Sometimes.

"Make something more powerful than it was before," huh.

[Your response just gives him even more to think about.]

"Strive for a place"?

[kan_chyan]

Giving a name gives definition, and in sometimes also says where humans fit in the scheme of things.

I like your name, and I think... if you didn't like it to, you wouldn't have accepted it.