@shiro

[cranekin]

Did you know there's a museum not far from this base? You can see quite a few treasures on display. I went back for the first time in a long time. Imagine my surprise when I realized one of those treasures was missing...

It doesn't matter if it's a grave, a shrine, or the emperor's treasure chest... thieves will really steal from any place, huh? I wonder what else is lost in this world...

Ah, well, where ever I am, I'm sure I'll be surprised.

( Suddenly he's talking about himself? For those who know him, it makes perfect sense. )

Anyway, what treasures are in your world? If you can tell me a good story, I might give you a surprise.

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[cranekin]

I'm always in the right place. That's why it's been so easy to find me.
I don't know where "I" am now, though.

So that's how your kind are able to take on the form you do?

[harboredfeelings]

You have my sympathies if nothing else. This world's version being missing won't effect "you" though, will it?

And essentially, yes. The Wisdom Cube that serves as our soul needs a tangible existence to awaken a KAN-SEN, normally. The Cube takes human collective memory of a vessel with a notable past and makes us. The Watatsumi bypassed that requirement entirely. The girls it awakened were no less KAN-SEN than the rest of us, but there was no human memory used in their birth.

I don't think anyone was entirely sure about how it did that. Well maybe Yamato, she seemed clued in on a lot of things the rest of us started finding out only recently, but you can never be sure with her.

[cranekin]

No, the me in this world and I aren't connected in that way.

Still, since we're the same, it's impossible to completely disconnect us.

[harboredfeelings]

What's that feel like, being connected to another version? If it's not too prying.

Both "Kaga"s in this world are on the bottom of the ocean but I only know that from history. There's nothing outside of legacy that connects me to them.