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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 23, 2018 19:10:42 GMT -5
"Indeed." She chuckles. "Through a long series of increasingly improbable coincidences, it somehow worked out. Much like the smaller set of coincidences that led me to the cafeteria the day we met, Azerora-san."
"Some Rokugani scholars describe such chains of events, where one coincidence leads to another, as hitsuzen. The idea that one event must happen for other, subsequent events to occur. Miss one in the chain and everything changes irrevocably."
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Post by Rodrigo Azerola on Feb 23, 2018 19:21:18 GMT -5
"Hm...interesting. You mean like..."
Rodrigo frowned, struggling to think of an example.
"...I can't think of anything but I get what you mean."
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 23, 2018 19:26:02 GMT -5
"If it helps, I've heard it translated as 'inevitability' in Yodotai."
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Post by Rodrigo Azerola on Feb 23, 2018 19:28:21 GMT -5
"Oh! Oh, that. Like if you spend an extra minute drinking coffee in the morning and that times you perfectly to get smashed by a truck crossing the road."
He paused.
"...okay that example was a bit morbid wasn't it?"
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Post by Gyushi Kogeki on Feb 23, 2018 19:30:07 GMT -5
Kogeki cocks his head. "SO like.. are those good? Bad? I mean yours seems good. Truck thing seems bad."
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 23, 2018 20:02:29 GMT -5
"They're neither good nor bad. Some events simply are," she answers. "Sometimes, it's good. Like meeting a person who becomes a lifelong friend. Sometimes, it's bad, as in Azerora-san's example. And sometimes, it's neither, like just being in the right place, at the right time, to see something you wouldn't have otherwise."
"As an old friend of mine would say, there are no coincidences. Only hitsuzen."
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Post by Horiuchi Nadeshiko on Feb 24, 2018 1:21:50 GMT -5
"Some people call it the butterfly effect, one event here can change things in incalculable ways down the road. Also Sensei, Enigmas are fine and super fun but sometimes we just need to cut to the chase, like the gordian knot~ If the situation calls for it of course."
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