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Fair enough. [mussing your hair before he pokes you, laughing] That's not a nickname! Xiao Wu is a nickname.

It could be, if you didn't know what it meant. [ poking your face! and this puppy is just getting very lick-happy ]

Except she might think you're calling her.

[dumps the puppy on you, then! and half-rolls over onto you too, one arm flopped over you]

[ squished by a puppy and bear-like human. the puppy's just taking the opportunity to conk out near his head, though ]

[just snugglinggggg]

I really don't care about that stuff, y'know. I mean, it's awesome that you're kicking ass and helping people, don't get me wrong, but that just... I dunno. It doesn't make you special like you have to be distant from everybody. It just makes you Jiu Wu, and I think you're pretty cool without all that Meng Zhu stuff, so whatever.

Edited 2012-08-30 23:24 (UTC)

[ cudddlllleesss ]

Quite obviously, I don't want to be put up on a pedestal or be kept away from everyone else. I am, by nature, a social person, and I don't particularly care for titles. I've flat out told people back home to just call me by my name, there are only two or three people back home that call me anything but Meng Zhu - my brother just calls me Ge, and my master called me Xiao Wu. Being here is nice, because I don't have to deal with it from anyone but Xia Tian, despite having asked him on countless occasions to use my name.

. . . But now that I think about it, if he had it in him to yell at me for my monumentally stupid screw up a few weeks ago, I might still be able to convince him.

[ griiiins ]

I hope so. [still a little seriously] I know how it bugs Takeru to be called 'tono' sometimes. You've got a title, fine, that's not wrong. But you're more than that, too, and s'nice to have people say it out loud once in a while. [running his fingers slowly through your hair]

[ nuzzling against your hand ] Precisely. Takeru and I have had a similar discussion in the past. I don't like him because he's "tono" any more than he likes me because I'm "Meng Zhu". We like each other and get along because we are who we are.