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exsilium2012-11-12 12:04 pm
speakveryclearly) wrote in exsilium2012-11-12 12:04 pm
Entry tags:
- alice liddell (am's alice),
- feferi peixes (homestuck),
- johnny d'amico (original),
- kanaya maryam (homestuck),
- koltira deathweaver (world of warcraft),
- rin asano (blade of the immortal),
- sollux captor (homestuck),
- tori crawford (original),
- ✝ deathwing (world of warcraft),
- ✝ eridan ampora [homestuck],
- ✝ gamzee makara [homestuck],
- ✝ karkat vantas [homestuck],
- ✝ ken'ichi "tenjou" inari [original],
- ✝ lelouch vi britannia [code geass],
- ✝ meenah peixes [homestuck],
- ✝ nathaniel howe [dragon age],
- ✝ painwheel (skullgirls),
- ✝ robin [dc comics (earth 31)],
- ✝ scathach [the alchemyst],
- ✝ shadow [sonic the hedgehog],
- ✝ takegami teijirou (mr. brain)
Second Blood
[Today you have something different: Rather than a face peering into the camera, you have a full body view of a young woman standing to the left of the shot, with her right hand on her hip. Said hand glows bright white, like the rest of her body. If you haven't seen her before, she's probably a pretty surprising sort of freak to see when you turn on the communicator.
The center and right part of the shot are occupied by the wall, to which she's attached an off-white poster, landscape orientation, with the following written on it in large letters of bright green marker.
* As Your Potential Leader A Complete Stranger In All Senses
* Proposal To Further Factionalize Already Fractured Population
* Plans Will Only Be Revealed When Or Rather If Any Group Is Gathered
* Initiative Is Our First Enemy Rather Than The United Earth
* Conflict With Other Armies Also A Welcome Possibility
It's attached to the wall with a piece of clear tape on each corners and one in the middle of each long side as well. Close examination will note that it appears there is a second identically-sized piece of paper hidden under it.]
Hello, Transports. I'm Kanaya Maryam. Apart from those who saw my arbitrary self-introduction, you probably don't recognize me as anything but an alien interloper of an age you judge as inappropriate. Even though you have absolutely no reason to trust me, I'm going to ask you to do exactly that, because Exsilium has a terrible leadership problem.
[She's pointing to the second bullet now.] Lots of Transports have been trying to create an army out of members of Exsilium's already perfectly fine existing army. This hasn't worked up until now, but I am somehow absolutely certain that when I do this it's going to be totally different.
[Third bullet:] My plans are so fantastic that they have to be kept confidential and will only be revealed to members of the army once it forms - whom, by the way, I will accept and reject at my discretion even though my goal is to unite Exsilium.
Oh, and did I mention - [fourth bullet] - that I want to overthrow the Initiative first, even though we're fighting the United Earth. Because that's my intention, to fight the people who brought us together and control whether we even stay or leave, let alone go back in time.
And by the way, all the other armies that have already been forming - they're getting in the way of my plan, so we're also going to fight you if you go against us.
[Both her hands return to her hips as she stares at with her head cocked and her lips stretched thin.] Tell me, Exsilium, do you think that sounds like a good plan for anyone to execute? Especially if she's an alien, an undead, a "teenager" [finger quotes], or the like? Or would you advise me to stick with the perfectly good hundreds-strong army that we already have, and take it up with the administrators of the Initiative if I really insisted upon doing something. Perhaps would you go so far as to say that I sound... stupid? If so, that's good, because I have some appalling news for you, which I've just delivered wrapped in your planet's particularly loathsome form of verbal irony.
[In a sudden, too-quick motion, she reaches up with both hands to rip off the poster and reveal the paper underneath it, filled up entirely with these four words:
This Is Stupid
Stop
She neatly folds the old poster three times and throws it away in a waste receptacle off screen, and then stands up straight to address the camera again.]
It does sound stupid, because it is, and so do you. Stop.
[The video ends.]
The center and right part of the shot are occupied by the wall, to which she's attached an off-white poster, landscape orientation, with the following written on it in large letters of bright green marker.
* As Your Potential Leader A Complete Stranger In All Senses
* Proposal To Further Factionalize Already Fractured Population
* Plans Will Only Be Revealed When Or Rather If Any Group Is Gathered
* Initiative Is Our First Enemy Rather Than The United Earth
* Conflict With Other Armies Also A Welcome Possibility
It's attached to the wall with a piece of clear tape on each corners and one in the middle of each long side as well. Close examination will note that it appears there is a second identically-sized piece of paper hidden under it.]
Hello, Transports. I'm Kanaya Maryam. Apart from those who saw my arbitrary self-introduction, you probably don't recognize me as anything but an alien interloper of an age you judge as inappropriate. Even though you have absolutely no reason to trust me, I'm going to ask you to do exactly that, because Exsilium has a terrible leadership problem.
[She's pointing to the second bullet now.] Lots of Transports have been trying to create an army out of members of Exsilium's already perfectly fine existing army. This hasn't worked up until now, but I am somehow absolutely certain that when I do this it's going to be totally different.
[Third bullet:] My plans are so fantastic that they have to be kept confidential and will only be revealed to members of the army once it forms - whom, by the way, I will accept and reject at my discretion even though my goal is to unite Exsilium.
Oh, and did I mention - [fourth bullet] - that I want to overthrow the Initiative first, even though we're fighting the United Earth. Because that's my intention, to fight the people who brought us together and control whether we even stay or leave, let alone go back in time.
And by the way, all the other armies that have already been forming - they're getting in the way of my plan, so we're also going to fight you if you go against us.
[Both her hands return to her hips as she stares at with her head cocked and her lips stretched thin.] Tell me, Exsilium, do you think that sounds like a good plan for anyone to execute? Especially if she's an alien, an undead, a "teenager" [finger quotes], or the like? Or would you advise me to stick with the perfectly good hundreds-strong army that we already have, and take it up with the administrators of the Initiative if I really insisted upon doing something. Perhaps would you go so far as to say that I sound... stupid? If so, that's good, because I have some appalling news for you, which I've just delivered wrapped in your planet's particularly loathsome form of verbal irony.
[In a sudden, too-quick motion, she reaches up with both hands to rip off the poster and reveal the paper underneath it, filled up entirely with these four words:
This Is Stupid
Stop
She neatly folds the old poster three times and throws it away in a waste receptacle off screen, and then stands up straight to address the camera again.]
It does sound stupid, because it is, and so do you. Stop.
[The video ends.]
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[ She laughs-- she's really bad at sarcasm, okay. ]
Seriously though! Would you join some super top secret organization that wasn't even going to tell you what their plans are until you join? You wouldn't even know what you were agreeing to do! And you know the Initiative can see this here, right?
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[She points at the poster on the wall: The "This Is Stupid, Stop" one.] I was pointing out exactly how stupid all schemes that follow such a pattern are. There are half a dozen of them in operation by other transports at this point.
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No, Feferi, I am not trying to lead any kind of rebellion. Rebellion is almost literally the last thing I believe in. It is just below the saga colloquially referred to as Trollight not being that great. Or wearing sandals with socks.
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Your sense of humor really did change for the worse here.
[Video]
[ She rifles around off screen for a bit, then holds up a pair of socks and some well-worn birkenstocks. ]
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Oh, wow, why did I ask...
[Video]
Pffft hahahah! Oh man, you totally believed me didn't you? Hook, line, and sinker! Gosh, Kanaya, give me some credit! There isn't even a point to wearing socks if you're wearing sandals! The socks just get wet and dirty. But boots and socks, on the other hand...
[ cuttlefishCuller wants to send you an image: boots.jpg ]
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Cull me now.
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