speakveryclearly: Kanaya, white as cinderblocks, burning with platonic hate manifest in a dark squiggle over her head. (Bitter)
Kanaya Maryam ([personal profile] speakveryclearly) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2012-11-12 12:04 pm

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.]
skirtcladgunner: (☽ that went well~)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-18 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Either we're all forgetful, or prefer introducing ourselves over letting the display name do it for us. It could go either way, I guess~
skirtcladgunner: (☽ with pleasant company)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-18 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, you're probably right, I'll give you that. I'll try to remember the name thing from now on.

[Hopefully that's something that will stick. She's just so used to introducing herself...]
Edited 2012-11-18 06:14 (UTC)
skirtcladgunner: (☽ well you see...)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-18 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Those are always good to have. In fact, I probably should have used that in the beginning. Oh well, you know what they say about hindsight~
skirtcladgunner: (☽ faced with uncertainty)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-18 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Do you really think they'll stop, after this? The people you aimed this at, I mean.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ ...ugh.)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-18 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Then I'll hope right along with you. I'm not the initiative's biggest fan either, and I'm certainly not against looking out for myself instead of fully relying on them and showing my distaste verbally when they do something that pisses me off. But individual armies? [Shaking her head.] Even if your execution made me laugh, you're right--it is stupid.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ liar liar (burn in hell))

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
...ugh, really? I guess I'm not too surprised to hear that.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ tsuntsun >:|)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not, but you would think it would be a little longer before they decided to break down and argue like children!

[...]

Then again, maybe not.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ faced with uncertainty)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-21 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Earth months? Sorry, still new to you trolls. I don't know a lot about you guys.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ whatever)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-22 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I got that. But you saying it like that implies that it's different for you.
skirtcladgunner: (☽ well you see...)

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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-22 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
No, it doesn't. I wouldn't be curious if it did, would I?
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[personal profile] skirtcladgunner 2012-11-25 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! I didn't mean to be offensive. [For once.]