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[dualreaping]

[So he's figured out how this tablet works now, so started reading back a bit. One thing has mostly caught his attention, so here he is.]

A lot of you seem adamant to abstain from offering your loyalty to the initiative, which...I understand in the sense that they are strangers just as much as the United Earth.

But should the claims of their forces attempting to raid your own home world be true, it would have disastrous consequences for the people you know still there. Is that worth the risk?

Or is there something else I'm missing here?

[C'mon people, he suspects he's missed something important. Give him some deets.]

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[dualreaping]

[Made potentially even more strange should he notice the name of the poster is "Death".]

And should these..."connections" of yours return? What then?

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[salvagedsoul]

From what I understand, our world has already ended, or will end.

So still, I don't care. It would be futile to worry about them for long if they were sent back.

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[dualreaping]

Nothing to lose...

I can understand that.

[Though...]

Are you from Earth?

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[salvagedsoul]

Yes.

...I assume you are not.

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[dualreaping]

That's right, though I have been there.

The Earth I'm familiar with suffered a similar fate to what you described.

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[salvagedsoul]

And yet, your question seems to imply that you'd happily defend it. I don't understand.

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[dualreaping]

[A shake of his head.]

No, you misunderstand; I have no intention of involving myself in the affairs of mortals on little more than a whim.

But I haven't much personal experience dealing with humans, which a lot of the transports appear to be. I'm simply...getting to know them, I suppose.

[After all, plenty of people make such a big deal out of humanity; Angels, Demons, God, the council even. He's trying to see what the big deal is.]

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[salvagedsoul]

I see.

If you don't mind humoring my curiosity, may I ask what you are, exactly?

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[dualreaping]

Not at all. They call me Death; the pale rider. First of the Horsemen.

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[salvagedsoul]

[Kaworu was expecting some kind of answer like that, so it isn't really that surprising. Although it does still feel a bit marvelous to be speaking to someone who feels like a living, walking metaphor.

The video camera turns on so he can introduce himself.]

It's nice to meet you. My name is Kaworu Nagisa.

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[dualreaping]

So there's a face to the text after all.

[Joking; he nods in response to the "nice to meet you". About as close to a "you too" he's gonna get.]

Just how long have you been here, Kaworu?

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[salvagedsoul]

Hm, what day is it...? About a month, if I remember right.

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[dualreaping]

Hm. About the same amount of time I've been here, then.

[Weird. He runs into newbies like himself a lot more than people who've been here for a while; that actually makes him wonder if it's not a coincidence.]

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[salvagedsoul]

There are a lot of new people.

How are you taking to it?

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[dualreaping]

Crossing into other worlds isn't exactly something I'm unfamiliar with. It's not a strange experience by any means.

What of you?

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[salvagedsoul]

It's been disorienting. I am supposed to be dead.

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[dualreaping]

[...ugh.

Initiative, how he hates you for this.]

As far as I can tell a lot of people here should be, it's the one thing about this entire situation that bothers me.

Most people here don't seem to understand people die for a reason. That's why resurrection is so uncommon, let alone unheard of in most realms.

If my superiors knew what was going on this entire world wouldn't have much time left.

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[salvagedsoul]

[he gives him a detached smile.]

So... you have some power over it. Not to be rude, but is there nothing you can do about it here, on your own?

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[dualreaping]

Of course I could.

I just don't feel like interfering. But if they said I had to, I would have no choice.

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[salvagedsoul]

I see. Would it not be possible to just kill some of us over again, then?

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[dualreaping]

[...]

You say it as if you want me to.

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[salvagedsoul]

Well, I can only speak for myself, not the others.

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[dualreaping]

And what would you have me do? Kill everyone? Or just you?

[He wouldn't oblige to the former but... call him curious.]

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[salvagedsoul]

Before I ended up here, death was the only path for me to go down in order to find freedom.

I don't much appreciate that the Initiative took that from me.

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[dualreaping]

Hm.

[A pause, as if he considers this.]

If you've got a deathwish, I'll oblige. Whether you live or die is no consequence to me, but I'm of the opinion the dead ought not to be resurrected as carelessly as the initiative think it so wise to do.