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Nutty times around here, huh? It's nice to see things happening, even if it's stuff like "spaceship crashing into building you call home, inevitable relocation into a room with three other people." There are worse things.

[Grump grump. She just sounds dry. It's a little overcrowded here for a girl who likes her privacy, but whatcha gonna do...]

And now a trip home. Or a try for it. What good news for everyone who doesn't want to be here, maybe - if it works they could as well just install a revolving door and kick the people who won't have with fighting in a surprise war right back home. It could make life pretty difficult for the Initiative if it works out, if nobody'll stick around from the goodness of their hearts, or whatever.

It's the first time I've seen a place manage that though. So that's something.

Anyhow, welcome in to all you new people, I hope the Hold has been kind so far. If you're homesick cheer up, it could be so much more terrible around these parts. The group missions aren't so bad. You got armed and you got money and maybe you won't even be here a long time. The future looks bright, right?

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It might not even work out. There's enough problems with their machine on a regular basis, we shouldn't assume this thing will fix any problems.

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[ A sound of agreement. ]

No, I didn't think it would, but they're at least taking a step in the right direction with this.

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Mm.

Who are you?

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Oh! Sorry! My name's Suzaku Kururugi. It's nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you too. I'm Rin. I guess you just arrived?

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Not exactly. I've been here for over a month now.

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Mm. Have you gone on any missions?

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Just one so far, but I might tag along on a few more depending...

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Might as well stay busy, right?

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Right, and if anything ever goes wrong on one of the missions I'd like to be there to help out.

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Are you from Japan?

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[ It's not often he hears it referred to as Japan still... ]

Ah, yeah that's right...

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Do you speak Japanese?

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I do, but it's been awhile since I've really spoken it.

[ What with Britannia basically destroying the Japanese culture and all that... ]

Japanese;

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Do you understand me?

[She's speaking very politely, in a girly way. But her accent is really, really old...]

Japanese;

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[ It really is... Could make for some difficulty in more complicated conversations.

Suzaku's Japanese also errs on the overly polite side, but it's pretty modern. ]

Yes, I do. So you're Japanese as well?

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Yeah. It sounds like you're from after me, though. [She can identify a modern accent, she's heard it enough.] What part are you from?

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After you...?

[ As opposed to just differences between their world's Japans? ]

And right now I'm living in Tokyo, or at least... I was before I was brought here.

Japanese;

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In time. I think. I've heard it before, with modern speakers... we always have different accents.

Anyway, I'm from Edo too. But it wasn't Tokyo then, I guess that's obvious.

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I was wondering about that, but thought it might be a difference in worlds as well, but if you're talking about Edo then I'm definitely from some time after you.

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Yeah. What time are you from exactly?

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If you mean the year it's twenty-seventeen.

[ Though that's on the Britannian calender, so it doesn't match up to the date you'd find in most versions of Earth. ]

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That's a long time ahead of me... [That's really all that means to her.] I'm from the second year of Tenmei. That's close to eighteen-hundred.

Japanese;

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[ Damn, that's... ]

... A really long time ago. That's incredible!

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Isn't it, when you think about how ridiculously impossible it should be? This place breaks all the rules.