video;

[keep_smiling]

[Exsilium might not be expecting to see a smiling face on their network so soon after the battle, but that's what you get with this guy being among your ranks. He gives the camera a little wave.]

Hello! Is everyone recovering from the battle? It's good that the Initiative can resurrect people, don't you think? Otherwise that would have turned out rather badly.

Anyway, I wanted to say thanks to the people who tried to come to the rescue of my world. If we've not met, I'm Elmer C. Albatross, the person who was sent back. After what happened, it might be hard to think about this positively. But there's a few things we can take to heart! Like the fact that people can be ressurrected, or that while one world may have been taken over, it probably wasn't your world, and you might still be able to return to your own someday!

As for mine, well... Not much can be done about that, now. I suppose Exsilium is my home, now. The friends I was travelling with are like me, so they'll survive no matter what. I just hope someday things will return to normal there, so the survivors can find reasons to smile again! You're all still here, fellow transports, so I hope you continue to smile on as well!

Comments

[copia]

[ She wrinkles his nose at his laugh before her eyes narrow. ]

Then don't say such a stupid comment. Not everyone agrees with you about "Oh hooooooow great it is that we can't die!"

[keep_smiling]

Most people don't want to die, though, so the idea that they can come back is a relief. Dying is still no picnic, though.

Why do you feel so differently?

[copia]

Because what if one day someone else ends up like Mr. Adam Jensen, who died and did not come back? Then what?! If his friends here were expecting him to come back, they now know he won't, and what do you think is worse — expecting him to come back like most people do, or expecting him to come back and finding out he won't? And that he isn't even alive in his world anymore, so they won't see him there, either?! Death should be permanent all the time. It isn't something that should be toyed with to use us as "soldiers" [ She does air quotes at that word. ] who fall down and keep getting back up, even though one of us might have had our head blown off moments before, or someone else was stabbed to death. It's completely, utterly, one hundred percent wrong, but if you want to keep thinking that it "is a relief" then fine by me. Don't make it sound like it's freaking rainbows and sunshine. [ And the feed is cut off.]

[wilder]

[Word.]