exsilium | Fifth Blood

[Unusually for this network user, the transmission is purely Audio. A great deal of transports will of course recognize the voice as belonging to Kanaya Maryam. Strangers will hear a fifteen-year-old female, naturally rather mature and composed, doing her best to sound even more so. She speaks crisply and briskly with no mercy, like the distinctions between American and British English are to be stalked into a dark alley and shot in the back of the skull.]

The armageddon that occurred in the world of Elmer C. Albatross isn't the only one that's ever occurred in paradox space, you know. Just ask Asuka Langley Soryu or Rei Ayanami or Shinji Ikari. Any of them can tell you that the end of a world is always at least as ugly a thing as what happened on May Twenty-First. Anyone who escaped the planet Alternia before the meteors struck can reiterate the sentiments that Exsilium is a far better alternative to no planet at all. For many of us, Exsilium is our home now and we'll fight literally to the ends of an Earth for its sake.

I know not all of you feel that sort of debt to the Initiative. You do want to go home, this isn't your war, it's their fault. That's really too bad. Because if we let the United Earth have their way and don't develop Initiative in both senses of the word, we're all going to be post-apocalyptic refugees before long. We come from dozens of worlds. Would you like to take arms with the Initiative to fight against the reckoning, or watch each one meet the same fate Elmer's world did?

[An open question, Exsilium.]

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[While Saori would normally have video on by default, she changed it voice. The last thing she wanted anyone to see was her shaking from everything that happened lately. A god afraid? Yes, but it wouldn't stop her from doing what needs to be done.]

Tch. Why is that even a question? Of course I want to fight.

It's not just for my home world. I was stuck in another one prior to here and despite its cons, I want it to be saved. For some of those people I left there, it's their only way to have a life and be happy. No one deserves their world being destroyed and the UE must be stopped.

Oh. I didn't even consider how one's status as a two-time interdimensional kidnappee could play into this situation. [She's nonconfrontational - in fact, if anything, a little positively biased towards "Saori" (whoever that is, she has no information at this point other than adult and probably Japanese lady) given this common trait.] We're a noteworthy minority of the transport population, aren't we? Double the potential destruction, I guess.

Yes, and that makes me even more determined to undermine them.

[As common as a Japanese lady was, there was something else beyond that for. Though that was for another time. ]

The funny thing is, when I first arrived there, I technically died in my home world. I quickly grasped onto it as my second chance and live the life I couldn't. Through some rather complicated events, I bounced between my home world and the other. I knew I could do more for both worlds despite how small I am. Now that there's multiple worlds at stake, I don't think I could ever leave here without knowing they will be safe from harm.

A lot of transports just don't know that coming somewhere like this could literally save one's life, do they? Some of my [she skips a beat] best friends are in a similar situation. My sympathies.

[A pause as off-camera she chews the inside of her cheek.] ...So would your experience imply that you could be killed in your original universe, but returned to life in - for example - Exsilium, then be sent there alive again? [This question might or might not be of huge personal interest to her.]