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exsilium2013-05-24 05:14 pm
speakveryclearly) wrote in exsilium2013-05-24 05:14 pm
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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.]
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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[AND BEFORE LONG SHE IS.]
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Come on in. I don't know if the others are around right now, but it doesn't really matter. [ Kanaya's not some random suspicious weirdo that nobody knows. ]
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[Because if she did she wouldn't think Sayaka were heterosexual.]
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[ Not doing a whole lot to promote your straightness, Sayaka. She walks into her room, grabbing one of the unmarked DVD cases off the table. ]
I guess we'll start with this one. At least I'll know what they are now.
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As good a way to find out as any. [Agreeable and helpful, she presses the open button on the DVD player before sitting down.]
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... Figures. [ SIGH. ]
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sigh i thought i tagged this
[ how to explain something she's always taken for granted. ]
It's a magical girl anime. That stuff— [ she points at another transformation happening ] —is what we do. But it's way more complicated than that in real life. [ as should be obvious, in retrospect. but things seemed so easy at the time. ]
Suffering
"We" encompassing your little [quartet, she almost says, but then she realizes it's very likely they have an absent worldmate and this in fact would be a very viable explanation for Sayaka's sadness] group, I take it? [Hmmm...] I guess the discrepancy isn't too surprising, however disappointing it may be. [She'd offer solidarity on being a vampire/alien but, you know, she doesn't really want to freak Sayaka out more.]
double the suffering
Yeah. Me, Madoka, Kyouko, and the transfer student. [ She almost adds Mami, but she's too dead to count. ] They're always fighting for justice in shows like these, you know? That's the way it should be. Powers like ours are meant to be used to help people.
all the way across the sky
I agree, and they also demonstrate that we should be able to collaborate rather than turning on each other... [Seeing all the girls leap into battle together, coordinated and harmonious... what a far cry from the trolls.]
it's beautiful
Ahaha, yeah. [ Just another lesson that nobody seems to learn. ] It's different in real life, though. Most magical girls don't care about doing the right thing.
Almost triple suffering there
[She tries to concentrate on the TV more for a moment, silent.]
Most people don't stick to a rigid code at all, do they.
close but no cigar
[ Sensitive topic there. She winces at the yellow magical girl, though one of the other colours — purple, really? — takes over the screen before things can go too far. ]
It's wrong. Doing the right thing should be important to everyone.
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[And at last an alien or demon or parasite or something - in these stories it's always inhuman because humans can never really let themselves conceptualize how thoroughly the monster might be within, can they? They're obsessed with the preciousness (price) of individual lives, what a fascinating concept.
Anyway it, not he or she, falls at the heroines' snazzy feet.] And the enemies are always so easy to defeat, too...
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[ Which doesn't stop her from being annoyed about it, but what can you do. She doesn't look terribly enthralled by the show — living something tends to suck most of the enjoyment out of watching an idealized version of it — but she pays enough attention to comment on it. ]
That's because they work together. It doesn't work that way for us, though. Even if it helped me, I wouldn't associate with anyone using their powers for selfish reasons.
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[Kanaya is lost for a little while, at least thirty seconds, before elaborating further. This form of entertainment is not just foreign to her but has an appealing aesthetic novelty, which is something she doesn't find herself thinking about Earth artifacts very often. Considering Sayaka's apparent dislike of the genre, she begins to seriously consider asking to borrow these later to watch without her.]
I don't want to limit whom I can assist that much, you know?
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That's your choice. But if someone hurts people, or just stands by while others get hurt... then they're the real bad guys. There's no excuse for it.
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And sometimes collaboration is exactly what it takes to change the hearts of people like that. But it's all on a case-by-case basis.
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[ Just getting that admission out of her is a minor miracle, and even that's only because she's dealt with Kyouko long enough to see change in action. ]
It doesn't matter, though. Other people can do what they want, and I'll just keep protecting everyone. [ now you're sounding like a magical girl again ]
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That's a good work ethic. [All she says for a little while, as the episode finishes up. While the ED starts to play:]
...do you want to keep watching this? Or would you prefer something else?