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[ the name attached to this account, and thus with all applicable comments within this entry, reads Haruka Takahashi, as usual.
for those of you just joining us at home, some info. ]

If you're only interested in useful posts, you can skip the rest of this. I'm only out to waste the time of those who want it wasted, today.
For anyone else, color me curious.

Water, Wind, Light, Flame, Earth, or Darkness.

Pick one, please.

To clarify, "light" doesn't mean good and "darkness" doesn't mean evil, or bad. Or vice versa; there's no moral alignment to any of them.
And I didn't "skip heart", so don't bother bringing that up.

[ tetchy. ]

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Okay
If Asked To Pick A Favorite Character I Would Probably Select Edward Or Alice
As I Find Them To Be Humorous And Charming And Overall Interesting And Sympathetic
But Just To Pick A Character
I Would Probably Select Bella Instead
As The Author Intended It Is Very Easy To Get Into Her Shoes Especially For Me
With Her Literary And Analytical Nature Of Discretion And Self-Sacrifice

So The Former And Not The Latter Would Be More Analogous To the Light Choice
Im Probably Going To Keep That Answer Since On The Alternative Path Id Select Earth And Thats Just An Uncomfortable Choice To Make For Reasons With Which Im Sure Youre More Than Passingly Familiar

The terminology is a little human-experience-centric. "Earth" doesn't have to mean the human planet Earth. If it's easier, you can substitute with ground, or soil, or stone, or rock.

I could see that for you.

Probably The Sense Of Ground Is What Id Take

Have You Picked One Yourself

I'm wavering.

Ah
Im Beginning To See A Possible Motivation For Your Posting

No, no, don't misunderstand me! I'm not asking to find an answer for myself. I'm just bored.

Why Is That
Has Perhaps Your Suspectibility To Illness Reared Its Ugly Head
Theres Been Something Going Around
Its Suspicious

How is it suspicious? I get sick all the time.

No Thats Not Suspicious If Anything Id Be More Dubious Of A Claim You Were Currently Right As Rain
Whats Suspicious Is The Sheer Pervasiveness Of This Disease And Its Disregard For Social Groups
Rather It Seems That Almost Everyone In Exsilium Has Been Exposed Somehow
And Im Not Sure Whether Im Employing Hyperbole

Kanaya
As far as we TransPorts go, we mostly all live in the same building, right?
Someone sneezes in a cramped elevator, and you'll spread germs to just about everyone in the building within hours.

I Guess
But The Native Exiles Also Seem Affected
Dont You Find That Odd

No?
Should I? Between the tight proximity, and the constant influx of germs from new *planets,* it should be more surprising when people aren't sick. At least, that's how it seems to me.

Maybe Youre Right
Im Just Thinking Of It As If
Julys Wave Of Transports Actually Contained Numerous Cases Of Jet Lag
Wouldnt That Be Suspicious Even Though It Should Be Less Surprising

[ normally, she would probably pick up on what Kanaya's trying to reference here

but wow critical thinking in a fever is kinda not her strong point. ]

No...?

[A flicker of disappointment scorches the walls of Kanaya's heart, the twin of the excited flicker moments earlier at the prospect of them actually having a shared pool of reference. That would have been too much to Hope for. Everyone she ever really shared a pool of reference with is dead or dropped and often both at that.]

Well It Should Because Even Though Its Been Four Waves Since Your Arrival Its Still Almost Never Happened
And I Say Almost Only Because I Dont Want To Exclude The Possibility Theres Been An Incident Of Which I Remain Personally Unaware

Infrequency isn't impossibility.

It Isnt
That Doesnt Mean It Cant Make Me Uneasy
But Maybe Im Being Irrationally Suspicious

Youd Be Rubbing Off On Me In That Case

Hah, well, I suppose that's not a bad thing, in this case. I could easily be wrong, you know.

I Hope Youre Not
Wrong That Is
Because If Im Right This Would Be A Matter Of Quite Some Concern

Well, if I drop dead from it, then it's definitely suspicious.

[An exceedingly unpleasant notion to Kanaya. She thinks about playing it off as a joke along the lines of her immune system making that not all too unlikely, maybe even something darker about her front-line uselessness, but decides to tackle the topic seriously.]

Does Earths Technology Cover That Sort Of Cause Or Only Sudden Trauma
Thats Something Ive Never Really Had The Opportunity To Find Out
Or Old Age Either For That Matter

[If anyone knows how the respawn machine in Exsilium works, it should be Haruka. Why is she so confident of this?]

Hm? What do you mean by that?

[ better get some clarification before she answers a question that kanaya isn't asking and BLOW HER COVER ]

[Man you know what happened the last time someone concealed something from Kanaya for several months and the cover was blown suddenly

NAH THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN and if it did Haruka would be... so... happy to go home!! Not have to be in a war!! Reunite with someone!!!! If she were a good and selfless person, deep down, this is what she would want.

She's not, though. "She" proved that.]

If You Did Get Sick And Die Here Do You Think You Would Come Back

I don't know. It depends on how desperate the Initiative is to keep me around, isn't that right? They're the ones who drag people from the dead, aren't they?

[Man at this point she has the brief suspicion Haruka is too unknowledgeable about this; she's a creature of doubt, sure, Kanaya knows this, but wouldn't she have researched this in self-preservation? Oh well Kanaya's been here six months and doesn't know either so the information is clearly not exactly hanging around on trees.]

Yeah
It Seems To Be A Service They Perform Invariably Though Except In The Case Of Adam Jensen Where The United Earth Made It Impossible
And I Doubt You Of All People Would Be The One From Whom It Would Be Withheld Considering They Took The Risk Of Your Recruitment In The First Place