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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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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

Me, of all people, who deliberately refuses to help them?

You Of All People Indeed
Its Funny That In The Conspiracy You Theorize Where Our Selection Was Purposeful
They Must Have Chosen You Knowing Full Well That The Jewel Of Your Heart Would Not Rest Easily In This New Setting Within The Royals Crown

I know my strengths. If they know them, too, then ours is a gamble of time.

But I am surly, and stubborn, and paranoid. My heart will not be so easily conquered.

In That Case The Initiative Is Probably Grateful Time Is One Of The Very Few Resources That Can Even Sometimes Be Considered Remotely Reliably In Their Disposal

[Hers are never very elaborate. She copies and pastes the code, something a single step above the Initiative-distributed standard. She just hopes her conversational partner will appreciate the gesture.]

Though I Have A Conspiracy Theory Of My Own
I Think I Know Why Youre Here

[ oh hey what's all this. ]

Oh? Their reason for choosing me, you mean?

Yes I Have Developed A Conspiracy Theory Of My Own
Its Pretty Much Hyperbolic Like All Conspiracy Theories Are But Im Going To See About The Completing Piece Of Corroboration Anyway
On May Twenty-First You Were In Neither The Battlefield Nor Its Inevitable Sequel The Medical Bay Were You

Right.

I Suspected As Much
And I Cant Really Blame You
However I Think That Was Allowed To Happen For Reasons Beyond Those Of Your Allegiance Itself

The Initiative Does Not Share The Naive Belief Found In Some Corners Of Your Civilization That Children Belong Nowhere But A School
And The Initiative Also Could Not Possibly Fool Itself Into Thinking The Bow They Gave You Would Actually Be Of All That Much Use Especially In Your Hands
Yet Your Almost Entirely Unparalleled Intuition For The Types Of Situations We Encounter Here
Which Puts Even Two-Time Interdimensional Grubnappees To Shame
Your Capacity For Analyzing Every Single Aspect Of Either The Initiative Or United Earths Motivations
That Is Something Desirable For Which You Could Be Conscripted

Your Situation Reminds Me Of
A Speculative Story About The Game That Would Bring About The End Of Alternian Civilization Or As It Is Colloquially Called Troll Enders Game
Ender Also Being The Nickname Of Andrew Wiggin Who Is The Viewpoint Character Despite His Status As Antagaonist As His Mammalian Species Is At War With Alternia As We Threatened To Annihilate Their Planet Once
Contains Cliched Secret Recognition Of The Main Character As The Only Hope Of His Race And So When It Is His Turn To Enter Combat Training He Rises Through The Ranks As His Overseers Provide Him With Extraordinary Rule-Defying Challenges Befitting His Gifts
And Is Placed Into A Simulation Of Enormous Scope Eventually Commanding An Entire Army
When They Reach The Troll Homeworld He Destroys The Entire Planet Unaware At The Time That This Was Not A Simulation And He Was Commanding A Real Army That Really Doomed An Entire Real Race And The Mother Grub In Fact Resided Underground There
Exhausted By His Experiences He Abandons This Ruthless Military And Returns To His Home Planet Where His Dearly Beloved Auspistice Valentine And Their Sociopathic Third Party Peter Have Come To Dominate Political Discourse And He Cant Actually Return Home
At The End Though He Finds The Matriorb Meaning The Troll Race May Be Restored After All And Also So Troll Orson Scott Card Would Not Be Culled For His Unconventional Views On Procreation

Obviously Thats A Conspiracy Theory And I Seriously Doubt You Were Actually Forced By The Initiative To Fight Two Armies With One Or Accidentally Killed Two People Or Any Of That Works More Extreme Events Or Have A Special Relationship With The Virtual Reality Machines
What I Do Believe In All Seriousness About Your Recruitment Should It Have Been Anything More Than Accidental Is That
You Belonged In Neither Of Those Places Where Everyone Else Spent That Day
But Rather The Control Room

So, if I have this straight... you believe I was brought here to be some sort of, I suppose, strategic intelligence officer?

Well Thats One Way Of Putting It But I Would Have Used A Term More Like Commander

I suppose it might be possible.

But, so long as they're keeping me from what I want, then they'll never win my help with anything.

What Do You Want

[To go home is the answer she of course expects to receive - but hey maybe she'll cough up something else.]

To go back.

[ not home ]

[She notices that distinction of phrasing if only because her eyes track forward too far expecting a fourth word in that sentence and not finding it there. What else could have gone there - "in time"? Haruka is a creature of mystery and precision.]

Wouldnt You Be The Perfect Transport To Eventually Be Placed Into A Position Of Power
After Months Of Noncooperation
Making What Would From You Have To Be A Purely Rational And Perhaps Even Selfish Decision
That The Only Way To Guarantee You Get What You Want Is The United Earths Defeat And The End Of The War
Which Is Either True If Our Arrivals And Departures Really Cannot Be Controlled Meaning Hoping To Just Leave By Chance Could Not Be Assured
Or Else Just Exactly What The Initiative Wants You To Think

Like I said. If they know my strengths, then ours is the gamble of time—of who can be more patient, or more stubborn. Whether they will surrender, and send me back, or whether I will, and join their cause.

And I will not be beaten by something so flimsy as time.

[send me back - this time, the difference (distinction?) between "back" and "home" is even more noticeable. If she's talking about something of which the Initiative would certainly be capable rather than for which she just hopes irrationally - and this is Haruka for whom Hope by all evidence shown so far has little to no meaning to the point that she didn't want to include it as a separate category - back in time is not an option, is it?]

Id Point Out That With The Recent Reforms Getting An Actual Position Where Your Strengths Would Be Recognized And Fairly Compensated Might Not Even Be That Hard
But I Know Such Things Hold No Sway Over Your Sort Of Soul No Matter How Closely They May Cater To Your Less Than Impoverished Sensibilities
So What If I Pointed Out Instead That On May Twenty-First We All Learned "Back" May Not Be So Straightforward A Proposition As Some Of Us Would Like To Think

[She has to put air quotes around "back" because making one word the crux of the sentence is a problem in her quirk, but back home is not what she should use if Haruka is so reluctant to say it that way. Reluctance? No, not reluctance by itself. She's secretive but not baselessly...]

I'm well aware of what happened, in that one case.
But, tell me, how many names, how many Network Accounts are deactivated every month?
How many times do people mysteriously disappear, presumed returned to their original, or previous, times and worlds and universes?
How many people have you lost here?

[ what a strange way to put that... ]

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