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Tweak says, "Let's be bad guys."

Todd Anderson (mumbled_truth) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-03-12 22:05:00

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charlotte charles, euphemia li britannia, neil perry (au), piter de vries, seven of nine, todd anderson (au)

day 262 | voice | backdated to morning
[ An uncertain voice comes on the network; despite his native time period, he's actually dealt with this kind of communication before, but this device is something else entirely. Not at all like what they had in the City. ]

Uh. Hello?

[ Well, that's one place to start. ]

I'm… I'm not exactly sure how I got here, but. Hi. My name is Todd. I, uh... I was just in a place called the City, and I... well, I don't know if the door brought me here, or if I was just taken here, but. Either way, I'm here now.

[ He's nervous, and there's a good reason for it - one he voices after a slight pause. ]

Neil? Are you here?

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	Video friendly_fire 2014-03-13 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	Hello, Todd. Welcome to MarinaNova. [Pink hair. Check. Warm, inviting smile. Check. Technically a little younger than he remembers since she hasn't been here as long, but the difference in appearance is negligible.] (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-03-15 01:50 am UTC (link)
	[ And, of course, with all that lining up, you can't blame the boy for recognition. Something does seem slightly off, different, but - ] Euphie? [ Definitely doesn't stop him from tipping that hand. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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friendly_fire
2014-03-15 11:05 pm UTC (link)

[For all the many, many surprising things that have happened to and around Euphie in this place somehow there are still new ones there to catch her off guard. After all, she doesn't recognize Todd. Certainly there are people—many people—in her world who would know her without her knowing them, but they would call her Princess Euphemia or Sub-Viceroy or maybe even the Massacre Princess. Euphie is a more familiar name—given and used only by those closest to her. Certainly, she gives it away here more freely, but it's such a small community and there is a desire to put some of her royalty behind her or at least things connected to it like a massacre started by her order. So, this person knowing and using that nickname is a mystery indeed. There's a long, surprised pause before she responds.]

...Yes. That's right. Ah, did someone else mention me already? [Yes, of course. That must be it. Maybe he was talking about the school with someone and they mentioned she had pink hair. She's the only one now even though there have been many others in the past like Lacus and Estelle.]

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mumbled_truth
2014-03-17 11:39 pm UTC (link)

[ Sorry about that, Princess. ]

Um --

[ Immediately, it's obvious that she is not the correct Euphie. Possibly because this sort of thing has been known to happen for the past few years if you're Todd. ]

No, I... I'm sorry. I guess I must have-- um, where I was, I must have known another you.

[ Hopefully he's correctly guessed that this place is like the City - first impressions give him that feeling - but just in case he hasn't - ]

I, uh. I realize that probably sounds crazy.

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friendly_fire
2014-03-23 04:00 pm UTC (link)

Another me? [As strange as that sounds it's also not so strange. After all, for a time there were two Nunnallys here. One seemed every bit her sister. The other remembered her as empress and had the ability to walk and see. Of course, she was also her sister. Just...different too.]

I see.

[She shakes her head just a bit.] It is a surprising thing to hear, but not so surprising since I've been here. Did you know her well?

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	Video mumbled_truth 2014-03-24 01:27 pm UTC (link)
	[ Oh good. He's definitely relieved that he didn't misread this place too badly. ] Well... she'd been gone for a while, but she was my friend when she was there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-03-24 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry. I mean that you had to miss your friend for awhile. I know it isn't the same, but maybe we can become friends. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-03-26 12:14 am UTC (link)
	It's not, but... I'd like that. If we could. [ There's a small smile there. ] I mean... this kind of thing happened a lot in the City. People would leave and come back sometimes, and they wouldn't always remember being there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-03-26 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Good. I would too. [She smiles back, but what he's saying makes her thoughtful again.] Really? That sounds a lot like this place. Was the City a prison too? Did it have dome? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-03-30 04:48 am UTC (link)
	Well, sort of? I mean, it wasn't really a prison, like nobody listed crimes we had committed or anything like that, but people couldn't leave on their own either. [ He pauses, considering the City's barriers. ] Um... it didn't have one you could see, there were sort of... invisible barriers? It wasn't underwater, though, it was like an island. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-03-30 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I see. We were once briefly taken to another prison. It wasn't underwater, but it wasn't nearly so nice either. There was a storm going on the whole time we were there. I couldn't see anything past it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-04-04 02:53 am UTC (link)
	Really? Maybe that's why we wound up here, if it's already connected to other places like this... [ Not that he'd be able to make much sense of it, really. He's beyond out of his depth with all this. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-04-06 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	You should tell your story to someone on the Defense Force. They might find it helpful. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-04-09 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Is that like the police? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-04-13 04:35 am UTC (link)
	Yes, it's very similar. They are all inmates trying to protect us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-04-15 12:09 am UTC (link)
	That seems kind of funny, in a prison, but... well, I know in the City, I always trusted the other people there more than anyone who seemed to be in charge of anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video friendly_fire 2014-04-16 04:26 am UTC (link)
	I suppose it's much the same here. Who were in charge in your City? AIs? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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mumbled_truth
2014-04-21 01:51 am UTC (link)

AIs?

[ He's confused for a moment, before he shakes his head. ]

Um, no... first-- first it was the Deities. I'm not really sure if they were deities or if they just called themselves that; we never really were, but I guess there isn't really a set definition for what a deity is anyway, or a way to prove it. Eventually, a group that called themselves "Anonymous" came in and fought them for control and took over for a while. At the end, we found out they were all the same kind of people anyway, and the difference was just that the Deities had authority from whatever was overseeing them.

[ He pauses a moment, and realizes that was probably a bit much all at once. ]

Sorry, I... I realize that's probably kind of confusing. Which is probably because it was.

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	Re: Video friendly_fire 2014-04-22 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	No, it's alright. It sounds like it must have been confusing for all of you. We've had six different wardens in my time here though two were very brief and temporary. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Video mumbled_truth 2014-04-26 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. [ Also confusing. ] How long have you been here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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friendly_fire
2014-04-26 06:55 pm UTC (link)

Oh, well, let's see. It's day 262 I think. It's a little complicated because I was here at the very beginning, but I don't remember anything about it. [Stranger still to meet people who knew her she'd never met and to see the gardens she'd created without knowing why they were important to her.]

I remember arriving on Day 32, but I was also missing for 10 days once. Does that help? It's not as easy here. We don't know what day or month it is.

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