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[vivisexual]

[In a picture perfect seiza, Yugamu waves politely to start the video.]

Hello, everyone! I've spoken to a few of you already, but I wanted to try and make a more professional first impression!

[Putting his hand down primly on his lap, and smiling brightly in a way that could not possibly prepare you for what he's about to say;]

My name is Yugamu Omokage, and while I'm a professional assassin, currently, my goal is to become a doctor! If anyone has any tips on how to best further my education, I'd love to hear it! That said, if any of you are personally offended by Dr Spim's conscientious bedside manner like Mr. Silco, I'm happy to provide an alternative, I have lots of hands on surgical experience!

[This absolutely needless shot at Silco is offered completely blithely like it's funny to him, rather than a genuine mean spirited critique of the man.]

The other thing I'd like to ask after is information about the kaiju. I know there's some on public record, but I'm curious to get more personal accounts, particularly if anyone else has tried taking them apart or tested any toxins on them!

In any case, I look forward to working with all of you! My previous monster killing experience was with people my age so I hope to learn a lot here.

Comments

[mikoshi]

We as in outsiders might. But we also gotta deal with the people of Tokyo. I doubt that openin' would go well with the people who invented honorific, humble and polite forms.

[vivisexual]

I'm well aware! I'm from a different version of Tokyo originally myself.

Obviously, I'm going to speak more openly to you all as my teammates than I would the general public. That's the whole point of the alternate identities LILITH has given us, isn't it?

[mikoshi]

Preem. Never been to my world's Tokyo before, but I am half Japanese.

Okay, but you just said it's your family business and you ain't ashamed of it, which makes me think you're not too fuzzed 'bout spillin' it to random people. Keeping your biz to yourself isn't always the coward's way out, sometimes it's a survival tactic. Dunno. You can do what you want. Seems more trouble than it's worth to me.

[vivisexual]

Withholding it for practical purposes when I'm working is different from withholding it in my downtime with people I have to live with day to day. When I'm free to do as I like in my downtime, I don't really believe in censoring myself. I value my own freedom too much to do that.

But when professional situations require it, I can stay mum. My parents trained us well enough for that.

[mikoshi]

[ Yeah, okay, this guy's just not getting it. No harm no foul. ] Best of luck then. Hope someone comes forward about the kaiju. I'm curious myself after beefin' with one on this network.

[vivisexual]

There was a kaiju on the network? I didn't think they could talk.

[mikoshi]

This one can. Gojira, Godzilla, whatever the fuck. Be careful though, he's a cunt.

[vivisexual]

If he's a kaiju why is he on our side?

Intelligence 3 strikes again

[mikoshi]

Questions I have no answers to. Hell, think that might've been why he started fightin' me in the first place? Didn't want me to call him a kaiju. But then if you ask the people around he is 'cause he did attack 'em. Could be reading this all wrong though. Maybe it was a different Godzilla? Fuck if I know.

[vivisexual]

I suppose I'll have to speak to him myself then!

Maybe he switched sides after attacking the team?

[mikoshi]

Better you than me. The way he talks makes my head hurt. And I did flip him off so I doubt he wants to talk to me again. Whoops.

[vivisexual]

I'm starting to get some ideas about why he might have attacked you.

[mikoshi]

Yeah? I'm a merc not a netrunner. Sure hope they brought me here to zero bad guys not hug 'em to death. I mean, I can do that. Hug 'em so hard I break their spines.

[vivisexual]

If you're content simply being meat for the grinder I suppose brawn with no brains is acceptable, yes.

[mikoshi]

I'm not a gonk. Wouldn't be alive if I was. But yeah, if you want to broker a peace treaty between the kaiju and us I'm not the guy. And to my credit, I didn't start that fire.

[vivisexual]

[All fair, so topic change;]

Has anyone told you that you have a very unique vocabulary?

[mikoshi]

You and everyone else. It's not unique, it's just how people talk back home. Don't believe me? Talk to a guy here named Johnny Silverhand.

[vivisexual]

I see, a friend of yours from home?

It's just interesting to me since our implants are obviously translating for us, I can't imagine everyone from all these different worlds is speaking the same language naturally.

[mikoshi]

Input. [ Right, slang. ] Boyfriend.

Huh? I thought I was speaking Japanese with you all. I knew it before comin' here. I mean, I got like twenty language packs installed, but Spanish, Japanese and English I learned 'ganic.

[vivisexual]

Oh! Congratulations.

There's only one language in the TRC, but I know back when the world was larger, even neighboring countries would speak different languages. The odds of people brought here with different cultures from different planets entirely all speaking the same language are slim to none. I thought maybe it was my hemoanima at first, but then everyone else seemed to be managing fine as well.

[mikoshi]

Thanks.

Just one? Hemoanima? [ Context, please. Historical context, ideally. ]

[vivisexual]

Right, the TRC, or Tokyo Residential Complex, is where the remains of humanity was sequestered for safety purposes after the rest of Earth became uninhabitable. It's not large enough for multiple languages to proliferate, I think.

Hemoanima is a special power me and my friends have! An increase of it allowed for us to understand the language of the Invaders we're fighting when we previously hadn't been able to before the time loop, apparently.

[mikoshi]

Alright, back up — why was Earth uninhabitable? I mean, so's mine, but they didn't stuff everyone in Japan. 'Cause that's why everyone at your place speaks Japanese, right?

Gonna have to explain these invaders too. [ Not even gonna touch the time loop shit. ]

[vivisexual]

I don't know exactly. I was born and raised in the TRC, and they don't really teach us much about what happened prior to it.

What we in the Special Defense Unit have learned is that whatever humanity did might have made the Earth itself mad and brought on something called World Death, and the Invaders were manifested by that? Not sure about any of that though, since our commanding officer got killed.

[mikoshi]

You also from a fascist hellhole? [ 'Cause those are the kinds of governments who don't want their populace to be educated. ] So spirits of the Earth manifested by its anger now lookin' to punish humanity? Think I've heard stories like that from some of the native nomads. [ But why are they called 'invaders' if the Earth itself spawned them? Anthropocentrism or some other reason? ]