001. [text] | CW: talk of death

[saudadist]

@KIJYO

So who else was supposed to be dead?

Not expecting honest answers if you don't feel like it.

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[saudadist]

unless where you came from also had kaiju running around
might be a bit more stressful

just a little

[the_fourteenth]

Not kaiju. Demons. Of all shapes, sizes, of all power levels. And it was my job to exterminate them, to protect the city and its people from being their prey. If the simulation is anything to go by, then things will not be much different for me here in that regard.

[saudadist]

[ "Demons." Something about the way he says that, even if only in text, makes her skin crawl. For a moment, she can only wonder if she'd be counted among them in any other instance. That is, if they're anything like her species to begin with. ]

at least you're not doing it alone

[the_fourteenth]

You're right. I'm not used to working with others. It's not that I didn't have anyone back home, but it was much different than this. But I wonder, now. Was a hinderance to them, or them a hinderance to me? Would it have been better off if I worked alone?

Have you experienced anything like this place before?

[saudadist]

better off not thinking about that stuff
if they cared about you, they wouldn't think of you as a burden

for me, this kind of place is the stuff you'd see on television in the afternoon

[the_fourteenth]

I hope you're right. I don't think of them that way. But if I wasn't there, perhaps less danger would be brought into their lives.

I don't know exactly what you mean. But I'm taking it that it's a no.

[saudadist]

[ Yeah, she's got nothing for that first part. She doesn't want to say she feels the same way. For everyone's sake in that house, it's best if she never returns. ]

a television show? kids watch lighthearted versions in the morning and afternoons

[the_fourteenth]

Sorry, I don't follow.

[This is happening to him a lot.]

It's fine, really. I'm a little out of place here.

[saudadist]

[ The physical ability to have question marks floating around her head would be real helpful right now. ]

where are you from

if you want to answer

[the_fourteenth]

I suppose it will only make sense if you're from a place similar to mine, yes? Earth, I suppose? Japan, the Capital, Taishou 20.

[Fun fact: the Taishou era was only 14 years long elsewhere. He's from a weird place. But, the 1920s or thereabouts.]

[saudadist]

[ Okay that does narrow her frame of reference considerably. However... ]

I'm from Japan
not familiar with Taishou but
is that a year?

history wasn't something they taught me

[the_fourteenth]

It's okay. The idea of any of us being from the same Japan is probably pretty slim.

[He actually has some experience with this weird interdimensional travel business.
Not a fan.]

It would be 1922, if that helps.

[saudadist]

[ Oh. Yeah. Wow, that is easily a good 80 years or so earlier than her section of the timeline. ]

I'd say you've been missing out on TV but honestly
probably better off without it