video; un: harbinger

[bolstafir]

[The scruffy, middle-aged man that appears on the screen looks a bit uncomfortable. Videochat is certainly not his preferred mode of communication on these devices, but he does figure it would be helpful to see his face for what he's posting on the network to say, so.]

Uh...hey. I'm Qrow. If you don't know me from Deerington, I'm a Huntsman. Which--mostly means I've fought a lot of monsters and sh--[hm. children.]...crap like that.

So anyway, it's halfway through October, and the streets aren't overflowing with blood and corpses, and far as I know nobody's gotten eaten by monsters or lost their mind and gone on a murdering rampage. But that probably just means the town's waiting for us to let our guard down.

[Or maybe that's just paranoia. But Qrow would rather err on the side of paranoia rather than complacence, considering his last October.]

Point is, now seems like as good a time as any to learn to defend yourself if you don't already know how to fight. I uh, I used to teach teenagers in a combat school, a few years ago? So I've got some experience.

...Don't expect a lot, I quit for a reason--[that reason being, honestly, Ruby getting admitted to Beacon a full two years early, but shhh]--but you can get the basics down.

So yeah. Let me know.

Comments

[bolstafir]

It's something anyone can do with training, yeah.

[Okay, so. He's not a stranger to the concept of a robot with a soul, because Penny Polendina exists. But also, Penny does her own thing?? He's very confused about this state of affairs.]

Couldn't it move on its own? If it's got a soul, why's it need a pilot?

[peripheries]

Humans cannot wield their AT Field. All it does is give them their separate forms. Most are not even aware such a thing exists.

[How strange. Things are similar and yet entirely the opposite.]

Because they were given a soul in man's attempt to create something like a god. And a soul is required for life. However, it's a soul misplaced and restrained. It needs another soul to sync with, to give it direction in the world.

[bolstafir]

Guess our humans are different.

[Which makes sense, given their ah, origin story of sorts is different from most other planets.]

I've got no idea what the hell you just said, honestly. But I knew a robot girl with a soul, she walked around and made her own choices just fine.

[He's getting the impression your world is just Weird sir]

[peripheries]

Indeed.

[Or at least in that sense. He figures humans and their strange contradictory and confusing behavior is quite universal.

Also rude. You can't just call other worlds weird.]

An Evangelion is an attempt at creating a god and gods have power. Therefore, out of fear, humans restrain the soul within and use a pilot to carry out their will instead. It's all a complicated game, I suppose, with all players trying to out play the other. So it makes it easier, if both the Eva and the pilot behave more like pawns.

[bolstafir]

Ugh. Sounds like some complicated bullshit.

[Excuse you, he is the Rudest. He's worked very hard for that title okay.]

Gods are overrated, anyway.

[noooo he's not bitter, what makes you think that. everything is fine.]

[peripheries]

And yet, it works. But I believe humans like complicated solutions sometimes. As though it proves their own existence and capacity for thought.

[He laughs a little.]

I agree. Even though most gods are only such as people want them to be.

[bolstafir]

Hmph. Nice way of saying someone's all the way up their own ass, I guess.

[Every day is a trip to the salt mines with Qrow Branwen.]

Yeah, well, not ours. They were just dicks.