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deernet2021-09-06 11:44 am
hauntedsavior) wrote in deernet2021-09-06 11:44 am
001 // text; username: grollschwert
What's up.
Are we doing introductions now? I guess we're doing introductions.
Name's Anna. Professional city defender and mostly robot girl.
Coming here from a place called Recolle that I'm pretty sure no one here knows about, which is cool.
Never been much for stuff like this, so, like, I don't know.
Anyone needs a katana at their side, look me up. I'm pretty damn good at it.
I might not know what's going on here, but far as I'm concerned, this is where I live now and it makes sense for everyone if I actually try to keep it safe.
And since I'm in full spaghetti at the wall mode right now, lemme just throw out some words, see if it triggers anything for any of you guys.
Zee Carlisle. Clarence Vanderweele. Layers of reality. Retrospec.
The Geteilts.
Nothing?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Anyway, yeah, flag me down if you see me on the streets and need some protection or whatever. I'm five ten and I only have one eye. I'm hard to miss.
Are we doing introductions now? I guess we're doing introductions.
Name's Anna. Professional city defender and mostly robot girl.
Coming here from a place called Recolle that I'm pretty sure no one here knows about, which is cool.
Never been much for stuff like this, so, like, I don't know.
Anyone needs a katana at their side, look me up. I'm pretty damn good at it.
I might not know what's going on here, but far as I'm concerned, this is where I live now and it makes sense for everyone if I actually try to keep it safe.
And since I'm in full spaghetti at the wall mode right now, lemme just throw out some words, see if it triggers anything for any of you guys.
Zee Carlisle. Clarence Vanderweele. Layers of reality. Retrospec.
The Geteilts.
Nothing?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Anyway, yeah, flag me down if you see me on the streets and need some protection or whatever. I'm five ten and I only have one eye. I'm hard to miss.
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Hakagemachi is ... like a Japanese city in a lot of ways, but everything is crumbling and necessities are hard to come by. There's a 7-11 with cheap beer though. Everyone has to wear a mask and we're all host to some kind of youkai. More sunshine and rainbows stuff.
( It is very weird to him to talk about this; he burns a bit as he types, but he'll hit send anyway.
He thinks of Genkei and there's a welling-up of saudade. )
What about where you come from? Did you have to defend that Recolle place too?
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Well, not the weirdest thing in the world.
Recolle was a pretty modern city, but all of us kept getting memories of people we were "really supposed to be", or whatever. For a lot of us, our bodies changed, too. It's because our souls were intertwining with these other people and becoming stronger.
I was one of the last people there when it all ended. Helped stop a eugenicist from hand-picking the strongest of us and killing off everyone else.
Kind of thought that would be the end of my story.
My soul is still mixed with the girl I remembered. I take it you've still got your youkai?
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Fuck. What's with this displacement shit happening to everyone.
I can relate to that soul shit, we went through a bit of hell when Genkei wanted to take over, and some shit where we fused a few times. Moreso than usual anyway.
Nah. He's gone. Name was Genkei. Have no idea what happened to him.
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I heard that this is supposed to be, like, the real world that Deerington was based on or something?
But I've seen the real world. Or at least I was pretty sure it was the real world.
And now here I am, a squid who just happens to look exactly like I do and remembers everything I remember.
Apparently.
I'm just glad there's people here who DIDN'T come direct from Deerington. Like I didn't feel out of place enough as it is.
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I feel like I wanna open up a discussion about this kind of thing myself, but a lot of people have done that already. I'm just looking for patterns. Or reasons.
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Though... hey, did Genkei make your blood any different?
Stronger, or more powerful, or, like... I don't know. Something other than normal blood.
Because that's the closest connection I can find so far.
And it would explain why that Dipper kid was so hype to learn about everyone's blood.
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My blood? Not really. I think I run a bit hotter 'cause of his influence but it wasn't like ... this in the slightest.
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But I know blood is a big deal here, so maybe we all just got special kinds of blood or something.
Trust me, though, I get it.
I lost my eye trying to get answers in Recolle.
Shouldn't have to come to that again.
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I sure as fuck hope it doesn't come to anything like that, but ... Things look real fucking dicey here already. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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It'll probably be fine. New, weird shit, sure, but if Hakagemachi was as weird as Recolle then it shouldn't be anything we're not prepared for.
Just gotta keep our eyes open, right?
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But yeah. You're right.
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Let me google what a bakeneko is real quick and... yeah, no, that's dope.
You know, if you take away all the awful, shitty stuff and the way it feels to watch everyone fall away from you and go back to normal? You could get some pretty cool album covers out of it.
Aw, shit, I wonder if I still remember the songs I wrote for GIANT⚡ROBOT.
Once we see what's going on this month I'm gonna find a music store or something.
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You're a musician too?
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One of them could turn into this big titanic thing, and the other was his husband. He was giant, I was robot, and we were GIANT⚡ROBOT.
It never really went anywhere because, well. They both fell off the app and went back to their normal lives, you know?
Forgot everything about Retrospec. Stayed in the city, but didn't remember anything they talked about with me. None of it.
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That sounds ...
( Terrible, upsetting, traumatizing? )
Wack as shit. Why'd they forget?
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Nobody really knew when it would happen. The lucky ones got to stay on the app through to the final battle.
Everyone else... if you didn't have access to the app, you didn't know the way the world really was. And if the only connection you had with someone was over the app, well.
You remembered them the way they "should" be, but they had no idea who you even were.
Lost a lot of friends that way.
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It's fine. I can just meet new people instead since I don't think anyone else is gonna show up.
Hell, this conversation's going pretty well already.
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No point getting all despondent and shit about that.
Looking forward to seeing you around town.
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