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[hauntedsavior]

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.

Comments

[family_remains]

Honestly? Yes. But you seem genuinely interesting, we're in a similar line of work, and I've never met a cyborg before, so the offer still stands.

[hauntedsavior]

Don't know how into the whole sit down, get to know each other thing I am.
But if you have any questions about what I do, I can give answering a shot.
You're in the same field, huh? What's your resume like?

[family_remains]

Long and bloody.

And for what it's worth I was just saying I don't care about your dating preferences, it's cool. You do you. I'm not really a sit down and small talk person.

Tell you what, though. If I think of a question about ghosts in the machine I'll let you know.

I'm Sam, by the way.

[hauntedsavior]

God. That's the thing, Sam. Got too many ghosts in this machine.
Machine's haunted.
Cocks gun.

Sure hope you don't got experience with that in your long and bloody hunter history. You know, too many souls cramming themselves inside one body.

[family_remains]

How many souls is considered too many?

[hauntedsavior]

I mean.
My normal is two and my record is five.

[family_remains]

Yeah that's too many souls.

My record is two. It didn't agree with me.

How'd five happen?

[hauntedsavior]

Explosion in a soul laboratory.
And because I have a history of fucking with you:
No, that's actually what happened.
It was really confusing and it did, in fact, suck absolute shit.
I was super thrilled to get back down to two.

[family_remains]

That sounds pretty crazy, you're right, but crazy is my normal.

What's the purpose of having two souls? Sounds like a lot of work.

[hauntedsavior]

One of them is mine.
One is the reason I have a robot body.
See, where I was before I came here, we got our souls mixed together with people we were "supposed to be".
Kind of like reincarnation, if you were still alive to get reincarnated into.
Her name's YoRHa Type-A No.2, but I just call her A2.

And like, the whole thing was a front for some massive soul eugenics plan, but the guy running that is super dead now so I'm making my own purpose for us.

[family_remains]

I guess that's all you can do. I know what it's like to find out your whole life was part of someone else's plan. It sucks dick.

[hauntedsavior]

It sucks, perhaps, the majorest of all dick.
But that's when you take the reins and start driving.
Can't just be the kind of person who sits around and lets life happen to her.
An extremely hot lesbian taught me that.

[family_remains]

The source of all life's greatest lessons in my experience.

[hauntedsavior]

Damn right.
Except the one who told me to watch a 19-year-old shonen anime, but, like, whatever, can't all be winners.
Dude who planned your life didn't follow you here, did they?
'Cause that seems like it would be a huge pain in the ass.

[family_remains]

Is that like the hentai kind or what?

And yes and no. He was at the place before this. Here I'm not so sure. He might be hiding in the body of a child. You?

[hauntedsavior]

Nah, hentai and shonen are different genres.
Technically. I mean, they're both made for teenage boys to have fantasies about.
Just different kinds of mental jerk off material.

Anyway. I'm pretty sure my guy is dead. But he was a time traveler and he was super horny for different layers of reality, so he could still be hiding away somewhere.
But if he is, like, big deal. Killed him once, I can do it again.

[family_remains]

I like your style. He ever shows give me a bell. Sounds like fun.