[North has never actually heard a Japanese accent, to be honest. He knows what accents ARE but has painfully little experience with them. He's technically only about two and a half years old.]
O-Oh--uh--my condolences. I-I'm familiar with the history and I'm...sorry.
[He is totally okay with her reading his mail. He's kinda tired of explaining it to EVERYONE HE TALKS TO EVER considering it was common knowledge back home.]
Y-Yeah...
Not--Not that it makes a lot of d-difference right now, right?
[Weak chuckle.]
U-Unless the people on d-deck four are g-going to attack deck s-seven and deck seven has an at--atom bomb. But then we'd all d-drown anyway. Stupid.
Like the Law of Unintended Consequences. 50 years later, the United States shattered and its imperial pretensions were dashed. One can't maintain an empire in the face of equally-powerful opposition, especially relying on a single strategy.
Y-Yeah, uhm, where I c-come from it--it's 2046 and the USA is f-f-fine. It--It swallowed up Old M-Mexico in the twenties a-and--and sold Alaska to China in 2015 but that--that's it.
L-Look, uh, back home the USA did--didn't force Old Mexico into th-the union or anything. I-I think your USA and mine are--they're just really d-different.
Are you Japanese?
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[She has a slight but recognizable Japanese accent to her English.]
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[North has never actually heard a Japanese accent, to be honest. He knows what accents ARE but has painfully little experience with them. He's technically only about two and a half years old.]
O-Oh--uh--my condolences. I-I'm familiar with the history and I'm...sorry.
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What do you have to be sorry for? Are you President Truman? Or perhaps Colonel Tibbets?
[Hello, North. Meet Major Kusanagi. She is a bitch.]
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[Swallows, clears his throat.]
But I-I am American-made. A-And it wasn't just them, it was the--the whole country. I-It--history s-says a lot--a lot of people con--condoned it.
But--But my historical knowledge is a lit--a little truncated.
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The only responsibility the present bears to the past is to learn from it.
[Since she is a massive creeper, she's already familiar with the "Pet" thing and doesn't remark on it.]
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Y-Yeah...
Not--Not that it makes a lot of d-difference right now, right?
[Weak chuckle.]
U-Unless the people on d-deck four are g-going to attack deck s-seven and deck seven has an at--atom bomb. But then we'd all d-drown anyway. Stupid.
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[...Whoa, you know his name already. That's a little creepy.]
L-Like what? Don't--Don't attack people so they don't a-attack you back? Or--Or attack other people to make themselves l-look better?
Yeah. We--We know that one already. Doesn't chan--change--doesn't change much.
...I don't know your name, by the way.
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Major Motoko Kusanagi.
Like the Law of Unintended Consequences. 50 years later, the United States shattered and its imperial pretensions were dashed. One can't maintain an empire in the face of equally-powerful opposition, especially relying on a single strategy.
We learned the lesson. They didn't.
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The Empire's the aggressive one, despite its sphere of influence not extending beyond the Americas. The other two behave themselves, by and large.
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Y-Yeah, uhm, where I c-come from it--it's 2046 and the USA is f-f-fine. It--It swallowed up Old M-Mexico in the twenties a-and--and sold Alaska to China in 2015 but that--that's it.
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L-Look, uh, back home the USA did--didn't force Old Mexico into th-the union or anything. I-I think your USA and mine are--they're just really d-different.
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