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[hotfrombehind]

[Six am. Dawn, a time when the desert isn't so hot and there aren't as many creatures milling about.

With a yawn, Pyro starts sitting up. He stretches his back, then his arms. Well, that's odd. He's sure he has burns all up his arms. Where'd they go? And... Well, fuck. What's up with this bed? It's so big and clean and holy fuck there's someone

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/why didn't I see this before

[paintme_crimson]

[Pyro will get Mokou hanging in a nearby tree, upside-down.]

It's not a joke, unfortunately.

[hotfrombehind]

[He yelps when he's addressed by someone hanging in a fucking tree.]

Jesus fuck! The fuck are you doing up there in a fucking tree?

You fucking sure about that? This is real fucked up shit, this can't be anything else but some stupid prank that my teammates have pulled. Even if it's real complicated, it still doesn't make any goddamn sense.

[paintme_crimson]

[She just frowns.]

I'm scouting out my surroundings, thanks.

And nope. It's some sort of kidnapping ploy in the olden Outside World or something. Gotta conform or you'll get zombified. Don't drink the milk.

[hotfrombehind]

[He opens his mouth to give a retort, but hey that's not actual evil or anything. She gets a nod for that one.]

"Olden Outside World"? What the fuck are you even saying? The kidnapping I get, they even robbed me, but the rest of the shit that's coming outta your mouth is nonsense.

[paintme_crimson]

Bucko, I just got here myself. This fucking morning. The Outside World is everything that's not inside of the Hakurei border. Back at home. It's just terminology.

They took all of your stuff because they want you to conform to a stereotypical nuclear "American" family. Dunno how you'd earn it back.

[hotfrombehind]

Still talking nonsense. That don't even sound like English.

So that's what's been going on with those fucking photos, huh? Well, I don't see why they'd even want us to have it back. What makes you think you can earn it back?

[paintme_crimson]

It's not. I'm Japanese, thanks. [She considers explaining it more, but just shrugs it off.]

I dunno. I've seen people around here walking around in their original clothes. And I mean hell, they better give me my shit back or I'm just gonna light everything in this fucking town on fire.

[hotfrombehind]

Oh. Uh. Right.

[His eyes light up.] Fuck, I know what you mean there. I'd take my goddamn stove apart just to have a flamethrower so I could burn this fucking place to the ground. They'd have to give my suit back after that.

[paintme_crimson]

[Well, she doesn't really know what a flamethrower is, but she'll give a nod of agreement nonetheless.]

Your suit?

[hotfrombehind]

Yeah. I'm a Pyro-- the BLU Pyro, to be exact. It's my job to burn shit down, so I need a suit to prevent myself from getting some major injuries. [Well, at least from his flamethrower.]

[paintme_crimson]

[Blink-blink.] Your skin's not fireproof?

[Which is perfectly logical in her mind, yesiree.]

[hotfrombehind]

No. What, yours is?

[paintme_crimson]

Of course it is. Or it was, before I got here.

[hotfrombehind]

Where the fuck are you from that you have fucking fireproof skin?

[paintme_crimson]

I'm a pyrokinetic, I have to have fireproof skin.

And I said before that I'm from inside of the Hakurei border.

[hotfrombehind]

A pyro-what now?

Yeah, in some Japanese fantasy world where fireproof people exist? Is that how it is?