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Jun 13, 2011 17:43

[Icy blue eyes focus intently on the screen before them, lips pressed into a hard, thin line. The face may look familiar to some, though a year or two older than remembered-- humans mature so much faster than the Shinigami, after all. The video catches the sound of typing, text accompanying the image; he seems unaware he's being recorded as he ( Read more... )

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:09:59 UTC
[... Orihime. Ichigo.]

They're not here right now -- they're in your world now.

You're in Adstringendum.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:13:25 UTC
[He seems wary of her-- the first one to respond. Is she the one responsible? It's possible. But jumping to conclusions won't help.]

My world. [The living world, he assumes she means.]

I've never heard of Adstringendum. [Which, to him, seems most likely to be a world like the Spirit Realm, or Hell, or Hueco Mundo... except he doesn't know it. Yet.]

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:20:20 UTC
Adstringendum is a world outside of worlds. It was created by a science experiment gone wrong -- and the Animus, the spirits in charge here, are in control. We were all pulled here from different worlds.

My name's Hino Rei. I know some of the people from your world -- Hitsugaya Toushirou, Hinamori Momo, Ukitake Jyuushirou, Unohana Retsu, Kuchiki Rukia, Urahara Kisuke --

[She seems to want to add one more, but pauses -- because if this young man is a shinigami, then Ulquiorra may not be a kind name to hear.]

They're all here, too.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:30:35 UTC
A world created by science?

[The first he's ever heard of this sort of thing. But it isn't something he'd put past Kurotsuchi-- or Urahara, for that matter.]

And there are, supposedly, multiple realities...

This sounds like something from one of Inoue-san's science fiction novels.

[His expression tightens somewhat at the list of names, if that's possible, his expression growing a little colder. It's good to know Urahara's here. The rest-- well, he prefers to avoid the Shinigami, if he can.]

And they'll corroborate your claims.

Tell me more about the Animus-- I assume if they're in control here, they're what's keeping us from returning to our native realities.

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:36:49 UTC
[That reaction is interesting. Rei has never had someone react negatively to her group of shinigami friends -- besides the Espada, of course, but that's to be expected.

Hmmmm.]

They will. -- and the Animus are the spirits in charge. They can control how we feel, think -- what we look like -- at a whim. But they can only do it once every other week, at the most. The last event they threw was flooding this place with rainbow sheep but they've done a lot more dangerous.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:38:40 UTC
And the Shinigami have failed to stop them. Typical.

It seems I have my work cut out for me.

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:39:51 UTC
Everyone has failed to stop them.

[There's something of a flat tone, there. Don't diss her shinigami friends, okay. She'd be dead eighteen times over without them.]

Including me.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:42:37 UTC
[Sorry, no matter how many times they saved your ass, Soul Society committed genocide. He no longer hates all Shinigami, but until they individually prove themselves to him, that doesn't mean he has to like them.]

And what does 'everyone' consist of?

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:50:20 UTC
[Oh, bb, Rei is about to deliver some tough love.]

Rule number one of this place -- it isn't what everyone consists of -- it's who they are and what they do.

Some of those people are the shinigami -- some Espada -- I've worked to fight against the Animus -- along with exorcists, priests, and shinobi. All different, but all have worked to take control of this place.

You aren't home anymore. You better get used to redefining your alliances.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:53:47 UTC
The Espada are dead. [Said quite flatly, quite certainly. Then, he pauses for a moment before adding.] Unless new Espada have arisen since the war-- but even then, I wouldn't expect much of them. They wouldn't be any more powerful than the Privaron Espada without the Hogokyu awakening them.

The enemy of my enemy. I'm not unfamiliar with it, either in theory or in practice. That does not mean, however, that I have to like what it is I'm working alongside, or, for that matter, that I have to trust them.

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 01:56:03 UTC
[... she knew Ulquiorra was dead, but it still stings, to hear it. Szayel, too. But Rei keeps her expression pretty neutral, to her credit.]

You don't have to like it, but that's the reality of this world.

[But then, her expression softens slightly.]

It's a lot to take in and absorb -- I know. My first day here was horrible, but you have people from your world here -- even if you aren't that happy to see them. That's more than most people have upon arrival. That's more than I had.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 01:59:45 UTC
You say that as if I expected to like the reality of this world when I don't particularly like the reality of my own.

Save Urahara-san, it doesn't matter to me at all that any of them are here, save to the extent to which they get in my way.

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 02:00:46 UTC
[Oh, Ishida. Your tsun does not affect her. 8)]

I don't think Toushirou is going to care enough to get in your way.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 02:01:32 UTC
Nor I enough to get in his.

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[video] marsfireignite June 14 2011, 02:03:33 UTC
That's probably for the best. I don't feel like breaking up a fight between two idiots.

I'm guessing you don't want to stay in Unohana-san's clinic.

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[video] shiro_megane June 14 2011, 02:06:02 UTC
Idiot? [His lips press into a thin line. As if he wasn't in bad enough a mood already...]

No. That won't be necessary.

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