Video [03]

[smirkinggoddess]

[Have a Haruhi Suzumiya, leaning a little too close to the camera, looking slightly confused.]

I don't know why I never thought of this before! If you have some kind of magical power or... something extraordinary like that, please let me know right away! Such a weird place has got to have a lot of those kinds of beings, am I right?

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[justwantsafety]

...Why would you want to know?

[smirkinggoddess]

Because I'm interested in what kinds of superpowered, extraordinary beings are walking around right in front of me!

[justwantsafety]

Well, some of those things are freaking dangerous. What if one of them answers?

((....like combat AI programs turned flesh-and-blood humans, who turn into demons, deities, and assorted mythological creatures, cast elemental spells, and oh yeah, they're cannibals who can eat more than four times their own body weight in like, ten minutes, before they even get a stomach ache. :|b

He's thinking she might get in over her head here. Haha.))

[smirkinggoddess]

[Narrows eyes.]

Are you saying I can't handle this? Huh?

[justwantsafety]

I'm saying that you want to be careful, because monsters exist, some of which will tear you to shreds with their bare hands and then eat you, and some of them look like normal people.

You don't want to attract that kind, okay? Just... trust me on that. I know what I'm talking about.

[smirkinggoddess]

Somebody else said that, too. But, if there are monsters and stuff like that running around, there have to be heroes and people to fight against them, too, right?

[justwantsafety]

Yeah, well, sometimes monsters are pretty damn strong. They killed me, and I led an army.

((He screamed and ran. Way to fail, right?))

[smirkinggoddess]

You led an army? And... you were killed?

[She's sobered up a bit now.]

[justwantsafety]

Yeah. That's how I got here. They chased me down in my own base. They tore through my men, and then they slaughtered me too. And then? They ate me. Because that's what they do, they turn into monsters, then kill people and devour them.

I just-- you don't want one of those to answer, okay? You should be careful about people you talk to, that's all.

*absently tries brushing some of his messy hair back behind his head with his left hand again -- if she's paying attention, that tattoo-ish mark on the back of his hand was just glowing faintly around its edges.*

[smirkinggoddess]

[She does notice, a little. But she's distracted by the death at this point.]

... Yeah. Okay. I'll be careful.

[justwantsafety]

*a nod -- good. She gets the point, yay!*

I'm guessing that it's a lot less dangerous where you're from, when people do turn into things, or... have weird powers?

[smirkinggoddess]

[She's still a bit quiet, and just shakes her head.]

No. There's nothing interesting or special about where I come from. That's why I've been looking for that kind of stuff here.

[justwantsafety]

Heh. This place gets weird enough without trying to look for it.

You know, one time, I woke up as a little horse thing? And I was stuck like that for a week. And one of my other friends said he got turned into a cat, too.

[smirkinggoddess]

Hmm... that's true. This place is really weird. But that's great!

A little... horse thing? And a cat? I wonder why something like that would happen!

[justwantsafety]

I don't know. I guess this place has fun turning people into different animals, or something. I keep seeing stuff on the dreamberries here about that kind of thing happening to people, even when it normally doesn't....

[smirkinggoddess]

Now that you mention it, one of my Brigade members was turned from a guy to a girl once...

It was pretty weird.