[Video] First leaf falling
[The video turns on and the feed displays a pale teenager with equally pale hair. His face is very close to the mirror and it's not hard to notice that his eyes are red and that yes, he's smiling at the camera. It's only an illusion, but it's rather easy to think and imagine that he's actually smiling at you, the viewer.
He tilts his head and the camera angle shifts. It's placed on the stair railing, and you can see the stairway spiraling down, down to the first floor. You're right at the top. Stare too long and you might feel like falling. You'll hear a voice speaking, and it's obviously the teenager's.]
I've studied the videos, have seen the results… While this method is the most dangerous, riskiest one of them all, the percentage of success is high while keeping casualties low. It's certainly the best way to induce transformation when you have no clear idea of what form a weapon would take. While meditation is enough for some, those lacking self-awareness, patience and imagination will surely fail. The key to the staircase theory is not in fear, but the stress placed on the person's body and mental health capacity. Fear, desperation, self-preservation. Or perhaps, the despair of lacking power. For what end, it doesn't matter.
[A leather shoe comes close to the camera lens and Kaworu stands on the railing as well, perched precariously over that empty space.]
I wouldn't be surprised if there have been instances of weapons transforming in the middle of battle. It would have been interesting to try this during yesterday's training but I doubt anyone would be interested in attacking another recruit "to kill." So I'm conducting this experiment. It might be easier if I knew if I was a weapon or a meister, but… this is the quickest way to go.
[The downward angle of the camera faithfully records as Kaworu steps off the sixth-floor railing, tracking his progress as he hurtles down toward the floor. A millisecond after he passes the third floor, there's a blur of green as another form launches itself at him. Unaware of the experiment, for Lee the attempt at interference is automatic on seeing someone- a probable ally, given their position at Shibusen- in danger. There's not enough time though in the brief seconds that he falls, and Lee is too far away.
The gates aren't there, even as he instinctively grabs for them. White bandages flutter out, forming patterns in the air that obscure the view of Kaworu plummeting to the ground. They're a flicker too late, the edges brushing against his arms. The bandages drop, as in the instant of panic of being unable to catch Kaworu, the green-clad form disappears. A mere second after Kaworu hits the ground, a sleek, weighted black staff lands solidly on his back.
Though the view from above is obscured by distance, Lee's communicator joins the two on the ground with a thump. The device is too solid to break from the impact.]
He tilts his head and the camera angle shifts. It's placed on the stair railing, and you can see the stairway spiraling down, down to the first floor. You're right at the top. Stare too long and you might feel like falling. You'll hear a voice speaking, and it's obviously the teenager's.]
I've studied the videos, have seen the results… While this method is the most dangerous, riskiest one of them all, the percentage of success is high while keeping casualties low. It's certainly the best way to induce transformation when you have no clear idea of what form a weapon would take. While meditation is enough for some, those lacking self-awareness, patience and imagination will surely fail. The key to the staircase theory is not in fear, but the stress placed on the person's body and mental health capacity. Fear, desperation, self-preservation. Or perhaps, the despair of lacking power. For what end, it doesn't matter.
[A leather shoe comes close to the camera lens and Kaworu stands on the railing as well, perched precariously over that empty space.]
I wouldn't be surprised if there have been instances of weapons transforming in the middle of battle. It would have been interesting to try this during yesterday's training but I doubt anyone would be interested in attacking another recruit "to kill." So I'm conducting this experiment. It might be easier if I knew if I was a weapon or a meister, but… this is the quickest way to go.
[The downward angle of the camera faithfully records as Kaworu steps off the sixth-floor railing, tracking his progress as he hurtles down toward the floor. A millisecond after he passes the third floor, there's a blur of green as another form launches itself at him. Unaware of the experiment, for Lee the attempt at interference is automatic on seeing someone- a probable ally, given their position at Shibusen- in danger. There's not enough time though in the brief seconds that he falls, and Lee is too far away.
The gates aren't there, even as he instinctively grabs for them. White bandages flutter out, forming patterns in the air that obscure the view of Kaworu plummeting to the ground. They're a flicker too late, the edges brushing against his arms. The bandages drop, as in the instant of panic of being unable to catch Kaworu, the green-clad form disappears. A mere second after Kaworu hits the ground, a sleek, weighted black staff lands solidly on his back.
Though the view from above is obscured by distance, Lee's communicator joins the two on the ground with a thump. The device is too solid to break from the impact.]