One → [video]

[whoisjohnsmith]

[Haruhi's face is way too close to the camera to start with--all you can see is a large, gleaming eye--but soon the camera backs off a bit and she's fully visible, wearing her North High school uniform. She's been repressing both excitement and a touch of confusion and fear for a while now, going through the SERO medical examinations very politely

Comments

[painhumbles]

...You're kinda exuberant for someone who hung around that kid.

[painhumbles]

Nope. It's called being born an archangel. But we had to walk three miles uphill in the snow to get to the Seventh Heaven for Revelation, so it evens out.

[whoisjohnsmith]

Archangel?!

...Shouldn't you have wings and a flaming sword and a horn or something? It's pretty underwhelming, appearance-wise, no matter how cool the tricks are.

[painhumbles]

My sword's pretty standard-issue and not a fire hazard, I hocked my horn, and if I looked like I was supposed to look, no one in a ten mile radius would have eyes.

[whoisjohnsmith]

That's disappointing and that's confounding, but the last part redeems the rest! Can't you do something in between? That would be so much more imposing! And then you could go blow up some of these monsters I've heard so much about...

[painhumbles]

I used to do that, but then it got boring. Now I just blow 'em up when they get between me and Point A and B.

... So how often d'you do this, kid?

[whoisjohnsmith]

Well, you should demonstrate for me anyway! I can understand it getting boring when you do it too much, though. Most things are totally lame like that.

What, do what? Talk to an archangel? You're my first time, and so far it's definitely unexpected!

[painhumbles]

Interrogate things that could wipe you out of existence with a snap. Not that I'm gonna do it, but I'm the Good Archangel of the West here. And, y'know, not everything straight out of the B-movies is as easy-going as me.

[He is ignoring the first part. He doesn't feel like blowing shit up. Call back later.]

[whoisjohnsmith]

[She's more or less forgotten about it already.]

No one would dare wipe me out of existence! It's simply an inconceivable proposition. Furthermore, cool things were made to be interrogated!

[painhumbles]

Uh-huh.

...You keep right on thinking that, sweetheart.

[whoisjohnsmith]

Your negativity is not appealing! Except as far as it makes you a hard-bitten cynical anti-hero...

[painhumbles]

....Yep.

That's me all right. You really got me pegged, kid.

[whoisjohnsmith]

Well, I'm an expert, so naturally I would read you immediately!