☣ FIRST: (voice.)

[thinkbrave]

( There's a bit of a pause before anyone speaks. when the voice does start, though, it's pretty low. Flat, almost, like the speaker is tired, and her voice sounds pretty rough and husky-- and distinctly Australian. She sounds decidedly detached from what's just happened, considering it's her first entry. )So this place is Death City, huh?

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[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Kangaroos can't hop backward, I've heard. Is that true?

[Audio]

[thinkbrave]

( Ellie's not got the best control of her temper, these days. The more replies she gotten about things that aren't that important - her accent, what kangaroos taste like, what they are - the more they grate, and even if this person can't see her scowling, they can probably hear that she isn't all that happy.

Of course, if her little furious self and her radiating bitter rage isn't obviousness given the audio setting, then this might be a giveaway: )

Piss off

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

It's nice to meet you, too. I'm Rue Ryuzaki and I'm a Weapon.

I also suppose you're confused, upset, and frightened about the sudden and difficult change you've just been forced to undergo. That's normal, so you shouldn't worry.

[Audio]

[thinkbrave]

Oh, great. Obviously we should be best friends.

( Stop being a jerk, Ellie. )

Thanks a lot. That really makes me feel better, that I'm having the normal reaction to this total shitstorm I've been dropped into.

[ video ]

[nolicenseyet]

You're not dead.

[ video ]

[thinkbrave]

So I hear. Do you have anything helpful to say?

[nolicenseyet]

[ video ]

You seemed confused. And that depends on what you think is interesting.

Video

[fortressmommy]

Okay sister you're not dead or crazy and hallucinating.

[Helga takes a deep breath, she's not sure she understands any of this herself but she might as well try explaining something.]

What the whack jobs here might not have explained to you is that this is a whole other world. Whatever crap you went through in Australia very likely doesn't exist here.

[Pause.]

That also means Bucko that people don't know what the crap you're talking about when you rant on about a dead kangaroo.

[Helga shrugs and remembering past advice tries to make her voice less hostile. There might also be a smile, maybe.]

Best advice I can give ya is to go with the flow.

Video

[thinkbrave]

( Just staring at Helga, for a moment; this is hard to absorb, but the fact it's coming from someone who can't be more than a few years younger than her doesn't go unnoticed. That's one of the things that unnerved her about the war - they couldn't be the only kids running feral and doing their own thing. Instead of slinging some comment about it, she bites her tongue, just barely, and listens.

Not that she likes what she hears, at all, but at least she gives Helga a chance to speak before launching into some irritated response. )

What a sec-- what exactly do you mean doesn't exist?

( Because more than not knowing about kangaroos, and more than the other world thing being reiterated, that goes against the grain. Logically, if there are people from other worlds, they wouldn't know about kangaroos, so she swallows the comment about that. The thought of other people not knowing about the war back home just grates. ) How can it not exist? I mean, if this is another world, I'm still from Earth. If there's other people from Earth, they'

[text]

[want_the_world]

If you were really dead, you wouldn't have to guess about it.

[text]

[thinkbrave]

Since I've never died before, I wouldn't know that.

[text]

[want_the_world]

Being here just means BREW's decided to fuck with you.

Don't you feel better now?

[Video]

[thricepawned]

If you were dead before you were brought here, I can assure you from sadly personal experience that you're very much alive here right now.