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[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Video: start. Unimpressed teenager with slicked-back hair and a cranky expression: appear.]

Okay, so either the Professor is pulling a huge fuck you on me for leaving, everyone in this town is sharing some kind of mass delusion, or I actually got kidnapped to a Japanese city in another world to fight monsters.

Someone remind me why I'm believing the third one?

[He rubs at his eyes, then looks a bit more cheerful as he keeps speaking.]

Free room and board just for beating shit up, though. The place I came from could learn from this Philemon guy. All I wanna know is if there's any other mutants around - that's Homo Superior, the evolution beyond humans, not whatever you might call mutants in some other world. As good as this all sounds, I'm not sticking around if demons are my only alternative to humans.

[And he's done.]

((ooc: rather pertinent rewrite after he got the details about the place and actually kind of liked them. facepalm.))

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if this isn't okay, tell me!

[trainwrecking]

[Aaaand cutting in:]

Yuri, don't...! That's not going to solve anything! [He may not like this guy's tone, but he's much less willing to get into immediate throwdowns without knowing more. Once bitten, twice shy, you know?]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Close. Keep guessing.

[The flame suddenly jumps to twice its original size, and the colour shifts slightly as it starts to burn hotter.]

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[leadthebeats]

Do you honestly think I'll just smile and laugh because he's mocked mankind?

[ Because even though she's smiling right now, she does not look happy. And be glad, Otonashi! She's giving you video! ]

[trainwrecking]

That's not... a rigged lighter, is it.

[It's not really a question. It might be, if the fire was actually scalding the skin.]

You control fire?

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

You should probably listen to your boyfriend.

I hope you won't, but you probably should.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I own fire.

[It shrinks back down, and he makes a little arc with it in his palm before closing his fingers to snuff it out.]

If I showed you everything I could do, this place wouldn't even be standing anymore.

[trainwrecking]

[Otonashi rubs at one of his temples.]

Don't be so sure about taking out the city with just fire...

[greyerrant]

We? You are alone here. And the only war you are fighting now is the one you carry with you. So, I ask again.

Are you a part of humanity, or an enemy of it?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

It's not like I'm planning to. Like I said, this isn't a bad deal. But I wouldn't write off what you don't understand so quickly.

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[trainwrecking]

He's--he's new, just let him work it out! Maybe he needs to get over the shock, I--I don't know!

[Aaaand back to Pyro.]

Don't encourage this!

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He cocks his head arrogantly.]

An enemy.

[trainwrecking]

You shouldn't either.

[Never underestimate how much Otonashi wants to help people.]

If fire is all you have, you need to have a backup plan for when you encounter monsters that have the same abilities you do.

[greyerrant]

[ Loken slides his helmet back on then. ]

Then expect no mercy from me. but I shall ask you one last question. Philemon brought us here in a struggle for humanity's soul. If you stand against it...

Why did you say yes?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I never ask for mercy.

[And then there's nothing but confusion.]

Butterfly guy? I don't remember agreeing to anything. All I remember is something about Persona.

[greyerrant]

I have been known to grant it, if asked, but you are standing against the one thing I absolutely must hew to.

[ He nods, regarding Philemon. ]

Interesting. Does the name Nyarlathotep mean anything to you?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Oh, great, so there's fire demons?]

I'll work something out. I've lasted this long, some demon isn't taking me out now.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

You can only spend every second of every day fighting to survive because of what you are for so long. [He's much more serious now, less arrogance and more simmering anger.] Sooner or later you get pissed off, and you fight back. We're not all gonna sit back and appease humans forever.

[And he gets more and more confused.]

I doubt I could even say it.

[trainwrecking]

Your Persona should be able to help. They're supposed to show up when you're in danger.

[Unless his Persona is all fire too, but what are the odds of that?! Hur hur.]

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[tyrantball]

Have a very unimpressed little girl with multiple eyes and tiny horns.

"And what's wrong with demons?"

There's a slight pause before she continues in a snide, superior tone.

"Mr. Human?"

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Oh. The demons can use the network?]

I didn't picture you being able to talk. Y'know, when I was told we were basically killing you for sport.

[And then his brows draw down.]

I'm not saying this again. I'm a mutant.

[greyerrant]

I managed it for 200 years. I'm not asking you to appease humanity. I'm asking you to rejoin it.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I was never part of it. And honestly, from what I've seen of it, I wouldn't want to be.

[greyerrant]

In my time, even mutants are part of humanity. Those who claim to be apart from it, to be better than it, are traitors to us all. And i hunt them. Even my own brothers.

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[tyrantball]

Desco rolls her eyes at that.

"Just because Desco is a demon doesn't mean she's not a Visitor too, dummy. And drawing a distinction between a mutant and a normal human doesn't make sense!"

Her tone suddenly becomes lecturing.

"Despite their genetic changes, a mutant is still classified as a member of their base species! If you actually think that one random genetic quirk is enough to make you stop being an insignificant human than you are even dumber than you look!"

Another one of those brief pauses.

"And let Desco note that you look plenty dumb already."

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Hey, it's got one physical attack!]

Right, the mythological being that appears out of nowhere. We'll see about that. I'll be fine in the meantime.