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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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[demifemme]

Wow, aren't you proof that evolution can go backward. Shura is not in full demon guise at this hour, but her fuse is way too short to ignore you, even if that means messaging from school.

"Don't worry. We demons don't want you either."

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

Y'know, for people who know that everyone here is coming from different worlds, you're all pretty damn quick to apply your own rules to mine. So you're not one to talk about looking dumb.

[bakegarasu]

[Aaand Otoha feels obligated to step in to save the kid from his own dumbassery.]

It might be different in his world, Desco. You don't know that.

And Pyro - demon means different things. I should have specified. A lot of them can talk, yeah. It's the aggressive ones we have a problem with.

... Aside from Desco. She's a visitor like us. And you're not to mess with her, or you'll get several very painful lessons.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Look, I was told that we killed demons here. I didn't know there were demon "visitors". They don't even exist where I come from, so I'm still picking up the details.

[That's almost an apology, which is actually quite an honour, though she may not know it.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Sorry, who's messing with who here?

[But he looks sullen now, not challenging.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Well, we're not from the same time. Or even the same world. So maybe you wanna back down, since you don't know half of what your kind have done to us.

But like I said. Just like home.

[greyerrant]

You stand against humanity and tell me not to do my duty? You insult me.

I don't care, if you reject your blood and heritage, and turn against your progenitors, you are the lowest sort of scum.

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[tyrantball]

"Desco's Daddy is a mad geneticist! Improper use of genetic nomenclature is therefore a personal affront to him!"

The eye on her forehead narrows in indignation.

"And why would the fundamental laws of existence change just because you're from a parallel dimension? You humans are so self-centered!"

Pyro may not know her well enough to tell, but coming from Desco that is hugely ironic.

[demifemme]

She doesn't. In fact, she's still quite irritated. "'We' only kill demons that cause problems. There are plenty of them who aren't. But for your information, a demon here is anything supernatural. Angels. Ghosts. Gods. Mythological creatures. Legendary animals. Everything."

[trainwrecking]

[Yeah, he has one too. One attack period. High-five, losers!!]

It doesn't just... [Siiigh.] Nevermind... It appears out of nowhere, just like you did. [Which is to say "it's a little more complicated than that."]

[bakegarasu]

Desco. Calm down.

[This is Uncle's serious voice.]

I clearly didn't explain it well enough. Bot of you, back off.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

She calls me human again, I make no guarantees.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Well, now I know. Although I thought angels were the opposite of demons, but different worlds. There's a lot to catch up on here, y'know.

[He shrugs.]

Anyway. I've got no problem with demons, considering I have no experience with them.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Hey, I've seen one of those things. Big black bird with red eyes, and it definitely didn't fly down.

[bakegarasu]

Mutants like you're talking about don't exist in her world. What else is she supposed to think you are?

[tyrantball]

There's a slight pause as Desco considers the latest development.

"Desco refuses to use the term 'mutant', but she would be willing to use a different term."

She pouts, just a little.

"Desco is only willing to compromise because Uncle Otoha is asking, though!"

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Avoid "human" and "freak", and we're good.

[He still doesn't look impressed, though.]

How about you just use my name?

[trainwrecking]

Yeah, it comes from within. The more humanoid ones even talk to you...

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I still don't get the deal with this. We had this mu - this ability all along and just couldn't use it until we came here?

[trainwrecking]

Ahh, no... Not exactly. You were always you before you came here, but it was that "dream" that gave you your Soul Persona.

Uh, how do I say this... [Especially to a guy who seems to have a serious vendetta against humans.] You, ah... agreed to it.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

What?

[That's one part of the dream that he doesn't remember.]

You couldn't ever get how little I care about the fate of humanity. Why would I agree to that?

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[screwattack]

Cerberus, cease at once.

[An interrupting member in this conversation comes onto a video feed, voice feminine but face obscured by a helmet, not unlike Garviel himself.]

I'm afraid you're asking too much of this new arrival. It sounds to me as though he has not lost his humanity, but in his world, humanity itself has lost all semblance of decency.

I understand your bias, but don't let it blind you, warrior. You'll turn a potential ally against us.

[tyrantball]

Desco is clearly conflicted about this, but after a very long pause she grits out an answer from behind her clenched teeth.

"...fine, Desco will use your name."

Drawing herself up, she once more levels a claw at the camera feed.

"Be amazed at Desco's generosity! The Final Boss usually only honors interesting people by bothering to learn their names!"

[trainwrecking]

I, ah, really can't answer that one for you...

[And he's not sure he wants to speculate on your psyche there, friend. But he'll try his best to avoid landmines.]

Philemon is one of the gods here. Maybe he appealed to some... ah, small part of you?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He shakes his head irritably.]

Dreams are a shitty way of giving people information, and an even worse way of recruiting. Who the hell knows why you do what you do in dreams?

[He's starting to get pissed off at this place again.]