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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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[ex_outofcontrol435]

Someone gets it. [He throws up his arms in frustration.] You don't experiment on us, treat us like criminals, shoot at us basically because we exist, attempt genocide, and then expect us to just shake hands.

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[greyerrant]

I'll concede the possibility, Samus.

[ He addresses pyro. ]

And yet you'd attempt the same here, when offered the chance of a new start? I still consider you a potential human, though in danger because of your genetic deviations.

I'm transhuman as well, and more visibly modified than you, but I still remain loyal. I don't expect you to shake hands, but if you bring the war here, I doubt anyone would blame me for stopping you. Are we clear now?

[trainwrecking]

Everyone says it's a "dream" because it feels like one, but it's not exactly like that. You're conscious throughout...

[This weird, suspension-of-disbelief stuff gets to him sometimes. He lingers, visibly battling with himself, like he wants to mention something else.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

... and?

Seriously, man, spit it out.

[screwattack]

Cerberus, I don't believe his intentions are to make war...

[She also turns her attention to Pyro.]

I'm sorry for what happened to you. I can understand your hatred for the human race after such an ordeal, but I assure you that this world is not the same. Cerberus, I'm sure you can relate.

Preconceptions from your previous world must be let go here...

[trainwrecking]

That "dream" is-- it's one of the least confusing things about Hinoto-Ri.

[No, there's more to it than that. He's been so passionate about researching this, but it feels so much harder to tell a newcomer...]

This world has had a lot of... mind-altering. At least it has since I've been here.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[His lips press together into a thin line as he regards the newcomer. He's got his own years of pent-up rage and personal betrayal, never mind the rage and betrayal that all mutants feel. Is she seriously telling him to just let that go?

But at the same time, he can see her point. He doesn't have to like humans, or to seek them out; he just can't bring any kind of violent conflict where it doesn't fit. He'll still come after anyone who threatens or insults him, but the focus has shifted.]

The only war I know about here's against demons. [He sounds defensive, but not combative.] I didn't come to start any new ones.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Nope, that's not enough either.]

I need to know what you mean by that. Right now.

[greyerrant]

That is a war I can always use allies for.

[ Rumbles cerberus, apparently mollified. ]

You don't have any notable physical alterations, what is the nature of your mutation?

[trainwrecking]

[At least this guy is listening to him. The more people he can educate, the better, really.]

There was a memory swap instance recently. People would start remembering other people's pasts and acting... strangely. I don't understand why...

[Deep breath.]

And there have been two events where people of certain birth signs... lose control of themselves completely.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Someone's playing with our heads, in other words. [For the first time, he looks so intensely serious that his expression is almost grim.] And here I thought I wouldn't see that again.

[trainwrecking]

I know it's a lot to take at once, but I'm trying to... help anyone I can.

[Even if they're enemies at the end of it all.]

Haha... It's almost pitiful! This is all a game between two gods here...

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Pyrokinesis. Complete control of fire.

[Okay, he's bragging when it comes to his control, but that usually keeps him from having to admit that he needs a source for his mutation to work.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

That's actually something I needed to know.

{There's all the thanks you're ever going to get.]

Who's the other god, though? I only heard about Philemon the butterfly guy and his quest to save humanity.

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[screwattack]

[After intervening when she noticed Cerberus going a little berserk on a new guy who truly didn't seem to deserve the condemnation, Samus had backed down... only to message Pyro herself. She was intrigued by this guy, and she was hoping she could provide a better first impression.

That being said, she was locking this post to make sure her comrade didn't similarly try to intervene for what she says next...]

I apologize on the behalf of my fellow hunter's behavior. He and I are very passionate about the protection of innocent lives, yet I'm afraid his anger was misdirected in this case. I at least would like to give you the benefit of the doubt.

[greyerrant]

I'm familiar with pyrokines, I can give you some tactical suggestions if we ever work together.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I know my mutation.

[Still bristling quite blatantly. But he said tactical, and Pyro's never gone beyond 'throw fire at shit' before, so maybe it's not a completely useless offer.]

Yeah, maybe.

[trainwrecking]

Nyarlathotep is the second god. I don't hear about him as a figurehead as much, but if Philemon exists, I'm sure he does too.

[Probably because Nyarlathotep with his ridiculous name is the token "bad guy."]

[greyerrant]

I've been a soldier of the legions for 200 years of war. I can be of assistance in terms of directing you to maximum effect, though i wouldn't presume to tell you how to use your abilities, I can tell you where to strike to win a fight.

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

That's a change.

[Snarly, yes, but he backs down to apprehensive after that initial outburst.]

It's too much to forget, never mind forgive. I'll never really trust a human. But - if mutants really backed down, something must've changed.

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[screwattack]

As far as I'm aware, mutants... at least not the kind that you are associated with, never existed in this world. Humankind of this world has not persecuted you or your kind, I promise.

[She pauses, though, trying to imagine his situation in her own perspective....]

... I'll admit, however, that if I were to come to a world where my enemies were supposedly now innocent creatures, the adjustment would be... difficult.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

... and you're willing to work with me. Just like that.

[He's still smarting from being called "scum" - it wasn't "freak", but it still had the flavour of home. Of the Government, and the police, and his parents.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Oh god, the names around here. [He rolls his eyes.] So he's second in command? Or is he on the other side?

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

They would, given the chance.

[But that's all he has to say about it for now. She's listening, taking his concerns seriously, which is more than he can say for most people he meets.]

I cut a deal, though. That's not something I ever thought I'd do with a human, especially not one like that. I get it.

[trainwrecking]

They're not all that bad. [But that one doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.]

He's on the other side. His role is to see everything destroyed, and ours is to fight.