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soul_campaign2012-02-21 12:32 pm
dissenter) wrote in soul_campaign2012-02-21 12:32 pm
001 (jan. 27) / video.
[good afternoon Death City. hope you aren't tired of new arrivals yet because here's another one.
it's hard to tell where exactly this particular old bespectacled man is recording from because most of the screen is taken up by the biggest hat in the cosmos. don't be intimidated, though! he seems friendly enough, though his attention constantly flickers from his unseen audience to a point just beyond them -- as if he's almost more interested in the communicator itself than who's behind it. the quiet muttering doesn't help.] A mirror, eh? Curious choice...
[right, he's supposed to be talking to people. whoops! he blinks, starts, and smiles apologetically, refocusing.] Ah-- greetings. My name is Qilby, and I am an Eliatrope.
[an awkward, expectant pause as if he's hoping that by some stretch the term should be familiar to someone out there. or maybe he's just hesitant to address his next point.] ...I don't suppose I'm the only one that finds it rather tragic that by bringing us here and giving us these new abilities, they've stripped us of our powers that arguably could have been more useful to help end this conflict. And now we must figure out how to harness an entirely new set of skills... Well. They say you can't teach an old boowolf new tricks, and I doubt I'm an exception. [and his smile at his own "joke" implies that he is a very old boowolf indeed.]
That aside, I'm more than willing to try and learn. Tell me, how have people's experiences been? I'm afraid I haven't had to fight a war in a long time.
[and at that, he looks very tired.] A very, very long time.
it's hard to tell where exactly this particular old bespectacled man is recording from because most of the screen is taken up by the biggest hat in the cosmos. don't be intimidated, though! he seems friendly enough, though his attention constantly flickers from his unseen audience to a point just beyond them -- as if he's almost more interested in the communicator itself than who's behind it. the quiet muttering doesn't help.] A mirror, eh? Curious choice...
[right, he's supposed to be talking to people. whoops! he blinks, starts, and smiles apologetically, refocusing.] Ah-- greetings. My name is Qilby, and I am an Eliatrope.
[an awkward, expectant pause as if he's hoping that by some stretch the term should be familiar to someone out there. or maybe he's just hesitant to address his next point.] ...I don't suppose I'm the only one that finds it rather tragic that by bringing us here and giving us these new abilities, they've stripped us of our powers that arguably could have been more useful to help end this conflict. And now we must figure out how to harness an entirely new set of skills... Well. They say you can't teach an old boowolf new tricks, and I doubt I'm an exception. [and his smile at his own "joke" implies that he is a very old boowolf indeed.]
That aside, I'm more than willing to try and learn. Tell me, how have people's experiences been? I'm afraid I haven't had to fight a war in a long time.
[and at that, he looks very tired.] A very, very long time.
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[and, ahaha, he's not hurt that he wasn't mentioned once. not... at all.] I'm only his Eliatrope brother, too. He has a far stronger connection to his dragon brother, Adamaï. If Yugo spoke of siblings, surely he'd be the first one he mentioned... [this is a little troubling.
but, oh well. surely there's a reason why.] I'm glad he settled so well here, though I'm not surprised. He always had a knack for making friends wherever he went. [ah! it suddenly occurs to him:] Oh, I'm sorry! I don't believe I asked you your name yet.
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Well...the topic of siblings never really came up, de arimasu. What's the difference between an Eliatrope brother and a dragon brother anyways, de arimasu? [Keroro's an only child, and they only ever talked about friends. Or going to the red light district.]
Yugo-dono even got a partner before I did, de arimasu. I'm Keroro. You're Qilby-dono, right?
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Yugo and I were among the first six of our kind to be born. We and our four other Eliatrope siblings were special in that we were born out of dragon eggs -- and it's from these eggs that we got our dragon siblings. [a somewhat... wistful tone?] The bond between dragon and Eliatrope runs much deeper than that of the one between Eliatrope and fellow Eliatrope... It's in their very life force, the connection that allows one to be aware of the other's presence anywhere in the world.
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If you were speaking to any other Eliatrope, you'd probably make them question a lot about themselves...
No, I'm quite sure. Our eggs are relics, left behind after our births, for our energy to return to upon our deaths. We're special in that we're constantly reborn from our original source -- it's how the Yugo you know can be thirteen years old today, and can have saved my life ten thousand years ago.
Not to mention if we were born of birds we should have beaks, or feathers, or something... [what a horrible thought]
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Eh?
I never said anything about you actually being born of birds, de arimasu. I was just saying that your parents might have had habits like a certain species of bird on Pekopon.
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Our memories don't carry over, ah, save for mine. [le pause.] I... Am a special case.
But-- are you saying that your people are reborn in a similar way?
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It's different, de arimasu. We're not reborn, but with a rehabilitation machine, we can be reset, de arimasu. I guess you'd call it, "factory fresh", de arimasu? Both the body and mind have the memories erased, de arimasu.
In theory, anyway, de arimasu.
oh my god where did this notif goooo i'm so sorry
Theory's one thing, but if it really works in practice the way you say it does... [he shakes his head, as if to rid himself of some nagging thought.] Keroro, you'll need to tell me all about your people's inventions later. It sounds like they had an impressive knowledge.
It's okay! o/
But if you'd like I can still tell you all about our technology, de arimasu. I'm good with it, de arimasu. I even used our technology to increase the effectiveness of my vacuum cleaner, de arimasu. [It blew up afterwards. And Keroro was forever branded a rookie who really has no place in messing with technology at all.]
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Really? Maybe you can show me a thing or two about this world's technology while you're at it...
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I would be glad to, de arimasu!