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[There is quite abruptly a very upset teenage troll on the screen. He's glaring at the camera as if it has personally offended him. Normally he would have done this over text, but he wants to see familiar faces, and besides, the best speeches aren't given over text.]

Listen up, nooksniffers. Here's how this is going to go. I don't have time for this war. I'm already fighting in one, and that one I actually give a shit about. Since I can't leave until this place stops getting his ass kicked, the plan is to win this stupid war as quickly as possible so we can all get back to our miserable lives wherever we came from.

Okay? Good. So, what's being done around here to get everyone battle ready? Whatever it is, sign me up. I need to figure out this whole fucking "being a weapon" thing. [He even does the air quotes for added effect.] Talk to me about the training and shit. Otherwise, keep your squawk blisters shut and brutally destroy those Kishin things.

With one exception. [He raises his pointer finger at the camera. It is not the finger he's used to raising, and he very nearly flubs that up. He's used to giving speeches over text, alright. Maybe he should have done that instead...] I've already seen a couple of familiar faces around here, which leads me to believe there might be more somewhat tolerable assholes around here that I might be familiar with. If you are one of those losers, report to me so I know who's here and therefore not in as much grave danger. Worrying about you bulgelickers is a full time fucking job, alright, and I don't want to have to worry any more than I have to, because it's annoying as shit.

Alright, I'm out. [There's a little fumble and a muffled curse, along with a lovely view of the floor of Karkat's place in Casualty Communal before the feed cuts out.]

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There are instructors at morning training who can teach you how to transform.

[She does recognize him, but she hadn't know him, well. Besides, she imagined it would be bad enough to run into so many people who recognize him even though he doesn't know them at all.]

Yeah, I'm going to go for sure. I'm glad there's already a decent system in place. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it looks like you're actually making a decent effort to win this fucking war here.

Well, it's almost been a year since BREW started bringing people in. It would be strange if there wasn't any kind of system in place.

A year, huh. That's not as long as I thought, actually. I guess I just assumed you were all incompetent assholes. I didn't realize there were people here with actual combat experience like me.

There are quite a few people here who know how to fight, but BREW does bring in a lot of people who can't.

I guess everyone has to relearn anyway, because either you're a weapon and you have to deal with that or you're a meister, and you have to learn about your fucking powers and working as a team and shit.

It takes a bit of getting used to in the beginning, but it's not really that bad after you get used to it.

It better not be. Figuring out how to transform has already been a pain in the ass, and I haven't even managed it yet.

Well, you just got here, right? You can't expect it to figure it out that quickly.

[Pause.]

I'm one of the volunteers reaching people to transform at morning training. If you really can't wait, I can try to teach you. [It's not like she's doing anything right now...]

Oh shit, you are? ...I don't know. I mean, I want to learn really fucking bad, but at the same time, I kind of want to do it by myself, you know?

That's fine. If you ever want any help, you can find me at the park during morning training.

[She has blue hair. She's not exactly hard to spot.]

Thanks. I'll think about it, and I'll be a training for sure, so I'll ask you questions and shit if I need to.

Do you mind if I ask if you're a weapon? And if you are, how long it took you to figure it out? I know I'm not supposed to get it immediately, but if it takes me longer than everyone else, I might just give up and have you help me.

I am. [Even if it wasn't what she started out as.] It didn't take long to figure it out with help from the instructors at morning training. I didn't really try to do it on my own...but I find that it's a lot like what I did to materialize my own weapon back home. [With some differences, of course, but it was oddly familiar all the same.]

Materialize your weapon? Was it something like a sylladex?

[Before she answers that...]

What's a sylladex?

Oh, shit, sorry, I forgot most humans don't have them, for some stupid reason. If you want to hold a shit ton of items, or something that's just too big to carry around all god damn night, you put it in your sylladex, and it will go with you without you having to physically be holding it.

I see. It wasn't anything like that.

[How to explain it...

She places a hand over her chest, where her heart would be.]

It was a weapon I carried inside myself. It responds to the strength of the user's heart.

Woah, holy shit inside yourself? How do you get it out? And how do you know how strong your heart is?

I call for it. I'm not sure how else to describe it, but as long as my heart doesn't falter, it will come to me when I call for it.

[They're now skirting dangerously close to Keyblade wielded only knowledge...]

If your heart wasn't strong to begin with, it wouldn't react to you and you can't become it's wielder.

What exactly do you mean by strong? I'm assuming you don't mean physically, so how the hell do you know if your heart is strong enough?

It can mean a lot of things. [Even she's not too sure.] But I guess, to me a strong heart is one that won't falter in the face of adversity and one that stays true to the path you choose.

You don't always know if someone's heart is strong enough. There's...no real way to tell for sure most of the time. [Except when you found one that was exceptionally strong.] And sometimes they become stronger because of the trials they go through. It's entirely possible for someone to have the potential to wield it but, until they get to that point, be unable to call upon it.

Huh. So a lot of people can do it then. _{[After all, all his friends have been through a lot of trials, and most of them have a path they stick to.]}

So, uh, you used your heart or whatever to transform?

Maybe. I know there used to be a lot more people who could wield this weapon compared to the numbers there were during my time.

...I guess. [She shook her head.] I'm sorry but I don't really know how to explain this. My Weapon form is the weapon I used back home, so whenever I transform it feels like I'm just calling on it again. [The results though, are different here than back home.]

How the fuck do you teach people if you can't even explain how you do it? _{[It's not meant as an insult he just doesn't understand how she can teach it.]}

[She wouldn't have taken it as one anyway.]

I teach it the way I was first taught to transform here. I can't explain how I do it myself because it's difficult to explain to anyone without the same abilities I had back home.

But I hadn't realized it would be so similar at first. It kind of surprised me until I realized what I turned into.

And, in case the way that worked for me doesn't work for everyone else, I try to pay attention when the instructors are teaching and I'm not. [It could never hurt to know a few more ways to teach someone how to transform.]

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[ video; ] Well, technically all RPG protags must have something like that... XD

[ video; ]Haha yeah, but Karkat has no way of knowing that.

[ video; ] And Aqua doesn't come from a meta canon so she won't point it out.

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[ video; ] Now watch me BS about this canon.

[ video; ] I would never have known haha. I know very little about KH.

[ video; ] sometimes I feel like I know very little about it despite having played most of the games

[video;] It's a complex canon for sure!

[video;] and I suc at explaining things to so...