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citylogs2023-07-12 07:48 am
elswhisperer) wrote in citylogs2023-07-12 07:48 am
Entry tags:
- arknights: midnight,
- cobra kai: robby keene,
- genshin impact: kaveh,
- good omens: aziraphale (tv),
- gundam wing: heero yuy,
- honkai sr: welt yang,
- library of ruina: roland,
- limbus company: don quixote,
- limbus company: emil sinclair,
- limbus company: kromer,
- msg 00: lockon stratos,
- msg 00: setsuna f seiei,
- msg ibo: mcgillis fareed,
- no more heroes: kamui uehara,
- sotl: clarice starling,
- star wars: r0-gr (lego),
- zero escape: junpei
(OPEN) probably the least secret secret meeting, all things considered
WHO: Setsuna F. Seiei (elswhisperer) & you!
WHAT: The code word log!
WHERE: City Hall Park
WHEN: July 12
WARNINGS: N/A
[ Over the course of the past few days, you may have noticed simple, nondescript flyers posted here and there across the city. All handwritten, they list a location (a particular statue in the City Park) along with a time and date (3:00 PM, July 12). Below that, an extremely brief message:
For establishing safe communications.
- moment.
On the day of, you'll find a young man in a red scarf waiting by the named statue. He has with him sheets of blank paper, pens, and pencils. ]
My name is Setsuna F. Seiei. 'Moment' from the network. The purpose of this meeting is creating a way to safely disseminate information to each other all at once. If one of us found an exit, or determined the identity of our captors, we'd be jeopardizing ourselves by revealing it openly over the network. At the same time, the network is our most efficient method of communication. We need to make the most of all the tools at our disposal.
We can accomplish that with the use of code language. One that's not complicated; that anyone could remember and pass along. What that code is and what we want to communicate with it is something one person can't determine for themselves. That's why I wanted us all to meet.
Without cooperation, we're not gonna get anywhere.
[ ooc: just a couple things! go ahead and mingle/threadhop as you like (especially bc i may not be the fastest tagger rn), and if setsuna has already mentioned to your character that he's been working on something, feel free to assume he left some kind of vague message about checking flyers over the inboxes or smth. ]
elswhisperer) & you!WHAT: The code word log!
WHERE: City Hall Park
WHEN: July 12
WARNINGS: N/A
[ Over the course of the past few days, you may have noticed simple, nondescript flyers posted here and there across the city. All handwritten, they list a location (a particular statue in the City Park) along with a time and date (3:00 PM, July 12). Below that, an extremely brief message:
For establishing safe communications.
- moment.
On the day of, you'll find a young man in a red scarf waiting by the named statue. He has with him sheets of blank paper, pens, and pencils. ]
My name is Setsuna F. Seiei. 'Moment' from the network. The purpose of this meeting is creating a way to safely disseminate information to each other all at once. If one of us found an exit, or determined the identity of our captors, we'd be jeopardizing ourselves by revealing it openly over the network. At the same time, the network is our most efficient method of communication. We need to make the most of all the tools at our disposal.
We can accomplish that with the use of code language. One that's not complicated; that anyone could remember and pass along. What that code is and what we want to communicate with it is something one person can't determine for themselves. That's why I wanted us all to meet.
Without cooperation, we're not gonna get anywhere.
[ ooc: just a couple things! go ahead and mingle/threadhop as you like (especially bc i may not be the fastest tagger rn), and if setsuna has already mentioned to your character that he's been working on something, feel free to assume he left some kind of vague message about checking flyers over the inboxes or smth. ]
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Heero reminds Setsuna of himself. His old self.
A human who's a "weapon" and "a person who can do nothing but fight" are two different ways of expressing the same concept. The only difference appears to be that where Setsuna was resigned to this fate, Heero seems to have no such qualms.
It strikes him that Heero seems young. A teenager. How old was he when he first picked up a weapon...? ]
No. Never.
[ The answer comes without deliberation. ]
My Gundam is more than a weapon. With 00 Raiser, I can expand the consciousness of myself, and those around me, so that people can communicate without barriers. Through understanding, we destroy the root of conflict. Force alone can't accomplish that. That's what I've learned, as a Gundam Meister. As someone who believed that force was enough.
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[ Heero doesn't see, exactly. Setsuna describes his Gundam as if it has the capabilities of a God, but then - hadn't Treize spoken of his vision for the ZERO System that way? He'd hoped it would show Heero how to end the war. The path they needed to take to attain peace.
That was before all of them had run up against the inherent flaw of the technology, one after the other: ZERO was built for victory, not pacifism. ]
ZERO has never been able to show me how to stop humanity from fighting. I've asked it again and again.
[ A scowl touches briefly on his lips, in memory of that long, painful source of frustration. It doesn't stay, though. ]
I'm not good at communication, either. So I'll leave that to her - to Relena. She would agree with you.
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They really do have a lot in common. That momentary look of frustration feels familiar.
Knowing that people seem fated to be in conflict, watching the world refuse to change for the better, the exhaustion of endless fighting; he understands it all. ]
Relena?
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[ The reason you fight, his subconscious supplies unbidden. He smothers the thought before it has a chance to fully surface, too aware of the reality that she isn't here now, and that isn't an attitude Heero should be nurturing in her absence.
He drags himself back to reality. Sighs quietly. He hates not knowing whether or not she's safe. ]
...naive in many of her ideals, but she believes in them. And she's strong. Stronger than me, without any weapons at all.
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Marina Ismail will never pick up a weapon. She'll never stop believing in peaceful solutions, no matter how the world tests her ideals.
The strength it takes to choose compassion again and again is no lesser than the strength it takes to fight. ]
I know someone like that. I was only able to believe that people could understand each other because I met her. The world can't change without people like them.
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He agrees completely, of course... but isn't this growing more and more uncanny?
Is every aspect of humanity and conflict really so predictable, no matter which layer of the universe it happens to inhabit? Or are their worlds truly... parallel, in a way? What would it be like to meet this person that Setsuna knows. What if Relena met her.
Heero will be mulling over questions like those for awhile. But the answers make no difference to the here and now, because it's the two of them.
He smirks just slightly, entirely to himself. How interesting. ]
I would have liked to see your Gundam.
[ (he means fight) ]
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Yours too.
[ Except Setsuna's taking that purely at face value. It's awful for Gundams to be fighting other Gundams!! It means things have gone very, very wrong!! ]
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Imagine all the upgrades they could come up with. ]
Ah. Have you met the others?
[ He's already run into Setsuna's comrade, after all. ]
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So far, Duo Maxwell and Chang Wufei. Your descriptions were accurate.
[ Is it throwing shade to say that about Duo... ]
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Heero nods. good: if whatever is going on involves them as Gundam pilots, it's best for them to be an allied front. he's had more time to ruminate over the importance of what he'd felt only as a hunch when he'd first met Setsuna. ]
Wufei is a good point of contact. He's organized.
[ Heero and Duo demonstrably are Not ]
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Duo Maxwell's personality is difficult. Becoming his ally may take time.
[ Says Setsuna, whose personality is also difficult. ]
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He knows anyone can talk about anything.
[ Because Duo can talk about anything, and people believe him when he says "I never lie" with a flip of his braid and a single, toothy flash of that charismatic grin of his. It's no mystery to Heero why Duo is so cagey and mistrustful of others. ]
He'll be an ally when he has reason to.