AKIRA

[voidbreaker]

awww shit here they go again

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[voidbreaker]

[ look they had to have a team strategy meeting, it's fine. ]

Windows are out, I've tried getting them open.

[ i don't care if this is bending time and space but there's a Cut on ash's cheek. it's fine. ]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . yeah he notices that cut and reaches out to brush his thumb against it. it's fine!!]

Yeah? And what happened?

[voidbreaker]

Stuff ricochets right off them. Bags, teenaged girls, knives...

[ take a wild guess what caused the cut, akira. ]

[survivaltricks]

[ah. yeah. he knows now, and his hand falls back at his side]

. . . impressive security they've got here, then.

[voidbreaker]

Impressively annoying.

[ he taps the cut himself -- it's stopped bleeding? that's good, yeah? ]

[survivaltricks]

It's the same security the mansion had, remember?

[yes, no blood is good]

[voidbreaker]

Which was still incredibly annoying.

[ good. ]

So, obviously we're meant to stay on the bus.

[survivaltricks]

Yeah. Just like we were meant to stay in the mansion.

But they let us out eventually, remember?

[voidbreaker]

So.

Wanna take some bets on what's waiting for us at the final stop?

[survivaltricks]

I'd say hell.

But we just came from hell.

[voidbreaker]

What's worse than hell?

...

Hell 2.0? Soldat class when Prince Egocedric gatecrashes the party with his sense of entitlement?

[survivaltricks]

[the fuck is a Soldat and who is Prince Egocedric]

For you, maybe.

For me it's a world with no coffee.

[voidbreaker]

[ he has to keep parts of his life a secret also i can't believe akira never learned about the Giant Mechas ]

Ah.

To live a simple life.

[survivaltricks]

It's pretty charmed. Are you jealous?

[voidbreaker]

[ it's also cursed with Big Ho Disease. ]








Nah.

[survivaltricks]

[HE FOUND THE CURE FOR THAT]

Yeah. I wouldn't be, either.

[voidbreaker]

[ look at the necklace and don't muck it up. ]

I mean, things are a shitshow in Erebonia but at least there's Soldats and orbal bikes. Some of it ain't too bad.

[survivaltricks]

[he will when the necklace is returned to him :(]

Ssssssomething tells me we have at least one of those two things you listed. Depends on what Soldats are.

[orbal bike, however, makes him think of motorcycles]

[voidbreaker]

[ a somehow even sadder version of the music box song plays from nowhere ]

... Giant robots.

[ :) ]

[survivaltricks]

. . . oh.

[ASH AT LEAST MENTIONED THE GIANT ROBOTS BEFORE so he isn't surprised to hear about those. he just didn't know the name!!]

Yeah, we definitely don't have those.

[voidbreaker]

They're pretty fun, I gotta admit.

[ worth civil wars and giant shadow abominations that think they're god? maaaaybe not. ]

[survivaltricks]

Iiii'm sure they make that political unrest you told me about a bit more. . . interesting.

[READ: HORRIBLE]

[voidbreaker]

Why'd you think we had lessons on piloting them in class? [ gotta train your teen soldiers right ]

There's the mass marketed ones like the Hectors that get shipped out to the various army divisions and some that get loaned to the campuses for training. Rich army types have their own personalised ones, and then there are the Divine Knights which are a whole other fancy ballgame.

[survivaltricks]

[gotta train your teen soldiers right indeed]

Oh boy.

I want to hear about the Divine Knights.

[voidbreaker]

... Not actually sure I know enough to tell you. My instructor has one? They're just different - there's some process of finding one and proving yourself before it'll let you pilot it, and it's not like hopping in a Hector and piloting that.

They can move on their own, and chat with their Awakener. All the other soldats just sit there until you pilot them, and there's as many as can be shoved off a conveyer belt at any given moment.

[ magical mecha bs is what it is, akira. ]