AKIRA

[voidbreaker]

awww shit here they go again

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[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. ]

[survivaltricks]

Huh. Sounds like some kind of "chosen one" thing. Your instructor had one. . .?

[interestin]

[he can only imagine how CHOSEN ONE MAGIC KNIGHTS could be used in political conflict]

[voidbreaker]

Yeah. "The Ashen Chevalier"'s pretty famous around Erebonia for being involved in stopping a Civil War, and I guess getting himself stuck between a rock and a hard place as the government keeps pushing him into doing a bunch of crappy missions he gets weirdly bullheaded about doing alone, or with old Class VII.

I dunno.

Maybe it was more complicated that I first thought. Or maybe he's just a bleeding heart who likes throwing himself into firing lines thinking it's "the right thing to do".

Pretty sure he's the only one that can make Valimar do anything, though.

[ exactly how you'd think, akira. ]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . yeah. that's about what he expected]

You'd know him better than I do. But. . . [mmm. he frowns] Being stuck working for a shitty government sounds pretty--

[how does he put this delicately]

[voidbreaker]

Bullshit?

[ hmm. ]

He's a pain in the ass and has a self-sacrificial hero complex 15 arge wide. He's not malicious though, I'll give him that.

Combo that with a giant mech and government orders and it's just him throwing himself onto different blades in different parts of Erebonia and not getting why people are pissed at him.

[survivaltricks]

[the fuck is an arge]

. . .

It sounds like he's trying, at least. [Rean Schwarzer is a mess] Doing what he believes is right, even if it's. . .

[well]

[working for a shitty government]

[voidbreaker]

[ wiggly zemurian bs spirit fingers ]

Having a martyr complex is a pain in the ass for everyone around you, just fyi.

[ yeah well.

rean schwarzer. his heart's in the right place but he left his entire brain back in the infernal castle when crow accidentally got made absent from the plot for a while. ]

Not entirely sure why he keeps jumping when they ask him to, but he probably thinks he can single handedly help everyone if he get involved with the government's crap.

[survivaltricks]

[this is exactly how I felt all throughout the ending of tocs3]

That's not how it works. Nobody can do everything by themselves.

[voidbreaker]

[ tocs is just a very complicated story about a boy who loses his boyfriend then finds him hanging out on rooftops being Edgy and gets weirdly defensive about believing it’s Him, send tweet. ]

Yeah, try telling him that.

[ anyway, don’t put a martyr in a Special Mecha ]

Normal soldats are pretty fun to pilot though. Less getting laser focused on by the government too.

[survivaltricks]

[press like]

But still part of their whole system. [hm. . .] You know. . . I don't think you ever told me why you decided to go to military school.

[he gave some sort of vague response but Akira didn't press at the time]

[voidbreaker]

...

[ haha! ]

A little Scarecrow persuaded me it was a good idea.

It got a few people off my back as well, but whether it was a good decision or not I don’t know.

[survivaltricks]

Scarecrow. . .?

[THAT MEANS NOTHING TO HIM]

I guess it's hard to say, when so much about your future is still up in the air.

[considering attempted assassination]

[voidbreaker]

Scarecrow.

[ it's fine. ]

Guess I did find out some of the crap I was looking for. Roundabout way of doing it, but given the fact this whole thing has layers under, on and over its layers... I might not have found out shit otherwise.

[survivaltricks]

Was it stuff about. . . Hamel?

[voidbreaker]

That was the carrot he dangled, yeah.

[survivaltricks]

[hah]

[. . . he doesn't know if he likes this Scarecrow guy, and it shows in the way his gaze narrows, even if he doesn't say anything]

[voidbreaker]

[ valid ]

Don't worry, I got around to telling him where to go eventually.