Togami Byakuya - 十神白夜 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shslasshat) wrote2013-08-19 12:46 am
shslasshat) wrote2013-08-19 12:46 am
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First Silver Spoon - Joint Post, Video/Action for New Bark
[The boy who appears on the other end of the feed is sitting outside, in New Bark Town, if the gently waving trees and the windmill in the background are anything to go by. He appears deep in thought. In contrast to this, a sharply-grinning face appears over his left shoulder, all teeth and claws and hard, cold, gemstone eyes. Since Sableye aren't native to New Bark Town, that must clearly be his starter.]
Out of one game and into another, then.
[Piercing green eyes meet the camera from behind white-framed glasses.]
I presume I'm far from the first person to come here. ...Perhaps, even, not the first from my world – since this obviously is not the world I come from. I may have catching up to do, but mark my words: Byakuya Togami does not lose. Anyone who stands in my way will fall. So remember my face, and don't waste your t—
[But then, abruptly, the feed goes wild and veers away from his face; hopefully nobody watching gets motion sickness, because if so, they might want to avert their eyes. But given the angle and direction of the camera shift, combined with the brief flash of the boy's astonished expression before it disappears completely from view, it seems that someone has just snatched the Gear right out of his hand.
Which would be an entirely accurate conclusion to draw, really. Suffice to say, the camera is now displaying a rather attractive shot of the tip of someone's boot and a fair expanse of slightly matted grass.]
Don't be so quick to sacrifice your anonymity with needless posturing. There's nothing to be gained from ceding that advantage — particularly not in a place where that name almost certainly means nothing to anyone.
[...Does somebody want to get this man some ice for that burn.]
[The aforementioned boy huffs in the background, his hand appearing on the camera as he tries to take it back like a nerd who's become the victim of a cruel game of keep-away.]
Have you even read the training manual? A place that asserts the goal of becoming "the very best, like no one ever was" is not a bastion of subtlety.
[Then, almost sulkier,]
When did you even get here?
[JUST WHEN HE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE.
Eventually, though, his superiorheight and reach everything manage to get control of the Gear back, and amid the shuffle, the second voice speaks again.]
About twenty minutes ago. [A beat.] I've been looking around. Haven't you?
[Even when his gear is back in his own possession, he doesn't bother aiming it at his face. However, he will flash Johto a shot of the lovely, lavender-haired girl who so rudely interrupted his arrogant pontificating.]
I've been reading the materials provided about this place and the creatures who inhabit it. [A smug, punchable beat.] Haven't you?
I wanted to see what my own investigations turned up first. But it'd be useful to see how much of my evidence is corroborated by yours; turn that off and let's compare our findings instead.
[For the first time since the girl appeared, Togami actually pays attention to the gear, and he scowls at it before flicking the camera off as requested.]
Out of one game and into another, then.
[Piercing green eyes meet the camera from behind white-framed glasses.]
I presume I'm far from the first person to come here. ...Perhaps, even, not the first from my world – since this obviously is not the world I come from. I may have catching up to do, but mark my words: Byakuya Togami does not lose. Anyone who stands in my way will fall. So remember my face, and don't waste your t—
[But then, abruptly, the feed goes wild and veers away from his face; hopefully nobody watching gets motion sickness, because if so, they might want to avert their eyes. But given the angle and direction of the camera shift, combined with the brief flash of the boy's astonished expression before it disappears completely from view, it seems that someone has just snatched the Gear right out of his hand.
Which would be an entirely accurate conclusion to draw, really. Suffice to say, the camera is now displaying a rather attractive shot of the tip of someone's boot and a fair expanse of slightly matted grass.]
Don't be so quick to sacrifice your anonymity with needless posturing. There's nothing to be gained from ceding that advantage — particularly not in a place where that name almost certainly means nothing to anyone.
[...Does somebody want to get this man some ice for that burn.]
[The aforementioned boy huffs in the background, his hand appearing on the camera as he tries to take it back like a nerd who's become the victim of a cruel game of keep-away.]
Have you even read the training manual? A place that asserts the goal of becoming "the very best, like no one ever was" is not a bastion of subtlety.
[Then, almost sulkier,]
When did you even get here?
[JUST WHEN HE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE.
Eventually, though, his superior
About twenty minutes ago. [A beat.] I've been looking around. Haven't you?
[Even when his gear is back in his own possession, he doesn't bother aiming it at his face. However, he will flash Johto a shot of the lovely, lavender-haired girl who so rudely interrupted his arrogant pontificating.]
I've been reading the materials provided about this place and the creatures who inhabit it. [A smug, punchable beat.] Haven't you?
I wanted to see what my own investigations turned up first. But it'd be useful to see how much of my evidence is corroborated by yours; turn that off and let's compare our findings instead.
[For the first time since the girl appeared, Togami actually pays attention to the gear, and he scowls at it before flicking the camera off as requested.]
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So this place shows no regard for time or death when choosing its victims.
And where are you now?
[New Bark is tiny, if you were here he would have seen you already.]
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Victims makes it sound pretty vicious. But... it's not like that place at all. Though... everyone says that while we're here, it's like someone pressed the pause button on the world that we left, so if we ever go back it's the same moment it was before we left.
[Her nose wrinkles.] It all sounds really like a scifi comic, but I guess that's how it works though.
Oh! That's right. I'm in Violet City with the others. You must be in New Bark Town, right? That's where most people arrive I think.
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I'm surprised that that overgrown infant Yamada isn't here. What this place sounds like is a child's video game.
The idea that time stops at home seems remarkably convenient.
[Is it possible that this is all a dream? ...Surely to god he wouldn't dream about his classmates, let alone himself doing something as mundane as sitting on the steps of a house next to one, communicating with the other over a strange electronic device.
Besides, the creepy-eyed creature keeps staring at him.]
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We don't really get to choose who comes and goes, so maybe that's why.
[Hey she was all on board the "this has to be a dream" train when she first got here. Totally and completely.]
I don't know if it's convenient or not... but that's what everyone tells me happens. [Actually she's terribly nervous about the idea of going back home, for what they'll find outside the school after what the mastermind told them.]
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Too bad no one plays him.All of this still sounds pretty convenient.]
I deduced as much, since I had no idea this place existed, much less would have chosen to come here of my own volition.
[He regards her coolly.]
What's the last thing you remember from back at the school?
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Well there was the one in that smut game for a while.]I guess this really isn't the type of place I'd expect you to pick out, Togami.
[Nope. Though the idea of Togami camping out on the road sounds hilarious and now she wants to see it really bad. Not that his suffering is something she enjoys so much as, well, it can be entertaining.]
We'd had the last trial and the mastermind was dead. And we were going to leave. And then I was here! But that was about a month ago.
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and Hagakure and maybe Kuwataget to put up with the wonderful sight.His frown deepens in thought.]
That's what I last remember, too.
But if that was a month ago for you, and only a couple of hours or so ago for me...
[He doesn't like this.]
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Oh! So you're at least from the same when. I guess time kind of moves really differently here. I don't know how it's possible, but that's the way people talk about it.
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"From the same when". Asahina.]
Apparently.
By "people," do you mean our classmates, or other outsiders?
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From the same when describes it perfectly, and it helps her to think of timelines like a hallway okay?! This is all really confusing, and she's much better at just leaving the thinking about those sorts of things up to Naegi and Kirigiri and Togami, okay? So start picking up the brain slack!!!]
Mostly other people, since none of our classmates have gone home and come back. But other people have, and they went back right to the instant they left!