First Silver Spoon - Joint Post, Video/Action for New Bark

[shslasshat]

[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 superior height 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.]

Comments

[shslasshat]

I am perfectly aware that testimony has its place in decision-making, and that place is tertiary, at least, to observation and hard evidence. What are the facts that we do know? We've been brought here by some unknown and unseen force. Said force has the power to bring the dead back to life, or to take people from seemingly random points in time.

Said force also has the ability to tamper with memories in order to render those who do escape incapable of affecting major change on events in their timeline. We are ostensibly trapped here with no means of either earning or forcing escape, and you don't feel threatened?

[ardent]

[Mnnnngh.]

I prefer no means of earning or forcing escape over the means we've been offered in the past.

[shslasshat]

You prefer to sit complacent and follow orders like a trained dog.

I have no use for someone who rolls over and submits so easily.

[ardent]

I prefer to do what I can to maintain order and keep all of you safe, because I don't believe that anyone that was in that school deserves to suffer anymore. You can think whatever you want about that, but even if it's just for the duration - until you find some way out of here - that's what I intend to do, because it's still my job to do it.

[...]

And because that's what I choose to do.

Whether you have use for me or not doesn't matter. I've never measured my own sense of worth by your standards, anyway; I'd think that much is obvious by now!

[Honestly, that is probably the closest he's getting to "fuck you and your ego, Togami-kun"; the last few months have done wonders for his social confidence.]

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[shslasshat]

[...]

[Damn, Ishimaru.]

[shslasshat]

...Regardless.

For your own sake, I hope you're able to keep a clearer head on your shoulders than you were before. Maybe you'll manage to be less of a joke.

[Click!]