[2.] video | un: 2cool | february 19th

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_{[ The feed clicks on and shows not one, but two-almost-Karamatsus. The difference between them is easy to see once you find it: Karamatsu’s confident posture and Ichimatsu’s slouch— Karamatsu’s bold eyebrows and Ichimatsu’s stubby ones. Yes, this is one out of the five other identical brothers that Karamatsu has. Some of you have met them both and maybe have noticed the difference right away, others may still be struggling to tell them apart. Here they are, side by side, though, and it may be hard to make out good details of them in the dim light. Karamatsu clears his throat, looking rather serious for a change. It takes him awhile to speak, running one hand down his face and curving it around his chin, obviously distressed by all of this. Ichimatsu? Not so much. ]}

Ah, good evening, everyone. It’s I, Karamatsu.
It’s been.. awhile since I have spoken with you all, but I come baring some tragic news. Yesterday, me and my brother took a walk through the atrium to find better sources of light. What we found was something else. In the trees, we found the gruesome display of organs thrown over the vegetation in a horrific showcase. A—ah, that’s.. not all that we have found..

_{[ He looks a little pale just talking about this and for a moment he has to pardon himself out of the camera. ]}

...You’re still sick about that? Pansy.

[Ah, there’s another difference. While they both speak in deeper voices than one might expect from their looks, Ichimatsu speaks much less clearly, barely opening his mouth and mumbling as opposed to Karamatsu’s clear enunciation. Nevermind the fact that Ichimatsu looks approximately like he’s not used a hairbrush in a week. He rolls his shoulders and takes over, scrunching his face at his brother off-screen.]

There was a boot in the trail, dunno what happened to the other one. The viscera was all up in the trees, like he said, but it was too dark to really tell what was where and if any of them was still intact. There was also a heart in a gold box-- we surrendered it to find out who it belonged to, so I guess there’s not really anything for a burial.

_{[ Karamatsu returns to the feed, wiping his lips across his sleeve. ]}
….For those of you who are friends and family of a passenger named “Rey” … my condolences go out to you. Please keep close to those people you love. Thank you.

Comments

[ichimyatsu]

Same for us. My brother's relatively social, but I don't think he knew the person we found, and I literally just got here.

It makes sense to a degree that they aren't sharing information publicly, but you'd think they'd make some kind of statement to avoid panic. On something as contained as a ship floating through space, I would think panic would be the last thing they want.

[dadandgone]

Exactly. You would at least want to reassure the public that measures are being taken. Their silence is a little concerning. I mean, the fact that we're getting the names and stories from people who find the parts and not from someone a little bit more official is how rumors start and get out of control. Makes me wish I knew a little more about who is in charge.

[ichimyatsu]

No kidding. I'm probably the farthest thing from official on this ship, and yet here I am telling everyone about my adventures in finding intestinal streamers.

[dadandgone]

Do you remember the name of the person who you gave the remains to for identification? I mean, how did you know who to take them to?

i somehow forgot to not capitalize things in the last two tags.

[ichimyatsu]

not specifically, but he claimed himself as the medical examiner. does the ship have more than one of those?

[dadandgone]

I would think a ship this size would have more than one? But, it's a spaceship, maybe with the technology they have they can get by with just one or maybe they don't deal with murders as much here and haven't had the need for multiple medical examiners until now.

[ichimyatsu]

i don't know shit about space ships or medical procedures or how many examiners one ship needs for dead bodies so i'll take your word for that, but. i'm pretty sure he also maybe had a military title or something.

[dadandgone]

Well that makes two of us then. I just know big cities tend to have more than once and this place is certainly bigger than most cities I've ever seen.

[ichimyatsu]

the city i'm from is outrageously huge but the ward in it i lived in was pretty quiet so i kind of made an effort to not leave that. [Tokyo is not that big, Ichimatsu.]