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eluvio2017-03-10 05:20 pm
despairing_hope) wrote in eluvio2017-03-10 05:20 pm
[Video] UN: Komaeda
[The video starts with a close up of Komaeda's face as he's messing with the settings. It's advanced technology he's not familiar with, but it didn't take him long to get it going. Nothing ever takes him long to figure out when he tries.
He leans away and offers a smile, but it's a smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. He's tired. There's a weight there. People who are familiar with him might notice it's a little less carefree than he usually is. But then it's only to be expected.]
Hello! This is quite the interesting thing to be suddenly rushed through. They said anomalies were the cause, but isn't that a bit curious? "Anomaly" is such a vague term. It's the sort of thing you see on TV used to hand wave fantastical concepts they don't want the audience to think of too much. So is there something not being explained here?
[Of course he barrels straight to the delicate question.]
But, what do I know? There's a lot of surprising things happening all at once. In fact, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if I was told we were in some sort of MMO! Being in some sort of elaborate program would make more sense than not anyway.
[He goes quiet for a moment, his expression far away lost in thought. It takes him a moment to remember the camera and go back to his train of thought.]
Ah, since I was just recently welcomed to this little expedition, I should introduce myself. My name is Komaeda Nagito. There's not really anything else to say, I'm a bit luckier than most people?
He leans away and offers a smile, but it's a smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. He's tired. There's a weight there. People who are familiar with him might notice it's a little less carefree than he usually is. But then it's only to be expected.]
Hello! This is quite the interesting thing to be suddenly rushed through. They said anomalies were the cause, but isn't that a bit curious? "Anomaly" is such a vague term. It's the sort of thing you see on TV used to hand wave fantastical concepts they don't want the audience to think of too much. So is there something not being explained here?
[Of course he barrels straight to the delicate question.]
But, what do I know? There's a lot of surprising things happening all at once. In fact, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if I was told we were in some sort of MMO! Being in some sort of elaborate program would make more sense than not anyway.
[He goes quiet for a moment, his expression far away lost in thought. It takes him a moment to remember the camera and go back to his train of thought.]
Ah, since I was just recently welcomed to this little expedition, I should introduce myself. My name is Komaeda Nagito. There's not really anything else to say, I'm a bit luckier than most people?
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[Well he wasn't expecting to see anyone he knew.]
It might be a case where we don't know. We might be NPCS that don't get to level up. Or perhaps we can't until we crash on a planet that isn't familiar with space travel and is suitably fantasy generic "old time".
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[ There is something wrong about that sentence and Komaeda has three guesses as to what exactly that is. The first two don't count. ]
If we're NPCs though, wouldn't we just have generic dialogue that the protagonists get to repeat over and over? Although there are some games where the NPC dialogue changes depending on how far you are in the story... and I think Hinata-kun fits more of the 'protagonist' role than he does an NPC role, too. Do you think we'll crash onto that kind of planet though, Komaeda-kun?
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[Was that good luck or bad luck though? He wasn't quite sure. He definitely wasn't prepared to deal with that at the moment though. But first, what Nanami said.]
You never struck me as the sort of person who speaks in third person.
[So please clarify. She also didn't seem particularly upset or mad at him, which he wasn't sure how to take either.]
Who knows if we'll crash? It would depend on what is most interesting and the story we're to follow.
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[ She answers quietly, but the feeling behind her words is firm. ]
You're right, though, I don't usually speak in third person... that's what Mioda-san does, I think. [ Way to be firm and then suddenly be a little less than that. ] Nanami-san is a different Nanami-san, although she looks a little bit like me.
[ Read as: looks exactly like her. ]
Hmm, I wonder... we already kind of crash landed on a planet, though.
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[Most of the adventure has to take place there before you get to the part of the story where you get back to space after all.]
How are there two of you?
[That made this definitely more likely to be fake. A normal person might assume it was another girl with the same name, but Komaeda assumed more. Otherwise why would this person be mentioned in context with their classmates?]
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[ Since it's not exactly in tip-top shape to go anywhere at the moment. ]
And I'm not exactly sure. We haven't figured it out yet, but we'll try our best to find out why there are two of us.
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[While trying to fix the ship, people are picked off one by one.]
But more importantly, where is this other you?
[He needed to peices to at least have a theory to try and explain this.]
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[ This isn't a game, even if Nanami was just part of a game to begin with. ]
I don't know where Nanami-san is right now... since we're not always together. But she's either on the ship or on the planet. I can go ask if you'd like, unless she ends up seeing this and replies herself.
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[And figure out what to make of that off situation homself.]
As for this being reality, how are you so sure? It feels more fake than before.
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[ She's quiet at first, as if trying to collect her thoughts together. Hearing the word fake hurts her, considering who and what she is, exactly. But she doesn't show it in her expression. ]
I don't know for sure, but I want to believe that this is real. [ But at the same time, that brings many questions to the forefront of Nanami's mind. Things that seemed nearly impossible, but are plain fact here and now. ] Is that... too much to hope for?
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[He read his own file, he knows what to expect.]
I know for a fact that there is something wrong with me here. I don't feel like I'm actually awake. In fact... I wasn't expecting to wake up at all....
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[ A part of her is purposely trying to drag out the answer, but at the same time she can't just simply say "this isn't like the island", since she doesn't know if that would be a good idea at the moment. Or if she's even allowed to. ]
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While that may be true, didn't they say that we were brought here by "subspace anomalies"...? I don't know how true that is, but don't you think it might be possible to have an avatar be taken instead of your real body?
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[Which was hardly real.]
But at that point, if our avatars were taken, are we really who we are at that point? Is the memories and mind we have in these bodies, the same as the person before?
[Well he knew something was wrong with them because he had an idea of what some of the "before" was. Even if he didn't know how that person came to be.]
Do we have souls? Or are we just data? Are we simply copies at this point?
[It's a bit odd she's not surprised and takes it so easily. It's a thing to file for later.]
If we're simply copies, what is to say this isn't another simulation? Or, if somehow we're digital made flesh, what is to say we are real? There are a lot of books where the protagonist will learn a startling truth, that the person they thought they were is a lie, and they are just a copy, a fake.
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[ A rhetorical question, naturally. ]
Even if the avatars are the ones that was taken, that doesn't change the core, I think. Komaeda-kun is still Komaeda-kun. Just like I'm still me.
[ She's... not going to say anything in regards to the whole copy or fake thing, because that gets into things that she actually doesn't want to talk about at the moment so she'll just brush that aside.
Even if he may think it's odd that she isn't surprised, has Nanami ever really been surprised by anything besides murder? ]
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[An optimistic way of thinking of it. It was a bit too hard to accept though and he couldn't help but sigh deeply.]
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That won't happen, Komaeda-kun. I won't let it.
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