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[haremtrap]

Ugh, okay I wasn't going to add to the flood of people talking about weird visions but there's this one bit of the one I saw that is really sticking with me.

The vision: A pair of dragons were fighting. They were WAY bigger than the ones you guys brought back. The smaller of the two was like the size of a bus. Then while I watch it all an evil tree spoke to me, saying something like "You aren't the only one who has a mascot!" Which, who knows what that means.

That's not the weird part.

The weird part is One of the dragons was using Liminal Portals.

[Private to *Hyun-ae]

Also being drunk is weird. Being hungover is terrible.

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[otomechapilot]

...same song, different words...

I signed up to fight the Nightmares. Figured out how to call up an ANIMa, and hit them hard where we could hurt them. In dreams. We couldn’t fight a like fifty-story monster. But in an ANIMa, we could dream hard enough to kill the Nightmare wearing that monster.

[whatspringislike]

You fought them... in dreams?

I can't picture how that would work... for Angels, I think their dreams would have been more dangerous.

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[otomechapilot]

It involved those SQuIDs, a tank of fizzy water so I could breathe it and fall asleep in it, and an alien artifact so our dreams got mixed up with the nightmares.

Super dangerous.

Meanwhile, you have a giant pilotable cyborg with Totally Not Nukes. Still stupid dangerous, but for real different reasons.

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[whatspringislike]

I had the interface headband, a plugsuit, and LCL filling the plug...

It's funny. It's kind of the same, but the details are really different.

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[otomechapilot]

We're too young for this shit. Clearly.

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[whatspringislike]

They tell me nobody else can do it.

It's... it isn't exactly true, but there's only three other people who test in the same range, and only about twenty-five in Japan who have even a chance. And they're all our age.

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[otomechapilot]

It's simpler for me.

Anyone older is, well, not around.

Except for one loser who our wing commander took orders from.

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[whatspringislike]

They're... all gone?

Misato's a little childish sometimes, but I don't want to imagine what things would be like if Asuka was in charge instead...

It sounds kind of scary.

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[otomechapilot]

I had my friends. My Anchor, Luiz.

...And Keenan.

It was scary, I'd be nuts if I wasn't scared, but it wasn't all bad. And I signed up, I didn't get drafted, that... makes a difference.

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[whatspringislike]

They tell me I could stop if I wanted to... but Rei gets hurt almost every time she's sortied... and Asuka's synch ratio goes up and down a lot more than mine...

When everyone in Japan might die if you stop, it doesn't matter if they say you have a choice. They don't really mean it.