synopsychic | Like a stumbling ghost, I haunt these halls

Hi? Shit, I don't think I've ever been the one to start a mass psychic conversation. I'm more used to tuning out any voices in my head.

Anyway! This is Thorne, who some of you guys probably have met on the jaunt as Chouko, Princess Noriko-hime's attendant, and I'm dead! And in liminal space. Which I guess is traditional or something, I don't know. The Mantis killed me. He's, um, a killer cyborg with an inexplicable insectile theme. Well, okay, not inexplicable, if you ever knew Dr Wärring, which technically I never did, but Chouko did and the stuff in her memories actually reminded me a bit of this guy named Oda that my old, uh, boss used to be friends with and shit, I'm getting off-topic.

Right. So yeah, the Mantis killed me--he's Hajime, by the way, the Donalds are really running with that bug dude theme with him--but he's probably only after people who used to be with these guys called Vexatior--your basic shadowy organization who wanted to take over the world--so uh, if any of you guys remember having any ties to them, take care, okay? The only person I know who does is Min--I mean, I guess his name is Armin out of Jaunt--and the Mantis already spared him once due to age, but he's older than he was then and so, uh, if people could keep an eye on him and maybe make him stop being an idiot and wear a goddamn mask already that would be much appreciated. And try to help Noriko--Naoto--too? She's gonna be worried when she realizes I'm gone.

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Joscelin? Can you make it back to Liminal Space? I think I need your help with something.

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[Oh okay, the whole situation catches her attention here but especially that one name... Well, technically two but mostly one.]

You. Tell me everything you know about Min.

Are you one of his friends when he's Armin?

Okay, uh, shit. He's seventeen years old, he's a genius prodigy at most kinds of science--but especially magnetism--and he's a complete idiot at everything else who'll forget to eat if you don't remind him and didn't bother to change his name when the Khanate put a bounty on him.

... and my--I mean Chouko's--baby brother.

Welcome back, I suppose. You alright? [Melissa's died in Jaunt before as well- it's not pleasant ~~and it's annoying that certain people don't STAY DEAD~~.]

I'm on my way. I just need to get out of sight first. What's wrong?

Oh, huh. So when we die we don't stay dead?

Cool. Have fun with that. [Irrepressible mental chuckle.]

Not just friends. Family, he's my baby brother.

Science and I don't really get along but I'll keep that in mind. The rest sounds like someone me and Armin both know... [So really, she's used to it from Eren.] Do you know why they put that bounty?

So something is likely to happen once he finds out about Chouko's death.

Um. There's something I need to explain about myself. I mean, maybe you've figured it out already, you've had to touch my hands and stuff from time to time during practice and you've got to have noticed how cold they are and how sallow I am and, uh

I'm dead.

I mean, I was dead before this.

I guess you could say I'm undead and shit, do they even have that as a concept in Terre D'Ange?

Okay, so, uh, you understand what it's like, then.

But yeah. When he thought Ling--Chouko--sorry, she changed her name, but it was originally Cho Ling--let me start over again.

When Min thought his sister was dead before--she wasn't, but she thought he was dead, it was this whole terrible clusterfuck that happened when the Mantis threw off his brainwashing--he sort of turned into a wreck. At least, that's what Chouko'd been able to gather. He didn't take care of himself at all.

They've been through a lot of shit, the Cho siblings. Like, when Min was ten there was this house fire--he and Ling were out when it started--and they lost their home and family and everything. And then a couple years later they got suckered into working for some really bad guys. It was crazy shit.

Yeah. About as well as I can be. Take care of Nori for me?

[She switches to a private channel.]

Wow, I totally understand why you were staring at the sun now. It's gonna be freaky walking around in the day, parasol or not.

Yeah. That's a thing here. And I will. If nothing else, maybe I can haunt the Mantis.

So, are you a giant now?

[Look, she died and came back, this makes perfect sense.]

Or did you just explode and come back good as new?

[That is how the world works, clearly. Vampires are as good as Shadows for him to think this make sense.]

Uh, no. I think I'm the same size, unless Selene also got big with me. I'll let you know when I have someone else to compare myself against, okay?

And I'm pretty sure I didn't explode when the Mantis stabbed me through the heart, but I am mostly as good as new now?

Yeah, you do that. That happens sometimes with death, you know? Then you've gotta watch out for giant robots.

That's good! Stabbing sucks.

I got stabbed in the ass at one point, still don't know who did it.

... giant robots?

[This is sounding distressingly like Power Rangers ~~or whatever expy of it exists in Thorne's world idek~~.]

About that... that was me. I mean. That was Chouko. You were trying to pants her princess.

I'll do my best.

[and Melissa shall switch as well.]

It's... nice to see it, but yeah I nearly frenzied out of surprise.

Well. Thank fuck you didn't.

How have you been eating? Do we still need to eat as much? Do we get to eat regular food... oh. No. You weren't eating before at any of those dinners. Damn it.

No shit.

Unfortunately, the normal way. [so if Chouko saw Melissa getting flirty with any strangers, she now likely knows the reason and what happened.]

Yeah. You know, my guys get their asses kicked, grow to building size, the ToQGers turn their trains into a giant robot, a fight breaks out.

[He sounds really bored as he talks about that. And he's quickly distracted by more interesting things, like news of who stabbed him in the butt.]

I'm an Emperor, I can pants whoever I want!

[Many things make sense now.]

Yeah. I was afraid about that. And my usual donors are both infiltrating, bah. And I'm gonna need the extra vitae. If I want to fuck with the Mantis to get back for the last few weeks of Chouko's terror, I'm definitely gonna need Obfuscate.

[Oh god it's exactly like a ranger show, fuck.]

Not Nori-hime. You don't get to pants my lady, dickhead.

[There's a part of Melissa that doesn't approve of the 'fucking with humans' but... she's not totally convinced that people aren't non-human until they prove otherwise, so.]

Have fun with that.

It's not so much a matter of fun as payback. I mean, he killed me, I mean, Chouko. And her friend Málika. And all kinds of people she knew and some of them she liked and yeah, okay, one or two people she really didn't like, and yeah, sure, most of them were terrible people... but not all of them. So it's kinda personal.

Edited 2015-10-09 03:46 (UTC)

[well Melissa certainly doesn't disagree with killing terrible people but...]

I wonder how he'll feel after the fact.

Like a dick, I hope.

We don't pick our Infiltrations.

[which is a point she enforces since she never wants people to figure out how much like LISA she actually is.]

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