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retrospec2017-06-13 09:29 am
darkinferno) wrote in retrospec2017-06-13 09:29 am
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3 ★ [video/text] [FIGHT CLUB]
[For those who haven't seen Dante in a while, he looks a little bit different when the camera clicks on. What was once white-blond hair has now gone pure silver, and his eyes, rather than going gray with the rest of the blues and greens of the world, are still the bright shade of aqua they'd turned back in April. For all his sarcasm about how Jim missed and took the wrong color from him, Dante knows he looks almost identical to the boy he's been remembering these past few months.]
All right. I know I'm not the only one who's been getting weird memories and abilities recently, but what I want to talk about today is this.
[He holds his hand up in front of him, and in a swirl of dark shadows, Soul Eater appears for him to take hold of, also still blue in all the right places.]
Weapons. A lot of people have ended up with them recently. Some of you might have gotten them in the mail, some of you have found them. But one thing's the same--whenever you get it, you know that it's yours.
There are a lot of us that are getting memories back of fighting, too. I don't know how many of you have given it a try, but when I tried to fight the way I had in those memories... it all started coming back to me. How to fight, how to defend... all of it.
So now we've got a bunch of people with weapons they barely know how to use, and a lot of us with memories of fighting but no way to test it out without risking that someone's gonna get hurt.
[He lets go of the sword and Soul Eater disappears back into the shadows.]
Last month, Retrospec managed to take us by surprise. I don't think anyone was expecting to wake up six inches tall or have to fight off spiders or cicadas. But it could happen again. We don't know what their end game is and we don't know what they're gonna throw at us next. And who knows? Maybe next time we won't have to fight. But with how many of us are remembering that sort of thing... I think it'd be a good idea for people to learn how to defend themselves, just in case.
Which brings me to the point of all this: I've been working with a few people and we're putting together network-wide training sessions. Tatsuo Kihara has been able to get us space at the Utsuki Dojo in Tisse on Sundays, 6 PM to midnight. We'll have wooden weapons to practice with so that nobody has to worry about accidentally shanking someone, and that way if you don't know if you did any fighting in the past, you can give it a shot and see if you remember anything. Both Doctors Trevelyan and Sutcliffe have said they'll be there when they can just in case anybody does take a shot too hard.
We've been working on finding people to teach different weapon styles like swords or spears or throwing knives so that you can try out all kinds of different thing.s Some people have offered to teach self-defense too, so even if you don't want to learn to fight offensively, you can at least learn how to defend yourself.
Our first session's going to be this coming Sunday the 18th. I'll be there right at 6:00. Let me know if you have any questions.
[Dante out!
A little bit later, he'll also make a text post to make sure he gets anyone who might not have watched the video. It's mostly the same information, but at the top he'll post the quick and dirty:]
All right. I know I'm not the only one who's been getting weird memories and abilities recently, but what I want to talk about today is this.
[He holds his hand up in front of him, and in a swirl of dark shadows, Soul Eater appears for him to take hold of, also still blue in all the right places.]
Weapons. A lot of people have ended up with them recently. Some of you might have gotten them in the mail, some of you have found them. But one thing's the same--whenever you get it, you know that it's yours.
There are a lot of us that are getting memories back of fighting, too. I don't know how many of you have given it a try, but when I tried to fight the way I had in those memories... it all started coming back to me. How to fight, how to defend... all of it.
So now we've got a bunch of people with weapons they barely know how to use, and a lot of us with memories of fighting but no way to test it out without risking that someone's gonna get hurt.
[He lets go of the sword and Soul Eater disappears back into the shadows.]
Last month, Retrospec managed to take us by surprise. I don't think anyone was expecting to wake up six inches tall or have to fight off spiders or cicadas. But it could happen again. We don't know what their end game is and we don't know what they're gonna throw at us next. And who knows? Maybe next time we won't have to fight. But with how many of us are remembering that sort of thing... I think it'd be a good idea for people to learn how to defend themselves, just in case.
Which brings me to the point of all this: I've been working with a few people and we're putting together network-wide training sessions. Tatsuo Kihara has been able to get us space at the Utsuki Dojo in Tisse on Sundays, 6 PM to midnight. We'll have wooden weapons to practice with so that nobody has to worry about accidentally shanking someone, and that way if you don't know if you did any fighting in the past, you can give it a shot and see if you remember anything. Both Doctors Trevelyan and Sutcliffe have said they'll be there when they can just in case anybody does take a shot too hard.
We've been working on finding people to teach different weapon styles like swords or spears or throwing knives so that you can try out all kinds of different thing.s Some people have offered to teach self-defense too, so even if you don't want to learn to fight offensively, you can at least learn how to defend yourself.
Our first session's going to be this coming Sunday the 18th. I'll be there right at 6:00. Let me know if you have any questions.
[Dante out!
A little bit later, he'll also make a text post to make sure he gets anyone who might not have watched the video. It's mostly the same information, but at the top he'll post the quick and dirty:]
Dante Rantanen
6/13 near Birch Hills
Utsuki Dojo in Tisse
Sundays starting June 18, 6 PM to midnight
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Sorry, I explained that badly. I meant that the flashes all tie together with each other, but who gets what "life" to remember might be picked at random. If they aren't memories of some version of us that existed, then I could have just as easily ended up with your bow and you with my sword, right?
I think "flashes" is probably good enough for now. Whatever word you use, people will know what you mean.
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I can't say I'm on board with having a past life, but that and parallel universes are more comfortable theories than mass hallucinations caused by a lunatic messing with us for kicks.
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[Dante shifts his shoulders uncomfortably. He doesn't like the idea of feeling someone else's emotions. It's hard enough dealing with these flashes when they're just memories and feelings from a past life. If he has to think of them as belonging to someone completely unrelated... it would feel too intrusive, too personal, with everything he's felt.]
Anyways, we won't know for sure unless we keep searching for answers.
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[She glances off for a moment, uncomfortable for her own reasons. She'd felt stirrings of that same rejection throughout her childhood, but nothing as drastic and hurtful as that flash of memory had been.]
And yeah. It's always a step forward and a step back with this mystery, but sitting back and waiting for things to happen clearly isn't the solution. I'm with you on looking for answers.