WEEK ONE

[lockdownmods]

[ Well that Orientation... happened. Whether you feel more informed or not, the truth remains. Here you are, within Fayflower University. You have your run of the campus, indoors and out.

There's also your tablets to play with. There are several apps-- and even a game! They didn't leave you without some entertainment. The music is a bit dated though...

And should you wish, there's still time to talk to the "staff" in a more... private setting. The office. They're not hard to find. Well-- your Professor, Han and Megumi aren't. Oswald is a bit more... difficult. ]

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Comments

[reshoot]

[Max will grab Akira's wrist and lead him into her room!!! Room 15 is pretty bare. It's not like she's had a ton of time to decorate. Still, there's a few pieces of stationary taped to the wall with encouraging messages like "don't give up" and "you can change things". It's...a little embarassing. She hadn't really thought about bringing anyone here. There's other a few sketches of naturey stuff like trees and birds.]

Home shit home, as a friend of mine would say. [Max takes a seat on the bed, Akira can sit next to her if he so chooses. There is also a chair available.]

What'cha got for me.

[curseoclock]

Huh?

[There's a pause... and Henry laughs a little.]

Really, you think that might be why?

[curseoclock]

And you wondered why I called you an angry lady, ha ha! But hey, if that's what you really want...

[he shrugs]

[curseoclock]

I'm pretty good at not dying. I've stayed alive this long, right?

But it'll just be nice, whenever it might happen! I really wanted to get to know her better and all.

[covertizer]

[ Considering all Akira has is a doodle of Morgana on his wall, this is much more detailed and interesting. Excuse him while he actually examines her walls as best he can without being intrusive! ]

You look like you've moved yourself in pretty well. Better it's a little homely than totally foreign, right? [ Says the guy who just put up gifts his friend gave him the whole time he was in his attic room back home. ]

... Mm, well. [ ... ] I'm not really sure where to begin. Other than, the thieves are a group that exist to help people who have been let down by people who should've been protecting them.

[reshoot]

It's okay. I want to...If I can ever find my camera, I'd like to fill this room with photos of everyone. [okay good he doesnt think she's lame.]

And you're the leader of the theives, right? You're kinda like...a voice of the voiceless type thing?

[unhalting]

...Nah. It's nothing. [Even if it was, it looks like he doesn't want to talk about it.]

[covertizer]

For what it's worth, I hope that it's old age that gets you. Not this place.

[blackcatintheruemorgue]

Alright then.

[Time for.... an awkward silence then.]

Um....

[Subject change time.]

What... what is Gjallarhorn? Why did they attack you?

[curseoclock]

Aw, that's sweet!

But I hope not! I mean, old age, gross, how boring would that be? It's not even bloody or anything.

[covertizer]

Like a wall collage?

[ That'd definitely brighten things up. A little odd, given the circumstances, but he gets why Max would want to do something like this. ]

That's a poetic way of putting it. But, yeah. People who trample on others and put themselves above the law to escape the consequences - those people are our targets.

[covertizer]

...

You actually want to die a horrible death?

[reshoot]

[Nodnod...]

When society turns a blind eye, the phantom thieves spring into action?

If they're your targets...what exactly do you do? Expose them? Or...

[curseoclock]

Well, duh! If I'm gonna die, I want it to be an experience! A really memorable one, you know!

Just not too painful.

[covertizer]

[ They should make that their tag line. ]

We make them confess their own sins, openly, where they can't hide from the weight of what they've done. [ So, yes. Perhaps so. ]

[covertizer]

Can you have it both ways? I kinda thought pain and blood went hand in hand.

[reshoot]

How do you get them to do that? It's not like you have a gun to their head, right? [...right?]

[curseoclock]

Aw, some things shut down the pain receptors real quick, so you barely even feel it. I got plenty of nerve damage to help me get there already.

[covertizer]

Not literally, no.

[ I mean. He’s definitely shot some of them. And held them at gun point. But it wasn’t THEM, exactly. ]

...

So, what do you do with your time travel? Can you go really far back in time, or only a few minutes—? [ Oh look, a topic change. While he figures out how to describe the Metaverse to someone who’s never been there. ]

[reshoot]

[Message received, Mr. Kurusu. Max taps her finger against her chin.]

Usually just a few minutes but...The farthest I've ever been able to send myself back in time was five years. They way that it normally works, is I do this. [She extends her hand towards Akira.]

And time starts reversing itself around me. But if I have a photograph, say from five years ago, I can concentrate my power on that, and it makes me able to travel back to the time the picture was taken. It doesn't last forever though, eventually I get shunted back into the present.

But...If I changed something, the present isn't the same as it was before I went back. It's...a lot of responsibility, I guess.

[sendintheclown]

So, all the glory, all the respect, none of that means anything to you?

[covertizer]

[ Henry, nani the fuck. ]

Yoi’ve... put a lot of thought into this, huh?

[curseoclock]

Well, it is gonna be the last thing I ever do. I don't exactly get a do-over.

[covertizer]

They talk about that in sci-fi, don’t they? There’s usually some variation of being cautious with what you do and change because it can have far reaching consequences that you couldn’t have predicted. What’s the word for it... the Butterfly Effect?

[ He turns away from the walls now and flops into the free seat nearby. Time travel with limitations... it sounds powerful regardless, being able to immediately rewind and fix little things that had gone wrong. All that must add up to something big, if you play your hand right. ]

So, you did both then? Both the short time hops and the ones using photographs as a guide?

[reshoot]

I...definitely learned about all of that stuff the hard way. The Butterfly effect. Chaos theory.

[It's exasperating even now.]

I did it both ways, yeah. The latter one got me out of a few really tough jams, but it also...God, Akira, I fucked up really bad a few times, too.

Messing up that bad and seeing the kinds of things I did, I think that's the only reason I'm able to even kind of deal with this place.

[runs her hands through her hair.]

I mostly tried to use my powers for good, though. Warning people about things, going back and fixing people's silly mistakes...I was the ultimate meddler--though I wonder how much of a good thing that actually was.