netherworld_academy | A little Bird sings her Feelings to the world...

Ugh, please, no fist fighting. I'd have had to break out Miros, and even I don't know how much of that is costume and how much is forcing crystals to grow out of my body.

On the world destruction front however, that sounds like an interesting story. Come on, spill the details and I'll give you free grenades. They look like adorable bunnies until you twist their little heads off.

I'm talking about a regular fist fight without crystals and crap! Jeez, everyone is powered up...

Basically, there were these alien fucks whose whole thing was destroying worlds. But people chosen from parts of the world were taken away before it happened, and they had to live with a shitload of other people from other worlds whose worlds were destroyed. Since I was good enough to be saved, well, I figured I had to be the best that I could be. So I learned a little magic, some speed, and even got a mentor. That was actually how I met my girlfriend.

[They could hopefully avoid talking about parents].

Hey, I don't know how to break it to you, but I am not good in close. Like, at all. I almost got killed once by a...well, it was like getting attacked by a housecat. You wouldn't know the specific thing, but it was damn embarrassing. So without crystals jutting out of my body like claws, yeah, I kinda can't fight hand to hand.

Are we talking like entire universes here, or just planets? How many places did they take down, anyways?

Good to note. So I'm going to have to make sure I fight people up close if I have the chance.

Oh, they were definitely aiming for a whole universe, but they were going for planet to planet at the time. We were aiming to eventually destroy them, but...I got brought here, so much for that. Still wish I knew why my cash followed though.

That's what the robots are for. And my boyfriend, when he's available, is much better than them.

Hmmm. Sounds like a serious threat, you should tell me more about them. But I think you've earned that grenade. Swing by room 101 some time, I should be trying to hurry those penguins up and get it done.

I want to know why they sent my son's swords here-those things were left at a memorial in Elmenia, not in my possession. I mean, that's a real puzzler, isn't it?

Sounds nice. My girlfriend's...well, she's a viking. You don't really need to know more than that.

They were, and they weren't the only thing that you had to deal with on that ship. People had troubles adjusting, you know: no day and night, a living ship. It wasn't always pretty.

Heh, thanks. Let me know what I owe you then. Yeah, that is pretty messed up, why would they do that? To mess with you on purpose?

Well, I think I would need to know what a viking is.

Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem. Of course, had that been my world that got toasted, I wouldn't have been rescueable. Must have been a real pressure-cooker.

I can sort of understand their logic. Kind of. It's pretty twisted though.

Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. They're kinda like, pillagers, I guess? They're really boisterousness and loud and will o whatever for a thrill. That just appealed to me, and she's the kind of person that will charge into battle even if she could get fried for it.

Honestly, she should have been killed awhile ago.

Huh, why not?

I don't like the idea of them doing that.

Ahh. Well, that type is usually canon fodder or heroes-it all depends on skill and how the enemy reacts to the crazy running at them screaming. Sounds like you have the later.

I'm a Reyvateil Beta. On the upside, I've got a hundred and twenty years of my life left, and I'll always look this good. On the downside, if I'm cut off from my server for more than about an hour, I die instantly. I've got a built-in kill switch.

She can seem like that, but she's actually pretty damn versatile. I'm the planner usually though.

What do you mean server? When I hear that, I just think of a computer or something.

Ahh, this is where my story gets complex. I am a computer program, for certain values of programs and computers. Magic in my world requires a certain amount of high-technology to work, and I am made of magic. In fact, my body was made by casting the right spells on a tank of special salt water and creating a five-year old me. And when my body was destroyed, I was able to survive for a time inside the equipment that creates my power. A significant portion of my soul is stored on a computer, and if I can't 'dial home' regularly, my body will shut down and dissolve.

The really crazy thing is that this body is realistic enough despite all that to be able to carry a child to term. I'm not sure if the scientists who designed that feature were total creeps or geniuses.

...Dude, that is one of the craziest stories I have ever heard. Not that I don't believe it of course, anything can happen in this place. It's just wild to know that I'm talking with a living, breathing computer program.

Would you want to, though? I'm not even sure if I would.

Edited 2013-03-24 07:35 (UTC)

The breathing should be stranger than the living-I know quite a few AIs and androids left over from that period, and they're a lot simpler in some ways than I am.

Hey, having kids is an option, not a requirement. And the alternative would be the 'anatomically correct' model they used on the first Alphas, they look like dolls. No thanks, I think that I prefer being able to have sex.

Hmm. I'll keep that in mind.

Wouldn't the alternative be a NOT anatomically correct model?

Whoa, whoa. No one was ruling sex out, that's definitely not an option for me either. It's the kid thing I'm hesitant about!

I had airquotes around that phrase, don't ignore them. It was mocking, not factual.

Well they kinda go hand in hand. No reason to give a girl a set of urges and equipment if they're useless.

Right.

I guess, though there are always precautions you take in case you don't want one.

Precautions that are only necessary if you have a reproductive system. If you don't have one, from the point of view of the scientists, why would you need the external components? I mean you have to keep in mind, my personal pleasure was never on those bastards minds, every aspect of this body was made to serve them. My face is based on classical dimensions of beauty, my height set low to make me easily man-handled, and my emotional state deliberately restricted so I wouldn't object to being mistreated.

They botched a few details of that last one by the way.

[Here, Mindy was going to make a face. If there was one thing she really hated, it was the idea of using someone to fulfill ones own sexual/twisted whims. it smacked of the most repulsive, disgusting fanboy wet dreams, and had she ever met anyone like that she would have gutted them like a fish and sleep soundly afterward].

I'm glad they did. Words can't describe what I feel about hearing that. How did you manage to, I dunno, defy their programming?

Oh, they suffered greatly for their crimes, when I finally broke down the barriers. But it broke down over time, when I was a little girl, a teenager, and a grown woman, significant events that marked shifts in my mindset from adoring to genocidal. At which point...well it was a lot of dead people.

I can see that. I mean, if you get pent up for that long, you have all these feelings that build up, right? I can understand how a bunch of people would wind up dead.

And when your only friend slash mentor slash mother figure is being attacked with the intent of torturing her? Yeah, that'll push you over the edge.

Don't do what I did and destroy cities though, that's just overreacting.

Can't relate there. Never knew my mom.

Nah, I'm nowhere near that powerful yet, and even if it was, you never do something like that without thinking.

It is actually shockingly easy to do something like that when you are a living strategic weapon.

[Mir indicates the melted hole where the rock pile used to be]

That was the tactical weapons system. The big guns rip the planet open like an orange for over 500 kilometers.

Shit. And here I thought I was one, you're one literally.

And you're not even thinking of that as an option, of course.

Well, no. It's not really an option because I don't have the targeting equipment and they've been offline for 700 years. That's what they call in strategy games, an 'off map' power.

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