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Llama 13 - [Audio]

(OOC: Threads arising from this question may contain some unpleasant aspects of Eva's world re: mewtwo/s, including how they were created and how they're seen. Eva'll take any actual talk of it off the ICP.)

A question, if you will. [Eva is nowhere near as calm as she tries to sound, and it becomes clearer as she speaks. She's also recording all of this on Roro for later playback.]

Say... Say you know someone. You call them a good person, someone who always helps and tries to do the right thing. Yet, they've also protected a creature... no, a person your society and culture deems a kill-on-sight threat, for very good reasons. It's not the right thing to do by society, and it means... means they'll be branded a Traitor to be executed if anyone ever finds out. [A breath -you wouldn't be wrong if you get the feeling this is personal for her, because, it is. ] But they feel it's the right thing to do because the person is a person and worse yet, the equivalent of a child. So they do. They protect the person, even knowing they've signed their death warrant.

What... What you do if you found out? Would... would you condemn them? Or would you... would you agree with them?

Ah... and um. For those that saw that illusion, the one with the kids -my sisters-, can... Can I talk to you? Privately?

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[He reaches out and takes the phone, holding it and flipping through the images. Pretty much the essential folder of a proud parent, whether of a pet or a person.]

I know a hyper-intelligent raccoon. They're these kinda... big ol' rat lookin' Terran things with fluffy tails? Sorta like they got masks with their fur pattern? Got experimented on by scientists. Absolute asshole, but still good people. He'd probably stand in Fluffy's court.

[He holds the phone back out to her after looking.]

Yeah, I'd never do it again. Got a lot better about what jobs I took. [He even would turn them around mid-job and say that he had to, having no intention to finish in the first place, taking a second-rate deal out of ethics but write it off as self-preservation.]

Yeah... Not all Kree are awful but... the ones that are? Don't go about it half-assed. I didn't get the scars on my face from fightin'. [He tips his his head to point out the strange pattern. They're not random. They're almost like tally marks.] But Skrulls are real good about bein' sneaky so they probably made it. [He sounds like he admires them for it.]

Rac... [What's tha- Wait.] Ah- like a jig'zaguma, then? Geeze, they're lucky they didn't get maimed for their efforts, assuming racoons are like those things. [There's a small tsk and half smirk, half grimace as she accepts the phone back.] Even if they aren't, I think I'd like to meet him. He sounds interesting at least.

[And.... it'd be one more ally the mewtwo species would have as a whole.

Yet when he brings up the scars, Eva glances away before shaking her head and offering an easy grin.] I'd been hoping those were ones from fishing nets, not... not what they actually are.

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I think most people just figure it's somethin' like that. I kinda... there's someone I think a whole lot of here... I figure I think too much of 'em. Gonna work on that, try to fix it. But I told 'em what happened to me.

You could see it right on their face. I said what I was and it was too much.

[He feels self-conscious bringing it up around them now.]

It's rough talkin' around a whole twenty years of your life, but I can keep from bringin' it up. Well, the Raccoon got it anyway. I think he spent the same time percentagewise of his life cookin' in a lab somewheres on Terra.

If Fluffy ever shows up, I'm going to introduce you to her. [Eva means, it too. Her kitten-daughter needs all the friends!]

But, seriously. Give them time. If they respect you, they'll come around. If they don't.... Well. That's on them, not on you. Never on you.

[She means every word, and she will defend him until she's dead.

Yet, she can't not comment on this, not when Yondu sounds so much like Erin several years ago now. Completely different topics, but still...] Stop me if I'm staying things you know, yet this is reminding me of something back home. Where it's not talking around so much as off-hand mentions when it comes up. That way if people want to know more, they can ask.

I don't think it was disrespect. I think it was like what I said. Too much.

[But, hey, at least she has some experience with the lab expirement. It sucks, but at least it's a kind of sympathy for relatively rare trauma. Or at least in comparison to the train, anywhere else that sort of background would be rare. He's found it too much here.]

I dunno, this is the most I brought it up in a while. Or so I figured. It's more on my mind than usual 'cause I keep runnin' into people that went through similar. I ain't ever all that upset about me, but I get real pissed off about them.

[Especially since so many of them are just kids who got used.]

Could be. Sometimes it just happens.

[She shrugs a little, feeling somewhat awkward and not really sure what to say outside that.]

Yeah, this place has a way of dragging in in people who've been through shit. I guess we're interesting. [Everything about her says she's clearly not even remotely amused to be considered interesting to some unseen force.] Though, if you ask me, I think it's because we've got the skills needed. Even the kids and I understand many see that as an issue.

Either way, if you're willing, I'd be willing to listen if you need to get things off your chest re: the slavery thing. I can't promise to understand, but I would listen.

I'm usually alright. Sounds funny, but the Kree are what they are an' I ain't really the vengeful sort. [He's got kind of a 'either kill them or don't worry about them' attitude about it all. And that's honestly the part that probably bothers most people. That he casucally accepts it as something that happened to him, at least outwardly.]

I think it picks us 'cause we got the capacity to change things. Face stuff bigger'n us.

[He'd made someone real mad by putting it that way, though. Like they assumed he was somehow advocating that kids would be taken for that purpose when he hates that they're here with all his heart.]

True, yet won't change the fact the offer's a standing one. [She's not even remotely bothered by the casual acceptance of the horrific. Life is as it is and crying over it won't change the past. What she can do is keep the door of communication and friendship open.]

You're likely right on that; at least most of the kids here can look after themselves, yet... Still not right, you know? Just because they could face this doesn't mean they should.

Oh, I hate it a ton. [He says that willingly and flat out.]

[So much about this train that he hates.] But I guess you can see why I don't want nothin' bad happenin' to 'em if I can help it. It's a pretty decent feelin' for anyone worth the air they breathe, true, but I don't feel right unless I'm really tryin' to keep 'em safe.

[It's a karmic debt on top of his fatherly tendencies. It's knowing that he doesn't want these kids to turn out like him, because he still sees himself as a worst case scenario. Train might have decided they're worth endangering but Yondu's willing to throw himself under a bus for them.]

I can, yes, and I do feel the same as you. [She's firm on that, and the only reason she's not with any of the other teams on missions is she's one of the Orange Leaders.]

Though I'm also of the mind that how much protection they need varies, but I know that's likely my world talking.

If it helps I'm a team lead in charge of a team with a shitload of kids.

[He snorts a little. He thinks that he was made a lead because he was a rare adult (also WangJi knew he had some captaining experience).]

A lot of 'em are real good at takin' care of themselves, yeah. I get a lotta worlds do some kinda walkabout thing. But that's still for them and they're prepared for it. This is differ'nt.

From what the other Centaurians I met said, I probably woulda started learnin' to hunt pretty young if I lived normal.

Probably, yeah.

[Eva nods in a greement, then grins.] Normal's overrated, but I get what you mean.

Though, I do have to ask: do you know how to hunt now?

[He can't help himself. He just laughs a mean little laugh.]

Oh hell yeah. Just 'cause I ended up huntin' people more often than animals ain't meanin' I'm no less of a hunter. Man's gotta make a livin' an' findin' in general, whether it's walkin', crawlin', breathin', or sittin on a shelf, is good Ravager work.

Exactly. Instincts are instincts.

[There's a wry grin, and as light as she treats the topic, Eva means every word.]I know who to approach if Fluffy ever shows. I hope she doesn't, but someone who understands the instinct is... yeah. I can only so much.

[There is, after all, a very big difference between raising a typical pokemon and raising a mewtwo.

A heartbeat, then: ] If you ever need a hand in a hunt, just let me know? Gods only know I've experience with it thanks to my world.

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