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[thebiggestguy]

This is Council member Dread Thunderstorm.

[Yup, it is. Video proof and everything. And who could possibly be mistaken for the massive Roegadyn?]

I'd like to know who here has combat training, and who would like it. Given that our missions often tend to involve self-defense at a minimum, so far, we should plan to train. Also, I'd like to know if we have any gaps to be filled in our teams so we can make preparations.

I'm already offering some classes in pugilism and martial arts, I'd be glad to expand those.

Let me know.

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[really_sketchy]

That's good. Thank you.

Do you mind if I ask more about the council? I don't know a lot about it or the colors on the train. I wasn't able to help my own team because I lacked the skills to do so. I wasn't sure if that was common or not.

[She's trying not to be worried about it but she's worried.]

[thebiggestguy]

Soon after we figured we'd be here for the long run, the train at the time voted for a Council to be in charge. More or less. We don't really do a whole lot. There's not often too much to be done. Everyone gets along pretty well for the most part, so... we just do what we can to try to help all this along.

[really_sketchy]

I see. So you step in should people disagree?

That must be useful should it happen. Do you know who else is on the council?

[thebiggestguy]

Tony, Feanor, my wife Sarai, and Lightning. We haven't really clarified if Ash is official on it now. People tend to come and go at the stations, after all.

[really_sketchy]

Thank you. I'll try and remember them all. I have met Lightning, she was very helpful when I was making cards for the sick.

Maybe... can ask about fighting too. I'm not sure where I should start.

[thebiggestguy]

First step is to get you into good shape, if you're not already. I can do that and teach you basics as part of the same step.

[really_sketchy]

I don't know what shape I'm in.

I only had this body for a few days before I arrived here.

[thebiggestguy]

[...]

I'm going to have to ask about that, I'm afraid.

[really_sketchy]

Who would we ask?

Or... is there a way to find out?

[thebiggestguy]

I meant -- I need to ask you, about what you just said.

[How could she only have the body for a few days...?]

[really_sketchy]

Oh. I don't really know how they did it but the scientists made this body for me and put my conscious into it.

I didn't have my own body before that. I was a Nobody.

[thebiggestguy]

[...]

[.....]

[... is this girl an Ascian?!]

I am not sure what to say to that.

[really_sketchy]

It's alright. You don't have to say anything if you don't want too.

I know... I know it isn't a usual situation.

[thebiggestguy]

It's not the first I've heard of it.

[What IS going on here?]

[really_sketchy]

Really?

Could you tell me about what you've heard?

[thebiggestguy]

There is.. a circle of life. [Y'shtola or Urianger could explain this better than he could...] Most beings, when they pass on, have their aether dissipate and rejoin the greater part of it. But -- some beings can hold their aether together, between the boundary of life and death, and return it to the world.

[really_sketchy]

I do not know if it is like that... maybe.

I was born when Kairi's heart was separated from her body and I became my own person. I don't know how it happened. It isn't supposed to but she had a pure heart. I am the only one born form a pure heart.

[thebiggestguy]

Her heart turned into you? [He traces a finger in a curve, point A to point B. The image in his mind is much more literal than what she might mean...]

[really_sketchy]

Not her heart. Her heart was safe with Sora. I was born from the husk.

I am a nobody.

[thebiggestguy]

I don't agree.

[He thinks her statement is a matter of opinion, and his answer comes as a reflex.]

[really_sketchy]

I'm sorry. It is how Nobody's are born.

Have you never encountered a Nobody?

[thebiggestguy]

You -- you mean this some way other than the obvious, don't you. That's a -- term?

[really_sketchy]

Yes.

When someone's heart is stolen... in their place a heartless and a husk is created. Those with strong hearts create strong husks. A strong husk is called a Nobody. It normally contains the memories of the person it was before and it takes a shape similar to the person who's heart it was born from.

[thebiggestguy]

[Dread folds his arms and bows his head, to think.]

[He isn't an aetheric scholar. Y'shtola or Urianger would understand this better than he does. But still, after a minute of turning around...]

I don't understand how that's possible.

[really_sketchy]

I don't know why it happens, I only know that it does and that's how I was born.

I was... never meant to exist.