02 - Welp (backdated to the 24th)

[agelostdoll]

((ooc: had meant to put this up a few days ago but I had to clean a virus off my PC; sorry about that!))

[Asuka - the eyepatch'd one - comes onto the screen... and looking none too good. Pale, bags under her eye and shivering despite a blanket and a heavy jacket. Yeah. Even her voice is hoarse:]

Anyone wondering about that side effects thing... well, it's pretty fucking confirmed. I'm about three weeks in; haven't touched anybody. Said I would a while ago; experiment.

Fever, headaches, sleep disruption... I think I'm starting to hallucinate. I'm calling it off.

They're not lying about that.

Private text to greenteengenius

you want your scans make it quick

Private text to favored_four_eyes

could use a hand

Comments

[paraclete]

My apologies. I've made you uneasy. Shall I excuse you from my company, Captain Shikinami?

[Because he's used to those stiff nods from the folks from Seele and Nerv, but he respects her.]

[agelostdoll]

...



When you talked about people dying, did you mean it is a joke? Or did you not see it as something serious?

[paraclete]

I wasn't joking. It seemed to me that many creatures have learned which actions to avoid by witnessing the deaths of their brethren. From an evolutionary standpoint, it would be a logical conclusion.

I do not hope for anyone to die. Yet there are cases in which death is reasonable. I must have spoken inappropriately.

[agelostdoll]

Then; I'll put it in perspective. If someone dying from the withdrawal would benefit the rest of us, as you say, does that mean you would agree with Shinji doing it?

[paraclete]

No. The Evangelion project seemed perfectly content with that prospect, however. Even you participated and were used with such a risk in mind. Is it different?

[agelostdoll]

Yes. Scale.

It was a matter of risk us, or lose everything. That danger doesn't exist here; not to such an extent.

...Well, I'll admit I was piloting because I was told to when I started. Just the glory. But there are people I care about; that I've lost and that remain. If fighting is the only way I can protect them, I will accept that risk.

[paraclete]

So, death is currently an unacceptable risk?

[agelostdoll]

Not here. There's nothing to potentially gain; more to potentially lose. Our own lives aside, of course.

[paraclete]

[A nod of comprehension.]

Then those lives should indeed be preserved.

[agelostdoll]

Quite so. Make sure the other one understands it as well. [it's not a conversation feels up to holding twice]

[paraclete]

I can speak with him, but time has created differences between us, so I can't promise you anything.

[agelostdoll]

Still better than doing nothing; thank you.

[paraclete]

Yes.

Take care of yourself, Shikinami. I am happy to talk with you.