Mm... Well, yeah. [A PAUSE which might be marginally ominous, but it's just Kashuu trying to decide how he wants to tackle explaining this. In the end, he settles with something relatively simple. Just--]
A monster? [Why that's his first thought...well, he won't say. The word is almost automatic and he's hanging onto Kashuu's every word.] Or something else? It's a pattern but now you're opening a whole other can of worms or whatever.
So we ignore the headaches and just pretend all of this is actually right. That's about the only way I can see this having any kind of good outcome. [And because he doesn't know when to leave well enough alone...] What'd it look like?
Don't start getting all doom-and-gloomy on me. I've already got enough gloomy guys in my life.
[Also don't start running off into the loving embrace of danger, Luke. He sees you.]
Um... It was big? Like, big, and wearing some kinda armor or something. It had this huuuge sword, too. Some of its armor had bones sticking out of it... I think there were bones sticking outta the guy, too? Horns on its head, freaky little feet - oh, and it was on fire.
I'm not good at doom-and-gloom anyway. [Now running face-first into danger, yeah, he's an expert at that. Also being on fire, that's something he's good at in memories he doesn't have yet and that I won't reclaim from this thread. But uh. Okay, sure, Kashuu, this seems a little....]
I'd ask if they were its bones but that probably doesn't matter too much. You fought it sword to sword? How'd you get out of getting burned? [A sigh.] This is just getting weirder and weirder. Again.
[Luke and his memory regain train needs to take a timeout and have a long think about things... Please stop running into danger and also being on fire?!]
They might've been? The ones coming out of it, at least... And I have nooo idea. I fought it like I'd fought things like that my whole life or something, it was crazy. Cut it right in half and everything.
[Despite only coming up to its abdomen... HIS ANIME LIFE.]
[There's no stopping the train, let's be real. He's more interested in hearing about Kashuu's anime life though especially since somehow that kind of sounds a little weirdly believable. Why? Hell if he knows.]
Guess it's no different than Thalia and I running into dragons and glowing goats when we were kids. [MMMMMM.] It was just you in that memory? I never thought you'd be the type to fight monsters but maybe it has something to do with your family's genes. [Given. Thalia and Jason are horrifying people sometimes.]
[When lost and struggling, there's always animes to laugh at...
Also, giving Luke a look.]
The glowing goat thing is new. [HE HEARD ABOUT THE DRAGONS BUT GLOWING GOATS... Why do their hallucinations keep getting more and more like something a person would actually hallucinate.]
And what's that supposed to mean? [HUFFS... Even if Luke is 100% correct.] But-- no, I'm pretty sure a few other people were there. Like... a group? But a pretty small one.
Yeah I haven't really talked about that to her yet. Not sure how to bring up the fact that we were following a glowing goat somewhere in Virginia some time after we found a dragon in South Carolina. I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell her either. [HE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.]
And it means that you're all vicious and it's kind of funny and intimidating all at once. [He lifts an eyebrow.] And the same thing as usual where those people weren't clear at all. Were they at least helping? Or just watching you fight this bone-monster?
I'm trying not to get too involved myself, but here we are. [Not that he minds. He loves the Graces and so by extension Kashuu gets involved anyway.] Sooner or later you'd think people's memories would start bleeding together anyway.
[There's a heavy sigh.] You're lucky you didn't get killed, you know that? Going back to the original point though, you hallucinated and remembered the sword which is the same sword they just sent you. Was it a voodoo sword back then, too?
[LUKE, A MEDDLER... Not that he doesn't appreciate it, especially when it comes to his dang cousins who need about all the keepers they can possibly get. They're honestly menaces and they need to be stopped.]
Anyway, go tell hallucino-me to cut it out with the dangerous stuff. I sure wouldn't do anything that stupid. [HE SAYS NOW.] I don't really know, though? I mean, I could-- y'know, feel it... cutting through the thing and all, but I figured that's just a heat of the moment thing.
[But no, it was probably a sword voodoo thing, and the realization is making his nose wrinkle.]
Watch it. [That is to say...yeah. Yeah, he nosy. He also recognizes that look and he nods almost sagely, like he's old and wise and not just an idiot.]
Shitty realization, huh? That's what some of us have been dealing with on and off. You're the first I've met who has a voodoo sword, but the whole "impacting memories and feeling emotions" thing isn't new. If you were doing something like that and with other people, maybe it means you were a soldier of some kind in your past life? Or whatever. Fighting monsters is...it's weird, but it's not the weirdest thing, I think. Some people might find that normal by now.
[IGNORES THAT PART he will call Luke out on being nosy and a danger-prone missile for all eternity...]
If that's normal for some people, then I seriously feel bad for 'em, considering that's not normal at all.
[HE REFUSES TO ACCEPT THIS.]
Seriously... What kinda game are they trying to play here? Soldiers and monsters? People who can fly and fight dragons? Come on, this is real life, not an anime.
[At first he doesn't say anything because...well. Shit's weird. He seems to be staring off into space for a moment and his eyes narrow briefly.]
Anime or not, it's definitely something that's happened to a lot of people. [A beat.] Me included, I guess. I don't know if the monsters thing was supposed to be normal, but it makes sense if I gave Annabeth a knife and I met Thalia inside a dragon's cave. We were monster-hunters, or something like that.
So, what. They're picking people in the city and basically being like, hey, you used to be a monster hunter! Yasu's whole "maybe they need an army or are preparing for a war" thing sounds a little less stupid now, I guess.
[He says, even though he's somehow still skeptical about that... His tinhatting will only go so far, apparently. Just because they sent him a sword, it doesn't mean they're preparing to send him off to battle!!]
It's possible, but that's the first time I've heard that theory. What kind of a war would they even be preparing for? The city's always been pretty chill before all of this started. [Kashuu I hope you're ready to be a soldier, goodbye.]
Anyway I don't have proof we fought monsters. I just know that we did. Somehow. See, saying it out loud sounds really stupid anyway. [A pause.] How big of an army would they even need?
Who knows? It's still pretty chill even with all the crazy stuff going on. Like, no one's getting hurt? [He's going to look back on this someday and curse himself, probably.] But Yasu's just like that.
[He also had some pretty bloody hallucinonightmares, so that probably contributes to his overall mental picture here... But Kashuu won't mention that aloud, of course.]
That's definitely pretty weird-sounding though, yeah. Also, I guess it'd depend on what kinda soldiers they get? I mean, if we're all running around flying into ceilings and fighting dragons or whatever, we'd probably make a good army with just a handful of us.
Somehow I got that impression from hearing about him. Let's keep it that way though, huh? The less people are actually in danger the easier it'll be to figure this stuff out.
[He's drumming his fingers on the bar top just to work out some excess energy, unsure where to go from there.] You'd think they'd at least train us for our new freaky powers and weapons or whatever instead of just letting us figure it out on our own. Seems pretty stupid when you think about the fact we could easily turn on them, too. Once we found them. I don't know much about being a soldier either way but we could do a lot of collateral damage when the time's right.
I mean. I'm still all for destroying the building but apparently that's a little too much.
Yeah, I'm definitely not gonna be advocating dragging more people into this mess.
[AND THEN MORE PEOPLE GOT DRAGGED INTO THIS MESS it's fine, they're fine.]
I guess they don't care? Which makes sense, I mean... If they're the ones giving us all this weird stuff, I'm sure they could take it away if we decided to go hunt 'em down and set their building on fire or whatever. Which, by the way, I would totally sign up for.
[Some things just withstand the test of time, like bad tempers and bloodthirst.]
Thalia and I burnt down a building once. It probably wouldn't be that hard to do it again. I don't know how they could take away the stuff they're implanting in us or mailing us or whatever, but I don't like the sound of that either.
Hm? Oh, hallucino-whatever. I think Thalia might've mentioned if we burned down a building recently, but this was when we were kids. Teenagers. Still not sure why, but it's something that happened.
Like a reverse lobotomy, you think? How do lobotomies even work? [Why is this conversation real.]
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In the hallucination, but it wasn't human.
[Unlike the very human thugs he almost stabbed.]
That's definitely a pattern there, then.
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A monster? [Why that's his first thought...well, he won't say. The word is almost automatic and he's hanging onto Kashuu's every word.] Or something else? It's a pattern but now you're opening a whole other can of worms or whatever.
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Monster? Yeah... Yeah, that's what I would call something like that.
[An enormous monster that he still doesn't understand being able to cut down... Shit was huge.]
Pretty typical though, huh? We finally start getting some patterns to work with and it just gives us more headaches.
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[Also don't start running off into the loving embrace of danger, Luke. He sees you.]
Um... It was big? Like, big, and wearing some kinda armor or something. It had this huuuge sword, too. Some of its armor had bones sticking out of it... I think there were bones sticking outta the guy, too? Horns on its head, freaky little feet - oh, and it was on fire.
[why]
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I'd ask if they were its bones but that probably doesn't matter too much. You fought it sword to sword? How'd you get out of getting burned? [A sigh.] This is just getting weirder and weirder. Again.
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They might've been? The ones coming out of it, at least... And I have nooo idea. I fought it like I'd fought things like that my whole life or something, it was crazy. Cut it right in half and everything.
[Despite only coming up to its abdomen... HIS ANIME LIFE.]
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Guess it's no different than Thalia and I running into dragons and glowing goats when we were kids. [MMMMMM.] It was just you in that memory? I never thought you'd be the type to fight monsters but maybe it has something to do with your family's genes. [Given. Thalia and Jason are horrifying people sometimes.]
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Also, giving Luke a look.]
The glowing goat thing is new. [HE HEARD ABOUT THE DRAGONS BUT GLOWING GOATS... Why do their hallucinations keep getting more and more like something a person would actually hallucinate.]
And what's that supposed to mean? [HUFFS... Even if Luke is 100% correct.] But-- no, I'm pretty sure a few other people were there. Like... a group? But a pretty small one.
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And it means that you're all vicious and it's kind of funny and intimidating all at once. [He lifts an eyebrow.] And the same thing as usual where those people weren't clear at all. Were they at least helping? Or just watching you fight this bone-monster?
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[WAVING A HAND... He loves Thalia but he is not here to deliver news about glowing goats to her, that can be Luke's job.
Anyway, he'll just gloss on by that TOTALLY UNTRUE STATEMENT because he's not vicious, he's cute (he is fckin vicious), and more importantly--]
Yeah, basically - but they were definitely helping, yeah. There was more than one of those monsters, I think? I was just handling one on my own.
[Thus proving Luke's point that everyone in this family is vicious.]
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[There's a heavy sigh.] You're lucky you didn't get killed, you know that? Going back to the original point though, you hallucinated and remembered the sword which is the same sword they just sent you. Was it a voodoo sword back then, too?
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[LUKE, A MEDDLER... Not that he doesn't appreciate it, especially when it comes to his dang cousins who need about all the keepers they can possibly get. They're honestly menaces and they need to be stopped.]
Anyway, go tell hallucino-me to cut it out with the dangerous stuff. I sure wouldn't do anything that stupid. [HE SAYS NOW.] I don't really know, though? I mean, I could-- y'know, feel it... cutting through the thing and all, but I figured that's just a heat of the moment thing.
[But no, it was probably a sword voodoo thing, and the realization is making his nose wrinkle.]
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Shitty realization, huh? That's what some of us have been dealing with on and off. You're the first I've met who has a voodoo sword, but the whole "impacting memories and feeling emotions" thing isn't new. If you were doing something like that and with other people, maybe it means you were a soldier of some kind in your past life? Or whatever. Fighting monsters is...it's weird, but it's not the weirdest thing, I think. Some people might find that normal by now.
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If that's normal for some people, then I seriously feel bad for 'em, considering that's not normal at all.
[HE REFUSES TO ACCEPT THIS.]
Seriously... What kinda game are they trying to play here? Soldiers and monsters? People who can fly and fight dragons? Come on, this is real life, not an anime.
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Anime or not, it's definitely something that's happened to a lot of people. [A beat.] Me included, I guess. I don't know if the monsters thing was supposed to be normal, but it makes sense if I gave Annabeth a knife and I met Thalia inside a dragon's cave. We were monster-hunters, or something like that.
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[He says, even though he's somehow still skeptical about that... His tinhatting will only go so far, apparently. Just because they sent him a sword, it doesn't mean they're preparing to send him off to battle!!]
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Anyway I don't have proof we fought monsters. I just know that we did. Somehow. See, saying it out loud sounds really stupid anyway. [A pause.] How big of an army would they even need?
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Who knows? It's still pretty chill even with all the crazy stuff going on. Like, no one's getting hurt? [He's going to look back on this someday and curse himself, probably.] But Yasu's just like that.
[He also had some pretty bloody hallucinonightmares, so that probably contributes to his overall mental picture here... But Kashuu won't mention that aloud, of course.]
That's definitely pretty weird-sounding though, yeah. Also, I guess it'd depend on what kinda soldiers they get? I mean, if we're all running around flying into ceilings and fighting dragons or whatever, we'd probably make a good army with just a handful of us.
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Somehow I got that impression from hearing about him. Let's keep it that way though, huh? The less people are actually in danger the easier it'll be to figure this stuff out.
[He's drumming his fingers on the bar top just to work out some excess energy, unsure where to go from there.] You'd think they'd at least train us for our new freaky powers and weapons or whatever instead of just letting us figure it out on our own. Seems pretty stupid when you think about the fact we could easily turn on them, too. Once we found them. I don't know much about being a soldier either way but we could do a lot of collateral damage when the time's right.
I mean. I'm still all for destroying the building but apparently that's a little too much.
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[AND THEN MORE PEOPLE GOT DRAGGED INTO THIS MESS it's fine, they're fine.]
I guess they don't care? Which makes sense, I mean... If they're the ones giving us all this weird stuff, I'm sure they could take it away if we decided to go hunt 'em down and set their building on fire or whatever. Which, by the way, I would totally sign up for.
[Some things just withstand the test of time, like bad tempers and bloodthirst.]
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Thalia and I burnt down a building once. It probably wouldn't be that hard to do it again. I don't know how they could take away the stuff they're implanting in us or mailing us or whatever, but I don't like the sound of that either.
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[HE KNOWS THE ANSWER but look. Look. He's still vaguely concerned, okay...]
We don't even know how they're giving 'em to us in the first place, right? Maybe reversing it is easy, who knows.
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Like a reverse lobotomy, you think? How do lobotomies even work? [Why is this conversation real.]
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...I have no idea, though. But wouldn't they have to like, take a scalpel to our heads for that or something?
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