dualisnet | UN: Honor

[Well isn't this awkward, right? A video on the network after all those horrible things happened and the person in it is smiling and cheerful. Except it's just a smile of the lips. There's no happiness in those glowing eyes. But he's forcing the smile because there is only so much he can do. And what he can do is try and fight back. In the only way he knows how. Making sure other people can fight back.]

Heya all! Zack here, and I had a totally rad proposition. Like, it's occurred to me while I've been working at this fitness place that the place charges a lot for their memberships, and even then you've gotta pay EXTRA for, like, a personal trainer like I do.

[Oh yeah, he's SO going to get fired for what he's about to suggest if his bosses at work see it. Well, the handy-man job probably not. But this? Definitely this.]

And, you know, when we're new here, new arrivals and all of that, a lot of your initial duos are going to clothes and food and all that stuff, right? It's reasonable. It's even smart. But you still wanna stay fit for your work if it's hands on stuff. And me? I like working out and getting fit and cheering people on. I'm, like, SUPER positive and I'm told I'm really great at helping out with this stuff.

So what I'm suggesting is this. I wanna start up a fitness group for my fellow newer arrivals. You know, those of us in the dorm building. I'm gonna see if I can't find some space to do it in, and I'll have a few different classes and all that. General fitness, weight lifting, those sorts of things.

[And then he tilts his head, like he's having a last minute thought. Which isn't true. Zack practiced this in front of the mirror for THREE HOURS to try and make it as real as he can through practice.]

Oh! And you know what is great fitness training? Martial arts and all that. I mean, I'm not the best at hand to hand, but I've seen a place that has these great practice swords, like, kendo stick stuff. I'd LOVE to teach that. I'm a swordsman, see, back home. REALLY good at it, and I'd love to teach people so I can keep my skills up. So I can teach that too. And some hand to hand combat.

Anyway I wanna do this thing so we can all stay fit and healthy, right? So I guess I wanted to know if people would want me to offer something like that, no charge of course. Oh, and if anyone knows a place I could hold it? Because my dorm room definitely isn't big enough. And doing it in the hallway is just asking for trouble.

So basically, any takers?

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Ya don’t say. Guess I must’ve missed that part both times I died.

You've... died too? I'm sorry. This whole thing sucks a lot more for people like us, right? Because, it's not like there is anything to go back to if we survive this shit. Can't go home.

[He would be so jealous to know Jason's alive back in his home.]

Yeah, I did. And this is the third place I’ve been tossed since I left home, so getting back isn’t really what I’m concerned about right now. [in other words: jason doesn’t think it’s likely.] You can’t do anything about that or anything else if you’re dead for good, and from what I saw of those executions? I’m guessing the big machine in charge would be happy to take the option of bringing people back off the table.

So if you’ve died before and didn’t find it a big barrel of laughs, I’m really scratching my head over why you’re doing the exact kinda thing that’s gonna get you killed.

Third? Fuck. The world has more than one crazy place like this? Can't people just let us be dead in peace?

[He doesn't see being dead for good as a really bad thing. Just being dead for good and not in his Lifestream, giving back to his planet.]

But the thing is? There are people who need protecting here, and I can't walk away from that. We need to be able to protect ourselves, and pieces of wood or metal pipe are easy to treat like a sword. But it's not like getting our hands on guns and bullets would be easy. And with those you consume part of your ability to protect yourself in the process of practicing to get good with it. So melee combat is a better choice.

Different worlds. And for the record, I’m pretty happy to be alive again. I got friends here. And I’m not saying don’t train people - just be stealthy about it. You talking about it on a public network like this? You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are. They’re monitoring this - hell, my brother got slapped down for making a joke about a bombing, and that was months ago, way before they turned up the Middle Ages.

I guess stealth was rarely something I was trained in? That's, like, Turk stuff. Not Soldier.

[He does tilt his head curiously at the Middle Ages comment. His world doesn't have that particular reference. Even if there was a time of knights and the like.]

I just guess I don't know how to get people to know I'm doing this without opening my big mouth.

[that ... sounds like it might be a little bit racist, actually, but jason's just not gonna go there. picking your battles and whatnot.]

Try word of mouth. Talk to people one-on-one. You said you're a personal trainer, right? Ask for referrals. See who's got the interest to learn martial arts or fighting with not-a-weapon-sticks and then see if they know anyone else who wants to learn, too. You don't have to be a genius or a soldier or whatever to use stealth. Just imagine these machines that wanna kill you are always watching what you do - because they are.

[Not racist. Just the term used for the Executive Research Department of Shinra Inc.]

Yeah, but people here are getting really... nervous about stuff, right? And I don't wanna just talk to people at the gym I work at. They're... potentially dangerous.

Anyone’s potentially dangerous. And I’d bet even money that it’s the people who are nervous who would want the training. Anyone who doesn’t care is probably on the side of the robots anyway.

I mean, the question becomes whether the people who ARE evil now even know it? Like, I've seen that happen sometimes, not knowing until it's too late that you're a monster.

Just because they’re robots doesn’t mean they’re evil, or monsters. They used to be people, just like you and me. They were murdered, and now they’re under something else’s thumb - just like the rest of us.

But are they? Like, I heard that people got attacked by robots. Are they still people when they're metal inside?

[He definitely doesn't get it, doesn't understand just what does and doesn't make humanity.]

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