UN: Honor - Video

[legacy_blade]

[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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[ichoosefight]

Arkham Asylum. It's a prison for the criminally insane. And yeah, the security is weirdly terrible there.

The Joker is a mass murdering clown. Though he does use cards sometimes... Mostly he kills people in ways he thinks are funny. Laughing gas, bombs, beating them to death, that sort of thing.

[ Her expression turns dark. Joker has hurt a lot of people she cares about, and she's still pretty pissed Batman won't let anyone kill him. ]

Hilarious.

[legacy_blade]

Shit... And no one's killed him, why?

[Some people jail isn't enough for.]

[ichoosefight]

Because good people don't kill.

[ There's definitely a sarcastic quality to that, but it isn't too severe. She wouldn't want to be the one to kill the Joker. But if Jason or Barbara did? She wouldn't bat an eyelash. ]

[legacy_blade]

So people in the military protecting their country aren't good people? Body guards aren't good people?

[His tone says he DEFINITELY doesn't agree.]

[ichoosefight]

Apparently it's a very fine line between tolerable casualties and murder. I guess as long as there are elected officials involved it's A-OK. A judge sentencing a criminal to death is clean, but god forbid you defend yourself and hit someone's head in just the wrong way.

But hey, when thousands of people die because you pulled your punches with a dangerous psychopath at least you'll be able to say you had the moral high ground.

[ This may be... a touch more personal on both their ends than is really wise. Especially when the opposing side is in another universe. Too late, Steph is mad all over again. ]

[legacy_blade]

Yeah, I'm a soldier. A military man. They tell us to point weapons and kill. So I don't really put what is RIGHT on them. They're not good people. Sometimes you just have to know what is right.

Because otherwise a lot of people get hurt.

[ichoosefight]

Well, take it from me. A lot of people tend to get hurt regardless, even if you do everything exactly right.

[legacy_blade]

Yeah. I... know. I saw a whole village burn down.

[ichoosefight]

[ Yeah, that's... pretty harsh. There's a haunted look in her eyes. ]

I'm sorry. I know what that's like.

[legacy_blade]

I'm sorry to hear that you do.

[He knew it because of Cloud's home town, and he didn't want to talk about it as much as he could. It hurt a lot to think about how much he failed people there.]

[ichoosefight]

[ She takes a breath and lets it out slowly. ]

Hopefully neither of us will have to see it again.

[legacy_blade]

Damn right. I can't... Well, things like that are a bit of a mess. And people don't deserve it.

[ichoosefight]

Nobody deserves to die for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[legacy_blade]

Yeah... I definitely agree.