Mask or Menace - IC Contact

[crimsonunion]

[click]

Uh, this is Ryuko Matoi. I'm probably out kicking ass or at school or brewing bad coffee, so leave a voicemail? Or a text message or whatever. I'll get to you when I get to you, alright?

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[vociferates]

WHAAAAAT'S HAPPENIN' MATOI!
Just checkin' in on u like I said I would
hope everything's goin smooth!

if u still want those heroing lessons don't forget to hit me up! www
let me know how you're handling things, regardless
put a teacher's mind at ease!

[crimsonunion]

AW CRAP

been a while, hasn't it

things've been real hectic in maurtia so following up on that business kinda slipped my mind orz

would be super down tho, actually some backup on a thing would be nice? might be able to heal from getting shot but it still hurts like hell lmao

meet me in maurtia l8r?

[vociferates]

maurtia's easy yo.
my place is there.
u can come here if you want? can drop u the address.

please tell me u arent in any kind of trouble already
that sounds super suspect!!!

[crimsonunion]

nothing bad i swear

some local crimeboss got it into his head to try hunting me down specifically after i busted up a few of his operations and i finally got a bead on where his base is at

figured i'd go there, KO him, and leave him wrapped up nice and tidy with a lot of evidence for the cops to find and prosecute him with

[vociferates]

hmmm....
I probably shouldnt be encouraging this whole thing
but I'm not really a fan of villains that target kids, either.

if I go along with you, should mean you'll be safe from getting into any kind of bureaucratic nonsense.

[AND she'd have someone to keep her back covered. Really, he wonders if he's too soft?]

Count me in, but do you mind tossing me some of this evidence you've got? Just to look it over.

i'll make a log

[crimsonunion]

hell yes

see you soon

[Attached is a... well, not dutifully-collected, but Mic can tell Ryuko's put some work into putting together enough evidence for the police to be able to put this thug in irons with.]

throw it at me <3

[vociferates]

U got it, little miss!

[The effort is clear. He's just glad he gets to go along to help this go as smoothly as possible.

...with the least amount of long term issues for Ryuko as well.]

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[burnishingmad]

That story about your mother

That happened to you right before this place didn't it

[crimsonunion]

not

right before

a few weeks passed

but yeah it was pretty recent

what's it your business anyways

[burnishingmad]

You put it on a public network making it anyone's business.

[crimsonunion]

free food is free food

anyways, it's all in the past

i'm supposed to be over it, it's no big deal

[burnishingmad]

'Supposed to be' and 'currently' are two separate things.

[He won't delve too deeply into the details since she did enough of it on her own on a public network.]

It doesn't mean you aren't allowed to still be angry.

[crimsonunion]

.

who said wasn't fucking angry

yknow at the end of it all

when it was just

me ragyo and senketsu floating around in space, looking down at the planet

i

i don't know

maybe it was leftover from when she brainwashed memories of a "happy" childhood with her or something but

i asked her to come with us

get back to earth, one last chance

.

she laughed in my face and pulled her own heart out in front of me

idk what i was expecting but

that's the part that

well it

i just don't know

[burnishingmad]

[Lio wonders about that. Maybe if Lio hadn't been there, would Kray have used himself as the engine core instead? Twisted it to lead those last 10,000 that he was a martyr and gotten prosthetic limbs of what couldn't be saved?

While he's suffered, he's gone through so much, at least he knows there will be justice for what Kray did. It sounds like Ryuko won't get to have that.]

Some people don't want to be saved. Convinced themselves there's nothing to be saved from. There's nothing you can do about it.

It's bullshit.

[crimsonunion]

i don't even know why i asked!

she didn't deserve to be saved after

why are you bugging me about this anyways

thought you hated me or somethin

[burnishingmad]

The fire puns irritate me. Galo irritates the hell out of me, this whole universe irritates me. I want to burn it to the ground and it takes everything in me not to do it.

The only person I hate isn't here. I'm still shocked I even have limbs right now.

I'm 'bugging' you because it sounds like you went through a similar kind of ...alien mess that I went through.

[crimsonunion]

yeah i guess

feel like i should count myself lucky that i got to save the world before i got taken here so i don't have to worry about leaving it to get destroyed

still weird though

thought i was finally getting an opportunity to relax, go on that date i promised mako, and then

well

i'm here, and it's just like early days back in honnouji

classes and beating up thugs too big for their britches as my extracurricular

i'm back to where i started except i'm "self-actualized" or whatever

[burnishingmad]

[Yeah, this isn't about him. He'll just. Stuff everything he's never talked about back inside. This kid needs to get all this out now before she explodes.]

Unfortunately this place doesn't care what you wanted or what you were doing back home.

What's forcing you now to fight?

[crimsonunion]

nothing

don't really know how to do anything else honestly

...sounds like you're in the same boat, honestly

[Sorry, Flamio Hotman. No running from your feelings this time.]

[burnishingmad]

[Excuse you, kid, but he stuffs all his pain and anger down in his insides where they belong until they fester and then explode into a dragon like the real adults GOSH.]

Don't know about resolution yet

I was dying with my people

[crimsonunion]

i

it's this weird feeling isn't it

when you're looking at your entire species and you realize almost everyone is gone and there's this

pit

that's empty and you need to fill it with something and

the only thing you can put in there is anger

[burnishingmad]

it is

especially when you know the ones who are killing you

especially when they're human too. just like us.

i couldn't sit back. i almost destroyed everything to save them.

[crimsonunion]

i wish i had that luxury

instead when i got angry i just

got captured

because i didn't fucking care anymore

and then my own mom sewed that thing onto my skin while she

she

[burnishingmad]

to be honest i

i don't even know if i'm alive right now

the engine was killing me

[crimsonunion]

i'm so sorry

at least i have the luxury of knowing that everything turns out fine-ish

i

can't even imagine what it's like for you

[burnishingmad]

im worried about the other burnish
im worried about my men
no one here knows what a burnish is and i havent heard from them so

if i ever go back i think i know what to do if i manage to survive
i think i can save them i just
im stuck here