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15strangers week 5 monday
CW: Discussion of Disease, Fortuna Spoilers
[It had been getting worse, though had become especially noticeable at the trial. But even now, after....
Hermes was a robot, apparently, or some sort of android--or perhaps simply pure code, granted this physical form for whatever reason by Zero, given that he was from a video game. She would not have assumed that he would be capable of contracting anything but a computer virus. But maybe that was what it was. Maybe the rules were different. Maybe the disease he had told her about....
Hermes had been behaving erratically, but even in his occasional violent outbursts she wasn't afraid of him, really. It was Hermes, after all. But... maybe he needed help. Maybe he'd rather not discuss it openly.
Akane didn't know what else to do.
So she had found him, and brought him to Kaito's room, where she had been mostly staying, where he had done his best to comfort her on the evening of his death, and then bit her lip.
She had to say it, if she was going to find out.]
Hermes....
You told me about a disease called Clockwork before, right? When I told you about Radical-6?
Sorry, that was... a hard night, for me. I should have asked you more about it.
What does it do?
[It had been getting worse, though had become especially noticeable at the trial. But even now, after....
Hermes was a robot, apparently, or some sort of android--or perhaps simply pure code, granted this physical form for whatever reason by Zero, given that he was from a video game. She would not have assumed that he would be capable of contracting anything but a computer virus. But maybe that was what it was. Maybe the rules were different. Maybe the disease he had told her about....
Hermes had been behaving erratically, but even in his occasional violent outbursts she wasn't afraid of him, really. It was Hermes, after all. But... maybe he needed help. Maybe he'd rather not discuss it openly.
Akane didn't know what else to do.
So she had found him, and brought him to Kaito's room, where she had been mostly staying, where he had done his best to comfort her on the evening of his death, and then bit her lip.
She had to say it, if she was going to find out.]
Hermes....
You told me about a disease called Clockwork before, right? When I told you about Radical-6?
Sorry, that was... a hard night, for me. I should have asked you more about it.
What does it do?
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[She's still looking up, and reaches out gently to touch him again.]
I told you before, right? I won't tell anyone something you don't want me to tell you.
But....
But there has to be some way to help you, right?
I'm worried.
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...We don't even know if it's clockwork. It could just be something new they made...! I'm not real, just a computer game character... Entirely fictional... Maybe this is what being in the real world does to someone like me. Like I don't belong here and the real world is punishing me for that.
Wouldn't be the first time I get punished for doing something that goes against someone with power's desires, and it likely won't be the last.
[Denial, thy name is Hermes.]
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Yeah, maybe.
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Yeah, maybe! So why don't we just forget about this and try to focus on how to escape this ship!
[Hermes pats Akane on the back. Apologies, but Hermes isn't usually one to discuss heavy stuff unless metaphorically backed up into a wall.]
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No. We can't do that, Hermes. Or... I mean....
We can focus on how to escape the ship!!! But we shouldn't forget this. Because we also need to focus on what we can do to help you. Okay?
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[Hermes scratches at one of his front legs.]
I'll be fine...!
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And... I do think you should tell at least some of the other people here. They care about you too, and we have a lot of very smart people here. So maybe, if we put our heads together, we can think of something that neither of us would be able to think of by ourselves. Right?
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W- well, we don't even know for sure what it is yet...! We shouldn't... we just... WeCan'tAssume SomethingLikeThis IsSomethingSoBadJustYet!
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[She looks VERY sad at this.]
It's like I said. If... if it's not that then that's good, but if it is....
Other people should know, right? We all care about you.
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HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?]
I... B- but... I'm... you...
...
...F- fine...! I'llTellACouplePeople TheyNeedToWatchMe...! Is- is that fine...?
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Tell them what's going on, okay? All of it. Because.... because I know they'll want to try to find a way to help too.
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[Orders are orders...]
[Hermes will silently nod.]
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... Hermes? Are you okay? Did I... did I do something wrong??
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Um. You're fine... I'll just... go tell some people...
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I'm sorry if it's too much. You....
I think... it's better if you do, but....
It's up to you, okay? But I don't want anyone else to be hurt... and... and if we can find a way to help you.... A lot of other remarkable things already happened for us all to be here, right? We're not even from the same world.
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Uh... o- okay... BuuuuutWeMayActually BeFromTheSameWorld.
[Because Fortuna is a popular computer game in the real world, right? ...Right?]
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