video & text;

[akito]

Genesis is gone now too.

[ he pauses, then adds the same message in text format for those who can't see him for lack of belief. ]

The Winds can't find her at all.

[ which might explain any sudden breezes that Pepper, Jack, Elissa, and Christine may have been wrapped with momentarily shortly before his announcement. just checking in on his friends and important people. ]

So many of the friends I've made are disappearing. I'm sad they're not still here, even if it's selfish.


[ he ends the video feed and switches entirely to text. ]

I think I would like more things to fill my time with.
All I've been doing lately is training and training
But it gets tiring after a while.
Are there any good books or movies here people can recommend?
Or small mechanical items that need fixing?
Or anyone that would like a drawing of something?

Comments

text again

[akito]

I could take a look at it
But I wouldn't say I am a master when it comes to these collars.

Text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[Well that was one of the stranger video messages he's seen in his time]

It's always hard losing someone, no matter what the circumstances.

Have you asked the ship people if they might have something you can help with?

text

[akito]

I never had people to lose before.

I don't like the ship very much.
It feels like a graveyard.
If I could be of use there though I wouldn't say no to helping.

text again

[femshep]

never assumed you were. it just seemed like you were after something to do.

text.

[akito]

I was.
Just something different you know??
I think I would be too scared of messing up and making things worse with your collar though.

text.

[femshep]

you'll never get anywhere if you're too much of a coward to try.

[ aaand we're back to tough love. but she feels kind of bad about it (not too bad, just a little), so she follows up with: ]

you're sick of training, so this thing's all i've got. sorry kid

text.

[akito]

When it comes to other people
And the chance of maybe causing them harm
I will always be a coward.

Thank you for the thought, miss!!
It is appreciated :)

text.

[femshep]

[ ....okay, she can kind of respect that. Call it perspective gained by watching the decimation of half of the galaxy's civilization.

So after a bit longer pause: ]

there are worse kinds of coward.

and it's Shepard

text.

[akito]

I'm Akito

text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

It might help to have a project to keep your mind off it. Sometimes you just need to keep busy, when you lose people.

text

[akito]

I had a collar put on me after a friend left for the first time.
It was a good distraction
But I don't want to be human again so soon.

Re: text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

That sounds a bit extreme. Changing who you are.

[And no one seems to terribly like the collars]

text

[akito]

I wanted to see what it was like to not be invisible for a while.
It was nice.

Re: text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

You're invisible?

[genoshas_general]

They're not gone. Just hibernating.

Eventually, we'll figure out how to wake them.

text

[akito]

To those that don't believe in my existence I don't exist.

[akito]

The part of them that counts the most is back at home.

[ he has to believe that, otherwise he doesn't think he could handle his friends leaving at all. ]

[genoshas_general]

What evidence do you have of that? What proof?

[akito]

Apparently our bodies are in some kind of stasis while in those pods??
But I was at home until I woke up here
Which makes no sense if my body had been in there for a long time right??
So there is no proof
But it would make sense if it was the mind that was freed while the body remained trapped.
Kind of like astral projection?

Re: text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Well. That's a new one.

[And between here and Mayfield, Wes has heard an awful lot.]

[genoshas_general]

Mental projection to another universe would require massive amounts of power. Not to mention the amount of equipment needed for anyone who wasn't naturally psychic. And I can't imagine much of a benefit from the perspective of the people who designed the ship.

It's more likely it's some kind of simulated reality to keep the people in stasis from causing trouble.

[akito]

Nothing in this entire situation is something that could be considered likely.
If anything is a simulated reality it would be this place.

[genoshas_general]

Is that what you think, or just what you wish?

text

[akito]

There is at least one other person here who is the same way.

[akito]

I don't know what I think.
It's a possibility though.

It's not what I wish.

[ because that would mean the friends he made aren't really real, in a sense. ]