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this is the anti-spam log: take 2 [semi-closed]

Date & Time: throughout June; label your own dates!
Location: places!
Characters: the Mekakushi-dan + friends (one-on-one threads, open through plotting!)
Summary:

a collection of threads throughout June following the Dan's activity with one another as well friends connected to the Dan, put into one post to avoid spamming the comms. Sometimes a dan roll call.

Warnings: Uuuuuh idk lots of gross sick people. Dying! Sad teenagers and friends!

The virus is spreading, and even the Dan is catching it. And so are their friends. This is whatever they decide to do during June while sick. Prose and action spam friendly!

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I see. [That child has been through some difficult times. It's normal, though. Not to have a friend brought back, but of course, war and accident don't concern themselves with the ages of those who suffer.

He indicates the muffins.] Do we have you to thank that they all remember to eat?

[ No lies are detected in that statement. Kaede has witnessed several times now within these two months that the Initiative doesn't care, and the United Earth doesn't care. Someone has to win this overall war, casualites be damned.

She looks at the muffins before looking back at him, smiling with a shrug. ] I guess so! Since I'm rather young and inexperienced with actual fighting and stuff, I figured helping out with the food would be better than sitting around worrying.

[He smiles just a tiny bit.] How very industrious. I admit, I'm surprised at this level of cooking at your age.

[Especially because he knows most humans here have really short years. What can a person do in 11 x 365 days? It's madness.]

[ She smiles shyly, a pink tint coming to her cheeks out of embarrassment. ] It's nothing spectacular, but thank you. I simply helped my grandmother back home with preparing food, and directions are great, too!

[ Go to school for about 280 days out of the year, every year. Then you add in extracurricular activities, family events, sleeping, etc., and there's maybe an hour or two left for actual "me" time. ]

Were you able to try the food I sent over last time?

[Earth time is weird. You need 765 day long years, guys.

Jade answers,] I'm afraid not. I didn't think it appropriate.

[He's military. You don't eat other people's carepackages from home.]

[ That would be great. Really, really, really long, but great.

Jade's answer makes her puff her cheeks out. She sent enough for them all, and the note said it was for all of them, what the heck? ] I made sure to send enough for everyone, but maybe not note wasn't specific enough. Well, at least there's the soup this time, and next time I do hotpot, I'll make sure you get some!

[Oh, the child made a puffy-face. It's hard not to smile a little.]

My apologies if I've offended. At military school, a student who ate from another's care package would be taken out back and beaten for penance. Next time, I promise not to allow my school-day hangups to get in the way of your generosity.

[ She makes the cutest puffy-face! ]

No offense taken. I could see why you didn't have some the first time around.

Oh? Should I refer to you by your military title...?

[He dismisses the concern with something of a smile.] Not at all. I'm not a colonel here. Just 'Jade' is fine.

Though in fairness, I should ask if there is a particular way I should address you. I'm not very familiar with formality rules outside of Auldrant's.

Then 'Jade' it will be, and 'Kaede' is just fine for me. My dad always finds ways to make it sound weird, somehow, like extending the 'a'.

That must be an affectionate game between father and daughter. I hope you find strange ways to call his name as well.

I do! I have to get creative [ with his Hero name ] but it works in the end. And I bet he's helping keep the city safe right now, too, back home.

Is your father in law enforcement?

[The military also is involved in investigative work and law enforcement in Malkuth. It's a natural jump.]

...sort of? He's not a police officer or anything, but what we call back home a Hero. He has NEXT powers that help him catch bad guys — 'NEXT' meaning 'Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents.'

[how interesting]

Is such a power natural to him?

[wait that acronym—]

Yes. I also happen to be a NEXT, and my powers allow me to copy another person's power by physical contact.

[The military applications immediately come to mind. Jade does not mention them to the small child.]

Interesting. Is it a genetic developing, one of evolution, then?

[Dad to daughter and all that.]

I'm not sure, actually. One of the other Heroes who used to be here is a NEXT, but his parents were not. It's due to an unknown mutation, so no one ever knows they're a NEXT until their power decides to show up.

It must be very new in the human race. [Otherwise, science would be all over it.]

[ She has to do the math in her head before she answers. ] It showed up about 48 years ago.

How widespread is it?

[It does not occur to him that maybe he should stop quizzing the girl about weird genetic quirks in her home country. It's interesting.]

That number I can't give you, since I don't think everyone who becomes a NEXT will want to seek help controlling their power, or powers. [ She certainly does not mind! One of her main interests back home is Heroes and NEXT and anything having to do with them. ]

Was their social stigma attached to it?

[as Kaede climbs the ranks to be Jade's favourite member of the Dan...]

Not really? Unless a NEXT wants to be the bad guy, or their family is mean and doesn't support them. [ And she seems to become sad at that thought. ] But, if that's the case, there's a school for NEXT to go to for help!

[ just as planned B) ]

[He just thinks it's interesting! he wants to learn about weird humans] Is that school only for those NEXT who need help?

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