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Starter selection time!

I got this ’here fella and want to do some things with him. I’ve got options!

Want to meet him in the park while he’s still under the weather and mostly armless? Got that in a prior post and it is still open for takers.

Want to be there when he gets the arm back? Can do, just drop me a line so I know who to aim the starter at.

Wanna be the one to tell him he just got isekai’d and get to see his first rounds of culture shock? Hit me up

//Been playing around in Code Vein and used the nicely robust character creation to nail down A Face.

It had seemed like….well, not a good plan. Anyhing borne of enough desperation that one man was trying to steal something from a Corporation was not a good plan to begin with. But it had seemed doable. He knew the location of what he was trying to steal, had a route in and out. Had his escape plan timed out, and would be using the Corp’s own famously reliable transportation to get away.

He’d even had a backup escape plan. They weren’t cheap and he’d only get one use out of it, but the little teleporter would shunt him away from any danger too severe.

It had all seemed to be going so well, till the end. Once he got on the train it should have just been a quick ten second journey before he’d be five districts over and trying to find a buyer for the suitcase-sized box he’d swiped.

It hadn’t been ten seconds. He’d lost count after what seemed like ten days, and by that point some of the other passengers were starting to panic and fights were breaking out among the passengers more and more. Eventually he couldn’t keep himself out of the melee.

He got hurt. Not fatally, but bad enough that the next one might be. The escape device didn’t know where he was, or where it was aiming at, only being concerned with getting him away from the current danger on the train.

As much momentum as he thought he had, Dax had to collect himself after that. He’d file away the small win to process later: Zero had just admitted that there had been Doubt. That was an important detail and something that he’d been wanting to know about. Part of what he had decided to dig for once the conversation had been forced open.

But the indignation needed to be handled first. “So you weren’t certain. And you still killed your way through our roster. I know more than most how tense relations between Repliforce and the Hunters were at the time, how much friction there was between our two groups. I knew that we still had some gaps to bridge. But I never would have thought it was bad enough to turn into a rout like that. And I certainly would not have expected you to be leading the pack in body count, of all of the Hunters. I had gotten the impression that you liked us.”

That wasn’t enough.

“Bloody Hell, you even killed Iris. And I know that went beyond just liking.”

The silence was only broken by a quiet metalic creak, as Zero’s hands tried to ball into fists despite resting on his legs. In the background of his mind there were a couple notes added to the Deferred Repairs list, but he was too angered to consciously notice the scrape on the armor or that one of his fingers had strained against itself so hard that there had been internal sparking.

He paused, letting out a brief sigh. “My hope was that by finding out a bit more about your connections I could figure out why you were making such promising strides while the friction between our organizations as a whole was still chafing.”

For every 🥃 my muse gets– they have to either answer a personal fact about themselves…. Or take a shot!

As much momentum as he thought he had, Dax had to collect himself after that. He’d file away the small win to process later: Zero had just admitted that there had been Doubt. That was an important detail and something that he’d been wanting to know about. Part of what he had decided to dig for once the conversation had been forced open.

But the indignation needed to be handled first. “So you weren’t certain. And you still killed your way through our roster. I know more than most how tense relations between Repliforce and the Hunters were at the time, how much friction there was between our two groups. I knew that we still had some gaps to bridge. But I never would have thought it was bad enough to turn into a rout like that. And I certainly would not have expected you to be leading the pack in body count, of all of the Hunters. I had gotten the impression that you liked us.”

That wasn’t enough.

“Bloody Hell, you even killed Iris. And I know that went beyond just liking.”

The silence was only broken by a quiet metalic creak, as Zero’s hands tried to ball into fists despite resting on his legs. In the background of his mind there were a couple notes added to the Deferred Repairs list, but he was too angered to consciously notice the scrape on the armor or that one of his fingers had strained against itself so hard that there had been internal sparking.

He paused, letting out a brief sigh. “My hope was that by finding out a bit more about your connections I could figure out why you were making such promising strides while the friction between our organizations as a whole was still chafing.”