Call Me Out meme

[secretambition]

steps?
♛ refer to the list above for most with prem paids, or see full muselist for anyone else you'd like to play with.
♛ call them out, you can do so by posting a comment with their name on the subject line.
♛ can be whatever you want, aka feel free to make up a scenario at the start, or wait to see where things go or ask on plurk.
♛ ... or leave an empty comment and see what i'll do but that... might take some time. |:

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[scoutingangel]

[She listens to that, clearly not bothered by how he neglected to mention it until now. Because it's okay, some things take time to mention and maybe some things are just things people never even tell others.

Science can do stuff like that? ... Okay, the closest thing she can think from that are titan shifters; humans who can transform into titans in her world, that is. Even though she has no idea how they become that way, but it's certainly not the first time she hears about something being able to change people's abilities. She'll stay quiet about that though, at least for now.

Petra is honestly not sure what to say about that whole surgery thing. She always leaves science talk to other people in her world even if all that makes sense to her too. She knows someone, who'd be all over him with question about that science part, but that's not this girl here. But the last line makes her really curious about one thing.]

So, are you a normal human or are you a coordinator? [Is that too straightforward? Sorry, being blunt is not always a bad thing back home.]

[infinitejustice]

[Athrun pauses before responding. He hadn't expected Petra to ask so bluntly.]

I'm what's known as a second-generation Coordinator. I never received any form of genetic surgery, but both of my parents did -- so I didn't need it. I just inherited Coordinator genes from both of them.

[Now for the moment of truth. Athrun silently prays that she won't turn against him now that she knows the truth of his heritage.]

omg, i didn't realize this was so late. I'm sorry! ;-;

[scoutingangel]

[She can be very blunt sometimes, or all the time depending on the company or topic. It's part of her job. Better get used to it.

...Well, there's always more to it than just humans and something else than humans, isn't there? Back in her home world, it's humans, titans and titan shifters. Now he's telling about humans, coordinators and second-generation coordinators.

Petra is surprised to hear that, for sure, but it's more in her amber eyes while everything else on her looks mostly cool, calm and collected. Things people don't usually know about her; she's trained to be an elite soldier, trained to be prepared for the worst case scenarios and she babysits a titan shifter, who is not always in control of his titan form even if he tries to use that ability to help them. And that she really needs to be prepared to kill anyone, who is a danger (including Eren if he goes out of control( to humanity without any hesitation.

There's a silent moment here while she thinks about what he just said and she's looking at the floor while she thinks about it.]

Well, that's interesting. [it is, even if this girl still doesn't understand much about science, nor is she very interested in it, but to be able to inherit it like that... She looks at him again with a little smile on her face.]

Thank you, I really appreciate you telling that to me. And well, unless the next thing you'd tell me was something about using that heritage to take out all humanity or something, I don't really see a problem with it.

[That's certainly not enough to make her turn against him or walk away from this friendship, though who wouldn't think about it after telling something like that? No, she doesn't think you'd kill that many people for all the wrong reasons, but hey, girl comes place where some humans can become giant mass murderers. Literally.]

All is forgiven.

[infinitejustice]

[The response fueled a mixture of emotions within Athrun's heart. On one hand, he was relieved. Petra seems willing to accept him as he is. On the other hand...]

I wouldn't...but one man did. He declared Coordinators to be a superior species, and tried to drive Naturals to extinction.

That man -- that man was my father.

[scoutingangel]

[Father, huh. She looks surprised by that, even if she's not that surprised by the fact, that someone would think so... But someone who is from his family... Well, Petra does have her problems with her father too, so it's another reason why the words get her quiet for a moment.]

I guess ... there's always at least someone, who's going to think try something like that. But I'm glad you're not like him. [The word extinction gets her pretty serious about it too, since well, home world being a place of humans vs. giant monsters trying to drive each other into extinction.]

...was? Something happened to him? [Or he just cut ties with him? She's not sure if either option is a huge surprise or not.]

[infinitejustice]

Yes.

[It's an unpleasant memory. He doesn't enjoy recalling it.]

He gave the order to have the superweapon he had built to open fire on Earth. Had the shot gone off, it would have burned away the entire surface and been the worst genocide in the history of mankind. When that happened, an officer -- one of the moderates -- drew his sidearm and shot him. I found him shortly after that happened, and with his dying breaths, he begged me to fire the weapon.

Needless to say, I didn't do it. As a matter of fact, I destroyed it.

[scoutingangel]

[Well that... is ... certainly a story you don't hear every day. Tragic stories are common where she's from considering how humanity is almost reaching extinction there and she's part of the groups defending it, so she even sees a lot of tragic deaths and stuff happening... but...

Okay, she's kind of speechless right now and she's rarely speechless.]

I would have destroyed something like that too if I had the skills for it.

I'm sorry for your father. [Even if back in her world, or anywhere else, she'd probably be one "good" option for killing people like him.]

[infinitejustice]

It's all right. This happened almost three years ago. I've been able to recover.

[Though the process is incomplete. Otherwise, Athrun's path during the Second Bloody Valentine War would have been very different.]

At least he wasn't always like that.

[scoutingangel]

Recovering is good. We shouldn't stop even when those things happen.

[Incomplete process or not, the not stopping part and recovering as well as people can is what matters. She's learned it the hard way after joining the Scouting Legion and going outside the walls, where friends who've become like family keep dying while they're fighting.]

I'm glad he wasn't always like that. We just need to cherish the memories of how things were before... I mean, I didn't always fight with my father, but he really disliked my decision of joining the military and hated it when I joined the Scouting Legion. Can't really blame him, we fight against giant monsters and a lot of people die, so he'd just like to keep me as safe as possible.

[infinitejustice]

[He nods.]

I know the feeling of having things to protect. That was originally why I enlisted. I felt that the Naturals had infringed upon our right to exist, as demonstrated in the Bloody Valentine incident, and so I took up arms to defend myself and my fellow Coordinators.

...Speaking of which...that was what caused my father to begin to slide down the slippery slope. The Earth forces fired a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead at the agricultural colony of Junius Seven. It completely obliterated the colony, and the lives of 243,721 Coordinators, mostly civilian, along with it.

...Including my mother.

[As he speaks about the Bloody Valentine incident, he closes his eyes. He doesn't want to show the pain they still reveal when he talks about his mother's death.]