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Characters: Ienzo (now a big boy) and you.
Setting: Room 2-12 and some other places.
Format: Either!
Summary: Science Boy is back in the tower, except he's... significantly less of a boy, now.
Warnings: Ienzo is a ramblin', gamin' man.

Room 2-12.

[Ienzo found it extremely disheartening how long it took him to realize that something had gone amiss. The color palette wasn't even that similar; everything was a shade of grey here, it seemed, whereas everything was a shade of brown when he had gone to sleep last. Ienzo withheld most of his immediate reactions upon realizing that his body was not responding to movements; truthfully, it was enough to upset him considerably (what if he had been drugged was a recurring thought), but there was no use showing that. He noticed that there were several other people in this room, which only reinforced that notion.]

[He found the trunk quickly, and pulled on his clothes quickly before continuing. The letters were the second order of business. He read them both in detail (looking confused at the second), and stowed them in his pocket shortly afterwards. From the same pocket, he conjured a pen, and tucked the two journals in the trunk under his arm. Then, only then, did he bother to talk to anyone. He started with the people in his room, though branched out into the hallway. Whoever he asked, the question was the same:]

Excuse me. Can you tell me why I am here?

Floors 1 through 5.

[Greetings, Tower. Did you miss him?]

[Of course, game mechanics are a beautiful thing, and Ienzo doesn't remember anything about his last stint in the tower of souls. Though some other people might, and they would be remembering Ienzo as a little kid in an oversized lab coat who talked so quietly he didn't even use capital letters. Well -- and I know this may be surprising -- the lab coat actually fits now. He's been taken from a much farther point in the timeline, and is now nineteen years old. And yes, he is still quite short.]

[Anyway.]

[Ienzo's strategy for Tower exploration amounted to this: move up the floors one at a time, looking thoroughly at each one. Of course, he could see from the elevator that there were forty-eight of them, so he didn't expect that he would cover the entire Tower in one day; in fact, as soon as he stepped up the staircase and into a forest, he simply decided that he was done with exploration for the day and moved down to the lower floors again. Passerby might find him walking around, inspecting things so mundane that most people wouldn't even give them the time of day, or else sitting down on any available surface (except the floor) to take notes.]

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I see..and that nature can't be changed?

[Tohko then chuckled a little.]

Well, since androids are made completely of metal, you would have to introduce a soul or heart in them in order for them to get one. As for ghosts..they may have very small hearts, but they're probably rather weak and will eventually fade away. Such is the fate of all ghosts.

Well, no, but that wouldn't happen at the drop of a hat.

[He paused to think about her explanation, frowning.] ...Well, there truly is no way to know whether an entity can contain a heart, even if it were a ghost or an android, unless you tested it on an actual ghost or android. Really, anything that has sentience should technically be able to grow a heart, which is analogous with developing emotions. I would assume ghosts could still retain hearts, since they are still sentient and in most cases still do have emotions... though that does bring up the question of whether the heart would feel the need to create a new body for them. Or perhaps the fact that they still have a heart is the very reason they are ghosts at all, because their heart made them a new body after their heart and will separated from the body!

[Here he goes again...]

Ah, I see.

[Tohko smiled and chuckled to herself as she heard this. A heart growing because a person had emotions. While she could kind of see it, it made her think that Wilhelm, if he didn't already have one, would probably never have a heart. Maybe.]

Ah, alright then! I think I get it! Would it be possible for a person to have a shattered heart-one with bits and pieces of it missing?

I... would imagine so. [Hm.] There is much documentation of entities whose hearts have been destroyed completely and have continued living with only their power of will, so I would imagine that someone with a semi-heart would function the same way. I may have observed this before in an experiment, but I would need to have the records on hand to che--

[...]

[Dammit.]

[If she asked, well, he had already said he couldn't quite remember, hadn't he? And that was the truth. A fracturing heart in a Light-and-Darkness study sounded like the sort of thing that would become an unfortunate accident. Obviously that was all it was. An accident.]

...Ah, I'm sorry. [He clears his throat.] Well, maybe. It was several years ago, these studies.

[Tohko paused for a moment, staring at him. She had asked because she was curious if, in his world, that could have been what bothered Chia..and what screwed up her sense of taste. The fact that he had observed this in an experiment..]

In an experiment?! Just what kind of experiments were you doing?

[Urk.]

As I said, the heart is very unpredictable, and the only way to know for sure how it will react is to conduct experiments. As part of our studies, it stands to reason that we would have to affect the Light and Darkness within hearts.

[His tone has deepened somewhat, now that there is no longer any pretense of a cheerful mood.]

I know what you said. However..that doesn't mean those experiments weren't dangerous. Knowledge is great, but you have to think about the people sometimes...please, at least tell me you experimented on volunteers.

Medicine. Consider medicine. How many times do you think that faulty, potentially dangerous solutions were made and administered to patients before a formula worked properly? There is no way to make any true discovery in this field without harm coming to others.

We tested on animals.

[Tohko sighed.]

However, while doctors and scientists were working on cures and medicines, they did everything in their power to try and see if the patient would be hurt and did everything they could to prevent it. I'm not sure you can do the same with with Light and Darkness.

..Why type of animals?

[Humans, technically, are animals too. She's still suspicious.]

And how long, exactly, have you been studying Light and Darkness to attest to this?

[And that is all he will say.]

You know perfectly well that Light and Darkness as you know it don't exist in my world. I've told you already-in my world, doctors and scientists of old saw the heart as a spiritual center, but in modern times, that's been debunked, and it's thought that things like that are unscientific and foolish factually.

However..I have read plenty of books, even though they are fictional, and I'm guessing that it would be hard to control and use foresight with Light and Darkness like you would medicine.

And you depend on that? The made-up product of fantasy writers in a world with no concept of a spiritual heart? This is not guesswork and imagination, child, this is quite real, I assure you. For someone with such a sophomoric understanding of the true facts as they were in a real world, you have absolutely no room to be questioning the authority of someone who has committed himself to this for his entire life!

[I just realized that Ienzo doesn't have a "Vexen rage" emote. This needs to be fixed immediately.]

It is all I can depend on! It's not like I live in your universe where these things exist. I have to work with what I find. And I'm not saying that this is quite real in your universe. And even if you have studied this for your whole life, I will question you again and again if I have questions and concerns about what you were doing!

[She has argued with Wilhelm before and not backed down, Ienzo. She does not give a single fuck anymore. Maybe.

However, that situation does need to be fixed ASAP!]

Edited 2012-12-22 04:26 (UTC)

I don't recall asking for your input on things that happened ten years in the past, child. You need to learn to keep your mouth shut!

[Perhaps I can just use manga scans of Zexion and fiddle around with them in Photoshop a little bit... but that would require actual work. Nyeh.]

You may not have asked, but since you brought up those things, you are going to get it. And I shall keep my mouth shut when there is a reason for it to be shut. I think it's working quite well right now!

[But..the results would be glorious!]

I will not be talked down to by a precocious little girl.

[That smiling he was doing before? Goooooone. Now he actually looks quite imposing, despite the fact (or maybe because of the fact) that he had that odd haircut.]

[Again, Tohko has faced Wilhelm and Ganon before without looking scared. Ienzo's imposing look is seen, but Tohko does not look scared. She just looks the same as before.]

You're not being talked down to. We're both equals here. I don't know why you think that.

..And I'm glad you think I'm precocious. However, I'm not a little girl. I'm Tohko Amano, the book girl.

I most certainly am being talked down to, and you are absolutely a little girl.

["The book girl" is by no definition an imposing title. He had the nickname "Book Boy" when he was six years old.]

I don't see how you're being talked down to. If you let me know, then maybe I could tell you if you're right or not. And I'm not that much younger than you! I'm seventeen, and you look to be about eighteen or nineteen! I'm not a little girl.

[Tohko didn't mean for it to be an imposing title. It was just who she was, no matter what anyone said.]

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