> Animus: Assemble

[caliginous]

Characters: Members of Group A and YOU
Setting: Fourth Floor -- the white lounge.
Format: WHO EVEN KNOWS
Summary: Karkat attempts to pull everyone into one place for counter-resistance.
Warnings: MALFUNCTION MAY OCCUR, that means depending on who you tag and who tags in, your character may end up injured. Please check individual sub-threads for malfunction warnings! There's also obvious body horror warnings here due to modifications from the event.

[In a room full of white, its not hard to spot the various victims of Jason's latest experiments. Each sits or stands in their own corner on or off furniture talking amongst one another or simply staring at the door waiting for someone to approach them.

Some of them don't look all that approachable, even if it appears that they are completely sane at first glance. Some of them might even look like they don't want to be there.

You won't really know until you approach them.]

Comments

[doesnotgetit]

[Close to the rest of the proclaimed Group A, huddled on the ground as best as she can with her new, strange limbs, is Hakuno. Or... what used to be her. Like some of the others, her modifications have left her nearly unrecognizable; her arms and legs have been replaced with the limbs of a strange doll's. Her face, like a mannequin's, is completely featureless, save for a single eye. All along her (still organic) face and artificial limbs are carved red lines.

It's hard to tell without any sort of facial expression and usual body language, but like the others, Hakuno is tired; the horrible memories of the surgeries, the pain, the fear... almost as bad were the times where she just. Blanks out. Does not know what she's doing at all. She fears those moments the most, fears what she'd do and won't remember, and that fear almost made her refuse to come to this meeting... but no. She had to. Their group had a chance nobody else had and they had to make the best of it.

So here she is, simply sitting here, staring at the floor. She's not shying away from others like she did when she first woke up, so hopefully she'll be a bit more approachable now.]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku had come here thanks to the note, this didn't seem like a unch of want to be heroes storming in without thinking. If this was true, if there were some who had been experimented on who could still think...

He saw the... girl he thought sat staring at the floor and went over, sitting next to her silently.]

[doesnotgetit]

[The girl's head turns towards Suzaku as he sits. It's hard to read her like this, with close to no recognizable facial features, but her remaining eye stares at him, a look of mild surprise mixed in with her tiredness.]

It's good to see people are coming. [She shouldn't be able to talk, without a mouth, but somehow she manages.] With everything going to hell here, I didn't think many people would come.

[swordofzero]

It's good to see that people want to help. [And that they were attempting it in a positive way, rather than trying to force the administrators hands.]

[doesnotgetit]

How could we not help? [She tilts her head.] The opportunity to take advantage of the administrators' mistake was too good to pass up.

[swordofzero]

Let us just hope it truly is a mistake.

[doesnotgetit]

... You think it wasn't a mistake? [The thought makes her stomach turn.] What... you think that Jason is planning something else?

[swordofzero]

I think they rarely make mistakes, and they are always planning something. Everything is designed to hurt us.

[doesnotgetit]

Saying they never make mistakes is a bit much, don't you think? Some of the other residents were able to stop them when they were switching everyone's bodies thanks to some leaked footage. They made a mistake in completely trusting Dax, even if he was stopped in the end.

But... I also get what you're trying to say, I guess.

[swordofzero]

I suppose them trusting Dax was a mistake. [Suzaku nodded] I believe the leaked footage was his doing, but... you would have thought they would have learned their lesson.

[But here was to hoping, that they had made a mistake, that they might make mistakes again]

I hope you are right though, and this meeting is a good idea.