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Hey!

[Here, have a familiar cheerful voice. She'd been meaning to do this since Lillie told her, but time sort of got away from her, opps.]

Lillie said you were here.

Um... What's... what's the last thing you remember about home?

hey. how you holding up?

[ not that he was worried. or anything. god ]

"Do NOT. Look away."

A stern man's voice bellows the very moment play is hit, and after a few blinks, the feed shows a very confusing and grim scene indeed.

In the distance a child is squalling -- shrieking, howling, really -- on the ground and flailing in the arms of a woman desperately trying to hold him still while a man is trying to get a hold of a blackened, broken arm.

As the old man hollers his command over the screaming, a younger man is clutching his head in abject turmoil, black smears oozing from his palms against the side of his face, rocking in place as if he means to flee, but is rooted by the gaze of the man who spoke.

"Do not look away, Bruce," he repeats, and the young man stills, gulping loudly and slowly turning around.

"You do not get to walk away from the price of impatience." The old man turns and looks toward the scene. "The price of ARROGANCE."

"Grandfather, I, I lost my head, I'm sorry, I--"

"REPENTANCE is not in words, son. You will not atone for this by groveling to me...or even to the Lumas! For the Lumas are the real victims here. HUMANITY are the real victims here!"

The man moves, putting a hand on Bruce's slouched back, his own head still held high, his voice raised for all the frightened onlookers to hear.

"One less hale and whole Darkov is one less chance for the survival of mankind! That is one less reason for any of us to BE. Hear me! Don't forget why it is that we EXIST! And why our petty fights amongst ourselves means so LITTLE in the scope of things.

"We are so few. Our quarry so many. We will ALL of us die, should our unity crumble."

The man's head turns, looking about the shaken group, before inevitably falling on the eyes of the viewer. Save for the boy's screaming, there is no other sound to be heard, not even the breath of the viewer.

"Do not forget this. All of you. For it is all that matters, in the end."

[Like so many others, another wild anonymous video appears! This one depicting probably a few familiar faces, though the view is from a small child. While Sun was 6 years old when this took place, his voice should still be recognizable. Wonder who that powerful man who disappeared from Aether is!]

[News that Guzma had not only invited some seemingly random imPort to join Team Skull, but also appointed them to the position did not sit well with Tupp. Not that he had shared this with any of them when Gladion had been brought back to the Shady Factory. No, instead he let his frustrations stew and choosing to glare at the kid if and when he ever saw him about.

Tupp tried. He tried so hard to keep it to himself, after all he had been trying to earn the Boss's favor for so long now. He was offered the enforcer position as well, he just hadn't proven himself worthy of taking it. He didn't need to go and cock it up by starting stuff when Guzma was around.

So it's about a week or two later when Gladion gets this video. Tupp's anger and jealously couldn't be held back any longer, sorry Gladion.]

YO!! I dunno who the hell ya think you are, but just cuz the Boss seems to favor ya ain't mean yer actually one of us! And ya sure as hell ain't no enforcer neither!

Ya got that?

[The camera is clearly being held by Hoshii.]

Hey hey.

Look what I can do!!!

[Mizuki, that's just you as a blur running around like a dork, you super-speed child. And then Hoshii's 'why me' face.]

Edited 2020-05-23 07:32 (UTC)

I demand pokemon pictures

[As a peace offering of sorts, addressed to Gladion will be a self-defense keychain 5 with a handwritten note:

my bad for freaking you out at the beach or whatever

it's a grenade]

Edited 2020-12-25 22:18 (UTC)

Voice! /claims this in the name of sunshine. (back dated maybe two-three days ago?)

txt, backdated to early on the 1st

VIDEO//source: anon//postdate:03.15//tw: violence

MEMSHARE VIDYA gomen I could not type up another long thing lol

Video: time is fake; back when tupp got news gladion is the enforcer

Video - somepoint during the swear in

Late October; Text

Christmas delivery or some shit