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[spinoff]

sup, new girl here

spare me the usual bs, i want to know something

we're supposed to be trying to curry favor with...something...or other to save our universes right?

what have YOU done so far? i need examples, because if i'm doing this, i gotta know just how utterly fucked i am

also also, where can a red blooded american girl find some firepower? asking for a friend

[ what a nice, not problematic at all post ]

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[spinoff]

stick around, hopefully someone will say something useful

also no, i know my limits. i don't want to pull the trigger and go flying back like a ragdoll

[redheadcarrier]

they don't exactly have anything for me to pilot so i guess i better learn to shoot if we're going to be fighting something. or someone.

[spinoff]

pilot what, an airplane?

provided that even shooting would work on whatever you might want to fight

[redheadcarrier]

no, an eva.

although i could probably fly an airplane if i needed to.

[ Bold words, but she's pretty sure of herself. ]

good point. some stuff doesn't die to bullets.

[spinoff]

what's an eva? other than a woman's name

i sure hope there's more to do here than violence

[redheadcarrier]

the most advanced war machine ever built!

[ Among other things. ]

basically a giant robot

but yeah. hope it's not just some survival of the fittest bullshit.

[spinoff]

so you pilot a giant robot? how giant?

there seems to be mindgames involved, too. not sure if that makes things better

[redheadcarrier]

thirty meters or so.

[ She has to pause. This is - what? Fine? It's a surprisingly civil conversation. ]

i hate mind games. i hate all of that. i don't need someone trying to PSYCHO ANALYZE ME while we're in the middle of the end of the world or some stupid crap like that.

[spinoff]

i cannot possibly even begin to fathom how that works

[ Tara is a nice girl that has no idea who she's talking to, so hey, it could be worse. ]

same, honestly

apparently you get "points" to exchange for things, think you could get your robot back? now that would be a sight

[redheadcarrier]

[ To be fair, Asuka isn't sure she wants "her" robot back. Aside from the massive infrastructure she'd need for it, revelations about exactly why it worked the way it did make her a little less sure about it. ]

it's complicated. i piloted the thing and even i don't know everything about it!

but probably won't ask for it, even if I get "points". there's no power source for it.

and i don't exactly have people to keep it repaired for me.

[ Wow, she's being sensible for once. ]

[spinoff]

that's a bit worrying

huh, i guess a giant robot doesn't charge up like an electric car

sounds like such a hassle

[redheadcarrier]

this one doesn't. it's got a battery but without an external cable it's only got five minutes.

[ She remembers those last five minutes still. Not entirely. Just flashes of adrenaline and anger and vindictive victory and then pain.

She tries to ignore it. ]

[spinoff]

what can you even do in five minutes?

unless your giant robot is really fast and agile

[redheadcarrier]

you'd be surprised.

sometimes it's all you really need.

[ And yet it always made her feel sick. It was always terrifying. It was always a blink away from something awful.

She kept doing it anyway. ]

and it was! it could move like any other human, except you know thirty meters tall!!

[spinoff]

I mean, when you put it that way...

that, like, completely disregards the laws of physics?

[redheadcarrier]

i don't know the science behind it, i just know that it works!

[spinoff]

honestly i don't either, i just know that something that big would be crushed under its own weight if it tried to move that fast

then again, maybe there's some crazy technology at work there

[redheadcarrier]

yeah. It definitely works. Might be the power generation or artifical musculature it had...

[spinoff]

muscles?

as in people muscles? on a robot? or is the term "mecha"?

[redheadcarrier]

mecha and robot are basically the same thing.

and i'm pretty sure it's all artificial.

[ Don't worry about it. ]

[spinoff]

i'm not nerdy enough to fight you on that

honestly? i don't want to know

[ There's way too much lore and too little time, sadly. ]

[redheadcarrier]

yeah well

it's all gone now anyway. so no point worrying about it.

[spinoff]

When you say gone, you mean destroyed?

[redheadcarrier]

yes.

along with everything else.