2023-03-25: Order From Chaos ~SYNTHESIS~
- Log: 2023-03-25- Order From Chaos ~SYNTHESIS~
- Cast: Akane Shinjo, Guy Shishioh
- Where: Tsutsujidai - Starbows
- OOC - IC Date: 0097-03-25
- Summary: Guy Shishioh and Akane Shinjo sit down and talk about the frankly absurd thing she did a week prior.
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
It's been the better part of a week since Akane took GaoFighGar's reins by force -- a week since she carved her justice out of the world with God and Devil, with the power of creation and destruction. Tomorrow she'll be able to fly again, so she's finally preparing to return from Aya to the Wadatsumi to get her things together and await her flight.
So today, it's fast food day!
Akane chews at the straw of a cup of disgusting sugar slurry with aspirations of being coffee, waiting for her ride to the Wadatsumi -- who she suspects is going to have a lot to talk about with her. Unlike most of her prior visits to Starbows, she's also got a protein box; she absently snags a slice of cheese, rotating it between her fingers.
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
THAT was a report to read. The theories flying around at Orbit Base are piled high on Guy's desk, with a matching pile for requests for experimental data. The Chief himself isn't getting any of that work done, though.
Instead, he he lands his butt in the seat opposite Akane, accompanied by Starbows' very mediumest onigiri lunch set and some manner of space latte.
Guy looks at Akane for a long few seconds, and then summarizes it all with: "So, like, what?"
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
"I've got some hunches," Akane answers, with a little giggle. It's at strain, and it shows; she takes her oxygen concentrator satchel and fusses with it a bit, eventually putting the tubes back in her nose. It takes a second for her to get them situated.
"I can't actually explain all of it," she adds, chewing her lip for a minute before proceeding. "I think doing something that big with GaoFighGar was... like, because I did it in the first place, and I did it here, I could undo it? Actually taking control of it was just kinda on gut, though..."
Taking a few deep breaths, Akane adds, "I think it's got something to do with Alexis having turned me into a kaiju. I was reviewing some stuff from Todo-san's era in operations, before everything, about kaiju, and it... does work out, if."
She looks down, having cut herself off, and then finishes -- as if it's its own complete sentence -- "I'm a kaiju." It's halfway to a question.
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
Guy watches her fumble with the concentrator satchel and tend to herself for a moment. There's sympathy on his face, though when he needed interventions like that it was usually less...medical. Per se.
He waits for her assessment, sipping his coffee meanwhile. His eyes scan across her, thinking, as she reaches her final conclusion.
"It's better to confront the truth head-on than just worry about it," is his advice. "The team back home is interested in running some tests, but if that's your analysis, I'll trust it. It makes sense, from what we know of you and this place."
"For now, you've got that body. Understanding what it can do isn't bad."
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
"That's fine," Akane agrees, at the idea of more tests. "I kinda want to know too? Like, can I only do it in my city? Can I do the self repair trick again? There's a ton of questions..." Pushing her lilac hair back and out of her face, she admits, "I guess I expected being a kaiju to stop."
She finally eats that piece of cheese she's been messing around with, foot bobbing up and down impatiently. She swallows. "I need to come back to Orbit Base for a couple days anyway? Kamuy and I need to talk about something. ... it's our business and you're actually better off not knowing what's up there yet."
Several seconds pass in silence.
Her gaze doesn't tilt up toward Guy's. "It's kinda screwed up, right?" she says, abruptly. "Even stuff like your body -- changes without your say-so. I guess that's true for everyone, though, man. You and I sure might be the experts, huh?" Her hand comes up to her mouth, and she giggles.
It's a little easier if it's funny.
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
"We can assess all that," Guy agrees, and sets his drink on the table.
He blinks a little at her very specificaly cutting him out of the loop, and then shrugs. "Fine by me," he says. "Thankfully, I am not required to know absolutely everything that goes on in the organization." He'd tear himself apart, probably.
"Undo it is the right word, anyway," Guy says, and pulls out the tablet he keeps on hand for presentation. With his Evoluder abilities, there's no fiddling; it's already showing footage taken from the Wadatsumi garage.
Specifically, of an entirely intact GaoFighGar undergoing a fully routine Fusion Out. "We hadn't repaired much of anything since Mecha-Ghoulgilas did all that damage to it, and now it's completely pristine. Just the standard damage from a single operation. And it doesn't seem to be temporary, either. Usshi tells me it's been repaired with standard procedures and it's ready for use by anyone who can undergo Fusion."
His eyes scan across her. "Which apparently includes you, now. How you holding up?"
He smiles, just a bit thin, at her joke. "Miracles will do a lot of strange things," he says. He chuckles, a little "hehe" at her joke: "Boy, I hope so..."
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
That's exactly Akane's read, too, and she seems relieved to see that Guy is fine with her unilateral assessment not to read him in on something. "Hopefully nothing comes out of it," she adds, rubbing at the back of her head.
Akane scoots forward to take a peek at the footage. "I was kinda wondering if it'd fall apart the instant I stopped thinking about it," she concedes. "That's good news." She pops a mini-slice of salami into her mouth, chewing at it. With her mouth full but not full enough to matter for talking, she adds, "We're probably gonna need it later."
The other question, though... "It's messy? Like, I'm glad I could do it. Alouette would've had to otherwise, and doing it for me screwed her up pretty bad." What comes out next is pretty sulky, though. "... Almost collapsing a lung sucked. Apparently if it was much worse this would've been in-patient. Eugh."
Another long silence passes. Akane seems like she has something to say, but it takes a while for her to build up to it.
"I really put you through it at a time I bet you would've been a lot happier chasing down the Aura of Dawn." A ragged breath follows -- and mostly not because of the injury. "Sorry."
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
Guy nods at her assessment of GaoFighGar. "At some point, upgrading the whole platform had been the plan, which is why it never got repaired. Then things started happening, and it just...fell off the list. I agree, though. Right now, everything we can possibly bring to bear is good. Suppose that's one we owe you."
"Yeah," he agrees. "It puts an entirely different strain on your body. Even what Alouette does isn't the same kind of participation with the power."
'Almost collapsing a lung sucked,' she says, and Guy motions at her. "Case in point. The Trinary Solar System didn't call it Two Powers Into One for nothing. Hell and Heaven, destruction and preservation, are powers that don't want to unite. You bear the force of that struggle with your own will and body. I'm glad you're alright." He scratches his cheek, idly. "God and Devil, huh," he mutters, his gaze briefly distant.
Speaking of nightmares from the past, he refocuses when she is able to bring up her own apologies. He dips his head. "Accepted. You're right, but hunting them hasn't gotten me a whole lot, either, so...maybe for the best. I'd probably have just gotten myself run over by ChoRyuJin or something, instead."
...saying that out loud makes him look away, before he reaches to stuff half a rice ball in his mouth.
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
"I don't mind doing it again, though, I think we're gonna wanna take turns on the Two Powers Into One thing," Akane says, and it's as much about teasing herself as about objective good practice. "Though it wasn't all bad. I got some good downtime out of it... Takarada-san's a great cook, and sometimes a six-mat room is the perfect size for two people..."
She notices Guy chewing on 'God and Devil.' The way Guy scratches his cheek when he's not voicing something has started to turn into a familiar sight, and Akane weighs whether to press.
... It's not the right place, and it's not the right time. She lets it skate. Guy can tell her when he tells her -- or when it starts being load-bearing that he hasn't.
Akane can't meet Guy's gaze either; she looks down, then out the Starbows window. "We're bringing every one of them back," she says, firmly. "They're going to need a lot of amazing people. I know what being one is gonna have to look like, now. ... I think I'm ready."
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
Guy cracks a smile. "It's nice to finally have the choice to do that," he says. "Hopefully we can get everyone tools like GaoGaiGar used to have. We do still have a spare Goldymarg chassis, from back when the Sol Masters attacked, but..." He grimaces. "AI's come a long way, but I'm still not confident entrusting something like the G-Tool to that." He eventually shakes his head to clear out the thought. "Regardless. Might be time to look into arming everybody again. Suppose I'll have to talk to Alouette and Sueo about that." Guy does not usually refer to the Ushiyama brothers by number. ...usually.
He brightens up at her promise, though perhaps there's a plastic layer to it. "I know. And I know we can trust you for that. Even more now than ever."
<Pose Tracker> Akane Shinjo has posed.
"I might have some ideas for that, if you give me a little while. Not sure on feasibility, but you've seen me put in work as a designer from the other end before," Akane agrees. "Though I can probably hack a lot of it with just what's already there. The Program Drive system and the Phantom Rings are real intuitive to me. Still, I don't mind consulting on that stuff."
Akane's started to notice Guy's plastic smiles more and more each time. This time, though, rather than either knife in or back off... she pivots, a little. "Hey," she starts, glancing off to the side again. "Do you wanna hit Sevendarake before we go back to the Wadatsumi? I don't actually know what you do in your downtime, but I bet we can find you something cool."
... there's a value in more neutral activities, too, after all.
<Pose Tracker> Guy Shishioh has posed.
"I saw," Guy says. "You did things with those Program Rings I never even thought of. Pretty impressive. Feel free to work something out with Usshi, he's got the keys to the fabricators."
The problem with having to be emotionally sincere with people is that Guy is, of course, they get better at seeing when you're faking it. Still, Akane elects not to blast him wide open this time. "Sevendarake, huh? Not sure I remember it."
He grins, though. "But sure! I've got a while to look around, still."