POST 08 - [Video]
Dec. 22nd, 2012 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
districttwo[Here's Cato, Barge. Dressed like a pre-collapse civilian with his hands in his pockets. This is so weird.]
Everyone here talks differently.
I mean...really different.
[He pans upward to the flag and back down] I haven't seen a flag like that before.
[This is really unnerving. Like really REALLY unnerving and therefore he turns the feed off before privately messaging Dylan]
I also don't understand the point of everyone asking me to buy these gift cards. I don't have any money.
[Private to Dylan]
...Do you think there are people in my world that talk like this? What does my file say? That...act like this?
The history of Pre-Collapse America indicates that the United States was the one affected but there are people speaking other languages here. There are people who are talking about other countries. Do you think that...I mean do you...
[he exhales] Because if they are...if they did...Why didn't North America ask them to come and help when the floods hit?
[In his file, and what Warden wouldn't read the file? There's a notation.
Prior to the massive ecological disasters that hit the United States of America, the nation had severed most of, if not all ties with the struggling European nation due to disagreements over foreign policy. President Mitt Romney, neglecting his own people poured funds and resources into the oppression of other countries. Succumbing to madness, the president was eventually assassinated but the laws that he put in power led to aggression between North America and other countries.
There's more. There's a lot more about bombs falling and about the United States dragging the whole world down to hell. There's a lot more about how basically "We don't like you" and "well I don't like you either" descended into black B2 Stealth bombers, biochemical warfare, and the human population being so small that the rebellion within the districts threatened the safety of the human species.
But it's a question of if now is the time to honestly discuss that.]
Everyone here talks differently.
I mean...really different.
[He pans upward to the flag and back down] I haven't seen a flag like that before.
[This is really unnerving. Like really REALLY unnerving and therefore he turns the feed off before privately messaging Dylan]
I also don't understand the point of everyone asking me to buy these gift cards. I don't have any money.
[Private to Dylan]
...Do you think there are people in my world that talk like this? What does my file say? That...act like this?
The history of Pre-Collapse America indicates that the United States was the one affected but there are people speaking other languages here. There are people who are talking about other countries. Do you think that...I mean do you...
[he exhales] Because if they are...if they did...Why didn't North America ask them to come and help when the floods hit?
[In his file, and what Warden wouldn't read the file? There's a notation.
Prior to the massive ecological disasters that hit the United States of America, the nation had severed most of, if not all ties with the struggling European nation due to disagreements over foreign policy. President Mitt Romney, neglecting his own people poured funds and resources into the oppression of other countries. Succumbing to madness, the president was eventually assassinated but the laws that he put in power led to aggression between North America and other countries.
There's more. There's a lot more about bombs falling and about the United States dragging the whole world down to hell. There's a lot more about how basically "We don't like you" and "well I don't like you either" descended into black B2 Stealth bombers, biochemical warfare, and the human population being so small that the rebellion within the districts threatened the safety of the human species.
But it's a question of if now is the time to honestly discuss that.]
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Date: 2012-12-22 09:22 pm (UTC)And there are a fair amount of British people on the Barge as well, assuming you're talking about the accent.
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Date: 2012-12-22 11:59 pm (UTC)They're very professional. British people.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-23 12:07 am (UTC)Nothing sir. [He's embarrassed.] I've had an opportunity to look around.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-23 12:20 am (UTC)[This is not class Cato. This is not an inquisition. You do not have to know this] Sorry sir. I don't know sir....I didn't think I'd be quizzed.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-22 11:38 pm (UTC)But I'm sure that there are other countries in your world. Maybe they found different solutions to help rebuild society after the collapse. Maybe they'd be in a position to help now.
Do you have any plans for today? [If Cato doesn't, Dylan does.]
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Date: 2012-12-22 11:44 pm (UTC)...I had...intended to..
[No ready lie]
No. I don't have any plans.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:12 am (UTC)If you don't mind hanging out with your warden, I've got a few things we could do.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:21 am (UTC)They let me look around, answered my questions about the island. One of them gave me a funny look [but it provided the information that he just imparted to poor Charles Xavier] He looked it up on his phone.
....that was nice.
[There's a long pause] I ... I would like that.
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:38 am (UTC)Great! Let's meet up. I was thinking video arcade first, then maybe the Tower of London and get some history, and then in the evening we can volunteer at a soup kitchen.
[It's not a random or haphazard plan. Something fun first as a treat and to put Cato in a good mood to be more receptive to the rest. Information about how bleak and cruel this nation once was to contrast with what it is now. A nation that feeds its poor without making them fight over scraps. Show Cato how a more civilized society deals with poverty and hunger. Helping them instead of turning them into voyeuristic entertainment.]
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Date: 2012-12-23 12:42 am (UTC)[Cato is stunned] Like...the ones that capitol children play in? Ones with holograms?
[You can do that?]
What's a soup kitchen?
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Date: 2012-12-23 02:23 am (UTC)That and you don't look homeless.
[She acts like she knows quite a bit more, but in reality, she's just as lost as he was on a few of those things. She's just not open enough to admit it.]
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Date: 2012-12-23 02:30 am (UTC)I always thought it was just Panem.
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Date: 2012-12-23 02:52 am (UTC)[She frowns and shrugs.] To my knowledge, it is just Panem around.
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Date: 2012-12-23 02:55 am (UTC)I would have told me to leave.
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Date: 2012-12-23 03:07 am (UTC)[Cashmere watches him for a moment before sighing and offering the only consolation she can afford...] Our conditions are different from theirs... Which is why our Peacekeepers have different tendencies than theirs.
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Date: 2012-12-23 03:22 am (UTC)Private
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Date: 2012-12-28 08:13 pm (UTC)[long pause] I am descended from Americans. We may be the only people left.
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