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camppetoskey2018-06-25 02:06 am
WEEK 4
Another week begins at camp, though it comes with a bit of a somber note. More than a third of the campers have died or gone missing, leaving a noticeable absence in camp. With five gone in one week, will anyone really be able to make it the full eight weeks? That is yet to be seen.
The weather has dipped a little, going down to the mid-70s. At least the pastier kids won't have to worry about sunburns, right? Though the waves coming off the lake have been starting to get a little high. And the RVs have changed once more, though anyone with a keen eye might notice that some of them look familiar...
The Wii is gone, and in its place is a shiny new WiiU, now sporting Bayonetta 2 and Splatoon in addition to the Wii games left behind. Unfortunately, there's no internet, so you're stuck with single player mode only. Leon, Mami, Clarke, Kon, and Natsume are now gone from the Mii menu, and the music has changed again.
This week there seems to be a baseball diamond set up in the field, and there will probably be sports-themed activities later on. But with only 18 living campers left, will anyone really be in the mood for some games?
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[ He pauses and reconsiders this. ]
Probably illegal too. [ Kids die there, but this is not something Boa has ever really... thought about. ]
It's mostly known as an urban myth of there being a secret place strong bladers go to that nobody comes back from, but it's real. The one who left was one of our leader's, Ashram's, bigger investments it seems. I only recently found out, because the top bladers wear masks, but the one I was trailing is a blader that went missing from the prestigious New York Bulls team a while ago.
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....Uh-huh.
[So beyblading's kind of a weirdly big deal in Boa's world. He can accept that, sure.]
Sooo.... how'd you get involved in shady business?
[ARENT YOU LIKE, TEN OR SOMETHING.]
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I come from a town close-by to where the Snake Pit is rumored to be so I went looking for it. I suppose from the point of view of other people, I also never came back.
[ Heh. He smiles in passing amusement. This is probably not actually funny. ]
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So you ran away from home? You didn't... tell your parents or anything?
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[ He hasn't thought about this in like a year? His dad probably noticed eventually? It'd make sense to notice eventually. ]
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...that's rough.
[Just going to have another bite of food while he considers just how much it'd suck to have a family that just didn't care at all.]
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[ Boa himself seems far less impressed by the situation. Any sadness he has about it is so deep suppressed he hasn't noticed it in years. With the whole 'Beyblade or die', he just had other worries. ]
So how'd you get into a space war?
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It's a long story. My friends and I found Blue hidden away in a cave, Blue chose me as her paladin, and then... kinda kindapped all of us and brought us to the Castle of Lions on planet Arus.
[He has a thoughtful bite of empanada.]
To make the story short, we learned that the Galra were out there and that they weren't going to stop expanding their empire in search of more power. My friends and I are the only five people out there who can pilot a Voltron lion, and the Voltron lions are the only weapons we can use to really put a dent in the Galra.
You'd have to be pretty stone cold to say that's not your war or your responsibility.
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So you're actually one of the strongest in your universe...?
[ He stops eating and stares at Lance because that's... impressive?? ]
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He swallows dryly.]
...I know Blue picked me for a reason. Sometimes I'm not sure what that reason is.
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Do you need to be sure of it? It's not like it will be undone whether or not you agree with the reason, so it's your position anyway.
[ And it's a pretty awesome position, from the sounds of it. ]
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I guess... being stuck here and separated from Blue and the rest of the Voltron team makes questioning things like that a lot easier. When you're fighting a war, you don't have time to wonder about this stuff, you just have to fight until you can't fight anymore.
[A beat.]
The Voltron lions are amazing. They're alive, in a way. They choose you to pilot them and only you can pilot. They speak to you and they come to you in times of need. I used to be able to connect with Blue like that, but ever since I've been here, it's like... our connections been severed. Maybe it's just the people in charge messing with things somehow, but maybe it's Blue who's moved on.
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[ So no matter how cool this lion sounds (and it does, Boa is liking this description), it's probably hard for it to get through to here. ]
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In a way, I guess in a roundabout way, that just makes me more nervous about what these guys are really capable of. Altean alchemy is some of thr strongest, most magical stuff in my universe and even with that we still have a hard time beating back Zarkon's army.
What if these guys decide they're not satisfied just doing these smaller experiments on just a handful of kids every year. They'd be an entirely new curse upon the universe. ... All universes.
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I was thinking the same thing. But it doesn't really make any sense... They're powerful enough to grab us and toss us back at will from other worlds and times, but the hunters can contain this test site with just firearms? Is it just an agreement they have made with our captors? It's just... weird.
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It doesn't really sound like they're a team, but they're also not not cooperating either... I don't really get it.
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[Just a thought. Not something he can necessarily prove.]
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[ What is wrong with this place and all its mind fuckery?! How do they get a refund. ]
That's a good point to keep in mind.
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It takes a lot for people to shoot at a kid and not be even a little remorseful about it, after all.
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Whether or not they are victims doesn't really matter to me at this point anymore.
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Hey, don't get it twisted. I'm in no way about to get teary eyed about those guys and whatever's going on with them. Whatever the reason, they're an existential threat to us now, and it'd be dumb to lose sight of that.
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Your cooking really isn't bad.
[ Which is to say 'you are overall a cooler guy than anticipated but I will not tell you this directly because you'd make me want to change my mind again instantly'. ]