ORIENTATION

[allforevil]

[When you start to stir from your slumber, you awaken to the smell of dust and rotted wood. Your bed is far from comfortable -- lumps in the mattress, a tattered blanket that barely keeps you warm and a pillow almost as hard as a rock-- and you'll immediately see there are others in your room with you.

All of you are confused, surely. "Where am I?" "What place is this?" Questions like that stir through your mind while you take in your surroundings. Something might catch your eye before anything else, though. A coloured chest tied with a bow, a large gift tag is attached to it with your name on it. There's one for everyone in each dorm, and if you open it you'll find:

An old, worn school uniform.
A colourful costume.
And a pamphlet with information about you, about your stay in this Academy, and a map of the layout of the school and the training grounds outside. The descriptions are vague, leaving out important details about your new super powers called "Quirks", a bland description about how you were selected to join the Academy called "VA" (no explanation what it means), and even the map has lame descriptions of locations that don't really give you a good idea of where you're staying.

Before you can start exploring, or chatting away with your neighbors, a voice rings over old intercoms. It sounds low and comforting, like a long lost friend. But there's something about that that feels.. unsettling. A feeling in your gut that this voice was anything but friendly.

"Welcome, students. You must be very confused, but I assure you I'll be able to answer all the questions you have in just a few minutes.

For now, relax, explore, and meet your new classmates who will be staying with you during this semester.

Oh, but..... whatever you do, don't enter the dining room."

The intercom cuts off, leaving you with a cryptic message to think about on top of.. everything else you're dealing with right now.]

Comments

[snackquire]

[ HE DID. He got a little bit of his foot there too so Tamaki like. Landed on his back funny but he's FINE...

...

Murder attempts usually don't come with apologies. MAYBE this guy is on the level. ]

Was this an attack...?

[ninehilist]

Uh.

[A beat.]

No? The bed just gave way.

[...wait, why was he on a bed? And who is this guy? Wasn't 9S just...

Maybe this is just his memories acting up. Might as well lean into it.]

Weird, though. You'd think it'd be able to handle my weight...

[snackquire]

...How much do you weigh...?

[ HE DOESN'T MEAN IT RUDELY BUT you did just destroy a bed, there. ]

[ninehilist]

The...same as any other scanner model? A hundred and twenty-nine point nine kilos, give or take?

[The boy is five-foot-two inches.]

[snackquire]

[ OH OKAY OF COURSE ]

I don't know what a "scanner model" is. [ ALSO. IS IT...RUDE...TO BE SURPRISED BY THAT WEIGHT? He thinks it might be rude. He should try to look like this is totally normal. ]

[ninehilist]

[...right, he's still lying on the busted bed. Time to get up and brush himself off and--where's Pod 153?

Oh, right.]

A model designed for recon and scanning? Kinda what it says on the tin.

[snackquire]

[ Uhhhhhhhhhhh ]

...Like a robot?

[ninehilist]

Android. I know YoRHa isn't--wasn't like other the lines but come on, that's just rude.

[Seriously, who the hell uses the R-word anymore? They're all androids! That'd be like calling a human a mammal.]

[snackquire]

Ah, sorry...we don't have, er, androids at home?

[ They have BATTLE ROBOTS that they use for training, but they're not like. People. ]

[ninehilist]

[A beat.]

Then what the hell do you call yourselves?

[Wait, is robot the term this guys uses? What the hell did all that Tower bullshit do to his memorybanks?!]

[snackquire]

[ ...? He's too confused to be super nervous, at least. ]

I'm a human. [ Ignore the pointed ears. That's just a thing. ] Androids aren't a level of technology we've reached yet...

[ninehilist]

[That makes 9S laugh.

It's...not the best laugh. Not cruel but. Not entirely safe.]

No, you're not.

[snackquire]

[ WOW, RUDE? ]

Uh...yes, I am?

[ though he's enough of an anxiety child to go AREN'T I???? mentally. IS THIS ABOUT HIS EARS, NINE. ]

NIER AUTOMATA SPOILERs also probably spoilers for the oringal Nier but

[ninehilist]

You can't be. There haven't been humans for thousands of years.

[I mean the ears are also a bit weird but he has records on the weird ass body mods humans would do so.]

[snackquire]

[ UHHHHHH? ]

I - what? I'm pretty sure there's still humans around...I mean, I think we'd know if we were androids?

[ WOULDN'T HE ]

[ninehilist]

Maybe not, depending on your programming.

[Oh, poor guy. 9S feels a little bad, but it may be better if he finds out this way.]

[snackquire]

[ INTERNAL SHRIEKING... ]

B-but I bleed, and I have human organs...and, er, I was born from a womb...

[ninehilist]

I bleed, but that doesn't mean anything, and if your programming tells you that you have memories of something like natural birth...

[snackquire]

[ ..........

................................

............................................

he wants mirio now............ ]

Er, but, I have seventeen years of memories...

[ninehilist]

[He shrugs.]

Programming.

[snackquire]

[ Tamaki.exe has STOPPED WORKING.

You took a perfectly good anxious child and gave him...more anxiety, 9S. ]

[ninehilist]

[Yeaaaaah poor guy.

But 9S is so not equipped to handle this, though he has to try.]

Look, what's your name? Maybe I can go find someone for you?

[snackquire]

T-Tamaki. Amajiki Tamaki.

[ HE WANTS...MIRIO.........! ]

[ninehilist]

[Weird name for an android but okay.]

I'm 9S. Is there anyone you can think of you might want to see right now?

[snackquire]

Mirio, Hadou, Fatgum...Kirishima, maybe.

[ PEOPLE HE KNOWS AND TRUSTS AND LIKES who think he's human :( ]