Chapter 1: Goodbye, High-School Life

[hopefullyyours]

Who: Nagito Komaeda and anybody else
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: On the Marsiva
When: 1/30

[Komaeda shows the stars before himself, arranging his bad arm one last time to make certain nothing is showing. It's a wasted effort- his hand is already tightly bundled up under multiple layers of bandage and clothing. He switches the view so he's fully visible.]

Hello, hello! What an interesting setting we're in now. I don't suppose Monokuma has given us any announcements to explain why it looks like we're in space?

[He smiles, eyebrows quirking up. It's an expression that seems to beg forgiveness, though there's a shadow of another expression, a colder one, behind his eyes. The combination of those two layered expressions reads as contempt, but is it just that?] And, goodness my, but it's quiet here. Have I been locked up again? In punishment? I promise you all, I did what I did in order to further you-

... To further hope.

Comments

[detectivewonder]

Two questions.

Monokuma?

[hopefullyyours]

.... Who are you? That's only one question, by the way.

[detectivewonder]

Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne. But just 'Tim' is fine.

The second question is what you did.

[aberrant_type]

[Listening in on this]

[hopefullyyours]

.... Are you- a foreign exchange student? [It's possible? Sonia was, after all. But how, or why, would he be kept separate from the rest of them this whole time? And with how boisterous and sadistic Monokuma was, there was no way he could keep himself unknown from this 'Tim' in that situation.]

Hmmm.... Well, I sort of... burned down a building. It was an unused factory! Nothing of value was lost in the fire.

video;

[aberrant_type]

Monokuma is a person or organization, I presume? You're going to want to change the names over to Diamond. Or Atroma.

[She smiles blithely. Her eyes are wide and brown. She looks like the picture of friendliness.]

And it seems that you are in space. It came as a surprise to me too!

Re: video;

[hopefullyyours]

He's definitely the sort of person you'd be loathe to take on with your bear hands. Why am I changing his name?

[Goodness but she does look friendly. All these extra people are popping up- all two of them! He's almost not sure what to do with himself.]

That sort of thing is probably just an elaborate ruse, don't you think?

Re: video;

[aberrant_type]

It would have to be quite the elaborate ruse, given that we've stopped at waystations... in space... and on a few different planets now. I suppose they could be transporting us around the world, but the resources required would be incredible, in my opinion!

And you're changing his name because I haven't heard a whisper from or about this Monobear character since we arrived. Although if you wanted, I suppose you could go on using his name! Why not?

Re: video;

[hopefullyyours]

Hmm. What a curious piece of information. [Crossing his arms, Komaeda looks out to the view of the stars to his side.] I suppose even that, for Monokuma, is a bit much.

... But even if I say that, don't you think it's also a bit much to assume we're traveling around in space?!

video

[everydayhero]

Whoa, what're you so worried about being locked up for? As far as I've figured out, this isn't a prison.

Re: video

[hopefullyyours]

As far as you've figured out? How much study have you put into the matter?

[WHERE ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE COMING FROM.]

[everydayhero]

Got here yesterday, so not a ton. We're on a reality show in space, apparently. We're gonna be added to crews on smaller ships soon, and a lot of us seem to be from different worlds.

[hopefullyyours]

... I mean, that's what they said, of course, but that can't be all there is to the situation, don't you think?

And doesn't 'different worlds' seem a little far-fetched to you?

video;

[ladiesss]

Uh... Hi?

[yeah, that's it. that's all she has to say to any of that.]

Re: video;

[hopefullyyours]

Hello! Apparently this is a different situation than I'd originally anticipated. Isn't that interesting? I still feel like space is a bit hard to swallow, though...

[ladiesss]

Uh... Yeah! It is actually space, though, and not whatever you were talking about.

[she continues talking, looking kind of weirded out by him... she's also whispering, but it doesn't appear to be for any... particular reason...]

But anyway, welcome to the weird intergalactic space TV show, I guess.

Text

[mortalcoil]

[Coil's got his little tablet thing handy, so he can write out quick answers. it appears on the screen as text, though. nice and clean.]

You sound like you know what's going on.

Re: Text

[hopefullyyours]

Hahaha, such an accurate rebuke. I fully accept your criticism! If I'd spent more time thinking about it, some other oddities would definitely have caught my eye. It was completely unreasonable to react like I did!

Text

[mortalcoil]

[a short pause]

It wasn't a rebuke. I was hoping you were knowledgeable.

Video

[onlyanapple]

I'm sure hope is very grateful for what you've done for it.

Re: Video

[hopefullyyours]

Vermin like me isn't really worthy of any kind of attention from hope itself... Unless you mean somebody named 'hope.'

[onlyanapple]

...No.

Little self deprecating there, aren't you?

[blindoptimism]

No, the situation might be different than whatever you were used to. [Monokuma? she wonders idly who that is, but she'll ask in a bit]

While this situation is not ideal, you're not in any immediate danger.

[hopefullyyours]

I'm getting the impression that things are a little different than what I originally assumed. Even so, I'm not afraid! How could I be?!

[Yeah, definitely. How indeed could anybody be afraid at being abducted into a space fleet? NOT KOMAEDA NO SIR.]

[blindoptimism]

[aha... well that's... good? she smiles weakly]

I'm glad to hear that. People are often unnerved at the sudden change, but it's good to take it all with a calm head.