Voice Testing : Shiro/Wretched Egg (Deadman Wonderland)

[taintedwhite]

[A voice can be heard. Soft, pure and innocent. A young girl's voice. She's singing a lullaby, in Japanese.]

Ruining the woods, tree wrecker...
The angry old forest god turned your poor beak into a poison knife...
Poor little wood pecker...

[A big sigh.]

Mun? ...Muuuun?

Where's Ganta? You said maybe he'd be here...

Shiro wants to play with Ganta.

[A pause as the girl kicks the air with her leg, her long white hair swaying behind her.]

...Do you have cookies? Grandpa always has some for me.

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[deadcenter]

I haven't seen that kid in forever.

[stupid ganta.]

[devil_within]

[Have a Kazuya studying the anomalous girl. Surely her complexion and attire weren't natural. Neither was that manner of speaking.]

Who is this Ganta?

[taintedwhite]

[Shiro closes her right eye.] Hmm... You should try turning your head around?

[And she demonstrates. So helpful, Shiro.]

[deadcenter]

[....

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..............................!!]

Just 'cause I got one eye don't mean I'm completely oblivious to my surroundings!

-And put some proper clothes on, dammit!

[taintedwhite]

Ganta is Shiro's friend!

[taintedwhite]

...Proper? [Not sure what that means.]

What's wrong with Shiro's suit?

[deadcenter]

What's wr-

You're...just.... well.... you know!

[YOU KNOW RIGHT?! YOU KNOW!!! DONT MAKE HIM SAY IT.]

It's revealing!

[taintedwhite]

[Nope. She doesn't. Sorry, Senji. She stares at you blankly for a moment before switching back to her initial (and only important) topic.]

Should we go look for Ganta?

[deadcenter]

[he is going to rip out his hair with this girl.

sdfksfd

But he just.... grunts at that.]

Cheh.... that kid'll turn up eventually. I don't gotta go lookin' for him.

[taintedwhite]

[What kind of answer is that? Certainly not one Shiro will take.]

But Ganta is too weak to look after himself. He needs Shiro to protect him!

...Aren't you Ganta's friend too?

[oforder]

Whether or not he is here is dependent upon the desires of mundanes. What we want is not important.

It is one of the harshest lessons we must learn as muses.

[taintedwhite]

Mundanes? [She seems to ponder this a moment.] Mun doesn't want Ganta here?

...Mister is a muse?

[oforder]

I believe yours does, perhaps even as much as you do. However, until another mundane shares that same desire, he will not be here.

[ Turning to face her, he's rather confused by her question, given what his own mundane's handle is. ]

You are. I am. At least, that is what our mundanes refer to us as. It is, semantically, an ironic label.

[taintedwhite]

But Shiro wants Ganta here! [She's pouting now.]

[And then she blinks as he faces her.] You look like Shiro! ...So Shiro's a muse too? [Is that a good thing?] No one ever told me.

[oforder]

I am aware. Unfortunately, it is not our decision to make.

[ Whatever passes for a smile from Wilhelm crosses his face as she says that. It's like deja vu. ]

Another one of you told me something similar. Just before... that other side of you tried to harm me. She said something about 'twins,' as well.

[ ... Kind of. ]

You'll have more opportunities to speak with your mundane. I can assure you of that. Though I'm curious as to how you will react once you learn what 'muses' are actually used for, here.

[taintedwhite]

Another Shiro? ...Why would Shiro harm you?

Oh but Mun already said what Shiro was here for. To play. ...But playing is no fun without Ganta.

[oforder]

There are others of myself here, as well. It is difficult to explain.

[ Head-tilt. ]

You said, at the time, that you were not Shiro. I believe you know whom I am referring to. If it is of any consolation, she learned that killing me is not as easy as she would have liked.

[ And then he closes his eyes, for a moment, at what she said next. ]

Your mundane's definition of playing is not the same as yours. It is a very real possibility that Ganta may not come here. However, it is not a certainty. It will require patience.

[taintedwhite]

Mister has twin brothers?

[She keeps quiet at that.]

She can kill everything. [Especially if the Mother Goose System is not functioning here to control her.]

Shiro has already waited for Ganta. A long time. I don't want to wait anymore.

[oforder]

I do not. They are simply others of myself, played by other mundanes. And please, call me 'Wilhelm.'

[ He nods. Suddenly, one of his arms disappeared, half of his face disappeared, and a large gash appeared extending from his left shoulder down to the right-hand bottom of his ribcage. But rather than a horrendously gory sight, the otherwise gaping wounds had a strange, eerie glow of light coming out from his body's interior. And despite this, he didn't seem to be in pain. At all. ]

I've seen her rampages before, and she did all of this to me when I attempted to get in her way. Thankfully, she calmed down when it became apparent that my body is different from hers, and cannot be harmed in the traditional ways.

[ And in that instant, the wounds disappeared, his body - and his clothing - appearing no worse for wear. ]

I know you have. Though, in my experience, if you go to a place with other people you are familiar with, it is only a matter of time before more show up.

[taintedwhite]

[Her eyes widen when half of his body disappears and an eerie glow comes out of the remaining half. But she doesn't look scared, rather curious and fascinated. Especially when he seemingly heals himself in a second.]

How does Wilhelm do that?

[And since he seems to know a lot, she's ready to believe him on that.] Then Shiro wants to go to one of those places! Tell me where to go.

[oforder]

[ Wilhelm doesn't go into specifics, because the only thing harder than explaining this to Shiro would be explaining it to the Wretched Egg. Shiro would at least try to understand it; Wretched Egg would accuse him of lying and then try to kill him again. ]

To put it into the simplest of terms, my body isn't made from the same material as yours is. While you are made of flesh and blood - [ and a shitton of nanomachines, but he's not going to to bring that up right now ] - I am made of energy.

[ ... Well, that was easy. Adding another impressionable, extremely dangerous young person to his growing repertoire of potential tools... ]

Currently, I am in a large tower full of monsters. It is both similar to, and unlike the prison you already inhabit. It even has collars, though, from what I remember you telling me, our collars aren't quite as bad as the ones from that amusement park.

[taintedwhite]

Wilhelm's energy is shiny! Shiro likes it a lot.

Collars aren't bad. But the candies Ganta needs to eat are bitter. ...What kind of monsters?

[oforder]

Yes... you have told me that before.

[ He's heard about the candy and collars. It sounds rather inhumane, for a prison. Especially the Carnival Corpse. ]

Things you likely didn't think exist. Things you might have seen only in movies or television.

[taintedwhite]

Are there cookies there? Or pudding? [Because the girl has priorities.]

[oforder]

[ There's the Shiro he remembers. One-track mind. ]

Actually, there is.