Voice testing; headed for the_devils_see .

[crippled_truths]

A game? Mundane, are you certain? There are others from this AU, better suited than I to such a place and I have no wish to break my promise to my brother.

... Maybe you can find a mun for him then. Or perhaps one for Miss Mayram or Nagami, though I'm not certain I like what you have in store my future with him when you know that Touya and father will not approve.

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[monadont]

Sounds like you have a problem. What promise did you make?

[crippled_truths]

That we'd never part company as long as we journeyed.

[monadont]

[...Oh.]

That sounds like a hard promise to keep. I mean...

[Shulk scratches the back of his head.]

There might be times where it's better to split up.

[A thought occurs to him; if he hadn't told Fiora to go ahead, would she still be...? His smile falters.]

[crippled_truths]

Well, of course. A woman can't very well do male tasks, now can she? [A shrug.] But, even a apart, we've always been in the same area at the very least.

[Except for when she was eight and her father took her twin up to Striaton for a week.] To be apart now it's unthinkable.

[monadont]

[He isn't sure what she means by "male tasks" but he misses the opportunity to ask. Shulk doesn't quite understand the sentiment behind the want to be together all the time, but he does understand--]

You and your brother must be close.

[His smile isn't quite as bright as his usual one, but it's still wide nonetheless.]

[crippled_truths]

[It's best one doesn't ask. Her world is very gender defined.] Yea. We're twins, it's natural to be close, isn't it?

[Or so she's always thought, so she just shrugs with a small smile.]

[monadont]

[Shulk shakes his head.]

I wouldn't know. I don't have any siblings.

[Because he's kind of an orphan. But Shulk doesn't sound bothered by this at all; he had a pretty good life in Colony 9.]

[crippled_truths]

Really? [Touko looks puzzled by this. Big families are a thing in her time.] That.. I don't understand. Did your mother die and father not re-marry?

[monadont]

[He shakes his head again.]

I was the only survivor from my parents' expedition.

[Shulk scratches the back of his head. It's a bit weird talking about himself.]

It all happened when I was really little, so I don't remember much.

[crippled_truths]

Oh. I'm sorry for your loss.

What were your parent's doing?

[monadont]

It's okay. To be honest, I don't really remember much about them.

[It's hard to miss what he doesn't remember. And he doesn't really know much about them; it's not like anyone he knows now knew his parents.]

I don't know what they had been doing...

[He doesn't know if they had been searching for the Monado, or they had stumbled upon it by chance. Shulk unstraps the sword from his back to show Touko. Though it has the shape of a sword, what looks like a cutting edge is actually blunt.]

...But this is the sword they discovered.

[crippled_truths]

What.... Is that a sword? [It looks nothing like anything she's ever seen.]

[monadont]

[Shulk nods.]

Yes. This is the Monado.

[If she's wondering why Shulk's suddenly stepping back, this is why. The beam is about one and a half times the length of the sword itself.]

[crippled_truths]

[Touko let's out a cry of surpise and jumps back several feet, wide eyed and starting.] M-Ma... I... Wh... Is that... Magic? O-Or somethiong new from the Emperor's armies?

[monadont]

[ASDF;LKJ that was not a reaction he expected. Awe, maybe, or wonder, but certainly not something bordering on fear. He hurriedly deactivates the Monado, the beam disappearing and blade shifting back to its grounded state at a thought.

She says things he doesn't quite understand, but hopefully his words can answer her questions.]

I don't think any army could have made this. I don't really know how the Monado works, but...

[He glances down at the red blade.]

...I hope to find out, someday.

[He scratches the back of his head sheepishly.]

Sorry, this doesn't really help you with your problem.

[robinred]

So, uh, you're really heading over there?

[crippled_truths]

Yea.

I still think mundane's sending the wrong person.

[robinred]

Who would you rather she send?

[crippled_truths]

Miss Fumiko, Or Daigo. Or even Ibuki. [-- what are english names when your fellow muses use the japanese names?]

Not me. I'm not going to be much use on the island.

[robinred]

Unless you'll be looking for ways to be trouble, it's impossible to be useless.

[crippled_truths]

...I'm just a female. I'm not useful for anything other than running a home. My brother or slave would be a better choice. [A blithe shrug.] A male's more valuable than a female.