the general - day zero.

[foxhounds]

THE GENERAL day zero Ivan has told you what you're meant to do in the coming days, and she's also told you that there's an hour before other souls will start washing up on the shores. She has to leave to prepare, but you're all together in the lobby of the mansion. Take it as a chance to meet each other and get to know the people you'll be working with.

Comments

[meatery]

Maybe we all died at the exact same second or something, and they picked people from that moment in time? Or... They picked weaker people to give the prey a chance...

[... Sigh.] Yeah, I don't really get it. But if there's a chance of it being true, I'm going to take it. If I'm right about how I died, there's- there might be people that will need my help.

[hopefragment]

No way. If that guy, [glances toward him,] is really Hijikata Toshizou, he definitely died more than a hundred years ago.

[Don't... ask him for an exact date, though. Hinata's lucky he remembers that much from school.]

But... people who need your help, huh? I guess it's good to have that kind of goal.

[meatery]

Okay well- maybe they like cute people! [They are a fairly cute/pretty bunch!] ... Cute people and skinny, harmless looking guys! [There, including Hinata now.]

Hopefully they won't need my help, but I'm not going to turn down the chance to give it. [...] Even if my eldest son doesn't want me around, my youngest should appreciate it.

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[hopefragment]

[Wait, is she calling him cute?! Before he has time to blush because that's weird, you're probably like twice his age, she's tacking on that end bit, and--

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult...]

[hopefragment]

Yeah, I kind of get where you're coming from. I don't want to die, either. Or... die permanently, I guess. I mean, I just got accepted to Hope's Peak, so...

[Yeah, if she has kids, she's definitely a good bit older than him. He trails off, though, because really... it's not that he was just accepted. It's that he can't remember having gone to school at all, if Monokuma were telling the truth on the other island.]

[meatery]

[It's absolutely an insult.]

You're young. [Said simply. That's all the excuse Hinata needs to want to live.] A warrior's job is to survive, there's no shame in that.

[hopefragment]

I'm not a warrior, though. Everyone here has made that pretty clear already.

[meatery]

Well... [Laughs a tiny bit.] You definitely don't look like one. But I've fought plenty of strong guys that didn't. Did you know, people tend to underestimate me too?

You can't judge anyone until you see them fighting for their life. That includes yourself.

[hopefragment]

Really? But you're...

[Has to resist the urge to just kind of point to her. All of that.]

But... thanks, I guess. I'm really not a fighter, but I'm not going to hold you guys back.

[meatery]

A really scary woman, right? [LAUGHS MORE please tell her family and friends that, Hinata, she'd appreciate it.]

Don't worry, we'll look after you. [They need to keep their numbers up, after all!] And maybe we can see about toughening you up!

[hopefragment]

Y-yeah, something like that.

[Is that funny? Alrighty then.]

...Uh, yeah, maybe. We'll see.

[I don't think I could handle getting toughened up by this group!]

[meatery]

We could tie weights to you! That'll build up your muscles. Oh, and swimming a hundred laps around the island each morning would be great for your stamina!

[She sounds like she's getting excited...]

This will be just like when Raditz was little!

[hopefragment]

No thanks.

[Just that face. Forever.]

I don't really think it's going to come down to physical strength alone, anyway.

[meatery]

... Well, that's no fun.

[WHAT ELSE IS THERE ugh don't tell her she might have to think.]

[hopefragment]

I don't think any of this is fun.

[BLUNTLY.]

But... it's something we have to do, isn't it?