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Who: ZRAEL and... visitors?
Where: ZRAEL
When: 243 morningish

[it's a wonderful day in hell and you are a terrible-- wait, has that door... ALWAYS been there?]

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[tips his head.]

...But we were mercenaries, anyway, so there wasn't a lot of investment in the emotional side of the fights.

You okay?

I'm fine.

A mercenary, huh...

Yeah. Jaegers, but most people 'round here don't really know what that means like where I'm from. I don't remember much, though.

Mm. I've never heard of it.

We've got a hitman and an assassin and a devil hunter, but I think most of us are more used to working alone. Sabre might be the only one who had something like an army. She bought a tank, the other day.

[whistles.]

That must've been pretty expensive.

Only five thousand points.

So what's a jaeger...?

Five? Not fifty or somethin'?

Pretty much what I just said. Mercenary.

Yeah. It didn't come with weaponry, but it didn't cost any more than a fancy car.

Anyway... maybe the name of another weapon...?

Oh, guess it makes sense when it's put like that.

Like Sabre and Blade?

Yeah. Do you you remember what you usually used?

Uhhh, not sure what the name for the type of weapon it was is, but the weapon itself was named Berserker. It was uhh, kind of a gun and a sword all at once? A gunpowder weapon too, instead of orbal.

[raises his hand to indicate size and it was like. the size of her.]

[she doesn't seem to find this particularly strange]

I don't know what orbal is either.

Hmm... Have you heard of the fire lance? It was one of the earliest gunpowder weapons, in China. "Fire☆Lance" could be a pretty good name.

Or if you wanted something closer to what you already have, you could go a different direction with something like "Grand Marksman."

I dunno where to even start explaining orbal power...

[hums, thoughtfully.]

Nah, if I'm going for a new name, the whole thing bein' new feels right. And Fire☆Lance sounds super cool.

Really?

[a little flustered]

Well... if you like it.

[he laughs, gentle.]

I do!

[huffs]

There you go, then.

Thanks for the name, Glory.

...No problem. You're ☆ZRAEL now, so...

That's gonna take some getting used to, but... yeah. Seems like it.

...Mm. It'll probably take everyone a while to get used to it.

Fingers crossed it isn't too rough until we do.

[...]

We don't usually have people who would rather be somewhere else.

It's... complicated, huh? I don't know about what I'd rather, but this sure is different than I expected.

[silent for a few moments]

...I used to be on Taisho, originally. But I changed voluntarily, because ☆ZRAEL seemed like a place that would understand me better. Which it has been.

We have some rough patches, because we're all not really great at people. But that's also why having ☆ZRAEL be somewhere we belong is important to us. If someone can just... come in at random, from another unit...

Well, keep in mind that people may be reacting to more than just you, that's all.

[he sighs, folding his hands behind his head.]

They'd probably take it a touch better if I weren't BARiTONES, though, right? ...But I get it. That it's an invasion.