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[chibi_emperor]

[Action A; backdated to shrinkfield/growfield; all over Mayfield.]

[There is a giant fireball floating around Mayfield. He doesn't have anywhere particular where he is going, but he is too big to fit the house, and he's too bored and annoyed to stay in one place. You seriously don't want to touch him, as you will probably burn to death if you do. If you talk loud enough he'll hear you though, and he might be willing to talk to you.]

[Action B; Bugs everywhere!; All over Mayfield]

[Emperor is avoiding the bugs, the crabs and ants, moving between them. It's not that he's unable to fight them, but as he had noticed on his first day in Mayfield when he tried to burn Luka to a crisp, that he couldn't spew any flames at all, only growing a pair of arms, he felt pretty vulnurable. He didn't even have Rei here to take cover inside his arm.

He glares at you as he sees you.]

Out of the way, lower being!

Comments

A!

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

Whoaaaaa... what are you? [She's been staring in wonder at the many gigantically huge things today, and this was no different. Even if most couldn't really tell her from a little white speck on the ground.]

Re: A!

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

[He's barely able to hear her, but does pick up on a sound from the ground. He rolls downwards, so that he can see the one who had spoken. In his current state she's tiny. He hadn't heard what she had said though.]

Huh? [Being huge, his voice is really loud.]

Action B (Hope you don't mind a backtag!)

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[This guy that Emperor's talking to looks like a human-sized mecha. He was busy firing some rather tiny snubnozed revolvers at one of the crabmen menacing this side of the street.]

[He glances back to look at the floating blue ball of flame.]

Beg your pardon?

[He sounds Texan, but his voice has a mechanical echo to it.]

I don't mind! Sorry for being so slow in getting back to you though.

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

{Emperor glares at him, then simply.. stared.] I said, "Out of the way, lower being". Don't you get such simple things?

No worries! :D

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Considering Gat comes from a world where others of his kind treat everyone else this exact same way, the irony hitting him right now might as well be a cast-iron battering ram.]

I do.

[That crabman wasn't finished off, it seems. It's still trying to approach and menace the pair. While still looking back at Emperor, Gat spins the revolver in his left hand before firing a killing blow into the crabman.]

But I ain't much one for folks with no tact.

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

[Seeing as he's found out that he's pretty useless in battle (he really could need Rei right now, thankyouverymuch), he lets this stranger handle the monster.]

Why would I care about that? I am the mighty Code:Emperor. [Saying this as if it should be obvious to anyone what that meant.]

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

You're royalty back home? One of them "blue blood" types?

[With a flick his his thumb, Gat breaks open the revolver's cylinder, letting the spent round casings slide out and clatter onto the ground.]

Shoulda figured from th' way you're burnin' blue.

[The way he says that has a facetious tone to it.]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

[The fire-ball smirks.] Something like that. [Not that he remembered who he had been like as a human, but in Eden...]

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Right.

[Gat glances out toward the street briefly, scanning for any other giant monsters that might be heading their way. For the moment, the coast appears to be clear.]

I'm guessin' you're new in town.

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

Could say that. It doesn't take much to get that it's a fucked-up place.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat nods slightly in agreement.]

You prolly already noticed that th' town's taken everything you had from ya. So you oughta be careful with th' high-an'-mighty attitude. There's folks here who've been 'round these parts for a long time an' got most or all of their stuff back.

[He says all that in a folksy, non-threatening manner.]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

I've lost my powers once before, so I don't worry about it. It'll come back. Besides, I still burn people if they touch me. [That had been fun.]

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat seems to be studying Emperor's fiery form.]

Reckon you're right about that.

[A handshake would be a bad idea. Regardless, he ought to introduce himself ...]

By th' way, name's Falk Gatt. Though most folks jus' call me "Gat."

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm right about that.

I'm the Code:Emperor.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat tilts his head slightly.]

That mean you're th' emperor of a place called Code? Or is that metaphorical? Like bein' th' king of programmers or somethin'?

[For all Gat knows, "code emperor" might mean he's the emperor of Java programmers!]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

I sort of was. Everyone in Eden is Code:s, and I am one of the Code:Names. We are the absolutely strongest in Eden.

[Oh god, whatever you do, don't tell Emperor that.]

I don't remember my original name.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

["Code Name?" Now Gat's thinking back to his conversation with some of the people from Reliable Excavation Demolition ...]

Put that way, that sounds more like some sorta intelligence agency or special operations unit. Havin' folks use code names an' th' like.

S'pecially if it ain't what your name used to be.

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

We exterminated evil. I'm not really a part of it anymore. They decided that my host is the enemy. I chose him, do they really think I'd let him go evil? What is that idiot Heike thinking. [Seriously, he was going to kick Heike's ass for letting Eden get taken over by other than the founders.]

It's just been so long. All Code:s are erased from existance, as if they were never there, so we don't need real names.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[There's a few seconds before Gat replies.]

I ain't sure I follow you, pardner. If ya'll've been erased from existence, how can you still exist? Or is this some kinda symbolic thing, erasin' one's identity?

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

[Shouldn't that be obvious?]

Of course it's symbolic, how could they fight for Eden otherwise? Yes, it's everyone's identity that's erased.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat nods briefly.]

Ahright. An' so, this Eden. It ain't an organization but a place?

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

No. Eden is an organisation that I, along with three others, founded many many years ago.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Huh. So then you left after one of your coworkers got declared th' enemy.

[Gat feels like he's starting to get a clearer picture about who this guy is and what he does ... Or at least he thinks so.]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

No. I chose Rei to be the host of my powers, and caretaker of my arm. I was sleeping inside that arm for a long time and when I woke up the organisation was under the control of some minister Fujiwara.

[Don't worry Gat, there is still a lot more about the mess that is all the Code:s and Eden.]

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Right on cue! Gat pulls his head back.]

You slept inside your own body part—?

[He's trying to envision that and is failing horribly.]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

What? It's not like that's anything weird. Besides, The arm was on Rei's body during that time.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

Well, I reckon it wouldn't be for you if it's a common thing where you're from. Where I come from, though, there ain't nobody who can—however ya'll do it.

[Gat punctuates what he said with a half-shrug of his left arm.]

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

It's not common. I can do it because I'm powerful.

[nanocerancowboy.livejournal.com]

[Gat tilts his head again.]

Guess there ain't much I can assume 'bout th' kind of world you come from.

[chibi-emperor.livejournal.com]

Of course not. The world's not supposed to make sense to normal people.