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What Has Science Wrought; Rio
Topic Started: Jun 24 2012, 01:15 PM (610 Views)
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Somewhere in the shopping center, Harkens was busy talking to himself. Specifically, his little Jack Frost hand puppet buddy. Ignoring the looks that he got, he continued on with,
"Really now? So I always wondered. Do I actually know Latin now? Because I think last time I took a language class it was Sign Language."

"Not any more than you already know. I am merely an aspect of you so my knowledge is only limited to what you already know."

"Huh. So... Thumbscrews?"

"That's you."

"The occasional thought that the green ninja dude looks great in tights?"

"Probably me."

"Huh."
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Rio folded the newspaper shut, and tossed it aside. Lousy writing, especially on the sports page. She did like the fact that the paper put a picture of Colonel Sanders next to every article that mentioned the Hanshin Tigers. But the clever use of stock photography and references to urban legends didn't make a paper readable.

Glancing around, she debated heading back home. She had schoolwork that she had been neglecting. But, at the same time, she couldn't seem to bring herself to care.

There was a disruption in the flow of the crowd, she noticed. Familiar energy, there.

She spotted Harkens, who appeared to be embroiled in a conversation with a hand puppet.

Crossing her legs, she leaned back, cocking her head to the side, waiting for him to get in range. She waited until he was close to speak:

"Yo. Who's your friend?" she said, by way of greeting.
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"Hey, and also-"

Harkens almost literally froze in place at that moment before slowly turning his head towards Rio. With him and his hand puppet taking a look at each other, he turned back to hear and answered,
"Well, it's a new experiment that I'm trying in the case of communicating with one's erm... Inner Self."

Looking around, he realized that talking to her about this in the public seems like asking for trouble. Unless they tried...
"Hey, you interested in a Walk 'n Talk?"
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Rio considered his request for a moment, glancing up as if giving it serious thought, then hopped to her feet. She positioned herself relative to Harkens, just outside of arm's reach.

"I guess I could," she admitted, after she had already begun to do so, "So this is your partner, here?"

She gave the Jack Frost doll an appraising, and not altogether friendly, look. After having dealt with Harkens, she had looked into his Persona. Caligula didn't seem like a friendly sort. Or rather, perhaps he was friendly in the exact wrong way.
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As Rio got to her feet, Harkens held up his other hand and began counting down,
"Trois, dos, one, go."


As the two walked through the shopping center, Harkens laid down some exposition for her,
"So yeah, this is my way of talking to The Dark Passenger. Tried to do it mentally but in my case he'll only do it when he wants to taunt me or something. Saw this in a show and thought that it was worth trying. Had some difficulty initially, but things have since settled, shall we say."


Raising to face Rio, the puppet, through Harkens said,
"Ah, the Oracle of Truth and Soma. If I'm wrong, then you must know what I am."
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"Yeah. You're Emperor Rape-Time," Rio deadpanned, "how's it hanging?"

Oracle of Truth? Soma? she rolled her eyes. Did Harkens really have this thing in him? It seemed simultaneously unfitting and perfectly reasonable. Though perhaps she just wished that he had something more reasonable, like an ancient god of destruction or a demon king.

She looked over the crowd, thinking for a bit, then glanced back over at him.

"So...learning anything useful?" she asked Harkens.
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"Heh. Rape. I've almost forgotten the feeling. Yet there are so many more ways to have a... Personal connection with one another. Wouldn't you-"

At that point, the puppet then seized up before bending forward as Harkens removed it from his hand.
"Yeah, it does that. I sorta keep this up partly for practice, partly to have someone to talk to. As for what I've learned, I've mostly learned about how he's mostly limited to what I can do physically and... Honestly, he's been kinda reticent about that type of stuff."
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Rio relaxed a bit when Harkens ripped the puppet off his hand. That was a good sign, though she understood that it had been him talking through the doll, not the doll, itself, talking.

"So...that means you're hiding things from yourself, right?" she asked, cocking her head to the side, "I'd think he'd be more of the poor impulse control type, if you don't mind me saying."

Why a Jack Frost doll? And what show was he talking about?
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Impulse control, eh?

"Impulse control, eh? Think I might have had some control on it. Like... I'm not a good person but I like to think I've got standards."

As Harkens plagiarized that train of thought, he did think of why he hasn't really had such... Urges. Probably was the whole "Hiding Things From Yourself" deal. Could he have certain things he's trying to suppress? What was he saying, of course he did.
"You know, you got a point right there. There might be something I might need to deal with. Tell me, what was the requirement for you 'Ascending'? Just askin'..."
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"I kind of cheated," Rio admitted, "I got the Horrible Eyeball Death, and it just kind of happened. I had to be stronger, or I would die...so...yeah. The H.E.D. makes things a bit easier, though. I met my Shadow and she...uh...told me a few things."

She chuckled nervously, "Sorry to say, you can't just go down to the store and pick up some self-realization. I know that Imoto's doing a thing on Ascension you could ask him. But he's so bad at conducting interviews that it's kind of embarrassing."

She scratched her cheek, thinking.

"You don't seem like that bad a guy, though. Not, like cannibalism, heroin and stock-trading bad."
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