I will. I'll always be here for them, and for everyone on Heart Soldier Senshi. For that...you have my word. [But... ....she trails off. What Hiryuu says about the two of them...Northstar knows it's true. She looks at the ground and lets out a slightly frustrated sigh.]
I just...wish I knew how to get through to them without feeling like I'm compounding their pain.
That's a hard thing to do... I don't know that I've ever been good at it myself. ... If anything, I've had to learn that sometimes pain is a good thing, because it means growth--even if I hate it.
It might be easier, for the time being to try to distract them from the pain. Until they've had some time and it's not so fresh. Doing the things that they enjoy--racing, playing games, stunts... they both really enjoy those sorts of things. I think the closer you become, and if you're willing to share your own feelings and pain first--the more likely they'll be to open up.
[She nods. She goes over to her desk and grabs a notebook, flipping it open and writing things down.]
Who else do they have on the other teams that they're close to? I know Hurricane has Nemesis...it might be a good idea for me to speak to them about this as well.
[ Hiryuu takes her phone out of her pocket and holds it up for Northstar to see as she goes through the various profiles pointing out friends. ]
Aside from Nemesis, Hurricane is close friends with C and B on AlcheME! D.va... is friends with Nero and Serenity, too, I think. ... And Kaguya, but she's not here right now.
[Northstar writes their names and teams down as Hiryuu shows them to her.]
Okay...I'll speak to them soon. [She lets out a breath through her nose.] Regardless of what we do, they'll probably just be...quite upset for a while, but. It's alright. We'll be here to help them through it.
[...after a second, she lets out a wry little chuckle.]
You know. If they decide to follow in your and King's footsteps.
That'll make me the senior member of Heart Soldier Senshi.
Well, I wouldn't count on any of them following in our footsteps any time soon. But if that were to happen, I know we'd be leaving the role to a very capable woman.
I understand. I've thought similar things myself before--that the one good thing about Raijuu, Shuten, and Abi and all of the others being gone--is that they're not being tortured.
But I think--that's just something we tell ourselves to try to ease our pain. It's a different kind of suffering to be separated from the people you love--to never know when or if you'll see them again. And there's not really any real certainty that the program they've been moved to isn't also equally or more cruel.
And worse--this place has shown that it has no difficulties finding more souls to fill the empty seats left behind.
[ And that's why it's so important that they get this to stop. ]
...mmn. You're right. [She runs a hand over her face.] Maybe it's just another bandaid in the end. [But something Hiryuu says...kinda hangs in her mind.]
...if we are all able. To eventually escape. Put a stop to this production. Return to our lives...whatever those may be.
Do you think we'll ever see each other again, after that?
If my understanding is correct, the means to traverse the worlds always existed for both the inhabitants of hell and heaven. I don't know that that would stop existing even if we did destroy this place.
... If I'm truly realistic, the odds are that this place will have to continue to operate in some capacity. However, if we can infiltrate and revolutionize it so that it is no longer hell in anything but name, perhaps there won't be any need to take that sort of risk.
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I will. I'll always be here for them, and for everyone on Heart Soldier Senshi. For that...you have my word. [But... ....she trails off. What Hiryuu says about the two of them...Northstar knows it's true. She looks at the ground and lets out a slightly frustrated sigh.]
I just...wish I knew how to get through to them without feeling like I'm compounding their pain.
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It might be easier, for the time being to try to distract them from the pain. Until they've had some time and it's not so fresh. Doing the things that they enjoy--racing, playing games, stunts... they both really enjoy those sorts of things. I think the closer you become, and if you're willing to share your own feelings and pain first--the more likely they'll be to open up.
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Who else do they have on the other teams that they're close to? I know Hurricane has Nemesis...it might be a good idea for me to speak to them about this as well.
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Aside from Nemesis, Hurricane is close friends with C and B on AlcheME! D.va... is friends with Nero and Serenity, too, I think. ... And Kaguya, but she's not here right now.
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Okay...I'll speak to them soon. [She lets out a breath through her nose.] Regardless of what we do, they'll probably just be...quite upset for a while, but. It's alright. We'll be here to help them through it.
[...after a second, she lets out a wry little chuckle.]
You know. If they decide to follow in your and King's footsteps.
That'll make me the senior member of Heart Soldier Senshi.
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Well, I wouldn't count on any of them following in our footsteps any time soon. But if that were to happen, I know we'd be leaving the role to a very capable woman.
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Sometimes, part of me wishes they would.
I would miss them terribly. But I would also know they weren't being hurt by the games anymore.
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But I think--that's just something we tell ourselves to try to ease our pain. It's a different kind of suffering to be separated from the people you love--to never know when or if you'll see them again. And there's not really any real certainty that the program they've been moved to isn't also equally or more cruel.
And worse--this place has shown that it has no difficulties finding more souls to fill the empty seats left behind.
[ And that's why it's so important that they get this to stop. ]
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...if we are all able. To eventually escape. Put a stop to this production. Return to our lives...whatever those may be.
Do you think we'll ever see each other again, after that?
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... If I'm truly realistic, the odds are that this place will have to continue to operate in some capacity. However, if we can infiltrate and revolutionize it so that it is no longer hell in anything but name, perhaps there won't be any need to take that sort of risk.
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[A small, wistful smile comes on her face.] If I could travel to other worlds freely. I think I'd like to see your and Leviathan's world, sometime.
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