genessia | 1st Despair // Video/action

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1st Despair // Video/action

Video

[The feed opens to a shot of the Bay area, hologram fading having delivered its message with the racks of maps and literature clearly visible. It then tracks as the person broadcasting gives up on the Bay area and heads out into Genessia proper, and soon enough a young woman's voice provides the soundtrack alongside the general sounds of the city.]

Congratulations, Genessia. I can honestly, one hundred percent, truly say that I did not see this one coming. Denying me my own death, that takes some pretty incredible skills and I'd just love to know exactly who I have to thank for that.

[It's here that the woman stops in her stride, shop window in front of her - and thus is reflected the face of one Junko Enoshima, indistinct for the way the light hits but she either doesn't notice or doesn't care.]

And don't worry. I promise I won't waste this second chance I've been given. That really would be a waste, right?

Action

[Junko's found her way to one of Genessia's parks, and now stretches out on a bench that lets her watch the goings-on around her. Nothing like learning the people to learn a city, after all, and in a place where she doesn't know anyone it's all the more important that she figure out who might be useful to her sooner rather than later.

Of course, she can't just sit and watch, that would be boring. So occasionally, when people are walking past while seemingly not paying attention, Junko will stretch and extend her leg to try to trip them, curious to see if they'll notice in time or pay the price for their lack of attention. Or if she spots someone with a pet that has the energy, Junko will find a stick or something nearby to throw to see how pet and owner will react.

And should anyone just happen to notice the young woman sitting by herself and come over to talk, regardless of intentions? She'll lean forward, deliberately tugging down her shirt to best display her cleavage while simultaneously putting on the most innocent face and tone she can muster.]

Well, I am new around here. Did you notice and come to see if I needed help?

[All the while, the way she moves implies they came over for less savoury reasons, regardless of who they are.]

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But also a lot of good people too.

[Mostly her friends she made there. Most important people. She tilted her head for a moment. She wasn't sure who what's her name was meant to imply. But she knew how to answer at least.]

You mean Hinata? [Because she knew who that guy was, but kept calling him Hinata instead. But she didn't understand really why he had been so different than when she knew him.]

I don't know what happened with him, but he isn't werid.

Noooooooo, I mean Izuru. Izuru Kamakura? I know you met him.

[Her tone has a touch of speaking to a small child whose grasp on the world isn't fully formed yet. No reason to play nice with someone who already knows better.]

That other guy, whoever he is? He's dead. He's just the empty shell they poured Izuru into. All in the name of hope.

[And excuse her while she tries not to choke on that last word. She'll deal with it, for what she might get in return.]

He's still Hinata.

[She seems rather... determined of that fact. She likes to believe that somewhere in there he was still there. The first friend she ever made really.]

Even if he's changed in some ways, that is what I choose to believe.

Well it's obvious now your class didn't love you for your smarts.

[Ah yes, more and more it's coming back to her. Izuru was the bait she'd sent Chisa to lure Chiaki in with, after all.]

Changed would imply there was anything left of him. And for the Ultimate Hope, there was just no room for a pathetic Reserve student who didn't value his own identity enough to not throw it away first chance he got. And those guys behind the project? They were very thorough in what they did to him.

[She paused, she wasn't going to respond to that at all. She knew better than to say anything. Instead, she was focusing on the part she considered important really. This whole Hinata/Izuru thing. It was important to her anyway.]

To me, he wasn't pathetic. He was Hinata. To me, he had a greater freedom to do whatever he wanted to do than someone like me who only has games. [Admitedly it made her a little sad that he might not have understood that. Talent wasn't that important.

Though she found herself pausing briefly.]

People behind the project?

[Oh Chiaki. That admission could be your downfall because of course Junko is going to pounce on that.]

Yah well, as it turns out? What you thought didn't mean a damn fuckin' thing to him. Didn't stop him volunteering himself to become Hope's Peak's ultimate fuckin' guinea pig, did it?

[And she's not going to give up too much information for nothing. Junko delivers information in her own time, in her own way.]

[She paused for a moment. Maybe it didn't, maybe the words couldn't get through for him to volunteer, but she still liked to think he was in there somewhere, no matter what.

But she knew she really should not get into an argument about this and maybe move on. She did what she wanted to do. Showing that well she was not scared and not in despair at least. It was okay.]

Maybe that is true, but I still believe he is in there somewhere. That is my belief and nothing you will say will change that.

Sure. Whatever lie you have to tell yourself to delude yourself into feeling better.

[It's not like this is the only route Junko has to despair. Really, she stopped giving a shit about any of Class 77-B around about the time she had to start putting her plans for her own class into action.

Sure, this one's disgustingly hopeful but she's no Makoto Naegi.]

It's an opinion, it's not a lie until I see it once again for myself.

[At least to her anyway.]

Weeeeeeeell that's gonna be a little tricky. But hey, I'm new to the afterlife, maybe there's a way after all.

[Unlikely. She's just rubbing salt into the wound.]

Oh and yeah. Don't believe those morons who think there's no such thing as a wrong opinion. Just a little FYI for you.

This isn't the afterlife.

[Mostly because she is pretty sure most people here haven't really died.]

Everyone has their own opinion. if it's wrong it's wrong, but I'm not going to tell someone unless there is actual evidence.

Didn't say it was.

[But she's pretty sure the powers that be here wouldn't be dumb enough to bring someone like Izuru to a place like this. Entertaining as it would be if they did.]

Still won't change anything. The Hope's Peak directors were still scum who got what was coming to them.

[The fact that she enjoyed the carnage is beside the point.]

Well admittedly, I don't know anything about them to form an opinion.

[She only really cared for those she called friends.]

You know it's their fault the student council almost got wiped out, don't you?

[Well okay. Technically it's her fault but all she did was gather people and give them the odd nudge. The killing was all on them and the only reason she could pin it on Izuru at all was because of the directors' cover-ups so it's not like she's really lying.]

No, we weren't told anything.

[Which was admittedly true.]

Obviously you weren't. You weren't meant to be. No-one was.

[Well okay, that's a stretch of the truth. No-one was supposed to know Izuru even existed. The fact that the Reserve Course students heard all about the very first killing game was very much engineered, if not by the directors.]

It's strange to not tell people the truth when things were getting out of control though.

[Not that she understood why things needed to be covered up.]

Not really. But I guess your brain's just not wired to understand.

[Which is almost a blessing. Junko prefers things her way, though.]

I'm wired to prefer honesty more than anything. That's all.

Well the hints were all there if you bothered to look.

I didn't, but mostly because I was focused on my friends first and foremost.

But it doesn't matter now anyway because I'm here now.

Doesn't matter anyway. Whatever Hope's Peak was is dead and buried now.

[Save for the ones who'd managed to defeat her but given the state of the world they're stepping out into, Junko doesn't think reestablishing the school will be a top priority for anyone.]

Dead and buried?

[Conaisering the girl knew pretty much nothing. She wasn't sure what to think of the whole thing. She goes quiet if only for a moment before speaking again.]

So a lot of bad things happened... I guess.

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