genessia | [1st Soul] // [video/action]

[Maka understands perfectly what she just read. She made sure to read it over and over again at varying speeds to take it all in, like a good student would.

It's just difficult for her to accept. The strange and mystical feeling of the world doesn't sit well with her, can she be certain she didn't just drop into the Witch world inexplicably? Well...maybe the Witches wouldn't be unkind to her, now that they've made peace anyway. But she doesn't feel comfortable without Soul around.

So when the video turns on, there's a teenage girl seeming totally marveled by the level of technology just the communicator shows. ...Then she realizes it's turned on and clears her throat.]

Hello. Maka Albarn, Demon Scythe Meister here...where is Death City? Or Ki--I mean Lord Death?

[That's still so weird for her, Kid's the new Lord Death? Wild.]

...And what's a--?

[Love potion, the word she was going for was love potion, but a shout interrupts her and another person appears on the screen. This time it's a boy with golden eyes and curious white stripes encircling his black hair. He might have been running but doesn't seem out of breath as he checks over Maka with a fussing worry that only someone really obsessive would have.]

Maka, are you all right? Have you seen Soul anywhere? I can't find Liz and Patti myself--oh, your pigtails are crooked!

[The boy immediately gets to work with untying and fixing the girl's pigtails while she stares at him. Finally she sighs, leaving Kid to his grooming (he's only doing it because he's worried and needs something to work on), and shifts her gaze to the camera.]

If anybody from the Academy could report in, we'd appreciate it.

[If anybody comes across them anywhere, Maka will still be sitting patiently, waiting for Kid to finish the fixing. Kid on the meanwhile will be piling questions on her about who what where and why.]

((ooc: Replies may come from both Maka and Kid!))

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[Screwed up teenagers? Freaky soulless things with people's faces?]

Clearly you have the Academy mistaken for some inferior organization.

[Their teenagers are completely normal. For Death City.]

...What is she--?

Um, I think you have our Lord Death mixed up with...another Death.

That's why I was asking. If it's a completely different guy, then nevermind.

O-okay...well...

[What should she say, sorry? She didn't even do anything wrong, she's totally confused.]

--Kid, don't be rude to people!

[Yep, casually throwing her friend under the bus to break up the awkward.]

You know people in this world can't help having a different perspective, they're not from Death City!

Good going, Kid.

[ Wait. Even though it's video, Yuri holds her hand up like she's whispering to Maka as though it was some kind of one-way conversation. ]

Are we just calling him "kid" or does his name have to do with that? Since you've got an actual person named Death, I'm not ruling either out.

...That is his name. His name is Death the Kid...I guess technically he's "Death Junior" but we just call him Kid.

[Yes, she is also speaking to Yuri as though Kid isn't standing right next to her.]

Technically he's Lord Death now, but I'm uh, [And she leans closer to whisper STILL AS THOUGH KID CAN'T HEAR HER:] having a little trouble processing that still.

So he's "Death" and "Kid"!? [ The overreaction yell only lasted briefly before her tone went right back to normal conversational. Again, still as if he wasn't right there. ] I feel like that's cheating to have both weird names in the same name.

He's just Kid to me.

[Oh, very nice way to talk about your friend Maka. She didn't mean to say it like he doesn't mean much to her, just that...he's a very dear friend.]

And that's not his fault, you can't control what your parents name you, can you?

It's pretty hard to control what people start calling you even outside of your parents too.

[ And that's how she ended up with a stupid nickname that she kind of end up liking after a while but still doesn't want to admit it. ]

...[You see that face?

That's her face of "I know" and remembering all the times Soul's called her tiny tits, or she's been called boring or stupid by other people for liking something they don't like.

God, high school never ends.]

I hit them with a book, personally.

I kicked the person who started it off of a school building a few times.

[ She looks like she's thinking about explaining that, but in the end she doesn't bother. At least not yet. ]

Good.

[Hey, she's kicked her best friend out the window before for being a dumb pervert, she's not gonna judge.]

--As for me, I'm just Maka, I don't have any Death-related titles except being a Meister, so I'm not fussed about that.

I'm Yuri, though some people call my Yurippe. It's up to you though.

[ Even if that's the nickname she was talking about.. ]

[Kid has been extremely patient about being spoken of like he isn't right there next to Maka, perhaps prompted into silence in the wake of a scathing rebuke--

Naw, he's just at a loss for words. Had a book come crashing into his head, then he might have been properly chastised.]

A pleasure, Yuri. Let's dispense with unnecessary formalities; if it suits you, you may also call me 'Kid'.

I was planning on it.

[ She's just smiling. Sometimes she's polite and will call people whatever they ask, but other times it's just.. whatever she decides on. It's a good thing that Kid wanted her to call him what she'd already planned on going with.. ]

Nice to meet you!

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