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Uh well, I dunno toooo much about the like, religious stuff, but like, there's two parts, I think?

One is the Christian religious 'hey this was the day Jesus Christ was born and he's like, son of god or something and is super important' so let's celebrate'.

And the other part is 'There's this dude named Santa Claus that visits kids all over the world in one night to drop off toys to the good kids and coal to the bad kids. Kaiba-san actually had his essence here, since he's like, a fictional character but a lot of kids believe in him.'

Really it's a big holiday where families get together to have fun and eat good food and exchange gifts, or for japan, chicken, and we go on dates with our girlfriend/boyfriend and eat christmas cake! It's supposed to be romantic.

Both of those versions sound really stupid if you ask me. Surely there are better things to celebrate about in your world.

Aren't celebrations supposed to be real special?

Uh, I mean in Japan we celebrate a bunch of national holidays.

New Years is the big one; that's the really big family gathering, food, special movies, and going to the temple and shrines to get your fortune told for the rest of the year.

Coming of Age Day, Setsubun for the start of spring, Valentines Day, White Day, Cherry Blossom Viewings, Golden Week's got a bunch of holidays-- Tanabata for the Star Viewing, Obon for end of summer and honoring our ancestors, Halloween's becoming a thing too, and then Christmas at the end of the year...

So it's like, a yearly thing, you know? Tradition in all that.

Don't you have holidays or festivals in your world?

I feel like that many celebrations would take the feeling away from them. Then again, if you actually have opportunities to do so, I guess it would be different.

Which probably answers your question. We don't, really. Maybe the Wall Cult has something like a yearly wall appreciation day I don't know about, but I don't pay attention to them.

[ Junpei was gonna comment on the 'too many festivals' thing but kinda got mentally derailed by-- ]

Wall cult? Like they worship a wall or somthing?

Three walls, actually. Well, right now it's two, but we're about to reclaim one back... or at least we're going to try.

They sort of view the walls surrounding our cities and protecting us as gods. Our great saviors. Most of them are kind of crazy.

[None of this probably makes sense without a context so he might as well add details.]

Our world has monsters called titans. They range from four to ten meters, usually, and eat humans. So three walls were build to protect humanity. Five years ago, one of the walls was destroyed and we lost a third of our living space.

what the hell?!?!?!

[ Wow, that was blottily written, like the ink dripped from him writing too fast-- ]

four to ten meter giant cannibals??? Holy shit!!! They just like... eat people?? Are they like zombies, or somthing??

I don't know what a zombie is, but they're just stupid giant human-looking creatures.

And uh, there are some that are even bigger than that. Which is why we lost the third wall.

But I belong to a section in military that fights them and tries to reclaim back our lands, so we do have ways to fight them.

[ Dojima had been idly checking his journal, his eyebrows raising slowly over the course of the conversation (Giant man-eating monsters? What?), but that last bit-- ]

What? The military? But you're what, 15? 16 years old?

[ Sending teenagers to fight giant cannibal monsters-- the hell was wrong with that world?! ]

15. I've been in the military for three years though. Well, most of it was training.

SINCE YOU WERE 12?!

[ Whoops, more ink-- ]

Holy shit that's fucking ~~apo--apoco~~ apocalyptic! Like the world ended and you're the last bit of humans, or somthin out of a manga or anime!

~~[ Ah the pains of being genre saavy-- ]~~

Edited 2020-12-05 04:14 (UTC)

Well, yeah? That's the common age to sign up for training. Is it really that odd?

Well... kind of. There are people outside the walls that fight against us.

[ ...Christ. Dojima was just staring at the journal page, shaking his head. ]

Most Militaries or Defence Forces only start training at 18 years old. 12 years old is still considered a child in our time.

You should be going to school and playing with your friends, not training to kill giant monsters. Even in terms of biology, people don't really reach 'adult hood' until they're 25. You're basically a child soldier.

[It takes a while for Jean to say anything. A long while, actually. He had never actually thought about the age aspect. Everyone just went with it and to be honest he was just at the age where he wanted to leave home.

Now that he's made aware of it, yeah, it kind of sucks. Not that there's anything he can do about it at this point.]

I'm basically a child veteran right now, actually.

[Okay, maybe that isn't the best thing to joke about.]

I get that it's probably a bit upsetting to hear about, considering your standards, but that's just how our world works.

[ The unspoken confession in that joke lingers for a long while, as Dojima stares at the words.

Whoever does fight Titans, tend not to survive for long. Jean was one of the 'lucky' ones. ]

How do you fight these things?

[ What sort of military could fight these giants? ]

We have equipment that lets us basically fly up to their level. With wires and gas tanks. It takes a long time to train with them until you're good to go.

The only way to kill a titan is to slash its nape, otherwise they're regenerate. So we train to be able to do that, no matter what military section you choose.

It's usually a group effort to kill one anyway. I've only killed one by myself, even if I was 6th in my class.

~~and it's way easier than fighting or killing humans~~

[The last bit is messed but there's probably still a chance to see what it says.]

so theyre regenerating giant human looking man eating monsters that you fight with like air acrobatics?

like how you fight would almost be cool if it wasn't so goddamn terrifying.

[ Junpei could sort of make out what Jean wrote there, and it... goddamn. Suddenly all those shonen comics he used to read had a sort of different light put on them... ]

No wonder you don't really do festival stuff... you probably don't have time for it, huh?

That's a pretty accurate summary.

It does look cool, but that's about the only perk. It's really heavy on your body and really dangerous. If a titan grabs your wire, you're as good as dead.

[Jean unfortunately has a thing called bluntness so he doesn't really hold back with his words. Maybe he should have. Oh well.]

Yeah.

Well you're basically going around with a jet pack, so... yeah, that's super dangerous.

[ A long pause, but... ]

Hey, I know this is kinda off topic but uh

Wanna go out and grab something to eat sometime? Either here or back in the Index

I can show you some good places! And you could come see my other friends and stuff here

y'know, be a teenager and stuff for a bit, shoot the shit

[He has no idea what a jet pack is and he won't ask at this point.

Though what is he supposed to answer to that. He's kind of awkward. And something about his essence kind of wants to be left alone, even if it's not a quirk so it's easier to resist that feeling.]

Sure? I mean, if it's not a bother. You don't really have to.

It's not a bother at all dude.

We're all together here, might as well have fun, right?

[ This guy had already given away his teenage years for the sake of other people... so it wasn't a bad thing to actually enjoy himself here, away from it all. ]

Fun. Not something I've done a lot.

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