hero pcs: hanako

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[doghouse]

[ i DON'T UNDERSTAND the POINTS... help ]

Oh! I dunno, maybe?

[ somehow this is less offensive than whatever he was picturing, so he perks up. ]

Have you been askin' around about the moon, though, 'cause as far as I'm concerned, there's something real weird up with that thing. I think we need to try investigating it some more before we try that. Figure out what it's actually made of and how far away it really is. [ ... ] I mean, maybe it really IS a moon and it's really out in space and everything, but I kinda wonder if it's a fake that serves as some kinda secret headquarters for someone, or maybe a secret prison or something.

[ this may be a complete crazy conspiracy theory, but who knows ]

I tried to get some of the history of what happened with the whole crashing thing from some of the leaders, but Goldie didn't know anything about it. I got a little more outta Phoenix, but... probably still need to try pickin' Snake and Rabbit's brains for details.

[ i feel like maybe rabbit would be a good option because of the rabbit on the moon but i don't think he would make that connection. ]

[hanaban]

[ The moon's sort of fallen to the wayside after Hanako's fixation on mayor murder, but with the guy being in hiding for so long already, maybe he'd be better off switching gears ]

I haven't asked around too much about it either... Never mind that it's impossible for that story to be literal, I just don't feel the same looking at this moon.

[ The moon back home inspired hope and longing; staring up at this one just makes him lonely. ]

[doghouse]

That's the thing, I don't think it makes any sense for it to be literal either, 'cause — I mean, first off, a lot more than just this city would've been wrecked by that, right?

But they say it's totally literal, that the moon kept getting bigger 'til it crashed. And if that's true, then what's that one doin' up there in the sky? Those weird phase changes make me think it's a fake, but it's like they never stopped to think about how little sense it makes that they got a moon up in the sky again after it supposedly fell down to earth.

If lookin' at it feels wrong, I think there's good reason for that.

[hanaban]

...A "moon" is a natural satellite that orbits around a planet, so it would be understandable to be different from The Moon we're familiar with. But differences in size and orbit wouldn't make the phases jump like that. A fake sky in a fake world...

[ The thought makes him restless, itching to tear apart the world just to see what makes it tick ]

[doghouse]

So let's make that our other project for now, huh? We do the hero stuff and try to get our points to keep in first place, and we try to find out the truth they're hidin' about the moon.

And then maybe later we can blow it up!

[hanaban]

Or we can just blow it up! If it's the real moon, we wouldn't be able to do it!

[doghouse]

Yyyyyeah, but if it's fake like we think and there's actually people in there, they might think that's a villain thing instead of a hero thing, and then we'd lose our chance at winning 'cause we'd be dead.

[hanaban]

If it's fake, then they'll bail before the moon gets destroyed, which will prove that it's fake! They'd be the villains because they lied.

[ also they won't be dead, have faith, ]

[doghouse]

They can only do that if they know an attack's coming before we hit 'em, and if we make that obvious, they'll try to stop us before we can do it!

[hanaban]

So we're playing goody two-shoes heroes to bring their guard down?

[ ugh..... he's not quite sure he can do that. he's not really hero material, always choosing individuals over the masses ]

[doghouse]

Yeah, kinda. I know it sucks, but you gotta play the game if you wanna win it!

[hanaban]

That doesn't mean you have to play it fairly, though.

[ they can! cheat!! ]

[doghouse]

I'm with ya there!