UMP 45 Catch All

[burningrescue]

Meme to come

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[burningrescue]

[Nods.]

Lio's helping. I might crash with him for a bit, since his place is kind of depressing now? We hashed out some stuff this week.

[recrypt]

Hm? Oh, right, his roommate...

[ was Asch. hm. ]

Sure, I don't mind. It's not like we both haven't been spending our nights around the mansion every now and then. ♪ You two seem to have worked out some of your differences, huh?

[burningrescue]

Yep! It was a big misunderstanding. See, the Governor of the city I live in? Gov Kray. He's someone I admired for all my life. But also he's been imprisoning Burnish and doing experiments on them and stuff. I never knew.

[Shrugging! It's actually kind of painful to talk about, but oh well.]

Last time we met before coming here, Lio told me about it, and I didn't want to hear it. So he was still pissed at me, because he didn't know things changed.

[recrypt]

... What are Burnish, exactly?

[ Lio has probably given the spiel a million times here but she has actually never asked. ]

[burningrescue]

It's a mutation. Some people have it, and when it's awakened, they start being able to control fire. Or...especially when it first awakens, they can't control it, even. They just burn.

[He seems thoughtful, talking about this.]

...A lot of fires are started by accident that way. And when the mutation first appeared thirty years ago, the world nearly ended. A lot of people died, a lot of homes and cities burned to the ground. Because of that, some people really hate the Burnish, even though it's not something they can help.

[recrypt]

And yet you're all human, aren't you?

[ 30 years ago, a lot of people died, huh. Or rather, 'the world nearly ended.'

She hums. ]

I wonder how the state of your world looks compared to mine. I can't imagine there's enough people left for them to be able to pick and choose who they want to care about. Aren't survivors supposed to come together after large disasters?

[burningrescue]

Yeah.

[He shakes his head.]

The Burnish aren't hurt by fire, so in some ways, it's like. It seems like they were the ones causing everything, and not the ones in danger. There were groups of Burnish who tried to burn everything down on purpose, even if it killed everyone else. And then the Gov came along and invented tech that could keep a city safe, and made it possible to stop Burnish who were committing crimes. Everyone saw him as a hero for that.