[ Might as well embrace it, for isn't that what he is? Witches are clever, crafty, vilified, misunderstood. ]
i was hoping you'd say it's unsalvageable. scrap it! [ Damn...does he have to be responsible now. Jk. ] guess i'll ask command about supplying the parts
[Let's just assume Dearka's familiar with the witch terminology somehow from some past handwaved conversation
...So he's embracing it, huh? The whole concept of a 'Witch' is still so foreign to Dearka, but it doesn't miss him that Elan's choice of words is significant. It almost makes him hesitate about saying what he says next:]
About that... Considering the state it's in, this could be a good opportunity. I could try to change out the system. Make it run on something other than that Permet stuff, or change the OS to something other than GUND.
It might not work, but I'd still be willing to give it a shot. If you want me to.
[ZAFT members are stupidly good at MS programming on the fly as is, and his stupid genetically enhanced brain has let him get real good at the mechanical side of things real fast... But he'd be still be retrofitting a system he has very little experience with.]
[ We can say Elan has briefly explained after Dearka took the Peil labs Gundam tour, 0/5 stars.
There's a long pause from Elan's side. Wiping the system has never occurred to him and he lets the idea wash over him. His gundam would be an ordinary mobile suit and he an ordinary pilot. Would his curse be lifted then? If the choice to engage GUND had always been in his hands, what was it that really burdened him all this time?
Damn it, Dearka, throwing him one last curveball. ]
good luck cracking the security code on that even *i'm* not permitted access and i'm elan ceres! not saying it doesn't bother me but GUND or no, as long as it's back up and working i can't complain
[ If Brasov has taught him anything, it's that sometimes you do need a giant robot to punch things with and he'll take what he can get. ]
[He lives to surprise and confound people like that :)]
LOL. permitted, shmermitted. wouldn't be the first time i've busted through a MS's security measures and it probably won't be the last. how else do you think i managed to steal the Buster back in the day?
[If anything stops him from pulling it off, it won't be the security code. It'll be the Pharact itself simply just... Not being made to function off of anything other than that particular format. The retrofit being too grand in scope.]
hey, sometimes your enemies build a bunch of super-weapons, and the best response is to "liberate" those weapons from their possession. pretty normal wartime stuff.
[Besides, it's officially his now that the war is over. Mmmmmostly because the Buster and Duel were both highly out-dated by the time the peace treaty was signed, and the Earth Forces didn't have much use for them anymore... Astonishing how fast mobile suit technology progresses, really.]
but yeah, sure, I can teach you. you'll be amazed how much of a difference it can make, getting in there and really rearranging stuff to your own taste.
i can tell you theft of mobile suits happens in peacetime as well no point developing technology you can nab from someone else!
[ Peil certainly had their eyes on Aerial to advance their own agenda, but let's not get into his botched attempt to steal it. Ahem. ]
gundams and my own tastes don't exactly go together but what kind of rearranging are we talking about?
[ He has no idea what a mobile suit "to his own tastes" would even be like. Most of his future plans sorta involved not being a gundam pilot, but consider him intrigued. ]
SURPRISE, I DIDN'T FORGET THIS (but also no obligation to tag back, ik it's crusty)
Once you've cracked the system open, sky's the limit really. Tweak the battle specs, improve system reaction time and reduce lag... Make the exterior lighting sync up to music and turn it into a rave machine? Hell, maybe we can even get it to run on something other than that permet shit. Get you a nuclear engine instead.
[Dearka no.
Although now he's wondering about something.]
...So you've really never had any interest piloting for "fun" before? No joy or interest in just, operating a big-ass piece of machinery for the hell of it? Or flying something that goes really fast?
flying a big ass machine that's designed to kill me, sure loads of fun can't wait to take it for a joyride not like becoming a mobile suit pilot is what got me into this mess in the first place!
[ Whoever he was before he was Elan Ceres might have found piloting a giant robot pretty damn cool, but bitterness has clouded any joy he once found in it. Sometimes though, when he sees Dearka and Yzak's impressive coordinated feats or that loudmouth Shinn's surprising skill in battle, he feels the uncharacteristic urge to up his game, to show he too is their peer in piloting and worth every point he topped on Peil's shitty aptitude test for Elan replacements. It's a contradiction he hasn't quite worked out - to want to be like the best of them while thinking he has nothing to do with those military nuts who chose their soldier life.
Anyways. Back to the rave machine. ]
you might be onto something though what better way to stick it to peil than to gut the whole thing? how bout leather seats a theater mode and a snack compartment while you're at it thanks!
[The real tragedy of whatever friendship they may have forged here lies in that contradiction, because it's something that Dearka can never truly understand. No matter how much he learns about Elan's situation, no matter how hard he tries, there's just a history of past suffering that's on a level he can't even comprehend. And there's a fair chance he's not even aware of it, just how little he knows.
But Dearka's all about teamwork. As long as the Outsiders are stuck here and being made to fight kaiju, he wants to do whatever he can to make everyone a functional team. He wants to make sure they ALL can survive.]
I'm not sure how a theater mode is going to help with fighting kaiju? But, hell, if we can get the parts for it... I mean, why not?
who says it needs to have anything to do with fighting kaiju? i mean, the other day we watched some movie about mobile suits who turn into cars!
[ Somebody's been marathoning Transf*rmers as part of his Netflix and chill arc. Good luck with that mod... no, he's kidding. It's just an amusing thought to picture Peil's prized killing machine turned into an entertainment system.
Dearka can be forgiven for not getting it. Elan hasn't exactly been forthcoming about his past and acts flippant about it when he is. What he's been through he thinks no one here could understand, especially not anyone comfortable living under LILITH's thumb. That Dearka is willing to humor him is enough. Sets him apart from the rest who could learn to loosen up a little. ]
if you can mess with the specs, i might have a few ideas [ Practical ones, I swear. He's not going to ignore combat performance (aka. survival), but when it comes to his gundam, he sure could use all the laughs he can get. ] you free to hash it out later?
i'll take a car over a mobile suit any day! think of the places you could go... you know, when you don't roll up looking like a declaration of war!
[ Now it sure would be nice if the world weren't overrun with monsters!! He still hasn't given up the idea of traveling someday, but he won't get his freedom without fighting for it. Which means sucking it up and getting in the robot. ]
[Maybe this isn't the actual last conversation they'll ever have, but it is close to the end. Dearka knows immediately that something's off when he enters the hangar one morning after this, and he finds the Pharact is just... Gone. Vanished without a trace. Grilling some LILITH employees confirms what he fears: Apparently, some items strongly associated with those who are sent home will disappear from this world when their owners do.
Dearka doesn't know how to feel about any of it. He knows that of all the outsiders, Elan particularly wasn't happy here. He's also guessing that he would probably protest the idea that he and the Pharact are at all linked on that level... And given Elan's dicey past, it's hard to know if leaving will be ultimately for the best for the guy or not.
Dearka can only is that Elan is able to find freedom and peace, wherever he is. All he can do now, is break the news to Lucy, if she isn't aware already.]
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[ Might as well embrace it, for isn't that what he is? Witches are clever, crafty, vilified, misunderstood. ]
i was hoping you'd say it's unsalvageable. scrap it! [ Damn...does he have to be responsible now. Jk. ] guess i'll ask command about supplying the parts
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Let's just assume Dearka's familiar with the witch terminology somehow from some past handwaved conversation...So he's embracing it, huh? The whole concept of a 'Witch' is still so foreign to Dearka, but it doesn't miss him that Elan's choice of words is significant. It almost makes him hesitate about saying what he says next:]
About that... Considering the state it's in, this could be a good opportunity. I could try to change out the system. Make it run on something other than that Permet stuff, or change the OS to something other than GUND.
It might not work, but I'd still be willing to give it a shot. If you want me to.
[ZAFT members are stupidly good at MS programming on the fly as is, and his stupid genetically enhanced brain has let him get real good at the mechanical side of things real fast... But he'd be still be retrofitting a system he has very little experience with.]
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There's a long pause from Elan's side. Wiping the system has never occurred to him and he lets the idea wash over him. His gundam would be an ordinary mobile suit and he an ordinary pilot. Would his curse be lifted then? If the choice to engage GUND had always been in his hands, what was it that really burdened him all this time?
Damn it, Dearka, throwing him one last curveball. ]
good luck cracking the security code on that
even *i'm* not permitted access and i'm elan ceres!
not saying it doesn't bother me but
GUND or no, as long as it's back up and working i can't complain
[ If Brasov has taught him anything, it's that sometimes you do need a giant robot to punch things with and he'll take what he can get. ]
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LOL. permitted, shmermitted. wouldn't be the first time i've busted through a MS's security measures and it probably won't be the last. how else do you think i managed to steal the Buster back in the day?
[If anything stops him from pulling it off, it won't be the security code. It'll be the Pharact itself simply just... Not being made to function off of anything other than that particular format. The retrofit being too grand in scope.]
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show me how you do it
[ Not judging. In fact, Elan might be interested in this hacking business. ]
would be a nice middle finger to peil technologies if you manage to rip out their precious software
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[Besides, it's officially his now that the war is over. Mmmmmostly because the Buster and Duel were both highly out-dated by the time the peace treaty was signed, and the Earth Forces didn't have much use for them anymore... Astonishing how fast mobile suit technology progresses, really.]
but yeah, sure, I can teach you. you'll be amazed how much of a difference it can make, getting in there and really rearranging stuff to your own taste.
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no point developing technology you can nab from someone else!
[ Peil certainly had their eyes on Aerial to advance their own agenda, but let's not get into his botched attempt to steal it. Ahem. ]
gundams and my own tastes don't exactly go together but
what kind of rearranging are we talking about?
[ He has no idea what a mobile suit "to his own tastes" would even be like. Most of his future plans sorta involved not being a gundam pilot, but consider him intrigued. ]
SURPRISE, I DIDN'T FORGET THIS (but also no obligation to tag back, ik it's crusty)
[Dearka no.
Although now he's wondering about something.]
...So you've really never had any interest piloting for "fun" before? No joy or interest in just, operating a big-ass piece of machinery for the hell of it? Or flying something that goes really fast?
a pleasant surprise <3 im down to clown
loads of fun
can't wait to take it for a joyride
not like becoming a mobile suit pilot is what got me into this mess in the first place!
[ Whoever he was before he was Elan Ceres might have found piloting a giant robot pretty damn cool, but bitterness has clouded any joy he once found in it. Sometimes though, when he sees Dearka and Yzak's impressive coordinated feats or that loudmouth Shinn's surprising skill in battle, he feels the uncharacteristic urge to up his game, to show he too is their peer in piloting and worth every point he topped on Peil's shitty aptitude test for Elan replacements. It's a contradiction he hasn't quite worked out - to want to be like the best of them while thinking he has nothing to do with those military nuts who chose their soldier life.
Anyways. Back to the rave machine. ]
you might be onto something though
what better way to stick it to peil than to gut the whole thing?
how bout leather seats a theater mode and a snack compartment while you're at it
thanks!
[ You mean Dearka yes. ]
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But Dearka's all about teamwork. As long as the Outsiders are stuck here and being made to fight kaiju, he wants to do whatever he can to make everyone a functional team. He wants to make sure they ALL can survive.]
I'm not sure how a theater mode is going to help with fighting kaiju? But, hell, if we can get the parts for it... I mean, why not?
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i mean, the other day we watched some movie about mobile suits who turn into cars!
[ Somebody's been marathoning Transf*rmers as part of his Netflix and chill arc. Good luck with that mod... no, he's kidding. It's just an amusing thought to picture Peil's prized killing machine turned into an entertainment system.
Dearka can be forgiven for not getting it. Elan hasn't exactly been forthcoming about his past and acts flippant about it when he is. What he's been through he thinks no one here could understand, especially not anyone comfortable living under LILITH's thumb. That Dearka is willing to humor him is enough. Sets him apart from the rest who could learn to loosen up a little. ]
if you can mess with the specs, i might have a few ideas [ Practical ones, I swear. He's not going to ignore combat performance (aka. survival), but when it comes to his gundam, he sure could use all the laughs he can get. ] you free to hash it out later?
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(But yeah, probably well beyond Dearka's means.)]
Mobile suits my ass, weren't those supposed to be aliens or some shit? And you'd think they could at least turn into something more useful than a car.
But yeah, I'm free. Just drop me a line whenever, we'll make a game plan.
we can wrap here! ty for the thread
[ Now it sure would be nice if the world weren't overrun with monsters!! He still hasn't given up the idea of traveling someday, but he won't get his freedom without fighting for it. Which means sucking it up and getting in the robot. ]
but yeah. i'll hit you up
<3 <3 <3 THANK *YOU*!!!
[Maybe this isn't the actual last conversation they'll ever have, but it is close to the end. Dearka knows immediately that something's off when he enters the hangar one morning after this, and he finds the Pharact is just... Gone. Vanished without a trace. Grilling some LILITH employees confirms what he fears: Apparently, some items strongly associated with those who are sent home will disappear from this world when their owners do.
Dearka doesn't know how to feel about any of it. He knows that of all the outsiders, Elan particularly wasn't happy here. He's also guessing that he would probably protest the idea that he and the Pharact are at all linked on that level... And given Elan's dicey past, it's hard to know if leaving will be ultimately for the best for the guy or not.
Dearka can only is that Elan is able to find freedom and peace, wherever he is. All he can do now, is break the news to Lucy, if she isn't aware already.]