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[The camera shows nothing but pavement, the edge of some wet fingers, and the ends of a really flashy red cape, fabric worn and water-heavy, trailing on the ground. Oh, and an adorable little white rabbit chomping down on the end of that cape.]

I don't get it. I don't freakin' get it at all. What--

OI!

[Suddenly the camera jerks and... goes flying. Seems Kamina, not knowing what it was, tossed it over his shoulder. It clatters against the coral, still recording for a few moments.]

Oi, lil' punk! Come here. I'll friggin' teach you to attack a guy from the rear when he ain't lookin'.

[Kamina dives for the rabbit, trying to catch it, and then the feed cuts.]

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BUT LOGIC IS IMPORTANT, ASSHAT, YOU DON'T JUST KICK IT AWAY OR YOU GET EVERYONE KILLED WITH YOUR OWN INSURMOUNTABLE MOUNTAIN OF DUMBFUCKERY! I DON'T WANT MY HEART TO BE ON FIRE!

Edited 2012-03-25 01:14 (UTC)

WRONG AGAIN! THROWING AWAY LOGIC IS THE WAY TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE AND BREAK THROUGH TO TOMORROW. IF YOU LIVE LIKE THAT YOU WOULDN'T DIE EVEN IF YOU WERE KILLED.

THAT DOESN'T--

[Wait a sec.]

[Waaaait a sec.]

[He leans in closer to the camera, eyes narrowed, but clearly curious.]

How do you mean?

IT'S THE--

[Oh wait, we're not shouting anymore?]

That's the motto of our Dai-Gurren Brigade!

Edited 2012-03-25 01:25 (UTC)

No, the other thing. About not dying even if you're killed.

Ain't it obvious. Even if they die, they are still right here.

[Jabbing a thumb straight at his heart.]

[Maybe not as literal as he'd hoped, but the gesture and the words actually make him stop and think.]

... Hold on, I'm heading out there. And not to fight so keep your testosterone in your pants. I want to talk, alright?

Fine. Talking face to face is better than talking through something like this.

[Another eyeroll about that, don't tell a troll that face-to-face is better than through electronics. But he shuts his SFC off and heads out. It doesn't take him all that long, and spotting some self-important douche in a cape with blue hair isn't that hard once he hits the Plaza. From there he strides forward, wishing he were taller next to this specimen of human manliness, until he's within good range.]

Hey, asshole! I'm here now.

Heh, it's you. Thought you'd be taller. You shout a lot so you sound big.

[He is just grinning. Whatever. Real men don't carry grudges unless they are manly grudges.]

Shut up! I'm only 14 by your backwards earth calendar!

[He will never be tall, and he knows it.]

But that's not even what I came here to talk about.

Hehe, you're Simon's age then.

[Aww, where is his soul brother anyway.]

Fine, spill. What do you wanna talk about?

Simon? [Head tilt.] And who are you, anyway? You never told me your name.

[But right, talking. He straightens up a bit, then after a thought, pokes his thumb at his chest.]

That thing. And I guess your Brigade, too, but get to the point of that whole not being dead there thing. How does that fix it if you get killed anyway? And how is abandoning logic supposed to help, when everything I've been through has taught me that not stopping to think what you're doing is the best way to fuck it royally up the ass?

The name's Kamina. And Simon is my lil' bro, my soul-brother.

And as long as people remember you, as long as you lit the fire in their hearts and as long as you shared in their passion, you wouldn't die even if you got killed. As long as anyone remembers you, you ain't dead.

Though if it were me, I'd come back even if I got killed. Dying sounds freakin' boring.

[He's just grinning at that.]

And it's cool to think sometimes. But sometimes you just gotta kick through all that useless sitting around and thinking and just do what you gotta do. Don't think about what other people say is impossible or the rules or any shit like that. That's our way, that's the Dai-Gurren way!

Kamina? Seriously, Kamina? Figures that a big moron like you would have the most normal-sounding name I've heard yet from a human. I'm Karkat Vantas. But what do you mean, soul-brother? How's that different from the regular kind?

[Where Kamina grins, though, Karkat snorts.]

Death doesn't last around here, and there's not even enough to it to get bored.

[Now his arms fold up over his chest as he fixes the man with a look. Obstinate but appraising, not yet convinced.]

There are some rules out there that are a fat load of shit, and I've done things people would never think are possible if they hadn't happened. But that doesn't stop that sometimes, some things just can't be done. And if you don't think and just act, you're going to screw up. Don't tell me different, because I know it better than anyone.

Cause we're related by the soul, not by blood. Don't you have people like that?

[He just watches Karkat for a moment, before lifting a hand

and flicking him in the forehead.]

Stuuupid. If you don't believe you can do the impossible, of course it won't work.

I... guess? I've got two people who--Hey!

[He claps his hands over his forehead, and glares out and up at Kamina from underneath them.]

Impossible means impossible, you dense sack of turds. It means that even if you think it's going to work, it won't, because that's how reality works. And you talk like believing can just make things happen, which is the biggest, foulest smelling turd in there. Its stench reeks across the universes and across time. If belief was enough, things would be different than they are.

You're wrong. I've done tons of impossible things already so there.

Then they weren't impossible in the first place, idiot! Can't you understand simple linguistic definitions, or do I have to beat you bluntly over the head with a pile of dictionaries?

And you didn't address the other thing! Belief isn't enough.

Of course it ain't. You need belief and fighting spirit. Then you can do anything.

[Also what is a dictionary, but somehow that doesn't seem like the most important point of the conversation.]

Don't you get it? All this stuff you say is impossible... who says it's impossible? Who the hell got that kinda authority to decide what is impossible and not?

[He grumbles a little at that still, but it's a better answer than what he was getting.]

It's not who. If it was a person, I'd kick their ass with my own actions and show them. But it's more--it's written into how reality works. Sometimes things just can't happen, and that's how it is. Sometimes things just go the way they do, and you can't change it.

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