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[When the SFC turns on, the image is at a funny angle, but it clearly shows a soaked red-headed young man leaned up against the fountain. He's dressed in a bright red military outfit with a long yellow scarf around his neck, but it's clear parts are badly singed and even the man himself isn't in the best shape. Part of his arm and one of his knees seems to be torn open, but instead of blood and tissue, there's metal and sparks and some sort of fuel leaking from the wounds.

Still, despite the injuries, the man's spirits don't seem to be damaged. He groans in frustration as he takes in his surroundings.]

Dammit! Now what? Hey, Joe, can you hear me?

[When there's no response, the frustration flashes clear on his face. Jet's eyes take in his new surroundings and eventually find the recording SFC and the brochure nearby. The brochure he decides to set aside for the moment in favor of the weird thing that looked like some sort of technology.]

What the hell is this thing..?

[And then he promptly discovers the off button.]

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Well you look human and most humans are from Earth I think and I'm not so that's why.

[Sooo... sort of an alien.]

I don't know any Professor Gilmore but I do know Dirk and Darkleer and Jade and they all know about science stuff like that. I mean, if cybernetics is science. It sounds like a science word.

...how old are you?

[Cause really. Although hearing that the professor wasn't here was both unsurprising and disappointing.]

Yeah, it's a science.

I'm eighteen!

[He snaps it defensively. It's clearly not the whole truth, but he just looks so adamant. He hates when people judge him on his literal age; a real two (and a half) year old doesn't function on the level he's at and he knows it. Granted a real eighteen year old doesn't either, he's more around fourteen or fifteen, but his body is a copy of an eighteen year old's and that's enough for him to not feel like he's lying. Even if he kind of is.]

I can ask one of my science friends then, if you want. Where are you from?

[Abrupt question, but it doesn't effect who he gets to help. If this guy is from Earth it might be better to get one of the human kids, rather than Darkleer.]

[He doesn't respond to that, he's tempted to say 'yeah right' cause there was no way this kid was almost his age, but it wasn't like he had proof. And, really, he was too tired to argue about something like that, it's not like it was really his business.]

New York.

[Oh, right, not from Earth; he probably didn't know what that was.]

Earth.

[Another pause.] 21st century, if that matters at all to you. [He'd done the time travel thing and that got really dicey so maybe it did maybe it didn't, but he might as well cover all the bases.]

Oh, that's cool. My boyfriend's from Earth too. Actually a lot of people here are from Earth. I wonder why...

[Hmm...]

I'm from Hyrule but to tell you the truth I like it here a lot better. This is Vatheon, by the way. We're in a bubble under the ocean! Isn't that cool?

[Hyrule? Yeah, definitely didn't ring any bells ~~that was after his time~~]

If that's your thing, I guess.

I looked over the convenient little pamphlet, but nothing really popped out at me. What, exactly, makes this place so special. Other than the underwater and kidnapping people thing?

[~~Are you sure you're not from there too, Roam?~~]

It's not, that's what makes it cool! Not the kidnapping part though, that's not really good. I mean, I'm glad they brought me here because I'd be dead otherwise, but a lot of other people miss their homes.

[Yeeeaaah he'd be dead otherwise too, but that's not worth sharing.]

Can't imagine a place being all that great if you've got to be kidnapped to get there, but, hey, you've been here longer.

I've learned a lot being here! About other worlds and stuff. It's pretty great, even if the scientists do curse things to mess with us sometimes.

[Not sounding as distressed about that as he probably should, though he was given a soul through one of these curses so overall he counts it as a small price to pay.]

[Curses sound a little ridiculous, but he tenses up a bit at the mention of scientists. He was really done with scientists.]

Scientists? That's who's doing all this?

Have you ever seen these guys?

Not really. There's some people who work for them I guess and some of those aren't nice but I don't think the scientists are here in the bubble or anything.

[He really doesn't know. He isn't exactly trying too hard to escape or anything, he likes it here.]

[Yeah, Jet can tell he doesn't really know anything. That figures.]

Well, thanks for telling me.

[It was something, at least.]

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