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Video; Dec 3rd; both courts

Good day.

I'm afraid a mistake has been made. As I understand it, it's the Seelie court which should seek my loyalty, and yet I have found myself among the Unseelie. I intend no offence to members of either court, nor disloyalty to the court I have been placed with, yet it is a perplexity. Simply put, I am left to wonder if this was indeed the intent and there has been no confusion, or if my own confusion is sound. It's...troubling, for reasons I apologise for not detailing.

Similarly, I'm looking for a friend, most likely among the Seelie, if present. He's about seventeen, Japanese, and you'll know him for a foolish innocence and investment in justice. Better still, being terribly easily flustered.

[Giving a name would be better, and it does make it apparent this friend is his Master, to anyone in the know, but it is still even just a little bit safer to keep Tatsumi's name secret. He can't jeopardise the boy's safety.]

Ah, one more thing. I'm a doctor, therefore if anyone is ever in need of medical attention, I am always available, particularly for those outside the courts who may not have access to their infirmaries. I should note, however, my practice may not be up-to-date for some. Although I do promise I don't suck. [He laughs lightly.] -That's right, a name would be helpful, wouldn't it? I suppose it's best to continue with Berserker for now, although I am aware there is another by the name. If that name holds meaning to you, I believe it's important we speak. Perhaps more privately.

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[Shijima why]

Both, now that I think about it. My intent was more on the end of speaking to him - encouraging him. However, there are surely pieces of information which would be dangerous left in his hands.

How do you plan to keep such things from him? Bite anyone who tries to tell you anything of use?

[ He'd said she could just talk to the nicer Berserker if she wanted, after all, since he remembers stuff. ]

I think that person will carry on as he likes with or without encouragement, by the by.

I'm entirely aware that he requires no encouragement, yes. But he is all the more likely to come to existence if you become associated with whatever it is he considers to be a good thing. When you are around, that is.

Unfortunately something along those lines is the only option I have. Until I can be rid of him, I am unable to trust anything to myself.

You mean that he will come out to speak to me more if he feels like I am worth speaking to?

[ SHE...HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, sorry she has sympathy for neither side of the argument over your body, bro. ]

Yes. Which you can see is an issue for me.

[But he's starting to see that, clearly she doesn't much care, at least not for him, perhaps for Hyde, although even that seems like quite the stretch. More indifference than anything. And for that reason, his face falls.]

Although I'm sure you won't listen to that either.

I don't particularly care which of you I speak to, no.

[ Well, maybe she liked talking to Hyde a hair more???? She doesn't dislike Jekyll or anything, though. ]

It doesn't seem like it's anything to do with me.

--No, you're right, of course. Forgive me my trespasses, I shouldn't have made any attempt to involve you.

[It's an immediate reaction of worry. Although really he was trying to disinvolve her? Well.]

You were sort of doing the opposite. And it makes sense you would do. But it doesn't seem like something I need to be concerned over. How did you get stuck with an alternate you, anyway?

[ That sounds interesting. And is largely why she's interested in Berserker, tbh. ]

Did it have to do with dying?

[He sighs. Since she knows about their struggle already, and has agreed to keep that quiet, it can't be terrible to indulge the question...]

You mustn't speak of it, of course. It was a mistake, a scientific experiment which did not work quite as intended. Rather, more the opposite.

[ She has, at that. And she really will keep her word, frivolous though she seems at times. ]

What would the opposite have been?

The elimination of the qualities he represents and distorts to an obscene extreme. I hoped the formula would separate the good and evil in men, so as to remove the evil. Certainly it separated them, but instead created another self, far more wicked than my own petty evils.

[ what

what the fuck kind of plan is that ]

...Why on earth would you want to do that? Humans are so weird.

[ ???? SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND YOU AT ALL. ]

[DON'T SAY IT LIKE THAT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA]

For the good of the world. Without that desire to do evil deeds, so many of our problems would be solved. At the most extreme, it could lead to a world without wars. At the least, a lack of crime. Who wouldn't end such horrors as murder and assault if they could?

[ IN NO WAY WAS THAT EVER A GREAT IDEA...Shijima cannot even with you ]

And you thought that would end well? Humans are always tampering with things, but I think you might have won a sort of prize.

[ like damn ]

Of course, what sort of person you are would rather color that even if it had worked, wouldn't it? What you considered to be good or evil. Did you plan to ask people if they would agree before you cut away parts of themselves, or were you going to do it all on your own, judge and jury?

[ now he's interesting. ]

I had no intention of administering the serum to unwitting people. There is a reason I used myself for the experiment, after all. Had it worked, I would have my proof and present it to my fellows of The Royal Society. Explain its workings, from there we would determine what should be done. You must understand, our society was entirely built upon seeking goodness, and presenting oneself as entirely moral, no matter secret transgressions. I'm certain, had it worked properly, it would therefore be well received. In theory it would be something like a vaccine for influenza, a simple task. I had not thought terribly far ahead, simply hoping to see if it could be done, first.

Hm. Knowing humans, I doubt it would have ended simply, all the same. Many people wouldn't have wanted that. But other people would have wanted it. They would have come into conflict, wouldn't they?

[ But, well, it obviously doesn't matter. ]

Were you afraid of the parts of you that you tried to get rid of?

...It is certainly a possibility...

[One he hasn't really thought of. Not that it matters now, of course, but still... Berserker pauses, considering the question. Truly his own parts had been the main intent anyway. He wanted badly to help others, but even if it was turned down, he could at least have used it himself.]

No, I wasn't afraid of my darker side, only ashamed. It was never anything of much importance. In fact, most would hardly have bothered to hide the things I did, or thought. I only found it difficult to reconcile with the ideal I set out for myself.

At least you avoided having to see how that would turn out.

[ Shijima may just be a cynical old thing, but she doubts it would have ended well. ...Because cynical old thing. ]

Hm. Being ashamed of things you did...I can't understand that at all, sorry. That's a human emotion. You have very strong beliefs, don't you? Even ending your own life. Though I'm not clear on that part.

I take it you're not nearly so human as you seem, then. I suppose it's rare immortals would be. But then, I'm not human myself, anymore, yet still feel the same way. Did he tell you of that, my death? I simply chose suicide over the possibility of becoming him permanently, which was becoming startlingly real.

I am not. I never have been. And he mentioned that he killed you both, although I do not see how it is you are alive in that case. I'd wondered if you were immortal, somehow.

[ She has yet to figure it out. ]

So you ended your existence in order to save it. Intriguing. Do you plan to try it again?

Then you've done me one better.

No, not immortal, exactly. Resurrected through magic - summoned, rather, as the Berserker class of what is called a Servant, a sort of familiar. Truly I am only a soul, this body is less than half the age I was, and can be made to disappear. I have a duty to protect my summoner, and so if only for that reason alone, I have no such ideas.

Ah. So Berserker is not your name, but your designation.

[ A familiar. ...Okay, sure, why not. ]

Is the duty shared with him, as well, then?

Technically, yes. Unfortunately, I am forced to rely on him in many ways. However, he holds a strong dislike for my Master. My fear is Hyde would kill him, in some way or other.

Hyde. He hadn't given me his name, just your shared designation.

[ Interesting..........

...does that make this guy Jekyll... ]

[-Oh. A moment of panic flashes across his face, but in the end, does it matter now? She knows everything else, a name changes nothing anymore.]

...Then again, you know to keep my names to yourself, I'm sure. I'm surprised, he tends to throw his weight about, including his name.

[He must be scared. The new environment?]

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