FROM: @WEHFRIED || TO: @ALL (backdated like hell, aka before spiderland)

[gerechtigkeit]

Before Gallipoli, it was discussed that we should come up with aliases to call each other, and have backstories to speak of while there was downtime in the war. At the time, we knew the Regency was there, but they wouldn't be so visible. It was enough to not be asked too much by the natives of the time, and allowed us the conditions we needed to blend in as a unit of reinforcements that was beached at the wrong location.

The situation may be different here, but I'd suggest we come up with different aliases from before, considering we'll be facing the Regency out in the open. Using your actual name isn't suggested- it could cause problems and endanger the rest of this cell if you do so. Try to pick something you'll remember easily enough.

Feel free to suggest names and ideas for yourselves, or help others. The BCE has a list of them you can pick from. The sooner we can compile a list, the easier it will make it for all of us to recall while in the middle of the mission.

[Boy, talking like this is a reminder of speaking with soldiers before battles. That was a long time ago, and he's getting back into the hang of it. Also, guess who's bad at suggesting names? THIS GUY. Thankfully, the BCE has a posh name generator that can be found here.]

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[ryuji]

[Ignoring all the important parts...]

We're gonna get those bastards back for what they did to you

[lonelywar]

[It's a sentiment Ashitaka struggles to reconcile, as there's the smallest shred of him which feels the same way, even though logically he knows it's very much against what he believes and what he understands from what he has seen. But did they even have the ability to be so discerning now? This war with the Regency was not the confined conflict he faced back home.

Regardless of how conflicted he might feel on it, he is grateful to have a friend defensive of him.]

Thank you, Ryuji.
I am hoping that things do not descend to that during this mission, however. Our situation seems precarious enough without openly fighting with the Regency there.

[ryuji]

[That's fine. Let Ashitaka rue and toss/turn over the morality of hatred and whether or not it's conducive to... well, anything good. Ryuji will take the helm of retribution. He cares for Ashitaka at a level that he would like any one of his other close friends. Is there a fist fight? He'll make, and take, the first blow if he has to.]

You don't gotta thank me

No one's ever gonna get their hands on you again, you hear me?

This mission or next, it doesn't matter. They're gonna eat their own words like rotten milk.

[lonelywar]

[It is certainly within Ryuji's right...

...though it will never be so simple or easy for Ashitaka to accept that so readily.]

I do. I will have to be more cautious in the future. We all will.

[Says the guy not bothering to use a pseudonym in this next mission, but, like he said, they know literally everything about him, as far as he can tell, so it's all a pretty moot point in that regard.]

Please let me know if you decide to act upon this. I will want to at least be at your side.

[Because he's definitely not going to let Ryuji spearhead this alone.]