[he can't help but let out a bark of bitter, entirely humorless laughter.]
That wasn't your fault.
[or even you. and then Kaz backs off, going into the mission mode that tells the Phantom to check his iDroid entirely too much.]
All right, have it your way. I've picked up food for both of us, and I got you mosquito netting, matches, a compass, and a water filter. Use them. I know you can survive with next to nothing, but I'm not going to have you dying from-- [parasites, of the non-vocal variety] --uh, from disease.
I know but I can't help but blame myself. It shouldn't have happened.
["It" being the helicopter crash and before that the destruction of MSF. Paz with the bomb inside of her. The second bomb. Damn it. Why couldn't he had acted sooner? None of this would ever had happened. Kaz would still have had both arms and legs.]
Thanks, Kaz.
[Always thinking about his health. He really appreciates that, buddy.]
[he bites the inside of his cheek to keep from saying 'no, it shouldn't have, all three of us should have died in that goddamn helicopter like we were meant to']
Probably not. But I'm not taking any chances, and old habits die hard.
[He really does. You weren't made XO of Diamond Dogs for nothing. Your attention to detail and care for the men makes Snake pleased to be working with you.]
[Which means don't fret, Kaz. Snake knows you're doing your best, buddy.]
Maybe we'll get to see some different Pokémon along route 30. DD and Ash always seem to want to battle. I've also got this egg in my backpack from this guy, Cecil. It'll be a snake once it hatches out.
[Snake sighed. Just how many conversations was Kaz monitoring right now? It was good he was doing his job but Snake didn't mean to piss him off.]
The guy is like me, so it's something I can relate to. I wasn't throwing intel out on a whim, Kaz. It's not like the guy's going to tell everyone back on our world that I'm not Big Boss.
[He wouldn't aim to piss you off, buddy.]
Why should I hide behind a screen here? This isn't our world, Kaz. No one's going to come back to ours and ruin Diamond Dogs. I just wanted to speak to Tim and relate to him is all.
[a long, long sigh, and on the other end of the line, Kaz is pinching the bridge of his nose.]
We don't know that. There's a whole crowd coming in from Pandora now, and nothing says that people from out world won't be next. Once the information is out there, it's out there for good, and it can't be stopped. He doesn't need to tell anyone. It's there for anyone who knows how to dig for it.
[he does not add that's it's not Diamond Dogs he's particularly concerned about, it's the facade that will eventually allow him to murder the real Big Boss. if it was just Diamond Dogs, he'd be somewhat less upset. but no, it's the web of informational control that Diamond Dogs is connected to.]
[Kaz was always destined to be with Cipher, in that sense.]
If he wants to talk about being a body double, it's his business. You still need to play your role. [a pause as he realizes he is being slightly hypocritical, given he'd encouraged Venom to be himself a few weeks ago]. At least in name.
[Snake sighed and clenched his jaw. Perhaps he'd been too casual with throwing that part of him around to strangers? Kaz was right in that regard, yet Snake wanted to be himself. He was tired of living as a lie, almost living in another man's shadow, yet he knew he'd still have to do that. He'd do it for the sake of Diamond Dogs and the men. Also, for his sanity, what left he had of it.]
Yeah. Maybe I did make a mistake with using a public channel. Won't happen again.
[Since he didn't want to be treated like a scorned child. He could make his own choices, right? But not to the expense of being reckless.]
Just didn't expect to meet a guy like me is all. About my role? Yeah. Nothing's going to change that. As far as everything is concerned I am Big Boss. That won't change.
[is Kaz being controlling and edging towards using the Phantom as a tool or weapon? possibly. but he still cares-- the intel could get the Phantom killed, after all.]
Good.
[the edge to his voice softens a little.]
...if you have to talk about it, use the off-network line, like we're using now. It's secure, as far as I can tell. And choose your confidants carefully. But I'd advise not talking about it at all, for what it's worth.
[He wasn't that stupid. It was just getting used to the damn PokeGear function. Shit. If he screwed up then he screwed up. Kaz would soon tell him if he did or not. In this case he did.]
Right. Got it. Off-network feature. Still getting used to this damn PokeGear.
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Date: 2016-07-16 07:25 pm (UTC)Are you coming?
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Date: 2016-07-16 09:39 pm (UTC)Might meet some new Pokémon.
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Date: 2016-07-16 09:47 pm (UTC)[the company is nice]
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Date: 2016-07-16 09:50 pm (UTC)[It could be viewed almost like a date.]
Where you go, I go. We're comrades, men at arms and Diamond Dogs.
[You can't get rid of him that easily.]
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Date: 2016-07-16 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-16 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-16 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 06:33 am (UTC)[Because he'd feel bad if he didn't?]
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Date: 2016-07-17 11:51 am (UTC)That wasn't your fault.
[or even you. and then Kaz backs off, going into the mission mode that tells the Phantom to check his iDroid entirely too much.]
All right, have it your way. I've picked up food for both of us, and I got you mosquito netting, matches, a compass, and a water filter. Use them. I know you can survive with next to nothing, but I'm not going to have you dying from-- [parasites, of the non-vocal variety] --uh, from disease.
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Date: 2016-07-17 09:48 pm (UTC)["It" being the helicopter crash and before that the destruction of MSF. Paz with the bomb inside of her. The second bomb. Damn it. Why couldn't he had acted sooner? None of this would ever had happened. Kaz would still have had both arms and legs.]
Thanks, Kaz.
[Always thinking about his health. He really appreciates that, buddy.]
Don't think they've got malaria here.
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Date: 2016-07-17 10:53 pm (UTC)Probably not. But I'm not taking any chances, and old habits die hard.
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Date: 2016-07-18 06:58 am (UTC)[He really does. You weren't made XO of Diamond Dogs for nothing. Your attention to detail and care for the men makes Snake pleased to be working with you.]
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Date: 2016-07-18 01:49 pm (UTC)[that seems to amuse him, actually]
Looks like our organization's running a little low on staff, if I still technically have a job. Unless my job these days is just keeping tabs on you.
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Date: 2016-07-19 10:53 am (UTC)[Which means don't fret, Kaz. Snake knows you're doing your best, buddy.]
Maybe we'll get to see some different Pokémon along route 30. DD and Ash always seem to want to battle. I've also got this egg in my backpack from this guy, Cecil. It'll be a snake once it hatches out.
[Yep. A snake.]
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Date: 2016-07-19 01:58 pm (UTC)So does Havoc-- he's at least a little under my control now. And I got a Pidgey-- Ethon.
Heh, a snake? Yeah, I saw, you bought it on the network.
[stalking all the communications that happen here? you bet he is. intel, Boss.]
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Date: 2016-07-19 04:53 pm (UTC)That's good. Ethon, huh? Nice name.
[He was going to ask why Ethon but he thought against it.]
You followed my network broadcast?
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Date: 2016-07-19 04:58 pm (UTC)I follow everyone's. It's intel, Boss.
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Date: 2016-07-19 05:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, you're right. What would I do without you, Kaz? [He was pleased to see that his XO was still doing his job even here.]
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Date: 2016-08-10 03:45 am (UTC)[Kaz sounds pretty pissed.]
That's a public network, Snake, and you're just throwing intel out there?!
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Date: 2016-08-10 07:27 am (UTC)The guy is like me, so it's something I can relate to. I wasn't throwing intel out on a whim, Kaz. It's not like the guy's going to tell everyone back on our world that I'm not Big Boss.
[He wouldn't aim to piss you off, buddy.]
Why should I hide behind a screen here? This isn't our world, Kaz. No one's going to come back to ours and ruin Diamond Dogs. I just wanted to speak to Tim and relate to him is all.
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Date: 2016-08-10 06:28 pm (UTC)We don't know that. There's a whole crowd coming in from Pandora now, and nothing says that people from out world won't be next. Once the information is out there, it's out there for good, and it can't be stopped. He doesn't need to tell anyone. It's there for anyone who knows how to dig for it.
[he does not add that's it's not Diamond Dogs he's particularly concerned about, it's the facade that will eventually allow him to murder the real Big Boss. if it was just Diamond Dogs, he'd be somewhat less upset. but no, it's the web of informational control that Diamond Dogs is connected to.]
[Kaz was always destined to be with Cipher, in that sense.]
If he wants to talk about being a body double, it's his business. You still need to play your role. [a pause as he realizes he is being slightly hypocritical, given he'd encouraged Venom to be himself a few weeks ago]. At least in name.
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Date: 2016-08-10 06:40 pm (UTC)Yeah. Maybe I did make a mistake with using a public channel. Won't happen again.
[Since he didn't want to be treated like a scorned child. He could make his own choices, right? But not to the expense of being reckless.]
Just didn't expect to meet a guy like me is all. About my role? Yeah. Nothing's going to change that. As far as everything is concerned I am Big Boss. That won't change.
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Date: 2016-08-10 06:55 pm (UTC)Good.
[the edge to his voice softens a little.]
...if you have to talk about it, use the off-network line, like we're using now. It's secure, as far as I can tell. And choose your confidants carefully. But I'd advise not talking about it at all, for what it's worth.
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Date: 2016-08-10 07:01 pm (UTC)[He wasn't that stupid. It was just getting used to the damn PokeGear function. Shit. If he screwed up then he screwed up. Kaz would soon tell him if he did or not. In this case he did.]
Right. Got it. Off-network feature. Still getting used to this damn PokeGear.
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Date: 2016-11-14 03:14 am (UTC)You don't smile enough. Have a cat face.
Σ:3
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Date: 2016-11-14 08:52 am (UTC)--- have one of these back>>
:-I
[What the hell was he doing?]
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:06 am (UTC)What kind of animal is that supposed to be?no subject
Date: 2016-11-14 09:35 am (UTC)((OO))
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A chimpanzee?
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:42 am (UTC)A what?[He understands exactly zero of this. He shouldn't have meddled with powers beyond his scope of knowledge.]
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:54 am (UTC)[Right?]
How about this?
>O|
Angry dog?
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:58 am (UTC)Does the dog have one eye??no subject
Date: 2016-11-14 10:04 am (UTC)[Can't you see?]
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Date: 2016-11-14 10:55 am (UTC)I don't get it. I looked the other way and it's like a person with a book on their head?no subject
Date: 2016-11-14 07:51 pm (UTC)<;o)
It's a smirking cat.
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Date: 2016-11-14 11:33 pm (UTC)How is that a cat? It looks like someone wearing a silly pointed hat. And their nose is concerning.[The universe would like to apologize for Anders. Its bad.]
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Date: 2016-11-16 07:39 am (UTC)[Right? You totally fail, Snake.]
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Date: 2016-11-16 08:03 am (UTC)It's got one big ear.no subject
Date: 2016-11-17 08:34 am (UTC)[Because you are?]
What's this one?
oo
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VV
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Date: 2016-11-17 08:58 am (UTC)Alright, if you say so.
It looks a bit like a dragon...
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Date: 2016-11-24 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-24 01:09 pm (UTC)So a wingless dragon.[Sorry not sorry. He has to be right.]no subject
Date: 2016-11-29 05:44 am (UTC)[Will these guys ever stop arguing? Nope.]
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Date: 2016-11-30 04:55 am (UTC)You just described a dragon.[Anders, for his part, at least, is deeply amused.]