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[ghoulking]

[ Video starts and there is one (1) Kaneki and one (1) Riptide looking back at you. Kaneki gently nods his head as a polite greeting and riptide raises a hand in a light wave.]

Hello everyone, we are making an official announcement that we are currently working to visit Death Island and build a memorial on site for the imPorts who have permanently died there. For those who aren’t familiar with the story, in 2008 a group of teenage imPorts went to the island in order to stop a man who built a Death Ray. I understand the naming is… [ IT’S SOMETHING. ] but the Ray killed seven imPorts permanently. It has been ten years since then, and I think it’s important to remember those who were lost.

--Right, yeah, [riptide leans a little closer to the camera. it’s time to pay attention to him now!!] it’s got a weird name and the history sucks. So, anyway, we already have quite a bit of backing from ambassador Baal, Baelish and senator Hundred. Er-- [he looks down. at his hand, where he’s written this information like a normal person.] --The Airforce, some other native institutions. They sure love their advertising. I’m sure you see where this is going.

The only people left to ask are… [he points dramatically at the camera.] you. Is you? Grammar. You. Give us money for this. Also, yourselves. Please.

[ oh god, no - Kaneki moves in, shoving Riptide away as he tries to salvage this ] He-- isn’t wrong. We need funding to build the memorial, but we also need signatures to show imPorts support this idea. We are also gathering them from natives, who have been very receptive to this idea. [slightly off camera, riptide can be heard mumbling that’s what i said!. Kaneki will ignore him because what else can you do? ]

We want to ask you for your support on this, any kind you can give us. [ he bows gently to the camera ] Thank you so much.

Yeah, thanks-- and if you’re gonna bitch about how this ain’t our problem, I don’t wanna hear it! Put that attitude back in the toilet you fished it out of, idiot! [ and before the feed is cut off you can still hear Kaneki going “Riptide, No-” ]

Comments

[knaval]

Hey, it's not a bad thing.

[as someone part of just throwing out a random idea on the network asking for funding, he certainly shouldn't say it's kinda weird how they'll do it for anything thrown out on the network. hey, it's fine. everything's fine.]

I'm not not being kind to them. I'm pretty-- what's the human expression? I'm pretty tight with most of the people that replied already. Korg? Good buddy. Magnus? Same thing!

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki smiles a little ]

Good enough to support a memorial, or good enough to use that as a cover-up for a secret investigation? [ the ghoul shakes his head ]

It's pretty bad taste. [ he knows that. he is using a tragedy as a cover-up, and Kaneki knows that's not really acceptable by a lot of people ]

[knaval]

My dude, I fought a war for three and a half million years. On a scale of bad taste to ultra war crime, this is pretty low. It's not like we're going to have a huge party and dance on their graves.

[it being bad taste hadn't actually even crossed riptide's mind.]

In fact, I'd argue the dead would likely want something like this to be done to prevent it happening again.

[ghoulking]

no. We are just using their deaths as an excuse. [ kaneki doesn't really... care all that much for the dead imPorts to be honest. He doesn't know them; it's tragic, but it doesn't directly influence him. Maybe that's why he thinks it's pretty shitty to do this ]

But maybe you are right. It won't be for nothing.

[knaval]

Maybe we are, but we're still giving people who genuinely want to pay respects an option to do so.

[riptide doesn't really give a shit either-- he doesn't even think ten years is long enough to be worth celebrating. he just shrugs.]

If everything was as simple and easy to the point where it wouldn't require this sort of thing, then we wouldn't be doing it. We don't live in an ideal world, though, so sometimes you gotta do shitty stuff. I'd rather do this bad thing and come out with useful information than do nothing at all.

[that's definitely the sort of thinking that got him through having to do some awful things during the war. maybe it's not actually necessary in peacetime, but cybertronians are uniquely horrible at adapting, despite their race quirk of... physically adapting.]

[ghoulking]

[ he smiles a little ] I guess we always have to do a couple of things we aren't proud of when times are rough.

[ in any case ] -We just need to gather a team for the investigation, now. A small one.

[knaval]

Or... maybe our lives are just a series of mishaps that involve stumbling from one thing we're not proud of to the next! Haha. I sure can't relate to that statement.

[the flat way he says "haha" indicates otherwise.]

You got any ideas for people? I can think of a few.

[ghoulking]

Well- [ kaneki shakes his head ] I thought of Cassandra-san, she is very interested in investigating everything. Adachi-san jumped right away into this.

I told Jacob-san, but I don't know if he wants to be part of it directly.

[knaval]

Cassandra is definitely someone I was considering. She's really smart.

[that's about all he's got.]

...Most other people I would ask have been Ported out. Fuck.

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki takes a moment to think ] I can form a team. It shouldn't be too many people, since we want to go unnoticed.

I can contact you when I have few more in mind.

[knaval]

I'm going to head out and meet Cassandra soon, so I can talk to her about it.

[that said, he gets up, looks over kaneki awkwardly for a second.]

Think I'm also gonna go look up how organic diplomacy works. That's what the smartest lawman I know would do, so! Hit me up if you need to. I'll do likewise.

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki smiles a little and nods ]

If you need anything, let me know, alright?