01 | Video

[virusbusting]

[Right from the start, this video feed is very shaky. Not wildly, but like someone's pressed 'record' and forgot it. After a few seconds of swinging, a hanging ceiling light comes into focus, only to swing away as the device is once again moved.]

C'mon, stay up! ...Hah, there!

[It stops once again, this time showing a boy's face. It might look familiar to some, even if the eyes are the wrong color, or the design on the headband wrapped around his forehead might even be recognizable.

If not, nothing wrong with that. He looks happy at getting his phone to stay up.]

Hi! This is recording, right? The guy that gave it to me sorta explained it...he said if I asked around the network, I'd find more answers, so here I am. [A pause.]

Um...I'm Lan Hikari and I'm new to the country...or this part of the country, anyway. I have no idea what I'm doing here and could use some help with...anything. Like getting home. Or getting ahold of my mom or dad so they know I'm okay.

Or fixing this. [He retrieves an offscreen object, bringing a second device into the camera's view.] It got busted somehow, and last time I tried to fix it...

[It turned out badly. But he'll just imply that for now, shrugging before ending the video feed.]

Comments

[maglevflash]

[That right there is why she never gives out her real name.]

Depends on your definition of belong. There are a lot of worlds out there and only a few are like this one. [Hers is one of them. She got off easier than most.]

[virusbusting]

[Is it because Edith is boring to say?]

Worlds like...alternate dimensions, right?

[Thank you, Mabel.]

[maglevflash]

[Ethel is a name she is honored to have inherited, thank you.]

Supposedly. I haven't heard a better explanation for it than that.

I FAIL AT NAMES haha go self. I'm sorry.

[virusbusting]

[OOPS. That name is also less interesting than Gogo.]

It sounds good enough for me, right now.

Edith, Ethel, Edna. It's all the same.

[maglevflash]

[You're not wrong.]

Not fun where you're from?

At leas they're all similar to one another

[virusbusting]

Uh...not really.

[Stuff happened and he's not sure if he wants to talk about it. Congratulations, you've encountered a rare Somber Lan, Gogo!]

As I dropped the ball and fumbled it for a month... ;;

[maglevflash]

You wouldn't be the first, you know. For people like that this place can be sort of a second chance. [She wouldn't give up the extra time with Tadashi for anything.]