1gou - Voice

[tacticianing]

[Kidou's been silent for a long time. He waited for days since getting in, watching and generally keeping a very low profile. More data was needed.

The first thing he did was try to find a professional soccer match on TV to get an idea what he was facing. When he mostly found football matches - why, America? - he took to trying to look this up online. The soccer teams he's watched at schools echo his findings alarmingly closely. No one's using hissatsu at all. No one has any of the spirit he's come to know.

It can't be helped. He has to ask. The feed clicks on to voice, with a soft, maybe deeper voice than you might normally expect from a 14 year old. He's all business, and there's no introduction.]

Explain your soccer to me. It's different than the soccer I know.

[He's in an alternate world with tattoos, government branding, new powers, a history that can't be right... and this is the question that he feels takes priority. There's a pause.]

...

Otherwise, please tell me what you know about this world.

Comments

voice; ID reads "Gran"

[starlinings]

That's Kidou-kun for you.


[He's not even surprised by this. Well, Kidou's attitude, mostly. But even though his voice is playful to start, it becomes immensely quiet the moment he mentions that soccer is 'different'.

Time to get down to business.]

What do you mean, 'it's different'?

voice;

[tacticianing]

Have you watched a game here yet?

voice;

[starlinings]

No...I've met soccer fans, and got invited to play...

But I've never watched a game here yet.

voice;

[tacticianing]

You should see this for yourself. So far, no one's used hissatsu in a match.

[Voice]

[monge]

[His soccer is different?! But how? How can anyone change soccer? Unless...]

Your soccer balls are square, zura?

[Voice]

[tacticianing]

[That's sure a question he just heard. Give him a moment.]

... ah... no. They're round.

[Voice]

[monge]

[Well now he's just stumped.]

Hm...so are ours, zura... Oh! Do you play in the water, zura? We play in grass, so I can imagine that can be kinda scary, zura.

...Are you a fish, zura?

[Voice] > [Video]

[tacticianing]

....

One moment.

[And he switches this to video.]

None of those things are correct...

permatext

[deadtective]

The ball goes in the net, and if they use their hands they cut them off. Pretty simple.

text; Hazel never change

[tacticianing]

is that so

[No, he's not buying that last part.]

she couldn't if she wanted to

[deadtective]

Yeah, that's why they get so upset when somebody taps 'em on the field.

[you want to call her on this? because Hazel's ready and willing to defend this bullshit to the hilt.]

[tacticianing]

By your claim, there must be plenty of handicapped players now. Rules violations aren't unheard of.

audio;

[amadaman]

Eleven players, two teams, one ball, forty-five minute games?

audio;

[tacticianing]

[Ah yes, HERE we go. This is closer to what he's asking.]

So far, that's the same.

[amadaman]

If it's called "soccer" it probably has a lot in common. Why are you asking?

[tacticianing]

Do you recognize the term 'hissatsu'?

[penthesileia]

Really? It's a remarkably straightforward game from what I know of it. Two teams compete to kick a ball into a goal and score points. What could be different?

[tacticianing]

By that description, it's the same. The difference is in how they kick the ball there.

[penthesileia]

...I apologize if I'm being slightly unimaginative, but I'm having difficulty thinking of many ways in which it could be different. Isn't it just with your feet?

audio;

[hardcorduroy]

(most people might be annoyed at a curt introduction like that. for wendy, she just hums thoughtfully for a moment before answering casually.) You kick the ball across the field and try to get it into the opposite goal. The team you're fighting tries to do the same, but with your goal. Uh, only goalies can use their hands, and you have to defend your goal.

audio;

[tacticianing]

Hm.

[The reply is still calm, if thoughtful.]

So far, it sounds the same. What about hissatsu techniques?

audio;

[hardcorduroy]

... what kind of techniques? (was that a sneeze or a word, she cannot tell.)

voice;

[andtherevolution]

[And Utena was going to give a helpful answer... until she saw that she was beaten to the punch. But still, she wonders...]

I'm going to guess that you have the basics down by now. But what's soccer like where you're from? I'm not sure how it can be much different than the stuff they play here.

voice;

[tacticianing]

The soccer here is missing a vital part of the soccer I know. It lacks hissatsu techniques or tactics.

[He'll wait for a moment, but he's fairly sure she's not going to recognize it, given other replies.]

[andtherevolution]

Hissatsu... wait, you mean like a finishing move or something? No offense, but that sounds a little extreme for soccer.

[Like maybe a martial arts or a boxing match or something, but soccer?]