Capsule 012 💊 | Video

[rassera]

[This is a really...odd question to ask. And Kaneda knows it. But something's been on his mind as of late, especially with his new job working out the way it is. Boredom begets creativity, and thus the feed opens up to our favourite biker teen sitting at his desk in Neo Tokyo, sliding back and forth on his rolling stool as he plays with a thumbtack.

Poking his skin lightly with the tip. It makes no impression, and it's as if it were going into silly putty rather than actual skin.]


Does...anyone know where to get something that can block my powers? I don't know, like a magic bracelet or something?

[He has his reasons.


He totally has his reasons.]


I want a tattoo.


[They're related, honest.]

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[rassera]

...The ones on probation probably have their ways.


[The ones in the actual jail? Not so much.]

Either way, I'm in deep shit if I don't get one. Tattoo or not.

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[arsiento]

[ Despite Diablo's own doubts, this seems good for him to know -- at least that it's a possibility at all. ]

What's so bad about-- what is it, like unbreakable skin or something, right?

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[rassera]

...Kinda.

[Kaneda wouldn't say unbreakable, but it's certainly not something a scalpel is gonna be able to go through.]

My body's pretty indestructible. Can't even get my ears pierced.

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[arsiento]

Man, that ain't deep shit -- ain't no one ever die cuz they don't got no earring. But if you needed your appendix out or something, then yeah, maybe. Guess you'd be kinda screwed.

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[rassera]

Eeeexactly.


So really, this is for medical reasons, too. I'm being responsible.


[and trying to get it illegally.]

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[arsiento]

[ ... Well... ]

So what's this really about, getting tattoos or surgery? [ Squints. ] Cuz I'mma tell you, man, ain't no tattoo alone worth leaving yourself that vulnerable.

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[rassera]

The tattoo.

[He's a teenage boy at heart.]

But I'm gonna need this thing anyway if I ever get messed up and need surgery. So might as well look into it now when I'm not on the damn surgery table.

If that even ever happens.

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[arsiento]

[ Hm. Well, he won't press the subject -- he's gotten more or less the information he was interested in, and it's also not really his business. So: ]

What's the tattoo?

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[rassera]

...


[Good question.]

I'm not...sure yet. Something cool.


Like a dragon.

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[arsiento]

Dragons are cool, yeah. Like where you thinking, on your back?

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[rassera]

Maybe on my arm, like the entire length of it...

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[arsiento]

You don't want nothing smaller than that for your first one?

[ "First one." Or maybe it'll be the only one, Diablo?! ]

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[rassera]

Nah. Go big or go home.


And the Porter isn't really letting us do the latter.

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[arsiento]

You don't mind shutting off your powers for that long?

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[rassera]

A little.

[Losing your durability after over a year with it's going to be weird.]

But it's not like anyone's going to run up and stab me. That's more something that would happen back home.

[When he wasn't durable.]

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[arsiento]

Pfft.

[ It's a sharp, quick sound. ]

You wanna do it that way, homie, it's cool -- but you don't know that. Anything can happen anywhere.

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[rassera]

Yeah, point.


But I mean, everyone else here's gotta live with that, right? And my other powers don't really do anything for me.

[At least, not in this situation.]

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[arsiento]

Yeah, I ain't saying that should stop you. You old enough to do what you want.

[ He inclines his head slightly. ]

Just better to be real about it, that's all.