1st hunt | video

[momchester]

[The video starts a bit awkwardly, with the shakycam and fumbling of someone who isn't very practiced at the art of video chatting. A late-20-something woman's face is up close, clearly trying to figure out "how does I tech". After some fumbling, the camera stills and she sits back, looking a bit awkward.]

Okay. So, I guess this is what people do here. Calling the Internet using cameras.

[She looks too young and modern to be so fail at technology.]

Anyway- hi. I'm new.

Let's just say I didn't go to the, um, shitshow today- Thank God... Let's say I'm not gonna register. Don't wanna put on tights and fight crime, or whatever.

What're my options? Learn to knit? [There are at least three (3) guns visible in the video. She does not look like a knitter.] Start a [air quotes] "blog"?

I can't exactly do what I did back home- no monsters to hunt. No day job to go back to.

I kinda don't know what to do with myself.

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[hombrenuevo]

Thirteen. And I'm not a kid.

[momchester]

[Wait, there's- there's something about him. She looks at him a little closer, and her eyes go wide.

A kid. Who hunts. Who sounds older than his years, and is socially conscious enough to care about monster racism.]

...Sam?

[hombrenuevo]

[ This again. ]

No, my name's Chico. Chico Libre. You know, you're not the first person to call me that.

[momchester]

Chi- what?

[What.... what????]

I'm not? Who else did?

[She has a decent guess.]

[hombrenuevo]

Chico—Well, my full name is Ricardo Valenciano Libre, but everyone calls me Chico.

[ So there you go. ]

Some old man. Think he thought I was his son?

[ He's not real clear on that. He never saw the guy at all after that mix up. ]

[momchester]

My husband John.

[This lady looks a good 25 years younger than him, btw.]

You look- wow. That's... that's uncanny.

[hombrenuevo]

[ Chico simply shrugs because he has no explanation for it himself. ]

Huh. I do not know. Is your son a hunter, too?

[momchester]

Our whole family hunts.

[Then, because she can't stop herself-]

Where are you from?

[Dat accent tho.]

[hombrenuevo]

[ It is literally the cutest accent ever. ]

Originally Nicaragua. But... my father's resistance movement was pushed out. So now we live in Costa Rica.

[momchester]

Nicaragua? But you're so-

[white.]

-young to be so far away from home.

[Nice save, Mar.]

[hombrenuevo]

[ Yeah, he is. I blame Japan. But that "save" has Chico puffing up a little, cheeks growing red. ]

I've been away from home for a long time. I can take care of myself. Alone.

[ He doesn't need his sister or his father! He's aN ADULT! ]

[momchester]

[Now that reaction is straight-up adorable.]

Just because you can doesn't mean it's the best thing for you.

[hombrenuevo]

Neither is candy, but I still eat it.

[ A lot of it. ]

[momchester]

And it'll rot your teeth out.

Look. You should have someone taking care of you. To- to do the boring stuff. Bills, taxes. Grocery shopping. Let you focus on being a kid.

[hombrenuevo]

Ha! Like I'd give a cent of my hard-earned money to this terrible capitalist government!

[ You didn't expect this, did you, Mary? When you woke up today, you weren't thinking, I bet I'll meet a little unregistered Hispanic boy who is a die hard communist. No, no you weren't. ]

[momchester]

So how do you eat?

[hombrenuevo]

................ [ Erp. ] That's different. I'll buy what I want to buy. But no American government is gonna tax me and use my own money to topple other functional countries they don't approve of!

[ He has personal beef with the American government if you can't tell. ]

[momchester]

Hm.

Here's a thought: you don't have to pay taxes until you're 18. If you go to public school until then, you're getting something for free from the government.

Hey, after that you can do something under the table. Make Uncle Sam give something to you without giving anything back.

[Yes, she will convince a child of the virtues of suckering the government, if it convinces that child to go to fucking school and let an adult take care of them.

[hombrenuevo]

.... I don't need to go to school. I already know what I'm doing with my life. I like hunting! And, you know, once my compas and I liberate Nicaragua, I can hunt full-time!

Uh, when I get back home... Whenever that is.