prismatica | 002 | ( VIDEO + ARTWORK?? )

_{[ The feed clicks on to show America in a suit for a change. He looks super official! His video post is going to be a lot more wordy than his last one since he's gotten his bearings here. Congratulations if anyone bothers to hear what he has to say. ]}

Heya Lunatia!

_{[ Looking formal and acting formal are two completely different things for him. ]}

My names America-- well, that's one of my names, I guess! Some of you who have met me and some of my other colleagues may know us by different names, but I'm here to clear some things up for ya! Take a second and look at what I have to say. I drew a kick ass lit AF graph for you guys to follow if you get confused! _{[ actually the graph is more confusing to look at.. ]}

_{[ He turns around a notepad to show off his artwork. Such beauty. Such.. close minded thinking. ]}

Hahaha! So, yep, I learned how to draw when I spent a lot of time in New York, but hopefully you can see everyone here. I tried to draw him as accurately as possible!! So yeah. Some of them aren't here, but it felt weird leaving them left out when we used to be divided up into these groups long ago.

Anyway, moving on.. you may have met me as Alfred, but my real name is America, or the United States! We're sort of, hmm.. spirits of our representative country? Basically, history is our lives-- we're very connected to our culture and citizens. We've been through it all from beginning to present, so that kind of means.. we're a little bit different than average humans! We can't really die-- kind of-- and we don't really have to eat to survive, we're supes-dupes strong, but we feel pain. Oh my god, we feel a lot of pain. It hurts sometimes! But we help aid our country back home. It's a lot of hard work, but it's a really rewarding job even if we're sometimes forced to do things our bosses say. We age differently, too.. I'm actually..

_{[ He pauses, visibly counting on his fingers. ]}

242.. even older than that. Also, the whole birthing thingy you guys have? Yeah, it doesn't really happen! We just kind of appear out of nowhere in case you were curious about that. So, I celebrate my birthday on July 4th since it's important to me! That's coming up soon! Start thinking about presents for me, hahaha! _{Fuck, my existence is weird.}

Anyway, I hope everyone can understand! If you have any questions about us, let us know! We're here to protect our citizens and anyone who needs help! That's all I wanted to address to everyone, thank you for listening!

_{[ A brief pause as he shuffles through his paperwork and.. artwork, and then he glances up at the camera. ]}

Any nations listening to this presentation, just letting you guys know, we should organize some world conference meetings together monthly, just to make sure we're all on the same page of thinking while we're here in a different world! After all, I need all of you to be my sidekicks through this, okay?

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A genius loci for an entire country. Fascinating.

You say you weren't born... did you just appear? Or were you human and become something else?

Yep, that's it! Just appeared in a field and survived on my own until France and England started fighting over me. Um.. I think they really got aggressive about it.

_{[ He squints a little bit. ]}

Those memories are kind of weird. It's hard for me to remember a lot, especially my childhood before I grew up and broke away.

Yes, I imagine they would.

[How curious, to think of a war as a fight between individuals.]

Maybe some things are best left forgotten. I can't imagine it would be pleasant, being a half formed... creature like that.

A half formed.. creature? Oh my god.

_{[ Some nervous laughter. ]}

I mean! Don't think of us like anything too foreign, okay? We're just kinda.. unique humans! We've seen a lot of crap and been through shit, sometimes it's kind of difficult!

[Sorry America. Jon's frames of reference for this kind of thing involve people setting themselves on fire and building new bodies out of wax. Not comedy shenanigans!]

Honestly, I've met worse. At least from what I can tell from a brief conversation.

Worse? Like how? Did you meet Bigfoot or something?

_{[ He's all into paranormal stuff, don't get him started. ]}

I wish it had been something like Bigfoot.

One memorable encounter was... the flesh hive. A woman named Jane Prentiss, a living moving hive for malevolent worms. I should stress that she was not dead, not a corpse. She was alive, in some form, but transformed, and intent on infecting others.

Bro!! That sounds like an excellent premise to a horror movie!! Hang on..

_{[ He shuffles his papers around and starts.. writing it down. ]}

Okay, wow. That's craaazy!

_{[ Why isn't he sympathetic about this? ]}

What.. uh.. what did you do about it?

[That is not exactly the reaction he'd been anticipating and he stares for a moment, a little in shock at how casual it is when it was definitely a particularly traumatic period of his life.]

Uh... nearly got eaten, ended up in quarantine for a couple of weeks and was treated for CO2 hypoxia. Thank god the fire suppression system had been switched to Co2 recently or I would be... well, if I was lucky I would be dead.

Yeah. Okay. There's.. definitely nothing like that back home which I'm aware about!

_{[ Wild. Sorry, he's fascinated by all of this. ]}

Did it jump start the apocalypse-- end times-- or something like that?

_{[ Well, he did open up this can of worms-- no pun intended-- so America is gonna ask. ]}

That you know of.

[He hadn't been aware of the full scope of things until recently, although he's known terrible things exist since he was eight.]

No. This was more of a personal attack I believe. A grudge.

[Although... he isn't sure about that. He remembers the warped walls in the tunnel, and Tim talking about the worms trying to create a door. It couldn't have been a ritual though, could it?]

_{[ A personal attack. ]}

Uh.

_{[ UH. ]}

Dude, the fuck did you do to get personally attacked like that? That's impressive as hell.

Not me exactly.

[Well, that's not strictly true.]

The place I work at.

Are you guys like an underground organization that do illegal shit or like.. top secret government shenanigans? Illuminati stuff?

_{[ He clicks the pen again. He's ready to learn. It's not every day something gets him to focus this much, but he isn't breaking eye contact with the feed. ]}

Illuminati... what?

No, we're an academic institution dedicated to researching the esoteric and paranormal.

[Governments and illuminati are honestly the least of his concerns.]

And we're not... ghost hunters or anything like that before you ask. We're researchers.

[It's not entirely true, but it's also not untrue. Most of what the Institute does is indeed research.]

Ooh, woah. Yeah, okay. That's really awesome.

_{[ He genuinely seems interested in your kind of work, sir. ]}

What are your thoughts about this place, then? Did we get here by accident or do you think we were actually abducted?

_{[ It's pretty obvious he believes the latter. ]}

[Better than being called crackpots honestly, but he supposes not everyone at home had had his formative experience with a Leitner to convince them of supernatural evil.]

I don't know. I need to do more research although their libraries seem woefully obsessed with the erotic.

Aliens are not really my domain.

Aliens are totally my domain!! Brah!
We could team up together and with all of our smartness combined, figure out some other kind of arrangement about this place and BE THE HERO!!

_{[ ... ]}

I mean, I'll be the hero, you can be my side kick!

I'm not particularly interested in being any kind of hero.

[He isn't hero material. Not when he should be dead because of what he is. The world would be safer without things like him in it.]

I'll stick to my research, thank you.

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