Backdated to Tuesday of Round 5

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku and Rose
Format: Prose? Unless you want action
This log is: Closed
Location: Red dorm 1-A
Summary: Now Kevin is a prefect it is just Suzaku and Rose in their dorm. Late at night shenanigans and general getting to know you.
Warnings: Who even knows. Probably not.

Suzaku hadn't really spent any time in his dorm at the beginning of the week, turning up late to fall into bed and getting up early to train before class. The only reason he had been going to class at all was because they punished random people for rule breaking. He didn't want Lelouch punished, or Feferi or Flynn. Who knew who they would chose.

So it was on Tuesday night that he came in late. Kevin had been made a prefect and moved out and Brienne had disappeared, another worrying pattern here. He walked as quietly as he could as not to wake Rose, his remaining roommate.

Comments

[overthroen]

She hears the frustration in his voice, and knows what he means. Some of her friends have been injured, and at least one has been killed. It's something she won't tolerate, either.

"Who do you fight for?"

[swordofzero]

"This round Flynn, he's the Prefect who was punished on Sunday." He told her. Of course really he fought for Lelouch, but he wasn't a player, wasn't even conscious this round.

[overthroen]

Rose sits in the dark, ruminating for a while.

"I fight for John, Jade, and Dave. No matter how many of them there are."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, he knew Dave. He had fought him a few times, and lost most of those fights.

Alright he had lost all of those fights, Dave was often a Player and he was a good fighter. "It is easier, when you have someone to fight for." He told her, "I... I fight for my emperor, though he has been struck down this round."

[overthroen]

"A ruler, here? The games are indiscriminate. I'm sorry for your loss." She settles back in. "Tell me about your empire. I enjoy stories." She quietly pulls out her PDA so that she might write some of this down.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, he hoped that the same thing would happen as had happened the round before. Lelouch would wake up as Nunnally and the others had, no harm done. He looked at her and looked sad for a moment.

"It is not really a happy story..." He warned.

[overthroen]

"It would bother me more if the story was uninteresting. And I'm no stranger to death and tragedy." Two of her friends have died, after all. To her knowledge, anyway.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, though he felt a moment of sadness that she was no stranger to death. Still, even though she came from a different world than him, from what he had heard most worlds were full of war and hardship.

"The Holy Britannian Empire covers a third of the world. They have always been expansionist but under the last Emperor they spread out, conquering many countries. When they conquer a country it becomes an area, loses it's name and identity.

The current emperor is working to change that. Already the Areas have been given their names back and one day there will be peace." He began, glancing at her to gauge her reaction so far.

[overthroen]

She's noting one or two things on her PDA, but otherwise very attentive. The sudden silence prompts her.

"Britain was a massive conquering power in my world, as well. I don't know that they ever got to a third of the world's landmass, though."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku shook his head, he knew enough about different worlds, and had spoken to enough people from those other worlds to understand where Rose had gotten confused.

"Not Britain, though the royal family is originally from Britain, Queen Elizabeth the third moved her court after she lost the battle of Trafalgar. I believe the Holy Empire of Britannia is situated where the country America is in some worlds I have heard of, but I am not sure if that is the same in your world..."

[overthroen]

"North America. That's where we are in my world, at least. Here..."

She rummages around and finds some paper and pen - useless, but left over from something. What she draws is a very, very rough representation of the globe as she knows it. Give her a break, she's blind. "The landmass on the left is where the United States is located."

[swordofzero]

The map she drew was pretty much identical to the one he knew. "That is Britannia in my world," He reached out to take her hand, holding it loosely when she stiffened but gently guiding her hand to where Britannia was.

Then he moved her hand upwards, "This is area two and down here," he moved her hand down the map past Britannia. Is Area 3. Mexico it is called now. And here," further down again. "Is former Area Six."

Finally he took her hand and moved it across the map, "And here is former Area 11, Japan. Where I am from."

[overthroen]

She stiffened a little at his touch, but let him move her hand. She was getting used to touching others for guidance. Rose traced his movements mentally to the map in her head.

"Named by numbers? Why the digital fascination?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku's face turned into a frown at the question. He let go of her hand, "A way of control I guess. By taking a countries name and not just changing it, giving them just a number it took their pride. The people as well, instead of their nationality would be referred to by the number. For example Japanese people were, are still by many, called elevens."

The word when he said it was bitter, it was used as an insult more often than not and though he had never complained about being called it, now that they had changed it, were on the road to changing everything, he didn't like saying it.

[overthroen]

She grimaced. "Ironic how some forms of hierachy deface the very notion of civilization. I'm sorry for your situation."

She added, "Though there are worse things."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, not quite sure what to say, after all it was no where near her fault... "As I say we are working on changing things, and you are right there are worse things."

[overthroen]

"Well, anyway, you're here now. It's a different flavor of apocalypse when you're all forced to fight each other. But it's a level playing field. No numbers here."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, "Britannia is here though... as in a person who claims to be the spirit of the Holy Empire of Britannia." He still didn't understand but he believed her, "She's... different than what I expected, not that I ever expected to meet a person who was also Britannia..."

[overthroen]

"A country embodied in a person? Curious. Does possess the entire population of Britain embodied as fleas on her skin?" The last is fairly dry. How does this even work?

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, understanding that it was a joke. His mouth even twitched, not a smile. Suzaku hadn't smiled in a long time but it was as close as he was going to come to one. "There's an America as well, Japan was here when we first arrived, I think there is a Spain as well."