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[Asuka doesn't maintain her petite figure by sitting in her room eating instant noodles and studying all day. Okay, so she does that most days and has mainly teenage metabolism to thank for remaining fashion-magazine skinny. She also, however, works out on occasion, particularly by taking jogs in and around LCU, which she's just finished doing for today. Dressed in workout clothes (fairly conservative ones given the recent cold snap) and with a towel stuck neatly between her sweaty neck and her hair, she winds down and decides to try something.]

[To an outside, non-Number observer, it would probably appear that she's doing very, very bad Tai Chi. In reality, her flailing and constant attempts at some kind of blocking motion are partly meditative but mostly trying to mimic something she remembered she could do from her most recent Echo. She was absolutely sure she was doing it right - focusing, thrusting her hands forward, and mentally pushing away from herself - but nothing was happening.]

[After a few minutes of the silly-looking poses (and weird looks from people walking their dogs), she gives up in disgust and picks up her phone.]

[Video -- Smartphone]

[Asuka, still flushed from her workout and annoyance, appears on the network and quickly looks around to make sure everyone else in the quad area is out of earshot.]

Okay, so who knows anything about force fields?

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Two things.

Some commenter mentioned a red robot. I've...remembered something like that.

[Although he's loathe to call it remembering]

Where force fields are concerned, I've seen a woman use one.

Edited 2013-10-11 07:04 (UTC)

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You have? How? Was she using some kind of tool? What do you remember about the robot?

[She knows robots are important now. She can feel herself on the edge of an Echo, or at least she thinks she can.]

I think she just remembered how all of a sudden. She made this shell out of energy that shielded us. Almost like a sphere of light, if I had to describe it.

[He wishes he could describe it better. Now to confuse a fellow robot-pilot]

Aside from being red? Its shape was humanoid, and much larger than a person - not sure how it could've been constructed. Someone was piloting it and while I should have had superior speed in the one I was manning, they were just as fast as I was.

[If not swifter but he won't admit that]

Edited (whoa grammar) 2013-10-12 02:31 (UTC)

Bigger than a person...

[Just how big had she felt in that memory?]

Any kind of weapons? Machine guns? Strange orange lights in the air?

[He thinks about that for several moments]

I remember its right hand being problematic. It was capable of some kind of energy surge that damaged both weapons and defenses.

Couldn't tell you on the lights, I'm sure it was a battlefield.

Huh. That sounds almost like what I was doing...it was in the right hand, you said?

That's correct. It was capable of dealing some heavy damage.

Hrmph. I think what I was doing was putting up a shield, or...negating the other thing's shield, but maybe...

What do you think? Could I have been a pilot?

If I actually am, it really wouldn't surprise me.

[He considers how to confirm one way or the other, silent for a beat. Then...]

Do you remember anything about inside of the robot? That's probably a dead-giveaway.

[She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes, trying to focus on the details of the memory.]

I remember feeling like I was sitting and standing at the same time. I had my hands in something, but I could feel myself holding onto things too. Then that thing attacked when I jumped out...it's like I was in two places at once. Out fighting a giant spider for some reason, and at the same time sitting down...underwater?

[She thinks back to something Shinji said once.]

Wait, that must have been the liquid breathing stuff Shinji was talking about. Man, it did kind of smell like blood.

But it seemed less like I was piloting something and more like I was controlling my body remotely, I guess. Or a body.

The liquid part sounds different from me or Banagher.

[Gundams and Knightmares and now robots with blood-like-substances in them, robots sure are getting diverse]

But, I had a similar sense about the controls. Maybe not exactly the same, but it seemed to respond almost like an extension of myself. Never seen any mechanism respond that quickly.

Sounds to me like you were piloting something.

Edited (+ relevant bit) 2013-10-22 05:24 (UTC)

Then it could be a robot. No, it'd have to be. I felt and moved like I had arms and legs, and planes and tanks don't have those. Something I could control like it was myself...

That explains a lot...argh, I just wish this was getting me more memories! I'm flailing around in the dark here.

Yeah, I don't think any vehicle really compares to it.

[And that much makes it fairly certain to him that she is remembering a robot]

Haven't tried to...remember...things by force. Either happens, or it doesn't.

[Or so he thinks. Besides, his first Echoes mostly centered around people dying and a game of musical murderer cosplay he really doesn't understand]

It's a little bit like research, except instead of experimenting or digging around in a library, it's trying to find the right triggers for things it feels like you already know. I think.

I hate not knowing things.

Lack of information feels directionless.

[Which is his way of saying that he understands, on some level]

Although I question what we're experiencing.

You mean where it comes from, or if the memories are real?

Both. It's difficult to give a time or a place to them, but somehow I distinctly remember being in Japan. That's not possible - the tech just doesn't exist.

It felt real, but too much of it makes no sense.

[Like guys playing musical cosplay and murdering people. What the hell is that even, he doesn't get it]

[An indictment of everyone's fashion sense.]

I don't know, it is Japan. They've managed to figure out mechanical walking, at least.

[Better than his guess, which was an evil Power Ranger]

If anyone's going to do it, it's Japan, but still. The logistics aren't there, especially where the weaponry's concerned.

Yeah, force fields are out of the question. Whatever you're describing probably isn't the same, but it sounds pretty out there too.

Sure does. Seems like there's at least a handful of people who remember machines like that. They're...not all the same, but they've got things in common.

Well, other than being impossible in the present day.

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