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[erenplz]

[Unlike some, Mikasa didn't punch in her number by accident, and wasn't caught in the middle of something unrelated, and didn't take the opportunity to broadcast her surprise immediately. She laid low, sought out the FAQ, and tried to at least get a little bit over it before she actually said anything.

Still, she hasn't replied to a thing until now, so she's another face that's new to the network, though maybe not entirely new to the high school crowd. Long dark hair in a messy bun with a couple of pencils shoved through it, flopped on her stomach on the bed with her laptop sitting in front of her, and wearing an expression that looks like she's trying and not quite succeeding at taking this nice and casual.

Because man, there is nothing casual about any of this shit.]

So, um. Do you ever get anything useful out of this? Anything that's, you know. Nice to know and not totally screwed up?

Or do I just get to look forward to more surprise shankings and crap like that for...however long this goes?

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[erenplz]

Maybe something a little less vague than "terrible past lives," but it'd be kind of weird if there weren't some kind of pattern.

[Well, no, it'd still be weird even if there wasn't a pattern, but it's a thought.]

[somesayinfire]

Well... we're supposed to be saving the world, right? What if all our past lives were some kind of hero? Somebody designed to save the world? I've seen enough movies to know that heroes come with a whole lot of angst to motivate them.

I mean, usually it's about dead girlfriends instead of real-world issues, but that's a bigger problem in and of itself.

[erenplz]

That...kind of makes a lot of sense. But I don't know.

[She and Alan sure don't look too heroic, in what little she's remembered.]

[somesayinfire]

It doesn't seem to fit me either, but it's the closest I've gotten to a coherent answer since I got here. I'm going to stick with it until I get proved wrong. Plus it's, I don't know, a little encouraging. Knowing that I used to be a hero.