kaisou | video | un: captamerica

WHO: James Rogers & You!
WHERE: Gemini
WHEN: February 5th
WHAT: James has a proposition and a question for the network!
WARNINGS: Talk of death and grieving practices and.... I mean, it's James. There's no way the robot apocalypse won't come up.

[The camera clicks on to a view of a chair in front of a desk in a slightly cluttered room in Meropide. It's clear some effort went into tidying it up, but there's still a few shirts and socks strewn over the place and the wall is a mess of overlapping posters of various scenic views and national parks. James is partially in frame, adjusting the camera angle before stepping back, seemingly satisfied, and going to take a seat.

He's in his Captain America outfit, a blue-black top with a red star stitched into it, his hair combed back nice and neat-- he's in work mode, not chaotic little cat gremlin mode.]

So... hi. For those of you who don't know, I'm James Rogers. I came here from a different world last September, so I guess I'm what people would call an... isekai? [It's so obvious he's never said that word out loud in his life.] Anyway, that's not-- ... what I'm trying to say today.

[He makes a face, takes a deep breath, squares himself up a little more in his chair, and...]

My home world is one of many that we know of. We've been dealing with alternate realities for a long, long time. With worlds that become entirely new realities based on a single decision or a won or lost battle-- the place I was before Kaisou, I was living and dealing with three completely different versions of the guy who raised me. So situations like this aren't that uncommon for me.

And at home-- we have a team. A group of people with extraordinary abilities who came together to help fight unthinkable forces and just to help the people of the cities they lived in. In my world, I'm the leader of that team, and in the place I was before this, I helped put together another branch of it. I'd really like to do that here, too, but...

[EXHALE] I guess I just really don't want to step on any toes, and you guys have been really organized here. It's nice to see.

Because of that, I just want to know if there are any other people around my age with abilities or powers either from their worlds, or from Kaisou, who want to get together to train and maybe form a response squad in times of danger. My... father believed that the most dangerous thing people with abilities can do is not know how to use them, and I know I've gotten some weird abilities since living here that I definitely didn't have in my world.

So, if anyone wants to join the Avengers-- or at least the Kaisou branch of them, let me know! I'm sure with all the spirit realms and places constantly showing up around the city, we can find a place or two to get together and figure things out.

[This is, by far, the most anyone has ever heard James speak at once. Seems the boy can channel his father when he needs to! But as he leans forward to turn the camera off, he pauses, and sheepishly adds a little aside--]

Oh, and... for anyone who isn't interested, maybe I can just ask you a question. What... do people typically do to honor those who have died, here?

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There were plenty in the background-- my mom was one of those, until the rest of the Avengers made her come into the spotlight. But there were thousands of superheroes that were a part of the Avengers, by the end. Some of them were only known by a handful of people, and even more of them worked fully in secret.

But that was my world, not here. If there are people that don't want to be in the spotlight but still want to train or help when they can, that's honestly great.

There's also the option of setting up codenames and secret identities, if you're worried about things like that. My mom was known as Black Widow for almost her entire career, instead of her actual name.

Black Widow, and she didn't kill your father? Impressive.

[What is tact?]

Codenames sound too messy, and with this city no one will remember them anyway. [He does not know about Shroud.] I might be interested in helping out, but I'm not letting my face and name be plastered everywhere or whatever.

[You joke, Kuni, but...]

I mean, she was an elite assassin before she joined the Avengers, so she probably did at least try to.

[Marvel, man.]

I promise it won't be. No one has to know you're even involved other than me and whoever you want to train with, if you want.

[There's a joke there but he won't make it.]

I'll give it a shot, maybe. I need something to do.

I'll count you in, then.

[No escaping now, Kuni. You're on James' radar.]

.... oh. Uh. What's your name, again?

[THERE'S the awkward teenager]

Kunikaki Inamura. And yes, it's "isekai". It means "other world".

[Or, well, basically. Good enough, anyway.]

Kunikaki. Perfect, I'll save your contact information.

[At the very least, James is more than used to dealing with prickly people. So far, this guy reminds him of some mix of himself and Francis-- but Clint Barton's son really is a special brand of jerk.]

I thought it meant something like that-- it's Japanese, right? [That's one of the few remaining countries, after Ultron's take-over, so James has been trying to learn as much about this world's Japan in preparation for whenever he finds himself back home!]

Yeah. [No snark this time, some people just don't know other languages.] If you google it, you'll find a lot of trashy light novels.

[James huffs a little laugh, at that.]

Maybe I'll figure out a way to sneak them home with me, then, some day. If they're trashy my sister will probably love them.

Hope she likes harems and OP protagonists~

Harems?

[Congratulations Kuni, you've found a kid who knows how to snap a man's neck with the right angle of a shield throw but thought cooties were real until like a year ago.]

[Are you for serious right now?]

Are you asking how does a harem make something trashy, or have you never heard of the word before, period?

[........... this is one of those things that the apocalypse robbed him of learning about, isn't it?]

..... never heard the word before. Period.

[Shio he's going to need something bracing to eat after this, for fuck's sake.

The deepest of sighs.]

What harems actually are is a part of a house for women that non-family men can't go to, in places where that's a thing they worry about. What harems have become, thank you internet, is the idea of one loser guy getting all this romantic and sexual attention from women who can absolutely do better.

[You can't see it, Kuni, but James' nose is wrinkling up more and more the longer this explanation goes.]

Oh. Ew. Why?? No, I'm not getting her anywhere near that. She's annoying enough as it is with normal crushes.

[Maybe their world is better for not having the internet anymore.]

Because it's wish fulfillment, or something, I don't know. I want nothing to do with the types of guys who like that shit.

[#toogay #tooantisocial]

[Somehow, somehow, despite everything he knows of his version of Tony Stark, after meeting multiple others........ he's pretty sure the genius moron who raised him is one of those guys.]

Eugh. I'm sorry I asked. -- wait, people don't think we're like that, right?

[James now has ONE FEAR]

Not unless you give them a reason to. "Isekai" is just a word, the internet just has this one specific idea of it.

Good. [Gods, he's going to get a headache thinking about this.] So that's a no on anything isekai from over here, got it. Anything else I should avoid? I do already know what the internet thinks about werewolves

[He has no idea what can of worms he's opening.

But he is, for better or worse, honestly asking Kuni for his input.]

Why are you asking me?

[... yeah, his instincts were right about this one. Kuni is just like Francis. Infuriatingly impossible to talk to.]

Because that's how conversations work? A topic gets brought up, you say something, I say something, you say something, so on and so on.

[At the very least, James is enough of a brat himself that he's not taking it personally.]

Yeah, and? That doesn't answer my question: why are you asking me?

Ugh. I'm not, never mind.

[A HEAVY SIGH]

I'll let you know when we're set to meet up for the first time-- is that acceptable?

Sure.

[DEEP BREATHS JAMES, you gotta be a leader now.]

... thank you, though. For the explanation, and the offer to help. I'll make sure there's something to do soon.

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