kaisou | UN: Anby

WHO: Anby Demara
WHERE: Zodiac Network
WHEN: June 8th
WHAT: Network Voice Post
WARNINGS: Spoilers for the live action Lilo & Stitch

[The voice recording contains a voice of a woman whose tone is quiet and near emotionless.]

Is it recording? Good.

This is Anby Demara, a Guardian of the Black Order. I have downloaded the app required per the mission perimeters of the Kaisou Team, and will use it to record my personal log in hopes of remaining transparent under the new leadership.

[-- yeah she's clearly misunderstood the purpose of the Libra app, but the voice recording keeps going]

The date is June 8th, 2025. It has been one week since I have arrived in Kaisou, [a passing truck honks, making the state name inaudible]. Since then, I have prioritized finalizing my living arrangements and familiarizing myself with the city.

As of recording, I have located 1 movie theater and 3 burger joints in my immediate. The movie theater offers a decent matinee price, though the film I watched was rather disappointing. It was a live action remake of the animated classic Lilo & Stitch. The film was more sanitized than the original one, and it ended with Nami giving Lilo up to the state. I am unsure how to feel about that change to the story, but I don't think I liked it.

I should try to look into other ways to find movies, as even with the matinee deal, seeing movies frequently there will add up in cost.

Tonight I plan to try a In-n-Out burger for the first time. I have heard about these burgers in online communities for years, but they never had a store location in Florida. It was a surprise to find one here, and I'm excited for tonight's meal. [She says still very much in a monotone. So excited :| ]

That is all I can think of that's worth noting, so I will be signing off. Please note that all expenses I referenced have been made using personal money.

Anby out.

[The voice recording ends]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ With how the last week or so has been, Ana is only barely paying attention when she scrolls through the app. She's tired and concerned and still quietly abuzz with nerves, even if Haru is stable now. There's still that anxiety, still that worry that she'll lose someone again. That they'll leave and she can't stop it.

So when she scrolls through and hears that voice, Ana thinks that she's hearing things. It's been years but that monotone is so familiar, so clear in memories of her childhood (or the botched facsimile of a childhood she had), and she has to stop scrolling. Stop scrolling and listen and feel her blood run cold, her heart threatening to burst out of her chest as she sits up from where she was hiding in her nest.

That... can't be...

"This is Anby Demara-"

It can't be. Not after all this time. Not when she left her behind and Ana tried to damn hard to find her. ]

[ She doesn't know how to feel right now.

Angry would be easiest, angry would make sense. Anby was her sister, they said they would face whatever happened to them together and then she left her behind and now here she is, talking about movies like nothing ever happened and she wants to snap her phone in half - ]

... Anby?

[ There's no anger. Just the shaky, cautious wavering that nobody else would ever hear.

Anby is alive. She's alive. She knew she would be, of course, but there she is. There's hurt there, but she's not stupid - Ana knows there was so much more to the talk about her being a traitor.

How should she feel right now? She doesn't know yet. All that matters right now is her sister is right there, after she lost her so long ago. ]

... Is that... Really you, Anby?

[After coming across Masa-chan and having Ash mention there were other siblings, Anby had a feeling that Ana could be among them. She's not sure if that feeling was hope or dread... maybe it was a mix of both. Of all the siblings she wanted to see the most again, it was Ana. She wanted to know if Ana survived the facility, if her Anby did matter and she was off having a life away from the hell they were raised in.

But at the same time, she was also the one she was most scared of seeing. Because what if her hopes for her sister hadn't come true? What if she really did hate her for leaving?

Yet even if part of her expected it, her throat still tightens when she hears that voice. Its older, but it still sounds so familiar. She has to swallow before she can speak]

Ana?

[Her voice sounds almost a little shakey, or as much as Anby's voice can shake.]

... Yeah, it's me.

[ Ana does wonder, for a moment, if maybe the stress is getting to her. Maybe she's dreaming; after all this time, how she could have seen her again here of all places? But she's actually here, actually speaking to her after all this time and she just...

What should she do? After years of looking for her, her sister is in the same damn city. Her vision blurs before she even notices, her voice a wavering and watery sound as she chokes the words out - the things she's been wanting to say for so, so long. ]

You... Do you have any idea how fucking worried I was, Anby?

[ Maybe anger would be easy here. Anger is what she's used to.

But right now, there's just sheer and complete relief. That there's one less person she's lost, that her sister is still alive. ]

I tried looking for you for years!

[Ana sounds angry.... and honestly, Anby thinks it's probably deserved. Especially considering how many years it took for this reunion to happen. Anby had looked for her sister, she had. But she can't deny.... there was a point she did gave up. When encountering dead end after dead end... she couldn't take it anymore.

Maybe she was just a coward for that]

I'm sorry.

[She'll breath out a little, figuring she might as well try to explain herself]

The injuries I got from the fall, I didn't remember anything for a long time.

When I did remember, I tried looking for you too. [...] I just never had any luck.

[ Ana remembers what the scientists had told her, what that rancid old bastard Dumah had told her - that was she was traitor, that she left them all behind. She never believed it, despite how much it hurt at the time, but hearing this now... It doesn't make any of it better.

But she's glad to finally know a little of what happened. ]

I looked for so long, and now it's here of all places...

[ It's almost funny, how they're all reuniting in this city. Her voice wavers at the end, but she stubbornly forces back to tears. No, she's not crying yet. Even if her words are choked with the effort of holding them back, she stubbornly stays in control of herself. ]

What happened, Anby? That old fuck said you were a traitor, that you abandoned us and ran... But that's not what happened, is it?

Did they? [She draws in a breath.] ... Yeah, that sounds like what they'd say. From their perspective, I was one.

[Part of her is tempted to keep it that way, to not elaborate further. But... Krusnik is long gone. It's not like there's the same fears she had of Soldier 11, that she'd go against the system and get burned up for it]

During that mission, I overheard our overseer talking. Based on performances, he was going to recommend you be eliminated. To save on resources.

I didn't want that to happen, so I killed him before he could send the message.

Then I ran. I figured if I was out of the picture, they wouldn't have reason to go after you.

UN: Anby | Voice

1/2

2/2 voice | un: anarchy (private from the get-go)

PRIVATE

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject