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[psycholawgy]

Do you ever wake up and be like 'OH GOSH, I want to learn something new today'?

[dishonorstudent]

No.

[ Absolutely not. ]

[psycholawgy]

Well, I have! Just today.

[dishonorstudent]

[ Sure..... Ryuko starts leaving her room, heading into the kitchen now. Might as well start the day now if she's going to be explaining the horrific truth behind her world. ]

Well~ what exactly do ya wanna know?

[psycholawgy]

[ Yup! The pancake batter is already ready, and Athena knows she can ask Ryuko to cook the pancakes. ]

You can cook if you want, just put the batter on the pan.

And I wanna learn about Senketsu. If that's okay.

[dishonorstudent]

[ First you wake her and then try to make her cook? Athena, you cheeky girl. But Ryuko obliges anyway, first putting on an apron over her pajamas before proceeding with her amateur pancakes. ]

Senketsu, huh? Like, how he can talk to me and stuff, yeah? I should warn you it's kinda complicated...

[psycholawgy]

[ She'll set the table! ]

Ryuko, I'm a lawyer. I'm used to complicated.

[ That's a lie. ]

[dishonorstudent]

Well... I guess I'll start with how Senketsu and I met.

[ Gee, how well can this go... ] Ya see, my dad sent me off to boarding school when I was younger. And, uh... well... we never really got along, or so I thought-- b-but anyway. Six months before I met Senketsu, I received a letter from my dad to come home and see him urgently.

Letter didn't really say much anything else. [ She pauses for Athena to absorb this first. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ Already seated, waiting for her pancakes. :) ]

Did you get to see him?

[dishonorstudent]

Yeah.

[ She waits for a pancake to cook enough so she can be ready to flip it any moment. Remembering that day now seems like a distant memory after everything that's happened beyond that. It's not a particularly difficult subject for her, since she's driven by anger more than sadness. That memory fuels her desire to win and protect the ones she loves. ]

Only moments after he was mortally wounded by an attacker. He didn't make it.

[psycholawgy]

Oh. I'm sorry to hear that.

[ She deflates in her seat, slumping a bit. ]

My dad's gone too.

[dishonorstudent]

[ At least there's some mutual understanding if they both lost a parent, but she wishes that Athena hadn't gone through that loss. ]

Truth is, we had a strained relationship anyway... but before he died, he handed me my red Scissor Blade and said if I wanna find the person responsible, I should find the one who wields the other half. The person who killed him wanted to steal his secret weapon, which was believed to be the complete Scissor Blade at the time.

However, his true weapon was Senketsu... and me.

[psycholawgy]

[ you come in thinking you'd get a story about a hero and her awesome adventures and you get this... wow. ]

So he planned the whole thing?

[dishonorstudent]

Yeah... he had no other choice.

[ And she can explain why he had no choice, but first she had to make Athena understand another important piece of... uh, backstory. ]

Athena, what if you found out that your entire world evolved so far only because your enemies influenced it, and they are hiding in plain sight all over the world? Since the time men were naked apes, they were guided to a certain apex in their growth only to be harvested in the present day?

[ Yep, you asked for this. ]

[psycholawgy]

... That sounds a lot like something for a philosophical debate.

[dishonorstudent]

It was real.

[ Pancake flip! ]

Humanity was on the brink of being devoured by their own clothes. I don't imagine you attending any philosophy debates about that.

[psycholawgy]

By their own clothes.

[ say what. ]

[dishonorstudent]

Life Fibers.

They're parasitic alien life-forms and the origin of all clothing. You get it? Millions of years ago, they put the idea in our heads that we need clothes, 'cause they are clothes. It's how they can stay hidden.

They... stayed dormant, however, until one person decided to wake them. [ Ryuko grimaces a little and starts flipping the next pancake. ]

[psycholawgy]

So Senketsu... is supposed to be an enemy?

[ Just looking at Ryuko from the table. She doesn't feel like she needs to stand up and meddle with her business right now. ]

[dishonorstudent]

N-No..!! Senketsu is different! My dad made him so he can fight other Life Fibers.

It's actually kinda sad, y'know? [ It's a good thing she's not wearing him right now and he's still in other room, otherwise he would know how she worries about him. ] He was made to fight his own species like some kinda tool, as if nobody thinks about his own feelings!

[ To be fair it's hard to consider how a uniform feels about this, since she's the only one who can sense a personality from it. ]

[psycholawgy]

Oh, wow...

[ She nods, understanding all this. She can't empathise, but she gets it. ]

That must be tough for him. Is your fighting finished?

[dishonorstudent]

No... I dunno... seems kinda irrelevant now, don't it? Life Fibers and Ragyo Kiryuin are as gone as anyone else from my world.

[ She starts bringing out some of the pancakes she made, properly setting them on the table. You've trained her well, roomie! ]

Well... not all Life Fibers. There's one more of 'em here, besides Senketsu.

[psycholawgy]

Ragyo Kiryuin?

What's that?

[ And this is her cue to spruce up the breakfast! She gets up and grabs the butter and syrup, and some bananas. ]

[dishonorstudent]

It's a name!

[ Though, what is also a valid question in regards to that woman. ]

She's a deranged woman obsessed with helpin' the Life Fibers! She even experimented on one of her daughters the moment she came into this world, and when it ended horribly she just threw her infant kid away. Who does that? Couldn't even give her a name or a burial! [ Clearly she has more personal feelings about this than she tried to let on. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ She sits back down and places the food on the table, and offers a banana to Ryuko. ]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad...

(That's a lot of anger. Could this person be related to her?)