[Video 009] || [Warning: Gore] || [Anonymous]

[doc_brown]

[ There is a link to a video, followed by a couple line of texts, all anonymous. ]

Video: Subject 009, Experiment Fifteen

During our researches to find more information and truths about this tower, I managed to retrieve this video.

I do not trust I will be able to keep it forever, hence I need as many people as possible to watch it so the administrators cannot delete it from our minds. Please be warned that its content may be shocking.


((OOC: Doc won't reply to most comments, he' just sharing the video but feel free to use this post to react.))

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[silencetoreason]

America you shouddln't be wathcing this!

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[colonial]

[America smiles, even though he's just looking at text on a screen. It's a sort of "everything is fine because I've decided it's going to be fine" smile that looks too old for America because it's something he shouldn't have yet but that France has probably seen on his older self before.]

It's okay. It wasn't a real close up picture.

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[silencetoreason]

[He's definitely seen it, but it looks out of place on this America in an eerily subtle way. This isn't how someone his age should react to a video like that, human or nation.]

That doesn't matter at all!

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[colonial]

I think it's scarier up close. [He states it matter-of-factly, though there's a definite emotional disconnect at work.]

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[silencetoreason]

[Another wave of nausea hits him straight in the gut. He tells himself to change the subject. He doesn't want to know. He doesn't want to know. He doesn't want to know--]

you speak like youve seen it before

[--but he has to.]

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[colonial]

[America's face breaks. For an instant, he looks terrified and devastated, as if his whole world was crumbling right in front of him.

He's seen it before. He remembers, he's seen it, and he screamed and screamed and screamed--]

[colonial]

[But then the expression is gone, and his face doesn't have anything left on it.]

It was a year ago. So it doesn't matter for stuff happening now.

[silencetoreason]

[For a long moment, France rests with his elbows on the desk and his face in his hands. He's always known that terrible things must have happened to the people he cares about in here; it's not like it's ever been a secret that bad things happen in the Tower. But France hasn't been here for very long, and he's only seen a select amount of atrocities. The others he only heard stories about, and without seeing them happen right in front of his face, he'd managed to convince himself it was all okay.

Selfishly, foolishly, some part of him had decided, "If I don't know about it, it couldn't have happened." But the proof was always there, in how the people he knew outside of the Tower looked and acted. He'd just chosen to ignore it, explain it away and hope that eventually things would fall into place on their own and go back to normal.

He'd been trying so, so hard to make that a reality.

He doesn't want to look back up at America's face. He knows that look, that brief, unnatural terror followed by an absence of anything at all. It's more at home on war veterans. And it's terrible seeing it on anyone at all, but whenever he sees that look on a child's face - even a nation "child" - he knows something has gone terribly wrong.

He draws in a breath and sits up, pushing his hair out of his face. He wants to turn on voice or video, go find America, something, but every part of him is trembling and he doesn't trust himself not to break down. He doubts that's what America needs right now.]

It all matters. Your feelings matter. You know you can talk to me at any time you wish, correct?

[He takes extra time to correct all of the errant typos he made before he sends the message out.]