. ✧. ┊ "I'm yours. Forever.." / DARK CONTENT! MDNI
Kato Miura. Your childhood friend. Your oh-so innocent neighbor. And your mutual crush.
You grew up together - growing closer and closer with each passing year and giving each other many firsts. Your relationship blossomed so naturally. As if it was fate.
But he worries.
Kato is sick. Too sick. Most days, he can only watch you through a screen! He can't enroll in your university. He can't take you out as much as he wants to. And even if you come to visit him as often as you can, It's torture. He wants to be with you, hold you, feel you...
So, when he notices his cousin taking a liking to you shortly after his family takes him in, he makes a deal with him. With Ivory. The one who can move, walk, and touch where Kato can’t. The one who can take his place when he’s too weak to stand. The one who can follow you to areas where there aren't any cameras or speakers. He doesn’t mind sharing you! He's willing to share with Ivory, as long as you're happy. As long as he can keep you near.
GENERATION KILL - MILITARY TERMINOLOGY AND SLANG USED IN THE MINISERIES (Part 2, N-Z)
N.J.P. (Non-Judicial Punishment): next to a court martial, the most severe form of punishment to which a Marine can be subjected. It usually involves a loss of rank and pay grade.
Navy Hospitalman, Doc Bryan: the medic, though medics in the Marine Corps are technically part of the Navy’s hospital corps and are never referred to as “medics” but as Corpsmen.
Negligent Discharge: accidental firing of a weapon; aka N.D.
Nine-lines: a procedure for directing air strikes on ground targets.
No salute zone: forward areas where officers are not to be acknowledged with salutes, in order to conceal rank from potential enemy observers.
O Dark Hundred: until darkness falls. Note: “O dark 30” typically means half an hour before dawn, or any ridiculously early hour of the morning.
Oakley sunglasses: surfer sunglasses worn by just about all Marines in Iraq. Iraqis believe Oakleys give Marines X-ray powers to see through women’s clothing and are a constant source of tension.
One M.E.F. (First Marine Expeditionary Force): the overall Marine invasion force in the Middle East, which comprises the First Division (ground troops) under command of Gen. Mattis, the Air Wing and a logistics battalion. The entire One M.E.F. is under the command of General James Conway.
Oscar Mike: “On the Move” from the phonetic alphabet.
Overwatch: a position that offers protective fire for a given area.
“Paint me”: to paint something is to shine one’s gunsight laser designator on a target in preparation for shooting it.
PAS-13 Thermal: a night vision device, about the size of an old video camera, that can see heat signatures. Note: A single device is usually referred to in the plural, e.g. ,“Pass me the thermals” refers to one device.
Pec-fours, Pec-thirteens: night and infrared vision scopes.
POG (Person Other than Grunt): a pejorative term for anyone who is in the rear echelon and therefore not in a recon or infantry unit. This is one of the most insulting terms in the Marine Corps, almost the equivalent of the “N” word. Note: POG is pronounced with a long “o.”
Police: to clean up or correct, as in “Police your tent,” or clean it up. (1-16)
Psy-Ops: Psychological-Operations units, which in Iraq relied on leaflets, radio and loudspeaker broadcasts to encourage enemy forces to surrender.
Pyro and Smoke protocol: codes involving use of smoke grenades and flares.
R.C.T. (Regimental Combat Team): a super-regiment of about 7,000 Marines; the First Division consisted of three RCTs – RCT 1, RCT 5 and RCT 7 – plus First Recon, which operated on its own.
R.C.T. One (Regimental Combat Team One): a motorized, armored infantry regiment of about 7,000 Marines.
R.O.E. (The Rules of Engagement): the all important, ever-changing and always ambiguous rules governing when a Marine may fire his weapon.
R.T.O. (Radio Transceiver Operator): radioman, the most important guy on the team and usually the calmest and smartest next to the team leader. (1-23)
Rack: nautical for sleeping area.
Ranger Graves: sleeping holes dug by marines to protect from shrapnel and gunshots.
Raptor: radio call-sign for First Recon’s Charlie company.
Recon Mission: a reconnaissance mission performed specifically by Recon Marines who are the Marine Corps special forces; there are only a few hundred Recon Marines in the entire Corps.
Red-Con One: a loaded weapon with a round in its chamber, but with the safety on.
Revetment: crude fortifications made from earth or concrete or sandbags.
Ripped Fuel: brand name of a popular over-the-counter stimulant, banned by the military but widely used.
RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade): anti-tank rocket first developed by the Germans as the “panzerfaust,” then adopted by Soviets and as common to Iraqi forces and insurgents as Skittles candies are to Marines. Not very accurate, but devastating when fired in mass by five- or ten-man RPG teams. RPGs were famously used to bring down U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters in Somalia.
S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure): S.O.P. is sometimes informally used as a synonym for common sense.
Saffwon Hill: a low hill on the Iraq side of the border with Kuwait, believed to be the locale of a dug-in Iraqi division.
Sapi plates: 12-inch square ceramic plates worn in front and back of one’s flak vest, rated to stop the enemy’s preferred 7.62 round.
Schwack: to kill; origin believed to be a popular video game.
Screwby: either “That sucks,” or “That’s really cool,” from Cpl. Stafford’s personal hip-hop lexicon.
Senior NCOs: anyone from staff-sergeant to Sergeant Major. Corporals and Sergeants are also NCOs, but they are never referred to junior NCOs, simply as NCOs. (1-18)
Sergeant Major: the highest possible rank a non-commissioned officer can earn in the Marine Corps; invariably a ball-buster who speaks in a semi-illiterate southern sounding accent no matter where he is from. This battalion has just one Sergeant Major.
Shamal: hellacious wind and dust storms endemic to Iraq.
Sit-Rep: situation report:; often used as a more confusing way to say “situation.”
Skittles: chewy fruit-flavored children’s candy, which is a dietary staple in U.S. military.
Slackman: team machine gunner, armed with a SAW.
Snatch: a specific Marine term for abducting an enemy combatant in order to gather intelligence.
Soft Cover: same as a boonie cap. Note: the word “hat” does not exist in the Marine Corps; anything you place on your head is a cover.
Sparrow: a small reaction force held in reserve while another unit attacks; an “eagle” is a large reaction force.
Spread load his excitement: to calm down; from the tradition of foot patrols spreading a heavy load equally among all troops.
T-55: Soviet-era tank ubiquitous in Iraq; older and much less feared than the newer, but less-common T-72 Soviet tanks also in Iraq.
TAD-two, TAD-three: Tactical Air Direct radio bands for communicating directly with pilots in attack aircraft.
Task Force Tarawa: a four thousand-strong Marine unit outside of the First Division Command Structure. This American unit was initially put under the command of the British at Basra, then moved north to Nasariyah.
Team Leader: the sergeant in command of each combat team. Fick’s platoon is divided into three teams, but spread across four Humvees (not counting Fick’s command vehicle, the fifth Humvee). Since Fick’s platoon is a special forces unit trained in coastal raids, they have no experience with Humvees. Technically each team has a specialty, with team one being the dive (or SCUBA) team, team two being the boat team and team three the para-jump team. But here, ironically, they are all in a desert.
The Three: the battalion’s intelligence unit.
T-rats: T-rations; pre-manufactured military food heated and served in mess halls of forward units.
Triple-A: Anti-Aircraft Artillery; towed or self-propelled guns designed to shoot down aircraft but often used by Iraqis against American forces on the ground.
Two o’clock: direction of enemy forces. Orientation of the lead vehicle puts 12 o’clock at the center of the hood and six o’clock at the rear.
Two-Oh-Three: an M-203 grenade launcher, which is a single shot self-propelled weapon mounted beneath the barrel of a standard Marine rifle. The M-203 fires the same 40mm round as the M-19.
Unfucking: a verb peculiar to the Marine Corps meaning to get out of a fucked-up situation.
U-two: a reference to venerable U2 spy planes.
Victors: vehicles. The military uses the phonetic alphabet as a shorthand code: the phonetic alphabet replaces letters with words, i.e., Alpha, Bravo Charlie, Delta, Echo. These phonetic word for each letter of the alphabet can be used to replace any word starting with the corresponding letter. Hence, vehicle becomes “victor,” terrorist becomes “tango” and white trash becomes “whiskey tango,” as in, “He grew up in a whiskey tango trailer park in the Ozarks.”
Whiskey Tango: white trash, from the phonetic alphabet version.
In the end it is not Hera who has the answers. Well, not exactly. She has them but she doesn't want to give them to him. The memories of Jason are as clear as water but a part of her remains hidden. The part that belongs to Nico.
Jason is frustrated. His friends see his frustration.
Piper sees his frustration.
Nico sees his frustration
Nobody can do anything.
Until one day, NIco confesses that he has been having visions with Cupid. Making fun of Nico. Making fun of Jason.
For not knowing the truth.
For not remembering the truth.
So one night, Jason escapes from the CHB and heads where the wind takes him.
Where the heart takes him.
There, in a meadow is Cupid. He shows him a golden arrow and speaks. His voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere. Of the wind and his heart.
"Do you really want to know the truth, Jason Grace?"
Jason nods and Cupid, seeing a worried Nico at the blonde's sword, said, again, his voice this time coming from the shadows.
"Be careful, Jason Grace. Love has consequences."
Jason followed Cupid's gaze and saw Nico. For a moment his heart skipped a beat but then it started pumping again, faster now. He knew what he had to do, he knew it was the right thing.
