#sisselablacksurvival

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Luke:You guys remember, right? Those pirated DVDs that are filming the movie theater screen, just a camera aimed right at it- well, not always right at it. Sometimes the corners were cut. And then they made fifty copies and sold it at a stand.

Sissela:That’s how I watched Avatar.

Rio:There’s a few heads in the way, and a person coughing, some sneezes. It’s beautiful. Sometimes a phone rings.

Sissela:It’s like art. People getting up... weird audio...

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Nicky:Are you going to make me read EVERYTHING?!

Sissela:......Isol, could you read it?

Isol:Ok. (He takes the paper.) Mom, word, hear-

Nicky:What?

Isol:It’s the key words.

Nicky:Give it back. I’m reading everything.

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Sissela:I do not actually exist.

Rio:But.... I’ve met you?

Sissela:It was a prank.

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Rio:How are you, like, physically?

Sissela:Intact, but kind of tired.

Eva:Blind.

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Sissela:W... whose... blood is that?

Hyunwoo:One of our allies’.

Sissela:That’s... so much.

Isol:You should take your finger off the trigger.

Sissela:(adjusts the way she’s holding the gun, trembling a little) Ah. Sorry.

Isol:Don’t worry about it.

Hyunwoo:Yeah, he’s really trigger-happy too.

Sissela:I noticed that.... He pointed it at me the moment he saw me.

Isol:I don’t shoot anything I don’t have to.

Hyunwoo:Uh-huh. (holding back laughter) Th... the coffin disagrees.

Isol:That’s an inanimate object! It doesn’t count!

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Sissela: I have no soul. (hands him a balloon) Have a nice day.

Shoichi: I don’t have one either.

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AU where everyone is still mostly the same, but they just live in the same crime-riddled city -Researchers would likely be politicians, with Angelica being the president, Echion being her adopted son, and Eva being a politician’s daughter (because that just makes the most sense; though if you want you can make it so that the researchers are something else like just a group of scientists) 

-Most everyone would probably be diaspora or generally immigrants? though that becomes a given when you don’t want to make everyone suspiciously not that white yet live in the same area

-Aya is extremely busy since half the people are probably committing some sort of crime and it becomes like when the whole class gets together to throw a party and punishing the entire class proves to be a struggle except it’s a whole town

-Li Dailin very often winds up fighting others. No one can figure out how this random drunk can just take on mercenaries and biker gangs, but she does usually stay in good-ish respectful terms with them when not fighting. She probably has had a drinking competition with at least Lenox.

-Jackie is what she was before the experiment:morgue worker by day, secret murderer by night. I imagine she at least sort of knows who also has committed murder, but doesn’t really let anyone know; at best, she would use it as blackmail material so she doesn’t get caught, even if she slips up.

-Echion as Magnus’ roommate because they match energies and I think someone should capitalize on that

-Bernice is probably the neighborhood’s local reclusive old person all the kids assume are a ghost or live in a haunted house. Nicky, Eva, Eleven and Hyejin once tried to get into his yard to get some fruits (as teenagers do) but after the ceiling making eleven slip, being caught in the process, and then having to hide how she hurt her leg from her parents they opted to just assume the house is actually haunted. he just set up a faulty part in there as a trap to ward off the local murderers, not expecting a bunch of kids to try to steal some apples he probably would’ve just given if he asked instead

-Most of them have a silent agreement to not harm the kids. Luke has walked many of them home to make sure they stay safe, and they often give Sissela and Azuko little gifts

-Isol still is a guerrila kid but he goes to school and stuff, because the idea of him befriending Hyejin and Hyunwoo while setting up bombs on the weekend is never not funny

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Sissela: Luke is washing the dishes and I just heard him say “Who do you work for? Who’s your contact?” while repeatedly pushing a glass under water.

Sissela:At least he’s having fun?