[Action/Video] Memory of a Gross Monster

[dictator_ko]

[Action/Video, Gateway City]
[From the looks of the video, it's a selfie--you can see her arm holding the screen forward. The background is a park in Gateway City near her home. There're a small stream, trees, and a bench visible. She looks cheerful.] Alright, special outdoors "You Suck, Thundercorp" broadcast! This is Mina, your host...

[Suddenly she pauses, turns, then smiles at an onlooker.] Tuh-daaaah! ♪♪♪ Good job coming to me! So heyyy... ♪ Moge-ko prepared a wonderful present for you! Take it, take it! ♪

[She walks over a short distance and then continues on.] The cage was moved! ♪ Mooogegegege! ♪ Now then... ♪

[After a pause...] Don't WANNA!

[She makes a motion as if she's pressing an imaginary button.] Okay, my cute little monster! ♪ Eat up!

[Suddenly she looks shocked.] Wh... WHAAAAAAT?!

[And just as suddenly, a transparent blue force field springs up in front of her. Her expression slowly changes into a smile.] ...Special skill: Moge-ko Shield! Teehee. ♪

[After a long pause she laughs with a fiendish, sharp-toothed grin.] Gyahahaha! Tooooo careless! Haaaah, go monster! Can't run from meeeee!

[And then she suddenly runs at the unfortunate bystander. The video cuts off there, only to pick back up a few minutes later...]

[Second video]
Ewwww! I just pulsed back a gross monster! [She turns the screen to capture a horrifying monster dripping with blood from its body. It's the size of a large cow.]

I had to shout at it not to eat people! It's awful! What do I even do with it?!

And not only that, but I had the most horrible, realistic memory just now!

[Third video, a few minutes later]
So, anyone got a way to cover up sharp teeth? It's like I'm a shark! I can cover up the ears with a hat, the eyes with contacts, and truck in the tail (it's uncomfortable!). But what do I do about teeth?!

Comments

Re: [Video]

[dictator_ko]

I don't know what it is other than gross. And I don't want it, but it does what I tell it to do.

[Video]

[witnessme]

So is it like... your pet? What have you tried telling it to do?

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[dictator_ko]

It's not my pet! I don't want such a gross pet!

2/2

[dictator_ko]

...I just told it not to eat people so far.

[witnessme]

And it's obeyed you, right? Tell me no one's gotten eaten...

[dictator_ko]

Yeah, no one got eaten.

[witnessme]

Well. That's good at least.

That thing's like the size of a cow, isn't it?

[dictator_ko]

[She looks at the thing again, then regrets looking. It's so disgusting.]

Looks like it? [She isn't very well-acquainted with cows, having never seen one in person.] Good thing it isn't as large as I remember it being.

[witnessme]

[Having grown up on a dairy farm, Nux has seen plenty.]

How large was that? What you remember? Cows are pretty big!

[dictator_ko]

I think it was as big as an elephant? Or a bit bigger.

[witnessme]

What would your Other have to do with that kind of monster? Did she order it to eat people?

[dictator_ko]

She did. I don't think she normally orders it around, though. The memory made it seem like it's normally in a cage, but she freed it to sic it on some people. I hate her.

[witnessme]

Uh, you should't hate her. She's a part of you now. And that's like hating yourself.

If Nux was here, I would try to be his friend.

[dictator_ko]

She was a psycho! She tortured and killed cute critters! She wanted to do the same to a girl! She isn't me!

[witnessme]

Well... uh no. No she isn't you.

You're not like that, right?

[dictator_ko]

No, I'm not.

[She's overlooking her own similarities--being temperamental, the sadistic side that comes out whenever she gets a chance to torment an 'acceptable target', the love for cute things, the desire for adulation...]

[witnessme]

Maybe it would help if you made a list of things you don't like about your Other, and then you can be careful to never become those things...

[dictator_ko]

I already know I'm not like her.

[Actually, there're more similarities than she thinks.]

[witnessme]

Well... no one's exactly not like their Others, you know... if there weren't some similarities, you wouldn't have her soul in you!

What are some good things about her? My guy was loyal, and he was into cars.

[dictator_ko]

There's nothing good about her. [Mina is stubborn about not wanting to associate with or recognize anything of herself in her past incarnation.]

[witnessme]

Nothing at all? There has to be something.

What do you like best about yourself? Maybe that's a good starting point and you can find something in common there.

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[dictator_ko]

I'm super cute. ♪

2/2

[dictator_ko]

She was cute, too, but that doesn't make up for her terribleness.

[witnessme]

Yeah, I guess you are cute! I'm not hitting on you, don't worry.

[dictator_ko]

I wouldn't want you to anyways. But thank you. ♪