( text. un: @r.asuka )

[luciformis]

Hello.

As several before me have noted: given our circumstances, it is more crucial now than ever before that we cooperate and share any relevant information that could be of benefit to us all. However, the accessibility of this knowledge is also essential. If we have no sense of organization, then we add unnecessary frustration at least and risk at most.

I've accumulated a list of known locations and some general statistical information, which I encourage you to add to at your discretion. I believe it would be in our best interests to know the following about each of you as well:

1. Please list your name and ID.
2. Do you have any medical, technical, or mechanical skills?
3. Do you have any advanced skills in another area that you think would be of assistance?
4. Would you be comfortable using these skills if asked?

Also, I've taken the liberty to sort out how to increase security protocols. If you wish to know how this works, feel free to contact me here or privately.

Thank you.

[ ooc: So, head's up! Permission was granted to have Ryo fix up these filters for you all, but here's your catch (if you're interested): Ryo will be leaving a security loophole or "backdoor" as it were for himself (with your permission) to easily exploit so his ability to eavesdrop will be maximized. Please refer to his permission's post here if you're fine with him doing as much.

Also, if your character wouldn't agree to this? Please refer to the permissions anyhow if you eventually might be interested in this kind of technological eavesdropping. Thank you! ]

Comments

[luciformis]

I'm not. It isn't a statement about me.

Very few people enjoy any kind of small talk.

[ryuji]

Sucks to be them, then.

It's the quiet that kills me

[luciformis]

I could see that.

[ so dry... it isn't even guess, he known it firsthand since the Pizza Incident. ]

I'm used to the quiet, outside my classes.

[ And his public appearances... And demon hunting... ]

[ryuji]

Classes?

So you're a student, too?

[luciformis]

Classes.

I teach them. I'm a tenured professor.

[ no big. ]

[ryuji]

How effin old are you again?

[This is a trick question, isn't it?]

[luciformis]

Sixteen.

I assumed you would have guessed that after seeing me.

[ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

[ryuji]

Sometimes it's hard to tell, man

You got that thing goin for ya

You coulda been 16 or 22 for all I know

[#twinkproblems]

Now I feel dumb... I didn't know I was kickin it with a professor

[luciformis]

"Thing"?

[ He's tall? That's about it. But, maybe. He guesses. To him, age is easy to mark. He just doesn't care enough to take notice most of the time. ]

Most don't. It isn't surprising.

[ It isn't like he goes out of his way to say it to everyone he meets. Most people know he is through social media, but that's a different story. ]

[ryuji]

Yeah. Like... that kinda aura, idk how to explain it

[Is this gaydar]

What did you teach?

[luciformis]

Precocity. That's not unusual either.

[ That's an easy word to supply. He's been singled out like that since day one. And yeah, probably. You got a functioning one, my guy. ]

Human Sciences, primarily.

[ Though, it's easier to ask what doesn't he study. ]

[ryuji]

Precocity?

What's that mean?

[He hates that he ends up asking that so often. School, learning, getting smarter... none of that was ever really important to him until somewhat recently.

School becomes so much more bearable when you have good extra-curriculars. And even better friends.]

Oh yeah? What'd you learn about humans that's worth telling other people about lol

[BOY....]

[luciformis]

Someone who grows into certain skills quickly and at a younger age than usual. It can give a confusing impression.

[ Ryo wouldn't know too much about that. He'd always been the one correcting teachers and reading from texts while his peers focused on cartoons on television. Ryo'd never found much interest in that. Instead, he'd dug through all that he could as if he were looking for some kind of answer as to why he was there to begin with. ]

I could explain it, but it would take several hours.

[ GOD... ]

Natural Sciences, which I've also worked in, would be easier to summarize.

[ryuji]

I mean... time is kinda what we got in abundance here, huh? Just floating around aimlessly waiting for something to happen.

[luciformis]

Then I'll explain.

Over the years, I've been called to assist various research teams as a lead due to my multidisciplinary interests. Occasionally, these projects are in the field of linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and the sub-field of biolinguistics due to my ability to understand the formulation of language in a way most others can't. As with anything, the goal was often to investigate a hypothesis about how humans evolved to acquire language or why it shifted the way it did. I've previously looked into several indigenous language isolates and as result, my findings have helped preserve and archive them for later study.

In short, teaching humans about their roots both biologically and culturally provides a base for understanding how the world now functions on a societal and evolutionary level.

[ when your canon never specifies what the fuck he does, so you gotta think about what he probably does. ]

[ryuji]

[Whelp, he did ask for this.]

So... you're good with words and telling people why they say them

[luciformis]

Partially.

I've participated in other research efforts more centrally focused on biology, but that's a different field of interest.

[ryuji]

I uh

I took biology once in high school but got thrown out of class for laughing too much when we got to the reproductive system

[luciformis]

[ Ryo Asuka, PhD at sixteen, thinks about this for a moment and thinks about how this is precisely the kind of thing that Akira would say. He also thinks about he sat among teenagers as young child and listened to them laugh about the same subject. Maybe this is why all Ryuji gets after a long pause is: ]

I see.

Were you allowed back in?

[ Because, let's put it this way: if people are disruptive in his classes he has no trouble dismissing them for the duration. Then again, most people don't dare laugh at him. ]

[ryuji]

[Ryuji Sakamoto, delinquent at 17, thinks about this for a moment and thinks about the detention that followed getting kicked out of class, and how his mom was disappointed in him for getting to that point. Ugh.]

Yeah. Sensei made me recite all the readings from that chapter until I stopped laughing at the word penis. Or vagina. Or sperm.

Good times, man.

[luciformis]

[ Ryo more-or-less spent a total of maybe or year in public education before they realized he was: 1. too smart, 2. on a fast-track. He'd cleared out higher education faster than most people could possibly record. Around ten years in school over all, minus his starting education with Akira.

Also, in that same year, 7-year-old Ryo was much too clever to get detention. Sure, he might have been shuffled into the office a few times when he was 6, but he learned how to hide his box cutter better. ]

That's a common trick.
It's the same principle as breaking down more complex terminology into morphemes so students will stop avoiding it.

[ No tied-tongues in his class after week one. You can't present anything worth a damn if you can't talk about it worth a damn. ]

Did it work?

[ Lol. ]

[ryuji]

[He looks through the smartwatch again, trying to figure out if there's a dictionary feature in this goddamn thing.

No?

Okay, because seeing the word morphemes only makes him force himself to think that it's definitely not morphmemes and that Ryo isn't talking about highly convoluted jokes on Featherman.

And he doesn't know which one would make Ryo look like more of a nerd, honestly.]

Mostly. I mean

I still kinda laugh

But it's mostly in my head instead

[luciformis]

[ You know, you could just ask him Ryuji.

He's the closest thing you'll get to a dictionary. Or maybe it is more accurate to say an encyclopedia. Either way. He's just a nerd. ]

Close enough.

Let's hope you never have to present on that for their sakes.

[ryuji]

[Looks left, then right. Then left, again.]

Congrats

We've just had a throw down, yo

It's time to play the PENIS game