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[Luceti] [1st • Written] (backdated to the 12th ok)

[part 1 - arrival]

[ in the world he comes from, knowledge of what exists beyond the three walls that both confine and protect humanity is limited, even forbidden. Though he's ventured beyond the outermost wall - something that only the Survey Corps is capable of doing, and always with sacrifices - Levi knows humanity has only seen an immeasurable fraction of what it once had. He cannot begin to fathom what the rest of the world could be like outside of their short ventures beyond the walls.

So when he awakens in this place, it doesn't occur to him that it could be a different world entirely.

Although the wings are unsettling. Those are new. And itchy as hell. ]

The fuck...

[ in a world where people can transform into titans taller than the monstrous walls that keep them caged, the sudden appearance of wings somehow doesn't seem that terribly far fetched, even if he has no idea how or why, or - more importantly - whom.]

[Part 2 - recon: Written/Action]

[ It's been several hours now, and all of the information he's gathered so far is confusing at best and disturbing at worst. Knowledge of the outside world had been limited, but knowledge of other worlds? Unheard of. He's still trying to wrap is head around it.

After checking for the gear (nowhere to be found, much to his irritation, and thankfully he hadn't had to go far for his uniform), he finds a bench and takes out the journal-like device and studies it thoughtfully. The technology is foreign, and somehow it seems exceedingly fragile - though there is a space to write, and that's all he needs at the moment to help organize his thoughts.

So the following appears, in meticulous, elegant penmanship that he'd only learned a few years ago:]

No reports or knowledge so far of Titans among general populace
No walls - a 'dome' keeps people in by someone/something called the 'Malnosso'
Inhabitants appear to be from diverse locations
Human experiments...need more information about these damn wings
Captors supposedly provide unlimited food, clothing, shelter. Pretty fucking convenient way to keep people placated.
Currently no 3DMG found; other weapons readily available
Technology much more advanced than anything found within the walls ("Electricity?")
Rumors of a war with a group called the 'Third Party' that seeks to exterminate all living within the dome - motivation unknown
...animals can talk...fucking creepy; might be useful
~~Require more information about location, threats, etc.~~ Where the fuck am I and how do I get home.

[ooc: intro for Levi! Feel free to respond via journal (he's unfamiliar with technology so expect a WTF reaction for the first few replies), or find him wandering around town.
ALSO: Threads with the AOT cast will very likely contain spoilers for events that happen in the manga after the anime!]

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[In his world, reconnaissance is the most dangerous job to do. It necessitates fighting and knowing how to survive. Levi's eyes narrow slightly - 'a little like a soldier' could mean many things, after all.

Levi meets Kakashi's gaze with intensity, trying to read a meaning in that look in those words. He's curious about what a shinobi actually is, but perhaps it's best to save some of those details for later.]

What are you proposing?

[more contacts, and potentially more allies - or at least people that could in theory be counted on should some kind of battle breaks out - would be beneficial.]

Edited 2014-02-09 00:05 (UTC)

Perhaps it might be... beneficial for those of us with similar backgrounds to learn more about the other.

[ And perhaps, depending on what is learned, and whether it would make strategic sense, to begin forming alliances. Though Kakashi knows he can count on people from his world to have his back, there are, by his count, several hundred people in Luceti, a great number of which appear to be civilian. Should anything occur, and assuming they are all in control of their own faculties, it would be not only in Konoha's best interests, but also Luceti's, for allied parties to share interests and power. ]

[he keeps a level, measuring gaze on Kakashi. What he says makes sense, particularly from Levi's perspective where there are people who have been here for years whose knowledge that could be used to an advantage. Plus, with only four of them with experience fighting titans, should one somehow show up (particularly in the form of any of those traitors), having others that they could count on for support would be extremely valuable.]

Perhaps you're right.

[ A discerning, careful man. Not quite unlike himself.

Kakashi nods then as he turns to face Levi fully, posture slightly straightening up from the somewhat relaxed slouch he'd settled into, with his hands in his pockets. He nods towards the direction of where he knows a cafe to be. If they are going to spend more time talking, it doesn't make sense for them to be standing outside in below-freezing temperatures any longer than they already have. ]

Let's take this somewhere warmer.

[ Especially if they have a lot more to discuss. ]

I'd like to hear more about your world. In exchange, I'll tell you about mine. Maybe we might be able to find some common ground.

[warmer suits Levi just fine - he hates being cold longer than necessary, and it won't be long before he could start shivering noticeably. If he can avoid showing that kind of sensitivity, he's just as happy to do so.

He nods, crossed arms tightening a bit.]

You've got a deal.

[he follows Kakashi to the cafe. To most people who wouldn't have any inkling otherwise, he walks normally. Yet to the more discerning eye, a healing injury is evident in the way that he slightly favors his left foot, spending longer steps on the right. It's almost healed, but it could still be aggravated if he isn't careful.]

[ Kakashi most certainly notices, but he doesn't say anything about the way Levi moves, simply filing the information away for reference.

The walk to the cafe doesn't take very long, and they head inside, exchanging cold, biting wind for the warm coziness of the shop and the scent of roasting coffee beans and pastries. Kakashi isn't a particular fan of the pastries, which are in his opinion, far too sweet, but coffee, he'll do. Or tea. ]

Coffee?

[ Nods towards the counter once the door closes behind them. ]

Tea.

[Coffee was something that wasn't as common where he was from, and even when he had the chance to try it, he still preferred tea. He strolls up to the counter and orders a small pot of black tea - enough to share if Kakashi wanted any, or some to have for himself.

Levi picks a table just for the two of them in the corner and mostly away from other patrons to minimize eavesdropping. He can also see the entrance without having to move much to look.]

[ There is a lot that you can tell about a man, simply by watching him.

Where Levi decided to have them sit tells Kakashi that he is as much strategic as he is tactical.

Kakashi would have picked the same table himself, so it comes as no surprise that Levi had chosen this particular one. It offers the best vantage point in the entire shop to have a full view of the store, is close enough to both the back exit while having a direct line of sight of the entrance, and also positioned away from other patrons and staff to avoid anyone overhearing.

He doesn't order himself coffee, opting to share the tea with Levi instead, pouring them each a cup once they're seated. ]

Interesting choice.

[ It's not clear whether Kakashi's commenting on the table or the tea. He raises his cup of tea slowly, but makes no move to lower his mask as he blows on the tea through his mask and then sips it.

From all appearances it looks like he sipped it through the mask.

But there's no wet spot left over. ]

[Levi doesn't ask what that question might be referring to, so he assumes both his choice for tea and the choice of seat. He sits, leaning against the wall and angled toward the rest of the cafe, legs crossed.

He picks up his own cup, holding it the way he usually does - by the rim, rather than by the handle or the sides. Raising it to his lips, he watches Kakashi carefully as the man lifts his own cup to his still-covered face, and after a moment seems to drink through his mask. His eyes narrow when no evidence that tea even passed his lips.]

...how's it taste?

[did he even taste it]

Hmm, not terrible.

[ Not great, compared to the sort of tea they have back home, though.

Kakashi takes a second sip, and lo and behold, the contents of the cup seem to have decreased some more, which means that he certainly is drinking, but how he's doing it is another story entirely. His expression seems completely nonchalant, though, as if he does this all the time.

Maybe he does. ]

Where I'm from, we have far higher quality tea.

Edited 2014-02-09 02:40 (UTC)

[Levi can be picky about how his tea is brewed, but he's used to 'not terrible' tea (and even terrible tea, sadly). But still. He decides not to push it with figuring out that mystery.]

Where I'm from, this is better than most of the shit we have.

You said shinobi were "a little like soldiers." Are they in addition to a regular military?

Edited 2014-02-09 02:44 (UTC)

Mm...

[ Kakashi takes another sip, then sets the cup down, lifting a thumb to press at the corner of what appears to be masked lips. ]

Shinobi are a little different from military in that we take contracts, not only from our country, but also from anyone who can afford us. Where I'm from, shinobi are the primary military force in the country. But there are secondary military forces, such as armed guards for daimyo, or samurai.

Not quite military, not quite mercenary.

What are "daimyo" and "samurai?" Nobles?

[no such terms exist in his world, as history and knowledge of previous diversity and cultures has been forbidden and either deliberately lost or destroyed.]

Hmm, well, daimyo are nobles. Lords, of sorts, who control the country, to whom shinobi must answer. Samurai are...well, I suppose you can say, they were our predecessors. Long ago, there were many more samurai, but these days, not so much. They're similar to shinobi, but they have their own structure and rules, ways of fighting, and traditions. Unlike shinobi, they don't take on as many contracts, and tend to only fight for their country.

[ Which, in his world, happens to be the Land of Iron, but that fact doesn't necessarily need to be divulged. ]

How is the military structured in your world?

[Levi makes mental notes of this information, even though some of it doesn't seem as though it'll have important application to anything here in Luceti. But he's not going to automatically dismiss anything he learns.]

There are three branches. The Military Police, the Garrison, and the Survey Corps. The Military Police is stationed mainly inside the innermost wall with the royalty and upper class. The Garrison is stationed throughout all three walls, and the Survey Corps conducts scouting missions outside the walls and attempts to chart the territory there.

[Of course, lately the third wall has fallen, and humanity lost one third of what little territory it still possesses to the titans again.]

[ The way he talks about walls almost makes it sound like a walled city of sorts, with three different walls. ]

So, your military predominately controls a city then? A walled city?

[ After all, Kakashi's never heard of a wall that traverses the entirety of a nation. ]

[Levi grabs a napkin and a pen, and draws a simple diagram of three concentric circles surrounding a small filled in circle at the very center. Each of the larger circles has four smaller half circles that rest on the equivalent of North - South - East - West.]

It's a walled territory. The innermost wall is Sina. It surrounds the capital- [he indicates the filled in dot before pointing to the outer half circles] These are districts that are small cities in and of themselves. There are smaller villages and outposts spread out within each wall's territory. Rose is in the middle, and Maria is the outermost wall.

Why the walls?

[ Kakashi reaches a hand out, tapping a finger against one of the circles. He can understand one wall, but three seems a little excessive. ]

No one really knows. According to the limited amount of available history, they appeared over a hundred years ago to protect what was left of humanity from the titans. There's even a group of cultist creeps that believe the walls are a divine gift from some god.

[and an apparent conspiracy about the true origins of the walls having been covered up, but that's too much information that they're still in the process of sorting out themselves. And potentially dangerous.]

Titans?

[ Now they're really getting somewhere. Kakashi was curious about the aforementioned "titans" that Levi had written about, and had intended to ask about them. "What was left of humanity" suggests that Levi is from a world that must have been devastated by these "titans." ]

Yes. Humanoid man-eaters. They range from approximately five meters to fifteen meters and have only one weak spot on the back of the neck. Any other damage they can regenerate after only a few seconds or minutes, depending on how severe it is.

And before you ask, no one knows where they came from or why, or why they have an appetite for eating humans. As far as we know they don't even have a biological need for food since they survived for a hundred years without access to any people as a food source.

And these walls, they're enough to keep out the titans.

[ This is starting to make a lot of sense now, though the thought of a fifteen meter humanoid man-eater makes Kakashi a little uneasy. He's faced monsters that big before, but those monsters had more than just one weak spot on the back of the neck, and certainly don't normally feed on humans, seeing as they're usually sealed inside one. ]

The walls are sixty meters high. Usually they're enough to keep them out. The titans can't communicate, either with us or one another. Their cognitive abilities are limited, though they sometimes demonstrate the capacity to learn to adapt.

[recent information has shed light on that particular trait, but he's not going to share that yet.]

Hmm, well, I'm certainly glad that there aren't any titans here in Luceti...

[ Kakashi says after a moment, finishing off his cup of tea. ]

If they're up to fifteen meters tall, how do you normally fight them? Do you have any sort of special powers?

[ Can you fly. ]

[He wishes.]

We have a special weapon called Three-Dimensional Maneuver Gear. It's a system of grappling hooks and gas propellant that allows us to fight in territory with tall buildings or trees to get up to their level. The gear also includes a set of long blades that are used like swords to attack the blind spot.

I hear weapons often arrive here, so I expect mine will be available at some point.

[He sincerely hopes, anyway. In the meantime yes - it's quite good that there are no titans here. For now.]

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