MoM IC Contact: TAKE TWO

[khajidont]

Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

[If you want to find his previous inbox - it hit captcha! - please go HERE.]

Comments

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[tadeadshi]

so
question
did you ever get your doors fixed?

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[khajidont]

They don't play journey anymore if that's what you're asking

permatext

[superposition]

((cont'd from here))

[Ah. That explains a lot, actually. But it's far from the first time he's dealt with mind control - in fact, there's a strong possibility he's experienced it himself at some nebulous point in the past. Not a good time, that.]

What sort of problems? Something wrong with the suit itself, or...?

I just ask because if it's a technical issue, I may be able to help.

[khajidont]

[Jaime takes a little while to answer, mostly because he's deliberating on how much he should tell, how much he wants to tell.

Then, he decides: screw it.]

Sort of a technical issue. It's an AI. Also attached to my spine, so you can see there's some issues there.

Before you ask, I've already tried removing it. It didn't go well.

text;

[infomodder]

[Late afternoon/early evening.]

Busy?

Re: text;

[khajidont]

Nope. What's up? Need a hand with the shop?

text

[performance]

So I have a weird question for you.

Re: text

[khajidont]

I can handle weird. Everything OK?

text from "Tim Drake"

[alreadywon]

I want one.

text

[khajidont]

[...okay, this is weird. Nice, but so, so weird.]

He IS pretty cute. What's stopping you?

6/12; voice

[catalysmic]

"Jaime, hi, this is Dr. Ross. From Fanport." Teeny tiny pause, "Is this a good time?"

permavoice

[khajidont]

Oh -- hi, Dr. Ross! Now's fine. What d'you need?

voice; Ken's Birthday, later that day.

[rassera]

[Well, time to let the wife-he-never-married know what he did. More importantly, he's hoping this voicemail is cause Jaime's REALLY not at his phone right now. That way he can think up a game plan.]


Oi, I bought Ken a bike.


Knew you'd understand. See ya!

Re: voice; Ken's Birthday, later that day.

[khajidont]

Don't you dare hang up.

[Sorry, Kaneda. Jaime's here, and he is not here for anything other than a nice, long talk.]

july 7th - email - addressed to jaime

[runningstart]

Dude I don’t even know how to start this. This is harder than Rob’s letter. …..don’t tell him I said that, he’ll take it the wrong way.

Even if I forget everything here I know I’ll see him again, and that we’ll still be friends. but not with you.

Hahha y’know, I just remembered how we met. Sorta. I remember thinking you were from my world, or like knowing you were from another dimension or something and thinking something like, Shade was going after people and

Y’know it was so stupid. But I totally thought you were a civilian and I totally just wanted to make sure you were okay, because like, that’s what heroes do or whatever.

You’re such a freakin nerd. You’re a freakin’ dork man, like I know I have the genetic makeup of nerd supreme in me but you are a genuine, home-grown, all natural nerd. I mean that in the best way though, like. I know you either don’t believe me or you’re like omg no that’s not true, you don’t know my DARK E S T SECRET THOUGHTS or I don’t even know, but you’re a good hero. Sorry if that puts a lot of pressure on you. i don’t think it means you owe anything to anybody or that you have a responsibility or something. I mean, if I was just talking professionally then yeah maybe I’d say that, but I’m your friend so I’m talking like a friend.

You’re an awesome hero. And I just think that’s great. I just think it’s really great. I dunno, it makes me glad to know that you’re out there, helping people. It’s like that feeling you get when you see Superman fly overhead, y’know? Like you know it’s gonna be okay now.

Jesus I don’t know what I’m doing with this.

I’M SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW!!!!!

It’s like three in the morning and I was like if I don’t have this ready to go, then on the off chance that I get ported back he’s gonna just be left with nothing and like. That’s uncool.

I hope I come back.

I hope I come back and remember everything

If there’s a way to bring me back here dude, and you find it out, you have my full permission to drag my sorry butt back here for as long as possible. I swear. And if I get all pissed at you, show me this email and I’ll be like ‘oh yeah I’m a solid dude I know what I’m talking about’ and I’ll agree.

And take care of yourself okay

And let other people take care of you

And don’t be so hard on yourself

And eat your vegetables

And eat your desserts

And don’t forget that I’m cool

And don’t forget that everybody loves you and that the world loves the Blue Beetle and I don’t wanna hear any arguments.

-Wally

PS: I beat your rainbow road high school and never told you because I wanted to get your angry texts when you found out, but I guess you didn’t find out yet so go look and be ashamed.

july 7th - email - addressed to khaji

[runningstart]

So you probably either already noticed Jaime’s got an email too or like, you read this instantly. Assimilated the data? Man I don’t know how you do the stuff you do (and don’t think that doesn’t drive me bananas ok, write a user manual for yourself already)

Yeah so I’m gone.

Gone-ish, I dunno, it’s all really nebulous when that happens here. I’m gone enough that you got this email so say what you will about it.

I’m so glad you came back, man.

I’m so glad you came back and you remember, and I’m also kind of pissed you remember because now you have to live with all that crap that wasn’t actually YOU but you know like, your body did it or whatever. Like mind control or something. Mind control SUCKS.

I know you’re a trillion years old or however and that you were put together to like, destroy people or something but I kinda still wish nothing bad would happen to you. I DON’T CARE IF THAT’S STUPID, YOU BETTER HEAR MY FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS AND ACCEPT THEM!!!!!

Read jaime’s email if you haven’t already, that stuff about him taking care of himself and letting other people take care of him goes freakin DOUBLE for you. because not a lot of people know you exist so you gotta work extra hard for that attention. Let people care about you. AND BE NICE TO ROB!!! He’s my best friend and he’s the best guy I know. He’ll be a really good friend to you if you let him. Are you guys friends yet??? Well you better be.

I’ll see you around man

Thanks for trying to figure out how to keep me alive but

I think I got it. I’d attach my notes so you could see for yourself but hahahaha I’m kind of freaked out that I’m wrong so I’m not gonna. AND DON’T BOTHER ROB FOR THEM EITHER

I’m glad that you’re you, man.

-Wally

text;

[alreadywon]

Hey. Just wanted to say, that thing you said about if I ever needed to talk - it goes both ways.

[khajidont]

Thanks.

[Oh god, now he's the awkward one.]

When it comes to this kind of stuff I'm not sure there IS a lot to talk about honestly. But I appreciate it.

text;

[amadaman]

[Also because Ken may have big words to say but doesn't like getting super emotional in public, Jaime gets a text later that day when he thinks the guy's feelings are a little more manageable and the post isn't as active either]

vroom vroom

Re: text;

[khajidont]

[...huh. That's cute.]

Cute emote. Emoji?

[Jaime, you old man.]

text

[hypnotherapy]

Jaime

Do you want to talk about it? Or we can do something together
I'm fine with that too

[ He'll offer what little comfort he can. It always hurts, losing people. They slip through without knowing, with only memories to really grasp them. ]

Re: text

[khajidont]

Thanks Magicman. For offering I mean.

I'm not sure if there's much to talk about. Did you feel like that too?

[Tadashi was important to him, sure... but he was more important to Magicman. Maybe Magicman felt this dimness, this fading of the light. He doesn't know.]

text;

[whatyoumust]

[the evening following this post...]

Jaime? Are you home?

Re: text;

[khajidont]

[OH NO... DAD.]

Yeah, I am.

Hi, Dad.

Text;

[asoothingvoice]

[SHORTLY AFTER THIS TANGLE]

Jaime, let me know when you aren't busy

Re: Text;

[khajidont]

I'm not. Is something wrong?

text

[monster_san]

I believe there may be cause for concern about Maru-san.

[khajidont]

Fuu this is serious stuff

text. 1/3

[fridgeflower]

Jaime, I require male input.

text. 2/3

[fridgeflower]

WAIT WOW
That doesn't sound great.

text.

[magnitudes]

hey mate
you said you've been here a while. couple of years, right?

Re: text.

[khajidont]

Just about, yep.

Why what's up?

08/23; voice

[rassera]

Oi, Jaime.

I need help finding someone and you probably know this place better than I do.

I can't explain why, but something's wrong. Intuition I guess.

Re: 08/23; voice

[khajidont]

Um... sure, I'll do my best to help.

[Jaime's mind doesn't immediately jump to his tracking abilities; he uses those as sparingly as possible for others (though he uses them judiciously himself, underneath the rationale that what the others don't know won't hurt them, morality aside), but he'll waver depending on the person who's presumably gone missing.]

Who is it? What's going on?

voice;

[asoothingvoice]

[She calls, but it takes a few seconds before she actually says anything.]

Jaime?

I don't know where your father is.

voice;

[khajidont]

Oh.

[His voice is a little flat - flatter than it should be, probably - but he has a feeling he knows what this is about. He's done this dance so many times, too many times. Still, there's a kernel of hope there, and that's worth hanging onto... right?]

Um, when did you last see him? I know I took him down to the garage the other day; maybe he decided to go back and see if he wanted to work there instead of the whole blogging thing.

TEXT to the Blue Beetle, not long after the swear-in;

[sasaeru]

[The message arrives early, but not too early, in the morning. She had to track down the post she saw on the network in order to find the contact, and it took her a while to muster up the courage to do it. It wasn't often that she spoke to strangers like this, let alone initiated the contact. Not for requests.]

Is this the contact for the Blue Beetle?

My name is Ulvida. I wanted to talk to you about the powers we are given.

[khajidont]

You got it!

It's nice to meet you, Ulvida. What power did you wind up with?

voicemail. shhhh no i don't owe you tags already you're hallucinating

[magnitudes]

Hey, it’s Sarissa.

So the fifth of November is bonfire night. ( And her birthday, but you know. Secret clone business, etc. )

Fireworks, ritual sacrifice and burning effigies, all that kinda nonsense. I was thinking of doing a bit of a casual get together on the beach, if you want in? Bonfire and fireworks provided, obviously. Maybe a barbecue? I dunno. Anyway, you’re welcome to come along, if the idea of hanging out with a bunch of weird old ladies doesn’t chill you to the marrow.

SHHH ITS OK

[khajidont]

Oh! Yeah, that thing. It was in V For Vendetta.

[JAIME YOUR LACK OF CULTURE.............]

Sure, I'd love to come! Should I bring anything?

nov 1 mid evening

[tadeadshi]

hey did you have any leftover candy

[khajidont]

[When Jaime sees the username Tadashi Hamada on his phone, at first he reacts to it as casually as he would to any text from a close friend. Oh, they're texting me, wonder what they want...

But then the name registers, and his first thought isn't that Tadashi's back. Oh, no. His first thought is that something's gone wrong, someone's messing with him, because the people that he loves that have gone missing?

They don't come back. None of them have. Not for long. Maybe the communicator futzed and is showing wrong names in its database, or maybe it's Crane deciding to torment more teenagers, or maybe... maybe...]

This isn't funny.

[Well, whatever it is, he's not taking the bait. Screw whoever thinks that this is their good idea of a joke.]

MISFIRE; video

[santouryuu]

[Have a very green pirate suddenly yelling into your phone, Jaime.]

--Dammit Luffy, did you eat all the meat again???

[khajidont]

[Sorry, Zoro. The boy you see blinking back at you is almost absurdly normal looking as he sweeps his bangs away from his face, trying to get a good look at the guy on the other side of the screen.] Um... I'm definitely not him. But hey, you can always go meatless Monday a day early.

Text - Misfire

[ghoulking]

[ there is so much panic in this text like you wouldn't believe ]

just got a picture of a penis on my inbox
it really is one
whats happening????
what do i do??????

POOR KANEKI.

[khajidont]

lol

I mean if you don't want anyone else to see it you should probably delete it. You're not interested in this guy are you? Cuz if so I think you've got it in the bag

The NUTbag

[ HE'S SO FUNNY. ]

text

[rathercommon]

Right so you're a walking conscience. Morality question.

text

[khajidont]

Kiiind of an exaggeration, but I try?

Why, what's going on?