Welcome to the Program

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Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]

Comments

[karappo]

I have five brothers. We are identical sextuplets.

[challengesfate]

[Just. Uh. Her mouth kind of falls open.]

...Your mother must be a woman of immeasurable strength...!

I LAUGHED

[karappo]

She is! She is one of the strongest people I know, there is no doubt about that.

AM I WRONG THO

[challengesfate]

[Super respect points for Mamma Matsuno]

I don't know anyone who is a twin, let alone by sixfold...is it difficult, having so many other brothers?

NOT AT ALL MATSUYO IS POWERFUL

[karappo]

Difficult? In some ways, maybe...but I would not trade any of them for the world. We have done literally everything together, growing up...so it is hard imagining being apart from them.

[...]

I am...not sure how long it has been since we have been apart for more than a day, even...

[challengesfate]

That's...wow. That's incredible. I don't think I could imagine having someone there for me so...completely.

[She had her brother, but...it wasn't the same as what this sounds like.]

At least it isn't just...one of you here, then.

[karappo]

[Karamatsu nods, though something about Lucina saying that...it doesn't sit with him well.]

...It does not make sense, though. Why bring such a specific number of us, if not all? It almost would have made more sense just to have only one of us here.

[challengesfate]

That I could not say. Perhaps...they want people from our homes to worry for us?

[But oh that's a bad, bad thing in Lucina's case, everyone was separated...no one would know she wasn't in the past. What would Morgan and the others do?]

[karappo]

...that would be terrible.

[Karamatsu says, doing his best to keep his expression level.

"They want people from our homes to worry for us"

Ha. Ha...yeah.]

[challengesfate]

Especially since you have such a large family...! I-I'm sure we can get this straightened out and you can go home right away.

[Someone who's not picking up on the atmosphere: Lucina.]

[karappo]

Right...right. The same for you, since it sounds like you also have loved ones you would be missing terribly after too long.

[challengesfate]

Mm...and I would miss them in kind.

[She already does. But Karamatsu has some serious Inigo vibes going on, so, it's not...too bad yet.]

[karappo]

...do not worry about that too much now, though. Nothing lasts forever, and neither will this.

[challengesfate]

...I know.

[But why can't this just be over now instead of whenever endgame is.]