Spencer Reid (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leftinbasketforfbi) wrote2012-09-16 12:36 pm
leftinbasketforfbi) wrote2012-09-16 12:36 pm
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1st Genius α Video/Action for New Bark Ω
[It takes him a bit to figure out how the hell to start the feed. When he finally does, all PokéConnect is treated to the sight of a deceptively calm man dressed in purple pants and a white shirt tied with a gray obi, the traditional psychic’s outfit. An Absol keeps pacing behind him, as if expecting him to fall over at any moment and preparing itself to catch him. Honestly, that’s because it is, since its new Trainer has had a massive panic attack that caused him to pass out once already, and Absol can sense that there will be more to come. This is going to be a long partnership.]
Morgan, if this is a prank, alright. You got me. You win the war.
[The man holds up his hands in defeat, still unnaturally calm.]
I don’t know how you did it, but you can stop now. I get it. You can make the Pokémon go away. Once again, I have no idea how you did it…
[His throat gets tight. He struggles to keep his breathing even.
Please, Morgan. Please oh please make this stop.]
But you can stop it now. I have a lot of work to do, and giving me strange clothes, asking a woman to pretend to be my mother, and trying to make me doubt my own sanity is not helping.
[Please let this be a prank. Please say he’s not completely insane.]
And you can turn off the music while you're at it.
Morgan, if this is a prank, alright. You got me. You win the war.
[The man holds up his hands in defeat, still unnaturally calm.]
I don’t know how you did it, but you can stop now. I get it. You can make the Pokémon go away. Once again, I have no idea how you did it…
[His throat gets tight. He struggles to keep his breathing even.
Please, Morgan. Please oh please make this stop.]
But you can stop it now. I have a lot of work to do, and giving me strange clothes, asking a woman to pretend to be my mother, and trying to make me doubt my own sanity is not helping.
[Please let this be a prank. Please say he’s not completely insane.]
And you can turn off the music while you're at it.
[video]
He gives a soft, breathy laugh, which isn't from amusement so much as nervousness.] No. No, hallucinations aren't necessarily silly or unrealistic, and they usually have some internal consistency to the person experiencing them. Really, a hallucination can take the form of anything sensory, from smelling flowers where there are none to suddenly feeling like you've just grown a new fully functional arm from your back. It's more commonly visual or auditory than olfactory or proprioceptive, but it happens. Hallucinations are sometimes also tactile, gustatory, chronoceptive--
[Stop him. Stop him before it's too late.]
[video]
[It's his unofficial duty to interrupt people who start rambling and stop making sense! His brother, also a doctor (in training), was used to speaking in the same elevated language that went right over Rin's head. That aside, he wanted to do his best to help this guy out, not push him off the deep end.]
...I may not get it all, but you're still shaken up 'bout it. Forget hallucinations or whatever. Where are you from?
[video]
But hell, he's used to being interrupted and he'd like to forget about hallucinations anyway.] I'm, um, I'm from Las Vegas. In the United States? What about you?
[video]
Cue awe. He hasn't met an American just yet. Already most of his expectations with the Land of the Free have been dented by this man's actions. ...Maybe he was part of the Darker Side of America, like those criminal dramas.]
That's pretty cool! And Las Vegas is that casino place, right? I've never been but I heard about it in class, once. [And on tv.] I'm from Japan. You know about True Cross Town? The secondary school is close by.
[video]
Yeah. Yeah, Las Vegas is most famous for its casinos.
True Cross Town? [Reid frowns and cocks his head. He's memorized all the cities and most of the towns of the countries most involved with American foreign policy, and he's never heard of a place called True Cross Town.] No, I'm sorry, I don't know about it. What's it like?
[video]
...Seriously? It has the True Cross Academy! You know, that fancy expensive school that scholarship and rich kids go to? It has a famous cram school...? [He's more than a little surprised that Doctor here knows nothing of True Cross.]
True Cross is a town, kinda close to Tokyo. It's pretty normal, you know, old buildings from years ago and new concrete buildings too. And the school towers over the entire town 'cause it's huge, y'know? [He'll gladly tell Reid more about it if he wants to hear it.]