11th treasure [audio]

[captainash]

Can anyone explain to me what was supposed to be so horrible about challenging Whitney? She was really sweet when we talked, and the info she shared about Normal-types is going to be useful when I move on. I fail to see what's warning-worthy about that.

[Seriously, what could possibly be annoying about that nice, friendly young lady?]

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[captainash]

...No, no, mobile suits are giant bipedal robots. Made out of metal. No tuxedos there.

[Even if the image is amusing.]

[tendered]

Why do you guys call them a suit then? [ That doesn't make sense at all. ] Why not Mobile Giant Robot?

[captainash]

They've been called that for hundreds of years. They must have had a reason back then.

[tendered]

If you ever find out, let me know, hehe...

[ She nervously pulls on the back of her bun. ]

It sounds like a really nice piece of trivia to know!

[captainash]

That will be difficult. Even the families with a strong engineering tradition call them that just because it's their name.

[tendered]

Well, I guess the name can stay but I really want to know the etymology behind it now!

[captainash]

People from other worlds have them, too. Maybe one of them would know.

[tendered]

Any names you can give me? [ She knows about someone and their Gundam. But she'll learn about mobile suits and the similarities. ]

[captainash]

There's Shinn, Lacus and Kira. There were two others, but I haven't heard anything from them in a while.

[tendered]

I know Shinn! Maybe he knows about Mobile Suits! But, he called them Gundams.. [ Whatever that means. ]

[captainash]

Gundams are a type of mobile suit, or at least they are in my world. I think everyone has a slightly different definition for those.

[tendered]

So if they qualify as a mobile suit, I wonder if he knows the origin about the term....

Do you know how the term Gundam originated? [ ....Sighs. Here we go again. ]

[captainash]

No idea either. It must have been chosen by the Asuno who built the first one, but why...

[tendered]

So, are all of your worlds connected and just from different time periods? Or is it just a common thing in your world, like how you guys all have bread.

[captainash]

A common thing, as far as I can tell. Our histories have nothing in common.

[tendered]

So, if many worlds have giant robots called the same thing, I wonder if many worlds have Shinigami... [ it'd make sense. ]

[captainash]

Mine doesn't, but it's a possibility.

[tendered]

Do you know what happens after you die? [ His certainty has Momo curious. Maybe there are other types of the afterlife that are more in depth than this. ]

[captainash]

...I don't know the specifics, beyond the fact that some X-Rounders have claimed to see the dead. The Vagan believe that their souls are reincarnated on Earth, but I doubt anyone could prove that.

[tendered]

Well, souls are reincarnated to Earth in our afterlife too, after a multihundred year break in between, of course. [ hahaha... haha... so your afterlife gets a c+ close enough status, ash. ]

[captainash]

Did those souls come from Earth in the first place, though?

[That's sort of an important detail.]

[tendered]

Kinda! Some souls are born in the Afterlife, so they bounce to the human world when they die before returning to the afterlife! Others are born in Earth, so that would be their origin and then they go to the afterlife. But it's generally the same, world of the living to afterlife back to the living and repeat! [ she's not sure how to emphasize it's a cycle but he's technically correct. ]

[captainash]

...I guess that if souls keep switching between realms over and over, coming from a different in the same world means nothing.

[tendered]

Yeah, something like that maybe. I'm not quite sure if I get what you're saying, but that's because the system to me is natural and I get confused by people getting confused by it.

[captainash]

That`s normal. I always find myself surprised when people mention not having space colonies in their worlds.