✿003 [Video]

[cannotcrossdress]

It seems to be a pretty regular thing, isn't it? These sudden waves of newcomers.

[Not that Chizuru's done all that great of a job welcoming any of them. But considering the suddenness of appearances and, more importantly, disappearances of people she knows from back home, she's not really sure if she should be the one sticking her neck out in order to see if there's anyone she knows.

Especially since not all of them would necessarily be considered, y'know--allies. Or even cordial acquaintances. Especially with Hijikata looming around half-cocked all the time.]

It never ceases to impress me how quickly even the most isolated of people can adjust to a completely foreign environment. After all, this place isn't the slightest thing like the Japan I remember, but we're all making do, aren't we?

[She folds her arms, tilting her head slightly, and shrugging her shoulders thoughtfully.] Though come to think of it, there has to be something around here that would remind me of home...is there anything here that reminds you of back home? Reversely, what was the hardest thing for you to get used to after showing up in this place?

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[noexit]

I'm the Director of Operations for NERV. It's... [hm, how to explain this...] A special agency under the control of the United Nations.

We're responsible for the protection of humankind - I guess that's the shorthand version of it.

[cannotcrossdress]

[Yeah, thanks for that shorthand. Chizuru's eyes lit up once she explained--in layman's terms, at least.] So you're kind of like a police force?

[Ok, maybe she doesn't quite get it yet. What is Globalism?]

[noexit]

Mm... More like an army unit, I'd say.

[cannotcrossdress]

A director...so like a captain, or a commander? [She's trying to figure out a way to put this in Shinsengumi-ese, since that's the most exposure she's had to anything resembling a military.]

[noexit]

[She nods.] I was promoted to captain a few months before I came here.

[cannotcrossdress]

Ah! Congratulations! [A female captain?! Wouldn't Hijikata be shocked to learn such a thing!]

Are there...excuse me for asking, but you're a woman...

[noexit]

[Her jimmies are so rustled, but she reminds herself that the other woman is of a different era.] What does it matter, man or woman, as long as you have the skills and experience?

[cannotcrossdress]

[Whooops sorry!]

I...I guess it doesn't, but you had to have learned from someone. Is it common for women to be taught these things where you come from?

[noexit]

There are plenty of women in positions like mine...but I guess it's still more common for men to be involved in the military.

[cannotcrossdress]

I don't think any women are in the military where I come from. [I mean, she didn't count, she's not a soldier. She's a messenger, at best. When posing as a boy.]

[noexit]

That might change one day. Women in the military were unheard of before last century.