[Naminé and her had agreed that Kairi would be doing most of the talking, though her sister would pipe in if she had any additional things to say. The red-head takes a deep breath in when everyone finally assembles, giving Naminé one last final squeeze of the hand before turning to address the group.]
So... thanks for coming, everyone. There's a lot we need to talk about that Naminé and I haven't exactly been too willing to discuss before now. You all deserve to know... and I do mean all of you.
[Here's looking at you, people wondering why the hell they're here right now.]
I'm sure some of you have been wondering about this for a while, and I thank you all for being patient and not pressing us for information. We were admittedly kind of scared to bring it up, but after the events that occurred in the world we and Aqua were taken to, it's about time this all comes out where you all can see it.
[Welp... here goes nothing.]
Naminé and I hailed from a place before this one, as some of you know or have figured out. It was a space station called Alpha Omega, but the whole place in general was called Facility. It was run by a group called the Consortium; they were a group of scientists, but we're not exactly sure where they're from. Facility was devised to be a place where they could run experiments on people, to test inhumane things on people without any consequences and without having to worry about subject death. In other words... a torture facility.
[Kairi averts her eyes, hand shaking a little in Naminé's grip.]
It's why we have collars. They were devices used to control us, to limit our powers and keep us under their thumbs. They'd perform experiments on us every week, with one week off per month for new people to be brought in. Uhm...
[She stumbles a little over her words, having trouble explaining it all despite how many times she'd run over this conversation in her head beforehand.]
The experiments were sometimes tame when they felt like we were going to break, but usually they were horrible things, murderous things. Both of us have experienced dying before because of these experiments, but they would just bring us back again to test more and more. I was there for a year, Naminé even longer-- several of our friends as well. We've had to fight a lot over the time we were there, two whole wars even, which is why we know so much more fighting stuff than we did back home.
I-I'm not exactly comfortable telling you exactly about the experiments that happened to us there, I don't think either of us really are just yet. It's... been hard. We didn't really want you all to worry or anything like that, but that's not exactly the reason why we were holding back the information from you all. There's something significantly more important, it's uhm...
[Deep breath, you can do this.]
We're not the real Kairi and Naminé. We're clones, and not even good ones at that. We were cheaply and massly produced in order to be used as easily replaceable test subjects, and because of this we have... certain issues. We suffer from something known as 'clone sickness', caused by our poor DNA and stuff and what that means is uhm, we can get sick and go into comas or even sometimes... die. There's no rhyme or reason to it, it just happens. One day you can be perfectly healthy, and the next you'll be on the ground. It wasn't as big of a deal in Facility, considering they could easily just bring us back to life if we died or replace us into a new body, but that doesn't apply here. In Hinoto-Ri, our lives aren't disposable and death means death. We've been afraid to tell you all about this, afraid of what you'd think of us and not wanting to worry you all... but we know its important that you guys know the whole story.
I'm sorry that we haven't been honest before now. That's... about it, unless Naminé has something she wants to add. If you guys are confused or have any questions, we'll do our best to answer.
~THE TALK~
So... thanks for coming, everyone. There's a lot we need to talk about that Naminé and I haven't exactly been too willing to discuss before now. You all deserve to know... and I do mean all of you.
[Here's looking at you, people wondering why the hell they're here right now.]
I'm sure some of you have been wondering about this for a while, and I thank you all for being patient and not pressing us for information. We were admittedly kind of scared to bring it up, but after the events that occurred in the world we and Aqua were taken to, it's about time this all comes out where you all can see it.
[Welp... here goes nothing.]
Naminé and I hailed from a place before this one, as some of you know or have figured out. It was a space station called Alpha Omega, but the whole place in general was called Facility. It was run by a group called the Consortium; they were a group of scientists, but we're not exactly sure where they're from. Facility was devised to be a place where they could run experiments on people, to test inhumane things on people without any consequences and without having to worry about subject death. In other words... a torture facility.
[Kairi averts her eyes, hand shaking a little in Naminé's grip.]
It's why we have collars. They were devices used to control us, to limit our powers and keep us under their thumbs. They'd perform experiments on us every week, with one week off per month for new people to be brought in. Uhm...
[She stumbles a little over her words, having trouble explaining it all despite how many times she'd run over this conversation in her head beforehand.]
The experiments were sometimes tame when they felt like we were going to break, but usually they were horrible things, murderous things. Both of us have experienced dying before because of these experiments, but they would just bring us back again to test more and more. I was there for a year, Naminé even longer-- several of our friends as well. We've had to fight a lot over the time we were there, two whole wars even, which is why we know so much more fighting stuff than we did back home.
I-I'm not exactly comfortable telling you exactly about the experiments that happened to us there, I don't think either of us really are just yet. It's... been hard. We didn't really want you all to worry or anything like that, but that's not exactly the reason why we were holding back the information from you all. There's something significantly more important, it's uhm...
[Deep breath, you can do this.]
We're not the real Kairi and Naminé. We're clones, and not even good ones at that. We were cheaply and massly produced in order to be used as easily replaceable test subjects, and because of this we have... certain issues. We suffer from something known as 'clone sickness', caused by our poor DNA and stuff and what that means is uhm, we can get sick and go into comas or even sometimes... die. There's no rhyme or reason to it, it just happens. One day you can be perfectly healthy, and the next you'll be on the ground. It wasn't as big of a deal in Facility, considering they could easily just bring us back to life if we died or replace us into a new body, but that doesn't apply here. In Hinoto-Ri, our lives aren't disposable and death means death. We've been afraid to tell you all about this, afraid of what you'd think of us and not wanting to worry you all... but we know its important that you guys know the whole story.
I'm sorry that we haven't been honest before now. That's... about it, unless Naminé has something she wants to add. If you guys are confused or have any questions, we'll do our best to answer.