shiningboxofjustice | PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

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[Athrun hesitates. Was it all right to tell her? They had only known each other for a couple of days. But they had spent every waking hour together, and they were in a strange situation. So it couldn't hurt.]

What if I told you...that my world possessed the technology to alter human DNA?

[ Yukari blinked, frowning a bit as she thought it over for a moment. ]

... That I'm confused about why that really matters with what we're talking about, honestly.

It was the entire crux of the war. My society was able to use the procedure to create humans who possessed far superior potential, both physically and mentally, to the average human who underwent a natural birth. People who received the surgery -- or were the offspring of two parents who both received it, such as myself -- are known as Coordinators, and those who didn't are called Naturals.

The procedure was first made available to the public nearly fifty years ago. Since then, Coordinators have led the way in virtually every scientific field. Unfortunately...this came at the cost of polarizing humanity.

[ Wow. And she thought that the giant robots were something out of some stupid sci-fi anime. ]

Oh. That's... yeah. That'd definitely make things... get pretty decisive. From what I've heard about genetic engineering in my world, there's a pretty big debate about what should be allowed about it.

[ But there was one thing that she didn't get. ]

... But how exactly did get to the point of open warfare like that in the first place? Shouldn't there be both... Naturals and Coordinators on Earth and in the PLANTs?

No. When the discrimination got especially bad, most Coordinators left for space. Even today, most Coordinators live either on the moon or in PLANT. There are some, such as myself, who live in Orb, but that's it. Naturals populate most of the rest of the Earth.

So with such clear lines drawn, it made things easy.

[ Yukari didn't say anything for several moments, because, well, what could she really say to that. Athrun was right, what he said really had made it too easy for things to get that way.

Still, she had to say something eventually, so... ]

I'm kinda surprised that ZAFT bothered with using the Neutron Jammers on Earth though. In that situation I would've figured that they'd just... use them around them to prevent nuclear weapons from being used on them and just fire their own at Earth.

They would have had unacceptable environmental consequences. ZAFT wanted to retaliate against the Earth Alliance, but they didn't want to contaminate the Earth.

That, plus they wanted to show off some moral superiority.

[ Yukari didn't say anything for a few moments, but eventually she nodded. ]

Yeah. That makes sense. With both things. [ After all, it wasn't like the PLANTs could really survive without Earth's resources. Also, who would want to really be the ones responsible for destroying a planet. ]

Anyway...I'm sorry that the subject keeps coming back to my past. I don't actually mean to talk about it every chance I get.

It's alright... I mean, I am the one who keeps asking you about stuff that links back to it, after all.

I suppose there's no harm if you don't mind hearing about it.

Though, if you don't mind changing tack...do you have any thoughts on what we'll find when we reach Pewter City?

More people who's every thought revolves around Pokemon?

[ Small pause, but then... ]

... Also, I think Pewter City has one of those gyms that we heard about back in Viridian. Maybe this one will actually be open.

That doesn't count. That's a given.

[Athrun can't help but chuckle at it, though.]

That's my thought, too. I'm interested to see how strong these gym leaders are.

Yeah yeah.

[ She's not really sure how she feels about the whole gym thing, but... ]

I'm assuming that they kinda need to be pretty strong. I mean, they wouldn't be in charge of the gyms if they weren't, right?

Sure, but someone being higher rank than someone else doesn't necessarily mean they're good, period. That's why I'm curious.

... I guess that's a good point. We really don't know how this whole challenge thing is even set up.

Well, however it works out, I hope beating them is within reason. The more difficult an opponent they are, the longer we may be stuck here.

[ Assuming that beating them would actually get them back home, of course. ]

Well, they kinda have to be beatable. I mean, there wouldn't be any point of the whole challenge if they were too strong. Though... I guess they could just hold back depending on who's challenging them?

Maybe. I guess we'll see when we get there.

[He falls silent after that. He's got nothing else to say, and he's pretty tired now.]

PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

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