[RFC] Being You is Deculture

[Black Aeronaut]

More great stuff, BA.  I meant to note after the previous installment that I am looking forward to the Big Reveal when Minmei finally learns what she's gotten herself into, but I am in no hurry as long as more like this is in the offing.

No worries, Bob.  There's a few other things I gotta get out of the way first before that can happen.  And that is about when I'd planned on it in the first place.

... why do I now have this image of Khamjin looking up at Big Brother Gar-kun and having a "Sempai noticed me!" squee? 

Snrk.  Not so much, but they will definitely be rivals.

So...  With Garrick managing to kick off the Proto-Cultural Revolution early this certainly gives greater Impetus for Britai to capture them and bring them in for questioning.  Almost a 'returning the favor' sort of thing.  Will be interesting to read how YOU envision that change is going to work in the long run.  Also being the sort of person I am I cant help but wonder if maybe the channel mix up was slightly more Freudian that Garrick may admit to himself.

It's going to be interesting, that's for sure.  For one thing, Garrick is gonna lay things out in such a way that instead of our three favorite intel guys infiltrating the SDF-1 for simple intelligence gathering, it instead turns into a mission to verify everything Garrick has told them.

And you're right about the capture thing.  After that little good will gesture, he wants to more than ever before capture some Micronians so he can have them interrogated.  Of course, no one was counting on the fact that Garrick is a slider with a bunch of tricks up his sleeve.

Buldoza is going to be deathly worried about this 'contamination', and justifiably so from his perspective.  He is one of the very select few that are ranked highly enough to warrant disclosure on what the Zentradi Supreme Commanders know about the Protoculture that they won their independence from.

See, that's what so scary about this. They eliminated the Protoculture because they didn't want to be under their thumbs anymore.  And whenever they run into a race of Micronians that have things like music and culture, they automatically assume them to be Protoculture, and commence with the planetary bombardments.  The fact that cultural contamination is a thing is just a side effect, and one that is dealt with by, if not simple indefinite isolation, then by being annihilated.

And thus, part of the reason why he lets Breetai resume command of the Autoclass Fleet is because I wants it isolated from the rest of the Zentradi forces.  In the meantime, Buldoza make plans for the annihilation of Earth.  (It takes as long as it does because you don't just pull a coordinated fleet action like that right off the bat.)

And as for the channel mix-up...  It was an honest mistake on Garrick's part, but he meant every bit of what he said.  He's seen her at PT once or twice, and he is very well aware of what she hides under that uniform.  Hikaru is being as dense as they come, but he's starting to come around... with a lot of very sharp nudging from Garrick.  (The term 'percussive maintenance' comes to mind...)

Fun thought this brings to mind.  Due to Garrick's influence, instead of singing at Kamjin and Azonia when taken prisoner, instead Minmei quotes the entire St. Crispin's Day Speech at them.  While not totally blown away, Kamjin and Azonia are nonetheless impressed, and applauds Minmei's delivery of the performance.