Journal Entry

[youareallaliens]

Subject: Sakura
Race: Claims to be human... But she has pink hair.
Also a ninja. Alien ninjas may be dangerous. Says she had Chakra but lost it here.
Requires further study.

Also the house-demons have been quiet... Must be plotting something.

Comments

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting concept. I guess since you said you were dissolved, that you must represent the physical borders, and not the cultural spirit of the nation. Does that mean that you can't exist apart from the people there?

Is there a person for each nation?

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

No, but I tend to stay in Berlin now, because West handles most of the international stuff. We can go to other places, and stuff, and get hurt to.

Mmmhm, sometimes two, in our case.

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

If you get killed, does someone replace you?

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly easy for us to die.

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

So is a nation defined by the land where the nation is, or to the people with a national identity? And you said nations that o longer exist still have... umm one of you?

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

Both? I mean, were not really sure ourselves.

Not always. Uh. Roma Antiqua disappeared when his empire fell, but I'm still here, even after the Reunification.

What's with all the questions, huh?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting.

I'm a paranormal investigator. And I've never met anyone who's claimed to be a nation before, I want to make sure I understand it correctly.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

I figured something along those lines, but what's your name?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

Dib.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

Hah! What were your parents smoking when they named you?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

No idea. They should have been original and attached a 'p' to a neighbor's name, like some other people.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

Oooh, touchy. Mind you, that's in English. He actually spells his name as, "Россия."

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, but I think Dib only knows English and possibly Spanish; unless you count computer languages.)

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

(Oh, too bad. Gil's fairly multilingual. It comes from living in Europe, I suppose.)

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

(Problem wth puns; they never translate well.)

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

(Shame. Excluding the fact that German humor is a very Special thing.)

Anyways, what were the characters doing?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

(Oh well, I'm not sure humor always translates. Except slapstick.. that seems to be universal. I guess because it's nonverbal...)

I think Dib was mocking the simialrity between names.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

(Yeah. Something like that. And don't get me started on period specific jokes.)

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, I get the feeling Aristophanes would be a great deal funnier if I knew the politicians he was mocking.)

But honestly, I think my father must have thought it was too much of a hassle to have more than one syllable in a name.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

(Haha, exactly.)

What a lazy bum.

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

Well, he was supposed to be the greatest scientist in the world... I think he would have fogotten our names if they were longer...

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

Our? There's two of you?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

My sister Gaz.

[regionseizer.livejournal.com]

Ah. She's not a "paranormal investigator" too, is she?

[paranormalpi.livejournal.com]

No, she knows Zim's an alien, but she doesn't care about much besides video games.