A heroic clone

[herodrawing]

[Following is backdated to before Seta's invitation.]

Major Ingram really was a good guy all along? I had no idea... that Calico guy managed to trick everyone. He seemed just like the real deal!

It just shows that you can't judge someone just because he was made one way or another. Even if the Major was cloned to be a spy, goodness of his own heart prevailed.

[Izuru sits down while pondering loudly. He starts to sketch absent-mindedly.]

I wasn't there to see it, but it must've looked something like this. I'm sure...

Comments

[deathflag_survivor]

Yeah... Ingram was trying to help us out, and the Captain had his back the whole while.

[What he would've gived though to be there and just ask what the purpose of Mission Doll had been though...]



All the talk of clones also gives us a little more insight into the Balmarian forces too. And also that woman that looked like him.

I think it's only logical to assume she was some sort of opposite-sex clone.

[herodrawing]

Ehh? Opposite sex clone... isn't that too much like a science fiction comic?

[deathflag_survivor]

Frankly comic books are probably tamer than half the stuff we've gotten to tangle with. You're the comic book guy so you'd know, right?

[herodrawing]

Not all of them... but I see what you mean.

Still, Ingram was very good at the double agent thing. He managed to fool everyone.

[cloningblues]

...What are you drawing now?

[herodrawing]

It's an epic struggle. See?

[Izuru's picture depicts a long-haired figure grasping at his head in pain, being surrounded by various monsters from all sides. It kinda looks like Ingram if you squint hard enough.]

But in the end, light and justice prevail.

[cloningblues]

Maybe wait a while before drawing your... masterpieces, about Ingram. He just died.

[herodrawing]

But... I am trying to pay respect to his noble actions!

[Izuru looks honestly surprised that you'd say something like that, Asagi.]

Do you think he wouldn't like that?

[cloningblues]

It's... Whatever, do what you want. It's not like he can see it.

...Do you think he was programmed to do a specific thing?

[herodrawing]

You mean, like a robot?

I know he had a mission on Earth but... hmm.

[And now Izuru is deep in thought. That's one way to interrupt his drawing.]

[cloningblues]

He was a clone, created for a specific purpose. Balmarians, Wulgaru, the Lady's Good Men - all of them think that's a good way to get cheap and expendable soldiers.

And not just them.

[herodrawing]

Umm.

We don't really count as expendable, do we?

[cloningblues]

No. But we were made specifically for this. Just like him.

[herodrawing]

Asagi...

You think we don't have a choice in doing this?

[cloningblues]

Technically yes. But what kind of choice is that? "Sorry, I don't want to fight anymore, I'll just sit and watch while everyone else is trying to save Earth from aliens"?

There's no way I can say that.

[herodrawing]

But that's everyone, right?

I mean, I can't see any of our friends just sit back and watch and do nothing. Not just us Team Rabbits.

[cloningblues]

I know. But sometimes I wonder; am I doing this because I want to, or because that's how I was made?

[herodrawing]

I think you do it because you want to, Asagi.

That's because...

[You know what's coming, right?]

[cloningblues]

Yes, I know. You don't have to say it.

[herodrawing]

That's no fun, you know...