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"HYDRA Internal Communication"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Nov-26-13 AT 00:53 AM (EST)
 
To: Vega Sector Intelligence Directorate
From: Division Commander 47, Vega Sector Operations
In re: Re: (fwd) (fwd) Suggested Operation
Date: Friday May 28 2337

Guys -

Is this some kind of joke? Your guy is seriously suggesting that I send out a HazCap team to grab a bunch of teeny boppers? There is no way in hell I'm going to authorize this operation on the basis of obvious GENOM disinfo. Von Strücker would have my HEAD for wasting resources and exposing the organization to ridicule this way, and I assure you two more would NOT grow in its place.

For Christ's sake, we're supposed to be professionals. You should be able to tell when those GENOM jackoffs are just screwing with you like this. Stop dicking around and do some serious work.

- 47

----REPLIED MESSAGE ATTACHED----

From: Vega Sector Intelligence Directorate
To: Division Commander 47, Vega Sector Operations
In re: (fwd) (fwd) Suggested Operation
Date: Friday May 28 2337

Commander:

Field Information Specialist 4827 forwarded the following item from his catchment area last night. Initial assessments look very promising. Recommend deploying a full Hazardous Subject Capture Team to infiltrate the venue and acquire these assets for the Special Weapons Branch at the time and place indicated.

Hail HYDRA,
VSID

----FORWARDED MESSAGE ATTACHED----

From: Field Information Specialist 4827
To: Vega Sector Intelligence Directorate
In re: (fwd) Suggested Operation
Date: Thursday May 27 2337

Sir:

Believe I have located escaped special asset subject of recent GENOM Black Ops search-retrieve efforts this sector. Significant phenotypic match to description in Intercept 95982 (xref). Apologies hasty message but maintaining surveillance. Attached item suggests optimum time/place for capture. Recommend acquisition of other listed personnel as well - proximity to subject suggests may have extended capabilities themselves, plus useful prime subject intel.

Hail HYDRA!
4827

----ATTACHMENT BELOW----

The Philip Wilding Memorial High School Student Activities Committee

proudly presents

A Night of Musical Entertainment!

featuring student bands

the High Energy Protons
Undertaker 505
Vapor Barrier
and
Karel Saganovich and his Starstuff Orchestra

and starring
The Philip Wilding Memorial High School Light Music Club
doing business as

DISCARDED WEAPONS

lead vocals / keyboards
Mairwen Porter
guitar / backing vocals
Rhian Lewis
bass guitar / ominous silence
Laura Kinney
drums / lookin' like a boss
Sarah Inazuma

This SATURDAY NIGHT at the LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLL CIVIC CENTER!

doors open at 7:30 PM
free admission with PWMHS student ID
all others cr4.50
positively no outside beverages


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  RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Polychrome Nov-26-13 1
     RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-26-13 2
         RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Polychrome Nov-26-13 5
             RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-27-13 10
     RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Verbena Nov-26-13 3
         RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-26-13 4
  RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Mercutio Nov-26-13 6
     RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-26-13 7
         RE: HYDRA Internal Communication BobSchroeck Nov-27-13 8
             RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-27-13 9
                 RE: HYDRA Internal Communication ebony14 Nov-27-13 11
                     RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-27-13 13
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  RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Nov-27-13 12
     RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Aug-14-14 15
         RE: HYDRA Internal Communication BobSchroeck Aug-15-14 16
             RE: HYDRA Internal Communication Gryphonadmin Aug-15-14 17
                 RE: HYDRA Internal Communication ebony14 Aug-15-14 18
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1. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   Props to SC 47 for making the right decision, even if it's for the wrong reason.
Also, is "Sarah Inazuma" a new name for Azula?

Polychrome


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2. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >Props to SC 47 for making the right decision, even if it's for the
>wrong reason.
>Also, is "Sarah Inazuma" a new name for Azula?

Yes. Laura, Rhian, and Mairwen were able to convince her that "Her Celestial Majesty Azula the First, Phoenix Queen of Dìqiú" would probably not fly with the New Snowdonia Department of State's computers when the time came to retrosynthesize her identity documents, so they registered her as Laura's orphaned half-sister (Victor's brother's daughter by a different woman) from Tomodachi instead. "Sarah" is Laura's late mother's name; "Inazuma" is Japanese for "lightning".

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5. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>Props to SC 47 for making the right decision, even if it's for the
>>wrong reason.
>>Also, is "Sarah Inazuma" a new name for Azula?
>
>Yes. Laura, Rhian, and Mairwen were able to convince her that "Her
>Celestial Majesty Azula the First, Phoenix Queen of
>Dìqiú" would probably not fly with the New Snowdonia
>Department of State's computers when the time came to retrosynthesize
>her identity documents

That's only because they hadn't made contact with Diqiu at that point.
I'm sure they have procedures for dealing with foreign royalty.

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10. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-27-13 AT 02:09 PM (EST)
 
>That's only because they hadn't made contact with Diqiu at that point.
>I'm sure they have procedures for dealing with foreign royalty.

True, although then they would have had the United Republic Ministry for Interstellar Affairs going, "... Snowdonia says what now?" :)

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3. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-26-13 AT 01:04 AM (EST)
 
(edit) Pff. What I get for taking too long to think about what I was typing. XD


Well, seeing as how 'inazuma' translates to 'lightning', I'd give it pretty good odds! Actually, I kinda like this outcome, even if it still has nothing to do with the current Diqiu story. It's internally consistent and puts Azula in a situation where there's no expectations she has to live up to, which is what basically ruined her life before.


>Props to SC 47 for making the right decision, even if it's for the
>wrong reason.
>Also, is "Sarah Inazuma" a new name for Azula?
>
>Polychrome

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hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

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4. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >Actually, I kinda like this outcome, even if it
>still has nothing to do with the current Diqiu story. It's internally
>consistent and puts Azula in a situation where there's no expectations
>she has to live up to, which is what basically ruined her life before.

Well, I don't know as I'd call it an "outcome". I mean, it's high school, that's sort of by definition a transition period.

I considered a couple of different next phases after Blue Harvest that featured Gryphon following up the case himself, including one set very shortly after it in the late Golden Age and another that would have been a sort of prototype/prequel of Weapon of Choice, earlier in the Exile, but neither really worked for me; among other things, they weren't breaking anything that might be called new ground.

In playing around with the concept for the second version, though, I began to realize that the basic idea worked as a sequel to (the flashback parts of) Weapon of Choice. Making Laura the protagonist in a story that mirrors her own puts her in the unique position of having to take point on the salvage of another discarded weapon, recognizing and making an effort to connect with a kindred spirit. Keep in mind, this is less than a year after her escape from the Facility, so she's just barely an actual person herself at this point. So that is a fairly big job for her to be taking on, but I knew she would take it on, because a) she doesn't back away from challenges and b) she recognizes, as she says to Azula in the epilogue, that it's a chance to pay forward what was done for her.

And of course, as so often in this stage of her life, she couldn't have done it without Rhian and Mairwen. Perhaps even more so than Gryphon and Sir Victor, on a day-to-day basis, they are the keys to her - I can't even call it a recovery, technically, because she's not getting any thing back; she never had a childhood or any but the barest vestiges of human connection before.

It helped, also, that The Maiden in the Ice is the kind of title that naturally lends itself to a prepended Laura Kinney and. :)

--G.
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6. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   Without being allowed to play bass, which would be her natural inclination (Azula would naturally gravitate towards whatever position in the band the wields the most real power, which is of course the bass player) of course her fallback position would be the drummer, the position that demands an excess of either precision OR personality. Yes. That's just perfect.

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7. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >Without being allowed to play bass, which would be her natural
>inclination (Azula would naturally gravitate towards whatever position
>in the band the wields the most real power, which is of course the
>bass player) of course her fallback position would be the drummer, the
>position that demands an excess of either precision OR personality.
>Yes. That's just perfect.

It's also very therapeutic. You get to hit things and by the very nature of the position, you're obliged not to be particularly bothered by hairs out of place. (I expect she's still one of the most visually together rock drummers anyone's ever seen, causing people to wonder how she does it, but still.)

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8. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>of course her fallback position would be the drummer, the
>>position that demands an excess of either precision OR personality.
>>Yes. That's just perfect.
>
>It's also very therapeutic. You get to hit things and by the
>very nature of the position, you're obliged not to be particularly
>bothered by hairs out of place. (I expect she's still one of the most
>visually together rock drummers anyone's ever seen, causing people to
>wonder how she does it, but still.)

I don't know why, but suddenly I'm seeing her as the Spinal Tap drummer who spontaneously combusted, only she'd laugh and keep playing through and after...

-- Bob
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9. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >I don't know why, but suddenly I'm seeing her as the Spinal Tap
>drummer who spontaneously combusted, only she'd laugh and keep playing
>through and after...

Oddly, this is not the first time someone on these boards has envisioned Azula as a member of Spinal Tap. :)

--G.
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11. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>I don't know why, but suddenly I'm seeing her as the Spinal Tap
>>drummer who spontaneously combusted, only she'd laugh and keep playing
>>through and after...
>
>Oddly, this is not the first time someone on these boards has
>envisioned Azula as a member of Spinal Tap. :)
>

Well, if the final episodes of ATLA are anything to judge by, her crazy definitely goes up to 11.

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13. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>Oddly, this is not the first time someone on these boards has
>>envisioned Azula as a member of Spinal Tap. :)
>>
>Well, if the final episodes of ATLA are anything to judge by, her
>crazy definitely goes up to 11.

In fairness to Azula, everything went up to 11 that day.

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14. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>>Oddly, this is not the first time someone on these boards has
>>>envisioned Azula as a member of Spinal Tap. :)
>>>
>>Well, if the final episodes of ATLA are anything to judge by, her
>>crazy definitely goes up to 11.
>
>In fairness to Azula, everything went up to 11 that day.
>

"Look DaveAzula, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."

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12. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   Come to think of it, Mairwen shouldn't be the keyboard player; I should leave that spot open for future expansion. You never know when Wilding Memorial will get another unexpected transfer student.

--G.
It'd probably be Jenny Wakeman. That's two jokes right there if you're keeping score.
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15. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >Come to think of it, Mairwen shouldn't be the keyboard player; I
>should leave that spot open for future expansion. You never know when
>Wilding Memorial will get another unexpected transfer student.
>
>It'd probably be Jenny Wakeman. That's two jokes right
>there if you're keeping score.

I was just in here looking for something else, and wanted to take a moment and pout that nobody got this. :)

--G.
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16. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >I was just in here looking for something else, and wanted to take a
>moment and pout that nobody got this. :)

Knowing Miss Wakeman (and the series from which she comes) only secondhand, I lack sufficient background to detect any but the most obvious jokes here. And there aren't any of those. Closed-captioning for the reference-impaired would be appreciated.

-- Bob
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17. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>I was just in here looking for something else, and wanted to take a
>>moment and pout that nobody got this. :)
>
>Knowing Miss Wakeman (and the series from which she comes) only
>secondhand, I lack sufficient background to detect any but the most
>obvious jokes here. And there aren't any of those. Closed-captioning
>for the reference-impaired would be appreciated.

Well... XJ-9 joining a band called "Discarded Weapons" (when, as I understand it, blowing stuff up is something she's optimized for but not terribly interested in) is fairly obvious, but I'm slightly surprised that nobody cottoned to why she'd be the keyboard player, specifically. I mean, I know some of you people are as old as I am, and anyway, recorded music is pretty atemporal these days. :)

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18. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >>>I was just in here looking for something else, and wanted to take a
>>>moment and pout that nobody got this. :)
>>
>>Knowing Miss Wakeman (and the series from which she comes) only
>>secondhand, I lack sufficient background to detect any but the most
>>obvious jokes here. And there aren't any of those. Closed-captioning
>>for the reference-impaired would be appreciated.
>
>Well... XJ-9 joining a band called "Discarded Weapons" (when, as I
>understand it, blowing stuff up is something she's optimized for but
>not terribly interested in) is fairly obvious, but I'm slightly
>surprised that nobody cottoned to why she'd be
>the keyboard player,
>specifically. I mean, I know some of you people are as old as I am,
>and anyway, recorded music is pretty atemporal these days. :)
>

And some of us aren't big enough Yes fans to make the connection. It happens.


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19. "RE: HYDRA Internal Communication"
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   >And some of us aren't big enough Yes fans to make the connection. It
>happens.

Exactly. All I know about Jenny Wakeman is her appearance and the name of the show she's from -- and the only member of Yes I know by name is the lead singer, and premature senility (and being too lazy to Google) are robbing me of that right now...

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