audio | Chip Event (Forward dated to April 1st)

[gochuugoku]

[Coming from China's comm today is a series of random notes from his bamboo flute. Doesn't sound like the usual expertise he displays. What about the whole "changing color phenomenon"? Well, he's already had his freak out, so now he's feeling slightly better. Then... you may or may not hear the sound of him taking in a big breath before--]

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!

[The flute makes a very high pitch cry as China blows all his air into the instrument. Then, again, comes the--]

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!

[He keeps doing it. Taking a deep breath. Blowing with all his might into the instrument. Hopefully no one becomes deaf because of him.]

[OOC: As a result from getting his chip removed, China's become a child again, a child who can't speak or understand any language besides his own. All tags will be answered with not4000yet. (Forgot, can't comment with that account since it isn't part of the discedo community.) This is only the first phase of the chip after effects. Feel free to yell at him, or whatever you like!]

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[ audio | English ]

[maychetnha]

[there is a moment where everything clicks; is this a telephone!?]

Oh. Oh! I know what this is now. What peculiar looking telephone... [another click; and if this is a telephone, then that must mean there is another person on the other end!] Um. Hello?

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect)]

[gochuugoku]

[Um...]

H-Hello?

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

[looks pained for a moment; this is the first Chinese dialect she learned back when she was small.]

... Hello. Is this a baby?

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

I am not a baby! I am China!

[Even though it's only audio, he puffs out his cheeks at being called a baby.]

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

[oh wow, she should have deduced because who else speaks this old of a dialect by choice?]

China? [long pause, and thinks of the most polite way to ask]... What has your voice changed?

[ audio | Vietnamese ]

[maychetnha]

[the moment of curiosity changed into slight resentment; was this all a ruse to get her to speak back in his native tongue instead of hers?]

You know it is not very nice to play games like this.

[ audio | Chinese]

[gochuugoku]

[He caught the first part, but the last part...]

What is wrong with my voice? And what did you just say? I could not understand you at all.

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

Ha, ha. [dry laugh.] Very funny, oldest brother. You have always understood me before.

Your voice is different. Very childlike. Is it the telephone?

[ audio | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

"Oldest brother"? Me? But I have no siblings. I am an only child. Sometimes I wish I had a little brother or sister, though. Someone close who could look up to me.

...What is a telephone? Is it a food item? A spice?

[ audio, video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

[Wow. She never thought it would hurt to have China deny her as his sibling, even if they were not strictly blood related... This conversation is all kinds of weird for her. She laughs quietly, disbelievingly.] Oh, you are not that much of an old man to be forgetting all these things. You do not have real brothers and sisters, but you have plenty of... [pauses, lamely]... us. Telephone is what you are holding right now.

[tap, taptaptap, tap, taptap--whoa, and suddenly video function is on.]

[video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

[Despite his denial, he most definitely was a baby now. And his hair was as red as the red on the robes he was wearing. His eyes were blue too, thanks to the color event.]

Oh! I can see you now!

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

[She looks down at the device, expecting China's grumpy face but is looking at a child's face. His colourings are weird, but she can... kinda see how this child is Chinese. That is what he must have meant by China.]

Oh. You really are a baby. I thought you were someone else. [in a more motherly tone] So what is your name, little child?

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

I already said, I am China. But the people also call me Wang Yao.

What about you?

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

How can you be China? You are so... little...

I am [prononciates it in Vietnamese] Việt Nam. [pauses, and then gives its Chinese counterpart.] 南越.

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

Well, I would be more grown up if my country was united... But all the states are fighting with each other, so it has stunned my physical growth.

南越? [He smiles.] That is a beautiful name.

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

But China has been united for a very, very long time. Since something like 220 BCE. [Or maybe this is all just a dream? Everything is just so strange.]

[Of course you would think it's beautiful, you were the one that gave it to her more than a thousand years ago. She smiles politely, almost indulgently at little China.] ... Ah. Thank-you. [pauses.] 中国 is a very strong name.

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

Eh? It is 220, though, and there seems to be no end in sight to unification yet. [221 would actually be where he was finally reunited, but details, details.] You make it sound as though you can see into the future.

That is what all the people in my country say. That is why, I am going to work hard and study hard so I can be big and strong someday!

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

... [Something is afoot. It can't possibly be 220 BCE. This video-telephone device would have never existed back then. She isn't even sure if this kind of device exists in her year of 1978.]

[Encouragement is on the tip of her tongue, but instead she blurts--] Aiyaa, I had no idea you were such a cute child!

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

There you go again... sounding as though you are an oracle.

...Are you an oracle?

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

Not a traditional oracle. No.

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

But you can still see into the future?

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

It is not so much seeing is it is like seeing-- ... It is very complicated to explain. Not very important.

[Since this is a rare opportunity to get to know little China, maybe she'll take advantage of this and ask him things.] 弟弟. [No, still a little too weird.] 中国. What do you dream about?

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

What do I dream about?

[He puts a sleeve-covered hand on his chin.]

I dream about dragons living in their palaces under the sea and within the heavens, or about what I could be when I grow up. Though, sometimes I have nightmares too. [He shifts his weight to one foot.]

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[maychetnha]

I had the same dreams when I was little... about a dragon that lived in the heavens who fell in love with a fairy of the mountains. Sometimes of running through fields, with unbound feet. Dreams about goldfish are good, too. It means good things will happen to you soon.

[A quiet sigh.] Nightmares feel ominous, do they not. But it is good to know when you wake up, that is usually when they are over. Usually.

[ video | Chinese (ancient dialect) ]

[gochuugoku]

What the oracle predicted for my future does not help at all with the nightmares. I know when I wake up I am safe, for the most part, but I still have this foreboding feeling.