[VOICE]

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

[There is some tapping and tinkering in the background before Tenenbaum speaks in her very thick German accent]

What year is this? It has been so long--

[She breaks herself off]

Are you from the surface? The little ones, will you--No. Forget that.

I am Doctor Tenenbaum, and yes, I am German. The war is over, I hope that the idiotic hostility died with it.

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[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Which war? You'll have to narrow it down.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

The recent one. Herr Hitler. Those terrible prison camps.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Oh, World War II. Most people here won't care.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Have I been down here that long? I remember the day the camps closed, and I saw freedom for the first time in years.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

You're probably not going to believe this, but you're talking to people from different times and places than your own. It's 2032 for me. A lot of the people here are from 2009, for some reason.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

This is what you say, that others are ahead of me? I do not understand, this is true. Perhaps it is a good thing I am scientist not clergy.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

It's really weird, and I don't understand it at all. But it's true.

Almost no one here is old enough to remember World War II. I'm sure not. Some people aren't even from Earth.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

I see; I do not understand but I see.

Perhaps the little ones will be safe.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

"Little ones?"

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Children. Some young girls I tend for. Rapture is a dangerous place, someone must protect them.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

This isn't exactly the safest place, either.

"Rapture?"

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

They only have me and--I am not much. If I can get them to the surface--

Rapture is a city under the sea, where I am.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Someone here could probably help you with that, if you asked.

There was no place like that in my world in the 20th century.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

I may, the little ones are the future and they need to be safe.

Rapture was to be utopia. Perfect. Andrew Ryan promised scientists like me a place we didn't have to worry. It all fell apart. It was to be secret but now, with no way out, why keep it?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Utopias never work.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

I see now.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

Your war may be over, perhaps.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

The war, I only bring it up because the fools always do first.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

It is important to them, I suppose.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Pity. They could be focusing on more useful things, yes>

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

Only if this war of yours is truly over.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

It is over. I know that much.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

How fortunate for you, insect.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Insect? Idiot machine.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

Idiot? Hardly.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

If you cannot distinguish the genetic differences between a human and an insect then your coding needs to be re-written.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm well aware of the distinction. Compared to the true might of Cybertronian life, however, all you infinitesimal little organics seem like insects.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

If you are to say such things, say them properly.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

I say what I mean.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Insult me if you must but insult me correctly.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

And how would you like to be insulted, then?

[klangedermusik.livejournal.com]

There is nothing wrong with being German.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

No. There is not. Better safe than sorry, yes?

[klangedermusik.livejournal.com]

Ja. Some people in my world are still upset at me because of how I reacted after the assassination of my former Archduke. Not that I blame them, exactly, but it was hardly my doing.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

Some. Too much for me to think about. Some call me Nazi then I say that, no, I was in those camps not running them. They forget that Germans were also stuck in the camps.

[klangedermusik.livejournal.com]

I don't really support Germany's boss's decision to open those camps. And it's actually "are" in my case. It's actually 1940 in my world.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

I remember that year; I don't blame the Germans. I do not think of them as terrible for what they did. Was I glad to leave? Of course but gained much experience helping the doctors perform experience.

[klangedermusik.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he didn't mean any of it. He really does believe in what he's doing.

[oceanicbutterfly]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor. My name is Karen Minazuki.

[notverymuch.livejournal.com]

I am not much but thank you for welcome.

[rocketridehome.livejournal.com]

... You are German?

The year differs world to world, but if the war is over... The last I remember of Germany was that it was going to war.