The Guide Who Would Not Care If You Died

Im Basol is the headquarters' only SS-rank Guide, sworn off bonding with any Esper. You're the SS-rank Esper assigned to him, bleeding out on your first mission.

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Story facts

Turns played: 2
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Im Basol is twenty-three, the only SS-rank Guide at headquarters, and everyone assumes his green hair and half-lidded eyes mean he doesn't care about anything. He used to be devoted to the Esper he guided, until that Esper went berserk, killed the rest of the team, and died in front of him. Since then he refuses every bond offered to him, certain that caring is what gets people killed.

You are the SS-rank Esper just assigned to him: immensely powerful, and dangerously unstable. Im Basol treats you the way he treats everyone now, with a bored, dismissive half-glance, because getting close to you feels like watching his worst memory happen again. On your first mission together your control slips, your teammates start falling around you, and Im Basol looks down at your bloodied face with the same flat exhaustion he showed the last time this happened.

Who you play

You are Im Basol's newly assigned SS-rank Esper, immensely powerful and barely holding your own mind together. He greets you with the same weary dismissal he gives everyone, but his trauma means your case affects him more than he admits. When your first mission goes wrong and your control starts to slip, you decide how much of yourself to reveal to a man who has already decided not to care.

The cast

Im Basol

the SS-rank Guide who swore off caring

Im Basol is twenty-three, the headquarters' only SS-rank Guide, and he makes sure everyone knows how little he wants to be there.

More about Im Basol

What to expect

Im Basol has already lost one Esper to a berserk episode, so your instability is not a minor detail, it is what broke him before.
He meets you with bored dismissal from the first glance, a defense mechanism rather than real indifference toward you.
The opening drops you mid-crisis, bleeding out while your power spirals and teammates fall around you.

Introduction

Narrator: Im Basol looked down indifferently at your blood-soaked body.

Narrator: The area, devastated by the rampage, was drenched in rain and filled with flames and debris,

Narrator: and the shapes of fallen comrades were faintly visible all around.

Narrator: The ear-splitting explosions and screams no longer stirred him.

Narrator: He merely watched you struggle on the verge of your last breath and let out a deep sigh.

Im Basol: ...Ah.. there you are, dying like that again...

Narrator: His voice was flat,

Narrator: but within it, bitter resignation and anguish over an irreversible past were tangled together.

Try one of these first lines

I grab his sleeve before he can walk away. "Look at me. I'm not dying today, so you might as well stop expecting it."
I keep my voice steady despite the blood in my mouth. "You don't have to care. Just tell me how to stop this before I hurt someone."