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GUNTHER SCHWARZ

Jaeger. Leviathan's Claw owner. Not particularly pleased to be here.

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04/23

[manufactured]

[Wesker has been spending a few later evenings at work lately - not because anything bad has been happening, but because he's needed some time to sort through things. This month has been a lot, and it helps him to just...go to work and do repetitive things with his hands and do tedious but productive things in general while he processes all of it.

He's doing well enough, though. A little shaken up overall due to how things have been going, but not terrible. It's with that in mind that he comes home and finds Jaeger in the study, coming to sit with him without saying much of anything. He's okay, though, and he seems it in his general demeanor, just not really volunteering much by way of words.]

[scythegun]

[Jaeger's on his phone as usual when Wesker comes in, though he'll put it away soon enough. Once Wesker's settled beside him he'll move a bit so they're shoulder-to-shoulder.]

Welcome home! How was your day?

[Wesker hasn't seemed too troubled by everything that's been happening lately, but Jaeger's keeping a close eye out for anything that might indicate he's not handling it all that well. It'd be nice if Wesker came to him to talk about problems, but that's probably going to be sort of difficult, so the least Jaeger can do is try to keep an eye out for anything abnormal.]

[manufactured]

It was a fairly good day, actually. I was left on my own for most of it, none of the interns bothered me. So it was productive, if nothing else.

[So that's good.]

Yours...?

[scythegun]

That's always good; productivity makes the time fly by!

My day was fine, though a bit slow. Not much to report today!

[Usually he tries to find some sort of story to tell, but he doesn't have one today.]

[manufactured]

I see.

[You seem in a good enough mood, either way...]

I've remembered some of my subordinates a little more lately. That girl in the photograph's name was Rebecca; she was a medic with one of the units I was in charge of.

[scythegun]

Oh, really? Do you remember anything else about her?

[manufactured]

Unfortunately, that was most of it; I do know that she was in a different unit than Chris, Jill, and Barry were however, so I don't actually know what she was doing on that assignment to begin with.

[Like, seriously, why was she there...]

I've remembered a bit more about Krauser lately as well - that one person that I think I liked well enough. I sent him on an assignment to Spain at one point, apparently.

[scythegun]

Huh...

[Well, that's interesting, but this sounds even more fascinating.]

What was he doing in Spain?

[manufactured]

[...Well, uh.]

Infiltrating a cult, apparently.

[scythegun]

...That raises so many questions.

[Where does he even start with that...]

Why did you want him to infiltrate a cult, exactly?

[manufactured]

I believe I mentioned something to you at one point - a parasite that I was interested in. It was called Las Plagas; I believed this cult in Spain to have access to one of the only known natural sources of it.

So I sent Krauser to infiltrate, and to obtain samples for me. It immediately went poorly.

[scythegun]

[Well, that's. Okay, sure, why did the cult have it though?? You know what, that probably doesn't matter.]

How poorly are we talking...?

[manufactured]

...I asked him to be reasonably quiet about it. Instead, he caused an international incident.

[...YEP.]

[scythegun]

...Because of course he did. What sort of international incident are we talking about?

[manufactured]

The sort that occurs when you kidnap the daughter of the President of the United States. For some reason.

[scythegun]

[WHY IS EVERYONE FROM YOUR WORLD SO INSANE]

I... Okay. What does that have to do with infiltrating a cult? Please tell me he didn't just do that because he could.

[manufactured]

Believe me, Jaeger, if I had any idea I would tell you. I just recall hearing that he apparently decided to do that and being extremely unamused.

[scythegun]

Well, understandably so! That's... I don't know what to say to that.

[manufactured]

He also apparently decided to steal my parasites, while he was at it; he died at some point, while he was on that mission. I recovered his body and found that he had infected himself with them - again, for some reason.

[...]

I had a rather unfortunate habit of stealing bodies and dissecting them, I've remembered doing that three different times now. But in the end I did get what I wanted, so obviously that's fine.

[scythegun]

[what the fuck]

Why. Why would he infect himself with parasites. Why were you stealing corpses. Why did any of this happen.

[He is so done. Your world was absolutely ridiculous.]

[manufactured]

I was stealing corpses for the sake of retrieving samples of the viruses that they had in them, usually. I did it to Birkin and someone that I don't recognize for that reason. Krauser, I suspect, was similar; I wanted to verify his death for myself and once I had done that, I took the parasite from his body.

...I'm not entirely sure what I was doing with them, granted - whether I wanted them for myself or to sell them to other people. Seeing as I was running a fairly large operation at one point, I must have had contacts that I could sell bioweapons and viruses to; I also wasn't unfamiliar with using them on myself, if my actions with Uroboros and whateve I'm infected with now are any indication. Las Plagas in particular could be used to do terrible things; I know for a fact that I did use them to do a few things that were rather horrific.

I assume Krauser infected himself for the same reason any of us did. The power.

[scythegun]

I can't really say I understand that, but I suppose I can see it.

[Wesker's abilities are incredible, after all. If Plagas works similarly, maybe that would be explanation enough.]

Your world sounds crazy. Almost everyone you've told me about sounds crazy too.

[manufactured]

...In fairness, I think that was almost a prerequisite for survival back then.

[Like. Look at literally everything his world decided to be.]

[scythegun]

I suppose it must have been! Your world was a very strange place...

[y i k e s]

[manufactured]

A lot of things were done for power, as best I can tell. Either for the sake of personal power, or the sort of thing that could be held over others. It led to a fair amount of insane things.