ex_finnish_604 | Yhdeksän ♰ Action/Voice

[Late one Saturday evening, a rustle may be heard in the bushes near the high school.... and look! A white blur just came from nowhere and went through one of the school's open windows! Is it a ghost? A ninja? A robber? Close, but no. It's just Finland, who you may or may not have seen walking through the streets just minutes ago. No worries, the white is only from his button down shirt and argyle sweater vest. SO CLASSY.

In any case, he really did enter the high school through a first floor window and proceeded to search around for the chemistry lab-- which wasn't hard to find, surprisingly enough. The first thing he does is reach for the room's telephone (what do you mean 'for emergencies only'?) and place a call.

Does anyone know much about chemistr-- OHYAAAAAAAAAAA!

[And naturally, since this is Finland we're talking about, a crash is audible. Seeing as that he failed to turn on the lights and is looking through the glass bottles of chemicals anyway, it only makes sense that one would drop to the floor and break. Way to go, genius. Real smart there. The lights, however, soon flip on in one room of the school if you're around to see it.]

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It's a type of salted licorice! It's really popular in Finland.

Oh are you from Finland?

I guess you could say that....

[Looking at you carefully.]

Could I? Does that mean I am right? Or are you not from Finland?

Well.... have you met any of the other nations here? I am Finland.

Oh.

Yes. I am married to Denmark here. And I have met Norway, he is one of my students here.

I also met Sweeden a while ago.

[....yeah. Now she just needs to find Iceland and she's got the matching set.]

Married.... to Danmark.

[You poor soul.]

I'm sorry.

Yes. Or at least the town here thinks we are. He seems convinced that we should act like a family.

[Which is a bit hard considering she has no idea what that means.]

Good luck.

Do you know him well?

[She's assuming a yes.]

Yes, I do. He's kind of like family, I guess.

Oh really?

[Smiles. Family, means people who understand what that blasted word means.]

Do you know how to be in a family then?

[Because the last thing she wants to do is blow her cover now.]

Eh? Well, it's a little different for us, but.... I guess so.

Tell me.

I've never had one before. I'm not sure what you are supposed to do.

[Other then using it to rub in Chell's face that, I have a family and you don't. But that doesn't work without Chell here.]

It's different for everyone. You just genuinely care about them, I guess. You want them to be happy and are always on their side.

I see.

[Still listening.]

Denmark said we should eat together.

Some families do that too. You should try it! He's actually a pretty good cook.

[She nods]

He was getting very distraught when I said I'd never eaten herring before.

What? You should try it!

The point I was trying to make to him was that I had never eaten anything before I came here.

[Not that he listened.]

Eh?! So you're a robot or something?

[Oh a smart one at last.]

Something like that. I was an AI. A Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System.

That's really cool! You seem so much like a human to me. You must have a really advanced system or something.

[Smiles, compliments she likes them.]

Well I am but they put me in a human body here. It's quite odd. I had to learn how to walk when I arrived.

[Something that resulted in much un-telephoned rage. And learning to tie her shoes....yeah. Total fail at that for a while.]