003 Ducklings - [ video ]

[georgeous]

[ Have a ... person on your screen. The gender is honestly hard to determine until he speaks up with a manly voice. Finally he's found the time to fix himself up nicely, so he's now in full uniform: purple lipstick, styled up hair, sunglasses, turban with blue feathers, yellow coat with purple fur. Yeah. Uniform. He smiles in a conceited way. ]

I would have taken the time to properly introduce myself on this network before, but given the recent... inconveniences I only got around to it now.
My name is George Ace and I'm a leading member of DUCK. For those not familiar with the acronym, DUCK stands for Defensive Universal Confidential Keepers. It consists of special agents whose purpose it is to protect earth from extraterrestrial life. [ If you're an alien you have every right to get offended, his intonation makes clear that he really doesn't think highly of non-humans. ]

I hope for good cooperation in the future.

Well then...

[ Suddenly there's a card with a 'D' on it between his fingers and... this gesture happens. Yeah ]

DUCK!

[ The feed ends. ]

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voice;

[onset]

And you're going to do the same here?

[Skeptical? Quite.]

voice;

[georgeous]

Considering the nature of this place that would be impossible. But it's not like things couldn't be adapted.

[onset]

Adapted how, if you don't mind my asking?

[georgeous]

That will have to be worked out properly, but the main idea is a support center for humans who have problems with nonhuman entities.

[ Because, as it has been so nicely pointed out to him, they're all aliens here. Ugh. ]

[onset]

Like those corpses.

[georgeous]

For example.

[onset]

Do you usually work, uhm - dressed like that?

[georgeous]

Yes. Unless it's missions that require a certain attire. Why?

[ .... you should see his special mission clothes. They're worse than this. Much. Worse. ]

[onset]

[a little sheepishly:] They're a little different from what you usually see in movies.

[georgeous]

Then the costume designers made a few wrong decisions. But to give them credit, the lower agents of mine work in more ordinary suits.

[onset]

Lower agents?

[georgeous]

Like any big organization DUCK has a hierachy. You start out as a simple agent in training and get assigned to easy missions. From there on you work your way up. Training mostly takes place in India and Dubai, but afterwards you can work all over the world. There's a lot of different squads and divisions.

And above all this, there is the council, which I am the current chairman off.

[onset]

Sounds - [er. He actually doesn't know what it sounds like.] Congratulations?

[georgeous]

[ He laughs. ]

Thank you.

Though in this world my title won't matter too much. [ It should, George thinks, but he's realistic enough to know that it really won't. ]

[onset]

[Can't say it matters much to him, no. Still-]

You never know.