http://mynameis-jake.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mynameis-jake.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_channel2010-06-07 11:45 am

PSA: this is your brain on Yeerks

My name is Jake. I'm here to tell you that there is a Yeerk among you. His name is Iniss 335, and his host is Tom Berenson. My brother.

I'm new to this ship, but not to the war against the Yeerk invasion. I'm told that some of you are sympathetic to the Yeerks, that you pity them, and I understand.

I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong. I can't make that call for you. But you know what the Yeerks are. You know how they control a host so completely, so perfectly, that you can't tell who around you is free and who's helpless in his own mind. The one you don't know is Tom, who has been imprisoned for more than three years. Imagine being unable to move a single muscle, voice a single thought, imagine your body a tool for your captor, used to enslave everyone you care about. Imagine that your thoughts are no longer your own, that someone else can rifle through them at will, and does: uses your knowledge to fool your friends, find their weaknesses, and your every fantasy to shame you.

I know that my brother is strong, but I also know that he is suffering, and I would like that suffering to stop. If you still feel that all creatures have a right to live as they choose, then so be it. But I hope you won't mistake Iniss for the victim here.

If you see Tom, I would appreciate any information.

[Private to Jake]

[identity profile] echoofaperson.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I always thought you were a good kid, smarter than your grades showed, maybe meant for something bigger. Even went out of my way to keep you out of trouble as per your brother's deal with me to keep his family safe. I guess that era of our relationship is over now. Mores the pity.

I think you forgot something very vital in your little appeal; not everyone is going to have the same care and compassion for your brother as you do, Jake. And Tom is still in here. There are people on this ship that will just see the yeerk, and not the human, and the loss of one petty human life as an acceptable cost for killing a yeerk.

Remember that.

[identity profile] changelingdude.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
ALIEN BRAIN SLUGS!?!

[identity profile] thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And here Marco had me under the impression that you were trying to keep this a secret.

[Private to Jake]

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm...familiar with the Yeerk situation even though I'm from another world. I was put in the brig for trying to kill one. I didn't know all the circumstances, and that''s my fault, but after hearing some people on the ship I do know one thing: that Yeerk was rare in comparison to these.

If there's anything I can do to help you save your brother, I will. He's a person on this ship like anyone else.

Re: [Private to Katara]

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've met him yet. If you can give me a description, I'll definitely keep an eye out.

The Yeerk was apparently sorry for the things that had happened on the ship involving its...friends? Anyway, there was a trial and it was decided that the Yeerk wold be indefinitely imprisoned forever. Some of the people on the ship didn't accept that: they figured that it might eventually be let out, and then we'd be endangering the ship.

At the time, I was one of the people who believed that.

[identity profile] thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I found out, yes.

Re: [Private to Katara]

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, it would help.

Now I know a little more about the trial and the circumstances...and I'm going to think twice before I attempt to kill anything.

But that doesn't mean I'd let the Yeerks do this to anyone either.

[identity profile] thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Why are you thanking me for keeping quiet about something that you just announced to the entire ship?

[identity profile] thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Things have a tendency to happen, whether people want them to or not.

Re: [Private to Katara]

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Observes photo after getting over how strange it was to have pictures look this accurate.]

Okay. I'll keep you posted.

But aren't you worried his Yeerk is reading what you said?

[Private to Jake]

[identity profile] kawalskyeffect.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Major Charles Kawalsky. I'm on security. What happened? Where did you last see him?

[Private]

[identity profile] kawalskyeffect.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Who is he traveling with? Give me a description if you don't know the name.

We'll do our best.

Re: [Private to Katara]

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well if you're sure, okay then. I just don't want people getting hurt.

Hey...now that I think about it, you wouldn't happen to be "Prince Jake," would you?

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