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Life in Watcher society is a strange balance, to say the least.  On the one hand, they value the collection and storage of knowledge over all else.  On the other hand, there are certain things that watchers just aren't meant to know, and most of those in the massive Watcher stations are aware of this on some level.  It is at the same time incredibly exciting and saddening when a young watcher, over the course of their observations, learns something they were not meant to know.  On the one hand, it's an incredible piece of new knowledge.  On the other hand, they can't share it with anyone but their direct superiors, and the punishment for disobeying this rule is incredibly harsh.  Yet despite this, it's not unheard of for younger Watchers, particularly those who have stumbled upon something that they know they shouldn't know, to make an attempt at escape from Watcher society to join the galaxy at large.  Patton was one such Watcher.
Patton was, as is standard for a Watcher, incredibly observant and excellent at memorization.  Despite his duty as a recorder of current knowledge, he took a keen interest in the galaxy's history as well, and when not on duty keeping tabs over his local Watcher Protected planet, he would dig through the archives to learn more about what shaped the galaxy as a whole.  In particular, he took interest with the history of the Legion faction, seeing their current peaceful society as a better reflection of his own, with the Legion girls being more open with each other due to their shared telepathic links.  A few times, he even considered abandoning his post in favor of finding and joining a Legion hive, but felt the risk was too great.  Thus, he continued his work of observing and reporting on the frankly boring planet below, using sophisticated miniaturized equipment to watch historical events unfold and comparing them to events on other planets.  While looking back through some of his previous reports, however, Patton noticed something unusual.
As a relatively modern planet, the inhabitants, a mix of Redeemed and Mythics with the occasional minor Elemental, had developed a number of forms of media, including print, television, and video games.  Patton dutifully wrote up small reports on each one he encountered that had even the slightest amount of popularity, but was surprised to learn that one of his entries was missing from the records.  As the video and audio records were also deleted, he had to rely on his exceptional memory to recall exactly what had been deleted, and when he found it--a small roleplaying game enjoyed primarily by a nontraditional subset of the population--he rewrote the entry, making sure to take care not to make any mistakes, and resubmitted it.  When it was deleted again, he began to grow both more curious and more suspicious.  He refocused his efforts, but only during his normally free time, on learning more about this game and why it was being removed from the Watcher records database.
In his initial observations about the game, Patton did not learn overly much, merely that it was a game where students from multiple races and time periods congregated to learn how to be heroes.  It was not until he gave it a more thorough viewing that he realized something very telling--the game included an extremely accurate description of Legion, a race the planet had never been in contact with.  Looking more deeply into it, he found that not only were other galactic races described in the game with incredibly accuracy, but an overview of all known galactic history was also described in the pages of the books written for the game.  Though Patton's immediate thought was that someone from a non-protected world had communicated these ideas to the game's writer in secret somehow, the fact that his entries had been deleted rather than any action taken about them raised a red flag in his mind.  With help from one of his friends, he was able to see who had deleted his research, and found that both times it was the same Watcher, one from the top level of Watcher High Command rather than his immediate superior.  Realizing that something very strange was going on, he looked to see if there were any other entries modified by the same user, and found that there was a single piece of material evidence that had been retrieved from another nearby planet somewhere in the local archives that was also delisted.  Patton was long beyond the point of being able to suppress his curiosity, and had to know what was being hidden from him and the other watchers.
During one of his longer periods of downtime, Patton put his plan into action.  With a list of all of the listed archived items in his memory, Patton took a day trip to the station's archives to figure out exactly which one was missing from the list.  As all of the archives were of a different security clearance than his own, he made up a story about how he required a different item to complete a particular report, and quickly dug through the storage areas to match locations with item reference numbers until he found the hole--a single item tucked into the bottom of a paper materials storage container.  What he found didn't answer any of his questions, instead creating more.  It was an entry form to MSF High, yellowed with age and stained with blood.  Curious as to how a reference to the game could exist years before the game's creation on his watched planet, he snuck the page out of the archives and back to his personal quarters.  After thinking on it for hours, he came to a conclusion that had been gnawing at him for quite some time, that there was more to this game than what he had observed.  As he came to this understanding, he also began to realize that there was an intense magical energy radiating from the form, and Patton decided that the best way to answer his questions was to fill out the form as though it were real and see what the magic would do in response.  The next morning, Patton awoke as Tomoyo, the Legion Pilot/Biotechnician that he had filled the form out as.
Tomoyo adapted very quickly to her new life at MSF High.  After meeting the reformed Althea in person, Tomoyo gained an even deeper appreciation of her, and without a moment's hesitation joined her hive.  Her knowledge of galactic history has served her well in her classes, and though she has a clear strength in that area, her interests have been more focused towards creating new Legion technology, with herself as her guinea pig, and distributing the most useful pieces to her sister.  Tomoyo is well-known now as a representative of Legion, and her relatively shy and nerdy nature make her one of the more approachable members of Althea's hive.  There is, however, something about herself that even she has yet to realize.  When filling out the form that led him to MSF High, Patton initially filled out the form as a different character, then reconsidered, erased the original entries, and filled them out as a more toned-down version.  The form picked up both of them, and it's expressed through a sort of transformation that Tomoyo undergoes.  When Tomoyo overworks herself, as is quite common, she will crash into what she believes is a sound sleep, but in reality her other personality, referring to herself as Lady Kimiko, emerges.  Kimiko is a much sexier, dominant, and confident woman, and while the other Legion in her hive--as well as most of her fellow students--have quickly realized that the two are the same person, most tend to just to along with the idea that Kimiko is a separate person entirely.  Kimiko and Tomoyo have the same goals, but different means to achieve them.  It's possible that eventually the two will come to terms with one another, but time will have to tell there, as for the moment Tomoyo has no idea that Kimiko even exists.
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amethystamy's avatar
Glad to see Kimiko still exists, even if her name's now Selene.

On a less nice note, completely appalled to hear about the way your employer treated you, especially shocked that this was the government that did it.