towerofanimus | Hey! Hey! Answer me - isn't anyone out there? [Open]

Characters: Teddie and anyone on the 1st Floor who wants to attempt to stop him
Setting: Room 01-10 to start, then the whole rest of the floor
Format: Starting with prose, but I'll go with your flow, dudes
Summary: Teddie panics and no one is spared.
Warnings: None at the moment, save copious eventual puns.

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Teddie remembered heading back into the TV World after watching Sensei leave. He remembered that. Yet he just woke up to a letter that said his world had been destroyed and he wasn't sure if it was his world or the real world and it didn't really matter because THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, OKAY?!

THEY JUST WON. BEARLY. BUT THEY DID. SO WHY WAS THE WORLD DESTROYED - EITHER ONE?

So he did the only thing a bear should do in this situation - he panicked, running once, twice around his immediate vicinity before breaking out into the hallways to shout at the top of his lungs.

"YOSUKE! YOSUKE!! KANJI?!?! ANYBODY?!"

He didn't bother to call for Sensei, because Sensei had to be far away by now - long gone from Inaba and beyond whatever area this place was now. He figured it had to be part of the TV World to be suddenly back in his bear suit again.

"CHIE-CHAN?!?! YUKI-CHAAAAAAAN!!!"

The short-ish bear was sobbing now, rolling around on his side every once in awhile or tripping over his own feet that made a distinct, loud squeaking noise when he walked so briskly.

"Why did everyone leave me bear-hind???"

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"No, of course not."

Welp, the albino sure sounded awkward about that. The fact that puns made him homesic-...wait, that wasn't right. Was Earth his home? Space? The akashic record? He didn't have time to debate such things. There was something else that seemed to be bothering him, and he drew a hand to his chin thoughtfully.

"...are you an acquaintance of Nyarlathotep? Or Philemon?"

It was hard for Alcor to ignore the potential in the...bear, admittedly. Odds were that it was another persona user, but that struck him as odd. It clearly wasn't human. He wasn't sure if being human was really a prerequisite, but then again he was only just beginning to learn the difference between "being possessed by gods" and "summoning gods from the sea of your soul because apparently mankind can do that now".

"Nyarangaha? Nyalratheta? Uhhh... No. Definitely don't think I know them. Of course, that doesn't mean much - I don't remember my whole life, from when I was a little bear. Were they powerful Shadows or something?"

This guy is kiiiinda creeping him out just a little, because those names really sound like powerful Shadows or Personas.

Shadows? Shadows, that sounded famil...

Oh, wait. Crap.

"The Crawling Chaos is the father to shadows. You knowing them must mean you are a persona-user, after all..."

Welp, time to stop being mysterious and come out with it.

"I am the star Alcor. I am acquainted with those forces of mankind's unconscious desires. Though, I suppose it is now mankind and...bearkind."

Man, the Shining One would get a kick out of this.

"I apologize, at first I suspected you were a demon."

"Oh, well... based on what my friends told me..." He pulled the headpiece off to reveal the blond boy underneath. "I'm kinda human too now." He smiled.

"I didn't think stars could look like you, though!" Then he brushed his own bangs and assumed a playful tone, high society tone. "You have im-paw-cable taste in hairstyles, good sir."

He clutched the headpiece to his chest and laughed at his own joke. "Hah! Im-paw-cable! Get it?" He held up one arm. "Paws! Ah... I gotta remember that one."

Wait.

Wait hold on.

What.

Alcor had seen a lot of things through his view of the Record; universes he was not in, plots and troubles from other times...

But he'd never seen anything like this, really.

"Human...?"

Seriously, he may be a little too stymied by that to catch your masterful punnery there, Teddie. "You...became human?"

"That's what they told me. My friends are human, and they developed Personas when they confronted parts of themselves they didn't like. I was a shadow, but..." He looked a little sad. "I didn't want to be. I made myself forget all about it, but when I remembered, I tried to deny what I was the same way my friends did. When I finally faced it though..."

He started to get proud now. "I got a Persona too! My friends said it's the only explanation for how that could happen. I think it was Naoto who said I just did it in the opposite order of how humans do."

He giggled a little sheepishly at that, then smiled fondly. "I really do have the best friends a bear could ask for."

Hey! Hey! Answer me - isn't anyone out there? [Open]

I am the most serious tagger

Clearly I am too

this is the start of a beautifully srsbiz thread, I can feel it

/kicks comp issues to the curb forever

GOAAAAAAAALLLLLLL

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