1st

[lilies_jail]

Characters: Eriko and open.
Setting: Mess hall.
Format: Whichever, as long as it's in English.
Summary: A new arrival, Eriko makes her way to her first meal.
Warnings: Copious use of ENGLISH. Other than that, will update if things get weird.


[Eriko had to admit, it was a shock to awaken to sleep paralysis. Were the rumors true that when you awoke to sleep paralysis, it was an omen? Apparently do - while she may have no necessarily been possessed, awakening to the strange tower was certainly an experience not quite unlike when Mikage-cho was overrun with demonic entities. The only difference was that nothing in this tower seemed familiar.]

Michael, thank you for calming me down.

[If one could see closely enough, across the table where Eriko sat was the Persona she evoked, watching over her, whispering condolences to her. It was one of the reasons Eriko wasn't too worried when she couldn't move. Plus, the note she found shortly after didn't help matters. Why now, after she promised to become a woman among women who he wouldn't recognize?]

The least they could do was spice this up with some Godiva chocolate.

[Still, now that the calm had settled in, Eriko had to admit to herself - this was also somehow exciting]

Comments

[imperialsun]

Philemon is in the tower actually. As is Nyarlathotep.

[Look he's not even flinching at the fact he's there.]

However, Philemon is not directly involved in the later groups. Moreover, I learned from Tatsuya that the both had entered a bet together to see how humanity would evolve. It would...certainly explain a lot of things. [Kandori for one.] And yes, it does actually, although we aren't sure why. We think there's a key to their meaning, based on the colors.

[He spares a small thought to Yu at that second - at this rate he wouldn't return in thirty minutes as he had thought...hopefully that wouldn't be a problem.]

Removing them leads to death...although even that is not permanent here. You are revived in your room. I haven't experienced this yet, but I have heard it is quite surreal.

[Don't try it. :|]

[lilies_jail]

Nyarlathotep - Kandori's Persona. I had no idea that such a sinister presence, the Crawling Chaos, had such a major deal going on.

[back then, Eriko assumed it was simply a Reverse Persona like the others - apparently, this was not so. Moreover, the notion that their fight was over a bet was... something that was a bit difficult to wrap her mind around. She wasn't certain whether to punch Philemon in the face or thank him - both had their merits]

Goodness, immortality seems to be such a bother - Revival Beads weren't the most convenient thing, but it was a nice pick-me-up when it was necessary.

[No, she wasn't thinking about dying to try it out :| ... though, now you got me thinking...]

I'm sorry, were you in the middle of something, Naoya?

[she can tell that something else seems to be on his mind]

I hope I'm not inconveniencing you.

[she's not saying it to be passive-aggressive. she's saying it because she's genuinely concerned if he has something else to take care of]

[imperialsun]

[Believe him when Naoya had the same thoughts regarding the butterfly spirit...and then later learned Tatsuya had gone with the first option. He then shakes his head.]

Oh no, nothing of the sort. I was in the middle of a conversation with another Persona team leader - Yu before coming here. He's uh...another of himself showed up in the tower. Imagine if another Eriko appeared and she was male...I left for them to talk with each other.

[He was really bad at exists and lying about it too.]

Then I wondered how it would be to meet another of myself but female...and how dead the Brown of that universe must be.

[He's smiling a little because...well...Brown...]

[lilies_jail]

Goodness, I never met a Doppelganger of my own before! I think it'd be exciting!

[Eriko claps her hands together excitingly]

Yes, a woman version of Brown is a bit of a mind twister, though a female version of you? I don't think she'd be entirely unlike Yukino - you're both very reliable and tend to draw people to you.

[imperialsun]

[He smiles at that. Trust Eriko to make the most out of any situation. It was a welcome change from some of the guy's, truthfully.]

...which means that Brown of that world would never stand a chance. The minute he'd try anything he'd probably end up with a lump on his head.

[lilies_jail]

... you make a very good point.

[Eriko wonders how she may have had a different relationship with a different Naoya, a female one. Well, deliberating on that would be a waste of time, given that it could have ended up any which way. Eriko would like to believe that she would have still gotten along with her, though.]

Though he does talk big game, Brown isn't a bad person - I mean, even during our adventure, he never made any horridly distasteful advances on me.

On another subject, though - we appear to have the same collar color. I assume that we may be seeing a lot of each other, then?

[She knows that they would, anyway, but hearing a vocal confirmation would set her heart seccretly aflutter.]

I'd definitely love a guided tour of the tower from you once I've settled down.