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[fuhgeddaboudit]

Characters: Labrys and you~!
Setting: Room 3-07, floor 3
Format: Either or, depending on your preference.
Summary: What even is going on.
Warnings: WHEEE PERSONA 4 ARENA SPOILERS ALL UP IN HERE



[Room 3-07]
[Unexpected shutdown detected. Running diagnostic.]

[Motor functions impaired. Hypothesis: system failure. Reasoning: possible stress overload on emotional subroutines.]

[Attempting recovery...attempt two...att-]

[The girl's eyes snapped open, interrupting thirty seconds of systems fumbling and scrambling for a reason as to why mechanical limbs refused to respond. The too-pale girl blinked too-red eyes widened with surprise; nothing she could find in her memory or data banks could explain this. Hadn't she only just been in a car with Aigis and the others?]

[Reviewing current records... no lost data found. Hypothesis: New location. Contradiction: Impossibility.]

[It didn't make sense. One didn't just blink and wake up elsewhere, the incident in the TV world notwithstanding. Where were Aigis and Mitsuru, that funny guy in the cape or the younger girl with them?]

[For that matter...where was she?]

[Floor Three]

[Having shed the unusual outfit she awoke in, a girl wandered the tower, every movement making quiet mechanical whirring noises as she went. She could have sworn she was wearing her Yasogami uniform when last she was aware at all...for that matter, where on earth was her axe?]

[Wherever this was...everything was in ruins. It made Labrys nervous, honestly. Some kind of catastrophe had taken place here, and imagining what could cause this kind of destruction made her metal hands fidget nervously. This...wasn't the world behind the TV again, was it? She didn't really recall getting thrown in the first time, so...]

[She shook her head, looking down at her hands. Still metal, no illusion or dream making them seem like flesh and bone. Labrys was still Labrys, no matter what. They'd taught her that much, and if she had to face Shadows or anything else she wouldn't forget herself in the process.]

[Hesitantly, Labrys called out a few names as she continued walking. Maybe they'd answer, or maybe they were miles away.]

Aigis? Mitsuru?

[A pause.]

...Yu? Y-Yosuke? ...C'mon, anybody.

Comments

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[She laughed at that, a quiet sort of giggle that sounded like any normal human girl.]

Kinda looks that way, huh?

[princeofjunes]

[With her appearance it's a bit hard to ignore that she's a robot, but he can't help but feel like interacting with her is just as natural as anything else]

[It sure beats some of the trolls, anyway]

That's fine with me! So why don't you tell me about yourself, Labrys? Catch me up a bit, since you're ahead of me.

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Well, I kinda....got stuck in a TV. It screwed up a whole lotta stuff about me, and...and I cause you guys a heck of a lot of trouble. It's this whole mess we're still tryin' to figure out.

That's the short version of it, anyways.

[princeofjunes]

[Well, that just opens up a whole mess of questions. How the hell did she get stuck inside a TV? How does the TV world even work on robots? When did this even happen, anyway? But he doesn't find himself asking any of those. If they get out of the tower, he'll find out on his own, right?]

[And besides, that's not what he asked and he's so not letting her get away with it]

Well okay, but what about you? I'm guessing you don't want me just thinking of you as 'that cute robot girl' forever.

[He gets a sly grin on his face]

Or are you just getting a kick out of me calling you cute? Do I have a not-so-secret admirer in my future?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[Yosuke, stop poking at the traumatic backstory. Even if she's laughing.]

Me? I'm just Labrys, that's all.

[princeofjunes]

[Well, he's not getting anywhere, but then again she's laughing so he'll call it breaking even]

Alright, alright. I guess I'll just have to get to know you again here. That alright with you, Labrys?

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Sounds like fun. I didn't get much of a chance t' learn too much about alla you anyway.

[princeofjunes]

[All of them, huh? Well, she did call for Yu too, so it made sense. Then again she also called for people he'd never met before, so...]

Then let me give you a quick run down!

If you need something done right, come to all of us. If you need something sewn, Kanji's your guy. Want something explained? Go to Naoto, she knows everything. For pretty much anything else, you want Yu.

And as for me... [What is it that he does, anyway? He's not as... Yu as Yu, that's for sure. He doesn't have Naoto's detective skills or Kanji's- actually, he's probably better off without being part Kanji. But there's something, right? Then it hits him]

Well, I seem to be doing a good job getting you to smile. And that's all of us that are here right now.

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[Labrys nodded, matching the information he was giving to everyone she'd seen back in Inaba. They weren't all in one place, but that wasn't too bad. Beat the hell out of being on her own, definitely.]

Gotcha. You're all some pretty good people, yanno?

[princeofjunes]

[Now there's a statement he wasn't expecting]

Well... I mean, you're our friend, right? Of course we're going to look out for you. You don't have to compliment us for that.

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[BUT YOSUKE HOW DOES I RELATIONSHIPS]

Y...yeah, you're right.

[princeofjunes]

[Well don't learn from Yosuke or you'll end up in a trash can]

Anyway, you just got to the tower, right? Naoto and I have both been here the longest, so we can try to help out if you've got any questions.

[fuhgeddaboudit]

Well, d'ya know how I wound up here?

[princeofjunes]

Well, the 'official' answer is that our world was destroyed and the people running this tower saved us.

But most of them don't exactly act like 'saviors,' so most of us are convinced we were kidnapped and lied to.