towerofanimus | He's not me! I'm not him! (Open)

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He's not me! I'm not him! (Open)

Characters: Sonata Shinonome in America's body (comments coming from

littlepioneer), whoever the hay wound up in England's body, and maybe even you!
Setting: Here and there in the tower, Day 1 and 2 of the event.
Format: Will match replies
Summary: It's bad enough being a little boy. Why's this little boy have so many voices in his head? And what's with that video?!
Warnings: None yet

Room 01-20

This wasn't Sonata's room and Sonata's bed... but that's alright, it wasn't America's room and America's bed either. He tended to bunk with England, so that's just where the body-swapped girl woke up. Snuggled up in an unfamiliar bed, next to an unfamiliar person. Though the exact unfamiliarity hadn't dawned on her yet.

"Nnh... sis-sis...?" Was she home, and safe and warm, and right next to Kanata? Or was she back on Akibastar, safe and sound?

No. That wasn't the case at all. As she realized when she cracked an eye open and was staring at some guy she didn't know.

"AAAAAAHHH!"

Day 1, around the dorms

America-Sonata is off scrambling down the halls, still in that nightgown, trying desperately to find... well.. herself. If anyone the least bit familiar, or friendly, or nice, or even willing to hold still for a moment or two comes by, she'll reach out to grab the hem of their shirt or the sleeve of their clothing.

"Hey! Hey! I need to find me! Have you seen Sonata?"

The kid sounds pretty urgent.

Day 2, in the library

The little girl in the even littler nation's body is at one of the terminals, and she's pitching a fit. Seems she caught the video of the swapping procedure that was uploaded to the otherwise text-only network.

"AAAH! That's gross! That's really gross! What's he doing!? He shouldn't be doing that to us! HE SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT TO US!!!"

And it continues in much the same vein, with much banging on the keyboard, and shaking of the monitor. It only stops when a coughing fit starts up.

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To his credit, Luke could have slept through a freight train running him over at this point in his life- and probably would have if freight trains were known for screaming in his face.

Nobody ever slept with him, near him, or anything of the sort, so anyone being that close made him immediately flail and tumble out of bed, sprawling with his shoulders on the floor and his legs stubbornly tangled in the blanket.

"Who's screaming!?" ...wait, huh? Was England in here...? Luke pushed himself up on his elbows, looking at his legs...

...

And then another scream, to join the one that'd woken him.

Who's screaming? A little blond kid, that's who. Who's leaning over the side of the bed that Luke just fell off of, clutching a pillow and looking about ready to smack him with it.

"You're in Sonata's bed! Get out! Weirdo! Creep! Creepy weirdo!"

No, it has not quite occurred to her that she's not herself. Not yet.

[Richtofen-in-Nathan's-body hears the screaming, and he looks over at the terminal over the little boy's shoulder. He squints and watches, intrigued, slowly making his way over until he's standing behind the boy.

He wants to take in the video properly, but the screaming makes that a bit difficult. He could go to another terminal, but then he might miss something. Finally, he snaps.]

Oh, they did that to all of us! [He scowls.] Or most of us... Calm down, child!

[He's the best at comforting distressed children.]

But, but...!

[She whacks the desk one more time, and then stops all her protesting. Because she left a dent in it. This body they stuck her in, it was pretty strong. She stares at her hand, then turns her head sharply to look at the guy that's trying to calm her down, then back to the desk.

Then she takes a deeeeeeep breath and presses both hands to the sides of her face. Calm. She's gotta be CALM.

The kid is still pretty stressed out.]

They didn't take pictures of it for you guys! This is worse. Worse!

[The noise that he child makes when he - or she, if the video is anything to go by - hits the desk doesn't make Richtofen jump. It's when he sees the dent in it that he gives pause. Trying to appear casual, he approaches the desk from the side, and leans a hand on it as he speaks.]

Perhaps you... [He trails off for a second, after ascertaining that the desk is indeed too solid for any normal child to have damaged it so easily.] ...you should take this as a blessing, ja? Maybe the video is here for a reason.

[Any other time, he wouldn't bother trying to calm down a stressed-out child. What can he say? The temptation of figuring out how someone so small could be so strong is too great to resist.]

Blessing?! [Nope, not buying it. Not one itsy bitsy little bit. But she's also not picking up on the exact reasons for this guy's shiftiness. She's still quite wrapped up in her own stress and drama.]

It's there to be scary! To scare everyone! And... and Sonata and that boy ESPECIALLY!

Well then, the best thing to do would be to keep yourself from getting scared, wouldn't it?

[He says it like it's easy to do, but in truth, he would probably be reacting just as badly if it was his body up there on the screen.]

Then they don't win, and we might have a clue to work with.

To... not be scared...?

[Her little face scrunches up and her fists ball. It's a good idea, it sounds like a good idea, it sounds like something her big sister would say, but...]

Sonata's gotta be TOUGH. Okay. Okay-okay!

[Then she sniffled, and wiped her nose on her sleeve. Loudly as she said it, she didn't really feel it. Poor kid still looked shaken.]

There there, Kindchen.

[He goes to give the kid a pat on his-her-whatever's back, but draws his hand away at the last minute. In an uncharacteristically sweet voice, he says:] It'll be alright.

[He doesn't want the kid to end up using its freakish strength on him, after all.]

[Another sniffle, and she looks up at the young man uncertainly.]

Is someone gonna fix it? Someone's gotta fix it... They... we can be put back, right? Right?

Of course! It shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

[Richtofen puts on his best "solemn but determined" look, though, in this new body of his, it looks more like a pout.]

Don't you worry, child.

[But Tippi just cannot ignore the worrisome hacking of a child in need, not even when she's in a somewhat intimidating man's body!]

Are you all right? Don't strain yourself!

[The way she says it and the manner in which she crosses the room to hover over Sonata-in-America without even really thinking about it, combined with looking and sounding like Kageyama Reiji instead, makes the whole thing really, really weird.

...Too bad she doesn't seem to realize it herself.]

It's horrible... You nor anyone else should have to witness that...

I, I...

[Sonata coughs again, looks up at Tippi-but-not, and just... stares. They're being very nice. They look kind of mean. It's kind of confusing. She scoots back deeper into her seat.]

Why'd they do this...?

[Tippi may also notice that the little niche where the terminal is set up has little dents all over it, now.]

I wish I could tell you... I can't understand it, either!

[She's about to move in to hold Sonata comfortingly, but then takes a glance at the hands she stretches out to do so, and it occurs to her that she's probably not giving the impression she wants to.]

I'm sorry, I'm not in the form I should be in either right now... It may not be very convincing, but I cannot do this in my own body, I'm afraid...

But I understand, truly! If you need support, I will gladly offer you what I can...

It's horrible....

[Even mean-looking people can try to be nice. If they were trying to be nice? She'd take nice. She could use some nice. She just about throws herself at the poor body-switched person.]

Sonata wants it to stop! Sonata wants to go home...

Taiki was a little scared, he didn't know what was going on and though he was still in his own body, and so was Gyousou it was still a frightening thing to see.

But when he saw the little boy who had been in his group in the pods he ran towards him, Sonata would notice he no longer looked deathly pale, Gyousou had made him stay in bed for ages and now he felt better, though the underlying blood sickness was still there.

"Do you need help? Are you in the wrong body?"

"Fraidy...." Sonata recognized him on site, and the surprise of seeing him there stopped most of her shouting and panicking right short. Maybe not wasn't the time for mean nicknames. He was being nice...

"It's Sonata! Sonata! I got swapped with this kid, and he's strong, and he's a boy, and, and...."

[She's gesturing wildly about as she explains herself, but at least she's not hitting things and denting them anymore.]

Taiki looked sad at the start of the nickname but when she told him who it was his eyes widened. Even if she had called him names she had been nice to him when he was sick, and now she was in the wrong body!

"Don't worry Sonata, I'll help you!" He thought for a moment before there was a gust of wind and instead of a little boy there stood a black horned horse. "Jump on my back, I can go really fast and we will find your body really quick."

"You can? ...aaaaaah!" Sonata wasn't even really sure what happened. One moment there was a boy, and then a horse? With a horn?

"...Okay!" It's a good thing there was a chair to stand on to help her to get enough height to get on. Once she's on Taiki's back, she's holding tight, a little jittery. This is pretty high. She's never been on a horse.

"So... you're feeling better? You're not swapped around?" She sounded quite awed.

Taiki nodded, "I'm much better now. Lord Gyousou made me stay in bed for a long time and I got better."

He rose off the floor, beginning to fly down the corridor, "Hold onto my mane. I'm still me."

"Ooooh... that's good! You looked pretty sick, yeah."

And with a yelp she holds on very tightly to his mane. So fast! So very, very fast! It was kind of scary, especially being so little!

"You fly?!"

"I was..." Taiki made sure to be careful, he knew what it was like being so small and flying on a Kirin, he had felt like it the first time he had flew with Keiki before he had learned how to turn into beast form himself.

"I'm a kirin... sorry... do you know what one of those is?"

"A kirin... no, Sonata doesn't know! What's a kirin?"

It was getting easier to do this the longer they traveled. She found the right places to grip, and she was getting used to the speed and height and motion.

"I'm a kirin! We look like this but we can also be humans. We chose the king of our country and make sure he stays kind." Taiki turned another corner. "Sorry... I can't see you yet?"

"Ooooooh... kirins are GREAT!" What a wonderful discovery to make. Still holding tight she giggles and presses her cheek against his neck. Or back. Or however that works?

"Hmm... maybe he's not on this floor? Maybe we have to go somewhere else!"

Taiki smiled a little at that as he flew, "Let's go to the next floor." He sped down the stairs, making sure she was still on his back. "Sorry... are you okay?"

"Yeah! Maybe he's there!" And on she holds, as the direction changes and the rushing continues.

"...aah? Sonata's okay! Sonata's okay... Sonata's never had a ride on a kirin before! Are you okay?"

"I'm okay, you... sorry you can hold on tighter if you want."

He continued flying down the stairs. Looking around, "His name is America right... sorry I think I met him once."

[America, having spent the day mired in confusion, leaps behind a corner when he hears his own voice coming from somewhere else. Of course, not in his own body, he slips and ends up a tangle of arms and legs that are too long for him to be used to yet.

Also he's not so much "around the corner" as "fallen over mostly in the middle of the hallway", so it should be easy to spot him.]

....hey!

[She, too, is not quite fully adjusted to this body. Or the length of the nightgown. There's a stumble and an almost-fall as Sonata scoots towards the crumpled form of... herself.

It's very strange.]

Hey! Hey you! Give Sonata's body back! Switch back, switch back!

[Aaaand she'll shake poor America back and forth. This is before she actually figured out how the whole thing was done, after all. Confusion! Confusion everywhere!]

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He's not me! I'm not him! (Open)

1-20 (meet your...bed...mate, who is using UK's account AND body)

(Oh how glorious.)

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library!

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sorry for the ridiculous slowness, ugh ;;

It's okay! I'm slow, too!

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lets pretend I have decent icons :|

We can both pretend o_o

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