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[redwhiteandhero]

Characters: Alfred F. Jones, Open
Setting: Room 3-10, Cafeteria, various floors
Format: I'll match you
Summary: The first thing to do when waking up in a strange place is take in your surroundings
Warnings: None yet, except some strong language


[For a second he thinks he's back at Hogwarts. It wouldn't even be that strange to end up there, all things considered. But he quickly realizes, even before the sleep paralysis wears off, that that isn't it, and this isn't any place he's seen before. As soon as he can move he bolts up, instinctively reaching for his wand-- which isn't there, shit. He's not even dressed in the pajamas he was wearing to sleep. Something is definitely going wrong here.

... Is that trunk at the foot of his bed meowing?]



[After finding his cat, but more importantly right now his wand and a change of clothes, Alfred sets off to explore the tower. If you run into him, he looks like he's just wandered out of a LARP. The effect is even more pronounced if you catch him interacting with any of the tower's technology-- he seems both fascinated and utterly perplexed by all of it.]



Eurgh, oatmeal? Don't they have anything better around this place? At least some cereal maybe? Gross.

Comments

[mostremaining]

Alright, time for me to tell you some stuff you're not going to believe. You've been whisked away from our world to this tower, and so have lots of other people. I wish I could tell you just what I was doing here, but the only answer I've got is "they took me here."

[redwhiteandhero]

Who's they? And whaddaya mean 'gathering nations?'

[mostremaining]

"They" are the people running this tower. And gathering nations... well, I know there's a few others of us here than just you and me. I know Francis is here, for one.

[redwhiteandhero]

Y'mean Uncle Francis is here too?

[Yes, he just said that.]

[mostremaining]

Uncle? Since when are you calling him Uncle? [Well, maybe it makes a little sense, but not much.] Anyway, yeah, he's here. I spoke to him a while back. He said I've been here before, too, but I don't remember my last visit.

[redwhiteandhero]

Well I mean he's not technically my uncle, I guess he's like Dad's cousin or something, but I've always called him that.

[mostremaining]

..."Dad?"

Something's fishy here. Are you really Alfred F. Jones, the United States of America, or are you some other Alfred from another world or something?

[redwhiteandhero]

[Huh.]

My name is Alfred F. Jones... but what does America have to do with it?

[mostremaining]

The Alfred I know represents the United States of America as a nation. I'm guessing you don't?

[redwhiteandhero]

...No. I don't.

[mostremaining]

Bah, that sucks. I was hoping we had another nation in here to keep me company... but hey, nice to meet you anyway, alternate universe Alfred. What did you do back home?

[redwhiteandhero]

[He doesn't understand. He doesn't understand at all.]

I went to school. You were there.

[mostremaining]

[Aaaand Gilbert doesn't understand either.]

So there was a version of me at your school? Interesting. Were any of the others there? Like... was West there? Ludwig?

[redwhiteandhero]

Your bro? Yeah, he was there too. [He doesn't exactly know who 'the others' are though so he can't really be helpful.]

[mostremaining]

I see... tell me the names of some other you know. Lemme see if they line up with people I know at all.

[redwhiteandhero]

Well, there's Fin, and Botan, and Lili, and Raimei, and Chie, and Maka, and Daine... I dunno, I know a lot of people!

[mostremaining]

Huh. Nope, no matches there. I find it a little strange that other-me was there but not other-anyone-else-I-know.

[redwhiteandhero]

Don't look at me, I don't know how this stuff works.