1st Request

[yourhandplease]

Characters: Theodore & Open to all
Setting: Room 01-10, lower floors, location might change
Format: Going with Action first but any format is fine to me.
Summary: Theodore wakes up in the Tower for the first time and is going to explore as much as he can.
Warnings: None, will be updated should anything happen.

[Theodore's eyes are blinking a few times as he lies in a room he doesn't recall to have been at before. It takes a few moments but eventually he sits up and turns his head to look around a little, seeing the three other and apparently occupied beds, then stares down at himself and this... strange attire he does not remember wearing before. He raises a hand to touch the collar around his neck to check if he could take it off, but given what material it was made of, it doesn't seem to be possible at the time being.

It takes another moment until Theodore spots two letters that are addressed at him. The first one he reads explains to him that his world has been destroyed. It's not the first time he has been told something unbelievable and cryptic like this, so of course, he had a hard time believing what is said to him in this letter. The other he reads carefully as it seems to provide more information that the first one.

Once done with reading he gets up to take a look at the trunk. His clothes were there, the Compendium as well and... he smiles as he sees the Jack Frost plush with the ring that has been left by his beloved. Theodore slips the ring over his finger and takes the compendium and his clothes out of the trunk to change back into the so much more familiar attire.]


[The former Velvet Room attendant walks through the hallways, eying them with curiosity and cautiousness. Being in this Tower reminds him slightly of Tartarus, yet not entirely. There was something different, something he can not point at.

He carried the Persona Compendium under one of his arms, he had checked it earlier in his assigned room and found that only the personae he uses in fights had been left in it. It worried him that someone has been able to remove such a great number of them at once. But there isn't much he can do about that at the time being.

Maybe if he speaks to some of the residents of this tower he will be able to find out more...]

Comments

[puppy_lancer]

I wasn't teleported to any worlds before I got dropped off here.

None that I can remember, anyways.

[yourhandplease]

My apologies, I did not mean to confuse you with him. I have not expected this, to be honest.

[For a moment he has thought that those he knew might have been taken here as well.]

[puppy_lancer]

[He shrugs.]

There's...a lot of different people from different worlds here. And I'm sort of a special case either way.

[yourhandplease]

How come?

[puppy_lancer]

[Since he already let the stuff about the Holy Grail slip, he might as well as give this guy the full story.]

I'm a Servant. Theoretically, if you had the right catalyst, you could get more than one copy of me in the same place at the same time.

[Like that case with him and Lancer Alter.]

[yourhandplease]

[He will keep silent if he is supposed to.]

Am I right to assume that a servant is something different in your world than in others?

[puppy_lancer]

Pretty much. We're heroes called down to fight for the Holy Grail.

[yourhandplease]

Heroes...?

[Tell him more, please. It's getting more than interesting.]

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, legendary heroes. Guys who save the world and get famous. Don't you have that in your world?

[yourhandplease]

There are heroes in the world I am from, but I can't help but wonder if they might be the same as the ones I know.

[Some worlds seem to have a similar history and were different yet and that's more than fascinating to him.]

[puppy_lancer]

Oh? You know legendary heroes? Personally?

[He wonders how this is possible without a Grail War.]

[yourhandplease]

Not in person but I know the tales of a few at least.

[Even though his Compendium is as good as empty now, he still knows every Persona by heart.]

[puppy_lancer]

...Say, can I ask you a bit about what you know then? What do your stories say of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne? Or Cu Chulainn?

[yourhandplease]

Of course.

[Give him a moment.]

I do not recall the first, but Cu Chulainn. He is a hero of Irish descend who was born with the name Setanta and had to take the place of a guard dog he had killed in self-defense. He was the student of Scathach, a female warrior, who taught him the art of fighting.

[puppy_lancer]

That sounds about right. What do they say about Scathach then?

[yourhandplease]

She is a skilled magician and master warrior, she also was the one who gave Cu Chulainn his spear Gae Bolg. She is also known as "the Shadowy One".

[puppy_lancer]

[He nods.]

Did the stories ever say anything as to her fate? Did she die, or...

[yourhandplease]

She is said to be a goddess in myth, so she might as well be alive.

[puppy_lancer]

Alive...and still stuck there...

[He gives Theodore a bitter smile.]

Thanks for telling me about that.

[yourhandplease]

Do you mind me asking why you were curious about it?

[puppy_lancer]

Nah, I don't. The answer is that I knew her. Back in the day. She was a great woman.

[yourhandplease]

[... wait. He knew her? ... OH.]

Are you Cu Chulainn?

[Because he doesn't know the name of any other student she had in lore, just him.]

[puppy_lancer]

...I could also be Ferdiad or Ferbaeth.

[Because his foster brothers had been her students as well.]

But you guess right.

[yourhandplease]

[That he doesn't know of. But shh, Lancer shall never know.]

I hadn't expected this. Not at all.

[He will probably stick to calling him Lancer.]

[puppy_lancer]

[He shrugs.]

Who would? Not every day that you get to meet a legendary hero.