towerofanimus | 1st Request

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...]

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Very well. I shall leave it at that then.

So then...what was Ruby City like? Was it peaceful?

*Was Armaros happy there?*

It varied. There have happened horrible things but most of the time it was a bit too silent.

[More than Enoch could imagine.]

Too silent?

*It reminded him of his final days in Meridian. Waiting on a peace talk that just never happened and helpless to see it happen himself.*

an uncomfortable kind of silence. It was usually when most of us assumed that our captors would test something on us again.

But as strange as it sounds, they did a few good things for us.

We have our own benevolent host here. It doesn't sound too strange.

But...Ruby City was much like this tower?

*If that was true...it didn't bode well for Armaros...*

It was surrounded by monsters, all the time. There were times where they entered the city or when our captors decided to destroy it and then restore it about a week later. Perhaps just for their entertainment.

[Theodore's hands slowly balled into fists when he thought back at it, what they have done to them, to her...]

The bad events overweight the good ones when it came to them.

*Oh...not a good place, then. Not for Armaros...at least there had been a version of himself there. As awkward as it still was to think about.*

...I'm sorry. I can't say this place is better.

[Enoch, in that case you are wrong, very wrong. Armaros even said so to them all.]

While Ruby City wasn't a good place to stay at, it gave a lot of us opportunities we wouldn't have had in our homes. Armaros said so and I have to agree with him.

...Even this place would be better than the alternative for him.

*From Armaros's view, surely, everything looked good. Nothing, after all, was worse than The Darkness. He wouldn't doubt he'd call a place surrounded by monsters and toyed with by its hosts good...or better. Because it was better.*

...that, perhaps, is...the only good thing that can come of places like this.

Apparently it is the only good thing coming from places like that.

[And they had to look back at the precious times they had in these places and at home, otherwise they would sink into despair.]

I still remember very well how happy he was when his voice was returned to him.

*It's a shame Animus has less recovery time. Enoch had tried to hold on to the good things he'd experienced here, but the pain of the bad things turned out to be too much and the good too little; when it turned out "the bad things" could include the removal of free will, it had been something of a breaking point.*

His voice... *That pulls a smile through the reminiscing despair.* I can imagine... It's wonderful, he was able to speak again...

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[It was something Theodore would make these experiences in the near future. But he has come too far to give up. Even if there was only little recovering time.]

Indeed. I wish I had been able to hear him sing during my stay.

He couldn't speak in Meridian, but there was a mental plane where he could be heard... If only I could have heard him sing again I would have described it for you...

But I am glad to have heard his voice again...

*The turn of conversation seems to have put some life into him, even given the events of having returned to Meridian.*

I had heard it for the first time. But he has been very cheerful and supportive, even during the time where he had been unable to speak.

He was the first friend I ever had, after the person who is precious to me.

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*....Wait, what?*

You never had friends?

I didn't, why do you ask?

[Theodore looks at him like it's the most normal thing in the world.]

...Because...

*...Enoch is beginning to doubt this man is normal.*

..That's something no one should be deprived of.

[He's not even human, but that's no secret. He would tell him if he asked.]

I came to appreciate having friends. Until I had left the Velvet Room I hadn't known much about the human world.

So you aren't human? What is the Velvet Room?

*Now you have him in question mode, Theo. Good job.*

I am not. The Velvet Room is a place located between the subconscious and unconscious, a place that can only entered by those chosen, people who are bound on a quest in search for themselves.

Between the...subconscious and the unconscious?

*Enoch is having a hard time understanding that...for a few reasons that may or may not be obvious.*

Indeed. Are you familiar with these terms?

[He's willing to explain it to him.]

"Unconscious" is "without thought", but I do not know "subconscious". Is it a state between sleeping and waking?

*As nouns? Nope, way later than his time.*

Oh no, it goes actually much deeper than that.

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