towerofanimus | Glamour Failure

[She knows that voice, she thinks. Wasn't it...]

Sephiran. Right? ...This is Robin.

[...She thinks. She's pretty sure she's still herself.

I am me, aren't I?]

Link? Ah - this is Robin. I...

[She passes a hand over her forehead.]

I don't...plan to give up, don't be concerned about that. It's just-

[Surprising. Not something she had planned for.]

...overwhelming, and I need a little while to adjust.

[He offered his wire hand, glad for some familiarity. Funny. She still felt real as ever.]

I'm alright. Or, as well as I can be.

[Considering things that happened...before even the masquerade.]

I've only run into Minato and Yukiko-san so far. Both are taking it as well as you'd think.

[Maybe he understood that much by now, but without realizing it.]

To your other question. If I understood how you felt by now.

I'm not yelling!

[He takes a moment to calm his breathing. Of course he's yelling, that's just like him, isn't it? He clears his throat.]

I mean... I'm sorry, Dave. It's Apollo. I guess-- I got kinda carried away.

I found Yukiko earlier too.

[Labrys shook his hand, faintly surprised at the sensation. She'd expected cold metal like her own touch usually was.]

I ain't really blamin' them for freakin' out. I know how it feels, gettin' a shock like this.

[Apollo isn't expecting the punch and takes it right in the face-area. Staggering, he gasps for breath - breath that he doesn't need? - while his brain tries to catch up.

It doesn't work. Instead he throws a punch right back at his attacker, fueled with rage and panic. While he's no martial artist, he can throw a mean punch when caught in the moment.]

[Believe him, he wished that this was all a nightmare as well. He's been wishing and praying for that for so long that eventually he... started to stop and try to piece together what they all knew. He so wanted to believe that they were flesh and blood, but, remembering all that Jason had done to them back in the pods last year, what he and Ruana made them do...

Their states... brought that nightmare to life again in a new light.]

I know... Part of me wanted to deny this reality, too.

[Back when he couldn't control his own thoughts, when all he could do was try and struggle to not comply with Jason's demands... She likely didn't catch the grimace, but him hold out the wired structure that is his right hand is something that was clear as day.]

But we'll get through and face this truth with the others the way we always have; together.

[They just... need to find them.]

[The funny thing is, if Apollo hadn't countered, Waver would have immediately caught himself and apologized. Maybe he'd even have felt a little bad about the whole thing.]

[But seeing an incoming punch caused reflexes and aikido training to kick in. He'd blocked and was damn near ready to throw Apollo halfway down the hall before logic interrupted.]

...What the hell are we doing?

[He nods, glad for that.

...Guess that part of the illusion (or, maybe it was just expectancy) was still active. It's almost funny, really.]

Yeah... I guess it's our turn now, huh.

[and on a...rather large scale. Not going to lie, but if it weren't for the fact that he saw what Jason could do with this film and wires before now, he likely would have flipped his shit, too. The fact that this is paaaartially his fault kind of helps, too.]

[If Equius is lying, Apollo's bracelet would have told him. Except... Except his bracelet doesn't exist. The familiar weight on his wrist is missing, and he only realizes it now.

He grasps at his arm.] W-Well, if you say so. I'm sorry, nonetheless. I guess I'm not really helping the situation. Um. This is all just very unexpected, you see...

[Feferi looks up at Yu, and she pauses for just a minute.]

...no. But I will be. I was thinking about how easy it would be to say 'send me home' right now, where I know how the story ends for me. It's not a happy ending and it's not an ending I ever thought I would want. For just a minute, though, it was tempting. It was tempting to say 'I'm done, let me go back to where I know my story will end for good.'

But that's not what I want. I don't really want my story to end yet, and I don't think now is really the time. It might happen, in the future, and when it's the time, I think I'll know. I just - I think what I got stuck on is that I always wanted to change the world. Make it better. That's what living under a tyrant who you were expected to succeed one day does to you; you either emulate her or decide to do something entirely different.

I've seen both ways now, and I think what the problem I had in my head was is that I thought, for a minute, that there wasn't any way to do that something different.

[And she stands up, brushes herself off - not that there's anything to really brush off - and smiles.]

But that's not true. I made the choice a long time ago to keep fighting.

"I'm fine," he replied with ease, though since the list of those younger than fourteen (in appearance) that he personally knew was short...

"Romeo? It's me, Yu Narukami."

Were they going to continue meeting during June or what.

[His panic flares when it turns out that his opponent is poised to mop the floor with him. He raises his arms in front of his face and cowers behind them.]

I-I don't know! It's like I don't know anything anymore!

Why the hell did you punch me?!

We did. We really did.

But you know...I thought about it. I thought about saying 'send me home, I'm done. I know where my story ends and I'm ready to just let that be that.'

First time I've ever been at that point.

But it's not the time. I said a long time ago that I didn't want to just give up. I didn't want that to be the end. And it's not. It's not gonna be.

We might be hip-deep in the shit, and it might not get better just yet, but I don't think it's really time to lay down the cards and die yet.

Because you showed up shouting like a bloody idiot! What did you expect when everyone's on their last nerve?!

I'm sorry 'bout that. It ain't the kinda thing I'd wish on anybody.

[She folded wire arms and sighed, shaking her head. All in all, she was taking this incredibly well.]

Hey, I can't hear Ariadne right now...you ain't got any a' yours, do ya?

Shut up. I'm Patchouli Knowledge, I'm a librarian, I'm trying to think, and nobody can think with you screaming at the top of your lungs.

[If the indigo figure could glare right now, that would be the death glare of a thousand librarians telling Apollo to stop talking in the library at once.]

Don't worry about it. If anything, we could have been cheap copies of our original bodies in another way than some wire container.

[He's silently impressed, really. They're both taking it rather calmly, too-

Aaaand then the mention.]

...They're silent, too. Even Izanagi. [a beat] Though I can't say I'm surprised; we are just souls.

I wasn't shouting! I just--

[...No, that's shouting, Apollo. He lowers his head.] I mean... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-- startle anyone, or anything like that.

I'm not screaming!! Don't you tell me to--!

[Librarian? Where is he? He stops and looks around. It's too dark to see things in detail, especially with the way that the film reflects the light.]

I... Was I...?

I did try to knock you out, so I suppose we're fairly even.

[Shrug.]

To answer your question: Lord El-Melloi the second, Waver Velvet. I'd give you the details on this place, but at the moment my notes are completely unreadable.

[Saki recognizes Mami's voice as she starts to cry.

She understands. She understands more than words; she understands because she's felt that level of despair before.

But this revelation hasn't broken Saki. Instead, it's sparked something in her that hasn't been there for a very long time.

She bends down next to Mami and puts a hand on her shoulder.]

Mami-chan, this is Saki Asami. One of the other Puella Magi, the ones from Asunaro City.

I know it seems difficult right now. I know, because last month I...I thought I couldn't take it, and gave into despair to the point I became a witch.

But you're stronger than you think. Your spirit is still with you.

If you need to cry and scream, that's all right. I'll stay with you as long as you need me.

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But I don't get it.

[She put her hands on her hips, tone genuinely confused instead of upset.]

A Persona's part of our soul, ain't it? ...Actually, I still ain't sure what a soul really is. But I thought that was right.

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As far as I can tell, yes, this is what used to be the library closest to the cafeteria. It's not much, not anymore. But it's still rude to yell in a library. I can't exactly fine you, but I'm trying to think, and I think best in a library.

...and I can't make sense of this. I had a theory, or I thought I did, until these error codes and system failures. I don't understand the technology well enough to make any sense of them, because it doesn't exist in the world I'm from.

Glamour Failure

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shh... it'll be okay, priestess sis... eventually... ;n;

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around the tower

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Re: Open, breaking down and talking about death

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