Glamour Failure

[animusmods]

Characters: any
Setting: all around the Tower
Format: any/party-style
Summary: A general mingle log for the reaction to the beginning of the Idealism event.
Warnings: PG-13; please include any more detailed warnings in your threads if necessary

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[tacticaldisaster]

[Robin had not been expecting this truth.

She had come in completely unawares, and now she is just...wandering the halls, staring blankly ahead of her.

It is all falsehood, smoke and mirrors. Her body is not her own and never was. In fact, can it even count as a body? It's smoke and mirrors too...

...Yeah, she's got nothing. The Tactician of Ylisse is stumped.]

[thelordsage]

[There's another figure also wandering the halls and staring blankly ahead. However, he suddenly stops and mutters something.]

So it was never real...

[tacticaldisaster]

[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?]

[thelordsage]

[The wireframe seems to snap to attention at the sound of his name. He looks at Robin, studying her frame.]

Ah, Robin. I would say that it's nice to see you again, but under these circumstances... I think you can understand my hesitation.

[tacticaldisaster]

I understand that...Completely.

[It's very difficult not to lose her head right now. Very difficult - but it must be done, mustn't it?]

[thelordsage]

How has this affected you? I assume this must come as a great shock.

[He's just wondering, sniffing for a reaction. Maybe he can understand what's going on better if he gathers reactions from people around him.]

[tacticaldisaster]

...It is a great shock. You'd think that such a thing...But no. It's just that simple for them...

[Which means it's going to be damned difficult. Perhaps if they go for the technology first...? Hmm...]

[thelordsage]

Such a thing would what?

[He's not going to let her get by with a mumble like that.]

[tacticaldisaster]

[That actually startles a chuckle out of her.] Observant. But yes, I'm simply ruminating on the fact that the average person wouldn't be capable of such a thing, or that it'd take a great deal of effort to do so.

Meaning that either our captors aren't normal, or the technology they have is just that powerful. Either way, dealing with them is going to be more difficult than expected.

[thelordsage]

I thought the fact that the administrators weren't average people was at least somewhat obvious. They are administrators of a place like this, after all. It should go without saying that going against them will be difficult.

[ocariness]

[ Link is taking this oddly calmly now that their freakout over Cojiro is over. Honestly, for the first time in a long time, despite things... Link feels COMFORTABLE in public with their body, no worry that, indeed, someone will find out about gender. How can they, when everyone is a simple wireframe with liquid? This particular wireframe person is a lot of green. It's almost... oddly comforting.

... When they run into Robin, though they can't be sure, the Hero of Time pauses. ]

Ah... I am not entirely sure who this is, but this is Link, and please, we must not panic even if this is the truth. To give up in the face of the truth would hardly make us survivors.

[tacticaldisaster]

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.

[ocariness]

[ There's a pause, but then a smile. Oh, if only Robin could properly see it. ]

I understand. Everything is... so silent now. I suppose that had all been an illusion, but... my people hear music from every living thing. This place had always felt odd to me, the sort of sound it created, like it was not... natural.

[ ... Looking away, h-hah. ]

I suppose now I understand why. But... I am sorry. I was partially responsible for this. But... it is comforting to know we are still us. We are not fakes, or copies.

[tacticaldisaster]

I...it's all right. I doubt you knew the consequences would be this far-reaching or disturbing. You likely wouldn't have gone through with it if you had.

[Link seems like a decent person, after all.]

And now that I think about it, in this body, I'm free from a certain concern I had back home. Regardless, it...may take me a while to adjust. [She shakes her head and sighs.] ...Well, to adjust to the truth of the situation, I mean. I'll still be able to formulate plans if need be.

[ocariness]

[ Link's voice... there's gentleness to it. At least she understands. ]

... Thank you, Robin. I am... still sorry you had to see this. But... but I could not let the chance to begin fighting back against the lies we have been fed go unaided.

[tacticaldisaster]

I understand. The truth...it's always better to know the truth, even if it turns the world upside down.

[She knows that first-hand; were the Mark of Grima still on her hand...Well. The truth is better known than unknown.]