Glamour Failure

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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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[slightlyoblivious]

[She turns her head, hoping that what she'll see is the familiar face and the familiar image that she knows - the grey bowl-cut hair, the Yasogami High boys' uniform with the shirt untucked - but no. That's not what Yukiko sees, and she has to force herself to take a deep breath to fight back the urge to immediately say that isn't you.

She can't say that, because it isn't the truth, as much as she'd like to think this is just one long nightmare that she's not waking up from.]

...it is you, Yu-kun. I was hoping this was just...I only told Labrys about them just now, but I've been having nightmares pretty much every night since April. After the brainwashing and changing my body into something that it wasn't and not being able to say anything or always defend myself.

I had been reminding myself that the nightmares weren't the truth, but they'd been getting worse, since that whole rumor mess. I'd had a pretty bad one right before waking up to all of this, and the combination of the nightmare about not being in my own body and being powerless combined with waking up to find that, well, I wasn't in my own body, and I can't summon my Persona at all...

I wanted all of this to be just one big nightmare, but it's the truth.

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

[pitiedthefool]

[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.]

[slightlyoblivious]

I still can't help wanting to think that I just haven't woken up yet. It doesn't feel like it can be anything but a nightmare, even if I know that's just me trying to shield myself from what I didn't - don't, really - want to look at directly.

[Yukiko holds her left hand up, inspecting it. There's a little bit of yellow fluid pooled between what would be her thumb and pointer finger. It would be a small bruise forming from where she'd pinched herself, if this were anything but a wire frame. Nothing to worry about, and it would go away in a day or two, but a sign nonetheless.]

I guess I really knew when it hurt when I gave myself a pinch. It's not supposed to hurt in a dream. I still didn't really want to believe something like this.

But you're right, Yu-kun. I can't - even if it's true, that doesn't mean I have to like it. I don't have to say that I'm not scared of what it means, because, well, I am. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't.

But I'm not alone. I don't have to face that fear by myself, and none of this means we can't change it, right?

[pitiedthefool]

[Oh, Yukiko... Honestly, a part of him goes out to her while he listens in silence. There had been many times where he'd wished that something like this hadn't been true. That things that had happened to his friends - never himself, because at one point, he'd deserved the malice he received - hadn't and were just nightmares they'd all awaken from. If anything, it was as sign that she was still new to this tower's machinations; something to be protected.

Yet in this instance, like so many before it... he can't do that. He can't protect his team, let alone close friends, be ignorant to the terrors this place holds. That resolve of hers was telling in and of itself.]

Right. Though the time to change it will be short.