What color would you paint the sun? [OPEN]

[egotrigger]

Who: Allelujah (and possibly Hallelujah) and open.
Where: Capricorn ward, Sagittarius ward
Summary: Weeeooo weeeooo weeeooo newbie alert. With a weird collar. Being in the Tower of Animus for a while doesn't make you very trusting of new places.
Warnings: Hallelujah is a warning (foul language, violence, etc.). Also just being from Animus comes with warnings involving possible discussion of body horror, death, mental manipulation, and general awful.


[Capricorn]

[Another night of restless sleep. He'd gone to bed, nodding briefly to his roommates, and tried to focus on getting to bed. Normally it was fairly easy, but tonight he kept having trouble getting his brain to stop focusing on things. Finally, he'd pushed away thoughts of horror and blood and gone to sleep… and then he'd had a dream.]

[Persona… The word stays with him as he wakes up… in a very different place. A place with a sun shining brightly, and grass under his fingers. … Has he been sleepwalking? He rises, looking around. Allelujah brushes himself off and starts to walk, trying to find the stairs.]

[His collar itches a bit, and he scratches it, glancing at the yellow fluid running through it. It should be time for a checkup soon… he'll deal with that when the day comes.]

[… Finding the stairs is taking longer than it should.]



[Sagittarius]

[… Well. He's walked for a while, and not found the stairs - he's found an entirely different setting. His movements slow as he becomes even more cautious - he doesn't even have a gun on him.]

[There are people milling about, all looking at him strangely. It's not like he's dressed in anything weird, just his normal clothes. Still, he keeps walking, picking his way through the streets. A punk smirks at him, and he just keeps walking. He doesn't want to cause trouble - he just wants to get back to his room.]

Comments

Capricorn

[primordial]

[This guy is just generally walking around, trying to blend into the background like always. He doesn't want to be noticed, he doesn't want to be talked to, he just wants to make hiss way through this district without any...distractions.]

[The collar on the man's neck makes him stop in place, though. He knows that thing. He saw it on all of the people's necks when he was over in that horrible tower for a week, and he staggers back, looking like he just saw a ghost.]

Oh, oh God. You're from that place, aren't you?

[egotrigger]

[He turns and stares at the other. ... No collar. That's... not right at all.]

... Yes? Aren't we still in it?

[Or maybe this is one of Ruana's games... or some other experiment.]

[primordial]

No, we're not!

[God, why would he ever be in that place ever again? Terrible, terrible memories, even for something like him.]

I mean, I'm sorry. For yelling at you. It's just...this is Hinoto-Ri. This isn't that tower. You're in a different place, is what I'm saying.

[egotrigger]

[He takes a step back, unsure if he's going to get attacked, but calms down slightly as Sam does. He stares at him in disbelief.]

... How? How is that possible?

[primordial]

Because of magic or something. Don't ask me. It's probably the same thing that brought me over there a while ago.

[He narrows his eyes, looking over the other man.]

...You should count your lucky stars, you know. This place is loads better than that one. I mean, you have your demons and all, but it's not as twisted or messed up at all.

[egotrigger]

[... He is still unsureface about everything (especially magic), but he relaxes a hair. ... He's still pretty tense though.]

So what's... Hinoto-Ri, exactly? It sounds Japanese but it's not a place I'm familiar with.

[primordial]

[He shrugs.]

Beats me if it's in Japan...I mean, it kind of looks like Japan, I guess? I've never been there before, though.

[He stares awkwardly at a point past Allelujah's shoulder.]

It's...god, how to explain it. A really weird place. Has somebody explained Personas to you yet?

[egotrigger]

Explained what?

[That's a no.]

[primordial]

Okay, people who come here? They get something that is called a Persona. It's...basically like a part of your mind that takes physical form and protects you from monsters? I don't get it, really.

[He shuffles his sneakers on the pavement, biting his lip as he thinks of how to explain, all while observing the other man carefully as he does so.]

You use these Personas to fight monsters in the Thirteenth Hour. It's this time when all these demons and stuff come out and try to hurt you. For people like me, to survive means knowing how to use your Persona right.

Sagittarius

[devilchild]

[There's a kid here slumping out of a building - apparently Hinoto-Ri, like any other civilized place, has child labor laws.

Sigh. There's a weird guy with a collar, who Setsuna addresses because he looks a little less like a punk and more like he doesn't know where he's going.]

Lost?

... Hiariously one of his last threads in Animus was with Zett. xD

[egotrigger]

[He looks up at the boy and blinks. It's strange, seeing so many new faces.]

Ah... yes, I think so.

hehehe

[devilchild]

What are you looking for? Somewhere in the Sagittarius ward secifically or are you looking for a different part of the city?

[His protagonist instincts haven't died yet.]

Wait a sec I'm a stupid.

[egotrigger]

I... I don't know. I don't know where I am.

/patpat

[devilchild]

You're in Hinoto-Ri, city filled with demons and some strange things going on.

[Demons of course do not count as strange.]

[egotrigger]

[He's also used to monsters and strange things, so whatever.]

Where is it?

[devilchild]

A different world. I don't think it's on Earth or in Makai.

[egotrigger]

Makai?

... Okay, next question. Why are we here?

Sagittarius

[resipiscent]

[Standing against the wall of a building, he can't help but notice the newcomer -- the guy is the only one looking like he's in a war zone, tense as anything. Riku pushes away from the wall, approaching slowly and from an angle where he won't surprise the other male.]

Uh, hey.

[egotrigger]

[It's a good thing Riku is careful to make sure he's seen, as Allelujah turns a bit to face him.]

... Hello.

[... Hasn't he seen this person's face around? Multiple times? ... Ah, well.]

[resipiscent]

Sorry, it's just that you look really tense. What's wrong?

[Sora's the big hero, but Riku's got a bit of the help-people streak in him too.]

[egotrigger]

[He's quiet for a few moments before speaking up.]

I don't... this isn't the Tower, is it?

[resipiscent]

... No. It's a city, called Hinoto-Ri. What Tower are you thinking of?

[egotrigger]

The...

[... Hm.]

I've been trapped in a tower for a number of months with a large number of people from other worlds.

[resipiscent]

[Riku can't help but stare. Except for the location, that sounds like...]

... Did you know the names of your captors? Sorry, this just... sounds like a situation I was in not long ago.

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