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maximumogredrive) wrote2020-04-27 08:54 am
maximumogredrive) wrote2020-04-27 08:54 am
[Event Post]
You can find some scruffian stooping at your place of work if you work in a supernaturally themed business. This includes SAI or OOPARTS, but isn't limited to that. He can also be found in the DA or local library, pouring over newspaper articles and history books.
He seems like he's trying to make conversation, but is waaaaay too awkward to know how to approach something.
He seems like he's trying to make conversation, but is waaaaay too awkward to know how to approach something.
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Only he looks scruffier-- like he forgot how combing hair works. But he's reading through a bunch of notes while looking things up on a computer.
But you recognize him as a close friend.*
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He catches himself and quiets down a little.
"Hey, uh... bud? Pal? Can I sit with ya?"
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*he looks over at you, tired-looking, quickly minimizing the window he was looking at. It seemed to be an employee profile for someone at-- LDS?...*
There's a lot of other open spots, aren't there? Why pick next to me?
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He looks a bit down at that, but nods.
"Your name's Mamoru, yeah...? This may sound crazy, but I'm from an alternate dimension and you look JUST like my school buddy I bully into doing crazy stuff with me."
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You know Mamoru's body-language well, cause you can tell he's literally just about to go and bolt, you should grab him by the collar when he turns to try to grab all of his stuff.*
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"You too, huh? Look, if you're trying to lay low or something I get it. I ain't gonna go blabbing or anything...
I just wanna talk. I know ya ain't my bud, but the face..."
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Also he seems... cold. A little colder than a person should be. But probably just because it's still a little spring-chilly outside.*
"Tarou". That's my name. "Satou, Tarou". *he's saying that pointedly, hoping you get the hint here.
... also good lord what a terribly generic name.*
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He sits down, sighing.
"Sorry. My, uh. 'Tarou' is the smartest person I know, so if he was here I maybe... had a shot of getting home."
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Enough people do. It's necessary in my case, it turns out, so almost no one has batted an eye.
And my only advice is: Pick a god and pray.
*... that's some advice!*
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"... is that what you're doing? Praying?"
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Oh, no, it's how I got here in the first place. I have a god, and I prayed. It's why it's my advice to you, on what to do here, to get home.
*he cricks his neck a little, stiff* I'm a man of science and research, however. So I'm done with praying, for the time being.
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He pauses, rubbing his chin.
"Well, uh. What are you gonna do now? Merge with this dimension's you?"
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That's where the "science and research" is coming in.
And maybe a little more praying later, it depends on how badly this turns out.
*he pauses. ... well, you already do know who he is, and he doesn't sense that blonde-haired guy trailing him right now...*
In fact, why don't you help me a little, and I'll see about "praying" a bit, to see if there's a way to get you back home?
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Whatcha need me to do?"
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It's just mostly... an outside perspective on this, is what I need.
See, this is "Yamada, Mamoru."
*he brings up the window he minimized-- it's an employee profile for LDS, for a man named "Yamada, Mamoru"-- same proper kanji and everything. Same extremely dark purple hair and dark eyes, even the same complexion that makes you feel like he's a nerdy shut-in.
... he looks /absolutely/ nothing like the guy that you're talking to right now, even when considering the age gap, in the image provided.*
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"... That ain't right.
Hell, I met some of his family in my world and the hair and eyes, but... nothing else looks right. Like, at all."
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I could accept the physical age difference. I could also accept that his career choices aren't... what I'd exactly choose myself --*you notice now on the profile that Yamada is basically the head tech researcher for an AI function for Real Solid Vision, but also is a programmer and designer for some Real Solid Vision fields*-- but the massive physiological differences concerned me.
So, as I said, I'm a man of "research and science". So I've been researching.
*opening up a folder filled with a bunch of papers and documents, but also newspaper copies and copies of internet news articles-- about a scientist who suddenly went berserk, using a recently salvaged scythe artifact to attack his researchers before wandering into Domino City...*
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"And it seems... psychological differences too. A helluva lot of them. Seems like it'd be a real bad idea to even try."
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Well, yes, especially after I did further research into why it might've happened.
*he pulls out another picture he's printed out-- now that is much more similar to the guy you're talking to. Only he's actually cleaned up and proud of himself.*
This is a picture taken before the incident in the articles. So how did he turn out like the picture that's in his profile, now?
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The question is whether or not the possession ended.
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That'd be the question, wouldn't it? But it's why I'm worried-- if I go ahead and "merge" with him in any way or form, how is that going to affect the total situation? And is he still possessed or not, since far as I've been able to tell, he is absolutely recognized as "Yamada, Mamoru"?
*pulling out more papers he's been working on. Things about the Barians, including little profiles about each of the known ones. About the scythe that got pulled up. Things about "Hasegawa, Kai" and "Kanzawa, Koyo". About the "Numbers" cards. About the post-incident medical reports on Mamoru himself, after he was found unconscious, the artifact shattered and himself injured...*
And just how deep does this rabbit hole even go?
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"That's... alot of research. Wouldn't it be better to just call off the merge and maybe figure out how to come clean?
I ain't merged with my alter and I'm doing fine."
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Plus, you're trying to find a way home, right? So it means you probably got "pulled" to here, yes?
I chose to come here.
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