First (lack of) sleep note audio; un:pnws

[11calls]

[Because Alex is most comfortable doing audio (podcasts, they're radio on demand) that's what her posts are going to be. Her voice is soft and ready for radio, and there's a hint of a Canadian accent in it.

Also, it's two am so feel free to yell at her if she woke your character up!]

You know, I think I'm handling all of this rather well. Taken to a different world, okay. Might be in a coma or something back home but okay. Magic users and superheros, definitely okay. Still might be in a coma, but it's nice to know about.

My problem with being here is time. Back home, it was the end of September, not even proper Thanksgiving [Sorry, someone is from Canada where Thanksgiving is in October] or Halloween. And now suddenly it's Christmas. I've been here a month but I still keep feeling like I've lost all of this time. Losing this time makes me wonder: what do they know back home? Have they noticed I'm gone?

[That's a huge worry for her, she doesn't want people to think that she's just run away and abandoned them when the world may be ending. Or whatever.]

I'd like to think that when I go home, it'll be at the same moment but then I wonder: will I have all this extra time then? Memories of this place? I've been around more weird stuff in the last two years than I care to admit, but I think this might be the weirdest thing ever.

So, that's what keeping me up tonight. [Among other insomnia like things because she's Alex.] What's keeping you up?

Comments

[fatedcontract]

They do, yeah. Them and the Arcana Shadows, before we destroyed them. Since most people aren't actually active during the Dark Hour, they have to be drawn into it by shadows or a Persona user.

[11calls]

How do they draw people into the shadows? Just like enticement?

[fatedcontract]

Oh, no. They don't draw people into the shadows. They're called Shadows. And they kind of... wake people up, during the Dark Hour.

Normal people are safely transmogrified into coffins during the Dark Hour so I guess you could say the Shadows open them up?

[11calls]

Wow. That's... creepy.

[No kidding, Alex.]

[fatedcontract]

I guess it kind of is? I never gave it much though.

[Of course, coffins, dying, none of that bothered him.]

[11calls]

It doesn't bother you?

[Alex is a little shocked by this, but you are so reminding her of Simon, kid.]

[fatedcontract]

No? They aren't dead, just kind of asleep. And they're safe. So I don't see why it should bother me.

[He can't help that death is just kind of... there for him.]

[11calls]

You don't mind coffins at all?

[fatedcontract]

Not really. They're not really scary or anything. They just... exist.

[Death and images or items related to it have never bothered him.]

[11calls]

I see. Does death have a different meaning for you? Is it really prevalent?

I know it can be really different in come cultures. Sorry, I'm just trying to understand.

[fatedcontract]

Kind of. To summon a Persona, you have to accept that you're probably going to die. I've been accepting of death for a long time.

[He shrugs.]

It's fine. I'm not sure it's really cultural, in my case though.

[11calls]

Well, accepting you're going to die would probably do it!

[Alex believes anyway.]

If there's a group of you who believe it, it's probably cultural in that way.