[Voice]

[aurathread]

[Tsukasa's voice comes across the network. He's not talking about how scared he was during that thing, okay.]

Mm. My Persona woke up during that... stuff. I don't like it. I can't get rid of it, right?

[That's annoying. He's quiet for a few long moments before speaking again, tone a little flat.]

And... how do you know if you're real?

[And even if he is real, what if the him outside of the game is so different than the him in the game that they might as well be two people?]

Comments

[aurathread]

This is just the body I have in a video game...

[aurathread]

Like what?

[bondsofsuffering]

Because it's a mask unique to you. Or... something like that, anyway.

[eyewillprotect]

A body in a... video game?

[Guess who doesn't really play those!]

[electricyousei]

"Well there are demons trying to kill us, a government that isn't 100% honest with us, a shady terrorist organization that hates us, a giant barrier field keeping us in the city and more people than standard resource production should be able to sustain. Any one of those would make a good diversion to most."

[skyofreverie]

Just be who you want to be and don't let anyone get you down about it.

[aurathread]

Yeah. This is the character I created for the MMO.

[aurathread]

It reminds me of things I'd like to forget.

[aurathread]

That's just it, though. I don't.... know. I wanted to go home, but now I'm...

['I'm too scared.']

... I don't know.

[aurathread]

Well I've been fighting monsters, but grinding gets kind of boring sometimes.

[voice]

[greatseal]

[Other people have talked about the Personas already but that second question... is still unusual.]

What kind of proof are you looking for?

[eyewillprotect]

...MMO?

[What... does that mean...?]

[bondsofsuffering]

I don't think you're the only one in that position.

[aurathread]

I don't know. This just... this isn't my real body. So how do I even know that I'm real and not just an AI or something?

[aurathread]

There's a way to get another one, right?

[aurathread]

[Siiiigh.]

An MMORPG. A Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.

[bondsofsuffering]

You can get another Persona from the Velvet Room, but it won't replace your Soul Persona if that's what you're asking.

[He's tried.]

[eyewillprotect]

[...

She understands those words individually, but when they're put together like that, it's like a whole different language.

So for the sake of clarification:]

Then... Right now, for some reason, you are a character from a video game?

voice;

[howfascinating]

...The fact that you're asking that.

[Because if you're not real, you don't exist, and if you don't exist, then...

Well, you get the drift.]

[electricyousei]

"What about acclimating to the area?"

[aurathread]

I've known artificial intelligences that can ask questions like that...

[aurathread]

This is the character I made to play in that game. You control the character with a computer. But now there's no computer, and no sense of my actual body. This is 'me', but it's not my real body.

[aurathread]

I've been trying to go to school... I don't like it that much, though.

[aurathread]

You can still use it instead, though...

[electricyousei]

"Find work?"