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[bunnyboy]

[He's been silent for a while. Ever since arriving, Yarne's been dealing with trying not to get himself killed...or so it seemed, maybe, to everyone else. In actuality, he's been spending the last week getting less and less social, to the point where he's going on long walks without telling his allies and avoiding looking at his communicator altogether. He's even taken to sleeping outside of his assigned room.

Today is different, though. After fighting some demons during the thirteenth hour, he turns it on. At the moment, he's leaning against a wall not far from his apartment, looking a bit feverish. He's holding his head in one hand and glaring down at his watch in the other. There are two things very wrong with Yarne's appearance...to those who know him. For one, he's wearing a pair of jeans and a thick black coat. Two, there's a bit of blood on the axe leaning next to him...and some on his face. He hasn't washed up.]

This week has been nothing more than a pain in the ass.

[His hand leaves hand so he can reach down to his side and pull up his evoker. He looks at it for a moment before tossing it to the side. It hits the ground with a loud clang.]

...That's an evoker. It ain't doing shit to bring out my Persona. [He growls.] There's something wrong. What the hell is it? It's a gun, but...despite everything I've done, I shouldn't know what it is. [His message may be cryptic, but the memories to him are so clear. He's been shot before, fixing something...taking care of something. But he also knows, extremely vaguely, that despite being able to hold one and use one without flinching...that he's never seen one before.]

...Tch. [He brings his hand back to his head, starting to shake a little. The way he scowls, it's very clear that this Taguel is in great pain.] What's it all mean? Probably nothing more than a waste of everyone's time, but...something's different.

[He scowls again, but it's followed by another wince. His head hurts so much...he has to take a knee at this point. When he speaks again, there's a renewed firmness to his voice. He tries to set the message to private, but...he doesn't know how.]

Minako. Are you...busy right now?

[...He's not sure why he's asking, and it looks like he's about to say something else...but there's a loud screech and a fireball thrown at him. He dodges without flinching.]

Tch. Figures. [He grabs his axe and reaches to turn off his feed, but not before he says one more thing.] Time to say adiós, assholes.

[ooc; So, kind a big note here. My grandmother passed away, so this is the ONLY event post I'll be doing for Yarne, that's why there's a lot of personality forced into this. If his castmates want to find him and try to figure out what the hell is wrong with him or anyone else is concerned, we can start an action thread somewhere! Just let me know. I will be slow (the funeral is this weekend), but I wanted to get this up. I will backtag this, I swear.]

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It's okay, I figured o7

[bunnyboy]

...But what? You thought I'd want to run away?

[He knows what she's going to say, somehow, because he remembers not being like this, but it's easier being like whatever this is. It feels more natural to him.]

They're worse than anything I've ever felt before. Even worse than migration headaches. [And those are usually just lies he makes up to tell Laurent, but other times they're...kind of real. Kind of. As in they only exist when he already has a headache to begin with, he's just renaming them.]

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[tolight]

Er... [ She wants to say yes. But that's mean, isn't it? She doesn't want to hurt his feelings or anything.

Anyway. Topic change. ] Something's not right here. I think mother- [ No, wait, her mother was dead, wasn't she? Back at a camp, she came in stretchers and... ] Robin- [ There's also memories that she has in Ylisse, spending time with Robin, but calling her mother. ] ... Mother [ She makes a point to think of Robin as she says that. That's who her mother is, right? ] was also getting these headaches...

[bunnyboy]

[It's probably best she doesn't at this rate, for both of them. He doesn't want to get confused even more...and watching her struggle with her own memories is hard enough. He's torn between wanting to find her and help her...and just dealing with things his own way, like he always.

...On his own? No, he's always had people with him. ... ...]

Hnngh....[these memories] your memories aren't real, either? What's going on? Where's Robin?

[tolight]

... I don't know. [ For a long time, she was so sure that she had gone to high school, shopped at malls, went on dates. Then she came to this realization that she didn't know what a mall or a high school is, and she certainly had no time for dates. Then there's the other memories of her fighting a war with a sword the same night she studied for a big exam.

But she can't have been at those places at the same time. ]

I remember talking to you - and the others - in a forest. [ Another stab of pain. ] Ugh - I don't know. I think... mother's in her apartment, trying to figure things out, but... [ She shakes her head in an attempt to clear her thoughts. ] I can't remember.

[bunnyboy]

[Yarne's own memories are a lot more...violent. Fires, a person close to him dying, being shot and...dying? He's pretty sure he's died before, and that shakes the Taguel to the core. He now knows how it feels to actually die, so it's a good thing his anti-extinction attitude is mostly held back for now. Otherwise, this would be a lot harder.]

...In a forest? We have other memories than that, Lucina. [Like... ...Like what exactly? He knows he'd do almost anything for her, but his memories of growing up in an orphanage are much more prevalent.] ...Tch. This is all pointless. What are we supposed to do?

[tolight]

[ She almost asks - they do? But then there's those memories again, ones that seem to be from a time that's definitely not this one. Which makes her wonder which ones are the memories she's supposed to have, and which ones she's not.

Gritting her teeth again. ] This would be simpler if I could- just figure out which ones are my memories.

[ There's a pause, and then in a smaller voice. ] Do you know anything about a... cell phone?

[bunnyboy]

Yeah. If only it were that easy. [He rubs the back of his neck, feeling more awkward than before. They have shared memories, so it's pretty clear to him that the ones with Lucina are the real ones...the problem is convincing himself of it, especially when his other memories are much stronger.]

I have. [He pauses. Here comes the headache again, and there's some worry in his tone:] ...Am I not supposed to?

[tolight]

You are, [ She distinctively remembers having one, using it to text (she's not sure what that means, but she's not dwelling on that), make calls, and... ] but I think - there's this demon summoning app on mine, and it's supposed to help me fight. Only... I seem to have misplaced it.

[ This however doesn't explain why she has a sword at her side. Anyway. ] Does that sound familiar at all?

[bunnyboy]

[Firmly:] Demon summoning? ...No, it doesn't sound right at all.

[So that's where their memories are different? She summons demons, and Yarne...summons a Persona? So the real him is in the memories that they both have in common, not the ones that differ greatly.]

You're not a demon summoner, Lucina.

[tolight]

[ ... She pauses, processing what Yarne just said. It made sense - she remembered him, and he remembered her, which means the memories that featured him were the right ones.

She takes a deep breath, then lets it out slowly. ] I suppose... That does make sense. [ It's still kind of shocking, though. Being told that she's actually not... a demon summoner. ] Do you remember anything significant? From... where we come from. [ It scares her that she can't remember what the name is, but she doesn't let it show. ]