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[sky_child]

so has everyone else's friends disappeared, too?

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[meaningdies]

My brother is gone.

[sky_child]

i hope they're okay, wherever they are.

[meaningdies]

My brother will probably be fine, at least. He's powerful enough to take the blunt route through most things.

[sky_child]

yeah. my friends are all pretty strong, too. i just wish there'd been more of a warning.

[meaningdies]

The collective unconscious generally does not warn people about things, I think.

[sky_child]

the what?

[meaningdies]

Philemon's a manifestation of the collective unconscious. At least according to Jung.

[sky_child]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

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[meaningdies]

Check the library. They should have these titles, though the Lovecraft ones might be in a collection. I'm sure you can ask a librarian for help.

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[sky_child]

Who's this Lovecraft guy? And Jung, for that matter?

[meaningdies]

H.P. Lovecraft wrote a lot of very famous horror stories. Nyarlathotep, whom I saw someone else talking about in conjunction with Philemon, is a figure in a number of them.

Carl Jung, on the other hand, wrote a great deal about the collective unconscious, and Philemon was a figure in The Red Book. Notably, Jung also wrote a great deal about Persona, though the way we use them is somewhat different than how he described them.

[misery_hates_company]

I have no friends. Only acquaintances and lackeys.

But... one of those acquaintances might have vanished in the recent incident, yes.

*No, she's not worried. Why should she be worried? He's an idiot. He'll be fine. Right?*

[sky_child]

Sorry to hear that.

[ He has no idea what to say to that, especially when it concerns her. ]

[misery_hates_company]

Hmmph. He'll come back. He's too stubborn not to. Hero type and all.

*He'd better, after what she'd loaned him. She'd warned him she'd hunt him down for it if he didn't return. No matter where he went...*

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[all_wound_up]

Yes! Yukko-san is gone! What should we do? :(

[sky_child]

Don't worry too much. I'm sure they'll be back safely.

[all_wound_up]

I hope so...

[islandshore]

Yeah, at least a few of them have.

Wish I knew why. They shouldn't have gone on their own.