"Go then. There are other worlds than these..."

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

[Enter Yosuke, seemingly mid-jump when he appears. He stands up, looks around... and frowns.]

Thiiiis isn't the usual spot. What gives? We used the same TV as always, I know we did.

Wait. ... Where did everybody go? [Cue frantic looking about.]

Comments

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Who said anything had to fair?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

I had to wear a skirt! On stage! With makeup done by Chie! I think it's not too much to ask that another me had to go through it, too!

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Dude, calm down. Just think, "Someone else out there must have had it worse than me."

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

That's easy for you to say, you didn't get your name put down to-- [Wait just a second.] Hey... how'd you get out of it, anyway?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Get out of it?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

The Cross-dressing pageant. Once your name's put down, you can't back out.

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Oh. That.

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

... You didn't get out of it! [He laughs a bit] I was beginning to wonder why the hell you had more luck than me if we're supposed to be each other.

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Nah, if anything, you are... definitely the luckier one. [Small chuckle.]

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

[He senses the mood change and frowns momentarily, but does his best to try for a lighter side to things.] What, did you break all the mirrors in Junes or something?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

I crashed.

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The bike, right? But you're alive. And it's not like I don't crash every now and then.

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

[... sigh.]

Would you believe me if I said I wasn't?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

... Wait. You're not alive?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

[... snrk.] As cool as it would be to be able to haunt people or something, no. Past tense.

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

Past t-... [He raises an eyebrow.] So before I assume you're a zombie version of me, do you want to explain yourself?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and assume you know who or what Izanagi is?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

[He nods.] Yeah, I do...

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

[He spreads out his arms and smirks.]

Hi. How you doing?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

... [He points, opens his mouth like he's going to say something, but that doesn't work.]

...

[x2.] .... You're Izanagi?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Well... [He scratches the back of his head.]

Sort of?

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

[Geez, can you possibly break his brain any more?]

O... kay, can you explain a bit more now?

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

Well, since you asked so nicely...

[He lowers both his arms, shrugs, then crosses them.] When I crashed, I... didn't actually make it. But something came over me and I was able to move again. It felt like something had changed, but I honestly couldn't tell what...

Actually, I thought I was going crazy for a while there.

[mybfftrashcan.livejournal.com]

[He pieces it together, but he's not all that confident that he pieced it together right...]

... So you really died. [Yeah, he pales a little at that. But Izanagi brought you back to life...

[myriadtruth.livejournal.com]

[Slowly nods.]

And... now I guess we're kind of one person.