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Who: Charlie and anyone!
Where: Throughout the mansion
When: Feb 2nd & 3rd.
Rating: M
Summary:After the first day, Charlie ventures out of her room.
The Story:

Once she took one step outside her room, she immediately regretted it. There's a longing look over her shoulder at her door, but she inhales and moves down the hallway.

See, staying in her room, keeping to herself, that's the way to stay safe. It just feels wrong, leaving everyone else to the whims of the mansion and not even trying to help. During the 'armor adventure', as she likes to refer to it, she'd just locked herself up and rode out the event.

Armed with nothing but her brains (and maybe a handgun she asked her closet for - just in case, you know), she sneaks through the halls, looking for anyone else or, even better, a group of people she can stick with.

Strength in numbers and all that.

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Souji is carefully patrolling the Mansion. If nothing else, he wants to make sure that he can help anyone who might be in a bind, and he can't do that hiding away in his room, even if that would keep him safe.

Also, a guy needs to eat non-closet-food.

So he's in the kitchen drinking coffee. At least for now, that room is safe from statue-aliens, so he's making the most of it.

He is clearly still a teenager--he's been lucky enough not to run into one of the angels without being able to escape, though he's pretty sure that was a closer call than it seemed like at the time, after hearing Martha's explanation of the things on the network.

After she's popped into the diner and the library, the kitchen is next on her list. It's not exactly the best path to take, certainly not the most time efficient, but Charlie doesn't think keeping her search short is going to make that much of a difference.

Walking into the kitchen, she actually doesn't see him until she's through the door and heading straight for the fridge for something to snack on. All this nervous energy has her starving but she comes to a halt when she sees him.

"Oh. Hi!" She sounds pretty cheerful considering the situation going on in the mansion, but she's yet to run across any of these angel statues yet and it's got her confident. "Didn't even see you there. Guess when I've got food on the brain I've a one track mind."

Souji looks up and swallows a mouthful of coffee before nodding, lowering his cup. He can definitely relate to that.

"No worries. There's coffee, if you want any." He nods to the pot on the counter.

Charlie glances over in the direction he indicates. "Sweet. I really need some caffeine if I'm going to be patrolling the halls."

Not that anyone asked her to, but it feels like something she should do. Look for people to help out, even if helping involves yanking them down a hallway and hiding together.

"Have you run into any of them yet?" She asks as she starts hunting up a mug. There's something oddly familiar about him, but she can't quite place it just yet. Then again, most of the people she's met here have pinged that part in her brainspace lately.

"Not yet." Souji sets his mug down and rests an elbow on the table where he's sitting, resting his chin on his hand. "I'm not really sure what I'd do about it if I did."

If they're as fast as he's heard, it would be difficult to run from them. He could hide around a corner, but then no one would be looking at the thing and then what?

As she fills her cup, she wonders how she would deal with it herself.

While her instincts would tell her to turn tail and run, she knows that just isn't an option. She's just glad she hasn't run into one yet.

"Same here. I'd probably shake a lot," she jokes, turning around to face him. "I'm just glad they aren't here for the long haul."

As she takes a sip, her eyes narrow a bit as she tries to place him. It would be easier to ask out loud, but where's the fun in that? Plus, it's a good distraction from the statues apparently coming to life and aging people in the mansion.

"Have you been around the mansion long?"

"It's...February now?" The longer Souji's here, the more he finds that time isn't a thing that wants to cooperate with him. "So in June, it'll be three years."

Three years.

That's pretty depressing.

"You haven't been here long, have you?" He only vaguely recognizes her.

Charlie lets out a low whistle at that, then immediately cringes. Talking in low voices is one thing, but a high pitched sound is likely to draw attention - maybe even the attention of some creepy angel statues.

"Three years, you are now the current Wonderland champion." She gives him a sympathic smile as she takes another sip of her coffee. "Everyone else has been a year or a handful of months."

And his question makes her sigh a bit, leaning against the counter. "Not this time. From what I've heard on the grapevine, this isn't my first trip around. Or my second." It makes her uncomfortable to think about it, since she can't remember a thing about any of her other trips. "Does that happen a lot? Peeps going home and coming back later, not remembering their jail time here?"

Souji nods. Maybe that's why she looks a bit familiar; he'd probably seen her around when she was here before, though he knows they've never actually spoken.

"A few people from my world have. They never remembered a thing." And some of them had been back more than once.

Souji sits back again, into a more characteristic slouchy posture. "But some people who leave and come back do remember. They're usually not gone for long, though."

"So weird." This is all she can come up with as she ponders this information. Really, there's no way she can describe it otherwise - maybe with 'slightly scary', but that seems to be par for the course with Wonderland so far.

"You know, I kinda recognize you." And she can't help herself from saying it, the words spilling before she can stop herself. "That's been happening a lot, too, except I don't really know the people. Just of them."

Convoluted much? It's how she rolls.

Souji blinks, a mix of vague confusion and curiosity on his face. He gets what she means by knowing of people rather than knowing them--after all, that was how the ~~Midnight Channel~~ strange broadcasts at home had worked.

It's unlikely that they share a home world, though--or, if they happened to, it's unlikely that they would have actually met there. Maybe there's a chance he becomes famous in the future and that's how she knows of him?

Nah, probably not. That wouldn't explain this being an ongoing occurrence for her.

"Where do you recognize them from?"

"Usually books or TV shows." Meeting James Potter had been a trip, and Angel had her amused and tickled to see he was just as he was in the show. "It's not even a new thing, I've had it happen at home a time or two."

Granted, she'd already met Sam and Dean Winchester before she read the Supernatural books, but she still counts it.

While she's talking, she's tapping her temple, trying to jumpstart her memory when she nails it and snaps her fingers, pointing at him.

"Video game!" Well, that clarifies things. "I mean, that's where I think I've seen you before. Persona, it's a RPG from Japan."

Souji sits up straighter when she makes that announcement. Though his expression doesn't change much, she's got his full attention now that she's said the word "persona."

"An RPG?" He's played a few video games in his day, but the term RPG makes him thinks of knights and quests and dragons.

Then it occurs to him that he has a dragon Persona on him right now. That puts things a bit more in perspective.

Still, it's not something he ever expected to hear.

For half a second, Charlie wonders if telling the people she meets that she knows them from media resources is such a good idea. Who knows what kind of existential crisis could happen.

Kinda too late for that now, but he doesn't seem like he's about to question his reality or anything....yet. Ah, crap, she really should watch it from now on.

"Yeah, one of those role playing video games. Take control of a protagonist, go through all kinds of shenanigans, beat a final boss kind of thing." Now that she's talking about the game, she's remembering things like what she'd named her protagonist (the first go around was Bilbo, just for funsies). "Usually there are a bunch of secret quests or social things you can do like....uh...friendships."

Romances is what she was about to say, but telling this guy that she basically played the game over and over to get every 'romantic' option seems super weird.

Souji's not in crisis so far, but he's a bit puzzled. As he thinks back over some of the things that have happened back home in the past year, his bemusement turns to an mix of embarrassment and powerful curiosity. There is so much that he really would rather people outside of his circle of friends weren't privy to, but on the other hand, he wants to know if the things he did were the best options.

Of course, a bit of skepticism does worm its way in, so as a bit of a test, he asks, "Then you know what made him do it?"

If it was really a video game--for her anyway--then surely she must know who the real culprit was.

Is there such a thing as spoilers when she's talking to someone about their own future? This must be what psychics feel like. It's not quite as fun as she imagined it.

"I know what happens." She says a little uncertainly, still treading carefully. "Do you really want me to tell you? I always got the feeling knowing your own future is a recipe for all kinds of disaster."

Though he wouldn't remember it when he went home, would he? She knows that leaving Wonderland involves more memory shenanigans than she thought possible.

That's a smooth dodge, if it's a dodge at all. If it's not, Souji appreciates her caution.

"It was all over when I got here." He mutters, looking at the table top. He's not so interested anymore in testing her, but considering the possibilities if she's not mistaking him for a video game character who happens to look like him.

After a minute, he musses his hair as though to wipe the worry out of his mind and looks at her again.

"Did you like the game?"

There's a part of her that's totally willing to tell him - in all honesty, in his position she would want to know - but then it's not as if he can really do much about it here. That would be frustrating, to say the least.

"Yeah, actually." She offers a smile before she finishes her drink, dumping the mug into the sink and wincing at the clatter it makes. Oops. "Sorry about that. It was pretty good. Been a while since I picked it up, but overall A plus."

There's a special place in her heart reserved for jprgs. Which seems like a super weird thing to actually say out loud.

"And I promise I didn't give you any silly names or anything." Her days of naming protagonists things like 'Dongs' ended when she was fifteen.

Souji smiles a bit. He appreciates that, actually.

"I'm Souji."

"Well, Souji, it's nice to meet you. Face to face and all." She grins in return, doing a little bow. "I'm Charlie Bradbury. Just Charlie is fine."

She's remembering James trying to get by with calling her Ms. Bradbury. Never.

"Does it weird you out? Knowing the whole game thing." She's curious - for science!

Souji returns her smile, and is about to say it's nice to meet her too, but her question makes him pause. It merits some consideration.

"...A little. But I'm curious about it too--about how similar it is."

That does make him think of something else though and he straightens up.

"Is there another game? One before mine?"

She's feeling a little more relaxed about talking video games with him, even if he is featured in one of them.

"Oh, yeah. There's a whole series!" Charlie has to think back a little, though, because it's been a while. "I think yours was called just Persona 4. The other games aren't directly tied to each other, so it's not like the previous char- er, people, are people you know."

Or maybe he does, who knows? "They're also a spin off of another game series. There are movies and even an anime that came out."

The world just got a lot bigger.

"The one before me--he's got blue hair, and wears headphones? He's been here before. And the girl-him has been too."

He tries to push his hair over to the side to look like Minato's. It is not very successful, and his bangs slide right back into place when he moves his hand away.

"Is it weird meeting people who aren't real where you're from?"

That wording is purposeful--his world is very real, after all. It just happens to also be represented in a video game in her world...somehow. He can't help wondering if someone in her world has the power to see into other worlds.

"That's him!" That actually helps with the explaining, since he's already met some people from the previous games. "It's been a long time since I played that one, but I remember the headphones and the hair."

His question has her pondering, and the Weeping Angels in the mansion seem a million miles away to her. Charlie gnaws on her lower lip as she asks herself - is it weird?

"Not really." Her imagination has always run wild, so it's not a hard situation to get used to. "It's actually kinda rad. Guess it depends on the person, but I'm all about meeting people from different worlds. Especially from places I already know about!"

And any personal information she might know about people can just stay tightly under wraps. She wouldn't feel very comfortable with someone she didn't know having intimate knowledge of her life - not a lot of people would.

"How about you?"

If it weren't for how much quieter than normal the Mansion seems, Souji would have completely forgotten there was an event going on. As it is, the most attention he gives that fact is in the form of occasional glances at the door to make sure nothing's sneaked up on them.

"It would be interesting." The closest Souji's come is knowing about Rise's true self, when most people only saw her as a pop idol, but he figures that experience applies somewhat. "I don't really know if I've noticed anyone who was from a book or movie from my home since I got here, though."

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clearly this is the perfect time for Charlie and Souji to meet

the best time! :D

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