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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 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."

"I had a crash course in it back home - we had Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz drop in." There's more to it than that, of course, but it's a very long, drawn out story. She's still just mad she missed going to Oz. "Kinda had one here, too. James Potter came up to me when I arrived in his stag form and snatched my phone."

Rather than sound offended, she's grinning. It was a pretty neat experience, in retrospect. At the time, she'd been a big pile of nerves.

"...Oh yeah. James is from a book, isn't he?"

Souji only knows that because he met Harry, and James was so, so proud of himself for the son he hasn't had yet. It's easy to forget, though.

"Not just any book!"

Charlie's a Tolkien girl through and through but she has to give the Harry Potter series mad props. When they came out, she was in her teens, but that didn't mean she enjoyed them any less.

"They spawned all kinds of craziness and eight movies. People are wild about the series back home." Even if James isn't actually present in the books except for memories or general 'the ghost of my parents are helping me' story lines. "It's uber surreal."

"It seems like you're having fun though."

Souji can imagine that when he says "in the TV world" with no other contextual hints, people imagine what Charlie is currently experiencing.

"It's been pretty rad so far, ignoring the whole being kidnapped from my home planet deal."

Not that she was technically home, but close enough.

Casting a glance at the doorway, she slowly makes her way in that direction, sticking her head out to take a quick look. Coast is clear.

"I think I'm gonna head up to my room, hide out for the rest of this craziness." Turning to look back at him, she smiles. "I hope it wasn't super weird - the whole video game thing."

Souji shakes his head and gets to his feet. He should probably get out of here, too.

"Let's talk about it again sometimes." He's still curious about the details. Maybe she can help him get hold of a copy of the actual game.

"Be careful on your way back." He'd offer to go with her, but he's found that some women find that offensive, somehow.

"Definitely. Maybe next time I see you, I'll have more shenanigans to talk about." She doesn't doubt it, there's plenty of people around she hasn't met. "You, too, bro!"

And with a vulcan salute, she leaves the kitchen, off on adventure as long as it doesn't involve her aging or dying. That would be awesome.

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