Fourth Wall

[nameofexorcist]

The population has greatly increased again.

[...] At least there are three cities to hold everyone this time. [Although, Spero will need more patrol hours now.]

Comments

[hellfire_gouka]

Haha. I thought so, Commander. Always the reliable one. [Even though he knows this Kresnik isn't his, he can't help but be friendly and a bit joking towards him... force of habit, he guesses.]

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

[...] How long have you known me?

[hellfire_gouka]

... More than three years now, I think.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

Three years? I haven't been here for that long.

[hellfire_gouka]

Not here, no. Somewhere else.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

...Filgaia?

[hellfire_gouka]

[Shakes his head no.] Somewhere else not too different from this place, where we've been trapped for a while.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

[Great, is he going to be stuck in another city in the far future? Or is this something he just can't remember?]

...I see.

[hellfire_gouka]

... Well, it's probably another "you" if I had to guess. Like another iteration of "Kresnik Ahtreide." Still--not too different from the Kresnik standing in front of me.

[All of this alternate selves stuff has become so mundane to him it's like he doesn't even have to think about it anymore.]

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

......

[hellfire_gouka]

... ha... I guess it must sound strange. Sorry. I've lived with odd things for so long I've just gotten so used to it.

[Pause.]

Well, I'll stop bothering you by yammering on like this.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

...No, parallel worlds do exist.

[hellfire_gouka]

Oh, so you do believe me? Good, then. I didn't want to sound like I'd lost my mind.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's not unusual.

[hellfire_gouka]

So strange things happen here, too, then?

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

Yes, unusual situations are becoming normal here.

[hellfire_gouka]

I see. What kind of situations?

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

Hallucinations, zombies, doppelgangers...

[hellfire_gouka]

Huh. Same here.

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

...Dolls that couldn't be destroyed.

[hellfire_gouka]

Dolls?

Some of the doppelgangers for us... were real versions of ourselves, in a way...

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

Yes.

What were they like?

[hellfire_gouka]

... They were the parts of ourselves we denied and didn't want to show to anyone. [Sigh.] We had to accept them to make them leave...

[Pauses] What were the dolls like? Were they... violent?

[musicboxsoldier.livejournal.com]

[So that other Kresnik had to deal with parts that he denied? ...He didn't want to think how that turned out.]

No, they kept on watching us. Eventually, we took on the dolls' personality.

[hellfire_gouka]

Their--personality? [How does that work?]