mylittlejamjar | APPLE FACTS 15: THE AVERAGE PERSON EATS 65 APPLES A YEAR

Hi suckers, it's your old buddy Jappleack giving you like, a ring on these stupid damn scrolls. You probably know me best as "that crazy maniac who keeps jumping into the weird bitch that's keeping us here", but I've got a special proposition for you: how would you like to be that exact kind of dangerous maniac?

See, I'm planning to head back into Calice when March rolls around with a few others, and you know what? I'm feeling so generous I'm going to be opening the gates to the public for a chance to go and have a look-see inside her this time around. You might be asking "but Jappleack can you really take all those people?" And the answer is hell no, I sure as shit can't take everyone who wants to come. We're going to have to limit how many others from outside the group I've got going we're bringing. So any of you who want to come, you can volunteer and from that pool we'll pick a lucky five.

How will we decide who gets to come? Simple. We're going to do it like any civilized people do it when they elect political leaders or lottery winners or virginal sacrifices: we're going to put names into a hat and then scoop those bitches out.

Couple things you should know before you decide you're going to jump your ass up to volunteer. First, I'm not going to bother telling you how dumb and dangerous this is because even I understand that shit. But I will tell you that time gets flashed right the hell up in there, so while it might seem like we're in her for a hour? A couple weeks might have passed here. So I'd have an empty ass schedule if you wanna come.

Secondly. we're here to do a couple things inside her. What we aren't going to be doing is goddamn rescue missions in trying to find people we care about and pulling them out or trying to attack and start a fight with this bitch. I understand you wanting to save the people you care about, but this isn't the time to try that yet. What I'm not going to be understanding about is if you decide the time has come to try and fight her and prove you're some damn big hero inside of her. You wanna be a dumbass who'll endanger themselves then more power to you dipshit, but you aren't getting everyone into trouble because of your hero complex or inferiority complex or whatever it is. I mean you here especially, little blue. Anyone who tries that shit is a one and done deal; you ain't coming around for a second ride.

So, with that all out of the way?

Who's ready and willing to do some of the dumbest shit they could do in their lives?

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It's ok, just some personal things that's all.

It won't affect me going in.

[See the bear text from earlier.]

Long as you're certain. I don't give too much a damn about it affecting how you go in though. Care a shit ton more about you just managing in general.

You need to sit this shit out or anything for something personal, don't be afraid too. Whether you come or need to go, I'm cool with it.

I am.

Besides, I want to help and sitting around in self pity won't help anyone in the long run. That and I'm not one to jump in head first when it comes to this.

Hell, I know that. You helped keep our dumb asses going a lot longer in there the last time then if we hadn't had you.

You're always welcome to come on in on this shit, so long as I'm here. I know I can trust you.

[That...made Yukiko perk up. Hearing that she did help in some way managed to make her feel a little better. Things might be rocky with Yu and his friendships but now wasn't the time to cry and run into a corner. Plus the fire show was a good cry out.]

I tried my best. I'm just glad it did something. And I will always come when you need me.

[Oh, one more thing since she saw that Kanji and Minato answered this.]

Oh, I know you said that there would be a drawing but I wanted to say that the two guys who answered after me are both good to have your back if they get picked.

[Jappleack smiles a bit back at the girl. She knows she can. She hasn't exactly become the closest friends with Yukiko, but Yukiko is still someone she definitely counts as a friend.]

I've spoken with both of them a bit before. They seem like solid dudes so if they get picked, hey. I won't have any problem with it. Nice to know for sure they are though. Friends of yours?

Both are from my world but I haven't met Minato-kun until coming here. Kanji-kun is from my home town and a good friend. Both are like me as in we can use personas but Minato-kun can switch between them.

Persona. That's like, the thing you did right? The monster magic thing? So is there a gang of you all just running around having adventures then or what?

[Nod.]

I can't remember if you were here over a year ago; that December a nasty fog came in and somehow brought Shadows to town. The only way to really fight them was to use a persona. A lot of the ponies here ended up awakening to theirs.

That's what Kanji-kun and I faced back home. I believe Minato-kun was from a different time and had to do something different than us.

I...remember bits of that. That was kind of around when I first got my ass kicked out of here before showing back up.

Huh. That's a hell of a thing. Kind of a bitch that the only way I've ever met anyone who's 'awoken' a power has been through some kind of horrible trauma. It's like some kind of sick ass running gag.

For a lot of us...in order to gain our personas, we had to face ourselves. The selves that we tried to repress and deny because we're ashamed that those thoughts are something we came up with. That's what happened back then...

Even then having one comes with a cost. I never thought of it much until recently but...once you have one, you know what it is that you kept so deep down. That you can never forget it otherwise it will revert back to a Shadow.

[Just like Yu. She had to wonder if his persona vanished after that...]

Don't think there's anything like that doesn't come with a cost. But you know, in the end? I think it's more hopeful than anything that something that can be used for good can come from something awful.

Guess that's true of any growth, really. Kind of sucks that in order to stay how you wanna be, you have to remember shit you don't want to.

To be honest...it made me stronger.

I used to depend on Amaterasu a lot but after the Changeling Attack, I started trying to do things on my own. Never in a million years could I say that I learned how to use a sword or make friends from all over the universes. So yeah, I can see the good in it.

There's good everywhere, you just look for it. Sometimes it's buried under a layer of dogshit, but when you clean it off you can find something pretty damn wicked underneath.

I believe that. I believe that in case of what's happening here, too. No matter what's gone wrong here? Shit can be fixed. And it can be made better.

We can make it better.

And we will.

Edited 2015-02-28 07:31 (UTC)

APPLE FACTS 15: THE AVERAGE PERSON EATS 65 APPLES A YEAR

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