first fonon || voice/video

[figurespeaking]

[There's a sound of shifting, and a voice swears under his breath. A tuft of alarmingly bright red hair comes into view over the device, followed by a completely bewildered face.]

...did I fall in another hole? "Use this"? What if I don't want to? Fontech is Guy's thing

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[embracethewaves]

A hole?... This place is way too weird even to be Wonderland, if that's what you're thinking.

What's a fontech?

[figurespeaking]

Yes, a hole. ...Wonderland?

...it's a ...fon machine. Thing.

[embracethewaves]

...Never mind, looks like I got the wrong idea. But what the heck does falling into a hole have to do with ending up in a place like this?

Yeah, that doesn't exactly help.

[figurespeaking]

I fell in a trap ...hole thing, wound up in a room with a very unfriendly person whom I happen to kind of be related to, and when I left I wound up here. I thought maybe they had something to do with each other.

I never claimed to be an expert.

[embracethewaves]

Oh...I get it. Sorta. Good guess, but not exactly. I guess you can call it a mass-kidnapping in this case, all of us are in the same boat.

Well-- yeah, I guess, but...oh, forget it.

[figurespeaking]

Kidnapping? That's-- There's no time for this...!

[embracethewaves]

Hey...I know what it's like to have things at home that're really important. But a lot of people have been here for months, so you might be in it for the long haul. Usually when people get sent back home, it's basically to the same time they left, so don't stress out too much about it.

[figurespeaking]

[Too late.] Nonono, that... [Minor flail.] I can't be stuck here, that's bad on a lot of levels. [Like the fact that I'm still supposedly dying and my world needs saving and everything is kind of horrible.]

[embracethewaves]

[Gentle understanding approach has failed. Initiate typical Umi mouthy response in 3...2...1...] That goes for all of us, pal, and it's not like you've got much of a choice anyway. None of us can find a way out.

[figurespeaking]

[Frowns. All right so that kind of reminded us of something Tear would say, so we're gonna chill out a little.] ... I guess... if it'll be the same when I go back... [Note he says when, not if. Wishful thinking.]

[embracethewaves]

[Definitely wasn't expecting that reaction.]

...If it's something that important, we'll just have to find the people in charge and convince them to let us all go home, huh?

[figurespeaking]

[Well he's still not happy, but in an instance like this, Tear would have scolded him for getting over excited and about how it wasn't going to help or change the situation. So he actually made an effort to be rational. Go Luke go.]

It... kinda involves the fate of my home, so yeah it's important. Do you really think they'd listen? [...For all his rational thinking, Luke is also kind of gullible and childish, still. Sigh.]

[embracethewaves]

Sounds like a pretty tough job. Hey, hey, you never know until you try! If enough people bully them, they've gotta react. Besides, even if they don't, we can always figure out how they kidnapped everyone and undo it right? [brb being the pushiest magical girl ever]

[figurespeaking]

It's not like it's just me, so it's all right. Yeah. Yeah! I mean they'd be crazy to ignore a rally of people that wanna go home, right? [And trust me, we know crazy. Destroying the current world and making clones of everybody so nobody remembers what the planet was like beforehand, anyone?]

[embracethewaves]

You've got friends helping you out or something? Definitely! And some of these people are out for blood, too. [...Oh boy, that sounds even crazier than CLAMP.]

[figurespeaking]

Yeah. ...Is that really necessary? [The Tales of the Abyss villain is a special, special brand of insane.]