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[kattobinguless]

[[ooc: This guy is pretty episode 47 spoiler heavy, or at the very  least his AU is imagined up from said spoiler, so yeah. Feel free to scroll by him if you don't want to read in that far.]]

[Anyone who has met a Yuuma might be surprised to see one in a school uniform sitting by the fountain, acting distinctly not Yuuma-ish. He doesn't look awed or

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[marbeledmask]

[[I'm not cruel enough to throw Zelus/CanonYuuma at him just yet.]]

Perhaps it's because of the fact that she has not only not met the current Yuuma in the DR, but also the fact that she herself was like this at a similar age. But spotting him on her way to Ara's day care, she slowly approaches, coming down on her knees to at least appear more or less shorter/less threatening than she actually is. "...Are you alright..?"

[kattobinguless]

[[No, you're cruel enough to wait until this Yuuma gets Mnemosyne//Black Mist!Astral with him to throw Zelus at him.]]

[You getting closer and actually looking directly at him does not help at all, Yuume. Everything's threatening. Everyone's making fun of him. You're just getting close enough to him that he can't avoid seeing that.]

No. I'm scared.

[marbeledmask]

There's a comforting hand tentatively coming to his shoulder. She's not looking 'directly' at him... She knows full well that'll just unnerve you.

It unnerved her at any rate. But if you let her, you'll have a comforting hand on your shoulder as she sits in a somewhat similar position to your own out of habit. "...It's a strange place... ...I know that when I came here, I didn't leave my room for weeks for the same reason.

"It's alright."

[kattobinguless]

[NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING IT'S NOT ALRIGHT. Skittering back right now because oh god don't hit him.]

...

[marbeledmask]

Okay okay-!

She'll pull her hand back...

"I won't hurt you. ... ...However, if you prefer it, I won't move. ...I'm sorry."

[kattobinguless]

[Great. He did something wrong again. He offended somebody again.]

...I'm sorry.

[marbeledmask]

"No- it's fine... If anything, I assumed." She looks about the room, with the fountain tree (don't go in there, there's a Hatsu), the open-ness...

"This place has no reason or purpose in who it takes and when... to wake up somewhere like this is frightening- there is no denying that.

"...But there is also no way for me to predict the history of someone who arrives- and it is wrong for me to assume I do. You need not apologize." It's a soft smile she gives Yuuma- a very soft one.

"...I am 'Yuume'. ...It's alright. ...To be scared. In a place like this... I imagine that to be separated from family or friends is hard..."

...She seems to speak from experience. She probably is.

[kattobinguless]

[Lethe doesn't really know how to respond to this. It doesn't sound real. But he doesn't want to contradict her and make her mad. And he doesn't want to take all this in either. ]

...I'm scared.

[marbeledmask]

"I know. ...I was scared too."

She looks to the ground. "...But... Being scared... ...Doesn't mean you have to be alone, alright? ...What's your name..?

"...Is there anything you want me to call you?"

[kattobinguless]

[Shake of the head. No. Nothing. He's nothing. Nobody wants to talk to him except to make fun of him. At least his nametag is visible now, since he hasn't curled back up yet.]

[marbeledmask]

Ah...

"...Lethe..." ...Shit.

Shit the history buff saw your name- "Like the river lethe in Greek myth... ...I wonder why this building would call you such a thing..." Note- Yuuma, this is not a BAD name, and in fact, you would probably benefit from its waters at the moment.

[kattobinguless]

[And the newly nicknamed Lethe just looks up in confusion.]

That's not...

[And then he shuts up. No contradicting, no pissing the other person off and giving them another reason to mock him. If they wanted to call him a strange name like that, then they could...]

[marbeledmask]

"Ah- no... It wouldn't be your real name... But when people come here, a tag often appears.

"Lethe- it's the name on your tag... ...Typically... This would mean that there is another here. Another you, from a different world- that there's a reason to differentiate between one or the other."

[kattobinguless]

...There shouldn't be another me...

[Why should something as pathetic as himexist more than once, anyway?]

[marbeledmask]

"Perhaps. Perhaps not. I've met many different versions of 'Yuusei' for example though. And each one is different- each is their own person, just as you are."

[kattobinguless]

[...Whatever this place is, it sounds scary. If it would want more of him...]

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