[Re-Introduction] Titus Awakened, or Search without End

[77th_earl]

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[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka just happens to be passing the lab, and the door just happens to be unlocked. He hears the banging, and alarm bells jangle in his head, because something is not right about the sound.

He jerks the door open and dashes in. After darting around amongst the tables and various pieces of equipment, he locates the source of the noise: the freezer chest. The lid is cracked; it is being pushed up from inside. He grabs the handle and heaves it up, and looks into the chest....

"TITUS???"

[77th_earl]

Titus looks up from the depths of the freezer, naked except for a twist of black plastic, blinking at the light and gasping a bit. He's all over goose-pimples and he's quite wide-eyed with fear.

"What... what is this place? Where am I?" he asks, flustered.

[in_summer_leaf]

"You're at the Mansion," answers Hisoka. "Come, let me help you out of there!" He offers a hand for Titus to grasp, and will pull him upright, if he permits, and help him to his feet and then out of the chest.

He has goosebumps himself.

[77th_earl]

He blinks, confused. "The Mansion? Whose mansion, might I ask?" he says, baffled, looking Hisoka up and down curiously, as if he's trying to place him (which he is...)

[pinkduelist]

If Titus were to come into the main room, he might find a familiar looking pink-haired all curled up in sadness in a chair, of course her disposition changes all together once she raises her head.

"Titus? Is that really you?"

[77th_earl]

Hopefully by now, he has a decent, even a modern suit of clothes on, and he's roaming through the house, reacquainting himself with the place. He pauses, seeing Utena, peering at her curiously. Then recognition crosses his face. "Utena...?" he asks. "Yes, it is I, it is Titus Groan.

"I've been away for rather a long time, I think..."

[pinkduelist]

Utena doesn't even say anything, rushes up him and gives him a gigantic, almost smothering hug. She cries, Utena honestly though she would never see him again.

"Oh Titus... we missed you so... I missed you."

[77th_earl]

He might start a bit, but after a blink of an eye, he'll gently embrace her and press her to his heart. "Utena... what has happened since I left this place?" he asks.

[drownedfuchsia]

Fuchsia is wandering about half-dead. Her hair is messier than usual, and she's not wearing shoes. Why? She forgot to put them on.

She's talking to herself, just a little, though it would be incomprehensible to anyone.

She's not seeing anything, really, just focusing on putting one foot in front of the other.

[77th_earl]

This one needs no reintroduction, and the haggard sight of her will stop him in his tracks, looking at her, wide-eyed with concern. "Fuschia... what has happened?"

[drownedfuchsia]

"Titus. Titus is talking. He can't be talking. He's pieces." Fuchsia's just a little too much like her father here.

"I could invent him. I should invent him."

[77th_earl]

That tone is worrying: he's too young to really remember has father except as a strange, dark shadow that used to hover over him with a weird air of protectiveness, but her tone reminds him of some of the crazy folk who found refuge in the Under-River.

"Fuschia, dear sister, look up, it is Titus, it is I and I have returned," he pleads.

[ohmaiden]

Iphigenia has been in mourning. She's been worried almost sick about Titus, and she's certain that she'll never see him again.

So she's trying to tend to herself, to keep herself occupied. Iphigenia can be found in the kitchen, brewing some tea while working on some embroidery.

Anything to distract her. Anything to forget.

[77th_earl]

He's still roaming about, reacquainting himself with the rooms and feeling a bit hungry, he'll head for the kitchen.

On seeing Iphi, he'll pause on the threshold, eyeing her quizzically, trying to place her face.

[ohmaiden]

She'll eventually look up from her work and upon seeing him, gasps.

"You--!"

[77th_earl]

Iphi was one of his first lovers, and thus his is a hard face to forget. "Iphigenia...?" he asks, hopeful, a bit fearful just in case. He once mistook a mountain girl for his sister Fuschia, and he does not want to have another case of mistaken identity.

[whutobjection]

Phoenix isn't personally connected to Titus, but he did work on your case when you bit it. Personally he finds it hard to believe Rudy would do such a thing, but then again, in Ace Attorney there's no such thing as truly sympathetic murderers. Save Acro, but he made this typist BAWL like a child.

He may notice Titus around the hallway.

"Titus?"

Turns out his theory on people coming back here has some weight after all. (We hope the kid isn't a zombie though.)

[77th_earl]

Now here is a singular-looking gent whose spiky hair makes him think of Doctor Pruinesquallor and his wiry shock-mane. Titus might smile just a little in his sad-thoughtful way. "Excuse me, but have we met before?" he asks.

Fortunately, not a zombie: he's as alive as Phoenix is.

[whutobjection]

"Yes we did... we fought a floating horn that sounded like a bunch of angry, irate bees. I'm Phoenix Wright, by the way..." He hopes to remind Titus.

[77th_earl]

He ponders this for a moment, then he smirks a bit, chuckling. "Yes, I remember that, now that you mention it," he says. "That was a peculiar night indeed.

"Mister Wright... it is a pleasure to meet you again."