IT'S THAT VERY SPECIAL TIME AGAIN.

[goodburger]

Time for.......


THE GODDAMN TEST DRIVE MEME

1. COMMENT WITH A JOURNAL OF A CHARACTER YOU'VE THOUGHT OF APPING/WOULD LIKE TO APP AS THOUGH THEY'RE ALREADY IN C&C
2. TAG AROUND WITH NEW JOURNALS OR OLD!
3. APP THEM ALL NOW!
4. IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE LATE SO DON'T YOU EVEN GO THERE
5. LINK THIS POST TO ATP ADS YOU POST LATER
6. THIS TEXT HAS BEEN RECYCLED AT LEAST 25 TIMES
7. HAVE SOME FUCKING FUN

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[filled]

[ he stiffens at the sight, but-- weirdly, it.. helps. it's a strange sensation, feeling calm, feeling almost clear-headed.

he takes a shuddering breath, carefully climbing to his feet again. ]

I-- You're new? [ her clothing is.. strange. he knows he should know something about it, but the information is still eluding him at the moment. ]

[twin_paradox]

New to this place, yes.

[filled]

O-Oh. I-- [ he can't think. everything's so strange, his head feels so fuzzy-- ] I don't.. know where I should be.. going. [ he's dead. he knows he must be. sakura isn't here, either, is she?

he-- failed. everything he did was for nothing, and she's going to suffer there in that house the same way he has.

something squirms in his belly, and for a moment, it's all he can do not to be sick. ]

Do-- Do you know?

[twin_paradox]

[She holds up a finger.]

Do you want me to answer for you? Or even show you the answers you can choose?

[filled]

Yes. [ it's a breathless little exclamation, clutching his bad arm and trying to keep the ruined side of his face from her view. ] I just.. it's all so confusing right now. I think.. I'm supposed to be dead.

[twin_paradox]

Then watch.

[Her cosmo flares again, or, rather, the power that this place had gifted to her does. Bubbles start forming in the air, each one a vision of one of Kariya's futures.]

Look, choose the future you want, and realize what must be done to lead to that future.

[filled]

Wh-- [ he blinks sluggishly, good eye flicking back and forth over the little bubbles in shock. ] How.. How are you doing that?

[ 'future'. do dead men really have futures? he's sick. the crestworms haven't left much worth saving, have they? ]

[twin_paradox]

It's the power that belongs to the Gold Saint of Gemini.

[Though...just then, it felt a little different than usual. And she's pretty sure that if she were using a proper Crossroads Mirage, it should show a backdrop of space.]