three [action/voice]

[imatreenow]

Mithos has lived his entire life in the village of Iselia, under the care of his older sister Martel who just so happens to be Sylvarant’s Chosen of Mana. When the siblings were younger, their parents were killed by Desians (or a group of people who looked suspiciously similar to the Desians...), a power-hungry group of humans bent on subjugating other races. Knowing that the villagers would be enraged upon discovering that the Chosen’s parents had been killed, Martel decided to keep the truth hidden, even from Mithos. She wanted Iselia to remain peaceful, until she could embark on the journey for world regeneration and make everything right.

Mithos’s best friend growing up is none other than Genis. The two are inseparable, having so much in common. He is also close to Genis’s sister Raine, Iselia’s school teacher. With such an unusually high half-elf population, Iselia is very nearly a haven against racial prejudices (the fact that the Chosen herself is half-elf helps). But nowhere is perfect...

The day of the oracle, Mithos sneaks away from school to witness Martel begin her duties as Chosen. He drags Genis along with him, because that’s what friends are for. They meet up with Martel at the temple, but the Desians (supposedly) are there as well, bearing gifts of violence and chaos. Just as the situation seems hopeless for our young half-elf friends, a mysterious swordsman by the name of Kratos comes to their rescue and...okay, you probably get the idea.

If Mithos is our bright-eyed and bushy-tailed protagonist, then what of Lloyd? Lloyd Irving, the celebrated hero of legend, who fell into the depths of despair and madness upon the murder of the person most important to him, Colette. With the help of his companions, Kratos and Sheena, he builds a twisted system to revive Colette, punish the world for its ignorance, etc. Sheena defects from his vision to form a counter-organization called the Renegades. Kratos...is not secretly anyone’s father. No.

As the Chosen One and her party travel around Sylvarant releasing the seals, they repeatedly encounter a somewhat ill-fortuned assassin named Yuan. He insists that he must eliminate Martel in order to save his land (except he is a loser and falls in love with his target). This makes a lot more sense when it is revealed that another world exists parallel to Sylvarant, and it is in competition for the only source of mana, like two halves of a time-glass, etc.

Mithos remembers being in Luceti these past few weeks, but he is unaware that there exists another version of himself. His memories of Luceti have been replaced with ones suitable to his AU-counterpart’s personality, but many of these are vague. The last thing he remembers prior to Luceti is Martel finally returning to her normal self, after being a soulless doll in the aftermath of the shenanigans that transpired at the Tower of Salvation.


[Mithos is more than a little confused. Not only has he awakened in a completely unfamiliar room in a completely unfamiliar house, but his memory seems a bit...fuzzy. Only vague snippets of the past weeks float to the surface. Is this one of those Malnosso experiments he has been warned about?

Well, he better check in with the Professor, or maybe even Yuan.

So he is currently making his way across the village (how did he end up at house 52 anyway?), an expression of contemplative concern on his face. As he sets out, he can't help but sigh lightly.]

If Martel were here...

[He trails off and shakes his head, trying not to think about how much he misses his sister. Unknown to him, the journal picked up on that bit of wishful thinking.]

Comments

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

No, it's okay. I'm confused as well. I guess I should get used to that, though...

[analyzing]

Yeah, it's not something you can get used to overnight. But does that mean this is your first time with an experiment?

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

[He nods] I just arrived here a few weeks ago. There are people from my world who have already been here for a long time, though, so I figure I should talk to them about it.

[analyzing]

I see...that's probably a good idea. This experiment's been pretty safe so far, but it's always better to be prepared just in case.

[...well, mostly safe.]

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

Has it affected you?

[analyzing]

[She folds her arms. :I]

Hasn't it. It sent me into the fountain again the other day!

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

The fountain? That must have been terrible with how cold it has been lately.

1/2

[analyzing]

It was freezing. I had to go get some new stuff after that since I couldn't walk back in all that.

[analyzing]

[But...headshake. She's rambling, she's rambling.]

But enough about me! How about you? Actually, I don't even think I got your name.

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

[....She certainly is...talkative.] My name is Mithos.

[analyzing]

Nice to meet you, Mithos! I'm Rise. [Here, have a hand to shake]

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

It's nice to meet you too. [HAND SHAKE COMPLETED.]

The people of Luceti really are different from anywhere else.

[analyzing]

Why do you say so?

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

Everyone here is so much kinder than in my own world. [It wasn't so bad in Sylvarant, especially when people knew he was the Chosen's brother, but...Tethe'alla was so much worse.]

1/2

[analyzing]

....

[analyzing]

Oh. Was it really unfriendly where you came from?

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

...Half-elves aren't particularly well-liked in my world. We - I mean my sister and I - were never badly off in Iselia, since everyone knew Martel was the Chosen. But...even in other towns in Sylvarant, people treated us with distrust until they learned of Martel's identity. In Tethe'alla even that couldn't protect us.

[analyzing]

[There is no way of saying what she wants to say without sounding like she was pitying him- but she was pretty sure that he wasn't out for pity in the first place.]

...did they hurt the two of you there?

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

It's...a little more complicated than that. [An understatement. He tries to think of how to explain the situation to someone unfamiliar with both Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.] Martel, since she's Sylvarant's Chosen of Mana, is a threat to Tethe'alla's prosperity. We were all captured there, but only us half-elves were going to be executed. It's a law there.

[analyzing]

...no, we aren't that cruel here. They- the people who brought us here- are kinda weird and dangerous but people in the village aren't like that. I promise.

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

I know. People fear those who are different, but here...everyone is so different from one another that it doesn't seem to matter.

I just worry about Martel, and everyone else still suffering back in my world. [....Worlds.]

[analyzing]

I guess there are good things about this place.

[... ... ...]

Um...if it helps, time works strangely between here and back in your world. Apparently, it doesn't move back home as long as you're here, so your sister should be safe.

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

I can't help but worry, though. I've never been away from her for this long in my life.

[analyzing]

A doting brother, huh?

[imatreenow.livejournal.com]

Of course! [And he isn't ashamed to admit it.]