4th duel - [voice, backdated to tuesday]

[revolutionarygirl]

[Early Tuesday morning, Utena is returned to Luceti.

Well, technically.

This Utena Tenjou is not one who seems to be accustomed to this place in the slightest. When she wakes up, running a hand through her short pink hair, she has no idea where she is. Is this another thing connected to that weird Rose Bride girl?

Then she notices the plain white dress on her person. Her expression hardens--she's decided to become her own prince, dresses don't suit her anymore. Fortunately, she also catches sight of her own clothes--including her hat--folded next to her out of the corner of her eye.

It's when she reaches for her clothes that she notices her journal. Except... she doesn't recognize it as hers. She does notice that it has her name on it, but...

This is just too strange, but curiosity draws her to pick it up and look at it. This isn't any sort of book she's used to. Eventually, she accidentally turns on the recording device.]

Wait, is this really...? [She sighs.] I wonder if this is someone's idea of a joke, or if I've been kidnapped. If they really want that strange girl so badly, they could just duel me to win her... I have no need for the Rose Bride.

[No need for her, or anything she does to the people she's "engaged" to.]

((OOC: And so, Utena is back! She has returned as her movie self, a little while after talking to Touga and Anthy by the pool but before the confrontation in the Rose Garden. This Utena is more withdrawn for the most part, but also more open with flirting when it comes to girls [if her interaction with Wakaba in the beginning is supposed to mean anything.] This effect will last for a little over a week.))

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[entreats]

And what if it's both options at the same time?

[ After all, this place does seem like a pretty bad joke most of the time, honestly. ]

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[revolutionarygirl]

What reason does anyone have for that? [Nothing makes sense.] What exactly is this place?

[entreats]

It's called Luceti. It's an enclosure of sorts, so in that case I guess you could say you've been kidnapped. All of us were. [ Including herself, of course. ]

But I guess they just like to prank us because they think it's funny. Isn't that usually the reason people play jokes on each other?

[revolutionarygirl]

An enclosure?! [Yeah, not exactly liking the sound of that.] Kidnapping us and putting us in an enclosure... whoever is behind this, they don't have the right to do that to us!

[Despite the differences between the Utenas, there are core similarities.]

[entreats]

[ .. Really? This person is so passionate over something like this? Ange can't help but blink a little. ]

Well.. of course they don't. But do you think anyone would really listen to what they kidnapped? Kidnappers aren't that kind.

[revolutionarygirl]

There has to be a way to get them to listen. What do they even gain from putting us here?

[entreats]

Entertainment, I presume. After all, they only do really weird stuff for us, there's no normal explanation for it. The only thing I can think up is that they just enjoy seeing us suffer from ridiculous effects all the time.

[revolutionarygirl]

"Ridiculous effects?"

[Well, that doesn't sound great.]

[entreats]

Yeah. [ She makes a dismissive hand gesture to herself. ] Like making you wake up in someone else's body one day, or turning you from a girl into a guy or from an adult into a kid.. they do that kind of stuff randomly all the time.

[voice]

[shinesbrightest]

[...huh. Although Shinji didn't know Utena particularly well, he could at least tell that something was different about her. Despite living on the same floor, he feels like he hasn't seen her in a while, so he doesn't hesitate to ask:]

Utena? Did something happen?

[voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

[Utena can't help it--she's instantly suspicious and defensive. Most of it comes from waking up in such a strange, unfamiliar place, but some of it is also because she really is just more naturally suspicious and defensive than the Utena who has been here for a year.]

How--how do you know my name?!

[voice]

[shinesbrightest]

[Welp, that answers that. He probably should've guessed, he thinks to himself. There's a frown, but he tries to figure out how to explain.]

We've met here before. I guess you don't remember it. That happens sometimes.

[voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

It does...? [She sighs, frustrated.] What kind of place is this, anyway?

[And she thought that whole duel thing was weird, and the Rose Bride moreso.]

[voice]

[shinesbrightest]

It's really weird, that's what it is. [Of course, that's not particularly descriptive, so he elaborates.] It brings people in from different worlds. You and I probably aren't from the same place. We're stuck here, too, at least until this place randomly decides to send us back.

[voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

Different... worlds? [The more she hears, the less it makes sense.]

[voice]

[shinesbrightest]

Yeah. Like where I come from, the ocean is red and nothing can live in it. I've never met anyone who's seen anything like that before.

[And that's the reason he points it out, because things might be different in her world.]

[voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

A red ocean...

[Ugh, this is just too much to take in right now. She sighs, shaking her head. Since she seems to be stuck here, she might as well ask:]

Maybe there are others from my... world, then. [Still way too weird, even with that duel in mind.] Have you run into a girl named Anthy Himemiya?

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

I'd say it's more of the second one, but it's also kind of the first one too.

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

None of this makes sense... [She runs a hand through her hair.]

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

[Given that his first meeting with her was as Ratatosk... sadly, he isn't even aware that he's met her before and therefore that she isn't a New Feather.]

I guess no one has explained this place to you yet, huh?

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

A couple people have, but... none of it really makes sense to me, to be honest.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

It's okay, it doesn't always make sense even when you've been here for a long time.

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

So I might be stuck here for who knows how long? This is just...

[She's at a loss for words. She had wanted to start over at Ohtori Academy, be her own prince after Touga had just... left, without a single word to her. Now this... this shouldn't even be possible.]

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

... yeah. I'm sorry. Most people aren't stuck here for too long, though.

[He doesn't want to lie, even though he knows that's not what most people want to hear. And it's true, he's more the exception rather than the rule-- most people do leave long before they reach five years here.]

[Voice]

[revolutionarygirl]

I wonder what decides it...

[She had become her own prince. All she wanted was to just continue on with her life by going to Ohtori. But this...]