033. [dictated + action]

[foolishwhisper]

[so Adachi had just come to realize that a couple people he knew were no longer in the castle. He was debating saying something, journal already open, or leaving it to people who were no doubt closer to them than he was (he assumes)...

When all of a sudden.

Something changes.]

Well.

Now isn't this interesting...?

[and what's the first thing a Shadow thinks of doing when he's actually in control?

Stretch these darn legs with your little pet blob Shadow following you behind you of course!]


(ooc: loss start, open like an open thang, over journals and in person.)

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[foolishwhisper]

[Blacky stares at Ted for a moment, is relieved to feel no hostility and then flies up into Shadow Adachi's arms, who welcomes the little blob and pets him like one would any other pet.]

He's a good friend from home. The castle gave him to me as a Christmas present.

[teds_out]

Aw. [He tilts his head a little, a smile playing on his face as he looks at Blacky.] What is he?

[foolishwhisper]

Fragments of undesirable human thoughts collected into a single sentient animal like being.

[...well it's true.]

[teds_out]

[Opens his mouth to say something. Gauges just how impossible this seems, given he has seen talking, multi-colored ponies, sentient trees, and has been turned into a different species once.

..It still seems a bit weird. Just a bit.]

Really?

[foolishwhisper]

Yes.

It becomes hostile when denied its right to exist. Which humans will often do when they fail to understand it or accept what they see as something that came from them.

It's called a Shadow.

[teds_out]

[other worlds are cray-cray!]

...huh. [Thoughtfully, he reaches out to give the Shadow a little pat on the head.] He got a name?

[foolishwhisper]

Blacky. I think it was... Fluttershy that came up with the name and it's stuck ever since. Other me didn't want to name him at all.

Sorry >>;;;;

[teds_out]

Hah, cute.

... Wait, other you?

it's all good!

[foolishwhisper]

Yes.

Other me.

[said like this is the simplest fact in the world]

[teds_out]

Uhhhh.

Yoooouu... have a twin?

[foolishwhisper]

Noooooooooooooooot quite.

[teds_out]

Theeen....?

[foolishwhisper]

I am a Shadow.

The true self.

[teds_out]

[wow okay ted has no idea what's going on anymore.]

But... I thought Blacky was a Shadow. If you're a Shadow, why do you look like Adachi?

[foolishwhisper]

There are different kinds of Shadows.

There's what Blacky is.

And then there's the personal Shadow each and every living person has inside of them.

[teds_out]

Oh.

[A bit of hesitation.]

...you don't seem that bad, though.