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[priforprince]

From: Apollo
Date: October 2nd, evening

[ The feed opens to a pair of green eyes blinking at it, pulling back. At first, the person just seems satisfied that they got the camera pointing the direction they wanted it, but then - ]

This is.....me?

[ It's like the sun dawns. She settles in to just stare. At herself. On her webcam. Content. At peace. ]

Beautiful...........

[ Something in the background sniggers like a kettle boiling. Kicking someone while they're down - say, switching an amnesiac's phone to broadcast when it'd meant to privately record - is apparently perfectea accepteable teahavior. ]

[[ ooc: backdated to the evening of the addpocalypse. hibiki has forgotten everything related to herself, but remembers most other things. she'll be all better the next day, so take advantage while you can. ]]

Comments

From: Asteria

[cieled]

Are you really? (Has this one never seen themselves in a mirror? He is going to ignore the vanity of the comment for now.)

[priforprince]

I'm transcendent.

[ She's still in awe of this, so she says it distractedly. She hasn't even realized another window has popped up on screen.

Yet. ]

[cieled]

Can you look away from your reflection for a moment? (Come on, you can do it.)

[priforprince]

No.

[ It's true. At least, that's how she feels right now.

Nothing could pull her away from this marvelous discovery... ]

[cieled]

(He sighs. Loudly.)

Are you Narcissus? Be careful or you will turn into a flower.

[priforprince]

My beauty already surpasses any blossom.

[ She only has less than a day's worth of knowledge about herself, and much of it is contradictory. Discovering she is, in fact, as amazing as some corner of her mind suspected she must be has just been so fulfilling. ]

[cieled]

A new one could be created for you.

(A silly, flamboyant one that refuses to abandon a river's edge.)

Have you always been so...taken...with yourself?

[priforprince]

I don't recall.

[ A dramatically brooding shadow passes across that incomparable visage. ]

My memories of myself have been....

[ She isn't actually sure what happened to them. But trailing off is prettier, so that's just fine. ]

From: Yamanbagiri Kunihiro

[replicatedform]

[He wonders if he's intruding on something. She's not being... annoyingly prideful.]

Are you supposed to record this?

[Unless it's a vanity thing...]

[priforprince]

Is that a problem?

[ She sounds like she honestly does not know.

And her eyes remain staring deeply into their own captured image. She's not sure what's talking to her and she doesn't care.

That impossibly perfect being before her - is her. ]

[replicatedform]

... No, not really. I just... didn't expect to see this?

[What was he expecting when he check this network? Who knows. He pause for a moment. You know, her behaviour so far seems a little... worrying? A little too different from that time he met her.]

Is there something wrong?

[priforprince]

No....

[ Not now that she knows this is what she looks like.

...Except. Maybe. ]

.......Do you know me?

[replicatedform]

[...?]

We met once before. But that's it... You forgot?

[priforprince]

Once...

[ She thinks. ]

Right. With...the child.

What were we discussing....?

[ She. She feels it was something. Very important. About herself.

What was it...? ]

[replicatedform]

[After a moment, he answers.]

About making ayakashi targets. You're against how that child's colouring a design. I don't see a problem with it and disagreed with you.

[priforprince]

I did that....?

[ Hibiki looks confused. She has been putting together a very...odd...portrait of the kind of person she must be, and the pieces don't all fit. A talking book said she was its minion, for example. That implies she is a pathetic person, which was better forgotten. But her reflection is the most beautiful thing she's ever seen, which seems to imply she is in fact someone amazing.... ]

I'm a mysterious person.

[replicatedform]

You were against the idea of... blue cows.

[He remembers, because of how ridiculous the topic was at the time.

... mysterious?]

I'd say so. How different you're acting is pretty "mysterious" to me right now.

[priforprince]

[ Blue cows? Those exist?

...Wait, no, that's not the point. ]

I've forgotten who I am. Unthinkable, if this is my reflection....

[ Who could forget...who could forget.....

What was her name again?

Oh, right. Hebeke. ]

[replicatedform]

You what?

[He kind of suspect this, but it's another for her to actually confirm it with her own words.]

... I don't really know what to do with this. Is someone with you?

[priforprince]

There's a small girl.

[ She starts to glance away, to see if said small girl is around, but - oh.

oh, this is a nice angle.

Hibiki freezes like that, then tips her head slightly up. Fascinating. ]

[replicatedform]

[A small girl? Probably a friend. Shinki, god? Well, at least she have someone with her...

He blinks when she freezes.]

Oi. What now?

[priforprince]

My lashes are exceptional.

[ This is more important than what they were talking about. ]

[replicatedform]

[There's silence from his end for a moment.]

... Yeah, they're nice?

[Spoken like someone who doesn't really get it.]

[priforprince]

What sort of catastrophe could wipe the knowledge of such perfection from anyone's mind.....?

[ Hibiki begins to look broody. Handsomely so. ]

It must be a tragedy.

[replicatedform]

[What an handsomely way of brooding. It almost makes him jealous of it. Almost.]

Who knows, an accident? Or someone who doesn't like you?