[ Hundreds upon hundreds of photos are hung on string lights all over the wall, each attached with a little wooden clothes pin. Along with the photos are various notes and small mementos, tied on like ornaments with colorful bits of strings and ribbons. ]
[ On a small table pushed up against the wall are pens and paper, strings and clothes pins, and even a small printer for printing photos from your phone, in case party guests would like to make any contributions. ]
[The photos seem largely arranged by unit, and here in the den, almost everything you can see is pep!pep!. This is just the pep!pep! section now, big enough to fill one entire wall of this room. They're pictures of individuals as well as groups. Pictures of people doing stupid lives, or chilling out at home. Pictures taken during weird games, people wearing Halloween costumes, and dressed for prom and masquerades. Hundreds of happy moments as far as your eyes can see.]
[Are you looking for anyone or anything in particular? ]
There's a picture of her fist day in pep!, still wearing pajamas while standing on a chair to menace Cobalt face to face. There's pictures of her and Cobalt making cookies, and her first ride in the van. Pictures where they're feasting on yakiniku at the department store, and having burgers at the Bad End dorm. There's pictures of her racing a very tiny, child-sized version of Cobalt through the street, and another where she's zapping Gladio for having the nerve to wake up in the pep dorm with no memories. There are pictures of her hanging out with the other peps, and playing games, and harassing people in Lives, and having snacks.
In all these pictures she looks really happy, and surrounded by people who love her.]
[Here at this end of the photo wall, there will be a lot of familiar faces! It has all the same photos of the collage back in the real pep dorm, but more, as if someone was able to capture a bunch of moments even when a camera wasn't present.
Here in the pep section, you see Yugi, Wednesday Ren, Glacies, Gladio, Pink, Senpai, as well as Dawn,Sunrise,Sunshine, Sunset, Sunlit Prism Geodude, and Lyra. Some of these pictures look really old, way before Cobalt acquired antlers, where he looks skinny and sick just like the guy you saw in the plaza. In those pictures, you can recognize Pink and Senpai, but everyone else in the picture is from before Moxie's time.
As you look over the rest of the wall, you can see the rest of the pictures are grouped by unit. You find photos the following people (many of whom have graduated or transferred by now):
Lilis - Amaranth, John, Noctis sensitIV - Anubis, Persphone, Lavender, Leviathan, Sekhmet, Izanagi Taisho Roman Revolution - Sol, Fox, Kaguya BAD END=DEAD END - Tatsuya, Nine-Nine, Joker, Phoenix, Silk, Thorn, Hardcore, Hellfire, Jack. (There are also a lot of pictures of Senpai mixed in with these, where he's wearing Bad End clothes and clearly living in their dorm.) future is now - Intensity, Angel, Shogun, Duality, Kharg, Jason WILD CITY - Talon, Nychta, Coyote ☆ZRAEL - Sabre, Requiem, Aradia Heart Soldier Senshi - Hiryuu, Hurricane, King, DVa AlcheME! - Eclipse, L, K, C avante en garde - Cardinal, Gold, Nemesis, Mike, Shrike, Griffin BARiTONES - Manhattan, Paloma, Alexander
And finally, in a place of honor at one end of the photo wall, you can see pictures of Cobalt as a fit, healthy, athletic-looking teenager, spending time with his parents (who you may recognize as the dark-haired woman and bespectacled man from the living room.) There's one with him and his mom both wearing suits at what looks like a fancy gallery opening, with food, flowers, live music, and enormous, vividly-colored impressionistic paintings on the walls behind them. There's a picture of the three of them sitting at a wrought-iron patio table, drinking tea in the garden of this very house. There's are a whole bunch of pictures of Cobalt and Thorn, both healthy young adults whose faces are yet untouched by scars, sharing a holiday feast with both of Cobalt's parents. The house in the pictures is covered in lanterns and bellflowers, just like the house you're in right now.
[This version of Cobalt looks much closer to how he appears in Imeeji. Which is to say, healthy, buff, and friendly, as opposed to the one in the plaza who was none of those things.]
Well, some part of me was. But I've been here this whole time.
More like, everything here is all part of the same person. Me, the guy in the plaza, all the people here, the house, the city... all of it is different parts of a dream, but all belong to the same dreamer.
I guess you could say that I'm like the core personality.
That guy in the plaza, Ascensuri — his job is to protect the city and keep everything running. And my mom over there looks after this house and all the people in it, including me.
My job is just to hang out and have a good time I guess, haha.
[He hits his palm with the bottom of his fist, suddenly remembering]
Do you remember that time half the unit went over to Bad End for fireworks? Lumen was the guy cooking burgers -- those round meat sandwiches. You covered one of them in mustard and then made a face when you tried it.
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[ Hundreds upon hundreds of photos are hung on string lights all over the wall, each attached with a little wooden clothes pin. Along with the photos are various notes and small mementos, tied on like ornaments with colorful bits of strings and ribbons. ]
[ On a small table pushed up against the wall are pens and paper, strings and clothes pins, and even a small printer for printing photos from your phone, in case party guests would like to make any contributions. ]
[The photos seem largely arranged by unit, and here in the den, almost everything you can see is pep!pep!. This is just the pep!pep! section now, big enough to fill one entire wall of this room. They're pictures of individuals as well as groups. Pictures of people doing stupid lives, or chilling out at home. Pictures taken during weird games, people wearing Halloween costumes, and dressed for prom and masquerades. Hundreds of happy moments as far as your eyes can see.]
[Are you looking for anyone or anything in particular? ]
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There's a picture of her fist day in pep!, still wearing pajamas while standing on a chair to menace Cobalt face to face. There's pictures of her and Cobalt making cookies, and her first ride in the van. Pictures where they're feasting on yakiniku at the department store, and having burgers at the Bad End dorm. There's pictures of her racing a very tiny, child-sized version of Cobalt through the street, and another where she's zapping Gladio for having the nerve to wake up in the pep dorm with no memories. There are pictures of her hanging out with the other peps, and playing games, and harassing people in Lives, and having snacks.
In all these pictures she looks really happy, and surrounded by people who love her.]
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[Well, who else features, besides her?]
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Here in the pep section, you see Yugi, Wednesday Ren, Glacies, Gladio, Pink, Senpai, as well as Dawn, Sunrise, Sunshine, Sunset, Sunlit Prism Geodude, and Lyra. Some of these pictures look really old, way before Cobalt acquired antlers, where he looks skinny and sick just like the guy you saw in the plaza. In those pictures, you can recognize Pink and Senpai, but everyone else in the picture is from before Moxie's time.
As you look over the rest of the wall, you can see the rest of the pictures are grouped by unit. You find photos the following people (many of whom have graduated or transferred by now):
Lilis - Amaranth, John, Noctis
sensitIV - Anubis, Persphone, Lavender, Leviathan, Sekhmet, Izanagi
Taisho Roman Revolution - Sol, Fox, Kaguya
BAD END=DEAD END - Tatsuya, Nine-Nine, Joker, Phoenix, Silk, Thorn, Hardcore, Hellfire, Jack. (There are also a lot of pictures of Senpai mixed in with these, where he's wearing Bad End clothes and clearly living in their dorm.)
future is now - Intensity, Angel, Shogun, Duality, Kharg, Jason
WILD CITY - Talon, Nychta, Coyote
☆ZRAEL - Sabre, Requiem, Aradia
Heart Soldier Senshi - Hiryuu, Hurricane, King, DVa
AlcheME! - Eclipse, L, K, C
avante en garde - Cardinal, Gold, Nemesis, Mike, Shrike, Griffin
BARiTONES - Manhattan, Paloma, Alexander
And finally, in a place of honor at one end of the photo wall, you can see pictures of Cobalt as a fit, healthy, athletic-looking teenager, spending time with his parents (who you may recognize as the dark-haired woman and bespectacled man from the living room.) There's one with him and his mom both wearing suits at what looks like a fancy gallery opening, with food, flowers, live music, and enormous, vividly-colored impressionistic paintings on the walls behind them. There's a picture of the three of them sitting at a wrought-iron patio table, drinking tea in the garden of this very house. There's are a whole bunch of pictures of Cobalt and Thorn, both healthy young adults whose faces are yet untouched by scars, sharing a holiday feast with both of Cobalt's parents. The house in the pictures is covered in lanterns and bellflowers, just like the house you're in right now.
Everyone looks really, really happy.]
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Ya got so many friends, Colby. . .
[Then she pauses and kind of squints at the one with Thorn. Then points at it.]
Wait. I know this guy. I swear I seen 'im somewhere afore.
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That's Lumen. He's on Bad End now. See?
[He points him out in the Bad End section. There are soooooooooooo many pictures of him actually.]
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Whuh--Colby. . .? Weren't ya just outside defending the city?
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Well, some part of me was. But I've been here this whole time.
How ya doin?
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That guy in the plaza, Ascensuri — his job is to protect the city and keep everything running. And my mom over there looks after this house and all the people in it, including me.
My job is just to hang out and have a good time I guess, haha.
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Anyway, you were pointing at Lumen's picture before. Have you guys met already?
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[He hits his palm with the bottom of his fist, suddenly remembering]
Do you remember that time half the unit went over to Bad End for fireworks? Lumen was the guy cooking burgers -- those round meat sandwiches. You covered one of them in mustard and then made a face when you tried it.
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Yes, yes, I remember the nasty yellow stuff.
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Maybe if he feeds you enough, you'll remember Lumen, too.
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I'll be sure to do that.
Lumen was my best friend back at home. We were roommates in military academy, which is when this picture was taken.
[He points at the one with Cobalt and Thorn with Cobalt's parents, in this very house, with these very decorations.]
He came over once to celebrate the winter solstice. It's one of my happiest memories from the Before Times.
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I'm sortish surprised we don't see him hanging round more often, then.
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I think he'd like you a lot.
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