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So you've woken up in a city right out of a fairy tale, surrounded by gnomes, dwarves, wicked stepsisters, and talking pigs, and all they can talk about is how much they missed you.

Either you had a really good time the night before, or something really strange is going on.

Welcome to the Myth Making Test Drive Meme. You don't have to be in the game or reserved to test out here! It's just so you can get a feel of the game and interact with other people.

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✒ Time to go exploring! You're in a big city surrounded by people, food, and talking animals. There's a large tower in the center of the city that's hard to miss... But there's also a tavern. Choices, choices...

✒ Time to get the hell out. The city gates are unguarded and no one's really trying to stop you. You can ask questions later, that ominous forest looks like your best bet.

✒ Forget all of that, you need to figure out what's up with your body. Whatever powers you had before certainly aren't working.

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[He wasn't having a good day. He went down for a little nap in his room, figures he's dreaming about cute talking animals and stuff, but when he tries to approach any they start running away from him! The hell'd he ever do?]

[It's after the third instance of this that he's feeling real surly. His jaw set, gray eyes steely, he's looking as unapproachable as ever, inwardly pretty upset that he couldn't pet so much as one. But the longer he sticks around town, the more he wonders if he's really dreaming... if pinching didn't work and looking at clocks didn't work, what did?]

Tch. Screw this.

[He kicked an empty can further down the road without checking its trajectory and set off to take a look around, shoulders high and tight, and his posture as slouchy as ever.]

[Naoto's comes to a halt after perhaps a dizzying hour of trying to comprehend everything, but it's not working out. Sitting at the fountain, her hands cup her chin while her elbows dig into her knees. She's gone mad, hasn't she? Maybe she got stuck in the television world again without knowing it. That didn't explain the lack of shadows or why they took such specific fiction forms.]

[Her eyes open somewhat when a can bounces on the ground and are prepared to close once more when a looming shadow passes by. She tracks them for a moment, blinks, and gets to her feet immediately.]

Kanji-kun?

[Town was kinda cool-looking though. Really storybook, if you ignored the giants, talking animals and the way everyone dressed. But what was bugging him a little bit was the word he kept hearing ever since he woke up here on that sidewalk. He was always hearing 'Beast, Beast', like he was supposed to know what that was all about.]

[For the first time since, he heard his name and froze, lifting his head. When he turned, recognition clicked and the whole 'am I dreaming' question popped right back up again. W-well, since... since she pops up in 'em all the time, so...]

Uhh, yo... dumb question, but w-what're you doin' here?

[Odd that the court around the fountain now seemed unoccupied except for them. Strange, but the muttering of 'Beast' was stranger. Sure, Kanji appeared fierce, but that wasn't who he was entirely. She certainly does hope this is Kanji and not some figment of her mind's obviously fractured imagination.]

[The question had her raise her journal. She had been considering writing in it, but it would be a waste of good paper using it as a simple scratch book.]

This... well... [She turned it to show him the binding.] Accepting 'Beauty' as my new self...

B-beauty? Whadda you mean, new self?

[There it was, written on the spine, sure as shit. A thought in his mind was making his stomach do some weird acrobatics, but he didn't let it get far as he noted something peculiar. After a pause, he reached into his jacket and the inner pocket. He, too, produced a book, but on its binding it had read Beast.]

I woke up in some random bed with this in my hands. Book's all blank, though.

[A pause, and he frowned.]

So, what, Beauty n' the Beast? Somebody makin' fun of our finishing move?

[She was about to answer him, but paused when he pulled out his journal. Naoto set her own back down, missing the name written on the spine of his own.]

I'm not surprised it's blank...

[She rubbed the bridge of her nose, but her eyes snapped open.]

... No. According to people here, we are Beauty and Beast.

[For a moment, he just stared at her, nothing really registering.]

...What?

[He just looked confused. She was called Beauty and she was just accepting it? Why? She was tougher than this. ...w-well, yeah, she was really pretty but... she had a name, dammit!]

You tell 'em you're Naoto Shirogane and not a freakin' storybook character? Tch- then that's why people were sayin' Beast all the damn time-

[He turned in time to see a woman clutching her basket of goodies protectively, fear in her eyes. She, too, had gasped and used the term he wasn't liking all too much.]

I got a name, dammit! It's Kanji!

[But the girl squeaked and hurried along, and for good reason. As Kanji felt a little out of breath and turned back, adrenaline rushing through him he wondered why he was feeling so short-tempered. It usually took more to piss him off this much. But he also hadn't noticed the fangs he now had.]

[If he thought she was just accepting it, then her acting was still top notch.]

I did, but they insist.

[Naoto raised here head slightly, eyebrows shooting up when Kanji snapped. It wasn't like him to take offense so quickly, but why would anyone use such a word even towards him?]

[Eyes back towards him, they fall to his mouth and squint. She wasn't sure if she was seeing things, but they were right there.]

Fangs...

[Why'd he have to scream? Why'd she have to run? He didn't get it; nobody would stick around and try to even talk to him or listen, and it was giving him some pretty awful flashbacks of before... way before...]

[Fangs? Here he was, speaking to the first person that yet again stopped to talk to him without freaking out first, and this time she was saying all this weird shit about being storybook characters and fangs and being so damn calm in the face of giants and talking animals and whatnot! He clutched his brow briefly, looking momentarily pained.]

Head hurts... the hell's goin' on? Am I home sleepin' in bed, are we inside a TV?

[Frowning, she didn't like what was happening to Kanji. He seemed worse off right now and how did he not feel those fangs with his tongue? Naoto doesn't know what to do; in terms of comfort, she isn't the first person to come to for a shoulder to cry on.]

Neither. I tried summoning my Persona and it didn't work. As for sleeping, I was certain I was writing a report before being dropped in the main square. There's too much I don't know about this that I can't gauge it whether it's entirely real or not.

[He could swear he felt something, but as it stood it wasn't at the top of his list of Things To Notice. That, and Kanji was perhaps a bit dense.]

Tried my cellphone already, too. No reception. So... so whadda we do, Naoto?

[If anybody knew, it was her, because he was fresh out of ideas at the moment. But he seemed to be calming down just talking like this, even if he didn't know where the hell they were.]

[Obviously, Naoto needed to carry a mirror with her.]

... I'm sorry, but I don't know. This... it's been overwhelming to me as well.

[She lowered her head, the brim of her cap covering her eyes. The detective was disappointed with herself not knowing the answer and ashamed to be admitting this.]

[Little did they know there would be no shortage of mirrors in the castle Kanji had yet to realize was his. But as it stood, she lowered her head and he felt something sinking in his chest along with it. She always had a good idea, but maybe everything here was too confusing to ponder. How often did you get thrown in some weird faerie tale world? So... so maybe she needed help, but didn't wanna ask for it.]

[Shit... how alike were they?]

[So after a moment, he stepped up and took a seat at the fountain too. The townspeople simply milled about, living their day to day, hardly paying them any mind save for the occasional glance. It was when he saw a trio of pigs walking on hind hooves, chatting animatedly that he got an idea.]

So I guess... l-let's say we're the characters, yeah? I wonder why. Ya think if we look for the castle the Beast lives in we'll find out somethin'? I mean, dude's got servants and stuff who've been around all their lives in the story and would probably know somethin'.

[And with a sigh.] ...That, and not run off all scared'a me at the same freakin' time, so I can ask a buncha questions, too.

[Naoto wouldn't admit aloud either, but she didn't grow up with fairy tales. While she knew Beauty and the Beast (and related to the plights), she didn't know many others, even the famous ones. Tales like the Tongue-Cut Sparrow, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and the legend around Tanabata, sure, her Grandfather had told them. All around them were creatures she heard in passing or studied recently after joining the Investigation Team in her efforts to understand Persona.]

[Shyly almost, she rubbed her arms and looked at Kanji, biting the inside of her cheek.]

... It's possible. Still, they may become just as confused should we insist on being other people.

[She fell silent, thinking for a moment] There's a library in his castle, correct? You could speak to the servants while I attempt to find some information there.

[He, on the other hand, grew up with 'em. Any book he could get his hands on as a kid, he did, and absorbed each and every story of magic, faeries and the like. He wouldn't confess to it, but it was cool to silently point out characters and identify them.]

Oh yeah. He's got a library bigger than the places you could go to in a town, so if the answer ain't there, then it ain't gonna be anywhere else.

[He nodded.]

I mean, s'worth a shot, yeah? If I'm Beast, then they'd be talkin' to their, uh... their prince. Man, I don't feel princely at all.

[He rubbed the back of his neck and stood. When he turned, he offered her a hand up, but turned his eyes away.]

S-so let's get goin', before it gets dark.

[She nodded back and almost stood up, but his hand was there before she could push off.]

... [Well, he's offering... so she took hold of his hand, fingers curling gently and stood up with his help.]

Ready.

[He didn't know whether this place followed the rules, but he couldn't assume. Beast's castle was deep in a forest locked in eternal winter, and the forest itself was filled with wolves. It meant they probably needed a ride through the woods, and walking was out. The darker it got, the worse the conditions would be, and if they couldn't summon their Personae, it left them with only their wits to guard them from monsters.]

[He quickly released her hand as soon as she was on her feet, tucking his hands in his pockets. With a nod he led the way, looking for a fancy carriage of any sort, anybody ballsy enough to go through the woods with the promise of being paid at the end of the journey. If everybody thought he was Beast, then he had riches stashed away somewhere. He just hoped he wasn't screwing somebody outta their pay. But they'd slowly grow to learn that there was a lot to discover in Märchen and the surrounding land... and their new roles.]

[Today was merely the first step.]

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