Crankshaft Rafflesian: We're Past the Tutorial Thank God!

[A_Mi_Manera]

You find yourself in a familiar large couch, accommodating for larger folks who come from overseas. This is the office of your old shrink from high school. God he was clueless. Why this place? You slump and sink into the couch with a lazy posture.



Lex: This isn't what I had in mind when I said find a spot. 

Jam: It made the most sense. Therapy.

Lex: I didn't exactly like this place.

Jam: I couldn't remember any other offices. So.....

Jam makes their face clear to see.

Jam: We can't start with your actual birth because I wasn't there.

Lex: Worth a shot.

Jam: And I assume nothing exciting happened there either.

Lex: Neither of my parents showed up.

Jam: That's super fake. 

Lex: Yeah well.... hey I got a question before we keep going.

Jam: Alright.

Lex: You're supposed to be part of me right?

Jam: The confident part.

Lex: You look super different from me, why?

Jam: I'm a abstract version of it. It's weird, don't worry about it.

Lex: But like, you REALLY don't look like me.

Jam: It's fine. 

Lex: You're okay with how you are though right?

Jam: I'll be honest it's not the form I would've picked for myself, you drew the Aeon though so your brain put me together from what you pictured that to be like. Should've gotten a cool card like Death or Alchemy. 

Lex: Can I like... re-roll you? If you're my inner confidence then shouldn't you change to match how I am today?

Jam: Maybe? You're way braver than you were in high school. Like, a shit ton actually.

Lex: You think so? 

Jam: Yeah, absolutely. Still can use some work but you sure got plenty to work with.

Lex: So like.... Geezer.

Jam: Yeah, he's looking to see your 'potential' which I guess he wants to see from me.

Lex: Right.

Jam: You could strike me down and I'd go back to a normal proxy so you could have that. Get some kind of power right?

Lex: That feels wrong.

Jam: I don't wanna do that either so yeah I agree. 

Lex: What should we do?

Jam: I could talk to him maybe. I can do it but... he probably wants you to have the power under your belt.

Lex: He doesn't have to know it's not me.

Jam: I mean I am you.

Lex: I think you're you, and just because you used to be me doesn't make that true anymore.

Jam: What exactly are you going at?

Lex: I think at this point you're your own person too, you got rights to say that. I couldn't kiss Dotty, I couldn't talk to myself like this so... you're you. Don't talk about us like we're pieces of one person.

Jam: Technically-

Lex: I'm giving you therapy now, technically no. 

Jam: I guess I got issues thinking of myself as me huh?

Lex: You are you. 

Jam: Right.... I'm gonna linger on that a bit but.... we should handle the Geezer situation first.

Lex: You can take the wheel right? You did that yesterday.

Jam: Yesterday? It's already past midnight.

Lex: Yeah, long day huh?

Jam: Super long, jeez. Yeah I'll take the wheel.

Lex: Don't get me in trouble. Don't do anything that'd get you and me killed.

Jam: It's no issue-

Lex: You took control for a couple of hours and busted my eye don't even start.

Jam: You mean our eye?

Lex: No, my eye..... that's sometimes yours too. 

Jam: I promise I'll be good this time.



Lex: Please do.

The mental lair around you starts to faze out. You feel your state in a bit of a twilight zone. You're pretty sure you're not you right now. 

Absolutely not.

You're free falling mentally.

You feel the sensation of reality wrap around your fingers. You're waking up.

You are currently: Jam.