idolpro | Izanagi's Ideal World

You wake up in a typical Japanese high school classroom to the sound of a bell.

You are dressed in one of two uniforms* (*Please button up your jacket properly!) - whichever your character would feel most comfortable in. The bell was apparently the signal for the end of classes for the day, because everyone else is getting up from their desks and mingling with their friends, making the motions of preparing to leave without quite going yet.

Among them is Izanagi, surrounded by a small group of students and chattering away energetically. There are two exits, one at the front of the room and one at the back, both of which lead to the hallway. On the other hand, if you want to try understanding what you’re doing here, this is probably the best opportunity to talk to Izanagi or talk to your classmates. You can also, of course, find each other and compare notes. There’s a bag hooked on the side of each of your desks, and inside are the typical supplies you would expect most students to carry: writing utensils and notebooks. These can be used, or not, as you please.

Rules | Classroom | Hallways | Outside | Nurse's Office | Library

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...If you make me go back, that'll be impossible.

I don't think so. I didn't get to know you here. I got to know you in Tokyo-F

No, you didn't. You didn't at all.

...

Do you feel especially connected to anyone right now?

[Probably not. The effect is still going, after all.]

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No, I... it's a little odd, but... that's not an unusual feeling, for me.

That's my reality. No matter who it is, no matter how hard I try... there's absolutely no connection.

Isn't that for you to decide, though?

[he's still holding the book out]

Even if you are a clone, as it says here, I consider you my friend because I enjoy your company.

[He stares down at the book, but he doesn't take it.]

...No, it's not. None of this was my decision.

I don't get to make choices about who I am, or even who I can befriend.

Says who?

Or are you saying you're just spending time with me because you hate it?

No, I'm-

[There's frustration in his voice, because he doesn't get it, of course he doesn't get it-]

I wasn't created to be someone who can befriend humans. That's not who I was made to be. No matter how much I try to defy that, I can't change who I am.

That's just my fate.

[... this. resonates, in a way. a little painfully. he studies him for a bit, before he closes his eyes briefly and breathes out, and then looks up again]

Izanagi.

I was born for the sole purpose of being a tool to my father's ambitions. He married my mother only to produce an heir, and threw away my siblings when they weren't up to his standards. It was my "purpose" and my "fate". I wasn't allowed to do anything, I wasn't allowed to make friends or play. It took years for me to break from from that. I had to be told, kind of like waking up, that I can decide for myself.

So what if you weren't created to befriend people? You've done it anyway, because you want to, right? You befriended me.

...Can a shallow relationship like that really be considered friendship?

It's only going to be shallow if you let it.

Like I said, it isn't up to me.

I could be in a room full of people I get along with alright and still feel completely alone.

[And he hates it. He hates that slowly suffocating misery. That inescapable loneliness.]

...like you're programmed to feel that way?

Genetically speaking, I am.

... that's cruel.

I still consider you my friend, and... I don't know if that can truly be genetically engineered to disappear, but...

...Why are you so insistent about it?

I'll never care about you as a friend. That's just how I am.

[Why would he want to stick by someone like that?]

... because I enjoy your company?

That's a shallow reasoning.

Is it?

It is!

[But it's becoming more bluster than anything else, and...

Are the edges of the scenery getting blurry?]

Not to me, though. I'm not really good at connections, but I think I have one with you, at least.

Still pretty shortsighted for a hero to befriend someone who's supposed to destroy humanity though, isn't it?

"Supposed" isn't the same as "will".

You really think something like fate can be overturned so simply?

Fate is fate. It can't be stopped or prevented. It simply is.

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