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[willbeurprincess]

Action; Closed to Lithuania pre-sad EE party


[ Koharu had had several days to mull in that terrible truth. Somehow, she was oddly calm about it. Being a copy didn't invalidate her after all. She became her own version just as valid as the one at home. If she understood it correctly.

But Lithuania obviously hasn't been doing well. He took it much harder. Much closer to his heart. She finally thinks he's had enough time by himself. Walking up behind Lithuania in the kitchen, she reaches over to his arm and looks at him ]

Can we talk?

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[vytis]

[Lithuania hadn't gotten much sleep in the last week or two--enough to stop himself from falling over, but not nearly as much as he really needed, and it was obvious in the way he couldn't help but jump a little when Koharu touched him, not noticing her presence until then.]

Oh--I'm sorry, I guess I zoned out. [Of course, "zoned out" was a pretty common affliction for him lately, too.] What would you like to talk about?

[willbeurprincess]

[ Koharu smiles faintly, squeezing his arm.] I understand. Ah, we need to talk about this copy thing. You obviously aren't taking it well and with all the chaos...[ She's worried he'll lose the will to keep fighting ]

[vytis]

[Oh. His first instinct is to placate her, to try and make her a bit less worried over him.] Well, it's just--Just... That...

[But, in what Lithuania thinks might be a first for him, he can't even begin to pretend he's okay. He can't even come up with a way to finish that sentence, and so it trails off pathetically, which really is a better showcase of how all his thoughts have gone recently.

He's not Lithuania, and if he's not Lithuania... Then what?]

[willbeurprincess]

[ It hurts to hear him try. She reaches for him, tears pricing at her eyes. Its so different for him. Her hand touches his cheek, running down to cup hischin ] You're still you. You're Lithuania. Copy or not. Your land may not be here and your people are safe in their own world, but you're still Lithuania. Do you really think that connection is broken so easily? That just because the body that experienced the thousands of years is somewhere else that means the memories and identity mean nothing?

[vytis]

There's--at home-- [It hurts him to say that now; it's a home he'll never see again. A world he never really saw?] There's another Lithuania at home, right? The... The real one.

[He can feel that pull on him, that connection to his people, that urge to go back to them. But if this world is a wasteland and he's some sort of complex program in whatever remained of America or something, how would he ever get back even if he could get out of Mayfield?]

Maybe if I were--a person. A human is a human even like this, I think--but--

[What is a nation but the sum of hundreds or thousands or millions of people? He's shaking a little, though he doesn't realize it.]

[willbeurprincess]

You're real. You have thoughts and memories all your own and unique from his but he--you--yore the same person right? I mean, you probably wouldn't have--with me--I mean--[ Koharu falters, her calm exterior exterior breaking a bit at the idea. He wouldn't have fallen in love with her without this place. When-If he goes home, that version of Lithuania won't exist will it. Even if he remembered her. He probably wouldn't have allowed it there. But she can't let herself succumb her own selfish feelings ]


Lithuania, you're a nation and you'll be one forever. Without land or people, it doesn't change who you are. I--Poland lived through being split up right? You lived through so much with just being who you are. I know its the most important thing to you, don't let them tell you you're fake.

[vytis]

[Poland has survived being split up. Lithuania's survived being under Russian control for hundreds of years (a Lithuania had, at least). And, for as long as he's been here, he's said that he can survive this because he's survived things like that (he remembers surviving things like that, at least). But now he thinks about that and sees stretching out ahead of him countless, endless years of enduring being away from his people, tens and hundreds and thousands of years knowing he'll never go back to them. Is the alternative to be something else, to be something like a human?

But he's not a human. He has too many memories and too much pushing at his mind for that. And if--even if they couldn't get home, if they could somehow become real in the world they're in now, wander the wasteland--if Lithuania doesn't exist in this world, what happens then?

Is that the best, wildest miracle he can hope for, that they'll become real enough to exist in this world and he'll die and fade immediately because there isn't anyone left who's his in a world ruined by nuclear radiation? Would keeping his nationhood kill him immediately? But being without it--being without it is a terrifying idea, like agreeing to a lobotomy knowing it will go wrong.]

I don't know. I don't--I don't know.

[His tone is more plaintive, certainly lost and confused. After this is over, after everything, what happens?]

[willbeurprincess]

[ She doesn't know what to do. Hr looks, sounds so lost. She doesn't know how to make this better. Koharu can't watch him like that. ]

I know I'm, this world, none of this is enough. You want to be home. I promise if I can do anything to help that i will. Maybe they can--send your mind back to your world? I don't...know how it would work. Y-You'd never be happy here though. I want you to be happy.. [ She could be happy even in desolation, with these people by her side. He could not.