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WHO: You!
WHERE: Around the city!
TIME: All Through Day 1
DESCRIPTION: CITY TOUR MINGLE!

Maybe you stayed in Coba, maybe you went home and came back, or maybe this is your first time here, but everyone is suddenly greeted to a friendly, female voice over an intercom (or maybe it's a some other device? Depending on where you're from)

"Welcome citizens. We hope you're enjoying your visit! Transport will leave in twenty minutes for the Coba city-wide tour!"

If you follow the voice, you'll find yourself at a bus stop. Or is it a fancy monorail? A carriage? A couple of horses? Coba is flexible and will change herself to suit you, after all. And if you get left behind, don't worry! There's free cabs anywhere in the city, who also will be more than happy to give you their own version of the tour.

The Coba city-wide tour boasts an hour of informative information regarding Coba's most important locations, some extra brochures (with some extra savings in there, of course), and will finally return you to the place you left from.

Of course, maybe the tour isn't for you. After all, the party is still going on, and now Coba's businesses are really beginning to open and advertise what they have to offer. Have you checked out the free hotel room? Or maybe you're grabbing a free meal? Or maybe, just maybe - you're looking into an apartment!

Either way, Coba hopes you've been enjoying yourselves. She has so much to offer you.

(welcome to the first official post! Mingle to your hearts' content, and don't be afraid to make your own posts, either!)

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"Hey, you. Your dad anywhere around?"

He doesn't ask about her big bro - he already knows Souji's around. (Oh shit oh shit oh shit they're going to... have to make sure the freshly spare room doesn't have anything of Chloe-san's in it still...) But if Nanako's here all by herself, well. Ain't any skin off his back to stick with her.

Hands positioned on her adorable bear purse, Nanako smiled up at him before shaking her head, "Uh-uh," She started, "I don't think so. I haven't heard from him since I got here." If he knew about this place, it would probably go about the same if he found out about the shadows; he wouldn't want her having anything to do with it.

She was okay with not saying anything to her dad about it.

"When did you get here? Are you here for the tour too?" She probably should have been taking things more seriously, and indeed she was, but things were infinitely better with someone she knew here. She could relax a little.

That is an adorable bear purse. That... looks oddly like his own work, but he's 99 percent sure he never made anything like that...

oh boy. Here they go again with the timeline bullshit.

"Yeah, I am. Figured I should get t'know the latest weird place, you know? Just showed up this morning."

"Me too," She clapped her hands together, none the wiser to Kanji's sudden revelation. Of course he made it, she remembered when he gave it to her. It was shortly after they saved her, after all.

"We can go together."

Well, he did knit her a thing, after they rescued her. No kid should be stuck in the hospital that long (it was bad enough when it was his dad), and he figured she could use the company. But a purse?

"Sounds good, Nanako-chan. And then we can go find the others."

"'Kay!" She beamed up at him, the usual chipper child that she was in his company. Suddenly the day was a lot better.

Leading the way, she looked positively tickled. It probably would have been a better idea if he took the lead, but she generally had a good sense of direction, and was fairly confident in it. And, failing all else, she knew how to read a map. They had those here, right?

They sure do - Kanji picked one up for himself. Not that he's sure how much it's gonna help when everything keeps changing - Rise's gonna get a workout, at this rate - but it's worth a shot, right?

After a while, he figures he can't really put off the topic any longer. The question is how best to ease into it; at least he's decent at talking to kids, and he knows Nanako-chan's one smart cookie.

"So, uh. This might sound like a kinda weird question, but what time of year was it before you got here?"

What a strange question to ask. Looking over her shoulder, it was obvious from her expression that she wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Still, because it was Kanji asking, she didn't mind answering.

"Almost Christmas. Everybody was going to get together and have a party to celebrate." She still had to finish getting everyone's gifts. "Why?"

"'cause... this kinda place can do weird things with times and places. Where they're similar but not exactly the same. For me'n Naoto, it was April." ...Before the diversion to Atia, but he's not... going to get into that part right now. April's the important bit.

"Not to mention, I know my own work when I see it, but I don't remember makin' anything like your little bag. So I don't think we're from exactly the same place. Still close enough that we know each other, obviously, but a little different."

That gave her pause, and Nanako stopped, turning toward Kanji. Explaining the inner workings of the multiverse at large to a seven-year old would be an undertaking to be sure, and this would likely be no different.

Still, hearing him talk about the purse he made, she instinctively looked down at it. But he made it for her right after the incident. This was confusing. "But you did make it," She started, the gears in her head obviously turning. "You said I needed something to hold these." Unzipping the top, she reached inside, pulling out a pair of glasses.

...Well. That. Sure is a thing.

Though really, now that he thinks about it, he's a little surprised Ted never ended up making Nanako a pair of glasses in the first place. Still, if she has them, that probably means her own brush with the TV world ended a little differently than how everyone else knows it.

"...No, I believe you that I did, and like I said, I know my own work. But I don't remember it happenin', and you ending up with a pair of glasses is definitely something that'd stick in my mind. How about... how about you tell me what you remember, and then I'll tell you what I remember?"

Some of it, anyway. No need to tell her that as far as he and the rest of the team know, she was dead for a little bit.

Tucking the glasses back into her bag, frowning a bit. This was going to be complicated, wasn't it? "So I didn't have them where you're from?" She said slowly, sounding a bit uncertain. It felt strange to think about--that somehow the Kanji standing in front of her was different than the one she knew. Admittedly, she had a hard time wrapping her head around it, and there was something in her mind that denied the concept altogether.

But, really, ever since being pulled into the TV, nothing made as much sense as it did, so to that affect, anything was possible. She just had to keep an open mind, right?

"Well;" She recounted it all. About Souji coming to Inaba, and the murders. How she suspected that something else was going on, then, before she knew it, she had gotten involved. The details were still hazy. She remembered seeing her own shadow, and everyone saving her. Finding out Teddie was from that world, and getting a pair of glasses from him.

Just wait till she sees Souji, who's pretty obviously spent a few years somewhere since leaving Inaba...

"Most'a that lines up, down to you gettin' kidnapped. But your Shadow never popped out, for us - I mean, I ain't surprised it did for you, being young doesn't stop anyone from havin' issues they don't wanna deal with." He'd know. He's used to being the youngest of the group.

"Anyway, we got you out, but... you were sick for a long time. They barely let you outta the hospital for Christmas, and you had t'go back for a while after that. Teddie figured it was because your Shadow didn't show up, that and how bad the fog is for people."

At the mention of her shadow, Nanako lowered her eyes. It was still a bit tender, truth be told, even if the others had similar experiences. Being confronted with those feelings, especially around others, was a hard pill to swallow.

"I was sick?" Nanako asked, Looking up and blinking a few times. That must have been really hard for her dad, and for everyone else. The other Nanako--she--must have been really sad. "But I got better, right?" It felt so odd to say.

Well, hey, at least she's in good company there. Even if probably only Souji's gonna have any idea of what Nanako's Shadow would have been like - Kanji can guess at some, because he knows what it's like to lose a parent young and not know how to connect to the one you got left.

But his ma was there for him, whether he thought he needed her or not. Dojima-san's more distant by nature, and kind of a workaholic. That part's not really the same, and he knows it.

"You were. It - it got pretty bad, and the hospital had no idea what t'do about it, but you pulled through in the end."

Nanako frowned deeply as she listened to him, not sure what to say. She still didn't quite understand the idea behind there being two versions of herself, but it bothered Kanji deeply. She had to say something to make him feel better, right?

"But everything worked out, right?" It was less a question as much as an observation. Reaching out for his hand, the young girl gave him the best smile she could muster. "That's what matters, right?"

Kanji smiles, and takes Nanako's hand. She's damn good at finding the right thing to say, that's for sure.

"Right. And it did work out okay in the end. Took you a while, but you got better."

Her dad always told her she was a thoughtful kid. "That's good, I'm glad." It still felt odd, talking about herself like that. "I wouldn't want to make you or anybody else sad like that." She had already done enough of that, when her shadow appeared.

But she wasn't going to think about that. She was all smiles now. After all, she wasn't really alone with Kanji around, and the others were here too! Looking up at him, she waited a moment before asking more questions. "Is big bro here? Have you seen him?"

"Wouldn't'a been your fault, Nanako-chan." After all, she got kidnapped - ain't like she went into the TV on purpose. In either case.

Kanji nods. "Yeah, he is. I've seen him, Naoto, Rise, Yukiko-senpai and Chie-senpai so far."

...And Izanami, but that wouldn't mean anything to Nanako, except possibly to scare her.

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"Yeah," She agreed, somewhat, although she sounded a bit down at that fact. Whether or not she could help it mattered little in the grand scheme of things; she made people sad, and that wasn't okay.

Looking genuinely surprised, the young girl's face brightened just a bit. "Can we go see them?" She looked hopeful.

"Well, I dunno where they all are right this second. But we can go look for 'em."

Worst case, they can find the house. He can start talking her through how she'd like her room done up, even if it's gonna be a while before it's kid-ready.

Nanako nodded excitedly, unknowingly gripping Kanji's hand just a little tighter. It felt so much better knowing that her older cousin and friends were there as well. It made it feel far less intimidating.

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spoilers it involves a lot of pink