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[despairing_hope]

Hello, my name is Komaeda Nagito. This is the first time I'll be addressing everyone, it's a pleasure to directly interact with everyone who was amazing enough to be styled a protagonist.

But first, let me get I to what I would like to talk about. There are two topics I'm interested in.

1: If you were ever in the world called Christallis, can you share your experiences there? Or agree to an interview?

2: Is there anyone I interested in archeology? Though not an immediate plan of action, I feel looking into that will bring I interesting discoveries.

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[acceptedlife]

When we were summoned to Crystallis, not all of us made it there. Some of our personalities, the things and we are but deny either to ourselves or others, were left behind inside the Calamity itself. Their Shadow, or ID as Freud put it.

Remember how I mentioned Jungian philosophy? That's why.

[He doesn't even wait to be asked. Instead, he adds the information he shared with Futaba. Information he wrote down and shared with another Cid as a part of his and three others' research.]

It's incredibly archaic, but in Jungian's philosophy on psychology and the collective unconscious, the person and their personality are divided into four separately distinct parts: the Ego, the Shadow, the Persona, and the Anima or Animus depending on the person's gender.

The ego is what is aware, and controls the persona - the masks one wears to face different aspects of reality. The shadow is everything one unknowingly denies of themselves or hide from others. The anima or animus, how they view the members of the opposite gender.

Ordinarily, most would go through life only facing their shadows when the ego or an external force makes them look inward to their own unconscious, but those who were summoned to Crystallis... well.

Because of the tie we had to the Calamity, sometimes the planet itself deemed us as a threat and put us in something called Crystal Stasis. Many Heroes from other versions of my home and others succumbed to it. Even me, but I was lucky and woke up. Before everything hit the fan, those who were aware had to face ours in order to become immune to the Calamity's effects on the world. Anyone who wasn't immediately crystallized.

[despairing_hope]

Interesting.... I feel that's something definitely important, but, doesn't quite connect to anything yet.

[It was like a lot of different puzzle pieces, but they were all different colours and shapes, none of them fit together yet, but he was sure they would somewhere.]

But, to start looking, I think the names of places after are worth looking into. Once we can get a map to look at of the aftermath and a current world map perhaps ideas will form.

[acceptedlife]

Exactly what I thought when it came up briefly during the trip to find the new arrivals.

[How it came up, he's not saying. It's a bit too close to home. Especially when he has to prepare talking to one person he still hates and another he has a slightly easier trust starting to form.]

I'll see about contacting the others again to progress a bit more. Until then, anything else you'd like to know?

[despairing_hope]

For now that should do. If you do talk to anyone else who was there, please direct them here so I can interview them. That would be helpful.

[acceptedlife]

Will do- ah. Don't think I introduced myself.

[Old habits. They die hard.]

Nakagawa Takeshi.

[despairing_hope]

A pleasure Nakagawa kun.