Huh?

[a_gentle_boy]

[phone]
[Oh OK so.  That just happened.  ...Lucas listens a little blankly to the announcement before blinking a few times to himself.]

So, um.  I'm... kind of... still here... So don't worry!  ...I mean, not that it's really that important, and there are probably a lot of other people who are really gone, but.  ...Is there someone else named Lucas here?

[action]
[Today is a normal day.  Lucas delivers the mail, takes his rounds making sure his friends are alright, stops by at the malt shop... And yet, everywhere he goes, he gets nothing but dirty glances.  It's more than mildly confusing, and so it is that he ends up sitting on his front porch frowning to himself.  It's been a long time since he's done so, but eventually, he'll get out the yo-yo and begin to quietly practice some tricks by himself.

The rhythmicity of the movements makes him feel a bit better.]

((Lucas was wiped, so please respond as if he were fake!))

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[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think there are actually any fake people in the town at all. It seems like there should be a few to make things more confusing, but...

It doesn't feel like that's what's going on.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Last time, all the duplicates had our memories, too. So that's probably not even a good way to make sure...

I think this is what we agreed to.

To be erased. If no one believes we're here... that's about the same thing, isn't it?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas stares at the phone for a few moments before wondering if it was too late to go back to sleep for the rest of the day.]

[hintcoinplz.livejournal.com]

[Luke glances up, letting his guard drop a little.]

The dreams we all had and the list that was released are probably connected somehow.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

They're going to forget us, too. Perfect.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

So everything's going to be like it was in the dream...

[Lucas sighs softly.]

I didn't think it would be like this. I guess I wouldn't mind so much if the other things had come true, too.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

You're a fucking idiot. You agree to be Tavros' moirail and then you erase yourself? Great work.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[If Karkat listens closely he can hear the moment when all of Lucas's bodily functions stop. There is dead silence for a long time before a quiet, low voice speaks.]

I don't have to explain. You agreed to it, too. You should understand.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Of course I do. I never said I wasn't a complete asshole.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

...Tavros did, too.

[Lucas's voice becomes even softer.]

We shouldn't have to do this. Your world, with your game. Mine, with... what happened. Asking us not to exist so that our worlds could be saved... I'd give anything for that.

[Complaining is something he rarely does, but even Lucas couldn't be selfless all the time.]

It's not right to have to do this.

...I should go find him.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

...Everyone on that list had the dream, right? And we all agreed. That's probably what happened.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Crowe's also another who's been erased. He's in a bit of a panic - it's giving him flashbacks of last Christmas in Mayfield. Being invisible amongst everyone. This is playing on a big fear of his.

He's running up to Lucas's house to check on him and Silence, to see if they'll remember him, when he stops dead a few yards away. He's panting hard.

That wasn't Lucas. It looked like him, but...]

N-No... Lucas?

[hintcoinplz.livejournal.com]

It makes sense but...

...

I don't know, maybe it's true what they're saying.

[roadroller]

Well ... You sound like him. That's the creepiest thing. ♪

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

[After a little hesitation, she nods, then goes to sit next to the boy, playing the same game of not looking directly at him.]

You're good with your toy.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was! And I know I'm the same person I was yesterday, but nobody believes me!

[Something about this kid was giving him the creeps, too, but he had to push past it if he was going to get to the bottom of this.]

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[naicha]

I heard the yo-yo was once used as a weapon long ago!

[ Taiwan stands on the sidewalk, in front of Lucas. ]

But you're not going to hit me with it, right?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I don't care about my world. My world was a miserable pile of shit that was ruined from the start.

I just wanted a future for them.

Go find him and tell him why you thought he would be fine without you. At least he'll have a chance at believing you. At least he's not completely forgetting you.

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[imjustpicky]

[Picky really needed to go and see for himself that the other disappeared people really were disappeared... and although he hadn't liked what he first saw, he had to keep seeing. Had to. Just to be sure.

So he was standing a distance away from not-Lucas-but-maybe-Lucas-but-not, watching with wide eyes as he did awesome things with his yo-yo.]

...I didn't know Lucas knew yo-yo tricks.

[Because that wasn't Lucas up there. And that was sad. But yo-yo tricks were cool, no matter who was doing them.]

(Erased)

[kleptophile.livejournal.com]

...shit. This feels like those weird alien pod things all over again...

[friendly-ghosts.livejournal.com]

.......

Mr. Pemberton said nobody was replaced. He said it was all a trick.

[She isn't sure. Not completely...]

Phone

[photonicfighter]

[On his rounds to check on his friends, he'll find Dakki shovelling the front walk. Gat had done it last, and almost froze to death and...

And really, what was the discomfort of an "erased" person? The way everyone was reacting to her, well... what could be done?]

...Lucas?

[She had caught blond hair and the right height from the corner of her eye, but upon actually looking at him... something was wrong.

She looked heartbroken.]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas glances up and Crowe and manages a small smile. By this point, he's used enough to the feeling when he sees his 'friends' not to be too perturbed by it.]

It's me.

...Mr. Silence is out. ...He was on the list, too.

Just checking, but was she erased?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Erm.

Long ago, uh-huh. ...About two years now.

[Lucas glances up at Taiwan.]

Are you going to tell me I look all wrong, too?

No, I'm too nice...

[naicha]

All wrong? [ She stares at him before she approaches him and crouches down. ] If I treated you like a fake, that would make you feel bad, wouldn't it?