[Day 2, daytime: Dazai, Ichigo]

[purrtagonist]

[well that was an adventure]

[presumably while Dazai sleeps off his delirium, Akira and Ichigo hang around his room to keep an eye on him. I mean, Akira's certainly not going anywhere anytime soon when Dazai is in such bad shape, so. . .]

. . . I'm a little impressed you knew what to do.

[THAT'S DIRECTED AT ICHIGO]

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[suppressthedark]

[Poor Dazai, having to listen to two protags prattle on.

Ichigo nods at the question, leaning back in his chair a little.]

Yeah. I actually had some issues with him a while back, but we figured everything out, and I accepted him.

[And himself, and learned where he came from -

Yeah, basically in Ichigo's case, his hollow is exactly like a persona. Sort of.]

[cw_suicide]

[can has book.

flicks through the pages idly, seemingly boredly intent on something.]

[purrtagonist]

[shoots Dazai a puzzled look, but. keeps talking to Ichigo. Hollows still sound like shadows, although as far as Akira is concerned Personas come from harnessing one's will of rebellion, not necessarily acceptance of one's shadow. still! he has seen shadows in the metaverse "return to their true selves" after being defeated, so it may be similar]

I see. . .

But you don't have access to the abilities he gives you here, huh.

[nobody does. magic is on lockdown]

[suppressthedark]

[You do you, Dazai. So long as you're not throwing up all over yourself, Ichigo's alright.

Ichigo nods at Akira.]

No, I don't. I'm pretty sure no one does here - I've talked to a bunch of people so far, and they say theirs isn't working either. I'm just assuming I'm locked in my body, because -

[He clonks his badge against his chest.

Nothing happens, and he gives a shrug.]

...I haven't seen any ghosts around here either, but they could have moved on, or no one's died in this area.

[Which is...slightly frightening, considering Ichigo's a ghost magnet, but...

He finally turns his attention to Dazai, after a bit of not paying attention.]

...What about you, Dazai? Do you have anything you can't access here?

[cw_suicide]

[flips pages quickly to a particular spot.

and then he. starts to read. effecting an older, sterner voice for the first person and a... well, it can only really be described as "naive" kind of earnest voice for the second.]

“Have you asked Tsushima about the ability he has?”

“No, not yet.”

Speaking of which, I’ve heard that he’s an ability user, but I’ve never had the chance to ask what it is.--that's because Kunikida-kun was busy knocking me out when I got too energetic for him.

“Tsushima’s ability… is the ability to nullify abilities with a touch.”

I am doubting my own ears. --[SNERKS]

Nullifying. At a glance, it seems like a simple ability that doesn’t hold brilliance, but even among ability users, depending on how it’s used, it is an extraordinary ability that holds the possibility of shutting down other abilities.

[and claps the book shut. because. how the fuck would he know if his ability is working or not? he negates shit.]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . uh, well. Akira has a new theory, here]

Dazai-san. . . do you think that's the reason they brought you here in the first place?

[to NEGATE SHIT? or something]

[also that was a weird way to answer that question but whatever, you're fine dude]

[suppressthedark]

[Yeah, that's...

...Would it even work on him? Do powers from different worlds work on each other???]

...It could be. I just thought they'd put something in the walls that could block our powers - there's a material like that back home, anyway.

[cw_suicide]

By touch.

[waggles fingers at them both.

space-wide negation is soooo not him.]

[purrtagonist]

[so that's a "no."]

We have no way to test it, but in that case we can probably assume Dazai-san's negation powers are gone, too.

[suppressthedark]

[Mmmwelp, worth a shot.]

Yeah, that's true. If everything else is being suppressed, why not negation powers?

The material I was talking about is called Sekkiseki stone [Literally, spirit reducing stone], and from what I understand about it, constant exposure to it drains away your power so you can't use it. And since it's stone, you could pretty easily make walls out of it or slip it inbetween walls.

[At least, that's his running theory for why they're trapped here with no powers.]

[cw_suicide]

Entirely plausible, though I've never experienced that sort of thing.

[purrtagonist]

Neither have I.

[and he doesn't have any specific experiences he thinks would be useful in this situation SO. . . nothing else to add, here]

[suppressthedark]

[He shrugs.]

I've never had the stuff used on me, so I can't say how effective it actually is, but...it's better than thinking the Raccoons can somehow just shut our powers off whenever they want to.

[cw_suicide]

The rules of our worlds don't necessarily apply to this one.

[purrtagonist]

. . . so everything we're saying is really just baseless speculation.

[how nice]

[suppressthedark]

[Welp.]

At least until we get more information about our captors, yeah.