Futaba... nods slowly, her chin set and her hand definitely reaching out to grab at Ren's now.
"I guess... I kinda was one. Or... maybe not?" she pause for a moment, glancing over at Makoto hesitantly. The older girl's words had kind of put something in perspective for her just now. That overall, just because her case was external and the others' had been internal, didn't mean it hadn't ultimately been the same process. Though it was... kind of hard to think about and explain all this on the fly. Not impossible though.
"I... actually had a Palace. You guys both saw my memory." Specifically, the part with the hallucinations "You saw... what was happening to me. I'm pretty sure I was being affected by the Metaverse by that point. It only got worse from there."
Deep breath. "By the time I got to meet the others, I could barely leave my room. I knew I needed help, and I found out what they could do from eavesdropping on The Leblanc. So I asked them for help."
Which brings her to her point: more information to be shared. She's swimming in dangerous waters here, but if she can play this as a one-time thing that they did, just with her, they could hold off talking about their general activities as the Phantom Thieves for now? At least until they felt they were ready. And she had an idea how, too. She closed her eyes. The next words she says are ones that Ren, Makoto, and Morgana should all know fairly well.
"'The cognitive world can become distorted through desires. If it becomes distorted, a person begins exhibiting problematic behavior in reality. That cognitive world disappears when you remove its core, and further problematic actions stop.'" She pauses, using her free hand to shove her glasses into a more steady position on her face. "They were in my mom's notes about cognitive psience. I'd realized by then that that was what was happening to me, and if I could get them to steal the core of my cognitive world then maybe..."
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"I guess... I kinda was one. Or... maybe not?" she pause for a moment, glancing over at Makoto hesitantly. The older girl's words had kind of put something in perspective for her just now. That overall, just because her case was external and the others' had been internal, didn't mean it hadn't ultimately been the same process. Though it was... kind of hard to think about and explain all this on the fly. Not impossible though.
"I... actually had a Palace. You guys both saw my memory." Specifically, the part with the hallucinations "You saw... what was happening to me. I'm pretty sure I was being affected by the Metaverse by that point. It only got worse from there."
Deep breath. "By the time I got to meet the others, I could barely leave my room. I knew I needed help, and I found out what they could do from eavesdropping on The Leblanc. So I asked them for help."
Which brings her to her point: more information to be shared. She's swimming in dangerous waters here, but if she can play this as a one-time thing that they did, just with her, they could hold off talking about their general activities as the Phantom Thieves for now? At least until they felt they were ready. And she had an idea how, too. She closed her eyes. The next words she says are ones that Ren, Makoto, and Morgana should all know fairly well.
"'The cognitive world can become distorted through desires. If it becomes distorted, a person begins exhibiting problematic behavior in reality. That cognitive world disappears when you remove its core, and further problematic actions stop.'" She pauses, using her free hand to shove her glasses into a more steady position on her face. "They were in my mom's notes about cognitive psience. I'd realized by then that that was what was happening to me, and if I could get them to steal the core of my cognitive world then maybe..."
Maybe they'd be able to help her.