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The Attached Meme

Inspired by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name.

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You and the other person now have two problems. One, you're aware of each other's surface thoughts regardless of either of your wishes, and two, if you try to distance yourselves from each other you're struck with nausea and vertigo until you manage to get close again.
Optionally, roll for or choose details:
1. You've been captured by some hostile force and had devices surgically implanted into the backs of your necks in order to facilitate interrogation. The mental link between you and dependency on proximity are just side-effects. Can you escape under these conditions?
2. You've been cursed by a spellcaster or supernatural being who wants you to "learn a lesson". Whether that's a real lesson about each other made possible by forced openness and time spent together or just the lesson of "don't mess with me" is an open question, and figuring it out may be key to having the curse broken...
3. One of you has suddenly awakened to latent paranormal powers, or your existing powers are suddenly misbehaving -- perhaps due to unforeseen interaction with the other person's abilities, if they have them. Maybe you could solve this, or at least the part about having to stay near each other, if you could only gain control over your power...
4. You were both willingly part of a scientific experiment, whether one of your own design or something you both volunteered for, and this... was not the result you signed up for. The mental link may or may not have been a known goal, but the involuntary aspect and the inability to separate aren't things either of you expected. Can science undo what it has done?
5. You both came into contact with an unknown substance, whether by accident or simply because of mutual curiosity, and this was the result. Now if you're going to be able to have privacy relative to each other again, you're going to have to figure out what it is and why it had the effect on you it did in order to find a way to counteract it.
6. Your choice, or something new!
Have fun!

[People are staring and he can't fight the rush of colour to his cheeks.]

[It is hard to argue against such compelling evidence. I appreciate your enthusiasm on the matter, but I don't think there's much left for me to do.]

[Frustration and discomfort build further at Natsuno's altogether too accurate characterization of the evidence, but the continuation of his train of thought towards that note of doubt is what ultimately prompts a response:]

(For what reason?)

[Many reasons, actually, but the main one is the ultimate question. Would you want to be turned into a monster against your will?]

[Granted, he hasn't been a Jinrou very long.]

[Suppose my resolution is this: all of the vampires deserve to die. How could I be spared? What makes me more important than those I am hunting?]

[He feels sadness and frustration, but as far as he's concerned, he died a month prior when his friend killed him.]

[Well, that caused a significant drop in respect from Edgeworth. As for "monsters", he can certainly think of plenty of human ones, so the argument about being turned into one doesn't sway him.]

(I question any line of reasoning that leads to genocide!)

[Natsuno exhales a little, before meeting his eyes.]

[Who is performing genocide in this case? The vampires who came and killed a thousand people to take over and populate a small town, or the people who stood up, stopped them and took their town back?]

[He gives his head a small shake.]

[As you can see, they are not all dead. Two of them escaped and I wanted to find them, although honestly what I can do about them...I don't know.]

[He isn't afraid exactly, it's just that he is uncertain what he can do physically. He wasn't the one actually killing vampires at the time.]

(That seems to cross the line from mere serial killing into a small-scale war... In any event, neither side strikes me as being in the right. Was there nothing that could be done peacefully? Do you honestly believe it inevitable for such a thing to happen again, and on what basis if so? No one's mere existence is a crime, after all -- it is only criminals themselves who ought to taste the blade of justice, and it is crucial that we prove who that is!)

[Very much a stream of consciousness rather than his usual sort of coherent answer, but under the circumstances it can't be helped.]

[Unfortunately not, although I attempted to reason with Tohru, at least. He said they weren't interested in that. They wanted to make a vampire community and bring people in from the city to feed on. Fortune was smiling on the two who started this mess, the Jinrou Tatsumi and his master Sunako were the ones that escaped. They left the rest of them to the villagers.]

[He is confident it will happen again, regardless of what he does. He's just hoping he can do something to help.]

As much as a peaceful life would be nice, I'm not sure how one goes about doing that, when you're in a situation like mine.

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