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[Welcome a new face to Prismatica! He looks a little timid, but he straightens up and smiles before launching into things.]

Hello! I'm Dazai Osamu, famous author and fashion icon... well, back home! To be honest, I just got here, and I don't know many people. So... an acquaintance of mine said I should make an effort to meet people... even if it's kind of scary...

Anyway, writing is a great icebreaker, right? I won't judge any amateur efforts, but please check the attached for details! And don't forget me, even if you don't participate!

[Attached is a flier with details on the... well, it's marked nsfw miraculously and you should be glad because emblazoned across the top of it are the words DICK LIT in all caps and brilliant red. The text is as follows:]

(And Other Moonlacing Stories)
In honor of the absent Sakaguchi Ango, a Decadent endeavor!
The first literature contest of its kind!
Challenge yourself!

Rules: All entries must be written. They may be poetry or prose, or other written content. All entries must pay tribute to something relating to moonlacing, and may, at your discretion, cover Adult Themes.

The winner will be provided an amount of chroma equal to what would be generated by the described moonlacing acts, so get creative!

Judges: Dazai Osamu, Nakajima Atsushi

[He keeps adding attachments as the day goes by:]

Entries due the 14th of next month at one minute til midnight!
Anonymous entries may be messaged directly to the judges via my inbox!
Otherwise post your entry here!

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Th... Thank you. [Wait... But he sounds(?) different from the person she knew with that name.] Is, um, if it's not too forward to ask this but... Is your name a very common name?

It's not a common name, technically, but there are four people named that in Lunatia.

It's a very, very long story.

... Four.

[Holy heckle, although Lapis can't talk there are stars knows how many Lapis Lazulis out there back home.]

Oh, well. I just think I've met one of the others, so I wouldn't want to be rude assuming you're the same person after all.

You've met one of the white-haired ones, I assume?

[Since the other one is his split personality and he thinks Inner would let him know if he knew this person.]

I'm the one with blue hair, I'm easier to tell apart from those two.

You assume correctly, yes.

[Although she's only met the one once in person and talked to him over the network once.]

Huh, I didn't think humans could have blue hair.

It depends on the world. In mine, they don't naturally have that color, but I'm technically not human anymore...? My hair was black when I was a living human.

[necromancy turns everything 100% more anime]

... I. Didn't know humans could come back from the dead.

I didn't know they could either, before I was brought back.

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So, um. Does that make you some kind of... [A brief pause as she's looking up the word for it.]

Zombie then?

[...she's not wrong.]

Zombies aren't usually intelligent, so I've been going with 'ghost'...

They aren't? [She simply looked up the word, nothing more than that.]

And a ghost wouldn't be able to do things though, I thought?

[Can't believe Lapis needs to watch 50 more Halloween movies.]

Zombies are basically mindless creatures driven only by hunger. Calling them animalistic would be an insult to the intelligence of animals.

Ghosts aren't usually solid like I am, so it's not a perfect fit, but it's closer.

[All the zombie flicks.]

I... Get it, I think.

Still, it's weird to me that humans would come back to life after dying.

I was pretty surprised when it happened to me. It's not a 'normal' thing even in my world.

[Does that make things any better...]

Yikes, well... I think as long as you're happy with it, then there is no problem?

[Not really, but Lapis will be chill about the whole thing.]

I wouldn't have been able to meet the wonderful people in Lunatia otherwise. So I'm happy.

[sometimes you gotta come back from the dead before you meet some of your (after)life's closest friends, it happens]

Oh so. You're one of the people who is alive because they're here?

[She's seen the posts about that stuff, at a glance, so it's less weird to her if it's because of weird Lunatia stuff.]

I was brought back at home, a couple of years before I came here. I suppose that makes my situation very different from people who are only alive here.

... Huh, your world sounds like it could be a bit weird then.

Is there anyone from a world that's objectively 'normal'? How would you even define that?

[By definition, a normal world is weird to someone from a weird world.]

[She is quiet for a moment, thinking about that and well...]

Good point. I guess normal is different for everyone here.

Exactly. But I don't think being weird is such a bad thing.

[lots of his best friends are weird. dazai is also weird.]

[She laughs a little.]

True, true. I'm probably "weird" by a lot of people's standards too.

All the Moonblessed are weird now, if they weren't before.

[City full of furries.]

So it doesn't matter so much.

Hm... Good point.

[Not much more she can say to that!]

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