synopsychic | You Just Need to Use Your Imagination~ [Back-dated to a few days before the Ball]

Hi, everyone!

[Right's a mix of nerves and excitement, because he's finally gonna help fix things, in his mind.]

So, my name's Right. Some of you may have met me before, and I think I owe everyone an explanation. I think some of you saw me like this when we were in Sarmatia, right?

[Everyone will see a live-stream image of what appears to be a cell phone, and a photo of several young adults. The older form of Right is clearly visible in the middle, wearing a red jersey jacket. Then, the phone is lowered, and the 'feed' shifts to reveal the younger form of Right staring into a mirror.]

Well...this is the real me. And I know this is kinda confusing everyone, so I guess I should explain a few things.

[The visual feed cuts off, but he continues to talk.]

It started over a year ago, back home at Subarugahama. My hometown has a Star Festival, where everyone draws out their wishes on lanterns and line them up on the steps leading up to the local shrine. Well, me and my four best friends had a Secret Base outside of town, and we wanted to view the stars together during that night. It was a tough decision for me, since I really love looking up at the stars, but also really love the festival food as well.

Anyway. It was on that night that my town got swallowed up by Darkness. Everyone got swallowed up as well...except me and my friends. That's because we got really strong Imagination, and the Darkness that showed up is very weak to that. So we ended up escaping, and wound up on the Rainbow Line - a train company that literally runs on everyone's Imagination. The President of the Rainbow Line asked us if we could help them fight against the Darkness, which was actually caused by the Shadow Line - an evil group of monsters made up of Shadows formed from everyone's negative feelings. We said yes, and the President used his gignormous Imagination to turn us all into adults.

Only...we were so shocked from being suddenly adults that we actually forgot nearly everything except our names, and that we were childhood friends. But we still got our stuff from the President, so we still agreed to become the heroes against the Shadow Line - The Victorious Imagination, Ressha Sentai ToQger! I'm ToQ #1, by the way.

So, we just traveled on the Shadow Line, trying to regain our memories and to find our hometown again. Along the way, we befriended a Shadow Monster who turned good. We adopted him as a friend and team member, and even gave him a new name - Nijino Akira. We won a ton of battles, freed a lot of towns from the Shadow Line, and had lots of fun along the way, exploring Japan and tasting all the delicious local food... But it wasn't always fun and games. The battle started getting harder, especially when Zed started showing up.

--Oh, yeah, that's right. Zed's the leader of the Shadow Line. He's their Emperor of Darkness, and the main guy who actually had his castle setup right over our hometown. That's why we couldn't find it for the longest time - not until last Christmas, when the Imagination of the world was so strong that it drew the castle out into the real world from the Darkness. That's when we saw our Secret Base right outside it, and we knew that it was our hometown.

But Zed wouldn't give it up. He didn't want to. In fact, he wanted to swallow up all the Light and keep it for himself. Including me. He also ate me whole, and it wasn't for Gritta, another Shadow he had eaten earlier, pushing me out? I wouldn't be here. So, in order to save our hometown, we had to destroy the castle and him. Toughest fight of our lives...but we did it! We whipped his ass and freed everyone.

And because we did that, we got to go back to being kids again. At least until the Trumps dragged me into this mess with all you guys. Still can't figure out how they only let me be an adult when we were in Sarmatia, though... Buuuut that's about it.

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[you know, it says something about Phillip's life when this is a.) not the weirdest thing he's ever heard and b.) actually is something that he has a point of comparison to. Namely:]

When you were adults, did you think like adults too? I have a friend who got turned eighteen for no reason but he still thought like he was 11.

Kind...of? I mean, even as a kid, I know how very important it is to fight evil and protect people from the monsters. That's never gonna change, even if I end up being older than my grandpa.

But while we don't do a lot of the kiddie stuff as adults, we were still ourselves.

That's good, I guess. [not really what he meant, but.] When you're an adult, do you feel like you're one or do you still feel ten? [that's more what he meant.]

[That makes Right stop and think for a few moments.]

...y'know, I think it actually makes me feel like an adult. I mean, part of my head still knows that I'm 10. But the rest of me feels like I have to be a little more grown-up about stuff.

[Phillip nods- ok, that's weird, but certainly more useful than what happened to Luke.]

That's probably good. Because then people are less likely to know you're a kid, if you need to act like an adult.

Yeah...that's why no one suspected it when I was at Sarmatia.

Can you change on purpose?

[Right shakes his head.]

I don't think so. And to be honest? I really like being a kid. I mean, yeah, it's great to be an adult and do grown-up things, but I miss being able to just play and have fun with friends without having to worry about work and paying for things.

...I didn't miss many of my classes, though.

[.....oh. that is... very different from the way Phillip has ever looked at it. He's only ever really associated being an adult with people actually taking him seriously, but... he did have to actual work and pay for a place to stay in Misericordia, didn't he?

Suddenly his feelings about growing up just got a lot more complicated.]

Yeah, me neither. [he doesn't even get to truly escape those, but hopefully Right will be spared.]

[Meanwhile, Thorne is making a note to herself that with the whole turning into a teenager thing, Right also is going to need to attend Philip's Very Important Class.]

[nooo damnit HE'S SORRY RIGHT]

[omg nooooooooo not more classes~!]

I mean, I like PE! And learning to speak and read English is a lot of fun. Oh! And History class is always great.

But the rest? Not so fun.

Spe-- oh, right, you're from Japan. [Where his classes are probably in Japanese.] I hadn't gotten to foreign language yet. We start that in seventh grade. I liked math, though. And drama. That was my elective.

Yeah, I am! It's still kinda weird to hear everyone talking like they're saying things in Japanese.

[his tone then brightens up at the mention of electives]

I wouldn't mind joining the theater club when I get to middle and high school myself! Maybe the astronomy club, too...

[oh no right you shouldn't have told you might like theater.] Really? Have you ever done theater stuff before? I've been in community stuff since I was like eight. I really liked it. [he misses acting a lot, actually.]

Not really, no. But it's just a grander version of play-pretend, right? Because I'm really good at Play-Pretend stuff.

[There's a sense of beaming pride as he says that.]

Kind of. It's a lot harder than that. But being good at that kind of thing helps! I could show you sometime, if you wanted. [please be his theater buddy, Right. He will teach you so much about ACTING.]

Really? you'll actually teach me??

[If Right was a puppy, his tail would be wagging at warp speed.]

[hooray! enthusiasm is a good start!! Phillip is beaming.]

Yeah, if you want!

Yeah, that'll be great!

In fact, that'll be awesome!

[yeeeeees good he has an acting apprentice now.] Cool! We can start whenever.

Maybe later today?

No... Maybe tomorrow. Best to not start angry.

[what.] Why are you angry? Are you ok?

You Just Need to Use Your Imagination~ [Back-dated to a few days before the Ball]

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