russian intensifies

[constellates]

[When you wake up on this fine morning and check your Retrospec feed, you'll find... Russian spam? It begins - ]

Доброе утро. Меня зовут Аня. [ - and it continues on from there, resulting in a full paragraph.

For anyone who can read Cyrillic, they'll find the following message: Good morning. My name is Anya. Is anyone able to understand this? I recognize it as Cyrillic, as Russian, however I don't recall ever being able to speak this language. I woke up and suddenly it's all I knew. If the people on here remember horses, maybe they remember me speaking differently? Properly? Maybe? Please let me know.

In an entirely separate text, she tries again. In two more languages.]

おはようございます。私の名前はAnyaです。わかりますか？これは日本語です。でも昨日でAnyaは日本語を話しません。

[ - and that also goes on. An English message, with the same approximate fluency level as the Japanese, to explain the whole situation is finally provided at the end. Third try's the charm?]

good morning. my name is anya. i am sorry to try again but i am confused. today i know how to speak russian and japanese. the russian is easy but the japanese is harder. english is also harder now. even though yesterday i only spoke english?

??? why?

if the people here remember horses do they remember the anya that did not know russian? please help. please. thank you.

[ ACTION ]

[ a: авария

Normally Anya is full of life. There's a skip in her step, there's a smile on her face, there's a whole-hearted willingness to tackle the day and everything that it brings her. It was easy to call Anya cheerful and friendly.

That doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

She avoids her friends. She ducks her head and doesn't make eye contact at school. She doesn't open her mouth to speak once, brows furrowed and lips pressed into a thin line.

Yet with her head bowed as it is, it's hard to steer clear of others, isn't it? Which is why she bumps into you - somewhere. She still wanders, even if she isn't at her best. Whether it's at school, at the dance studio, wandering around the city, she seems to have accidentally run right into you.

Startled, she exclaims in smooth Russian:]

Извините! [Then her eyes widen and she seems to pause, having to take a sincere moment to recall the words she's looking for. Even now, a distinct Russian accent colors her words.] Ah, um... I'm sorry...

[There's no helping the sad, defeated look on her face - but Anya is still a very gentle girl. Even though she wants to be by herself, she finds herself looking up to whoever she ran into uncertainly.]

Are you okay...?

[ b: секрет

Distracted as she is, Anya isn't really noticing any of the secrets that are posted around today - or her own. So there's a neat little sign posted on her back, whether it's detailing something small like:]

i ) Anastasia sometimes sneaks out to climb the rooftop of her house even though her mother has told her not to.
ii ) Anastasia used to be a cheerleader.

[Or something a little bit more telling like:]

iii ) Anastasia doesn't like to be left alone.
iv ) Anastasia is too scared to be an idol anymore.

[ ooc: anya's regain was her canon language tick! an example can be found here! complete with sprinkles of Russian and accent. an additional note is that if you hover over the different alphabets, the exact translation should come up! AND FINALLY, Anya's hair used to be the lightest shade of the blonde in the world - and now it's gone full silver, but that's the least of her problems.]

Comments

[constellates]

i do not know. my hair is silver too. anya changed very fast?
but yesterday was normal.
russian is in cyrillic. japanese is in kanji and hiragana and katakana. i can read all three now. but ?? why??
i do not know what is happening

[she's just as befuddled as you, big bro]

[chiseler]

you were just blonde?? stop, stop changing
NOTHING has really been normal since founders day, have you noticed?
I don't know what cyrillic is. I don't know what any of that is or how to tell the difference? you're writing in english right now at least
I don't get it. has anybody else given you any ideas?

[constellates]

i would like to stop changing too
i liked the yesterday anya.
i did notice a little. other people are changing too.
is my english ok? the words keep being in russian in my head but i am trying to still write in english.
but i do not have ideas yet.... i am sorry.

[chiseler]

hey...it's okay, don't worry. your english is fine. I can still read it, can't I? you're doing great still
I keep hearing about people changing but this is the first time I've heard of a hair change and a language change. what else has happened to other people, anya? can you tell me?

[constellates]

for luke's words to be so nice... are you worried?
i am sorry. but i feel better. and i will try to do better so you are not worried.
i do not know if i can tell about the changes of others. but there are eye changes too. hair changes. new clothes.
and i do not know what they are called anymore
the amazing things that comic book people can do? abilities?

[superpowers she means and - that's.... that's just chuuya tho]

[chiseler]

now what makes you think I'm worried? I'm fine, I'm just making sure you're not that worried

[So yes.]

and don't apologize for that. I'm not the one whose brain is getting flipped with different languages
I don't know if new clothes counts but the hair and eye changes is a little weird, I can't deny that
and you're talking about superpowers. we're gaining superheroes now? if we start having people that can phase through walls and stuff then we have way bigger problems

[constellates]

i am less worried now. because everyone is doing their best to help me too.
maybe it is ok to talk about superpowers since occhan put it on the app already
chuuya nakahara?
occhan is defying gravity now

[if you guess that the only reason why anya can use the phrase "defying gravity" so confidently is because she knows the Wicked soundtrack

you'd be right]

[chiseler]

well that's good at least
I think I heard about that from chuuya and it's both hilarious and weird at the same time
and don't Wicked at me, I don't need the song in my head

[How does Luke know the soundtrack? We just don't know.]

he's the only one I've heard of getting POWERS though. everything else is cosmetic or they're items or...scrambling your brain. if I believed in science entirely I'd say this isn't possible but this goes against everything scientific

[constellates]

i believe in science
and i think it goes against everything scientific

especially occhan
he is very small but reverse heaviness does not make sense

[and she knows a thing or two about not making sense!!]

before i made a wish to know russian
are they wishes?

[chiseler]

science always changes. that's the problem
and I don't know if being small changes how gravity works but good point
why did you wish to know russian?

[constellates]

occhan is changing science ?
by himself ?
my grandma and grandpa from papas side come from russia
i did not get to learn russian from papa but i wanted to learn for them

[chiseler]

he's changing SOMETHING where it's going against science. you tell me
...I didn't think of that. and now you speak it fluently after wishing for it
maybe I should wish for something to test that theory. have you made any other wishes?

[constellates]

gravity i think
his own gravity ? alone
let me google the word
isolated !
but i wished to be able to perform ?

[chiseler]

isolated gravity sounds right, since it's only changing for him. I'll have to talk to him because I'm not sure how else to process that
perform...like sing? you wished for that?

[constellates]

you can talk to him
he will explain better
he has the words
yes after i had a dream i wanted to perform
maybe a hallucinomemory
but it was very strong

[chiseler]

that's a little strange
maybe it'll happen then. I'm not sure what's real and what isn't anymore, but memories aren't that bad...if that's what they are
they can't hurt much

[constellates]

but memories from when ?
that is the odd part

[chiseler]

that's the other part I don't get
they're either memories we have locked away somehow
or people are able to create really really believable projections involving us for reasons I don't know how to explain
that doesn't even get into how they're physically altering us
but memories sounds better than hallucinations doesn't it?

[constellates]

if the memories are good
then it is better than hallucinations
but what if memories are bad ?
that sounds
sad
people should not have to remember what they do not want

[chiseler]

try telling that to whoever's responsible for making this happen
...have you heard of anyone having BAD memories or hallucinations or whatever so far?

[constellates]

some
but they are not my memories to say
i hope that there are more good memories to follow the sad
if that is what they are
life cannot be all sad ? yes ?

[chiseler]

no way. doesn't really sound like a life worth living, you know? there's always some good...somewhere

[He may or may not believe it, but it's Anya.]

maybe good ones will follow now that the bad ones already arrived. it doesn't seem like a pattern to have a bunch of bad ones keep showing up

[constellates]

that is true
i am sure that it is just time
and maybe some luck
i hope that people with bad hallucinomemories will get good luck soon

[chiseler]

might be something else to wish for, anya. think about it
I gotta run but text me if something comes up okay? like. anything else weird