while thinking about chorus (and admittedly, about my tomodachi life save) i started thinking about a hypothetical scenario where chorus and ángel could meet
and that led to wondering what would happen if chorus re-entered the world into the canon route instead of back into cosmic route
and then i wrote a little ~650 word thang for it :3 enjoy :3
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An angel waits in an endless void. For what, it does not know. It does not know, or feel, or think much of anything at all.
There is simply existence.
There is hardly even time; repeating itself as it is reread, and flashing forward as it is skipped over. Time isn't real, here. Not linearly.
Nevertheless, it waits. It exists, barely, in the near-nothingness around it. Has been existing like that for who knows how long. Abandoned. The result of a dead promise. His plan was never fulfilled, and now the angel would be doomed to be forever alone.
The angel exists there for as long as one can imagine it does.
Until something takes pity on it and manifests something new for it. Until something new happens.
Until it really, truly, begins.
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The angel exists in its new space for an unknown amount of time before it notices.
There is air here, there is gravity, there is noise, there is feeling. This is different. This is new?
It opens its eyes. It is dim, the back of its mind supplies, but to its fresh eyes it is blinding. It closes its eyes again, seeing only the light through its eyelids for a moment before opening them again.
It is in a room with finite parameters: walls, a ceiling, and a floor. There are many other objects in the room, but it feels like the attempt to identify them all would take half an eternity. This is more than it has ever experienced in its existence.
…
It isn't sure what to do. It's never been confronted with possibility before. With opportunity.
…
…Something moves. From the couch (couch? couch. yes).
The angel floats curiously over.
…Oh! It's some kind of fuzzy creature! A… it strains for the word… a cat! An orange cat!
It stares at the creature. The creature looks up from its curled position and stares back.
“Hello,” the angel says to it. It felt natural to say something, but the vibrations from its throat are a bit of an off-putting sensation.
The cat makes a little noise of its own, a little mrrrp, and the angel feels itself smile involuntarily. It likes this creature.
It reaches down a gloved hand to touch it, and the cat uncurls and stands up to back away. Ah, no, don't do that…
The angel frowns, keeping its hand outstretched, and the cat slowly inches back over to sniff it with its tiny little nose.
!!!!!!
The cat bonks its head against the angel's hand and makes a rumbling noise. The touch feels strange, even through its glove.
The angel isn't sure how to proceed from here. It… moves its hand to the top of the cat's head and pets it, stroking the fur ever so gently—it's such a small creature, it doesn't want to hurt it by being too firm. The rumbling noise increases.
Ahh… it's cute. It's cute!!! The angel smiles wider.
“Uh.”
The angel looks up. Ah, it didn't notice anything else in the…
Room. Ah.
Oh?
It's… oh. It's a human.
The angel pets the cat one last time as a parting, then drifts over towards the newcomer. To its surprise, it—he starts backing away from it, back into the hallway it came from.
“No, nononono nope nope stay back. Whatever you are, stay back.”
The angel stops. Ah… It was just curious…
It outstretches a hand, like with the cat moments before. A peace gesture? No, humans respond more to speech.
“Sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you.”
And the man freezes at its words. It can feel it in the air. Did it make things worse?
He squints his eyes at it in the dark, and it subjects itself to being seen. This, too, feels odd, like the touch of the cat. New.
“…Who are you?”
The angel tilts its head. Ah… does it know that? How to describe that? Define it? It is just… itself.
…No. A name—it has a name, it thinks. A shorthand for its existence.
“I’m Ángel,” It says. “Who are you?”











