Voice Testing

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Dear, uh, Mun, was it? That's a very interesting name--short for mundane? Not many people choose to be referred to by a name like 'mundane'...

Uh, well, I guess that's something we could talk about later, right? It's just that I would, you know, like to talk about this whole 'playing with me' thing first. I can't say I entirely understand this concept of a 'muse/mun' relationship; if you're trying to control me, doesn't that require consent on my part? And if you want consent, really, there are more effective ways to gain it than just by abducting me. You could talk to me first, maybe--a sustained conversation, I mean, and maybe I would agree to it... just let me go and we can talk, okay? I know you're not trying to hurt anyone. I know that.

[He thinks his mun is an UnSub. And will fall for the 'totally playing along with your delusions now let me go plz' strategy.]

I-I don't consider you an UnSub! The UnSubs I work with can get violent. I know you're not a violent person.

[...It's hard to manipulate a mun like an UnSub, Reid. :| ]

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[writeswrongs]

[The look that Castle is giving his mun right now can only be described by using the word 'ridiculous'.]

I don't know when I became my mun's messenger boy, but apparently she's sent me in lieu of.. well, you, because she understands that it's "weird" to talk to another version of oneself sometimes, especially when one is "voice testing". I never have a problem with it but you.. well, you over think stuff so it's probably for the best. However, she wants to give you the option. You can talk to me (and who wouldn't want to talk to me, really?), or she can send in you for some kind of ultra-meta experience.

Another Reid-Mun! 8D 8D Also, keywords relevant

[leftinbasketforfbi]

E-excuse me?

[...Oh boy, what kind of people has he been dropped in with?]

You, uh, believe you've met another 'version' of me?

:D i can unleash him if you want XD

[writeswrongs]

Oh yeah. You live in the headspace with me. I thought I was the king of useless trivia. Turns out I was wrong...

Since you don't know me though, I'm Rick Castle. I write mystery novels. And consult with the NYPD.

Fffff I'd love that XD

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Er, good to meet you, Mr. Castle. [Oh boy oh boy oh boy...]

The NYPD? Is that were you b--where you met me? [Don't agitate the crazy person, Reid. :| ]

[writeswrongs]

How I know you outside of my mun's head is a bit complicated. It involves a "verse" and a detective named Kate Beckett...

[Telling him any more would probably freak him out.]

Suffice it to say, she's the connection.

You want to talk to the other you?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Ah. Makes perfect sense. [No it doesn't.]

Uh, you really don't have to bring me out to talk to, uh, me. It's fine. [He doesn't want confirmation that he's totally off his rocker. His mun would love to drag out the other Dr. Reid anyway.]

[1/2]

[writeswrongs]

No, no. Mun actually thinks he'll be able to calm you down better than I can.

Adieu, Dr. Reid. Try not to make your brain explode, eh?

[2/2]

[numbersnfigures]

Um. Hi there.

[Tiny wave. Yeah this is pretty awkward for him too.]

[changedbywar]

I wouldn't say the muns control us as much as they control the situations we wind up in.

If it makes you feel better, the nature of this place is sort of...outside time. If anything, your mun may place you right back where they found you.

The BAU will be fine, Dr. Reid.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Well, how could that be possible? That would require a lot of resources, and I've met a lot of people in a similar relationship with my 'mun'. How can one person have the resources to manipulate the situations surrounding multiple individuals with no relation to each other?

[Wait.]

Outside time? [Double wait.] How do you know my name? And where I work?

[changedbywar]

How familiar are you with alternate universes and string theory?

[She smiles, tapping her chin.]

I am the female personification of the United States of America. I know a bit about the boys and girls who work for the FBI.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Very. [...Triple wait.] Are you telling me...?

[Beat.] I... see. That's very impressive. [He thinks you're insane.]

[changedbywar]

It's okay not to believe me. Every time I get a new president it happens.

But, when I say this place is outside time, I mean it's outside the time of your universe because it doesn't belong to any universe. It's the dark cracks between the universes. It has it's own time and it's own logic.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

No, no, I believe you. [No he doesn't. He just doesn't want to upset the crazy person.]

Wait, so you're saying that we're in a nexus? [He's not sure if he believes you since you're crazy, but it'd explain some weird stuff going on...]

[hell_ofa_thing]

[ Yeah, it doesn't sound like your technique is very effective, Reid. ]

How's that working?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Not very well.

[Beat.]

Wait, Rossi? You're here too?

[hell_ofa_thing]

I have the dubious luck of being one of my mun's favorites. [ He doesn't sound thrilled about this. ] She's kept me around for a while.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Favorites? [He has to resist the urge to gulp. Oh boy.] But... I just saw you before I got here. We were in the plane. How could you be here for long when I...?

[hell_ofa_thing]

I don't know the scientific explanation for it, but time doesn't work the same way here. And there are different...universes. [ It sounds like it's almost painful for him to admit to that. Because it sounds so unbelievable. ]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[...You're the third person to say this to him. Now he's wondering if three people have gone crazy and somehow managed to arrange things so that circumstances supported their mutual delusion or...

Oh shit, he's having a psychotic episode.]

I... see...

[He's really trying hard to stay calm, but he's starting to panic. Shit, he's schizophrenic. His mind is breaking down. He knew this would happen, he knew it, shit shit shit--]

You're the third person to say something to that effect.

[ex_fourmidable296]

I'm afraid that asking nicely won't work in this case-which is a pity. It usually does, except for when it doesn't.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Well, what do you think will work? It seems like everyone else has more experience with 'muns' than I do.

[ex_fourmidable296]

I've found that a simple strategy of 'going with the flow until you can change it' solves most problems.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Well, by that logic, I could end up waiting forever.

[tranquilblade]

It seems a rather common place thing for the Mundane to gather people against their will, or so I have heard.

[He chuckles lightheartedly, completely disregarding the peril his mun is sending him to...]

I must admit I am rather new to all of this as well.