OVERFLOW POST: prismatica

[wantsnudes]

Overflow Post

⬤ ⬤ ⬤

( <a href="LINKTOTHREAD">continued from here</a> ) your tag here

Comments

[wantsnudes]

Shrines are always a well of inspiration. [A thought occurs to him--] This may be a recreation, but perhaps we should make an offering regardless?

[It would feel strange not to, at any rate.]

[foolaround]

That's a great idea! [ would the gods even want a dead girl's offering, she wonders, would whatever's enshrined back there even hear us here ]

This whole situation is weird and new, so we need all the luck we can get, right? Okay, this way, then.

[wantsnudes]

Very well. [Following alongside with a slight smile.]

...You're rather cheerful, considering the circumstances.

[Maybe a little of it is putting on a brave face, but it also just seems to be how she is, too.]

[foolaround]

[ oh she's freaked out and desperately guilty and misses the people she loves and-- ]

I get that a lot! [ minako chirps that, a bit of a spring in her step. ] But I signed the contract, Igor gave me the key... I chose everything that happened next. It can't be helped. No point in getting torn up over it.

[wantsnudes]

Surely you don't mean-- you signed a contract to come here from your world?

[Yusuke's not sure he's following, when the significance of what she's saying hasn't occurred to him yet. He certainly wasn't offered a contract, when he was home one moment and gone the next.]

[foolaround]

Oh, no, no, nothing like that! No, when I moved back to Iwatodai about a year ago... I agreed to something. And I didn't really get it, back then, but... anyway, it doesn't matter. Shrine's just ahead.

[ minako steps through the gates and past the small playground. ]

There wasn't a priest running this place, so I don't actually know who's enshrined here.

[wantsnudes]

[There she goes again, brushing him off with only half an explanation. Perhaps it's for the best he doesn't pester her with too many questions.

When they arrive at the shrine, Yusuke looks around. He reaches into his pocket for his wallet as they approach, and--]

Ah! I... don't have any change to offer.

[foolaround]

[ SORRY YUSUKE.... ]

Oh! That's okay, I probably... [ she looks down at herself. right. ]

... Yeah, I don't have pockets. [ she laughs a little. there IS the white gun belt holding her evoker but that's it. ] Oops?

[wantsnudes]

I suppose we can't make an offering after all... What a pity.

[He's so disappointed! He needs all the fortune he can get, but he'll just have to settle for looking around the shrine for its aesthetics alone.

He pauses, looking her up and down.]

By the way, why are you carrying around a toy gun?

[foolaround]

It's an Evoker, [ she says it almost absently, running a hand over the offertory box ] I use it to summon Personas.

[wantsnudes]

--I beg your pardon?!

[THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY, MINAKO]

[foolaround]

What?

[ WHATS WRONG OH GOD ]

[wantsnudes]

You said you can summon Personas... Is that really true?

[why a gun and not a mask tho]

[foolaround]

Yeah, I can show you?

[ she flicks the holster open, holding up the evoker towards the sky. ]

Remember. Not a real gun, don't freak out.

[ and she turns it to point it at her temple. with a grin, one eye shining, and a sound like a cap gun and shattering glass--hell, it briefly looks like broken glass is coming out of the other side of her head-- ]

Messiah!

[ lo and behold. its a persona. ]

[wantsnudes]

W-wait just a moment--!

[She's telling him not to freak out, but he takes a step toward her in a panic anyway. It's too late to do anything, of course, so he can only watch with a horrified expression as she shoots herself in the head.

He blinks when a Persona emerges just as she said, and he looks from it to her. Actually, she seems fine.]

That's your Persona? For such a barbaric summoning method, it's... rather beautiful.

[foolaround]

Hey, don't be mean, Kitagawa-kun! [ she laughs, though, patting messiah before he disappears. ] He's one of them, yeah. I have four of mine with me. Messiah, Orpheus Telos, Thanatos, and Metatron.

[ pay no attention to how three of those are death-themed ]

[wantsnudes]

[Didn't Ren have a Persona called Metatron, come to think of it? The rest he knows only from mythology, though.]

Goodness... So you're another who posses the power to wield multiple Personas. What a surprising individual my tour guide has become... Who are you really, Arisato-san?

[foolaround]

I led a group called SEES in battle. They were the best friends I could have asked for. We fought Shadows, we saved the world from Nyx, fought for everyone's souls...

[ she smiles at him, that same sad smile as before. ]

Now? I'm just a girl whose luck ran out. What about you, Kitagawa-kun? Why does an art student from Tokyo know about Personas?

[wantsnudes]

Ah, well... [He doesn't want to say anything, but she's clearly a Persona user, and he's made his knowledge obvious. There isn't much choice but to share, in that case.]

I have a Persona, too-- Kamu Susano-o. I cannot show you him, however, without access to the Metaverse.

[So he assumes, though he hasn't actually tried it here yet.]

[foolaround]

The Dark Hour is gone, and I could still summon Messiah back there... give it a shot?

[wantsnudes]

[The Metaverse was all about cognition, wasn't it? Maybe if he just... closes his eyes and imagines himself in his thief clothes...

As he does, he's engulfed in blue flame for a split second, his outfit turning to the masked outlaw attire of Fox.]

Oh! [He looks down at his gloved hands and pats his face.] It worked.

[foolaround]

[ she's impressed, but ]

Iiiiis the magical boy getup your Persona?

[wantsnudes]

Ah... Not quite. Behold, Kamu Susanoo!

[And with a dramatic flourish, his kitsune mask vanishes, taking the form of his Persona.]

[foolaround]

Oh whoa, he's cool!

[ minako takes a step back, grinning as she looks kamu susanoo up and down. ]

What kind of skills does he use?

[wantsnudes]

Slicing attacks and ice magic; his blade is as swift as it is strong.

[Yusuke is clearly very proud of his Persona! It's come a long way since its early days as Goemon, and even there he thought it something to take pride in. It soon vanishes, the mask reappearing in place.]