the rain will be gone in the morning...

[miseris_socios]

Characters: Ken Amada and open.
Setting: Floor Fourteen
Format: Action.
Summary: After running into Shinjiro Ken is… conflicted. He needs some space. But that doesn't mean that other people can't bother him.
Warnings: Mentions of death, swearing. Strega which is its own warning.


[Shit. He couldn't do anything. He had run into him, and he hadn't been able to kill him - and how was he able to change Personas like that, anyway? The only person he know of who could was Minato - well, and the leader of SEES, too. Ken wandered for a while, before he ended up on the fourteenth floor.]

[Ken sits down in front of the consoles that has some kind of fighting game. He starts messing around with the controller - he's not particularly good, but it's at least something to get frustrated at besides this fucked-up situation with Shinjiro.]

[And it's something to take his mind off of it for a little bit, too… which hopefully is enough to make him not cry.]

Comments

[terrificmachoemperor]

[He scratches the back of his head before answering.]

Uh sure...but I'm gonna warn ya. I ain't good at shooting games. You okay with that?

[miseris_socios]

Good, because this is a fighting game.

[He hands Kanji the other controller.]

woops almost tagged this with Shiji that would have been ackward

[terrificmachoemperor]

...oh.

[Good job, genius.]

Well I ain't good in those games either. But I'll try!

[He takes the controller...and after a few seconds, turns it the right way. Woops.]

NO KIDDING

[miseris_socios]

[... He holds back a giggle, and then exits to the menu and goes into multiplayer mode.]

Pick whoever you want.

[terrificmachoemperor]

[Predictably, Kanji goes for the tall burly guy that has an 'easy' guage next to it. He won't even pretend to be good at this type of game either.]

...is his name really Rumbler McGee?

[miseris_socios]

Yeah, it is. A lot of these guys have really stupid names.

[Ken's fighter is relatively tall, but more lanky. He's got a 'medium' gauge next to him.]

I'll pick the easier stage so you don't have to deal with ring outs.

[terrificmachoemperor]

[MANLY PRIDE DAMAGED.]

Hey hey! I might be new at this but don't put in the kiddy gloves for me. I can do this.

[miseris_socios]

It's not kiddy gloves. Ring outs are just stupid ways to win fights.

[It has nothing to do with the fact that the mun got destroyed by them yesterday -]

[terrificmachoemperor]

[More blinking.]

Uh...how about if you just play a match to show me first before I join in. You'd be okay with that?

[this is totally not so they can start talking.]

[miseris_socios]

[... Oh well then.]

Sure. That's fine.

[He backs out of the multiplayer menu and goes back to arcade mode.]

[terrificmachoemperor]

[He watches Ken in silence for a short while before speaking again.]

You come play here often?

[miseris_socios]

Sometimes. It's not usually all that crowded, so it's a good spot to get away from things.

[terrificmachoemperor]

[Oh Kanji knows all about those moments. Sometimes a man just wants to be alone to think about things.]

Sorry, I didn't know. You want me to go and leave you for a few?

[miseris_socios]

[... He shakes his head.]

It's okay. I just... ran into someone I wish wasn't here.

[terrificmachoemperor]

[Well that doesn't sound good.]

...who?

And now we attempt to do the dance of selfcest avoidance?

[miseris_socios]

That guy who killed my mother.

Oh don't worry I'll just do a bunch of things and pretend they did meet each other.

[terrificmachoemperor]

...

[Well that does put a damper on things...and also makes him angry. What would he do if Adachi came here too? Or if someone had killed his Ma...he couldn't hold himself back either.

In Kanji's mind, Ken was already a better man than he was just for staying away. Still...]

They got a name?

Oh okay then.

[miseris_socios]

[... He sighs, and pauses the game, looking up at Kanji.]

Shinjiro Aragaki. I'll take care of it, though. It's my business, and I already had someone try to step in before.

[terrificmachoemperor]

[He sighs back at those words. It's hard to tell a kid not to try killing the person responsible for his mother's death, but after the whole misunderstanding at the hospital and nearly throwing someone innocent to their deaths...]

...Ken, don't go overboard 'kay? I ain't gonna judge you for what what you should and shouldn't do, but uh...be careful.

[miseris_socios]

I will. Nemesis will protect me.

[Never mind that she didn't do such a good job before - shh.]

Besides... I guess... even if I kill him here, it won't do much good. He'll just come back the next day.