003 | ❝Expose your thoughts...❞

[pitiedthefool]

Characters: Yu Narukami (pitiedthefool), open to all
Setting: Floor 14, Floor 15, Floor 28, Floor 38, or wherever!
Format: Starting in action spam, but I'll follow you!
Summary: Just your average day as a life of a protagonist...
Warnings: I want your friendships and I want your rank ups, you and me could have rad social liiiiinks~

Floor Fifteen

[He had been working on this for a very, very long time- almost since he first arrived nearly two months ago. It wasn't perfect like Daidara-san's work - no, not by a long shot, but he was finally putting the finishing touches on his own blade. Though, he had decided to take a break from finishing the hilt earlier... if the item beside him was any indication.]

Your Choice

[It's April 27th... and someone's birthday. He definitely made them something, but the question is... where to find them?]

[> You begin your search for a certain detective, but will it only be Naoto-kun that you bump into?]

Floor Fourteen

[He hasn't been to this floor for a long time, but right now... he doesn't mind the break. Yu sits in a corner of the room, watching others playing video games with one earpiece on and the other lying there, hanging off his jacket. People from his world may recognize the voice as "Risette," but really-- he only knows her as Rise...]

[So many of his friends have been hurting lately, and he has no idea where to begin to help them other than continue to lend a helping hand and an ear to listen. Sometimes he wishes they would see that he's never too busy to help them, but other times... What do you even say to someone who can't tell you the problem they're facing?]

[...Maybe he should join the others and play something for a change.]

Floor Twenty-Eight

[The music floor...]

[He really has no problems with it, the instruments sometimes playing on their own. But this time, he finds an instrument that he knows well enough- something he hasn't played in a few months, now. If someone stumbles upon him, they'll hear a single trumpet playing something both hopeful yet melancholic, just a little louder than anything else around.]

Floor Thirty-Eight

[At the end of the day, he can be found on the thirty-eighth floor, staring out the windows to the outside with his newly-forged sword at his side. The height doesn't scare him, and the view isn't too bad... but it partly reminds him of being up on the hilltop overlooking the small town he made so many memories in.]

[Yu is silent, simply sitting there in one of the over-sized chairs with a small notebook in hand. He's almost done with the account of their journey, one no one would ever believe aside from their own...]

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[pitiedthefool]

[Which means there are... three...? Because if you count Izanami borrowing his face, and Izanagi-no-Okami being his true Persona (what does he look like under the mask?)... then Butterfly Stalker...


...Mother of God.]

I see... [He was about one or two at that year, so he honestly wouldn't remember it- his parents, on the other hand... Either way, after they went through, it wasn't so far-fetched. Altering reality was definitely something that he was familiar with, sadly.][Oddly enough, he isn't all that phased. Though he does show some hint of empathy.]

Many of my friends were forced into the sea of unconscious thought and created their own reality that my friends and I had to save them from. [He stares at the sword before him, so similar to his first one.] Even at the cost of the worlds nearly colliding because of the power a goddess awakened within not just myself, but two others as well.

[imperialsun]

[He takes a few moments to analyze Yu's words. Naoya wasn't the type to just speak out at any occasion and the bouts of silence are part of a typical conversation with him.]

Almost as if each was thrown in their own DEVA system...our stories have similar themes. Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, influenced Takahisa Kandori, the man responsible for the incident at SEBEC. I am certain if he had been left alone, the worlds would have collided and be destroyed too.

Who was this goddess?

[pitiedthefool]

[It is the same with Yu, and he takes a moment to contemplate this. Nyarlathotep... another name he's only heard about briefly in going over what Naoto found on "Shadows" and "Persona."]

Almost like deja vu... [A pause.] It almost sounds like what happened with Tohru Adachi and Ameno-sagiri.

[He looks up, a bit guarded and curious. He doesn't know how much he should trust, given what happened with Adachi-san. Though this...] Why do you want to know?

[Because she had helped him... Ugh, stupid gods and their confusing, trollish ways.]

[imperialsun]

[Don't worry Naoya's not going to do anything brash. It isn't in his nature.]

I wanted to see if there was a connection between her and Philemon. If she gave you Persona powers...

[Trying to seek the truth.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Well, Yu doesn't quite know that. Instead, he'll contemplate it for a second and answer.]

...Her name is Izanami. I'm not sure about a tie to Philemon, but I began seeing a blue butterfly everywhere I went after the moment I met her.

[imperialsun]

Izanami? Izanami-no-Mikoto from Shinto Mythology?

[Naoya was actually doing pretty well in school and mythology was one of his favorite subjects...]

I didn't expect that name. If you saw a Butterfly, maybe Philemon was influencing from afar. It would explain how you met Igor...if there was only a blue door in the tower to access the Velvet room, he could perhaps answer our questions...

[pitiedthefool]

The very same.

[Goddess of Yomi, murders... Mythology was one of his better subjects and it had helped with the numerous demons and gods inside him in some ways.]

I haven't seen a door to the Velvet Room or a Butterfly since I woke up here. The only way I can think of finding the truth is asking Izanami, herself.

[imperialsun]

That would require her being here....

[Wait. He he said it that way, then it would mean...]

...she is here?!

[He doesn't do expressive outbursts much, but A SHINTO GODDESS that is kinda like a BIG THING he might be fanboying a little bit at the prospect.]

[pitiedthefool]

[This is Yu. This is Yu leaning away slightly. um... oops?]


Uh, yes. Though she generally keeps to herself. [Except the rare occasions they run into each other... Though he can't really blame Naoya. He hadn't been nearly screwed over by this particular Shinto goddess like those in his time.]

[imperialsun]

[Woops, sorry bro he wasn't expecting to do that himself judging from his expression.]

Do you think we could go speak to her now?

[You know her more than he does, he assumes and Naoya's not going to say something to imply they should go. Nope he will jus tell you they should go. His sense of mystery solving is pumping too much into his brain right now.]

[pitiedthefool]

[It's alright, bro. Things happen.]

If we can find her. Izanami tends to wander toward the more quiet parts of the tower.

[Unfortunately, he does know her more. Having Izanagi-no-Okami whisper the answers in his very soul do not help matters much, either.]

Though, shouldn't you finish what you came here to do, too?

[imperialsun]

[It's a good thing Eriko wasn't here. Her fangirling would make Naoya seem perfectly sane and normal. Not that he isn't. Just outbursts are abnormal for him.]

I see.

[He turns around to look at his sword pieces when Yu mentions them, before smiling and cranking his gun.]

Not a problem. I still have my Personas and my Sub-machinegun. Fixing my sword can wait.

[Persona users. With Guns.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Why did he suddenly get a feeling of impending doom that had nothing to do with the tower itself? Yu chuckles himself, nodding once. Well, Adachi-san and Naoto-kun used them, so he wasn't completely surprised by that. Though someone around his age... with a sub-machine gun. That was a bit new.]

Alright.

[He grudgingly places his broken sword back in his bag, picking up a lead pipe that was long enough for him to be able to actually use like a two-handed sword. Well, it beat nothing.]

Let's see if we can find her, then.

[ooc: To log time or just dragging Izanami mun in here later?]

[imperialsun]

[Yu. Yu if you found out his entire team used guns of some sort, how would your mind break? Alright, weapon secured, Persona ready, just a quest to find a Goddess and probably bombard her with a million questions.]

Let's go.

[ooc: I am okay with either]