First Sin | Intro

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Characters: Tatsuya Suou and everyone
Setting: Room 2-17 and then every part of the Tower that's safe, as he's exploring.
Format: Prose at the beginning, might change to match whoever is replying.
Summary: While Jun gets sad, Tatsuya gets angry and tries to find what's up with this Tower and why resetting time didn't work.
Warnings: Warning for Persona 2 spoilers and a truckload of Feels and Cries and Sads.



Room 2-17: Tatsuya stared at the letter for a full five minutes before the world around him began to register again. He couldn't even hear anything for awhile, just a bunch of small sounds at once that blurred into one another. It felt like hours passed as he stared at the letter, but he could find no meaning behind it.

Your world was destroyed.

I saved you.

Bullshit. Plain and simple bullshit. What was even happening? Where was this place? Time was supposed to be reset, right? Then why did...

He thought about before that moment, before his memories would be snatched up, and in that moment of weakness he couldn't, he outright refused to let go of what precious memories he had, and in that one moment of weakness, he clearly doomed everyone and now look what happened. Your world was destroyed. And it was all-

...No. No, that...couldn't be right. Something was wrong. Philemon, that horse's ass, wasn't involved with this, he was sure. Neither was Nyarlathotep, he'd probably be outright gloating about it. He was sure of it, as was Apollo. Plus, the letter...didn't look like it was gloating. But...what could have happened?

Tatsuya experimentally tugged on his collar for a bit before looking in his trunk. Everything in...pieces. Great. At least his bag was still there, so he grabbed it, fished around for the lighter and grabbed it too, almost white-knuckling it. Maybe he could fix his sword later, so he had to be careful around here. Where ever "here" was.

He was going to find out.

Everywhere Else: A young Japanese man could be seen wandering the different floors of the Tower, a white bag slung over his shoulder. Maybe the person he ran into was also new, or maybe they've been here for awhile, but regardless, it wouldn't hurt to have introductions. It seemed like he was new, and determined to explore this new place as much as possible.

Clearly, that poor bastard didn't know what awaited him here.

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"...huh."

Well that certainly wasn't the answer he was expecting. Alternate worlds, he could see, but the reversal for Tatsuya and future flow of time for himself? That was a new territory. And yet, the only thing he could even say, despite the fact this guy was three years in the future, despite the fact he could have asked so many things about it was;

"How is she?"

Caring for his friends.

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Well, let's see...

"Last I knew, she was fine. She's working at Coolest as a photographer and taking classes."

And fighting Nazis, so that's always a plus.

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Fighting Nazi's what.

"Hey that's actually really great. I always knew she had it in her." He was so over the time traveling thing it was almost kinda freaky. He tilted his head again. "Was she fighting with you?"

Wow, great way to imply that he knew he also had a Persona, bro.

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Yes fighting Nazis, very good.

"Ah, yeah. It's kind of a long story." That, in addition to Nazis, involves crazy clowns and aliens and shit.

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"I'd like to hear it."

He can then exchange his own story about demonic machines, sub-realities, demons, shadows, how it is a miracle his entire team managed to work together, Nyx, Philemon and Nyarlathoteps...

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"Well...alright."

>You told Naoya about your ridiculous Rumorventure and how it aaaaalllllll started with a psychotic clown (who was also your boyfriend) who wanted revenge and then aliens and Nazis happened.

Feel free to stop Tatsuya anytime and ask for any clarification because seriously. Aliens, Mayans and Nazis.

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Strangely enough, Naoya never did once, actually nodding along, maybe a single raised eyebrow at the Nazi stuff but what struck out to him was one of the last things said.

"Philemon and Nyarlathotep had...a bet?"

DAMN. SON.

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He paused to catch his breath, as this was the most he's spoken in...years? Give him a bit.

"More like...hm. They called it "research"? An experiment."

Science words.

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No worries bro. He could wait a while.

"A test on humanity. It makes sense."

He was...sorta okay with this, in a weird way? He wasn't a god or a collective consciousness. He couldn't completely grasp all the intricate reasons something as such could happen.

"I should explain what happened with my own friends..."

> You tell Tatsuya about your adventures in your school, how you played the Persona game that started because one of your friends wanted to con a free lunch out of the other...and you bet on the Persona game being real. Then you detailed out the spiral of insanity that happened after which: seeing ghost girls, machines created by SEBEC to attain godhod plugged into your childhood friend that created a different reality and different versions of her and demons had taken over. Your school frozen in ice and fighting Nyx, returning to the main quest at hand and fighting a monster named Pandora that was going to use the machine to end reality completely.

> Something about your shadow self and videogames and him giving you your ultimate personas? Compared to Tatsuya it seems you got a pretty sweet deal since your Shadow liked you. Then again he didn't have to face off against an aspect of your friend that could give most people nigtmares. But you didn't fight your father either.

> Nyarlathotep seems more like a footnote in your own story. You even mention that you can control an aspect of him, althought your friend Reiji is the only one who could use that Persona properly.

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Naoya was a hell of a lot more understanding that Tatsuya. Also, Naoya's childhood friend didn't bleed to death in his arms, so! But wait.

"How the hell can...?" Tatsuya paused, thinking out how to word his own question. How was that possible? Even with Jun, it was more like Nyarlathotep was controlling him than just giving him a Persona. "...Guess it works differently as a Persona." As for the rest of the story, he remembered hearing about that SEBEC thing awhile back. He just didn't know about the details for...obvious reasons! So that's what happened.

But... "Wait, Reiji? The boxing guy?"

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Wait wait..he knew Reiji too?! Hmm...

"...Maki Sonomura. Masao "Mark" Inaba. Kei Nanjou. Hidehiko "Brown" Uesugi. Eriko Kirishima. Yuka Ayase. Reiji Kido. Yukino Mayuzumi. They were my teammates and friends. We all fought against SEBEC and the Night Queen together. How many of them have you met?"

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...He had to think about this.

"Everyone except...Inaba and Ayase? I think." What were they all doing in Sumaru!?

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"Mark was in New York with me. Ayase, I am unsure what could have happened." knowing her, she probably went off her own way not in Sumaru.

"I wonder why? Maybe they felt an urge to..." Adventures tended to bring everyone closer together, after all. Even unconsciously, sometimes.

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"Well...Yukino was already working in Sumaru, and so was Maki and...Brown?" What an odd nickname... "And...Eriko was in town for some reason and Kei was looking into some rumor about Kandori hanging around, but that was just everyone mistaking that Reiji guy for him. Dunno why he was there, though."

But he gave Lisa some pretty cool gloves, so that was nice.

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Naoya had to think before answering, rubbing his chin, and taking in the stories of his friends three years older. He was...proud of them.

"Knowing Kido-kun? If there were rumors of demons, he'd want to punch them himself. He's Kandori's half-brother. In three years, he might look more like him too."

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"Oh?" He carefully considers this Brand New Information.

"...He was punching out some demons when we found him." Man, this guy knew his friends all too well.

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"I'm disappointed I wasn't around to help you all out." If he ever got out of here, maybe he might rethink his options. He unconsciously put his hand on his gun. "One for all, all for one."

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Man, that was really cool of him and all, but...

"It's no big deal, I thought everyone handled what was going on real well, considering." Then again, they were all older than him, so that might have had something to do with it. Still, if they could handle something on their own, they should be left to it.

But then...Naoya would have been stuck on Earth when the Grand Cross happened, wouldn't he?

"...You know what? If you want to head over to Sumaru around then, try August." Just...just saying. Ahahaha.

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Considering he had heard most of the story, he had a feeling he knew where this was going and gave him a nod.

"I'll be sure to keep this in mind."

So what now...?

"Who is your clearest voice?" He meant his main Persona.

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Yeah, it took him a little bit to get what Naoya was asking, but when he did he let out a sigh, sort of grateful for the subject change.

"Apollo. How about you?"