Infighting Week One

[animusmods]

Characters: any character participating in the Infighting event
Setting: pods, week one of the event
Format: any
Summary: All week one Infighting event threads should go in here, to keep things organized.
Warnings: horror, trauma, experiment results, impossible geometry, cabin fever

[Group Information]
Dax's Pod
Riki's Pod
Jason's Pod
End of Week One

Comments

[fractus_animus]

[ He lets out something like a bitter laugh. Oh, no, don't, Sayaka, you've made him... ranty. Being ranty distracts him from the pain, too... ]

Ours? Yeah... ours--my team's, that is... they aren't natural. Little kids aren't meant to have negative manifestations of humanity in the form of demonic-like creatures shoved into their head and then attached to their psyche, expected to tame it without acceptance like a normal Persona-user. A Persona's supposed to be your 'other self', a mask used for protection.

Here's... a hint. Ninety percent of the kids who were part of Project Strega either died, went mad, or were turned into Shadows completely, consumed by the things. We just happened to live.

[ You better BELIEVE he's bitter as all fuck. ]

Our Personas just became semi-tolerant and trying to murder us most of the time. So we take drugs to control them.

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Sayaka wasn't sure what she was expected, when Minato first plunged into his rant - but it definitely wasn't what she heard. She's quiet all through it, but for what it was worth her stare could've burned a hole in the wall.

Kids forced to deal intimately with monsters, some of them turning into them - that struck uncomfortably close to home. Suppressants are to grief seeds are to - she doesn't want to think about this. ..but people with those out of control personas.. they're forced to always think about it, from how Minato's talking.]</sub>

..I'd thought they might all just be - like that, but if that's why..

_{[Considering she'd only seen Jin's, and - a vague, confusing glimpse of Eikichi's, though she hadn't been focusing on that so much as wanting to punch a star's face in.]}

...why would someone do that? _{[And underlying that question, unstated but felt is 'why would someone do THIS?']}

[fractus_animus]

[ He doesn't really know. He just holds his head. Well... ]

... Power. Ending humanity by calling a Celestial Goddess who is tired of hearing it's pleas of pain. Or... in this case, 'progress' for progress' sake.

[ He hates scientists so very much and he... sits and leans his head against the wall, trying to concentrate on reigning in the God of Death and an Angel of Death in the form of a serpent from doing as they please.

The success is... debatable.

While the soul-draining slows, he cannot stop it, and his head is hurting far more for it. ]

[beknightedheroine]

_{[...the drain begins to fade, to something rather tolerable. Sayaka can pretend that, hey - maybe that's only about as bad as using magic regularly would be for it, right? And she's no slouch about throwing it around normally, so really... she can cope with this.]}

Well that just sounds stupid of them! Progress isn't worth a thing if all the people are dead, right?!

[fractus_animus]

They don't generally care if people die when they get what they want.

[ He... knows this too well, unfortunately. ]

Especially not the corp--man we dealt with.

[ He has to correct himself, because he realizes... hating Kirijo when they're not at fault is useless. ]

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[..what shouldn't have felt that long ago, Sayaka had always had trouble imagining people who were real villains - mankind was the good guys and that was that. But as she'd dove further into life as a Puella Magi - and then, life in the tower -

She now understands that there are people who might as well be Witches, who don't have the excuse of losing themselves to a dimming gem.]</sub>

..people like that. People like - this.

_{[She has to be vague.]}

..It's not wrong to want to hurt them, is it? It seems like the only right thing.

[fractus_animus]

[ He is silent for a long moment, before he speaks again. ]

... I've spent most of my life since we escaped that--that... place acting on that exact same thought. That... people like Jason, the man who ruined our lives, don't deserve to be alive.

[ His head thunks against the wall, but not with much force, and he rubs his neck, sighing. ]

I can't tell you what's right. I mean, after all, I'm a murderer. A 'vigilante'. Someone who kills other for profit. I've spent my entire life... angry. Resentful, that when I was a child, me, Jin, Chidori, and my ex-friend... were taken like that.