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鳴上 悠 [Narukami Yu] ([personal profile] pitiedthefool) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-07-02 12:47 am

005 | ❝Come back for the hope that you've stolen...❞

Characters: Yu and you it will never get old
Setting: Starting in the morning of the return from Infighting on the dorm's second floor, wandering later on
Format: Your choice
Summary: Birthdays were had in Hell, so he decided to celebrate by flooding the dorms with origami cranes and do several other things.
Warnings: I sense a few New World Fools...

Yu wasn't one to say when he was hurting, nor was he the kind of person to simply ignore when others were either. It was hell, the last month... and according to the notes he'd received from Naoya and Zo the main portion of the tower hadn't fared well, either. So for remainder of the first day, all he did was continue making paper cranes in his shared dorm room. If anyone asked, he probably was too absorbed in how calming it was to respond much...

Floor One
After dropping off the little paper figurines at the doors of the other Persona users and his friends, Yu found himself wandering down to the cafeteria. He hadn't eaten much of anything for the last month and barely stomached whatever Ken and the others had brought him from the table, so finding all of these ingredients in the cafeteria?

It was like he was finally back in his element after what felt like an eternity.

The teen soon lost himself in the scents and mundane actions that come from cooking, probably making extra on purpose for anyone who wanted to try something that wasn't guaranteed to poison them. After all, he does know his way with a knife and a stove... even if it was a pain figuring out Fahrenheit-to-Celcius every now and then.

Floor Five
Yu tried to avoid this floor as much as he possibly could for reasons only a select few fully understood. He always ignored the red-collar workers as they went about their jobs, doing what they always did. Yet the sensation he had when coming here...

For once, he could recognize it. That emptiness and the suffocating feeling as though death were clawing up his legs again, trying to drag him down into the pits of hell. The crushing void within his heart to the point where he could almost hear their screams as death claimed them all over and over again.

He almost fell to his knees once or twice, taking hold of something before he could. A rail, someone's arm... he didn't know. All he knew was he wanted out of here before the despair that nearly claimed the spark of hope that still resided in his heart returned once more.

Floor Fourteen
Over the several months Yu'd been here, the media room had become a place of solace where he would meet with his friends and bond. Whether it was over music or video games didn't matter. He just enjoyed the time he spent with them.

This time, however, he was looking for someone in particular... someone he couldn't find at the "wrap-up party" last weekend. After a while of waiting, he sat down and began playing a little game again. Maybe they just decided not to come today...

Floor Twenty-Two
For some reason this week, Yu had begun to frequent the art gallery much more often than he normally did. After all, it seemed to be a place where a certain goddess kept finding him... and all it did sometimes was show him his fears. Oddly enough when he looked at the paintings now, it wasn't mostly his own world he was looking at...

It was of a surgeon cutting open a patient who remained awake, abominations and many grotesque creatures oozing out of the person's abdomen. Yet he didn't flinch, didn't so much as make any acknowledgement of what it was he saw. All he did was keep walking and enjoying the silence all the while hoping someone would soon break it.

Night, Your Floor of Choice
Cooking wasn't the only thing that was cathartic for the teen. No, there had also been a reason he had tried making a weapon for himself only to find a new friend giving him one instead. It had been a month, and his skills were a little rough around the edges, but he'd decided that it wouldn't hurt to stay out until around midnight and fight once the monsters came out.

If you're lucky, someone might even hear a single word being muttered before the sensation of electricity remaining stagnant in the air became more poignant: "Persona."

[ooc note: For Purse Owners Yu's met and seen their Personas, there is an origami figurine of them in their rooms somewhere (more than likely just at the door unless you're his roommate). For close CR, there's an animal other than a crane for them of their choosing. He was in a giving mood. :c

ALSO! If you'd be so kind as to also state the day of the week in the comment as well, it would be greatly appreciated! You can also have your characters wander into him on accident on either lounge floors. It gets old saying "Yu sit here, wat do?" after a while... |3]
fractus_animus: (Raining toward apathy.)

nopespider is basically him rn

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-02 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Bang.

The feeling of blowing his brains out, the glass shattering, but nothing.

Bang.

The feeling that he is dying, his psyche shattering out the other side of his head, but nothing.

Bang. No blood.

Bang. Pain, but no pain--

Bang. Soul pain, from overtaxing his Persona for nothing--

It's not hard to tell the source when it emanates death so freely and so openly given Minato is continually opening a hole in his head for it to leak out that Alice is tugging Yu in that direction.

... If he died, he'd just come back.

If Thanatos kills him, he won't stay dead.

At least the feeling of murdering himself in repetition tells him this is real. He doesn't want it to be, though.

When Yu is finally close enough to hear him, all he says is, in between yet another firing... ]


... Her name was gone from the door...

[ So... so does that mean they just took her? Does it mean she's dead? Sent back to--to their destroyed... world? ]

Minami is gone. My sister is gone again. Just like that night. She was here, when they took me, and now she's gone.
fractus_animus: (Broken.)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-02 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... He's close to crying, but Minato hasn't legitimately cried in a long time. Any tears from pain weren't real, and they were brief. No, he's just--

Broken.

... Numb? No, he doesn't want to be numb. At least the Evoker told him things were still normal. She was still...

... But for once, he's not--angry. At Yu, at least. Maybe it's just the last month, but he's finally grown to have some respect for that particular Persona user, as well as the others who had been trapped with them in Jason's pod. ]


... How is she going to survive in a wasteland?

[ How can he help her if he isn't there to do it? ]

We were finally... getting along. After ten years... after all the fighting and mistakes I'd made.

[ He holds his head in his hands, still grasping the Evoker. ]

Scientists. I couldn't even help anyone else while we were trapped there... I couldn't stop him from hurting Ken, on his birthday...

[ He's just--so tired. He can't keep up the facade anymore. Finding out for certain Minami is gone... he isn't sure he can take this. ]
fractus_animus: (Unfortunate and unforeseen.)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-03 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
... I want to do more than punch him...

[ He's just--he deflates after the short burst of anger, though. ]

I'm... I'm afraid for her. She's never been through any of the crap we have. That's... before I knew she was even alive, I resented her for it so badly. We fought every full moon just because we were desperate to save the Dark Hour and they wanted to destroy it--it was our only means of survival.

I hated everything about her.

Then I found out everything they did to us, the experiments. She told me she was... she was my sister and that doesn't change we don't agree, but-- One mad did it. One man, like Jason.

[ He doesn't want her taken for that. It's not right. ]
deatharcana: (Of his strange language)

[personal profile] deatharcana 2012-07-04 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ He wants to scream until his throat is raw. Maybe he will once he's alone. ]

I don't... know. I don't understand anything, anymore. Hell, everything I know isn't normal to begin with. So who am I to judge what is and what isn't? I'd rather she be dead then go back to... that.

[ It's the truth. ]
fractus_animus: (Plagued by sorrows.)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-06 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... He can tell, though. He's guilty of it himself. That sort of... flat, detachment. ]

... I failed to protect her again. Hilarious, isn't it? I just keep being a terrible brother even when I'm not trying...

[ He sighs. This is more emotional than he's been in--he... he can't recall, even. Since... the crash, he thinks? ]
fractus_animus: (Detachment issues.)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-07 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ He bites his lip. ... Adachi, huh...?

In part, he understands what Yu's saying, but he just can't forgive himself that easily. It's just too simple. ]


... We're not--normal people, Yu. You honestly shouldn't even be around someone like me, it's not good for you. This Adachi person... tell me. What's he like?

[ Because even if he's a murderer, he can't be as bad as they've been. ]
fractus_animus: (Mister Sarcastic.)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-07 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ He... listens to this. He has no idea what Yu means there, though in part he can understand (those were his general feelings on Takaya, after all), even so...

... He can't judge Adachi. Not really. So after a brief pause, Minato just... laughs slightly. It's quiet, and just a bit... empty. Vacant. It isn't something any teenager should know, at any rate. One has to wonder why it is that having a Persona seems to inflict this on all of them. ]


... Ah, so he's that kind of person, then... and those people died, right? So he's the kind of guy who won't even dirty his hands and take someone's life himself?

[ And one has to pause, here, and wonder... just how many lives Minato himself has cut short. Finally, he stands, brushing his pants off as he slips his Evoker into his pocket. His expression is... dark. He isn't sure what he feels right now. Maybe he's just trying to make himself numb by being morbid. It's what he knows. ]

That's... kind of sad, actually. But when you get down to it, he's the sort of person who makes excuses and doesn't own up to his faults, right? Like, "it was all society's fault!" That type of person... I wonder if that kind of person can even be helped? Probably not, since it's ultimately up to them, the things they do. That's why he's where he is. But he won't change, right?
fractus_animus: (I'm strong on the surface)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-08 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Minato's voice is dull, here. This probably shouldn't be remotely surprising given his Persona's arcana, nor his attitude, but... ]

... To tell you the truth, I know someone similar. Things would be a lot easier if I decided to just kill him myself, but I can't.

[ He knows all too well having a foil in someone deciding to embrace the end. In short: It Sucks. ]

People get hurt all the time, though. If you make yourself care too much about those you don't even know, then you just end up getting in your own way. In the end, I'm not really any better than the guy I know. I've done things just as bad. It's just perspective.

... Isn't it? But that doesn't mean it's useless for you to try and not make the same mistakes.
fractus_animus: (Does drown)

[personal profile] fractus_animus 2012-07-13 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
... He sounds like Takaya.

[ He catches himself giving Yu a bitter smile at those words and turns away. Too much pain there. ]

Don't stop that. What you do, I mean. You're... different. You're not like me. You still have a chance not to become something... awful. But, I guess I never had a choice to begin with...