[o5] ♪ Death's icy breath.

[fractus_animus]

Characters: AU Minato Arisato & people, then later AU Jin Shirato and more Persona users.
Setting: Early Afternoon on July 3rd, toward the afternoon/early evening; all over-ish -> cathedral.
Format: Action. Prose will be far too slow for this, sorry.
Summary: Minato goes crazy thanks to finding his sister gone and falls victim to a certain Cerulean blood's mind control.
Warnings: If you confront Minato after a certain point, your character WILL have a VERY HIGH CHANCE of dying! Here is the OOC info post. Feel free to backtag into forever if you like once I get this up.

[ The floors he visited had begun to ice over. Anyone who wandered near where Minato was would find it almost unbearably, bone-chillingly cold.

In fact, the walls froze around him as he walked, searching.

For what?

People. People he thinks he can... 'fix'. Or save. Perhaps his inability to do so during their time in the Pods had gotten to him.

... He had Thanatos, didn't he? Why not listen? Why not let him go? After a month of enduring Thanatos and Samael's persistent voices, he no longer had any desire to be what he now viewed as cruel. Killing people was a niceness, here. Surely, it was nice. A kindness. They'd thank him. Even if they didn't realize it. Dying was better than that. It would be better to die. If he killed them, with Thanatos, then perhaps they'd stay dead. Perhaps they'd no longer suffer...

... He was prepared to do it by whatever means, and however much pain had to be caused. Pain was good, too. Pain told them they were people, you see? That they had personalities...

Yes, he did like people.

He liked them enough to freeze them slowly and let his Persona rip them apart... ]

[ OOC: LET ME GET THE COMMENT HEADERS UP for the sub threads first, then you can reply. POSTING DONE, go reply to the sub threads and have fun. :) Be sure to verify a location on the first one! Some responses may be from deatharcana, by the way. ]

Comments

[evokingfool]

[The puzzle slowly fall into place in his mind, but there are still some missing pieces. Who cast such a spell (or ability) on Minato?

They need to find out, if only to prevent any more tragic and meaningless incidents like this.]

...We have to find the cause behind this "spell". Whoever, or whatever, gave him that push into this.

[Would Minato forgive them if they investigate? He don't care, Minato of SEES doesn't want to turn his eyes away from this.]

[vvvroom]

[On the one hand, this would probably absolve Strega Minato of what he did and he didn't like that idea, no sir.

On the other hand...if this involved taking advantage of someone mentally...well, he knows all about how that goes and...what if it happened again? To someone closer to him.

(it's Joker all over again causing havoc in the tower of all places no no not again)]

...Yeah. [He has idea of where to start looking too. Assuming that tentacled asshole is still around.]

[imperialsun]

[It seemed that Naoya's thoughts were like Tatsuya's because his next words were about the Crawling Chaos.]

His grief...might had led to despair. And I know all too well an entity that thrives on that emotion...Nyarlathotep.

[He pauses, thinking.]

However, he is more the type to brag about his accomplishments. Had it been guilty, it would already be here, taunting us about what we did, as he did during Kandori's defeat.

Unless he's switched strategy.

[He can't just quite remove the possibility either...]

Getting answers may take a while, and I doubt either of them will want to speak with us once they return. But I am in agreement; I want to know what caused this so it doesn't happen again.

[pitiedthefool]

And if it's set in motion again, we can prevent another repeat of this.

[Nyarlathotep... He almost doubts it, but nothing can be ruled out so soon; not without more evidence.]

...Izanami hadn't for centuries. [True, not all deities are the same, but aren't they similarly stubborn? He pauses before speaking again.] ...We're missing something.

[Even if it takes months to get closer to the truth... Yu doesn't mind. He can't give up on this. Not when others could be used in similar manners.]

[evokingfool]

We're missing a piece of the puzzle.

[Minami's disappearance is a factor behind Minato's behaviour. The other him obviously cares about her. That's unmistakable.]

We need to trace back his steps, before he was under a spell, and figure out what happened.

[vvvroom]

[That...was actually pretty accurate. Yeah, Nyarlathotep was the type to brag...but only at the end, when he thinks he's already won.

Cowardice was just as much of an awful human trait as every other terrible thing. But still...]

Hmm. Yeah, that seems like the better bet.

[imperialsun]