towerofanimus | Holy water cannot help you know

Characters: [AU1] Chidori Yoshino; OPEN
Setting: Anywhere, everywhere
Format: Action, but I'll match if you prefer prose.
Summary: Chidori can't quite get back into simply existing in the tower, especially after the month she's had.
Warnings: Mentions of body horror, suicidal thoughts, righteous fury, possibly language if she gets worked up enough.

[Everything is still the same, and she's not sure whether it's depressing or infuriating.

In the month without them there, despite everything they've been forced to go through, how much they've been cut into, 'enhanced', mutilated for the sake of 'science- the tower remains just as she remembers it before leaving. Nothing has changed, save for the fact that some have gone and more have come in their place. Unsurprising, as most things in the tower were at this point- it was just another part of the routine, something to be seen, noted, and taken in stride. Nothing she couldn't do, and nothing she hadn't done before. The only thing that was different was that it seemed that some of the other residents of the tower had taken to emulating their captors, using the others against her will.

She could still feel a twinge where she'd been run through again.

Medea, for her part, has been nothing short of insufferable; the steady chatter of her derision a steady stream of sound in the back of her mind. Every day is an even greater failure to her, but as ever, Chidori ignores her and continues about her days as best she can. But the strain from the last few days is evident in the way she carries herself, the frost in her gaze and the derision in her tone, when she can be persuaded to talk. But she keeps the anger controlled, a seething roil of emotions held in check beneath her usual impassive mask.

It won't be too long before she can't keep her hold on it anymore though.]

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[ ~~> as you wander through the lounge, YOU SENSE DEATH~~

What better way for Ryoji to fill his time than to sprawl on a couch and watch the fog and clouds swirl by the window, especially as he sees the occasional firework go off in the distance? However as fascinated as he is by the sky outside, Ryoji is not entirely oblivious to others passing by, and when he sees a beautiful girl in white slip by like a ghost. He feels -- something familiar about her; it's the same sense he gets around other Persona users he's met, and he finds it fascinating and alluring in some way. Maybe it's the kinship Shadows share with Personas or maybe it's just that he finds the familiarity comforting or maybe it's even something to do with the deep seated hunger in Shadows. Whatever it is, it as much as her beauty and the fact that she's a girl he's not yet met draws him to rise from his couch and approach her, smiling in an open and friendly manner, secretly hoping she won't be too off-put by what he is. She reminds him of Fuuka in a way, and he doesn't doubt that she'll be able to, if nothing else, sense something off about him... It's all the more apparent since he fused with Nyx ere coming to this tower, anyway.

But either way, he's determined to be friendly (and get her name!), so he beams and waves. ]

Good morning, beautiful flower! I didn't realize how dark it was in this room, until you came in and brightened it right up!

[The feeling from him is familiar, and for a moment she thinks that maybe she's run across Minato in her wandering. She's not too sure she can actually handle that. But it's not him, it's that other boy instead- one of him, she's aware there are two- and she stares him down in surprise. Granted it doesn't show on her face, which is impassive and unimpressed. The line is a good one, she'll admit- but she doesn't like flirts, she never has.

After all, look where that got her back in her own world, after all.]

I was unaware I was still full of lightbulbs.

[That was a thing that happened in the Pod, by the way. Good job Ryoji.]

[ Ryoji blinks in some confusion at that, tilting his head. ]

Full of lightbulbs...? Oh no, was that something that really happened? [ His joy fades into concern. The way she says it so seriously makes him worry that despite sounding strange, it's really true! (of course, he doesn't know yet that she's another linefacer with a deadpan voice...) Besides, he's heard of some pretty weird things happening in this place. ] I'm sorry, I didn't realize. That sounds really uncomfortable...

I guess that was a pretty poor choice of words on my part, huh?

Yes.

[It really was, and Chidori just stares him down as he apologizes, an iota of confusion visible on her face. He was apologizing for bringing it up, but she was the one who'd mentioned it. Strange boy.]

It wasn't so bad. Just annoying.

[Another blink.]

You really couldn't have known.

Holy water cannot help you know

derp derp i mean um Floor Four!

here we go

5 days later aww yeah

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