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[pitiedthefool]

Characters: The Persona casts and invited guests (just ask if you want to hop in!)
Setting: Media Level, September 15th
Format: Whatever suits your fancy!
Summary: So the Shadow Event was Hell (haha), a few of them grabbed some booze from various sources(?!), so iiiiiiit's PARTY TIME~
Warnings: Somehow srs discussions in one thread and underage drinking in others? I don't even know, man.

So the last seven days had been a misty hell in the tower surrounded by fog... literally.

Muzicons.com

Sure, this was likely the normal aside from the fog... but that didn't mean that the residents didn't need some time to blow off some steam every now and then, and for the Persona users? It had been extremely rough on them with all the Shadows manifesting. That also included their own. Especially included their own in some cases (ow, Naoya...).

It didn't take much, just a small filtered and handwaved message to the other Persona users that Yu knew from either running into them in the battle for everyone's sanity in the past week or before then. "Bring what you can get your hands on," he said, but to the leaders there was also "we need to talk." Because there had been a long period of time where they hadn't spoken as a group... and after bribing Strega with a few rounds of Halo and possible drinking games if they could get their hands on some booze, he'd headed back up to the media floor...

There were no fancy decorations, but he had picked up what was disrupted from the fighting and cleaned like whoa. Everything was set up with whatever few snacks he'd saved in his trunk from the previous month.

Come on in whenever...


[ooc: feel free to mingle and do what you want. This IS a party, after all... so let loose and have fun with it! Start your own threads if there's something that doesn't fit what you were going to do. :3]
[EDIT: Due to earlier confusion, if anyone who knows/is close to any of the Persona people, they are welcome. Really, this is a party for friends.]

Directory
Mingling! || Persona Team Leaders' Meeting || Movie Night! || Video Games! || Karaoke! || Kiiiiiing's Game!

Comments

[floreatnoctem]

I suppose it does.

[This is a truth, though Chidori's drinks are so strong, water won't make much of a difference... not that she's planning to let it sit long enough for the ice to melt in them anyway.]

Doing? Not dying quite as quickly as usual, I suppose.

[It's supposed to be a joke, really.]

[fractus_animus]

[ Well if they'e going to joke... ]

... Then we'd better find something to do to honor this moment.

[ They could play a game or.....

Music...

... Nah, he won't ask to dance that's stupid and highschool prom-y and that's the drink he just finished talking right? She wouldn't... want to, would she? ]

[floreatnoctem]

[She knows that pause, Minato- it's that 'no this idea is stupid' pause. She's in a decent enough mood to encourage it though, no matter how stupid he might think it is. So she closes her eyes and takes another sip of her drink before asking-]

Like what?

[fractus_animus]

[ .......... Uh... he pauses, feeling silly.

Then he finishes his drink. He needs that.

But this is such a cornball idea. The drinks, however, are telling him HEY SHE'S YOUR FRIEND NO ONE WILL CARE RIGHT? Go for it. Besides they needed to have fun and... well... he makes a decision. He rifles through the CDs, leaving her for a moment before coming up with one at random that sounded okay, and holds the case up to her. All the chairs had been positioned around the televisions so people could mingle and there was plenty of space, now; a floor to dance on where no one was at the moment. ]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but... you're my friend. I've really let you guys down lately, you especially. I didn't know what was on your mind and I should've helped you more... I'm sorry. Let me make it up to you somehow.

[ He pauses, here. ] ... It's not like we've ever gotten to do anything really like this before, very often.

[ And then he puts the CD into the machine nearby. The song has a small time delay before it plays as he sets it to hear her answer, and he quietly offers her a hand.

She was his friend. He just wanted her to smile, to know she was cared for, really. ]

I'm hoping you don't mind if I ask if you'd like to... dance with me for a minute? If you want to.

[floreatnoctem]

That's not-

[Not true, she wanted to say, but she knew it was useless arguing with him about things like that, sometimes. Besides, if her shadow had been anything to go by, she'd been a little more let down than even she had realized. So perhaps not finishing it was a wise idea. Instead she blinked at him curiously as he turned to mess with the CDs, not quite sure what he was up to until he offered her a hand.

It was one of those moments where Minato was so unreadable even to her that the very idea of what he was proposing blindsided her- not necessarily in a bad way, but in a way she had... no idea how to react to.

Him doing something like this hadn't ever really crossed her mind.]

You want to- uhm-?

[Dance. Right.

She could dance. Sort of. But should she even-?

No, stop. Just. Stop overthinking it. Friend, Chidori. He said friend. Dancing with him won't hurt anything. She finished off her drink and set the glass down a little harder than she'd meant to before reaching for his hand, a small smile settling on her lips.]

...yeah. Okay.

[fractus_animus]

[ ... He wasn't sure what he was expecting. It could've been a no, or an "I'd rather not", but it isn't, and he's surprised. Pleasantly, of course.

He hasn't done too much dancing either but he's not clumsy at all, so it shouldn't be an issue. They were all quite agile and light on their feet, after all. He's not the kind of person who stumbles around loudly in the dark, you know?

When she takes his hand he just goes immediately to the usual slow-dancing sort of pose, letting her hold onto his other arm. It wasn't anything terrible complicated, just a little rotation and slow side-to-side sort of thing as the music played. Yeah, maybe it's the drinks. ]

I'm just glad to see you smile.

[ He can talk and dance, too. But he'll mostly be quiet for now. ]

[floreatnoctem]

[She ducks her head under pretense of checking the placement of her feet as she swallows thickly, trying to keep the nervousness (and her heart rate) to a minimum. She straightens back up a moment later and follows his lead in their dance, doing her best to keep her eyes on his shoulder and no higher.]

Enjoy it, it kind of hurts my face a little to do.

[Teasing again, but a little less lightly this time, just so she can try and make him wonder if she's being serious or not.]

The alcohol certainly isn't going to hurt matters though, once it kicks in.

[fractus_animus]

[ He lets out a small, amused noise at her words. It's true. But it turns out he's not too bad at this, really; who'd've thought? Sadly, he's mostly oblivious to anything else going on with Chidori. You can't always be good at reading people, Minato. At least he tries. ]

Well, try not to pull any muscles. I would hate for you to get hurt too badly.

[ Even right now he can't help joking with her. It's his way of saying he's glad she's all right, and that they're... not apart. You know, okay, again. Relatively speaking, as okay as they can get, given them being Strega as a baseline. ]

[imperialsun]

[You know...normally he wouldn't be doing any of this. Naoya kept mostly to himself. But after the entire Shadow event, he had an urge to poke more, both good and bad.

In this situation, intentions were up in the air. Mischievous or helpful? Regardless, Minato, that's a nice song and he's going to let you finish, but...actually no he's not. This situation requires something more oomph. He slowly faded it before the slow drums began in the back as the Karaoke machine was being used for something else. Naoya's voice was clearly not as deep or perfect sounding, but his heart was there.

Besides...this song is classy as hell. Even Lucifer would agree.]

[floreatnoctem]

[Oh dear god, Naoya please.

Chidori's eyes peer up at him over Minato's shoulders, widening meaningfully at the boy at the karaoke machine, and quickly lowers her eyes again before Minato sees, resisting the urge to facepalm. She honestly hopes it's just coincidental timing, but she's not sure Naoya thinks much of subtlety with this sort of thing at the moment.

...she doesn't hold out very long before she does it anyway, pressing the heel of her hand between her eyes and giving a muttered 'unbelievable!'

Thank goodness Minato is too dense to realize what's going on.]

[fractus_animus]

[ ... Minato just shoots a small glare over to Naoya when this happens, now embarrassed utterly because SOMEONE RUINED HIS DUMB GESTURE OH MY GOD he was trying to make a statement here, Toudou???

Seriously, just... why... did you do that? Why are you singing that? This is not the song he randomly selected, you have ruined his silly intent.

Not that it occurs to him what's going on in this situation really, but all he knows is Naoya is being really incredibly rude. Then again, it's a party, so he'll let it go.

He is, indeed, too dense to figure it out. Because that is not something he would ever consider. ... Ever. Sigh. ]

... I don't know what he's even doing. Guess he didn't like that song.

[floreatnoctem]

[Oh thank god for Minato being thicker than a brick wall. Chidori shook her head a little and raised her shoulders in a shrug, looking at Naoya pointedly again as they swayed back into a position in which she could.]

I guess not. This one isn't so bad though.

[She let herself lean a little closer, trying to enjoy the rest of the dance while it lasted.]