towerofanimus | The Love Spot Has Been Activated!

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The Love Spot Has Been Activated!

Characters: Tohko Amano and you for the first two prompts, the third is closed to Tohko and Diarmuid.
Setting: Floor fifteen, the cafeteria, and then dorm room 04-16. Occurs on the twelfth.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: After getting mercy murdered, Tohko tries to calm down and deal with some feelings..while also dealing with being affected by Diarmuid's love spot.
Warnings: Will be updated as things pop up.

As Tohko entered the fifteenth floor, she sighed to herself as she thought about what had happened the past few days. Ganon had cursed her, Lancer had killed her to get her feet back to normal..and..somehow, she had fallen in love with Diarmuid.

She knew about Diarmuid's curse. After all, she was a book girl, and while the love spot was in a different spot than she was expecting it, it was there nonetheless. So, any feelings of love she might have could be fake. Plus..she had liked Enoch awhile back. It was weird to start thinking about another guy so suddenly after being rejected by the first, wasn't it?

..But, maybe it wasn't. And, even if it was, Tohko's whole life could be called strange, sot that probably didn't matter. All that mattered was how Diarmuid would take it, and if she could even tell him at all. After all, having a curse like that hurt him, and it would be hard for him to accept anyone else into his heart while knowing about that curse.

Perhaps..she would give him one small test to see if it would be safe to tell him. After all, one couldn't ask someone to love them without that person knowing what they were loving.

Such is what Tohko thought about as she started hammering two boxes together. Feel free to bother her as she works and break her out of that train of thought!

After she finished hammering together the two boxes, Tohko carried them down to the cafeteria and smiled to herself as she put napkins on the bottom of each one and filled them with chocolates. This was where she and Diarmuid had their cooking lesson, and where she had fallen in love with him. Or maybe it was when he saved her from the mermaids. It was a string of small things that made her love him.

Or so she thought. Sadly, she was just affected by Diarmuid's curse, but she had no way of knowing that. Feel free to bother her as she fills up her boxes.

After loading up the two boxes and putting a note in one, Tohko headed off for dorm room 4-16. Politely, she knocked on the door.

"Diarmuid? Lancer? Are either of you in?"

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"Well, a Persona is the side of you you show to the world, right? But it's also a role you play, like acting," she said. "I think Personas appear like heroes or myths or whatever because that's the role we're trying to play."

She paused and thought some more on it.

"Why they shoot fire or whatever, I'm not really sure, but I guess that's just because for us they're a way of fighting Shadows. Or demons in Hinoto-Ri, I guess."

And that explanation just made Tohko even more puzzled.

"A Persona is a different side of yourself, like a mask you wear to the world..but, in my world, you're the Persona. They don't appear as other beings, and certainly not mythological characters. But..I guess that's how it works in your world. Can you tell me why?"

Pardon Tohko. She's a bit curious.

"Personas are a part of you, a part you play, but you can sorta bring them out in parts of my world, or in Hinoto-Ri, to help you," she explained. "It's like in those anime with the little fighting monsters, except it's part of your mind, I guess."

"I...have no idea why it works that way, though," Rise admitted. "Unless it's just to help us fight Shadows, and that's why they take the forms they do."

Tohko thought about this before nodding and smiling to herself.

"So, in your world, the 'masks' that you wear can become their own entities to help you fight the parts of you that you don't like. However, I bet that you have to accept that those Persona's are a part of you to use them. That's actually pretty interesting."

"Uh huh! To tell the truth, all our Personas started off as our Shadows, except Yu-senpai's...," she said. "We kinda had to come to an understanding with them, but after we did we could go out and fight the other Shadows no problem."

"So, you were wearing masks that made you unhappy, but by coming to an understanding with them, you were able to accept them and use them to beat back the parts and pieces of yourself that were hurting you."

"Uh...something like that. Honestly, Naoto-kun is way better at the psychology than I am," she admitted. "The point is mostly that we accepted ourselves, then our...selves started helping us with what you'd probably call magical powers."

"So...what are Personas like in your world?" she asked.

At that, Tohko nodded.

"Ah, alright then..I guess that's how it works in your world. That sound pretty interesting, to be honest. It's not like my world. A persona is just a mask or part of yourself that you show with the world. It's also a psychological concept..but it's not what you have in your world."

She nodded. "I think it's like a superpowered version of the psychological idea, from what Naoto-kun said. Same idea, they're just...normally a lot more metaphorical."

"Right..it's the same idea..but in my world, persona don't come alive and help you attack things. They're usually stuck tightly on you and you affect them, for better or worse."

"Ooh, but they still show up? Normally in my world they really are just metaphors."

"Well, they are metaphors in a sense..but since a persona is just a different side of yourself that you show to the world, you would still be your persona. They would be stuck tightly on you..if that makes any sense."

"I get it. I think," she said, leaning back.

"So, I didn't get to ask you what I meant to when I noticed you," she added with a smile. "Who's the chocolate for? Anyone I...er, anyone the me here knows?"

At that, Tohko chuckled. Even an alternate Rise was interested in romance. Some things never change. But that was good.

"I don't know if you know him, but the chocolate is for a friend of mine named Diarmuid. I'm planning on giving out a box to all of my friends..at least, the ones I can give it to."

"Diarmuid? That's a heck of a name," she said.

"Is there some place we can get chocolate here?" she asked. "I guess I can't really make any, but I'd feel bad if I didn't at least try to give some to my friends that are here."

"Oh, uh, that reminds me. Is there someone named Yu Narukami here?" she asked, innocently.

"It's an old Irish name." That was all Tohko would say on that subject. She wasn't sure if Diarmuid would like someone blabbing about what he actually was, even if he had introduced himself to her. After all, he had known that she knew about the Holy Grail Wars.

However, Tohko smiled and pointed at the fridge.

"Look in there! There's quite a bit of chocolate you can give to your friends. And I haven't seen Yu here..but your boyfriend might be here."

Yes, Tohko knew about that.

"Oh cool!" she said, excited that she'd at least get to give basic chocolates to her friends. "Oh, but Yu-senpai isn't my boyfriend, he's--"

Wait.

"Um...wait. Is the me here dating the Yu here?" she asked, tentatively.

Tohko couldn't help but chuckle a little at that.

"I'm not sure, to be honest. It's possible, but I haven't seen the you I know here, so I don't know. But hopefully things are going well for the Yu you know."

That sentence should not be that confusing when they're both technically probably speaking Japanese.

"Er, right. Um...but if Yu or I or any of the Investigation Team is here, I should probably go see them."

And to Tohko, it wasn't confusing at all.

"It probably would be nice if you saw them again..but what's the Investigation Team? A group you had with your friends back home?"

"That's what my friends from Inaba and I called ourselves...," Rise said.

Talking about Personas was one thing, but the murder case? That would take a while, and a lot of it was technically illegal. "It's because we were investigating the world where Personas and Shadows exist," she half-told the truth.

At that, Tohko nodded. "That does seem to make sense..but didn't Shadows attract the attention of the police or anything?"

"Well, only certain people could get to the world where Shadows existed...," she said. "You pretty much had to be brought or put there by someone who already could go there."

At that, Tohko nodded.

"Ah, alright then. I suppose that makes sense. What was the world they lived like? I'm guessing it based it's appearance upon the people that wandered in?"

"Yeah, actually. And the parts between where people showed up had this TV studio theme, like a backstage," she said.

"And everything was really foggy. I think that was a metaphor for illusions hiding the truth or something."

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