towerofanimus | Every day's great at your... Animus?

Characters: Yosuke Hanamura and YOU! Yes, YOU!
Setting: Room 2-14 and Floor 14
Format: Action is vastly preferred, but I'll prose if you want. Just be warned - prose tags take me a lot longer.
Summary: Yosuke arrives! Derping ensues.
Warnings: Swearing!

Room 2-14

[Yosuke's never been quick to wake up - unless it's someone waking him up in the middle of class. Laying in bed an extra few minutes is normal. What's not normal is the bed, the room, or anything about this place. And then panic ensues! What we end up with is one Yosuke trying his best to keep calm as he takes in these strange surroundings in a slight panic]

What the hell?! Who's idea of a joke is this!

Floor 14

[Yosuke - now dressed in his usual threads, headphones around his neck, has found his way to the entertainment room. He doesn't feel particularly jolly though, and rather than enjoy the entertainment he's sprawled on a couch, looking up and contemplating the last few hours of his life]

[Approach?]

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[Okay this is almost as weird as the whole 'strange place your world is destroyed' thing]

[Almost]

Yeah. To fight shadows.

[NO. WAY.]

...We fought shadows with our personas.

[This is quite the oddity, right here.]

I didn't... I had no idea other people besides SEES and Strega could even use personas...

[He raises an eyebrow at the mention of SEES and Strega - those are completely foreign to him]

We couldn't, at first. Not until after we'd been inside the TV world. It's... it's complicated.

I guess it was fate that brought us here, huh?

[She taps her chin a little, thinking.]

We have to awaken to our powers, to use them successfully. But it requires a catalyst to summon properly-- [She reaches down to her waist holster, taking out her evoker with the large SEES label on the side.] These are evokers. They help us channel the energy to summon our personas by shooting a burst of energy through our heads.

[A pause.]

How many personas can you and your friends use?

[Holy shit, putting a gun to your head?! Even if it's not really a gun, that's still hardcore. Damn]

Most of the group can use one, though my persona did change after a while. Our leader though... he can use more than one. A lot more. But we don't use those evoker things - we have cards.

I lead my group into battles, and I can use more than one persona.

[This was so odd...]

Like the tarot cards personas are associated with?

[Odd ain't the half of it]

[But he nods in agreement]

Yeah, exactly. I think I can demonstrate, if you want.

[She nods and stands up, evoker in hand.]

I can show you too, if you'd like.

[He sweeps a hand in front of him]

Ladies first?

If you insist.

[She lifts the evoker to her head and pulls the trigger, energy splattering from the other side of her head much like an exit wound, as a large persona (http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/9/9c/Kikuri-hime.jpg) appears above her.]

This is Kikuri-hime.

[He'd be lying if he said he wasn't unnerved seeing her put a gun to her head - but what follows? That's familiar]

[Eerily, scarily, creepily familiar]

[But he shakes it off and gets to his feet. Without his blades in hand, he'll have to take a page from Souji's book. And so as that blue glow spreads and his card descends, he simply grabs it in hand and crushes it]

[Hey look, a second persona!]

And mine is Susano-o.

I have a few others with me here, but I usually have access to hundreds of different personas.

[Kikuri-hime disappears, and Minako reholsters her evoker.]

What was the name of the goddess you fought?

... just like partner.

[Susano-o vanishes as well, and Yosuke doesn't even know what to think anymore]

Izanami. Her name was Izanami.

We fought Nyx, an omnipotent near-invincible goddess who's the bringer of the end.

Or was, at least.

[So, different goddesses, same concepts. What in the world...]

... what the hell?

[Because the similarities are just scary and they lived so close to each other and just WHAT THE HELL]

This is definitely weird. Really, really weird.

How... I mean... and so close to each other...

I thought the shadows would've been gone after Nyx went away....

[She frowns, deep in thought.]

Well, they weren't in our world, they were only in the TV world. What we stopped was that world from spilling over and swallowing ours.

What exactly was the TV world, do you know?

You know, I'm not entirely sure. It... well, there's a lot to explain. You have time?

Even if I did, this is way more important.

[He smiles and takes a seat back on the bed]

The TV world was foggy as hell. That was the main thing spilling over - when it was foggy in Inaba, it meant the fog lifted in the other world. As for the world itself, it... well, it changed.

Parts of it were constant, but when someone would get thrown in, part of the world would change based around their thoughts and desires. [He's hesitant to talk too much about it, but the best way is by examples, so...] Like, a friend of mine felt trapped in Inaba, so in the TV world the area around her became the 'castle' she felt like she was trapped in.

[She sits back down next to him, legs crossed and hands folded in her lap.

Minako nods as he talks, absorbing the information carefully.]

So, it changed depending on human desires and feelings...

[He nods in agreement before continuing]

Aside from that, the place was crawling with shadows. Tons and tons of the regular ones, but they weren't the worst.

[He hesitates again, but resolves to at least give her the general basics]

The worst ones were the ones that came from the people forced into the world.

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