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themainframe2013-08-26 11:48 pm
orphism) wrote in themainframe2013-08-26 11:48 pm
[video] - I - The Magician
At the stroke of midnight, D-Terminals and screens all around Terminal Tokyo flicker on.
There's four people on screen standing inside a building. One of them some people will recognize as one Minato Arisato. The others include a teenage girl with short brown hair wearing a pink cardigan, a young woman with long dark red hair, and a young man with silver hair and wearing a bright red vest.
There's a loud crashing sound, as if some kind of creature is attacking the building.
The red haired woman tells the other girl to get Minato somewhere safe. The girl nods and leads him up several flights of stairs onto the building's roof. Outside, it's night time, but something is wrong. There's a strange, otherworldly green tint to the sky, there's what appears to be blood everywhere, and the full moon is an unusual shade of bright yellow. It seems...ominous, somehow. Looming above the two teenagers as if it were a malevolent force. The girl slams the door shut behind them.
Breathing heavily, through both fatigue and fear, she senses something behind them and whips around.
It comes.
Over the side of the roof reaches first, a single black arm. Then many others join it, followed by one more hand holding a single blue mask. The mask looks around, as if it can see, and indeed it does. When it spots the two of them, all of the other hands procure blades instantly and it pulls itself onto the roof. The creature reveals itself to be a mass of black arms - some of them hold the blades while it uses others to move slowly towards Minato and the girl.
"Those monsters," the girl says, "we call them Shadows."
She reaches to the holster on her leg and pulls out a gun, but instead of aiming it at the monster, she places the barrel to her head. She tries to pull the trigger, but she can't seem to do it. The monster - the Shadow - swipes at her and she just barely dodges, dropping the gun. It lands in a puddle of blood at Minato's feet.
Time seems to slow down. The Shadow advances. Minato hears a voice, the voice of a young boy.
"Go on."
He picks up the gun and holds it, as if he were in a trance. Remembering what the girl did, he holds the barrel to to his temple. He's breathing heavily. He's sweating. His hand is shaking. He says a single word.
"Per...sona..."
And he pulls the trigger.
There's the sound of shattering glass, and instead of a dead Minato, something else materializes into the world behind him. It's a humanlike figure with a gigantic lyre on its back.
"Thou art I and I am art thou. From the sea of thy soul I come. I am Orpheus, Master of Strings."
Minato smiles, but the smile is short lived as he suddenly cries out in pain and grips his head. Orpheus mimics his anguish and something else rips its way out of Orpheus' body. It's another humanoid, dark and wild in its appearance. It roars and brandishes a long, straight sword. It sets its sights on the Shadow and immediately tears it apart without mercy. A stray arm falls to the ground and flops around like a dying fish until it along with the rest of the Shadow melts away into nothingness.
The girl stares in a combination of fascination and horror as the black figure roars in satisfaction before reverting back to Orpheus in a blink, then vanishing completely.
[OOC: tl;dr video here]
There's four people on screen standing inside a building. One of them some people will recognize as one Minato Arisato. The others include a teenage girl with short brown hair wearing a pink cardigan, a young woman with long dark red hair, and a young man with silver hair and wearing a bright red vest.
There's a loud crashing sound, as if some kind of creature is attacking the building.
The red haired woman tells the other girl to get Minato somewhere safe. The girl nods and leads him up several flights of stairs onto the building's roof. Outside, it's night time, but something is wrong. There's a strange, otherworldly green tint to the sky, there's what appears to be blood everywhere, and the full moon is an unusual shade of bright yellow. It seems...ominous, somehow. Looming above the two teenagers as if it were a malevolent force. The girl slams the door shut behind them.
Breathing heavily, through both fatigue and fear, she senses something behind them and whips around.
It comes.
Over the side of the roof reaches first, a single black arm. Then many others join it, followed by one more hand holding a single blue mask. The mask looks around, as if it can see, and indeed it does. When it spots the two of them, all of the other hands procure blades instantly and it pulls itself onto the roof. The creature reveals itself to be a mass of black arms - some of them hold the blades while it uses others to move slowly towards Minato and the girl.
"Those monsters," the girl says, "we call them Shadows."
She reaches to the holster on her leg and pulls out a gun, but instead of aiming it at the monster, she places the barrel to her head. She tries to pull the trigger, but she can't seem to do it. The monster - the Shadow - swipes at her and she just barely dodges, dropping the gun. It lands in a puddle of blood at Minato's feet.
Time seems to slow down. The Shadow advances. Minato hears a voice, the voice of a young boy.
"Go on."
He picks up the gun and holds it, as if he were in a trance. Remembering what the girl did, he holds the barrel to to his temple. He's breathing heavily. He's sweating. His hand is shaking. He says a single word.
"Per...sona..."
And he pulls the trigger.
There's the sound of shattering glass, and instead of a dead Minato, something else materializes into the world behind him. It's a humanlike figure with a gigantic lyre on its back.
"Thou art I and I am art thou. From the sea of thy soul I come. I am Orpheus, Master of Strings."
Minato smiles, but the smile is short lived as he suddenly cries out in pain and grips his head. Orpheus mimics his anguish and something else rips its way out of Orpheus' body. It's another humanoid, dark and wild in its appearance. It roars and brandishes a long, straight sword. It sets its sights on the Shadow and immediately tears it apart without mercy. A stray arm falls to the ground and flops around like a dying fish until it along with the rest of the Shadow melts away into nothingness.
The girl stares in a combination of fascination and horror as the black figure roars in satisfaction before reverting back to Orpheus in a blink, then vanishing completely.
[OOC: tl;dr video here]
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[Shadow Operatives. Is that what you're calling it now Mitsuru. Is it.]
...and I wouldn't think there would be any need for a "Shadow Operatives," but I suppose I'm just out of the loop.
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Elizabeth had said the boy that had saved everyone was a Wild Card, like him. Could Minato be that boy?]
Your Persona, it changed. Most people can't do that.
[A loaded statement, to see how he responds to him casually throwing the P word around]
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[It's so strange talking openly like this about his abilities. He didn't even do so with his closest friends.]
...I'm different from others. As for Thanatos...it's also a different Persona. One that's linked to Orpheus due to complicated reasons.
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[He mumbles it under his breath, not even realizing he said anything outloud]
...I think we need to compare notes, Arisato-san.
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...she has Thanatos?
[Ok. It's clear he's been missing out on a lot. Well, to be fair, he knew he has been, it was kind of a Thing he accepted would Happen. But this is far more than he ever thought.]
Yes, I agree. Would you like to meet somewhere?
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...somewhere with food sound good?
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I'll meet you there.
[action!]
Over here, Narukami-san.
[action!]
I haven't eaten here yet. Is it good?
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Alright then... I'm thinking something with extra egg.
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Where should we start?
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Wow... How about I just tell you my story, since I approached you first?
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[Plus he's been talking about himself all this time. It's about time Yu shared.]
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[And he starts talking, starting from the day he arrived in Inaba, going through discovering his Persona, meeting Igor and Margret. Making friends, saving people in the TV. Marie, Adachi, Izanami...
The returning, meeting Minato's senpais and Labrys, the unknown power plotting against them... Elzibeth's quest to save a boy with the same power as himself- and with a small smirk his team's choice to keep looking into it against Mitsuru's order.
The food has long since arrived while he talks, and his bowl is almost gone by the time he finishes]
And that's everything... so far.
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By the end, though, he's only finished most of his ramen (as opposed to all of it) he takes a sip of the tea he had ordered along with his noodles.]
I see.
[He doesn't really feel like eating anymore, so like a child, he idly plays with his food, swirling his chopsticks around in the broth. He cannot bring himself to look directly at Yu at the moment, instead gazing down into the bowl. His voice quivers slightly.]
I am glad to hear they're all right.
[He fakes a cough and reaches to drink his tea again.]
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You don't have to tell your story, Arisato-san... but I wanted you to know. And... if you ARE that person that Elizabeth-san is trying to save then...
Thank you.
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Elizabeth...she shouldn't...
[It isn't that he doesn't want to share his story. Quite the opposite, really. He just never found anyone who would be able to understand what he's been through. To hear that Elizabeth is trying to save him leaves him with conflicted, complicated feelings. It leaves him with feelings of immense joy and sorrow and hope and guilt.
He's so happy to hear that his dearest friends still remember him and keep him close to their hearts. But at the same time, it saddens him so much to hear of their struggles. And that if he were to be saved, what would it mean for the world and the people that he loves so much to protect?]
...sorry.
[He brightens up.]
I don't mind telling you.
[He tells his story with a smile, the night he signed a contract and of the horror that descended upon the world every night at midnight and the looming tower that stretched into nearly an eternity. Of the invite only class club that was a front for Shadow extermination and the members of it. Of October 4th and the death of Shinjiro. Of the despair of Strega and the crimes of the Kirijo group. Of his meetings with Igor and Harbinger of Death he befriended. Of April through January and how for a moment, how he could hear the voices of the humanity and the World.
Of the last two months, where he struggled to keep his eyes open and fought for every last breath, and of the promise he kept.
And of his last thoughts, that even though he could feel his own life leaving him, as he reached up to comfort Aigis and give her his last goodbye. He could remember thinking,
"The world is beautiful."]
So you see, Narukami-kun. You don't have to thank me for anything.
[Minato's hands clench and a few tears start rolling down his cheeks. The smile does not leave his face.]
I'm just a Fool who made a choice.
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He places a hand over Minato's, squeezing a little]
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Yes. It's certainly like nothing else he's encoutered before.
He's fine now. They may have been only a few tears, but they held much weight in them, and it's something like a relief to let them go. He beckons the nearest staff member.]
Check, please.