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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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That is a problem for most people. In your case, I'd try to cultivate personality fragments that don't have vulnerabilities, or have abilities that cover them somehow... like a thing weak to fire with the ability to cause a colossal downpour to put out flames or something.
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It's a lot of work to find a balance and having to constantly reconsider which ones I should be using.
I don't suppose you want to hear about fusion, do you?
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I'd love to!
[video]
Fusion is just that, fusing Personas together to create a new one. The resulting Persona is stronger than it normally would be and it inherits abilities from the materials. A normally fire weak Persona could inherit something that helps it negate its weakness, for example.
It also receives an initial boost in power depending on my relationships with people.
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Basically the bonds you nurture help you get a headstart as people can help develop sides of yourself you never even knew you had, but at the end of it it's your job to carry on the day by day parts of life yourself? That system's very philosophical!
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[He misses those days. Sorely.]
I wonder if all those people I knew ever realized what they've done for me.
[Both in terms of his powers and just for him as a person.]
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Everyone leaves an impact on everyone else, an it's those impacts that make us us. They may not have known about the mystical arcane power, but they probably noticed a change in you, at least.
[video]
Thank you.
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That's just kinda'... what I think.