IC Contact Post

[riderfist]

IC contact post for Makoto! Leave your letters, birds, PMs, telepathic signals and in person comments here. Though she has no bird yet to return that ...

Comments

[riderfist]

[had to catch you to join you!!!!]

It was ... efficient.

[purrtagonist]

[POINT!!!]

Just like following me around school with a magazine in your face was "efficient?"

[. . . Akira don't give her a hard time. . .]

[riderfist]

Th-the principal wanted me to ...

[purrtagonist]

[o-oh no, perhaps this teasing is a bit too far]

I know. Don't worry, Makoto. I'm just picking.

[riderfist]

I know, I know, but it isn't as though I had much of a choice with that part of it.



And anyway, I never followed you down any alleys!

[no dark alleys with the transfer student with the criminal record. nope.]

[purrtagonist]

. . . honesty, if you had? That probably would've made the dark alley one hundred times safer.

[because Makoto kicks ass with her aikido and he knows it]

[riderfist]

How dangerous were they to start off with?

[you know, ignoring the fact that that's where Caroline likes to kick a man through doors]

[purrtagonist]

There used to be a tiny girl who liked kicking me through ethereal doors. . .

["ignoring," huh]

[riderfist]

... Um...

[purrtagonist]

Caroline.

[. . . ah. she never met Caroline, only Lavenza]

You remember Lavenza, right?

[riderfist]

[it is not her fault the twins amnesia'd everyone over their fight]

Y...es? From the Velvet Room... ?

[purrtagonist]

[fair!!]

Lavenza used to be two people-- twins, named Caroline and Justine.

They were my wardens.

[riderfist]

...

Wardens.

[purrtagonist]

Wardens.

[. . .]

You noticed the Velvet Room was a prison, right?

[riderfist]

I don't think any of us could have missed that. It's just a little ... difficult to imagine that that singular person was ... you said two wardens?

[purrtagonist]

The Holy Grail split Lavenza into two people when it took over the Velvet Room. Don't ask me how. I just know that it. . . happened.

[and then he had to fuse Caroline and Justine together by executing them and. yeah. that was a thing]

[riderfist]

At least you realize how absolutely insane that sounds ...

But so does "stealing the hearts" of corrupt adults, so I don't disbelieve you. It's just hard to imagine.

[purrtagonist]

Everything we've gone through sounds insane when we try to explain it to other people.

[he says. flatly]

But-- yeah. I understand. Before Lavenza, I could only enter the Velvet Room if Caroline and Justine let me through the door. Caroline was just. . . [waves. a hand] Very forceful about it.

[riderfist]

"This person used to be two separate people" is a lot different, somehow.

[tHAT'S THE POWER OF FUSION, GOTENKS]

... How long were you dealing with that, anyway?

[purrtagonist]

[he just. laughs]

Since. . . oh. April.

When I first moved to Tokyo.





And first awoke my Persona.

[so. long time]

[riderfist]

I see. You hadn't talked about the Velvet Room with us before, so I suppose we couldn't ask...

[instead we all just wondered why you were staring at the wall for extended periods of time]

That's a long time for that.

[purrtagonist]

[LOOK!!]

It was kinda hard to explain at the time, so I just. Ah. . . didn't.

[explain. AKIRA KURUSU: NOTORIOUSLY BAD AT TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF]

It was a long time, but the Velvet Room was how I honed my powers.

[riderfist]

[none of us even know the NAME of your hick town]

... Well, I'm glad that you were able to take away from it. And that we know now what was going on.

[purrtagonist]

[or the names of his parents?]

Yeah.

. . . sorry for keeping that from you for so long.

[he sounds a bit sheepish]

[riderfist]

[what do you mean, we are all intimately familiar with your parents, Sojiro and Coffee Sakura]

It's ... working out for us, right? So don't be too sorry about that just yet.