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]

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.

[purrtagonist]

[oh true, how could I forget]

True. . . but it must've been kind of a shock to wake up in the middle of a blue, padded jail cell.

[after, you know. their disappearing act]

[riderfist]

Waking up at all, you mean... ?

[ha ha ha we were dying]

[purrtagonist]

Ah. . .

[well]

Yeah, that too. A jail cell on top of waking up at all.

[riderfist]

[we need hobbies where we aren't in danger of immediate and painful death]

That didn't help matters.

[purrtagonist]

[he plays video games so??? play video games with him, Makoto]

No. I'm sure it didn't.

But in the end, it all turned out for the best.

[so far. they still need to punch a giant cup, but eh. they can do it]

[riderfist]

[bring out the guns]

Well, according to Ryuji?

[purrtagonist]

[. . . ???]

What do you mean?

[riderfist]

He remembers more of the fighting than we do.

[purrtagonist]

[ah]

Yeah. I talked to him about that.

[they had a Moment about that, actually]

Not too much more, though. He told you about. . . Yaldabaoth, right?

[riderfist]

[did he tell you about his rank]

That's right. That the Holy Grail would have been a god this whole time...

[purrtagonist]

[no b/c how would that even come up!! "hi Akira, our Confidant is only Rank 9 when you remember it being Rank 10???"]

It isn't that surprising. Well. . . at least, not for me.

[riderfist]

[uhhhh "ME AN CAPTAIN KIDD ARE HERE FOR YA MAN" sounds more likely]

No? Well, it does explain some things.

[purrtagonist]

[don't worry he'll figure it out the first time he sees Ryuji summon, much like he did for Haru]

What sort of things?

[riderfist]

There were archangels.