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otakuro) wrote in compnetwork2013-05-18 08:14 pm
005 - Eclectic, with Minako
[May 16th, action, Aquarius Ward]
[Atsuro's job at Monoceros Community College wasn't exactly stimulating. 90% of the time, computer problems could be attributed to students trying to download things they weren't supposed to be downloading; the other 10 percent were generally students trying to play things they weren't supposed to be playing. Melted motherboards could be replaced, viruses and worms could be purged. This was all pretty run of the mill and he spent the majority of his hours at his job playing gamend s and programming apps for his own amusement. ...He had managed to make a very sleek Solitaire simulation, if he was allowed to brag a little bit.
As he awaits issues in the repair center, Atsuro boots up Solitaire and idly begins to play for no special reason other than to playtest his own creation. His left hand, idle, begins to tap against the tabletop.
...2 of Hearts. Ace of Diamonds, yesss. 2 of Diamonds, whoa. Q of Spades. ...F sharp major chord. 3 of Hearts. ...Didn't he already get the 3 of Hearts? D major 7th chord. Inverted 4th. A7 -- No, Ace of...]
...
What?
[He stares at his left hand for a few moments before abandoning the laptop and placing both hands square on the table top. ...CEGEGCGCECEG holy crap.
...Late that night, the sounds of tortuous piano playing can be heard wafting out of the open-access music room in the college. Anyone who investigates will find Atsuro staring at his fingers as if they're possessed while semi-competently playing what sounds vaguely like a polka.]
[May 20th, text, public]
[By the fifth day or so, it has become patently obvious that something is wrong. I like your hair! It really suits your style. Do you dye it that color? He is quite certain that his grandfather never featured terribly prominently in his life, despite that his parents were never around. Not that he would have minded having some expectations to live up to, but he liked to think he had done a pretty good job of raising himself with minimal assistance. Jet propulsion activate. ...Did he even have grandparents? They were dead, right? ...Pretty certain. ......Vaguely certain. No, there were two sets of grandparents, of course. His mother's had passed away in -- No. No, they were the ones who had ...I'm sorta like you. My dad died an accident when I was little... You're all alone too, right?
...
Persona...?]
Hey, everyone! I've got a question for you all. It's kind of hard to explain, but... anyone else just have this feeling that something's not quite right? I guess the best way to say it is, I'm pretty sure I didn't have three sets of grandparents. ...There's probably nothing to complain about, though! Free family members; there are much worse things that could happen. I'm pretty sure it has to do with those fortunes we got last week, heh; I got the highest one for 'family'! But... let me know if something similar has happened, OK? Don't worry, guys, I don't think it's anything serious! (≧ω≦)ｂ
Oh, and hey, Kazuya... I've gotta talk to you about something. ...I think there might've been something like Persona already in our world.
[May 22nd, private video to Minako Arisato]
Hey, Minako... I think we probably need to talk.
[Shinjiro-senpai...!]
I'm not sure if I have to explain or not, but... We should probably meet up in person.
[No way... why?]
Is that OK with you?
[Wait, please... we've been through too much together...]
Don't worry; we don't have to talk about any specifics or anything. Well. Let me know!
[Don't cry... Minako. This is how it should be...]
[Atsuro's job at Monoceros Community College wasn't exactly stimulating. 90% of the time, computer problems could be attributed to students trying to download things they weren't supposed to be downloading; the other 10 percent were generally students trying to play things they weren't supposed to be playing. Melted motherboards could be replaced, viruses and worms could be purged. This was all pretty run of the mill and he spent the majority of his hours at his job playing gamend s and programming apps for his own amusement. ...He had managed to make a very sleek Solitaire simulation, if he was allowed to brag a little bit.
As he awaits issues in the repair center, Atsuro boots up Solitaire and idly begins to play for no special reason other than to playtest his own creation. His left hand, idle, begins to tap against the tabletop.
...2 of Hearts. Ace of Diamonds, yesss. 2 of Diamonds, whoa. Q of Spades. ...F sharp major chord. 3 of Hearts. ...Didn't he already get the 3 of Hearts? D major 7th chord. Inverted 4th. A7 -- No, Ace of...]
...
What?
[He stares at his left hand for a few moments before abandoning the laptop and placing both hands square on the table top. ...CEGEGCGCECEG holy crap.
...Late that night, the sounds of tortuous piano playing can be heard wafting out of the open-access music room in the college. Anyone who investigates will find Atsuro staring at his fingers as if they're possessed while semi-competently playing what sounds vaguely like a polka.]
[May 20th, text, public]
[By the fifth day or so, it has become patently obvious that something is wrong. I like your hair! It really suits your style. Do you dye it that color? He is quite certain that his grandfather never featured terribly prominently in his life, despite that his parents were never around. Not that he would have minded having some expectations to live up to, but he liked to think he had done a pretty good job of raising himself with minimal assistance. Jet propulsion activate. ...Did he even have grandparents? They were dead, right? ...Pretty certain. ......Vaguely certain. No, there were two sets of grandparents, of course. His mother's had passed away in -- No. No, they were the ones who had ...I'm sorta like you. My dad died an accident when I was little... You're all alone too, right?
...
Persona...?]
Hey, everyone! I've got a question for you all. It's kind of hard to explain, but... anyone else just have this feeling that something's not quite right? I guess the best way to say it is, I'm pretty sure I didn't have three sets of grandparents. ...There's probably nothing to complain about, though! Free family members; there are much worse things that could happen. I'm pretty sure it has to do with those fortunes we got last week, heh; I got the highest one for 'family'! But... let me know if something similar has happened, OK? Don't worry, guys, I don't think it's anything serious! (≧ω≦)ｂ
Oh, and hey, Kazuya... I've gotta talk to you about something. ...I think there might've been something like Persona already in our world.
[May 22nd, private video to Minako Arisato]
Hey, Minako... I think we probably need to talk.
[Shinjiro-senpai...!]
I'm not sure if I have to explain or not, but... We should probably meet up in person.
[No way... why?]
Is that OK with you?
[Wait, please... we've been through too much together...]
Don't worry; we don't have to talk about any specifics or anything. Well. Let me know!
[Don't cry... Minako. This is how it should be...]
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Well. ...I just feel like I might have heard the term before I got here, actually. It didn't seem important at the time, but...
[A brief pause. ...It was important, though, wasn't it? He had been in the hospital and everything. What had happened? ...He'd hurt himself playing ball? Something like that.]
The word just came up.
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[Those had been something like what that girl had used. Yukari.]
I don't know why I didn't ask her more about what she meant. ...Then she moved away and I just... forgot, I guess. It's strange.
How did you first learn about them, Minako?
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[A pause. Should he know what those are? He does know what those are, doesn't he? That girl had said -- ]
You explained them before, right? About how they were the things that came out of the Dark Hour. And out of televisions, later on.
[And he... had ended up in the hospital because of one? No. She had. ...Wait.]
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[if she thought a bit harder about that story, she might notice some incongruities. Like how she moved to Iwatodai, but also has memories of visiting Tokyo... but she must have just gone back there on a trip, right? She had lived there in the past...]
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[Honestly, he hadn't thought about Shadows in a long time, but it had just leapt back to the forefront of his mind the moment she mentioned it.]
Have you seen any here yet? I remember back when we were wondering if the Shadows and the demons were really one and the same thing...
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...Do you think it follows that wherever there are Persona, there'll be Shadows? Or is it totally separate?
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I almost feel like I've heard that term before I came here, too. ...Shadows. Maybe it's all just some bizarre coincidence. I don't know. ...I wish there were more people from my world to ask about this.
Anyway, thanks for answering my questions.
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[But as soon as she mentions his name, a memory surfaces in her own mind. Going shopping together? But that couldn't be right.... She'd only met Atsuro's friend once or twice, in Hinoto-ri, and under pretty weird circumstances.
...Right?]
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[There were some things he needed to run over with his bestest buddy first before he said anything more to Minako.]
Honestly, though, Kazuya doesn't even really use his Persona that much, I don't think. Thanks again, though!