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Hello everyone! ＼（＾∀＾） I hope you've all settled in well!

My name's Minako Arisato. I've talked to a few of you already, but for everyone else, it's nice to meet you!

Now that things have calmed down a little I was wondering - how many of us were Persona-users before coming to Hinoto-ri? I think it might be good to meet and compare notes if we haven't yet, see what's the same and what's changed. And maybe we could also make a list of people with experience who can help with answering questions or training, or things like that! Just jumping into using a Persona can be pretty daunting...

For everyone else - what do you usually do for fun? Some of the things I like are music, volleyball, cooking... If we have enough people who like the same things, maybe we could even form a club! I wouldn't mind having someone to play volleyball with again. Or to go out to karaoke! (ﾉ´▽｀)ﾉ♪

Anyway, that's all for now!

[added private text to Shinjiro]

Can I come over later?

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[It is!]

Weapons. Creative ones.

[For her part, she thinks that without herself there, they might have stood a chance... provided they stayed quiet. Yukari had been pretty worried about ghosts.

But really, in the long run... all of them were harmless. Ryoji is so sincere about his admiration of girls you can't help forgiving eventually and Junpei... well, he'sJunpei. It helps that she's sure he sees her as a friend and really has no interest in something more.

Of course, that's her perception now. But even back then, she hadn't been too angry. They'd gotten their punishment for being caught.]

I guess the only way to know now is to ask him.

[Sagittarius? It couldn't be anything like Taurus, could it?]

May I ask why?

It's the industrial district. Sort of like the area behind the station back home...

["Harmless" is a good way of putting it.]

I'm sure there are a lot of things you want to ask.

[Been ten years, hadn't it? Taking her story into account. That was a lot to catch up on. He could hardly imagine ten years worth of lost time.]

Minus the nightclubs, as we found those in Taurus' area. [Now there's an experience she'd rather not repeat.]

I'll keep a note of it. Thank you for the warning.

[The bowl is empty now, and she sets it down. She relaxes back into his half-embrace.]

I do, but... at the same time I already know a lot. Not about him now, but the places he went and the people he met... [Maybe even some of the emotions. The losses, the fear, and the immeasurable pride in the friends who fought to the end.]

...It doesn't feel as strange as it should.

Taurus is more like Shirakawa Boulevard.

[she should feel bad for bringing that up. But she doesn't.] I think you'd like Scorpio and Virgo.

Me, too. ... and I'm sure he'll continue to have a good home.

[ But that's getting onto sadder things. And so Minato quickly changes the subject just slightly. ]

Were there any animals in the places you lived before?

[ What he's really getting at is more wondering if they moved around to the same places or if just the beginning and end points were the same. ]

[That's okay. Mitsuru really isn't going to touch upon it, mostly out of embarrassment from that night.

And her own reply takes a moment or two of thought before she hits send. Really, she wouldn't mind trying to get to know the other girl better, if only for strategic purposes as former members of SEES, and considering that Minako knows a great deal about her already.]

If you don't mind, would you accompany me to those districts if I asked? You could show me what you've already found there. I'm curious as to why you think that.

[A polite and friendly invitation. After the first couple of nights, there's something about going to new places in numbers that sits very, very well with her.]

Edited 2012-09-21 03:20 (UTC)

That sounds like a great idea to me. I need to scout out the restaurants around here, too. [Apparently, Minako likes going out to eat just as much as her brother....]

Edited 2012-09-21 03:38 (UTC)

[your face!!!]

I suppose it is due to the experience you have, sister, that you are able to be right on so many accounts. [but if you could see his face] And you are positive about this?

[he would quite like to see what all the hub-bub is about, master minako!!!]

My sisters and I have taken a stroll ourselves, but I'm afraid they were quite a distraction. May I ask what has interested you two the most?

[If Ikutsuki ever shows up, then not only the P3 cast but also Jun can punish him!]

I see. I think...

What other benefits come with going up ranks?

[ What kind of a school is this? ]

... Those sound like Cucoos to me.

[He can understand that. The kid has one hell of a resumé, including a very long list of references if he's anything like his sister—if perhaps on the quieter side of social achievement.]

It shouldn't have to feel strange at all.

["Shouldn't," being the keyword. He knows very well how things are and what is. It's probably still going to feel strange, and always will in a roundabout sort of way. Even if they had been separated for only a year, there still would have been a palpable sort of distance between the two, because life made separation an alienating force. It's what made distance and time so hard and painful. But how much of an impact that had on the relationship ultimately fell upon the affected. There were some people who could almost start over again as if their final shared memory had been only yesterday.]

I know. Even if it's been ten years, he's still my big brother. ...But this is still a lot more literal than the usual "he's watching over you."

[It's like her life had been a movie with the sound turned off, only getting half of the whole picture. She got the plot, the setting, the actors... but not the other main character.]

[Shinjiro arches an eyebrow. Minato was the older one? He had assumed the opposite.]

He'll get used to it.

[To doing more than just being the one watching from more peaceful shores. Though in this Minato's case, it was probably more like Minako's statement—wondering if he was being watched over, and imagining every now and again how things could have been if life had gone differently. Shinjiro doesn't bother to say "you'll get used to it," because he all ready knows Minako will—and probably all ready has, in a way—even though she has other things on her plate to contend with, like teammates that don't remember her. It doesn't surprise him that things don't feel as strange to her as they should be, because that's just the way she is.

Minato, on the other hand, probably doesn't know what he's in for. You don't get used to a whirlwind in a matter of days or hours.]

He'll probably forget you were never around to annoy him soon enough.

[He almost pities the fool.]

[Older, by about one minute. And that doesn't mean Minako won't switch to calling him little depending on her current whim. What's a minute, really?

And even if Minato isn't used to her personality yet, he can't claim not to be forewarned. She may not have been a whirlwind at six but she was at least a decent gust.]

Are you calling me annoying, then? [What in this face could possibly be annoying? She's even going out of her way to keep your lap warm!]

[Nothing, in the scheme of things. Minako probably would have won the race if she had wanted to, now that he thinks about it. Carpe diem and all that shit. Seize the day. She just had to make sure her younger brother was out into the world first. Otherwise, she may gotten to enjoy being the older sibling by a considerably wider margin. Minato had a drowsy look about him. Might have preferred to stay in his corner and sleep while there was no one around to bother him.]

Am I?

[Yes, he is.

And cats do the same thing. They're pretty cute too. And tend to be pretty nosy when you close doors in their faces.

...He thinks he's seeing a pattern, really.

But regardless, he wouldn't have it any other way.]

Edited 2012-09-21 08:05 (UTC)

[ Minato sends a brainwave to Shinjiro saying, "You should call her Mineko. I swear it totally was not a childhood nickname." ]

[Better a cat than a rabbit. Unlike what a certain protein junkie they both know believes....]

You are. It's not very polite.

[And to make her point better, she decides to turn to face him. Considering their previous position, this involves now straddling his lap with her arms around his shoulders.

Like a cat, if she's going to demand attention, she's going to demand all of it, at the time and place of her choosing.]

[ he retracts his statement. big brother is always watching

also get your voice the hell out of his head before he makes you

or takes some more suppresents ]

[ but shinji... he can't. he's everywhere.

he's

universal ]

[ so's your equally universal sister

get out while you still can.

run

you still have time. ]

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