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[Video on the network; Action in Capricon Ward]

[Fumi's spent several weeks gathering information about Hinoto-Ri, Personas, the state of things in her world and various iterations thereof, and now it's finally time for her to begin her grand experiment.  But in order to have something to experiment on, first she needs a Persona.  She's only heard two different stories about them since coming to this place, and considering she doesn't already have one, the only thing left is to put herself in harm's way to force it to awaken.

And apparently, that's exactly what she's doing.  When the feed clicks on, Fumi's busily securing the watch portion of her COMP in a safe place, setting it up to record what she's about to do.  She flashes a small knowing smile at the camera without saying much of anything, and then walks off a short distance away, standing in the middle of the open field that makes up most of the Capricon District.  It's dark, and during the 13th Hour to boot, but there's just enough light to make out her white china dress and the faint light of what appears to be a cell phone.

And Fumi just stands there in the middle of the field for a short time until she is predictably found by a group of fairly strong-looking demons that happen to be wandering through the area.  They slowly make their approach, prompting very little reaction from Fumi whatsoever.  As they get closer, they pick up speed, and finally she slowly raises her head to regard the demons impassively.  As they tear toward her with their claws, there is a flash of light, and Fumi's Persona appears.

Of course, Vapula happens to be a support Persona, so there's precious little Fumi can do to fight back.  She takes the demons' attack on the nose, grunting as she is forced back a few steps.  For a moment or two, it seems that her gambit has backfired, but there is the briefest flash of a confident smile as she holds her cell phone out in front of her.  A second flash of light emanates from the phone, and suddenly there is a demonic sheep sitting in front of Fumi, joining the fray.]

...Tao Tie.  Finish them off.

[And that appears to be all the impetus needed.  There is a great swelling of energy from Fumi's demon, and it lets the attack loose on the unsuspecting demons, utterly vaporizing them in a single shot.  Megidoloan is always a nice standby for that sort of thing.  And after a quick Mediarahan, Fumi's back in tip-top shape herself.  She walks over to pat her Tao Tie on the head before summoning it back into her phone, and then at last walks over to her COMP watch, her newly acquired gryphon-winged lion Persona floating behind her.]

Well, then.  That certainly was exciting.  Chief, I'm ready to begin the next stage of my research.

Comments

[Video]

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[Miyako watched the video, not at all concerned for Fumi. The older woman is more than capable of handling those demons without a lot of help.

And it seems like she awakened to her Persona already.]

Congratulations on awakening your Persona, Kanno.

[Video]

[terminally_clever]

Thank you, Miyako. Rather handsome, isn't he?

[Video]

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And quite fierce looking. What can he do?

[Video]

[terminally_clever]

He seems to have a large number of analysis and support type abilities.

[Which Fumi of course knows instinctually due to ~Persona magic~.]

Which is fine, honestly. I can just use Tao Tie and Fenghuang for combat.

[Video]

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[It's rather unsurprising to hear that Fumi have an Intel Persona.]

Do you know the extent of his abilities, or do you need more time to explore them?

[Video]

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I believe I'll need some time to experiment, but at least now I can get started.

[Video]

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[Nods.] And you mentioned starting the next stage of your experiment. [Which means Fumi's most likely referring to something other than her Persona's skills.]

[Voice]

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... How did you do that?

[Voice]

[terminally_clever]

Which part are you referring to?

[aurathread]

Waking it up. Your Persona thing.

[terminally_clever]

I baited a group of demons into attacking me.

[aurathread]

... I think my spells are kind of too high level for that to really work for me...

[terminally_clever]

You could try tying yourself down to something.

[video]

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That's one way to awaken your Persona.

[Get it quickly done and out of the way - honestly, Yamato was mildly impressed]

Good job, Kanno.

[video]

[terminally_clever]

The method is not without its risks, of course, but the results were well worth it. Thank you.

[video]

[drakenguard]

Are you aware of what abilities your Persona possesses yet? Combat or Support?

[video]

[terminally_clever]

It seems to be a support type, though I have yet to thoroughly test what it's capable of.

[video]

[drakenguard]

Support types are an extremely useful Persona to possess - more so than Combat if you can defend yourself without it.

[Yamato realised the importance of Support Persona at Animus, especially if one could defend themselves well enough on their own]

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[terminally_clever]

[Fumi smirks.]

That shouldn't be an issue.

[otakuro]

[The feed displays a boy poking at what appears to be a game system. It had been a while - eight months now - since he'd fought the demons within the Yamanote Circle, but the one Fumi had summoned definitely looked familiar. He finds it a few moments later.]

Tao Tie... A demon of the Vile race.

You summon demons from your phone. Are you from Yamato's world?

[terminally_clever]

[Fumi smiles a bit.]

Good guess.

[otakuro]

There's only two worlds represented here where people can summon demons - our kind of demon - and the sample size seems to be restricted to 'people Yamato and Kazuya know'.

[Atsuro gives a shrug.]

Mine is the other, if it wasn't obvious.

But, uh... welcome to Hinoto-Ri. It looks like you've got things figured out already.

[terminally_clever]

Hm... I haven't met this Kazuya person, but would you happen to be familiar with a man by the name of Naoya?

[otakuro]

...Yeah. I do.

[Atsuro's tone is slightly cooler as he responds, though it isn't obvious.]

He's a friend of mine - and Kazuya's cousin.

[terminally_clever]

[Fumi nods.]

We've already met. He seems to be quite knowledgeable.