Minato | Souji | Akira | 097

[messianic]

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[sworders]

[ Oh. Well, better to be cornered out of the bathroom than inside of it, probably, and Souji doesn't look all that surprised that this is happening.

Granted, he'd met his best friend rolling around shrieking in a trash can, so he's used to all sorts of encounters by now. ]

It's fine. [ He's also very chill. ] Did you need me for something, Akira?

[purrtagonist]

[present: canned coffee!! at least he's decent enough to remember to bring a gift]

I found a drink and food vending machine a few platforms down. Want to take a walk with me?

[sworders]

Well, now that you've bought my company--

[ Hello, canned coffee. ]

Sure, I'd like that.

[purrtagonist]

Bribe successful.

[Akira says blandly beofre he does a little fist pump]

It doesn't really matter where we go; there isn't much to see in any direction.

[sworders]

Just train station and more station.

That's fine, it's the moving that's important.

[purrtagonist]

Gotta keep that blood in our legs moving.

[Akira says a bit blandly. and with that, he turns on his heel and starts walking in some random direction. his hands dip into his pockets on instinct]

Mmm. So. . .

[well, he may as well be blunt]

Izanagi-no-Okami, is it?

[sworders]

[ A quietly quirked eyebrow. ]

Yes.

[ Simply that. ]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . oh. well, that was easy enough]

Don't look at me like that, I was just curious.

[so suspicious!!]

I was asking about it because I've never seen a Persona like that before.

[sworders]

I can't say I've seen anything like yours either. Izanagi-no-Okami... is something like the evolved form of my original Persona. He changed in the last fight I had.

[purrtagonist]

Just like Satanael.

[and just like everyone else’s Personas, even though theirs evolved long before the final fight]

What was it before?

[sworders]

Izanagi. He was a lot more... black and silver.

[purrtagonist]

[. . .]

What’s the difference? Other than color scheme.

[sworders]

Moveset, different weapon...

It's a little hard to explain, but I feel I was walking towards him all along and he was just waiting for me to realize it.

[purrtagonist]

[ah. . . well. Akira's expression turns thoughtful at that, even as he affixes his gaze on the pathway ahead of them]

. . . I think I get it.

[the one thing Akira super studied up upon after becoming a wild card: MYTHOLOGY!!!]

Izanagi. . . the creation god who traversed the land of Yomi-no-kuni to retrieve his wife, only to find her return impossible. He then betrayed his promise not to look at her, and gazed upon her rotted form. In her rage, Izanami threatened to kill one thousand of his people every day. Izanagi countered by promising to that one thousand and five hundred would be born every day.

But it wasn't until after he returned from Yomi that Izanagi decided to remove all uncleanliness from his body by bathing in the river Ahakihara in Tachibana no Ono in Tsukushi.

So maybe it's something like that?

[he's trying real hard to make sense out of this symbolism, bare with him]

[sworders]

...

You've done your research.

[ damn, Akira. He's impressed. ]

[purrtagonist]

[he lifts a hand, tapping his temple with two fingers]

Considering what we have up here, didn't you?

[sworders]

Of course.

Yours was one I didn't know, though.

[purrtagonist]

[ppppauses]

[but then he answers, casually but honestly]

Satanael. The fallen angel that rebelled against god-- Yaldabaoth-- granting humanity the knowledge and power to liberate themselves from him. Satan, Lucifer, the devil, and so on and so forth.

[he sounds so nonchalant as he says this]

[sworders]

... Mm.

Yeah, that seems like it'd suit you.

[ Souji, you've known the guy for less than a day. ]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . snort. . .]

You say that with such confidence already, and we've only just met.

[sworders]

It's just a hunch. Technically, you've already given the both of us knowledge to make ourselves stronger that we didn't have before.

[purrtagonist]

[stuffs his hands into his pockets and shrugs]

I didn't realize your Shadows were so. . . different, I guess. I've never known them to be any other way.

[sworders]

I've never had my clothes change like yours, either.

Maybe it's not just the Journey that's different, but the obstacles themselves...

[purrtagonist]

[. . . maybe. . .]

My clothes change to protect me from the distortions of the Palaces we enter. It's a manifestation of my "will of rebellion."

[in case Souji was wondering if he really was a thief or not, you know]

I think you're right about the obstacles being different, though. All three of us have different summoning methods. You noticed, right?

[sworders]

Yeah, I did-- I think that's important. And the only thing different about what I wear is...

... Well, I don't think it'll be too important here. I might not need it at all.