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Seta Souji ⬤ Persona 4
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[chainlinks]

What about a baseball game? We could have less people on the field.

[Not only is it the most popular sport in Japan and Ren is a fan, but he's surprisingly good at batting from practising in the batting cages.]

[fridgeninja]

Baseball's good too. Or basketball.

[chainlinks]

I have a feeling that would probably end up in a bloodbath, somehow.

[Maybe they can set up the Persona Olympics. He tilts his head briefly, sinking more into the seat now that he felt a little more relaxed.]

What about you, Souji? Do you have any questions?

[fridgeninja]

How did you come up with the idea of wearing masks to keep your identity secret? We did our best to hide our weapons and be discreet, but we never thought of something like that.

[It's as gentle a way as he can find to say that their groups seem to be different in some essential ways, and he's not sure how or why that started.]

[chainlinks]

[That answered a question he had of his own at the same time.]

We didn't pick our masks or our costumes. They were a physical representation of our rebellion.

[Case closed! ...wait.]

Our weapons are fakes from a hobby shop. In the metaverse they became real because it tricked the shadows thinking they were real weapons. It made more sense when Mona explained it.

As for why I can do this here now, I'm...still not sure why I can change and transform here. Perhaps I'm a threat to this place. Perhaps we're in the Metaverse without known.

[fridgeninja]

It makes as much sense as the televisions... in that world, there's not as much difference between the way things are seen and the way they are.

[He produces his deck of Tarot cards and holds them out for examination.]

We didn't transform. We just used these... so 'the mask used to face hardship' wasn't a literal mask, for us.

pretend the card is blue the wiki doesn't have it

[chainlinks]

Maybe different places have different metaverses...Tokyo was a spiralling underground because of the stations...

[So much for relaxing as scoots closer to take a look at them. He had seen a few when Kanji and Souji had summoned but this was a complete set.]

Heh. [He's right, they were pretty literally.] I do have one card. Igor gave it to me the last time I saw him and Lavernza.

[He extends his right hand and a bluish light shines into a ball before reforming into a blue floating card.]

[fridgeninja]

[His eyes go wide and he studies the card for a long moment.]

I think... that's the same card that I used to summon Izanagi-no-Okami in his ultimate form.

It's designed a little differently, but it has the same number.

[chainlinks]

Maybe a reflection of how we are?

[Like let's be honest here, Souji's cards are beautiful but the card Ren is holding is way too extra for nothing.]

These cards remind me of the other ones too. Well, not quite the same. My cards felt like they were being a little more malicious. Maybe it's due to the fake Igor.

[fridgeninja]

Maybe.

I don't even want to think about how wrong a fake Igor could have twisted things.

[chainlinks]

Hmmm....

[He has to wonder if the 'gif' that That Igor gave him is something Souji can do...]

Do you know anything about the third eye?

[fridgeninja]

The third eye?

No... I have glasses, but that means it's either two or four.

[chainlinks]

That's not what I meant...

[He really throw his cards down for that, but Joker keeps a straight face.]

But it means you weren't given that power.

[He can breathe a little more easily since it means Souji won't be able to figure out who he right away,]

If I use it to look at you...your Arcana hovers above your head. It's exactly like mine.

[fridgeninja]

... No, it's not like that for me. If I have a Persona equipped, and I'm close to someone of that Arcana, I get a feeling we could become closer... but I don't see it.

[He deserves that. He'll pick up his cards.]

[chainlinks]

I get that feeling too...maybe it's a power of the wildcard. The Fake Igor told me to nurture my Confidant links but I guess he never realized that helping me would be his own downfall instead of mine.

[fridgeninja]

It's pretty incredible what having the right friends can do.

[That wins a wide, genuine smile from him, the most expressive his face has been so far.]

[chainlinks]

[Smiles are pretty contagious. Being who he is, he'll tease him anyway.]

So you can smile. Maybe I should take a picture for blackmailing purposes later.

[fridgeninja]

[The smile takes on just the slightest edge.]

I don't mind anyone knowing a smile. So, you'll have to try harder than that.

[He can tease back, too.]

[chainlinks]

[Oh now this he likes. It's like having another rival, but this one probably doesn't want to kill him.]

I wasn't even trying. Besides, I don't blackmail, I steal hearts.

[fridgeninja]

Good luck. I don't keep mine locked up.

[It's teasing, but the most earnest-faced teasing imaginable.]

[chainlinks]

It's true. You're quite open in those matters from what I've seen so far.

[See, he'll give you that, at least. Maybe they should move on to more serious things.]

When Izanami caused problems...you said she picked three people. Do you think...they would have done the things they did without being given a power? Or if you had met them earlier?

[TOTALLY NOT SPECIFIC.]

[fridgeninja]

[That's... deep. He sits back, and sighs heavily, thinking seriously about it. The silence while he considers might be long enough to become uncomfortable, but he's clearly taking this question as absolutely serious as it was.]

For Namatame-san... it's hard to say. He wouldn't have started behaving that way if nothing had gone wrong... but if something else as bad had happened, and Personas weren't involved... he might have cracked anyway. I don't think I know.

[His lips twitch, and slowly a frown steals over his features - a look not so much of disapproval as deep discomfort.]

For the killer... if he'd made better friends, earlier, he might have changed. He was... a lot like me.

[It's clear from the way the muscles in his neck and haw tighten that he hates to admit that... but he won't lie about it.]

But by the time I knew him... before he did something like that, it was only a matter of time. When he killed Yamano-san, I don't think he knew he had this power. He was just doing whatever he wanted.

[chainlinks]

[A lot like him. Somehow the story seems to repeat. Maybe that's why the gods picked them...the ability to pit two people that were the same and whose situation could have been reversed. What if he had accepted Yaldabaoth's offer?]

My rival and I. We were the same age. He had...worked countless years towards a goal of revenge. The powers he was given allowed him to kill people, and he used that to get close to his target - intending to bring him to his dreams before shattering them.

[It's not a pretty story.]

We defeated him, but it took all of us against him...he was that powerful. He had the ability of the wildcard like me, and could shut down someone's heart to make shadows go berserk, but because he was alone and kept his heart shut, he only had two Personas...

...in the end he sacrificed himself to save us. He told me...if we had met earlier maybe we could have been proper rivals and friends. But he was already drowned in darkness, there was nothing we could do to save him.

[fridgeninja]

I understand.

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I understand.

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Since I didn't know him, it's hard to be sure. But it sounds like, the way things ended... you made a difference to him. It might not feel like enough, but it was enough for him to save you.

The killer I knew never found even a second Persona.

[chainlinks]

His first Persona and outfit was a ruse, nothing but fakes hiding his real identity from us. But despite all he did, we all understood partly why he had acted in this way. I might not be able to forgive him, but I understand.

Giving someone who had so much pain in his heart that much power...I'm more angry at Yaldabaoth for presenting him with that opportunity. Of course he'd take it.

[His frustration edges with each word.]

When it was all done, when we stole Mementos' treasure...no one else seemed to care or remember him.