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recolle2017-06-07 05:09 pm
complementing) wrote in recolle2017-06-07 05:09 pm
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open || greek fire from the sea of her soul
WHO: Minako and YOU!
WHERE: Peach Beach late at night, Birch Hills apartment complex in Apprassage
WHEN: All month, excluding certain event days
WHAT: Feeling like she's going down a path of no return, Minako tries to summon the two beings that have recently settled into the depths of her soul...and on a more lighthearted note, she also gets involved in cosplay.
WARNINGS: Hints of Persona 3 related suicide and death. For anyone tapping into the Persona threads, I will be writing Seth in prompt 2 by default, but Card is also available to write Thanatos!Ryoji if you want your character to interact with him instead, most likely as an accidental summon on Minako's part. Let us know if you'd be okay with threadjacking or even a complete three-person thread if you want to go that route. Oh, and if you'd like an Evoker thread and a Persona thread all in one, please mention that in the header too!
I. I CHOOSETH THIS FATE OF MY OWN FREE WILL
Evoker use; Peach Beach late at night
[Okay, Peach Beach at night should have less people around than Hollingberry Fields at night, right? Right. Or so Minako tells herself, staring out into the ocean with her Evoker in her hand. The scenery is all wrong, but there's definitely no way she's pulling the stunt she's about to pull anywhere in public. Nobody needs to freak out over her looking like she's about to shoot herself in the head.
Because that's exactly what it looks like, the Evoker cradled in her palms and then lifted to her temple with an audible click of its mechanisms in her right hand. Her left is clutching at her wildly beating heart, and her finger is on the trigger. Her visions tell her that this won't end in death, logic tells her it can't because the gun doesn't fire bullets. But she's almost hyperventilating anyways, so so so afraid that she's making a mistake.
But she has to know.
Do you catch her before she pulls the trigger? Or are you drawn to the area by her cry?]
PERSONA!
II. YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME...
Persona regains; Peach Beach late at night
See note about Thanatos!Ryoji under Warnings
[Or maybe it's none of the above, and you encounter her mid-summon. Her head violently jerks to the side, the sound of glass shattering, and where one would presume a bullet would escape, there's instead what looks to be glowing blue fragments, suspended in the air. The wind picks up around her in a self-contained tornado, and a figure bursts into existence behind her with a deafening roar.
Seth, the fire-breathing dragon, spreads its wings wide as it responds to Minako's voice, head thrown back to gaze on the moon that represents its Arcana before throwing all its fury and weight forward. An explosion of fire escapes from its mouth, parting the ocean water before them. And though it's right above her head, hot enough for her to feel like her skin is blistering, Minako doesn't flinch. She kneels wearily on the sand, yes, Seth snapping his jaws shut to return the fire to the furnace after a few moments, but she doesn't flinch.]
Maragidyne...sure takes a lot out of me. Was that four or five in a row?
III. CARD CAPTOR SAKUYA
Cosplay progress; Minako's apartment
[It might be that you don't even realize all of this Persona stuff is happening late at night, and instead you encounter Minako right outside her apartment on a sunny day. She'll be either practicing cosplay poses or perhaps walking around in a pretty white dress, and while how finished it looks depends on what time of the month you stop by, she'll be more than happy to show off what the end product is supposed to look like by practically sticking her phone in your face.]
It's Card Captor Sakuya! You know, the magical girl anime. Kiyomitsu-kun is helping me make it, but I'm breaking in the heels right now.
IV. WILDCARD
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WHERE: Peach Beach late at night, Birch Hills apartment complex in Apprassage
WHEN: All month, excluding certain event days
WHAT: Feeling like she's going down a path of no return, Minako tries to summon the two beings that have recently settled into the depths of her soul...and on a more lighthearted note, she also gets involved in cosplay.
WARNINGS: Hints of Persona 3 related suicide and death. For anyone tapping into the Persona threads, I will be writing Seth in prompt 2 by default, but Card is also available to write Thanatos!Ryoji if you want your character to interact with him instead, most likely as an accidental summon on Minako's part. Let us know if you'd be okay with threadjacking or even a complete three-person thread if you want to go that route. Oh, and if you'd like an Evoker thread and a Persona thread all in one, please mention that in the header too!
I. I CHOOSETH THIS FATE OF MY OWN FREE WILL
Evoker use; Peach Beach late at night
[Okay, Peach Beach at night should have less people around than Hollingberry Fields at night, right? Right. Or so Minako tells herself, staring out into the ocean with her Evoker in her hand. The scenery is all wrong, but there's definitely no way she's pulling the stunt she's about to pull anywhere in public. Nobody needs to freak out over her looking like she's about to shoot herself in the head.
Because that's exactly what it looks like, the Evoker cradled in her palms and then lifted to her temple with an audible click of its mechanisms in her right hand. Her left is clutching at her wildly beating heart, and her finger is on the trigger. Her visions tell her that this won't end in death, logic tells her it can't because the gun doesn't fire bullets. But she's almost hyperventilating anyways, so so so afraid that she's making a mistake.
But she has to know.
Do you catch her before she pulls the trigger? Or are you drawn to the area by her cry?]
PERSONA!
II. YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME...
Persona regains; Peach Beach late at night
See note about Thanatos!Ryoji under Warnings
[Or maybe it's none of the above, and you encounter her mid-summon. Her head violently jerks to the side, the sound of glass shattering, and where one would presume a bullet would escape, there's instead what looks to be glowing blue fragments, suspended in the air. The wind picks up around her in a self-contained tornado, and a figure bursts into existence behind her with a deafening roar.
Seth, the fire-breathing dragon, spreads its wings wide as it responds to Minako's voice, head thrown back to gaze on the moon that represents its Arcana before throwing all its fury and weight forward. An explosion of fire escapes from its mouth, parting the ocean water before them. And though it's right above her head, hot enough for her to feel like her skin is blistering, Minako doesn't flinch. She kneels wearily on the sand, yes, Seth snapping his jaws shut to return the fire to the furnace after a few moments, but she doesn't flinch.]
Maragidyne...sure takes a lot out of me. Was that four or five in a row?
III. CARD CAPTOR SAKUYA
Cosplay progress; Minako's apartment
[It might be that you don't even realize all of this Persona stuff is happening late at night, and instead you encounter Minako right outside her apartment on a sunny day. She'll be either practicing cosplay poses or perhaps walking around in a pretty white dress, and while how finished it looks depends on what time of the month you stop by, she'll be more than happy to show off what the end product is supposed to look like by practically sticking her phone in your face.]
It's Card Captor Sakuya! You know, the magical girl anime. Kiyomitsu-kun is helping me make it, but I'm breaking in the heels right now.
IV. WILDCARD
Throw me a starter, or find me at Plurk on
II
He's not looking for fossils tonight, though. He's just walking with his shoes in his hand, enjoying the feeling of the sand between his toes. The moon is beautiful, and there's nothing but the waves, a clear gunshot and a tornado...
Sorey jerks out of his trance sharply as a dragon appears on the beach. It appears to be protecting something, but more than that, Sorey's stunned by its magnificence and the firepower. It startles him enough that he finds himself on his rear.]
H-holy...
[When it appears to be over, he focuses on the small figure crouched on the sand. Despite everything in him telling Sorey to flee, Sorey runs toward the source of the noise and fire. He needs to make sure that person is okay, suddenly. He needs to--]
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This late at night, though? Did he have another argument with Mikleo? She hopes not.
Seth turns its head towards Sorey, staring impassively down at him as he reaches them.]
Hey, be nice or go away.
[She points accusingly at the dragon, but it's gone by the time she finishes the gesture, leaving only a low growl in its wake.]
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The dragon disappears, and Sorey is still at a loss for words.]
Minako? That was—that was you?
[He glances at the ocean, then at her again.]
Are you okay...? [It's probably a stupid question but he has to ask.]
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Yes. To both questions.
[She smiles, a thread of self-consciousness in it. Whether it's from his shock, or her own misgivings about what the hell she's doing (she just scolded a giant dragon), she doesn't even know herself.]
I knew early on that the Minako from my visions had the power to summon these fantastical creatures, but this month I guess I got those abilities too. So I was practicing, to test my limits.
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That's incredible, Minako! So the abilities we have in our visions can transfer over?
[He rubs at the back of his head.]
Now I feel dumb for interrupting. I was taking a walk after work and I thought something horrible was happening. I don't even know what I could've done to stop it, I just... reacted.
[He smiles sheepishly.]
Sorry.
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Yes, I learned spearmanship after seeing it in my visions, in fact. And there's nothing to be sorry about! I would've thought the same. That's why I wanted to practice out here where nobody was likely to find me and be alarmed.
[A pause.]
Oh, but I'm glad you did find me! I need to take it easy after exhausting all my-- um, magical power, I guess? And...it's a relief, someone else knowing.
[With each person who knows, it gets a little easier to accept.]
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Minako...
[He echoes her smile, softer.]
There's a lot happening to all of us-- a lot of stuff we just can't understand. I promise you're still Minako to me no matter what.
[He hesitates, not yet offering up what happened to him in the woods last month. So he offers something else instead.]
I actually learned swordfighting that way, too. Not just-- kendo. I remembered how to do something totally different.
Practicing's been difficult, but... maybe we could help each other?
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Of course, Sorey. I'd like that a lot. Even though I've learned spearmanship, I think I want to keep up my skills by sparring as much as possible.
[She blows a little bit of her bangs out of her eyes.]
I don't know what to do about Seth, though. I'd like to be able to practice summoning him, and even using him in a fight, but that's just way too dangerous to ask anyone to put themselves up to. [And then in a little mumble.] I wonder if I would be able to fight him...
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[His kanji is... okay, he's been slacking, but can he really be blamed with everything going on?]
So the dragon's name is Seth? That's not very... draconic. Are you sure it's not like Sethos or something?
[He's trying to brighten the mood, look at him go.]
If I thought I could defend against something like that fire I'd volunteer, but I don't think I'm that good yet.
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[Consider the mood lightened! Minako notices his effort and is more than happy to not think about the increasing frequency of her existential crises. She's not even 25 yet, geez...]
Nope, Seth! And don't worry, I'd rather not send you back to Mikleo ten times more crispy than you came to me as. I like you the way you are now, not to mention I like living, thank you very much.