breaks_destiny | 018th Shattering * Audio / Action

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018th Shattering * Audio / Action

[Filtered to Shiki || 100% Unhackable]

Shiki... You have known Minato for a long while, right? Can... Can we talk in private about something?

[What is he doing? What is he doing? But Shiki's the only one he can think of to ask to... Will it serve for anything? He's not sure. He doesn't know but... He needs to talk with someone and he can only think of her right now.]

[Filtered to Hughes & Adell || 100% Unhackable]

Sorry to bother you both but, can I talk with you? There's been something in my mind lately and I would like your opinions on the matter.

[Adell because he has been here for longer and is the leader of the Blue Rogues. Hughes because he trusts the man's opinion and is an adult and the closest thing to his father he has here. Right now, Keiichi would love to be able to have his father around to ask him.]

[Filtered from Minato Arisato & Haruhi Suzumiya || 50% Unhackable]

[This is a filter he fails with, he doesn't want to hide from Minato but... He really can't bring himself to face him now. So he tries to do a filter and ends doing a shitty job because he can't concentrate on it. Haruhi... Gets added only because of the subject he's going to bring up.]

So, New Feathers, are you guys settling in? Anyone needs help with anything? My name's Keiichi Maebara and if I can I wouldn't mind to help you guys. I hope you're not having too much of a rough time getting used to this place.

For the rest, anyone planning anything for White Day? Or did the experiment screw up with the will to do anything about it?

[Once he sets off the messages, Keiichi will take up to wander around the village. He hasn't dropped by Minato's house since he met Junpei yesterday, he just doesn't know how to look at Minato so he has chosen to avoid him for a bit. He will dedicate his day to visit the flowershop, remembering that girl turned into an airship from the experiment back in January, it has been a while since it happened but... February was too chaotic for him to remember that he wanted to check on her. He will also drop by the Welcome Center to help anyone who may need it there. And the library.

Other than that he may get caught almost anywhere in the village.]

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[right.] After the pieces came together, he regained his power and left... but because he'd been with me, he has a human personality and emotions.

[He nods again.]

And he transferred to your school while having that form... What for?

[well that he.... doesn't really know for certain but]

He wanted to live as a human for a while. Because once he remembered his purpose, he knew the world was ending.

For a while... But Junpei said that it was fine at your world.

[So the world didn't end.]

It is now. But then, Ryoji gave us a choice. We could kill him, forget everything about the Dark Hour, and last a little bit longer before Nyx arrived, or we could try and fight her even though it was impossible to win.

What the... What a stupid choice! Who would ever pick the first option?! I mean, even if he didn't have a human personality and emotions... That would be the easy and coward route! Just forget about it and dwell into ignorance? Who would ever seriously want that? Besides, you never know if something is possible or not until you try it, if one just sits and waits it's obvious that destiny won't be changed but if one fights it, it can be shattered no matter what.

Did he really give you that choice?

[Was he an idiot or what?]

He thought it would be easier for us not to wait and be afraid. Of course... we chose to fight.

[you should know this mentality, Keiichi. It's not that different from Hanyuu's...]

[But still, Hanyuu at first tried to fix things... Or at least that's how he believes the world traveling thing started and not just because she was alone and didn't want to be alone again.]

Easier, yeah, it would, but that doesn't mean it's right. Bad things are always easier to do than the good ones.

He wasn't wrong though. When we got there, it was basically hopeless. We beat the first round but Nyx herself was too much.

Maybe it's not wrong, but... I just can't accept sitting and wait being a choice, even if one has no memories. I never did that, even if many times I chose the wrong way to try to fix things or missed the point completely...

[He shakes his head. He can't accept such a mentality even if he kind of understands where it comes from and all. He just can't accept it as the right one.]

I agree with you, Keiichi. That's why we fought... And that's why a 'miracle' happened.

[...well to explain this he has to backtrack some] My Persona ability is a little different from most people's.

[Well, you're pretty unique yourself, Minato.]

How so?

Most people have one Persona, but I can have lots. Minako is like that, too. When I got my power, I entered a place called the Velvet Room, which is... [...how does he even explain it.] It's something like inside the collective human unconscious. At least, that's what I think.

And entering there allowed you to be able to have more than one Persona? No, wait, you gained your power and then entered there, so entrance was dependent on your power...

[Don't mind Keiichi, he's just making sure he follows you.]

Yeah. [and here's the part he never tells anyone, but... Keiichi probably deserves to hear now.] I was also able to make 'social links...' By building friendships with people, I could boost the power of my Personas.

[Keiichi just smiles.]

The bonds of connected hearts strengthen the Personas then, not just the person who uses them?

Exactly. [he's glad you caught on so quickly, Keiichi] So I was able to use that power to face Nyx at the end.

[Another nod.]

Yeah, that should be the power to break destiny and anything similar. Makes sense.

[What doesn't add is you dying...]

[honestly, the 'power of friendship' sounds more like something from an anime.... but Minato won't comment there. It had worked, that was what counted.]

That power let me understand the real problem. It's not that Nyx wants to kill humanity. Humans themselves are calling her back... [...]

Deep down, many people find death comforting, or think it might be easier. It's those feelings that called Nyx here.

[Or from a video-game. And it was you who brought it up, Minato or are you saying that your social links aren't your friends?]

... Yeah... Sometimes it seems easier to just die and rest then, right?

[He had thought that for a moment back then, it was mostly syndrome induced, he really doesn't think that, no matter what. On the contrary he really is set to live and survive. But still, he can understand that.]

But... Then how did you fix it? Even if you defeated her, if humanity keeps calling her down... Even if you spend your whole life fighting her, eventually it may not be enough...

[Of course they are. But it had never been as clear-cut as it is in fiction.]

I made a seal, between us and Nyx. That way... She won't ever be touched again.

[...]

You made a seal... You used yourself for it, right?

[He nods. So... there you have it Keiichi, basically the whole story. And he's talked more today than he has in the past several months...]

So you're not dead. You're sealed, between that Nyx and humanity.

[That's... Honestly he hopes that the seal doesn't work the way he has in mind but... Junpei said there was a funeral, so there was a body. But the seal is in place, right? Keeping those two apart, something has to be there for it.

He hopes he's wrong. Really, even if Minato's just dead he could fool himself to believe in an afterlife and see him there after all, right?

Keiichi doesn't really wait for an answer, he'll crawl to Minato and ~~cling to~~ lean against him.]

[he doesn't really know how to react to you leaning on him....] ...I'm still dead.

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