HeroofFire101 (Guest)
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Jun 201901:03AM UTC
And Minako's the only person who can see him. How that's going to go with what I have planned for Yukari is not going to go well if he's watching out for his sister occasionally if Minako says anything about seeing him, mainly because his death very shook her up. Let's just say that Minato loved Yukari because I actually like that pairing and before fighting Nyx they were idiots, as Shinjiro would say. At least Minako's idiocy was actually planned idiocy and she was willing to give up her apparent social status to save her own life and give her a reason to live, as well as not hurting Akihiko because she really loves him. This is how I'm not giving away the spoilers I have for them and I'm going to stick with that.
Well, if we go off the theory that the Inaba Fog is a 50 years or so thing, and Minako's grandmother was around during then, and that's how her grandmother and Grandfather Shirogane met, then Minako knows the stories through her mother and Grandfather, and her Tarot card readings show that a mystery is about to happen, and then drifts into the Velvet room, Yu's Velvet room, however in the passenger seat of the limo next to Theo, she notices Yu, Igor (who she treats as a creepy looking but actually fun uncle/grandpa figure, seeing how she's been a part of the Velvet Room since she was 6), and Margaret, who she trusts a lot more than Elizabeth, and the reading Igor does. She does end up in Inaba the next day, and runs into Izanami in her gas station attendant form with *SPOILER* and recognizes her. She's growls at her and tells her not to mess with her family, because if she does, then she will go full on Mama Dragon on her.
"Don't underestimate me. I have Astogoroth. I am Lucifer's Descendant. I faced Death and I laughed. I am Bahamaut. I am Tiamaut. I am the Lady of Dragons. You will NOT mess with my family. This is not my game. This is his game, the new Wild Card's game. I'll give them advice and help, but they are the players. Not me. I'm going to do what the Mikage-cho and Sumaru City Persona users did for me. Guide them as best as I'm allowed. I have no idea what you're playing, but do NOT drag my family into your game." Minako growls to the gray-haired goddess, showing her dragon-sharp teeth.
As another *SPOILER* happens for Minako and her *SPOILER* gets bigger, afterwards she does get more involved, but doesn't interfer with the main story. She does, however, notify Mitsuru that a child is now involved and is in great danger. A child in danger sets Minako off, as she loves children and wants to protect them. It's kind of hard to explain what I want to happen, but she's a psychology student doing online classes because her third year she does online classes along with being in Gekkoukan because she's that smart and accelerated, with an interest of musical therapy because Maki Sonomura was a big impact on her mental well being of her childhood. Minako doesn't fight any of the shadow bosses except for Naoto because that's her family, and she said "Don't mess with my family." And she knew of Naoto's struggles. She then explains to Naoto the full truth of what happened to her twin, and what his sacrifice did for all of them, as Naoto has been pushing Minako and SEES about what happened to Minato since his death. Minako did hint to what happened during Yasogami's school trip, having gotten permission from the teachers to be responsible for her cousin (i.e, Minako had Mitsuru do it) and prevented Naoto from being in the Love Hotel. (She wants to hurt the person who had the students stay in THAT Love Hotel, and Minako really wants to wreck that hotel again.)
Minako: "So...what really happened to Aniki was that he gave up his soul and life to create a seal to prevent an abomination from reuniting with their wife."
Naoto: "...What? Are you serious?"
Minako, sighing: "...Yes. And this is the Harbringer." *Pulls out her Evoker, points it to her head* "THANATOS!!"
Thanatos: ROARS
Minako: "Don't worry, I can control him. He's just a leftover from the crash and the Dark Hour."
Naoto: *eyes are bugged out, in disbelief*
Minako: "Trust me, it's a long story. First of all, I've been an user since I was 6, and my Arcana is the Fool."
Igor: Welcome back to the Velvet Room, friend. It's been a long while.
Minako: Oh shit, is that Marge?
Margaret: I would prefer you use my full name, but yes.
Minako: Oh thank god! No offense to your siblings or anything, but this new guy should be real thankful you're attending him instead of them.
Yu: ...Do I want to know?
Igor: Let's just say, there are some truths even a truth seeker should leave buried.
*later*
Izanami in Disguise: Hey there, you new in town?
Minako: *death stare*
Oh yeah, I heard the motel was a scene for one of the Arcana Shadows. Is that right? Wild guess says that, since it's a Love Motel, the Shadow was the Lovers? That whole trip was definitely a love letter to P3 fans.
Izanagi: …
Orpheus: …
Izanagi: ...I like your lyre. Is it custom made?
Orpheus: *nods*
Minako: Dude, is your Persona hitting on my Persona?
HeroofFire101 (Guest)
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Mon 17
Jun 201903:08AM UTC
She doesn't interact with Yu in the Velvet Room because she knows the rules. And she does call Margaret by her full name. She absolutely respects all of them, and knows better. And she's in the front seat next to Theo, who is driving the limo. She cannot interact with Yu inside of the Velvet Room. She can only give advice outside of the Room. She's never cheeky in the Velvet Room. The only reason why she was allowed in her brother's Velvet Room was because she was just following him on his Journey. Her Journey connected with his Journey, Minako finding out her answer on November 3rd/4th. The day when Mitsuru's perceived purpose shattered right in front of her eyes, the whole entire reason she awakened a Persona in the first place, the reason she fights. Her Father's death.
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Minako, quietly: "Theo, is that...the next Wild Card? The next contractor?"
Theodore: "Yes, Mistress Minako. He shall be Margaret's guest. Fitting for the Truth-seeker, correct?"
Minako: "May his Persona and common sense help him with her. She is terrifying, and she's not even my attendant. At least she's easier to deal with than Elizabeth. And Truth-seeker? Like my title is the Lady of Dragons? Will he...seek the Truth like I did in my Journey?"
Theodore: "Yes, while I am scared of Margaret, she is easier to deal with than Elizabeth. And yes, Mistress Minako, he will seek a Truth like you did, but not in the way you did. He is a player in another game, and we will guide him as much as we can."
Minako: "Is that why I've been drawn here as well? To guide him outside of here?"
Theodore: "Of course. Master Igor is allowing you to do what Nameless's, Belladonna's, and Demon Painter's guests did for you. To guide them when he cannot, in a more direct matter. I would suggest that you teach them how to control and how to fight."
Minako: "But....my circumstances this time..."
Theodore: "Master Igor already did a reading for you. They will be okay. They are not threatened at all by this game and the fog of Lies."
Minako: "Oh thank Philemon."
--
Yes, it's that Love Hotel. Hierophant and Lovers. Kickstarts Minako to reveal her feelings to Akihiko and gets together with him (finally!).
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Minako doesn't have Orpheus/Eurdyice. Kharendaen, remember?
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Izanagi: *hits on Kharendaen*
Minako and Kharendaen: *stares deadpan at him*
Minako: "Do I even look like I'm single? I have a boyfriend slash husband who is an idiot and I love him with all my heart." *points to SPOILERS*
Yu: "...Oh."
Izanagi: "Well this was a mistake."
*SPOILER*: *laughs, smiling*
Minato's ghost/spirit thing: "That's what you get for hitting on my sister."
Minako: "Aniki, shut up."
--
I don't want to give up my spoilers for how Minako manages to live. She gets it on the same day she gains her World and gets Bahamaut (World) and Tiamaut (Hunger), because with her, Minako is Neutral and requires both the Lawful Dragon and the Chaos Dragon. Astogoroth is the true Neutral Dragon God, the sire of both Bahamaut and Tiamaut, and Astogoroth is of the Universe Arcana, but she can only hold it in extreme situations, and the fusion is temporary. Minako is the only Wild Card who can learn to do hands-on Fusion, as she has the magics required, and fusing takes a lot out of her in the Real World/Dark Hour. So much so that she cannot do it multiple times. She has to prepare for it outside of the Velvet Room. Margaret taught her how, because she has the amplitude for the hard process that normal magic users cannot do. How else was Minako get Neko Shogun the P4 fusion way and Alice through Nebrios and Belial. She has a more P4 compendium, with Titania as the Empress Arcana, not the Lovers Arcana like in P3. However, Minato has the P3 Arcana assignments, like Pixie being Lovers not Magician.
Teaching some of these kids to fight... Now there's a tall order.
Kanji: What? What'm I doin' wrong?
Minako: Your form! You're going to throw your back out swinging a shield like that!
Kanji: As long as the other guy goes down first, I'm good. Right?
Minako: Ugh... Where's Aki when you need him?
Yosuke: I feel your pain.
Chie: Didn't you flip your knife around and grab the sharp end?
Yu: He feels many pains.
Ah, right, her original Persona is the dragon. My bad, lots on my mind. I can only imagine how bad that went for Izanagi.
Yu: I have only middling control over him. Blame the god, not the man. Do not punch me.
Izanagi: I was only complimenting her scales! I meant nothing by it!
Teddie: Oh my sweet summer child, how much you have to learn.
Mother Harlot: Dearie me, this remind me of the Summer of 1319...
Also, I now have to quote TFS. It's in my contract.
Minako: I'm not crazy! YOU'RE crazy! Especially you, Minato!
Ghost Minato: Ay.
Different people having different compendiums could be an interesting plot point. Everyone sees the world from a slightly different angle, after all. And then there's the theory of Yaldabaoth meddling with the contents of the compendium in P5. That's actually where I got the idea for Arsene being...
Oh boy, I bet most of the P5 happenings were a headache for her, between the Velvet Room being hijacked and the new Wild Card being a spicy crime boy. Refresh my memory, but didn't you also make her related to... Makoto, was it? Or was it Yusuke? Still, until they joined up, finding the original crew would be a nightmare.
Minako: Okay, seriously. You would think Persona users this nuts would stick out more... Where are they?
Akira: *laughs in hidden*
Minako: And why does everywhere in Tokyo smell like coffee now?
Akira: '...Shit, am I being tracked by a bloodhound? And THERE'S miss president again, I am suddenly very popular.'
HeroofFire101 (Guest)
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Jun 201901:11PM UTC
Minako: *looks over to Kanji* "Aki is not going to be helpful at all. Shinji would be better."
Minako: *turns to Yosuke* "I know how to help with knives. I have a collection of various knives. I sometimes carve wood figurines of demons and Personas."
Yosuke: *deadpan stare* "What..? How do you have a knife collection, Minako-Senpai?"
Minako: "Okay, Dragons have hoards and I've been a user for uhh...13 years. Having a Persona for years has an affect on you. You...develop certain habits from your Persona, and in some cases it does start affecting you after several months of having one. And you don't even realize it until someone calls you out for it. The knife collection is incidental because one of my Persona Mentors is a Knife Salesman and of the Death Arcana...and every few weeks to months when I lived in the dorm he came to check up on me."
Yukiko: *starts laughing*
Minako: "Yes, I am a sharp weapon nut. Kido-san did not help with that at all."
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Minako: "Somehow I can see my brother's spirit, even though he's dead and used his soul and life to seal up Nyx's body and prevent her husband from meeting up with her. I don't even want to tell Yukari because the night before we went to fight Nyx they were idiots and now I'm an aunt."
Minato spirit: "I don't regret it, though. But you were an idiot first."
Minako: "WELL AT LEAST THAT IT WAS INTENTIONAL!"
Mother Harlot: "Oh sometimes, sweetie, I love watching your interactions."
Minako: "Don't remind me."
Yu: "...Do I want to know?"
Minako: "It's better if you don't. I had to deal with demons since I was an tiny kid, younger than Nanako-chan. I'm used to it."
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My idea for the events of P5: Minako has been aware of what happened to the Velvet Room, as it was taken over two years previously, before Futaba's mother was killed. Minako always suffered from unconsciously gaining new Personas, thus the cause of her snapping to the Velvet Room right after her awakening. The Velvet Room residents make sure that these unwanted Persona are removed, and when Yaldaboath took over, Minako had to figure out how to shut off her unconscious absorption of new Personas and has hurt herself over the past two years, having a hard time removing them herself. It takes her about two days of extreme concentration to get them out and keep her preferred set in her head.
I have it that Minako met with Wabaka before because she visited Tokyo before on several occasions and met Futaba as well, and got Wabaka in contact with Mitsuru after she took over the Kijiro Group. When Wabaka was killed, Mitsuru managed to make Minako Futaba's social worker, and Minako got her to Sojiro, but not before Futaba was placed with her Uncle. Minako knows that something's wrong with Futaba after that, but struggles with getting her to open up. Minako incidentally lives in Tokyo with Akihiko, who is a Police Officer not corrupted and married to him with three children, their son and twin son and daughter, because the Magic Council knows that something is wrong with Tokyo itself and assigned Minako to fix it, but she cannot at all, as she is bound by the rules of the Velvet Room and Philemon. Through everyday interactions before the main P5 story happens, Minako meets with Ryuji and Ann by accident, and creates a connection to them because of her knowing that they have the potential. Minako is a full therapist by then, and after Ryuji's incident with Kamoshida, Minako becomes his therapist and introduces him to music. She understands that what happened was wrong of Kamoshida, and through personal recollection of meeting him once before and not liking him in the slightest, she starts investigating him, leading to Mitsuru managing to place Minako into Shujin as a guidance counselor and social worker because of Akira. Then she acts as the Phantom Thieves guidance like she did with the Investigation Team, though less hands on.
Also, it's Makoto through marriage to Akihiko, and Yusuke by blood. Minako had some interaction with the Nijiimas through Akihiko and does not like how Sae has become, and tries to be there for Makoto.
You know, I said the Minato ghost thing as a joke, but I think I have a good plot reason as to why he would be lingering around. It's to keep Minako and company in the know if something happened to the seal. It's shown in the Answer, if I recall correctly, that Erebus is constantly trying to break out of its space and contact Nyx again. The seal stops it from doing that, but anyone could tell you that any shield could eventually break. If that happens, Minato would want everyone to know so they could prepare for the second coming of Nyx. If Minako finds his ghost suddenly, suspiciously gone, then she would know what's about to happen.
The two year timing for the Velvet Room swipe also lines up with Akechi's backstory. It was said that he's had two years of working with Shido, and it's implied that Yaldabaoth is pulling strings in the background that let him awaken in the first place. He would need the connective nature of the Velvet Room to do it.
That said, I'm not hugely certain of having Minako in contact with the original Thieves from the get go. It sort of waters down their rebellion angle if they have outside connections guiding them as they formed. It's less rebellion from the status quo at that point and more choosing an already established, if somewhat passive, side in an ongoing conflict. It would be weakening their themes in exchange for those around Minako.
You could still keep most of your base points here, though, with a few twists. Keep in mind, this is just a bit of idea spit-balling on my end, so take my gripes as you will.
So, first off, having Minako infiltrate Tokyo to hunt down the Yaldabaoth conspiracy and, thus, the Shido conspiracy, could still hold. Wakaba could be her informant on the cognition aspects going on in Tokyo up until her death, and she could still form a relationship with Futaba while seeing her potential.
It's from here that I would start throwing in twists. If you look at how all of the other Thieves besides Futaba gained a Persona, it's drastically different from every other form of awakening. They gained it through a contract with their own internalized, suppressed rage, their Shadow. Where the IT could sooth and tame their other selves, the Thieves effectively fused with their Shadows in a moment of desperation.
It's so drastically different, that it could, at first, fly under Minako's radar due to how similar their potential is to the general public in that everyone has a Shadow that can slowly leak into their real world identity. It would be more noticeable, though, after their rage turned into a Persona, giving her one thread to follow after everything kicks off.
How would she be at Shujin to find that thread in the first place? Simple. Principal Kobayakawa is in on the conspiracy. Minako could find something connecting him to shady activity and infiltrate the school as a councilor to keep an eye on him. From there, she could try to help Ryuji and Akira as a councilor, but without knowing, at first, that they're about to become the Phantom Thieves.
Once they do, though, she'll hear the Personas. She'll also get clued into Ann's awakening and have an excuse, in her witnessing a friend's attempted suicide, to draft her into counseling. She would also start hearing Morgana's presence the same way, though she might at first think he's under a similar circumstance as Koromaru, a normal animal that formed a Persona. That means he could use his human-level intelligence, conditional speaking rules, and craftiness to work around her in ways she wouldn't expect, like, say, going through her notes and reporting on them if he sees something suspicious.
However, as they've already formed and agreed on secrecy, the Thieves would still be secretive about their activities. This would create an evolving state of relation between her and them, with only Makoto's trust in her as a family member giving her a way in, if she played her cards correctly.
The extra texture to her relationship with the Thieves, giving it a changing state, would make the storyline more interesting and maintain the Thieves' rogue characteristics. What do you think, though? You're the writer here, so your call is what matters.
HeroofFire101 (Guest)
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Jun 201909:39PM UTC
That could work. And the first time Minato appears to Minako is after the events of the Answer, and then, once she deals with the implications of her seeing him, berates him for making her an aunt. Minato would call her out that she did it first. Minako, afterwards, keeps the secret that she can see her brother away from most of SEES because she knows that it would make Yukari cry again unless certain circumstances happen, like something was wrong with the Seal. Because her fate is to live longer than everyone else, she takes it upon herself to make sure that the Seal is protected. (Yes I took a while to answer because I wanted to think about it).
Actually, one of the original plans was that Minako knows that they are Persona users, and knows that they were behind Kamoshida while being the guidance cousellor/social worker, however doesn't know how they awaken until she and Mitsuru managed to follow the Thieves into Kanashiro's palace and watched as Makoto awakened her Persona, prompting them to help them get out. Minako asked Makoto not to be too reckless, and told her that what the Principal asked of her wasn't right at all. And she didn't want to go to Tokyo because of bad memories and her Grandmother Arisato, but was forced there because Akihiko was transferred there under then insistence of Makoto's and Sae's father 3 1/2 years before P5 starts, in 2012-2013. And Minako's handwriting sucks and hard to read, and she struggles with writing essays, thus the reason why she has Mitsuru edit her papers because she absolutely sucks at formal papers. How she's the highest scoring student is a myster unto itself. She hates Edoka and doesn't understand half of what he's saying/teaching, so she always asks Mitsuru to tutor her because she doesn't understand. I should know, I have issues with English Language Arts. Math and Science I understand, English, I do not.
I put in an event that takes place during 2009 that takes place before the Culture Festival that was a Gekkoukan Sports Showcase that was set up behind all of their backs, including Mitsuru's, and all the members of SEES who were in a sports team were forced to participate, Minako and Akihiko being the stars of it all, however against their wil. Minako's in the Volleyball team, and Minato's in the Track Team because I like it better. Shiho was one of the visitors with her parents, wanting to see Minako in action, as Minako's slightly famous as Hikari Arisato/Shirogane's daughter, who was Gekkoukan's star volleyball player and Minako inherited her talents, being one of the Gekkoukan's star players next to Rio Iwasaki, her Chariot social link, which is almost completed, as Minato completed Kenji's link beforehand. Minako gave some inspiring words to young child Shiho, and went off after the Volleyball exhibition to find Minato. Somehow, little Ryuji is there as well, watching the Track team, and Minako senses the potential in him, however it was growing still. She also gives some inspiring words to Ryuji, and then goes to find her boyfriend, in an exhibition match, showing how Gekkoukan is great at athletics as well as education. Three of the top students in the school, two of them being the highly skilled athletes in their respective sports. Excellence in education AND athletics is what Itusuki-bastard wants to promote for Gekkoukan, as well as a "distraction" for the SEES members, including Minako, much to her ire and hatred of the man. Even went all the way to getting a certain TV network, who Minako's and Minato's Grandmother is the CEO for, to film this event. Grandfather Shirogane and their mother went under her nose with getting Minato out of his "Special" School and reuniting him with Minako. Both the twins hate her for what she's done to them. When Minako, Akihiko, and Mitsuru were summoned to the school before school session resumed, they were surprised with the announcement, and everyone else thought that they knew at all until all three of them shouted "WHAT?!?!?" And right before Itusuki left, he dropped the bomb that the certain TV network was coming to film it, causing Minako to snap and requiring both Akihiko and Mitsuru to restrain her from killing Itusuki. She really hates the man.
Hoo boy, I could see some drama happening if the seal ever did break. That would leave Minako in the position of both explaining that Nyx is coming back and how she knows it. That kind of double trouble would be stressful to both her and Yukari. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, though. This is the kind of drama naturally arising from character behaviors that could make something wonderfully sad happen.
Okay, I just had an idea for a one-off interaction that probably wouldn't happen, realistically speaking, but is nevertheless fun to think about. So, Thieves don't quite trust Minako in that they can tell she knows more than she lets on. Plus, they could assume that, as the school councilor, she would be implicit in covering up Kamoshida's abuse.
What they wouldn't know, though, is that the coverup was done elsewhere. As in, Minako did report every abuse she heard about, but, as those reports had to go through Principal No-Chin, they were effectively binned behind her back. Still, it would give the Thieves at that stage a reason to be suspicious of her. (For the record, you could totally repurpose a lot of this buildup for your story if you wanted to. We're getting to the somewhat unrealistic-but-cool stuff next.)
So, take that scenario of distrust, then somehow have Minako follow them into the Metaverse. They would instinctively scatter, as a thief would, except for Akira, who felt something was off enough to face her head-on. She would try to explain herself by summoning her Persona, showing that she's on the same wavelength.
What she wouldn't know, though, if this was after Yusuke's recruitment, is that the team is already on high-alert for Black Mask thanks to Madarame mentioning another Persona user in his Palace. Akira would reasonably guess her to be a suspect, and accuse her of such. He would be worked up into a cold lather, and Minako, seeing this, decides it would be best to put her overwhelming experience to use. She thinks she could overpower him, then use that position to show that she means no ill-will and actually have a conversation.
Fight, start. (Yes, this was all building to a mock fight scenario I think is cool. I have to indulge in goofiness myself every now and then.) Akira would start with a smoke bomb to recover the element of surprise. Minako would hear a loud shattering sound, then find herself attacked by a Persona, maybe Arsene. By the time the smoke cleared, Arsene's attack run would be over, meaning that she didn't see how Akira's mask played into the summoning. She would then see his pistol and deduce, wrongly, that it's something like an Evoker, and that it firing was the cracking she heard.
This would tilt her focus towards disarming him. No Evoker, no Persona, or so she thinks. She could accomplish it with her own Persona, using it to knock the gun out of his hand and take it for herself. She would then use it as leverage, saying that she knows she took his means of summoning and telling him to surrender.
Akira, in little shit fashion, would just smirk and pop another smoke bomb. There would be another shattering sound, and, low and behold, Arsene is back. Not an Evoker, woops!
Her second guess would be a card, which she can't steal. Instead, after the second smoke attack, she would rush in and try to bind Akira's hands. Succeeding in this, she would try to get him to surrender again, both because he can't use his card and he can't attack directly. She would be confident that any flailing he did wouldn't be strong enough to knock her off balance, because experience.
To this, Akira would just smirk again and headbutt. Hard. This is where she learns about how their bodily strength is supplemented by their powers in the Metaverse. She would think it to be the main attack, until his mask shattered against her from the blow, summoning Arsene, this time in close quarters. Now, it's her hands that are occupied with holding Akira down, giving Arsene a chance to strike without Minako's guard up.
Then... well, that's all I really have, a showcase of Akira using trickery to overcome the raw power and combat experience gap. Realistic? No. Cool? Yeah, and maybe you could repurpose bits of it.
HeroofFire101 (Guest)
on Chapter 41
Wed 19
Jun 201901:24AM UTC
My version of this fight: Minako would plead with them, saying that she's just searching for the truth. She already has unnatural strength, and as a side effect of being a dragon, her bones would be lighter than normal humans, allowing her to do highly skilled to impossible gymnastics while outside of the Metaverse, because Dragons, while being bulky, have wings. She has a more lithe build for her size, being taller than what her wiki says she is, and she's been trained to fight for years because of the Dark Hour. While she normally uses a Naginata, she's absolutely deadly with a sword in her left hand. Mitsuru knows this, as sometimes they spar. And because of her high magic skills being a Magus as well as a Persona and Demon Summoner, and knowing how cognition works thanks to Wabaka, she can twist Mementos to be a landscape of the Dark Hour.
"Please! Listen to me! I reported every abuse I've seen! When your Principal didn't do anything, I went to my husband and best friend, and yet we were still blocked! And see? I don't have a mask!" Minako pleaded with her student Phantom Thief. She watched him with her eyes, his bass giving tones of not believing her. Ryuji-kun's drumset was sounding nervous, Takamaki-chan's elegant voice soul hummed an angry tone, Kitagawa-no, Yusuke-kun's timpani trembled in a questioning tone, the cat's own soul gave a trill of surprise. They didn't know what to make of her, being a kind, honest, and caring new school guidance counselor that was easy to talk to was a Persona user. They had to feel her powerful Persona for quite some time now, and they suspected her to be someone she's not? Minako grabbed her collapsed naginata, courteously given to her by Mitsuru, and twirled the tube in her hand.
Kurusu just gave her a glowering look, not believing her. "Then why follow us?" He asked her.
Minako took a deep breath, and said, "Because I wanted to ask you...how was Igor-sama."
Recognition sparked in his eyes. "How...?"
"Because I've been a Guest to the Velvet Room since May 1999, about 17 years now. You are the new Contractor, right?" Minako said, her voice letting in how desperate she was, "I haven't been able to go to the Velvet Room for 2 years now. Tell me, is he okay? I know that he is creepy and his voice is light, but he's like an uncle to me. I worried about him, and the residents. Theodore's my attendant."
"Light voice...?" Kurusu-kun whispered, "Contractor? Is Sanada-san a Fool?"
Minako rolled her eyes, and said, "Arisato, please. I know that I'm Aki's, but I prefer Arisato. And yes, my Arcana is the Fool. 22, to be exact. I have two other social Arcana as well. The Star, and Death. My title is the Lady of Dragons. Tell me, what do the residents call you?"
His eyes tightened, suspicious. "Why? Why are you telling me this? And are you lying to me to gain my trust?"
"I can't lie to save my life. I can tell when people are lying to me, but I cannot lie for the life of me. I want you to trust me. I just want to help as best as I can. I know there's a conspiracy going on, and my past may be connected to it. Look, what I'm about to say is true, and you may not remember it, but your Personas will." Minako said, showing complete honesty, "There was most likely a night you woke up, and the air was green, blood dripped from the walls. You walked out of your room to grab a glass of water, and you turned to find that your parents were coffins. The water was blood, and the moon was fuller than you've ever seen, and closer as well. This...actually happened, and I walked in that hour. It was an hour of Death."
Ryuji-kun's drumset played a sudden cymbal crash, most likely remembering that what he thought was a nightmare actually happened. "No effing way...The only time the bastard never shouted...when it was quiet...was real?" He whispered.
'Yes, he remembered.' Minako thought.
'Of course he did. He was most likely more adjusted to the Dark Hour for several years until Minato ended it.' Kharendaen said.
"Cognition rules here, right?" Minako asked. Kurusu-kun's eyes tightened a bit. Minako smirked. "Then why don't I show you what it looked like...from my memories."
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