Kisuji

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I was a fool to think only a moment would be enough to fully appreciate this truly glorious hair style. You have bested me, sir.

Persona 3: Dark Side of the Moon [OOC]

The train station. Any sense of purpose had left Shirogane a while ago, back at the dorms with that traumatic experience of having his own mind intruded upon. Now he was little more than deadweight to a very distraught Ikeda. You're hurting me... For a moment his attention flickered to the real world when she held tight to his wrist, but trapped in his own world built out of fear and filled with resentment he couldn't understand what she must be feeling. Instead he just stood there silently, hanging his head.

Lenaya said "I...I'm scared, Shiro. W...what if..?"

With his hand clasped in hers standing in the vacant train station, his heart barely skipped a beat, but he finally looked up from under his bangs. She's just using me, right? Its not like it matters to her who's hand it is anyway...still.... There was some urging barely starting to surface, almost like he wanted to resist her or start a fight. These feelings were encumbering and he felt like his life would be easier without them. Still... So what if they were too late? So what if Yoro and Youhei were gone? People died. It had happened around him before. Shirogane had always been alone because of that, but so what if he was alone? Even if he did feel lonely, he had never wanted these feelings anyway and wishing couldn't bring the dead back to life. In fact, it was better to get lost in a dream. He had lived his life like that up until now, even tried to delude himself into thinking this whole business with SEES was nothing more than a bad dream or embrace the fact he was chosen for it--destiny one might say--and look how he'd wound up. Even so, I don't want her to stop calling me like that. Shaking off her hand he let it go and embraced her instead.

"Would you cut it out? You're making me depressed... And personally, I wouldn't want to see you cry either, because..."

In that moment he didn't notice Leo run up until he started shouting, blocking out whatever he said next. Shirogane left Ikeda and turned to him instead.

There was something to be said for living in a dream. It wasn't so bad. There were times when it could come in handy. Right now for instance. "Oi, quit showing off, brat." Something about Leo not speaking the language gave Shirogane enough confidence to ignore his own social awkwardness and completely disregard the usual formalities. "Ah, crap...evoker...evoker..." He'd forgotten it was strapped into its holster on his thigh with all the soul-searching he'd been doing up until this moment. He drew it once he realized his own stupidity. "You should take the backseat and let your senior's handle this properly. And you" pointing to Ikeda with a smug look on his face "People who get too close to me always lose something precious. Besides that I hate clingy women." He was in full Loveless mode as he pulled the trigger. Then, Nekomata appeared beside him, her eyes scanning the scene and a faint trace of annoyance coming across their mental link. Her tail flicked as she fixed a tired gaze on her master "Uhh, despite everything I just said...mind telling me where the enemy is exactly?"

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Lennon79 said For the sake of not letting this die, it might just be worth having Yoro and Youhei beat the Priestess alone.Also good for character development: angry people makes for interesting shyte.

That would also give Shirogane enough reason to claim he's unnecessary and use that as an excuse to not fight or do anything useful. Hey! Sometimes character development is negative! Js =/

Theorist said Those who have not awakened will get multiple chances to over this month. Those who are already full members of SEES (Save for Youhei) will likely receive some sort of punishment.

Just so long as you don't take away my God-given right to fap over my fallen comrades as they lay comatose in a hospital bed. Oh, and when I say "over..."

I mean literally

Yeah, that happened.

Uhm...wut?

That too.

Is this a movie?

Yep.

Lenaya said just...sorta pulling everyone along

Literally, in my case :D

Lenaya said save the other akira

Aw, you do care!~<3

Lenaya said on top of that im pulling about 35hrs a week at work plus 13 hrs of school so im.....tired alot xD finals are almost here so once those are done i should have more free time

Slowwwwwww downnnnnnn

And sorry for poofing.

Post-post EDIT: OMG!! I just realized Nekomata is the freaking perfect persona for Shirogane x3
Not only do I love her, but she's named for the nekomata, a spirit of ill fortune. Those who get close to this spirit always wind up hurt because of its tendency to curse them (or straight up kill/eat them). Also, it has TWO tails!

Now, I don't know why, but let's all take a moment to recognize our great love for and appreciation of twin tails...

[+]

Wow, those were some great twintails. Especially that last one, but wait--wasn't there an odd one out?
No, but seriously, two tails like the two characters Shirogane has...in addition to the fact his stage personality is based off the irresistible "don't get close to me" thing.

Also, I got fed up with waiting!!! For Ikeda to punch Shirogane...don't freaking hold my hand, say my name and practically start to cry. I'm way too M for that bullcrap.

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Oh and of course I would like to keep this rp alive. I definitely have the time to put more effort into it. I just hold myself back out of respect for the other players and to maintain post order...otherwise I'd be the overzealous nutbag who multi-posts IC fucking everything up for everybody.

I'm kind of in the same situation as Youhei until someone rouses Shirogane. JUST SLAP HIM THE FACE ALREADY!!

EDIT: or I guess I could become the buddha and figure out my own pyschological bullshit in one of those one-second-eternities of mental struggle.

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I'm still here. Uh, I always liked the setting of SMT: Imagine. Like the idea of rebuilding after the apocalypse. The whole "sin of weakness" intro was a bit too strong, but it gave your character motivation so that's good. I was always more focused on "what's the world like outside these walls?" and "why do humans and demons still fight?"
Humans are fighting demons using demons...makes sense right?? Cuz, you know...you can only make friends with some of the demons but not ALL the demons.

Anyway I'd be down. Its unfortunate about this rp really. I feel like its not so much this rp, but how inconvenient everyone's lives are atm...and the fact that my character is currently out of commission doesn't help drive things forward or else I'd rally the troops in Lenaya's place...breaking character as little as possible...

If I saw more posts out of the newbies I'd be more encouraged to get things moving again here, but as it stands we really only have me, Lenaya, our GM, and Lennon to rely on. Kiga has been somewhat more aloof than I, and everyone else is...non-apparent.
Where is rainbow dash!? I REALLY wanted to see more of that guy in our rp! xD Serious.

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Shirogane hadn't had the strength to move himself, and he certainly didn't have the strength to resist when he felt someone grab his wrist. His own weight resisted at first, but it seemed whoever had decided it was worthwhile to move this deadweight had determination since they didn't have any help from him. For a while he only noticed the ground beneath him as his feet moved only so much to keep him from falling. Whoever had to drag him along surely had a hard time of it since it was slow going with a person who was falling on to their next foot rather than willingly walking on their own. It took some time but eventually he noticed the heels of the person ahead of him, and then the person herself. Hmm...? Despite being forced against his will--although there was no reason to call it his "will" anymore--the strength of whoever was carrying him was interesting enough to pull him out of his stupor if only just a bit. Shirogane recognized the person pulling him along of course. For the briefest moment something other than his brain responded to this person. His feet moved a little less heavily for the rest of the journey.

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Ohh, then it'd be like when Asuka and Shinji were in the cockpit of 02 together.
"You're messing up my synchro with your Japanese thoughts!"
"Huh?"
"You have to think in German!
"Huh??"
UGH!! Fine switching to Japanese..."
...My anime references show my age....

Also, I thought of a great way to restore Shirogane's sanity points. You know how Megaten games have those weird items to restore mp? Like...snuff soul or chakra gum? Well for sanity points you could use wet wipes :3
Get it? Cuz they're "Sani-pads"

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Theorist said
xD Not really. I believe they are not OFFICIALLY part of SEES until they awaken.

Egocentric views often need to be made clear to others.
In other words, YOU may not consider them members of SEES since they're not "official" but the rest of us don't know that. I was pretty sure they were recruited the second they were transferred to Gekokan. The ability to summon a persona is the basis for recruiting member of SEES, and we all have that ability. Some of us just haven't done it yet--haven't "awakened." THAT'S the distinction.
Not trying to nitpick or argue, just saying so because some of us weren't on the same page. Hell, I wouldn't have thought Itsuki would hear Tak, but I might have guessed Leo and the other newbies could hear him cuz they technically just joined SEES even though they haven't awakened yet.

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Theorist said
Everyone who has awakened to their Persona. ^^

Got it. Distinction is needed since everybody living in the dorms is a part of SEES...or I thought so anyway.

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Ah, thanks. That's a pretty old term. I'm still old enough to know it, just didn't immediately recognize the anagram.

I LOVE tvtropes. Also, how is that a tvtrope? It refers to the old apple OS.

EDIT: And yeah this is definitely a Heroic BSOD not a Despair Event Horizon.
To clarify this is not total catatonia, but more like comatose. Sorry, mixing up terms. He just needs a good Get A Hold of Yourself, Man! of some kind.