[ic] shadow pheasant's mementos inbox

[pheasantboy]

Feel free to tag here, if you want to run into Shadow Pheasant in Mementos.

He doesn't have a phone, and must make his own fun. Be warned that he's level 99 and will attempt to eat all Akirens (and probably many others) on sight.

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[deerinheadlights]

"I want to fix her because Maruki stole everything from her much like he did to you. I have very little tolerance for it." She wants every trace of that fucker gone from Midnight's identity. "I care about fixing this shit because it's wrong it has nothing to do with generosity." She sounds far more like Goro than she ever thought she could. Livid with the idea of being someone else's puppet and willing to do whatever it takes to show her other self that a puppet was exactly what she was treated like.

She exhales. "Sorry. I didn't mean to snap too. I want the full story because I'd like to know what I'm getting into if I go too far into the Palace." She hadn't gone very far when she awakened to Cendrillon. Plus there's a chance that she'd have to fight her other self exactly like the Shadow wants. "And the Shadow boy might not be like you but I have to know the full story before I jump to conclusions."

[pheasantboy]

"Cute. You want to do the right thing. I won't retread the altruism debate, though, since it's pathetic and boring as shit."

She'll have some tedious form of self-interest in play; they all do; even he did. Even when it was just an image of himself that he could live with. Yet is it possible it could be in his interests to cooperate with her on this?

A greedy, conniving look creeps onto his face; Shadows are never subtle. "But in short: you want to fuck up Takuto Maruki, by fucking up Midnight. And to that end, you want information from me."

[deerinheadlights]

Oh Sumire isn't doing it for any altruistic reasons either, don't get her wrong. She's doing it because the efficient thing to do would be to skin Maruki alive until he undid all the bullshit that he'd done, however there's no Maruki here to un-actualize things so. Difficult- and infinitely less cathartic- it would be.

"If that's the way you'd like to think of it. There's no version of him here to pull his teeth until he un-actualizes anything so I figure his palace might have answers I can't beat out of him," she has no problem admitting that. Akechi's Shadow might even get a kick out of it.

[pheasantboy]

Oh, people can be skinned alive with any number of excellent justifications—he may never have explored such depths himself, but he's an expert in what you can make yourself do. And while skinning Maruki sounds tempting, it's unlikely the former counsellor would have time for more than a gormless stare.

"I don't want him deactualised. I want him dead. Not that anything I want will mean a shit. It's only my body, after all."

[deerinheadlights]

"I know. Just tell me about the palace." She's not going to reiterate that if he gets separated from Sparrow or rejoins Sparrow and dies that's his choice. "My main concern as far as the deactualization goes is Midnight." It's absolutely repugnant that she walks and talks with Kasumi's face and name without any cognizance of what she was doing.

"I do want to find out how to separate you from Sparrow too but that's going to be a hell of a lot harder." Not that she thinks the Shadow will be reasonable about that but maybe he can agree with her that things would be better off for both of them if Midnight couldn't be Midnight any longer.

[pheasantboy]

"You want to separate us?" He steps forward, eyes suddenly greedy, covetous.

"It shouldn't be possible to separate the ego from the Shadow. We are one, much as I loathe it. Kill him, and I go with him. Kill me... and much the same occurs."

But the Metaverse is vast, and it never pays to say never. He should know that. He'd known it before.

[deerinheadlights]

"Yeah I figure that's the best way to go about this since you don't want to be him." And Sumire can't bring herself to kill Goro. Even if it's not her Goro there's still part of her that feels like if she kills him she'll have nothing left.

She sees too much of Kasumi's Shadow in him to make that mistake again either. "If Maruki can take a Persona from its user it has to be possible to separate the Shadow from the person somehow." It only seems logical that there has to be a way to go about it.

[pheasantboy]

"Or you could kill him. Summon up what you want people to think you are and kill him! What's wrong with all of you? You can't tell me that!" He loses it for a second, discorporating, shrieking as he goes, then collapsing into a heap on the floor. "I hate him. Fuck. I hate him!"

His shoulders tremble, like a bird's wings. "Shit. What do you want to know about the Palace?"

[deerinheadlights]

Sumire pauses for a moment. She can't kill him because he's the only person that she really cares about. Goro Akechi in her world is the only person she has left.

"What's in the palace? Anything that he's been using to alter reality?"

[pheasantboy]

Another shudder goes through him, as he lifts his head to stare at her. "Not—not so much the Palace itself. That was just a representation of his bullshit, except for the fact that he"—and he struggles with himself, blurring out of sight before he reforms—"was there.

"No, everything important was..." He stares around at the unimpressive-looking tunnel. "Here. In Mementos."

[deerinheadlights]

"What did he do to Mementos?" She has a feeling that whatever it was had been deeply unpleasant to Akechi's Shadow. She wouldn't be surprised if Maruki tried to suppress it entirely.

[pheasantboy]

He blurs out again, struggling; his lips draw back from his teeth. "He. Turned it into a control centre. All of humanity passes through here—with a few exceptions. He controlled them all from here. He. He..."

Cables, glowing resplendent with thought itself, powering down the tunnels towards him, in those first moments of his separation. He'd seen them coming, and then...

"No!" And, exploding outward, he flees into the dark, into the walls of the tunnel. He'll go as far as he can—but he can't ever forget.

[deerinheadlights]

She didn't understand all of it but she gathered enough. So she'd have to delve further into Mementos sometime. "Thank you," she says to him before heading out of Mementos.