[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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[butterflyaffect]

"No, I... never met him. I only knew of him secondhand, but..." Goro's Magician. How could such a relationship have gone so disastrously wrong? "Whatever. The case was for us, the Trickster was wrong to do that to you. And I am so. sorry. That you have suffered under that man's control like this. I will-"

She inhaled. Calmed herself. "I can't take that back. I can't undo what's been done, nor would I ever want to take that away from you. But I could never let this- let you- continue in this state. If there's a way to your freedom... I will help you find it, if I can."

[pheasantboy]

The whole of him trembles at her words, black-gloved hands forming claws as if he wants to rip the floor apart.

"There's only one way out. You know that. No matter what I do, I'll never be free again." He laughs quietly. "No more than I deserve, of course."

[butterflyaffect]

"Yes, well, that's bullshit. There's going to be something we can do. I know of at least one Shadow who manifested a human form all his own. This is possible, Goro. I don't know exactly how, just yet... but there will be a way. I could also talk to my Guest about this. He's..."

She hesitated, for a moment, considering how to approach the topic. "He's come from a background very similar to yours. He would understand, I think, better than most, and want to help you as well."

[pheasantboy]

Just for a moment, he contemplates it. A Shadow who manifested a human form all his own. His eyes go wide and hungry and wanting, desperate for any sliver of hope. That boy in Tartarus, the Shadow boy—hadn't he walked and lived on the surface, like any of the rest of them? Wouldn't someone like Renée know, if anyone would?

But it's too much, He'll never trust again, nor put himself in the hands of any powerful person. He's seen; he knows. We're taking the deal...

"Liar!" He explodes out of his form into a seething, indistinct mass, not as hungry as it could be but no less dangerous for that. His voice distorts in her ear. "Take your bullshit somewhere else! I don't care for it! I'll destroy you!"

[butterflyaffect]

Disappointing... but not, ultimately, unexpected. "Wrong, Goro. I will never lie to you. But if you want me gone, I'll leave you be. For now. But I'll be back."

[pheasantboy]

Needless to say, he doesn't believe her. Yet it burns to watch her leave. The ground shakes around him, and he dissolves through the floor out of sight