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maskormenace2015-09-06 06:37 pm
ktfod) wrote in maskormenace2015-09-06 06:37 pm
Entry tags:
- hiro hamada | n/a,
- nico di angelo | n/a,
- † akihiko sanada | the hammer,
- † barnaby brooks jr. | n/a,
- † dipper pines | n/a,
- † hinami fueguchi | n/a,
- † kanaya maryam-lalonde | psychopomp,
- † kaneda shotaro | n/a,
- † karen starr | power girl,
- † ken amada | n/a,
- † ludger kresnik | n/a,
- † mathieu carver | shadow,
- † minato arisato | n/a,
- † riku | darkeater,
- † shinjiro aragaki | n/a,
- † tetsuo shima | n/a,
- † winry rockbell | n/a
Sixth Bell | A SEES PSA | Video
[Feed clicks on, and there’s a white, fluffy animal, all up in its grill, tail wagging and tongue hanging out, clearly excited to be the center of attention. Barely visible behind him are a few sets of feet, and finally the camera is lifted up to show the group: Minato, Ken, and Akihiko.]
It’s going-- go on with it. [Guess who doesn’t sound particularly excited- yep, it’s Shinjiro.]
[Like every time Minato has posted/been part of a post, he's staring directly into the camera with a blank expression, and says,] Hi. [Differently this time, there's two of his teammates standing next to him with Shinji manning the camera, although none of them look particularly excited to be there. They're an incredibly dour group, this selection of SEES, although Koromaru can be heard jingling his tags while scratching an itch with his leg.
Minato is also holding his communicator up like it's a microphone with all the aplomb of a karaoke champion.]
Today, we'll be educating you about something we've been fielding a lot of questions about. Ken-kun, could you hold up your Evoker?
Are you sure about this…? [But leader’s words are leader’s words, so Ken obediently pulls out the gun, a small silver pistol, and holds it up. He’s so short, is the camera catching this?]
It's okay, [says Minato, perfectly deadpan.] I'm his guardian. It's safe. … Because it's not a real gun. When we shoot ourselves, it doesn't fire anything. Please don't be alarmed. [His delivery doesn't get any less wooden as he goes on. Minato has definitely gotten sick of explaining this, no matter how patient he is every time it comes up.]
Are you just going to say it like that? We shoot ourselves? We’re trying to teach people about it so let’s just do it, they’ll see for themselves. [Akihiko cutting in with a good degree of annoyance in his voice. He’s not looking too keen about standing around here, not to mention it took Shinjiro forever to focus the damn camera on them.]
Yeah, like that’s way better. Just shoot yourself on camera and let everyone puzzle it out. Dumbass…. [It’s muttered quietly from off-screen behind the camera, almost like the worst director commentary in the world.]
What, did you say something? I’ll--
[Minato interrupts with a mild,] No flirting on camera. [Because he can't resist teasing them. It's way better than having to explain Persona again, that's for sure.]
[That comment gets the most startled look that Ken fails to hide before he looks at something above the camera like it’s the grossest thing ever. Sorry Shinji]
We’re not- tch. Here, lemme just do it. [Said as Akihiko’s the one taking out his Evoker now, but not to hold up and show. He’s quick to just put it up to his head--]
Sanada-san, no, we’re inside...
Huh? So let’s go outside then, doing it like this won’t prove anything to anyone.
Why the hell do you have to ‘prove’ shit…? [God they’re all idiots.]
[Minato belatedly decides to maybe act a little bit like a leader. Just a little.] We're Persona-users. When we shoot ourselves with special fake guns called Evokers, we summon something called Persona to defend us. So, don't worry about it. You don't need to ask me about it anymore.
[Beat.] If you have questions, ask them. [Minato leans over to hold the phone up to Akihiko like he's interviewing him with the mic.] This is Akihiko-senpai. He's been part of SEES the longest, except for Shinjiro-senpai. Ask them everything.
Are you seriously pawning this off on me? Wasn’t this your damn idea?! [Pissy.]
….And Aki is your choice for that?
Hey, fuck you! [More pissy.]
[Dryly:] Watch it, he just said no flirting.
[Meanwhile, Minato looks down at Ken.] I think they got it. Let's go get lunch.
[Ken looks to Akihiko, then grimaces at Shinjiro behind the camera, then turns to Minato with a sigh.] I don’t know if this counts as ‘they got it’ but… okay. I think I learned something today that I didn’t really want to know……..
[PSA concluded, the camera dips back down again-- and what do you know, it just so happens to land on the stylishly-dressed Koromaru. The bickering continues in the background, more muffled now, but the camera stays focused on the dog. Those especially perceptive viewers may even note that the dog has the same red armband as the rest of the group. It lingers for another half minute or so, watching the dog drag his ass on the carpet for a second, stretch, and then trot off. Film cuts.]
[Akihiko is red, Shinjiro is darker red, Minato is blue, and Ken is orange.]
It’s going-- go on with it. [Guess who doesn’t sound particularly excited- yep, it’s Shinjiro.]
[Like every time Minato has posted/been part of a post, he's staring directly into the camera with a blank expression, and says,] Hi. [Differently this time, there's two of his teammates standing next to him with Shinji manning the camera, although none of them look particularly excited to be there. They're an incredibly dour group, this selection of SEES, although Koromaru can be heard jingling his tags while scratching an itch with his leg.
Minato is also holding his communicator up like it's a microphone with all the aplomb of a karaoke champion.]
Today, we'll be educating you about something we've been fielding a lot of questions about. Ken-kun, could you hold up your Evoker?
Are you sure about this…? [But leader’s words are leader’s words, so Ken obediently pulls out the gun, a small silver pistol, and holds it up. He’s so short, is the camera catching this?]
It's okay, [says Minato, perfectly deadpan.] I'm his guardian. It's safe. … Because it's not a real gun. When we shoot ourselves, it doesn't fire anything. Please don't be alarmed. [His delivery doesn't get any less wooden as he goes on. Minato has definitely gotten sick of explaining this, no matter how patient he is every time it comes up.]
Are you just going to say it like that? We shoot ourselves? We’re trying to teach people about it so let’s just do it, they’ll see for themselves. [Akihiko cutting in with a good degree of annoyance in his voice. He’s not looking too keen about standing around here, not to mention it took Shinjiro forever to focus the damn camera on them.]
Yeah, like that’s way better. Just shoot yourself on camera and let everyone puzzle it out. Dumbass…. [It’s muttered quietly from off-screen behind the camera, almost like the worst director commentary in the world.]
What, did you say something? I’ll--
[Minato interrupts with a mild,] No flirting on camera. [Because he can't resist teasing them. It's way better than having to explain Persona again, that's for sure.]
[That comment gets the most startled look that Ken fails to hide before he looks at something above the camera like it’s the grossest thing ever. Sorry Shinji]
We’re not- tch. Here, lemme just do it. [Said as Akihiko’s the one taking out his Evoker now, but not to hold up and show. He’s quick to just put it up to his head--]
Sanada-san, no, we’re inside...
Huh? So let’s go outside then, doing it like this won’t prove anything to anyone.
Why the hell do you have to ‘prove’ shit…? [God they’re all idiots.]
[Minato belatedly decides to maybe act a little bit like a leader. Just a little.] We're Persona-users. When we shoot ourselves with special fake guns called Evokers, we summon something called Persona to defend us. So, don't worry about it. You don't need to ask me about it anymore.
[Beat.] If you have questions, ask them. [Minato leans over to hold the phone up to Akihiko like he's interviewing him with the mic.] This is Akihiko-senpai. He's been part of SEES the longest, except for Shinjiro-senpai. Ask them everything.
Are you seriously pawning this off on me? Wasn’t this your damn idea?! [Pissy.]
….And Aki is your choice for that?
Hey, fuck you! [More pissy.]
[Dryly:] Watch it, he just said no flirting.
[Meanwhile, Minato looks down at Ken.] I think they got it. Let's go get lunch.
[Ken looks to Akihiko, then grimaces at Shinjiro behind the camera, then turns to Minato with a sigh.] I don’t know if this counts as ‘they got it’ but… okay. I think I learned something today that I didn’t really want to know……..
[PSA concluded, the camera dips back down again-- and what do you know, it just so happens to land on the stylishly-dressed Koromaru. The bickering continues in the background, more muffled now, but the camera stays focused on the dog. Those especially perceptive viewers may even note that the dog has the same red armband as the rest of the group. It lingers for another half minute or so, watching the dog drag his ass on the carpet for a second, stretch, and then trot off. Film cuts.]
[Akihiko is red, Shinjiro is darker red, Minato is blue, and Ken is orange.]
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-it's a long story, and I don't know a lotta the details. But there are some monsters back home we call Shadows. They're responsible for what most people think of as an epidemic. They eat people's consciousness, but leave the body behind.
So normal people can't see the Shadows- all they know if they got a friend who's up and chatting one second, and the next just slumped down, drooling on ;emself like a vegetable. If they're lucky, family or a hospital can take care of 'em, but plenty of the victims just wander off onto train tracks or die of thirst or exposure or whatever else.
[It's said casually- these are just the facts of their world.]
Persona Users can fight 'em. That's th simple version of it.
[And leaving out the part about a spacetime distortion caused when a monster-powered time-machine exploded.]
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!!
Right. So...what exactly makes you guys special then? I mean...normal's normal. What makes you special is the Persona. But WHAT is it that makes you get the Persona?
[Kaneda rarely gets this deep, but he's fascinated. It's not like he's considered the Evoker, after everything...]
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...Hard to say. There ain't a lot of us. And there's more people who've got the potential to see the Shadows and can't summon a Persona.
But they tend to get snacked on pretty quick.
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[Man, this is complicated, and takes a lot of luck.]
...You know, that's what Ken called me in the Swear-in.
A Shadow, or whatever.
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Makes sense. They're pretty much what we're up against back home. But yeah, you got it right.
I only know of twelve people that can use 'em- and one's a dog, another a robot specifically made to fight shadows.
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[Slowly piecing things together here...]
It all comes down to SEES.
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There's another group, too. But they're kind of crazy assholes: only three of them, and they can't control their powers really well- and since it's killing them, they wanna take everyone else down with them.
But our team is SEES, yeah.
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Sound like real charmers.
Think everyone's got to suffer cause their life sucks.
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[Killing for money during the dark hour, sabotaging SEES, shooting Shinji to death....]
But I figure every world's got some people like that.
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...
Got me there.
So what, they just let their head-things do whatever?