Mitsuru Kirijo (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2018-05-10 11:51 am
icecution) wrote in maskormenace2018-05-10 11:51 am
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Before I start, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mitsuru Kirijo and, as the rest of this message will doubtless betray soon enough, I have only recently arrived. I apologise in advance if any of this seems overly blunt or harsh. This isn't like any situation I'm accustomed to so I ask that you forgive any breach of personal or local etiquette and trust that it isn't intentional on my part.
That being said, I do have some questions concerning our job assignments - not the job we were brought here for, I understand that, but the employment we are granted in order that we are able to support ourselves financially. While I don't wish to seem ungrateful, I'm not certain I'm entirely cut out for the role I have been assigned to and, truthfully speaking, I have to question how it is they determine who is given what job. Is it entirely random? Or are we supposed to consider it a challenge to test our adaptability?
And following on from that, how would those who have already done so advise that I go about seeking employment I feel I am more suited to? I am happy to expand on my skillset should the need arise but I feel that is perhaps better suited for private conversation where it holds relevance.
Thank you in advance for your time and your assistance.
That being said, I do have some questions concerning our job assignments - not the job we were brought here for, I understand that, but the employment we are granted in order that we are able to support ourselves financially. While I don't wish to seem ungrateful, I'm not certain I'm entirely cut out for the role I have been assigned to and, truthfully speaking, I have to question how it is they determine who is given what job. Is it entirely random? Or are we supposed to consider it a challenge to test our adaptability?
And following on from that, how would those who have already done so advise that I go about seeking employment I feel I am more suited to? I am happy to expand on my skillset should the need arise but I feel that is perhaps better suited for private conversation where it holds relevance.
Thank you in advance for your time and your assistance.
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[The pun's kind of lost on her given that she has no idea what he's talking about. On the other hand, at least he can take her lack of reaction as that rather than her knowing exactly what he means and ignoring it anyway.]
If people are so understanding, this sort of thing must happen with some regularity. Would I be wrong to think that?
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Didn't think you'd want to talk about powers out in the open.
You seemed like the type that kept the whole Persona thing under wraps.
Not that it matters much here, but I get it.
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Funny, he wasn't one of the ones Shinjiro mentioned. Perhaps they just hadn't met yet.]
You would be right in thinking that it isn't something I would involve others in without due cause. But it sounds like you have some knowledge of them already.
[And naturally, she wants to know why.]
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[ He's a little less restrained about his Persona, but it's still not so common knowledge at least. ]
I wasn't one of the good guys back home.
In fact, the Inaba Persona kids kicked my ass to jail.
I've learned my lesson; been trying to make things right for the past two and a half years I've been here.
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[She appreciates the honesty, she just can't help but wonder how he's so open about it all.]
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I rather it be out there and let you decide if you want to trust me or not.
Especially since the tower at Yasogami High hasn't happened for you yet, and you don't remember me helping out.
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[That will have some bearing on how much she decides to trust him which, at the very least, is currently not so much less than anyone else she hasn't known for a long time.]
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Yosuke Hanamura. His girlfriend was one of the people I killed with my powers.
He has every right to be pissed at me and not want to give me a chance.
Honestly, though?
Like I said, I tried to keep it a secret before, and it blew up in my face.
There's no excuse for my actions back home, and I don't want them to rule me here.
But they're still my responsibility. I'm the only one that can own up to them.
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[Of course, text hides many clues that would give her indication of how much he means his words but on the surface, at least, she can offer that much.
Besides. There's something Mitsuru is rather more interested in right now.]
If I were to ask about your Persona, how much would you be willing to divulge? Particularly where it comes to how you acquired it.
[She'd like to hope the Kirijo Group isn't still experimenting on random people - they won't, if she has her way - but she still needs to hear, just in case.]
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The Inaba team's leader can give you more info about it than I can, but apparently I shook a goddess's hand and ended up with a Persona.
She was in disguise. I had no idea until Yu-kun told me about it.
Our summoning is a little different, though.
We don't shoot ourselves in the head.
And before we ended up here, it only worked in an alternate world we could get to through TV screens.
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[That's far beyond what she knows, putting aside the part where they fought the actual avatar of Death. At least the Persona aspects had been more...controlled. Which may or may not have been a good thing.]
Well if there was a different world involved, perhaps that alone provided the element of threat needed to summon a Persona. Or perhaps it is the method by which it was granted that leads to the difference. Either way I suppose it doesn't matter here.
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But yeah, doesn't seem to matter here. Sure, being in danger makes summoning easier, but we can still do it even without.
[ How many times has he just casually summoned his Persona to do some heavy lifting? To smack a bad guy around? Mitsuru probably doesn't want to know the answer to that. ]
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[And perhaps the easier summoning is connected to what else she can apparently do now, not that she's talking about that yet.]
It may not be risk alone, however. Tartarus was just as filled with Shadows and yet we still had to use our Evokers.
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Not going to lie, those things KINDA freak me out.
Might be careful where you use them.
People might panic seeing someone put a gun to their head.
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Just keep in mind there are other Persona users here that might freak out.
And fights are gonna happen, especially with the current state of things.
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And I intend to seek out other Persona users at my earliest convenience. I would prefer that we understand our differing methods before we find ourselves distracted in the middle of a crisis.
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We need the break to relax after the last few months.
You're welcome to join us.
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I can smooth things over for the future leader of the Shadow Ops, no problem.
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Like 2017 recent, I think.
They're good kids. Really responsible, if a bit weird. You'll probably like them.
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It seems that defeating Nyx drew rather more attention to our world than we might have anticipated, then.
[Even without knowing the full story, she knows a Goddess was involved once and the Shadows are causing trouble almost a decade into her future. She can't help but think there might be a reason for that.]
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It's going to take a lot more than beating up the nearest god to change the hearts of humanity.
That's where Shadows come from, right?
Our own thoughts that we deny ourselves.
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[Like, say, scientists playing with what they shouldn't.]
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