Shadow Event Log

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▼ A Feast of Shadows

 

Who: Anyone
Where: All over the city
When: December 16-20
Summary: The Shadow Event has begun! Follow the link for the event summary and post your threads here if you want. You're still free to make network posts of your own if you'd rather do that, though!
Warnings: Characters' darkest and most shameful secrets within, along with plenty of combat. Please mark any threads that will contain triggering content appropriately, since some characters have darker secrets than others.
Music: IT'S JUST AS BILLY JOEL WARNED

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Minako, Shinjiro, Eikichi — December 17 — Moonlight Bridge — [Closed]

[themortalhalf]

[They had tried searching for the Shadow at the Naganaki Shrine first, but the shrine had been empty and undisturbed. Their next guesses led them elsewhere, to locations dotting across Hinoto-Ri, though none of them proved to be right. None of their hunches were leading them to the person—or whatever she was—who they needed to find. But each unsuccessful lead further narrowed down the list of probable locations, thinning their search as they headed back into busier parts of the city, finally re-emerging into the Libra district near the water, the Moonlight Bridge resting in the near distance, seamlessly connecting the two wards together, like it had always been there.

Shinjiro surveys the bridge for a few seconds. That seemed as good of place as any to try next. It was one of the few places they had from home. And at this point... he's not sure where else they could try, unless they'd wanted to wander aimlessly through the city without a specific destination in mind and hope they get lucky.]

Think she'll be there?

[deathboss]

Enough with your bullshit already! HADES!!!

[He doesn't even bother to argue or say hi, as the Persona doesn't use an attack, slamming right into the shadow instead. Push her off the broken bridge, everything's fair in taking this Shadow down a notch.

Someone.Is.Really Angry.]

[themortalhalf]

[His head snaps over to Eikichi sharply, and that materializes outward and attacks. His voice is equally so.]

Hey. Don't just—

[That was... unexpected.

He had been about to say something before, but it's cut short when Eikichi doesn't even bother to goddamn wait. Evaluate what was going on instead of being idiotic and so damn rash Aki would probably be unconsciously offended. He doesn't know what the hell had pissed Mishina off that much to make him not bother to hold back for a sec and breathe, but if that was how it was gonna turn out, then fine. But he wasn't just going to rush into it himself.

Not that Shinjiro had any experience in fighting these kind of Shadows—or whatever they were—but attacking her outright without preamble hadn't been... at all what he had in mind. Not when this Shadow was just some kind of part of her. Same voice and face, even if it was her and... not her all at the same time. That made the idea of attacking the Shadow physically, and not through her Shadow's Persona, if it came down to that, even less appetizing to him. But he'd do what he needed to do. Maybe this was the only option and was how things were supposed to go, though part of him had a difficult time believing everything would be directly analogous to the worlds they came from. Not that everything could be solved by talking either, but—]

Tch.

[He grits his teeth. He bottles back the urge to cut Hades off—if she's a Shadow and Minako at the same time, she has to be made of stronger steel than that—and doesn't attack or interfere himself, not yet, though he pushes Castor into stirring, and charging.]

1/2

[greatseal]

Eikichi-kun!

[What the heck had her Shadow even said to make him this angry? Or is it just Shadows in general that he doesn't like?]

[deathboss]

[For a few seconds he had been hoping for the tell-tale sound of the shadow crashing in the water, but he wasn't so lucky. The hell was that thing tho, he didn't remember Minako using that before.]

And hear you continue to sprout your bullshit?!

[But this time, he wisely decides to wait before attack. He's not as so stupid to just launch again when the Shadow's got that persona and he knows nothing about it.]

[themortalhalf]

[A wise choice, considering Shinjiro does know just what he's up against.. He's fought Thanatos enough to know... Though it was never a real fight in any sense of the word. And if it had been, it would have been likely pretty damn one-sided.]

I dunno what the hell she said to tick you off, but cool it.

[And he'd rather not watch a Minako look-alike get pushed off a bridge again, thanks. He shakes his head, voice still exasperated when he turns to stare at the other Minako appraisingly, watching the color-changed Thanatos out of the corner of his eyes. He had been expecting Orpheus.]

So if you want to talk, then talk. What do you want?

[greatseal]

[Minako steps forward to address the other her. Thanatos doesn't surprise her at all, unlike Shinji. In fact, she'd be more surprised if her "Shadow" had any other Persona. Death was the Shadow she'd born for ten years, after all.]

I know you're my Shadow. That means you're a reflection of me. So why would you try to provoke people on the network?

[deathboss]

[Yeah well he's just going to glare right back at her and then Shinjiro for a few seconds before going right back at the Shadow. 'Cool it' wasn't something he'd been told often. But at Minako's question, he can't help but add his two yen, because he's not talking to the shadow either, he's talking to Minako so pfffft.]

Piss people off. Spread rumors. Change the public view of you. Increase her power so she can take you and your place more easily. You know what makes a Shadow especially angry? The fact you're here at all and they aren't. [He still remembered what his own said. 'You and that other self really piss me off...']

[themortalhalf]

[Well, he certainly has no problem in telling it, and holds Eikichi's stare for the few seconds it takes for him to feel satisfied about glaring at him. He doesn't, however, see the need to interrupt Minako's conversation with her other self. This isn't his fight; it's hers. He will, however, log the information Eikichi's giving them away, internalizing it.]

1/2

[greatseal]

I see... So she just wants to be acknowledged.

Well, then... [Minako steps forward towards the Shadow, holding out her hand.] I'll acknowledge you. Whatever feelings you're holding are a part of me, so-

[deathboss]

[Urgh. Now he just felt bad.]

No, not like that, babe! You have to beat it out of her first to prove your will!

[Because VIOLENCE SOLVES EVERYTHING.]

[themortalhalf]

[Shinjiro shoots Eikichi another long, withering look, and is starting to almost regret his passive acceptance of bringing the other Persona-user along, no matter how experienced he might be. He doesn't know how Eikichi's experience went—and lacks his own—but the circumstances and what needed to be done could very well be different.

But he could very well prove to be right. Most of his current attention is directed elsewhere, mostly at the double standing in front of them, and the agitation that's starting to fester.]

There a reason it can't be?