destinystrings | Making new friends

Who: Nano Shinonome and her Personas, Pinocchio and Chirashizushi.
Where: Out and about in town
When: The 13th hour between December 2nd and 3rd
Summary: Nano hasn't had much call to use either of her Personas, so she's taking each of them out for a spin.
Warnings: Nothing, really. She's not fighting terribly difficult demons here. Open to all who want to help her fight things.

Nano hadn't managed to be very useful at all the last time something bad happened in Hinoto-Ri, and she's been feeling rather badly about it ever since. After all, everyone in the town was in the same situation, being suddenly ripped away from their homes and loved ones, so there's no reason she shouldn't be trying just as hard as they are. To that end, even though she's afraid, she's finally resolved to venture out during the 13th Hour to try to get stronger. It's the only way she's ever going to be able to feel like she's earned the power she's been granted in this place, and certainly the only way she'd feel right going back home after meeting so many nice people. To that end, she's out tonight in the streets immediately surrounding the Pisces District housing looking for demons to fight, but also hovering reasonably near the apartment building in case things get too dangerous.

"I hope we can get along and work well together, Pinocchio-san," Nano says with a smile, folding her hands in front of her and bowing her head politely to the smiling ethereal puppet-boy floating behind her. The Persona smiles back, wordlessly nodding its head.

"Matarukaja! Marakukaja!"

As Nano's words ring out through the air, Pinocchio performs a stringless dance behind her before holding its arms out. Energy washes over Nano, bolstering her attack and defense against the demons she's about to fight. Glancing back behind her, she gives a small smile and another nod before dismissing Pinocchio and calling out Chirashizushi, the new Persona she'd fused in the Velvet Room only a few days before.

"Let's be friends too, Chirashizushi!" The little angel enthusiastically grins as it materializes into existence, looking happy as anything to be serving its new master. And with that, Nano and her Personas venture out into the night to fight for the safety of the citizens of Hinoto-Ri.

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Without even giving it a second thought, Nano crouches down, covering her head with her hands. She's pretty easy to influence, really.

"Aren't you using your Persona...?"

Looking back at her, he was kind of incredulous. Of course he wasn't going to use his persona thing. Not unless he was in such an awful situation that was life or death.

"A soldier has to rely on himself before he can rely on other...beings. Especially ones that are dangerous."

Nano blinks in confusion for a moment before looking up at his Persona and her own, and then back to Kais.

"...But aren't they part of us? I thought that was what Caroline said..."

"It's evil."

No matter how innocent and angelic Nano's persona may look, Kais was fairly certain. He had dealt with voices in his head before and ended up the worse for it. He didn't want to have to deal with all of that again.

"How do you know? Have you tried to understand it...?"

Nano was afraid of her own Persona at first, but once she'd taken the time to get used to it, it felt more like an old friend than something threatening.

"I don't need to."

Suddenly, he turned his head back, moved his rifle a little and fired. The blue plasma shot and slammed into a demon. Whether it was stalking them or not was moot. Kais wanted it dead.

Nano winces as the rifle goes off, ducking her head down again momentarily until she's sure nothing is there.

"But there has to be a reason we were given this power, isn't there?"

"Believing in reasons we get power is trying to justify that gods exist."

A straight rule of the almost atheistic Tau society. You make your own reasons, not rely on what's told you to.

"I don't believe in that kind of thing. They were given to us by some powerful being who wishes to use you to their own ends."

"Not everyone in the city came here already knowing how to fight on their own..." Nano says, looking a little downcast for a moment. "My Personas are the only way I can help against the demons."

"Then learn. Anyone can pick up a primitive gun."

Kais was pretty sure that something so simple could be bought on the cheap on human worlds.

"Isn't that dangerous...?"

Because Personas clearly aren't, Nano.

"At least there is not a potential of something going out of control."

Kais goes back to standing up straight, motioning that it was okay for Nano to do so.

"But you are not completely gue'la are you? Unless you have an odd sense of style."

"Not completely...?"

Nano trails off there, half because she doesn't know how to pronounce that word and half because she hasn't picked up on his meaning quite yet. She's leaving the end of the sentence open for him to insert a word she understands.

"What are you then?" Sadly, the hint is not taken. He's still stuck in the mindset that everyone can understand him.

"What do you mean...?"

Nano blanches a bit, wobbling slowly to her feet. He hasn't seen through her, has he?

It seems clear so he turns his full attention to Nano. An empty hand with only four fingers reaches out and with his one finger, he points at the thing coming out of her back. No words needed.

"Oh, that...!" Nano shouts, overreacting out of nervousness. "That's just a cosplay prop!"

"A....what?" Those were two words that didn't make any sense to him. Prop could be propeller but humans certainly didn't attach propellers to their back.

"Um... a costume accessory?"

Sweating bullets over here.

A loud sigh came from him, clearly one of disdain.

"Gue'la. Wearing useless implements on the battlefield."

Definitely an ignorant species.

"So... do you want me to help you? I can only fight with my Personas, so I'd understand if you don't want me along..."

"As long as they don't go wild..." There was a lingering threat there.

Nano frowns at that.

"They wouldn't do that."

"The future is never certain."

"Then I'll prove it to you."

Looking confident and maybe a little hurt at the assertion that she'd allow someone to get hurt on her account, Nano falls into step next to Kais.

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