destinystrings | Hot and Cold

Who: This Priestess and YOU!
Where: All over the place
Summary: Yukiko's been feeling off lately: she can't stand being in any type of cold but feels fine in the warmer parts of the city! What the hell is going on?
Warnings: The random thought of wanting to go into an oven count?

[The past few days seemed to be a little...off for Yukiko. Right around the same time when the weather was at its weirdest, her body started to react. Like when she was dressed in her warm clothing expecting to be snow on the ground but stepped out to see that it was bright and sunny. What was stranger was that she felt fine wearing all those layers. The exact opposite happened when she tried to go to work with lots of snow around. Yukiko just couldn't bare to step in the cold stuff and she didn't know why. Even Amaterasu was wondering what was going on.

So despite the weirdness (and singing people), Yukiko is going to go about her day like normal.

Except maybe want to jump in an oven at one point.

Who knows, someone might run into her on the way to her job, over to Mays, or even at the park.]

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On her way to work, Yukiko just might find her friend arguing with her own Persona and wearing an impressively still-color-coordinated number of layered sweaters and cardigans.

"Listen, I'm getting tired of having to take clothes on and off every time I walk a block. Do you know anything about this?" Rise demands of the Jack Frost floating in front of her. Which, of course, does not respond in any meaningful way.

"Right...part of my subconscious, can't give any new information." She sighed. "I guess I should go find an actual demon..."

Wait, it's cold over there. That's really bad for Yukiko right now since somehow she has a sudden fear of anything snow and freezing. But Rise looks ready upset and that Jack Frost isn't helping matters. It's too close to use the COMP but how else was she going to ask what was going on?

Obvious answer: call out to her from the line between warm and flipping freezing.

"Rise-chan? Is everything ok?"

Rise looks at her feet and the foot of snow her boots are in. Then she looks up and over at the clear, sunshiney patch Yukiko is standing in.

"I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's something wrong here, Senpai," she called back, walking over towards Yukiko. "I mean, magical weather was a bad thing before, right? And the temperature changes are gonna make people sick if they keep up..."

"You mean no one has been getting sick yet from it?"

Wait, was this something happening to other people as well? Hmm, maybe Yukiko should ask the idol and see if her hunch is right.

"Have you been feeling strange in certain parts of the city?"

She walked up to the edge of the snowy area to talk to Yukiko. "Well...it's annoying going between summer and winter every ten steps, but I don't know about feeling strange..."

So she's fine? One thing's for certain: Rise, you are so lucky.

"Well...I ask because I've been feeling like that. Whenever I'm near anything cold, I just want to get away from it while wearing layers of clothes in the heat doesn't bother me."

"Huh. That's weird," Rise said, performing her most vital function as a support Persona user. "I figured you'd be burning up in a coat on that side."

Yukiko shakes her head. "I thought so too but it's like nothing is wrong when it's sunny and like I want to go under so many blankets when I step in snow."

Hence why she's eyeballing that snow line.

"Hmmm..."

She stopped to think about that for a second. "This must be something extra on top of the weather, then. I wonder why it's affecting you...want me to have a look with Kanzeon and see if you're...I dunno, Enervated or something? I never did figure out what 'enervated' meant..."

"I...don't think I've been feeling drained but if you two can figure it out, I don't mind."

Poor Rise, you need to study more.

More like retain the notes she copies from Naoto better.

"Alright, let me take a look..." Rise concentrated, and her Persona appeared behind her in its usual position.

"Let's see...no weird effects, you've still got Amaterasu, she's still weak to..."

Wait a second.

"Hey, do you think it's because you're weak to Ice?"

It sounds logical but that leaves out some big holes. Like when she would walk in snow before and feel like everyone else: freezing but not affected.

"It could be but I was having a snowball fight with Yosuke-kun a few days ago. Now it's almost like I don't want to touch anything that's cold."

"Hm...there must be something else, then," she said, "something I can't see with my Persona. Jeez, where's Naoto-kun when you need her?"

"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen her around lately. I hope everything is alright."

If Naoto was missing, would she end up like Chie and go home?

Hot and Cold

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