Shinjiro Aragaki (荒垣 真次郎) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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destinystrings2013-04-18 05:06 pm
themortalhalf) wrote in destinystrings2013-04-18 05:06 pm
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Freedom can be frightening if you've never felt it [OPEN]
Who: Shinjiro Aragaki (themortalhalf), Minako Arisato (greatseal) and whoever else they run across [Open]
Where: Around Hinoto-Ri, though it finishes in Capricorn.
Summary: After wandering around Hinoto-Ri, Minako and Shinjiro finally arrive in Capricorn to try and attempt to resolve the issues with Shinjiro's persona.
Warnings: Shinjiro is his own warning. Otherwise, will add as needed.
Notes: Feel free to use action tags or prose.
Funny, how quickly things start to settle in routine. Blink, and you'll miss months as easily as you lived them. It had been September not so very long ago, and now they're a little more than a week away from stepping into May. Burgeoning chill has changed into a blooming warmth, and the weather is surprisingly tolerable—it's nothing compared to the damn bipolar mess that had characterized the past December.
It almost feels normal.
Almost.
Of course, things will never be normal here, but Shinjiro will take what semblance of normalcy he can get. There are things he still doesn't like—even some mundane things that, to most, have little in them to dislike—but there's a part of him that that welcomes the new routine, even going to far as to somewhat appreciate the annoying, mundane things that make him feel a little more like the older teenager he's probably supposed to be: get up early, head to school. Finish, go back to the dorms.
Today starts out little different. By mid-afternoon he tells himself he's sick of hearing damn shitty lectures and being told what to do (everything he's told he could probably figure out on his own), yet finds himself back in his desk a half hour later, and listens far more attentively than some of his sleep-minded peers.
When school's over, things continue on as normal life would perhaps see fit to orchestrate on its own. Which means, of course, he gets saddled with a familiar tag-along as he heads out into the city, a tag-along who, perhaps, far more people would recognize on the streets and not feel so reluctant to associate with. He and Minako wander around for awhile, and it wouldn't be difficult for a visitor to spot them wandering around the city somewhere. They stop at a shop or two—and Shinjiro has to pretend to not be interested in the pet store on the other side of the street—and move on, stopping at a small coffee shop briefly on their way towards Capricorn.
After that, they might spend a minute or two briefly checking in to make sure the Naganaki Shrine is still being maintained—and that it, perhaps, has not disappeared unlike some of their universe's inhabitants—before going out into the open fields, away from the main attractions and to where people are sparse and few, though perhaps not uncommon.
And that is where routine ends, and it serves to remind Shinjiro about how abnormal everything still is—how abnormal he still is. He's not in the field completely because he wants to be, but because he said he would, and he knows how to keep his word despite the that he still dislikes it. He's still as wary and doubtful as he had been back in March of any of this working at all—like training will magically fix his problems; he'd rather a pill—but has conceded to giving in to this inevitability.
themortalhalf), Minako Arisato (greatseal) and whoever else they run across [Open]Where: Around Hinoto-Ri, though it finishes in Capricorn.
Summary: After wandering around Hinoto-Ri, Minako and Shinjiro finally arrive in Capricorn to try and attempt to resolve the issues with Shinjiro's persona.
Warnings: Shinjiro is his own warning. Otherwise, will add as needed.
Notes: Feel free to use action tags or prose.
Funny, how quickly things start to settle in routine. Blink, and you'll miss months as easily as you lived them. It had been September not so very long ago, and now they're a little more than a week away from stepping into May. Burgeoning chill has changed into a blooming warmth, and the weather is surprisingly tolerable—it's nothing compared to the damn bipolar mess that had characterized the past December.
It almost feels normal.
Almost.
Of course, things will never be normal here, but Shinjiro will take what semblance of normalcy he can get. There are things he still doesn't like—even some mundane things that, to most, have little in them to dislike—but there's a part of him that that welcomes the new routine, even going to far as to somewhat appreciate the annoying, mundane things that make him feel a little more like the older teenager he's probably supposed to be: get up early, head to school. Finish, go back to the dorms.
Today starts out little different. By mid-afternoon he tells himself he's sick of hearing damn shitty lectures and being told what to do (everything he's told he could probably figure out on his own), yet finds himself back in his desk a half hour later, and listens far more attentively than some of his sleep-minded peers.
When school's over, things continue on as normal life would perhaps see fit to orchestrate on its own. Which means, of course, he gets saddled with a familiar tag-along as he heads out into the city, a tag-along who, perhaps, far more people would recognize on the streets and not feel so reluctant to associate with. He and Minako wander around for awhile, and it wouldn't be difficult for a visitor to spot them wandering around the city somewhere. They stop at a shop or two—and Shinjiro has to pretend to not be interested in the pet store on the other side of the street—and move on, stopping at a small coffee shop briefly on their way towards Capricorn.
After that, they might spend a minute or two briefly checking in to make sure the Naganaki Shrine is still being maintained—and that it, perhaps, has not disappeared unlike some of their universe's inhabitants—before going out into the open fields, away from the main attractions and to where people are sparse and few, though perhaps not uncommon.
And that is where routine ends, and it serves to remind Shinjiro about how abnormal everything still is—how abnormal he still is. He's not in the field completely because he wants to be, but because he said he would, and he knows how to keep his word despite the that he still dislikes it. He's still as wary and doubtful as he had been back in March of any of this working at all—like training will magically fix his problems; he'd rather a pill—but has conceded to giving in to this inevitability.
no subject
If Castor's attack continues, it will plow harmlessly into the grass, but it's a good exercise for what might happen in a fight when the Persona-user is closer to the Persona.
no subject
And, just as soon, he calls him out. "Again."