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florescences) wrote2025-02-08 03:58 pm
florescences) wrote2025-02-08 03:58 pm
akihiko catchall
one day i'll play more than 2 hours of persona 3
[ let's hang out at the train station. elysia is looking out into the distance. ]
Do you think this could be your ticket out?
Do you think this could be your ticket out?
It should be! It should be just a matter of walking alongside the tracks until it gets somewhere else.
No idea where it leads, though. A different afterlife?
[Is that how it works? Is the afterlife a whole bunch of islands where different belief systems get an island of their own? Oh well, leaving this place would be progress no matter what]
No idea where it leads, though. A different afterlife?
[Is that how it works? Is the afterlife a whole bunch of islands where different belief systems get an island of their own? Oh well, leaving this place would be progress no matter what]
The afterlife should be vast.
[ everyone has to die eventually, even immortals aren't immune. ]
Are you going to try?
[ everyone has to die eventually, even immortals aren't immune. ]
Are you going to try?
I don't want to leave the people I just met so soon, so I'll wait to see what happens.
[ she does not think he'll get far, but she doesn't want to discourage his will to try. ]
[ she does not think he'll get far, but she doesn't want to discourage his will to try. ]
Fine with me. If I don't return at all, make sure nobody else comes this way.
[Having said that, Akihiko gets to walking. Byyyye.
....
Like two minutes later, he appears from the opposite end of the tracks, at the other end of the station.
Well that was real anticlimactic]
[Having said that, Akihiko gets to walking. Byyyye.
....
Like two minutes later, he appears from the opposite end of the tracks, at the other end of the station.
Well that was real anticlimactic]
.... Welcome back, Sanada. Sorry you didn't get to go far.
[ trial and execution would take a toll on anyone, much less a teenage boy like akihiko.
she calls out to him when she sees him. ]
Akihiko? Are you doing okay?
she calls out to him when she sees him. ]
Akihiko? Are you doing okay?
...I'm not sure. Yesterday I was satisfied with that guy getting caught, but right now--it's complicated now.
[It's not that he feels awful about Jing Yuan, but at the same time that execution left such a sour taste in his mouth he's not sure how to deal with. He hadn't expected Jing Yuan to be killed, much less by someone else here, and clearly it wasn't a choice Jiaoqiu consciously made. Felt like some was pulling the strings in all this, and he hates so much]
I thought the whole problem was that it is wrong for us to kill? Why the hell was what happened today needed?
[It just makes no sense to him]
[It's not that he feels awful about Jing Yuan, but at the same time that execution left such a sour taste in his mouth he's not sure how to deal with. He hadn't expected Jing Yuan to be killed, much less by someone else here, and clearly it wasn't a choice Jiaoqiu consciously made. Felt like some was pulling the strings in all this, and he hates so much]
I thought the whole problem was that it is wrong for us to kill? Why the hell was what happened today needed?
[It just makes no sense to him]
Hmm... in a twisted way, some people could consider it part of justice. Someone committed a crime, and he was punished for it. If you're the one made to carry out the punishment, would that be considered wrong?
[ she smiles a little. ]
For some, it's a duty. Here.... it's something else.
[ she smiles a little. ]
For some, it's a duty. Here.... it's something else.
It felt very personal, too. Making everything take the form of a place familiar to them, bring people they know...
[Although, yeah...guess eye-for-eye is a bit of a biblical command, now that he thinks about it, from what little he has heard about western religion. Maybe this heaven believes in that, for all he knows]
[Although, yeah...guess eye-for-eye is a bit of a biblical command, now that he thinks about it, from what little he has heard about western religion. Maybe this heaven believes in that, for all he knows]
Yeah, it did look quite personal. We should be careful about how we witness it.
[Akihiko has to stop to try to let the complicated mess of emotions settle down a little, taking a deep breath, clenching his fists and unclenching, until his head clears up a little. Elysia having checked on him helped, that's for sure]
...by the way... [Something Zhongli commented had gotten Akihiko's attention, and given how Elysia is like, maybe...] Did you talk to Jing Yuan while he was in the tower?
...by the way... [Something Zhongli commented had gotten Akihiko's attention, and given how Elysia is like, maybe...] Did you talk to Jing Yuan while he was in the tower?
[ she gives him a small smile. ]
I did. I heard he was very popular that night.
I did. I heard he was very popular that night.
[ they're at the holiday market. she picks up a christmas wreath. ]
Do you have Christmas where you're from?
Do you have Christmas where you're from?
What do you think about him? Be honest. I'm not interested in any kind of downplaying when it's about that guy.
[How messed up is Jing Yuan, is what he's trying to find out, mostly so Akihiko can have a feel of just how badly he had misjudged Jing Yuan in the conversations they had]
[How messed up is Jing Yuan, is what he's trying to find out, mostly so Akihiko can have a feel of just how badly he had misjudged Jing Yuan in the conversations they had]
Edited 2025-02-18 19:42 (UTC)
I do. It's actually popular enough for decorations to exist, and having cake on Christmas is a tradition.
[On his time, Japan seems to have taken some nice things about Christmas without going all-in into the gifts and the religious celebrations]
It feels like only a few of us know what Christmas is.
[Are yoooooou one of the people who know what this is? Or is he going to enlighten you today? He's getting used to explaining about these holidays -- and really, better this one than, like, Valentine's]
[On his time, Japan seems to have taken some nice things about Christmas without going all-in into the gifts and the religious celebrations]
It feels like only a few of us know what Christmas is.
[Are yoooooou one of the people who know what this is? Or is he going to enlighten you today? He's getting used to explaining about these holidays -- and really, better this one than, like, Valentine's]
In what way? He was behaving a bit differently than I expected, even if he did do it all on his own.
It makes sense it's not constant in every world. It's not like it was always the holiday it is or was...
But you don't have to explain it to me.
[ she knows enough. ]
But you don't have to explain it to me.
[ she knows enough. ]
[ akihiko... baby boy... how are you doing, second week in a row...
elysia stops by him when she sees him. ]
Hey. How are you holding up?
elysia stops by him when she sees him. ]
Hey. How are you holding up?
That part. The part about him behaving differently.
[Akihiko is unsure if he should add this, but decides he might as well do it:]
Back at home, someone I trusted turned out to be a complete scumbag with plans that'd end up causing widespread chaos. [Understatement, really] I didn't trust Jing Yuan nearly as much, but I'm having some...some trouble trying to come to terms that I might have encountered someone twisted like that and never suspected a thing again.
[He'd rather not have to look at people with suspicion and thinking they might be bad people at heart, but yeah, this is gnawing at him]
[Akihiko is unsure if he should add this, but decides he might as well do it:]
Back at home, someone I trusted turned out to be a complete scumbag with plans that'd end up causing widespread chaos. [Understatement, really] I didn't trust Jing Yuan nearly as much, but I'm having some...some trouble trying to come to terms that I might have encountered someone twisted like that and never suspected a thing again.
[He'd rather not have to look at people with suspicion and thinking they might be bad people at heart, but yeah, this is gnawing at him]
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