text | un: Helios

[fruitknife]

[Granted, there's exactly one person here who might understand Shinji's choice of user name, and that's a pretty big 'might.' But it wasn't taken, and it's not like the Iwatodai crowd know nothing about Greek mythology. There's just another layer to it.]

So. Money's presumably a thing here, since this isn't a void between worlds where you can just think shit into existence and I don't just have Mitsuru levels of it on hand. (Anyone else who knows Mitsuru: Yes, that much money is exactly as weird as you think it is.)

What do people do for jobs? I can cook and I can hit shit.

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text; un: nyakira

[fooligans]

If you're interested in cooking, there's a diner I'm working at.
You'd have to talk to Kagami and ask if he wants to hire someone, though.

And if you'd rather hit shit, quests are good or that.
There's an app called QuestBoard.
You can get that and check every now and then if there's something that interests you.

[fruitknife]

Cooking's probably gonna be steadier income than the quest things. [And he'll have more fun doing it, not that he'll ever say so.]

[fooligans]

We're mostly serving stuff like burgers if that's your thing.
Quests can be for pocket money or something.

[fruitknife]

Got a couple leads to look into. I'll figure something out.

Thanks for the tip.

[fooligans]

If you're looking for quest partners, you can hit me up anytime.
I'm Akira, by the way.
Unless you prefer Nyakira, that's okay, too.

[ Why is he like this. ]

[fruitknife]

Name's Shinji.

You got a cat or something?

[fooligans]

It's complicated.

[ How is that complicated, though... ]

Used to. Kind of.

[ He can almost hear Morgana's voice denying that he's a cat right here and right now. ]

[fruitknife]

How do you 'kind of' have a cat?

[Being fair, SEES kind of had a dog, but Koromaru's damn smart and still has loyalty to his first human besides.]

[fooligans]

He lives in denial and repeats things like "I'm not a cat!" and all that stuff.
So he's...sort of a cat.

[ This boy really misses his cat. ]

[fruitknife]

'Talking cat' ain't the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. Koro-chan might take the cake there, at least for home shit. [If you factor in Liminal Space... well, the possibilities are endless.]

How'd you end up with a talking cat?

[fooligans]

Koro-chan? As in...Koromaru?

[ It's impossible not to think of the dog he's met somehow recently. ]

Do you have time for a long story?

[fruitknife]

That's him. Smartest damn dog I ever met.

Got nothin' but time.

[fooligans]

What a coincidence.
So you must know Ken and Kotone, too.

As for my not-cat, we met in a strange place.

[ Explaining the Metaverse through text messages? That would take a while. ]

He taught me how to fight shadows, kind of. And then just joined the team.

[fruitknife]

There's timeline bullshit involved, but yeah. [Of course there's timeline bullshit involved. Persona users seem to attract timeline bullshit.

Hopefully here it won't be 'six Inaba Wild Cards, three of whom are the same person' bad.]

...Think I knew one of your friends, last place I was stuck. She didn't go into many details, but a not-cat definitely came up a couple times.

[fooligans]

Big mood on timeline bullshit.

[ It doesn't even surprise him that someone was stuck in another world but it is a bit concerning. ]

What was her name?
There are so many versions of everyone, it's just...hard to process sometimes.

[fruitknife]

Liminal Space had six different group leaders from Inaba. Most of 'em at once. Three of 'em were the same person. Missed the worst of that bottleneck myself, but. [He's at least used to the timeline bullshit, by now.]

Haru.

[fooligans]

Six...different group leaders. At once.

[ He has no idea where Inaba is, but it's easy enough to imagine six versions of himself somehow. Getting thrown into another world helps with understanding that. ]

Did you keep your powers?

[ What a beautiful disaster, so many persona users in one place. ]

Oh, I thought so...she's not here, though.

[ And at this point, he can't tell if it's a bad or a good thing. ]

[fruitknife]

I think only five all at once and then one later on, but yeah. Six of 'em. [You know, Inaba. Where Risette's from.]

We did, yeah. Main thing I ever did with mine was get my shit sorted out. And we learned other stuff along the way.

If she was, I wouldn't expect her to know me anyway. Timeline bullshit's nobody's fault and I won't make it their problem.

[But considering how hush the Phantom Thieves were... Akira should know this new guy is aware of some of their deal.]