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[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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[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.]