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[Open] + [Closed] DIVERSITY

WHO: Maya and many individuals
WHERE: All over
WHEN: The month of June
WHAT: Punishment shenanigans, quests, and a catch-all for additional threads?? Closed threads will be added to the post, open prompts will be beneath the cut.
WARNINGS: Talk of nonexistent gruesome injuries, spoilers for both P2 games idk is that a warning!!!!
NOTES: If you'd like to plot anything additional, you can PM me or reach me on plurk at

starswept!

[ That first week of June. ]

[ If you are a teenager or younger, regardless of whether or not this young woman has met you, she's looking incredibly upset the minute she gets a good look at you. This is a prelude to her hurrying over, gaze anxious, as she looks you over and-- ]

This is... definitely going to be a weird question, but are you actually hurt?

[ SHE MIGHT LOOK LIKE SHE'S ABOUT TO CRY. ]

[ Alternatively, she can be spotted making a much slower way around the town. Slower because she's apparently decided to use her necktie as a blindfold, and even Maya isn't about to go sprinting about an area where she can't see.

It won't stop her from bumping into someone, or-- ]

Whoops! Sorry!!

[ A tree. Or the well. Or literally anything else, but she doesn't seem keen to take that blindfold off? Wonder why???? ]

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[... Oh...]

... Regrets can be kind of dangerous, Amano-san. [That's said mildly, but his head is tilted in slight concern.]

If you let them linger and keep them to yourself.

It's not really anything I wanted to burden anyone with, though. They've been through enough.

[ entirely too much, in her opinion. ]

...How do you know it's a burden on the people you've met here to talk about things like that?

Oh! No, that was more for the people back home. Honestly, I couldn't say what the people here have to deal with for themselves.

Then I hope that at some point, you feel comfortable enough to be able to talk about it here... even if it's just here, it might help ease some of those burdens.

... [ Maya laughs softly, though there's a hint of something forced about it. ]

I don't think I could just ask someone to listen.

[... Maya...

Minato just tilts his head quietly, voice soft.]

...Why not?

... It's a lot, Minato-kun. And I don't mean for me. [ Although it is. ]

But to truly explain, it would be a lot for a person to have to take in.

... That just means it's even more for one person to hold onto all on their own.

Aren't things like that easier when there's someone to share it with...? Then you don't have to carry it all on your own, at least. And neither will the person you're confiding in.

... [ heh. ]

Have you done that here, Minato-kun?

A little bit.

[Ye...s...??]

The people here are good friends, and really kind. And we've all...experienced a lot of different things. So I think we're more equipped to help than you'd think.

[In particular--]

I'm used to dealing with a Persona Journey, Amano-san.

[ Maya studies him for a very long moment, lips pursed in thought and eyes a fair shade darker than usual. He's not wrong. If anyone would understand the crazier parts of it, it would probably be Minato.

But... ]

It's a long story. Are you sure?

I'm sure.

[He says that simply, nodding firmly, expression calm.]

If you want, we can find somewhere to sit while you talk.

Might as well, right? I think it might be kind of silly to have this talk while we're just standing here staring at each other.

[ So! She'll start walking. There has to be a helpful tree somewhere. ]

[Helpful tree, straight ahead!! It's nice that there's plenty of foliage in this town even if most of it is Not Green.]

This should work, right?

Perfect!

[ Maya settles down underneath it, resting her back against the trunk. ]

I guess before I get too into it-- have you met Philemon? He sometimes takes the form of a butterfly, but the rest of the time, he's this ponytailed guy in a butterfly mask.

Mm, no, I haven't met him. Or played the Persona game. I just heard about it from Nanjo-san, but...

[A shake of his head.]

I got my Persona in a different way, I guess. Or maybe it was always there...?

It might have been. I can't say I know your story, but I also know there have been different methods to gain a Persona.

Just... uh, kind of forcible ones.

... I've heard of a lot of those, too.

[...He sighs, shaking his head.]

But mine was there when I needed it, when I was in danger. ...But anyway, that's not the point.

[THE POINT IS--]

Is Philemon part of your story?

He... is.

... Long story short, we got caught up in a bet between Philemon, who more or less represented humanity's potential, and Nyarlathotep, who represented the darker side of humanity. The chaos. Shadows. At the end of it, I was... killed. That brought about the end of the world.

[ ... ]

In order to reverse it, Philemon offered a solution: the world could be reset, my death would be undone, but everyone had to let go of their memories of each other. It would take going all the way back to a time where we had never met, and guaranteeing that... that particular meeting would never happen.

[... Well. That's a lot to process, she wasn't lying about that. It hurts to think of humans--normal human beings like Maya and her friends--getting caught in between some sort of weird cosmic game between godly beings to the extent that it would get Maya killed.

And that...

That was the solution?

He frowns, brow furrowing.]

... That was the only solution...?

It was. You have to understand, Minato-kun, Nyarlathotep had been working on this for years-- as far back as our childhoods. That was the only way to set things right.

[ Unfortunately. A strong bond of friendship between all of them, broken by their own hands-- because they'd had no other choice. ]

[... He just doesn't understand.]

But... but why would they use you like this? That seems cruel.

That's a great question. And honestly, I wish I could tell you why.

[ GODS. ]

[FUCK GODS - minato arisato, probably]

... I guess it doesn't matter right now. [Not as much, anyway.]

So everyone had to...forget each other? Is that really what happened? [Because Maya seems to remember quite well right now?]

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