[Open] + [Closed] DIVERSITY

[scooptimistic]

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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[scooptimistic]

I did.

[ Of course she did. ]

All it took was one look at him when he told me everything and I couldn't help it. He was being stubborn, but he was also exhausted.

... And after not realizing everything he'd been through for the sake of people who no longer knew him, it was really all I could do.

[messianic]

... You're a really caring person, huh...?

[Honestly...]

To see what someone needed at a time like that.

[scooptimistic]

I really should have seen it sooner.

[ Maya pauses, blinking back tears that she... honestly hadn't quite realized were there. ]

... That's my regret, Minato-kun. That such a lonely kid had to go through all of that on his own and I couldn't be there for him.

He used to call me "Maya-nee", but what kind of big sister would have ever let him deal with so much by himself?

[messianic]

[...Ah.

So that's... how it is. Minato's quiet for a moment, considering that. And then, softly:]

He made that choice. You didn't remember anything, and he knew it.

[But he chose to remember, because it was too painful to forget, and Minato can't deny that it sounds incredibly lonely, but:]

I bet... it was a real relief for him when you hugged him after remembering. When... even despite everything, you cared about him that much.

[... Isn't that what Minato was hoping for too, when SEES forgot?]

[scooptimistic]

I don't think the bonds we make disappear entirely, even when we can't draw on the memories that forged them.

[ Geez... okay, right, no more crying, Maya. Pardon her, she's just going to quickly swipe at her eyes. ]

I still felt something familiar, when I ran into him for the first time. And with the others, too, even if I didn't-- well, I can't follow through on it now anyway.

It was just... I couldn't let someone just break in front of me. And especially not someone who was practically family in a time that didn't technically exist.

So if it helped him in the end... I'd be relieved.

[messianic]

[... Yeah. Minato thought so. She's that sweet, that caring... of course she wanted to do whatever she could for him. And he's certain that she did.

He doesn't know the boy she's talking about, but he's sure of it.]

I'm sure it helped him in the end. I don't think you're the sort of person who would ever be satisfied with leaving something like that "half-done".

[scooptimistic]

[ She hopes that she did. For Tatsuya's sake. ]

You're right.

[ He seems to be oddly convinced about that, but he's also not wrong. ]

... But wow, I sure did unload a lot on you, huh?

[messianic]

... Well, I did ask you to.

[FAIR'S FAIR.]

I'm glad you were able to talk about it at least a little, too. It's important, I think... not to have to bottle everything up, especially regrets.

[scooptimistic]

I was probably pulling a Tatsuya-kun a little myself, there.

[ whoops. ]

But really, thank you.

[messianic]

Really, I'm just glad.

[He is!! It's probably healthier to talk about it.]

[scooptimistic]

The offer stands on my end, if you ever need to do the same. Not saying you have to, but just so you know.

[messianic]

[... Minato just nods quietly, accepting that quietly.]

Thank you. I appreciate it, I really do. Right now, I'm okay, but... I'll remember that.