Just wanted to say it and drop the subject, yep made friends with an eldritch abomination, got brainjacked, got better, MOVING ON- but that response to it steps on something Kris never had, that Aleks thought was devoured. In his world it was rare, but not impossible. This kid sounded like his brain got fried from the conception of it, the voice of a five-year-old being told Santa isn't real. The voice of someone who was the only one.
That's not okay.
The radio silence goes on a beat too long, and the voice that comes back can finally be pinned as 'male', just because the emotionless tone is too low a drop on the vocal register. "Not, not the same one. But. Yeah. I do. But- not the place, definitely not the time, hunt me down o'er it later. I'm calling dibs on your healspam when we get a breather, anyway."
Disconnect, or a mute button, it's like trying to have conversations with Pai, or The Old Pai, not this weird new one. And now it's anyone in range of you or The Weird Pai instead of just Them. Either way, there's no white noise or interjection of thoughts into Jun's rant, despite a choice few coming to mind ("isn't a persona a theater term? that shit hasn't been around for decades" or "why would you put bombs in a tornado, i thought my life choices were bad" or "don't ever mention Chronos around me ever again, no hard feels mate").
Never good at casting, but damn was he good at building the foundations, outright inventing in some cases, this conversation is more of a return to home than any weird Awakening Of The Self trope could've ever been.
"Blah blah, again, not a professional anymore, take me with a stone o'salt. First off, I'm not sold entirely on these things being Persona. Personas. Personae? Fuckitwhatevthey're probably just Titled demons. Proof of reasoning! Exhibit A, please stare at my wolfdogthing. It is named Paimonia. Say hi, Pai!" It does not stop to say hi. "Most likely because, back home, I had the actual goetian demon Paimonia on retainer. They've already made it clear they're not my Pai, but details. Both Pais had to fork off my appearance in some way in order to make themselves manifest in reality proper. My-Pai just looked like a crossdressing me in a ponytail, Alt-Pai is... Is. Uh. ...Hm. Alt-Pai is me when my God gets impatient with my bullshitting."
Alt-Pai is a hurricane of broken mirrors wrapped around a bundle of clustered wires, needles, and black black oil leaking from the tears. Alt-Pai is forcibly shoving itself into the form of a wolf because That's What It's Supposed To Be So That Is What It Shall Be. Alt-Pai is also very very clearly not a human body by any definition of the word. Holy shit.
"And we're gonna steamroll right past that! My bet is this whole Awakening thing of voices shouting in our heads was just to get that ability to manifest something proper. Feel free to argue me on that one on account of I have no clue what a Persona is outside of it being from a banned entertainment venue. Exhibit B! I recognize the name Shax. Never met 'em, think he was aaaaa margrave? No, marquis? One of those Born Into Power type pricks. Iiiii-well, I was about to say check Solomon's research but different realities, welp, Exhibit B Edition 2! Level grinding is probably going towards the fusion spells you're talking about rather than powering up the demon itself, as fusing magic is waaaay more annoying than just augmenting an existing spell. Especially when it's opposing elements, what a bitch.
Again, no idea how your persona-thing works, but teal deers, it might be something that works similar to a persona from your world, but isn't, and trying to apply those rules too closely is just gonna much up making sense of it. Also, in regard to not being able to track people, you can take over the seeing eye dog. You can make sense of it, I can go back to stabbing, everyone wins. Traaaaadesieees~"
The music note at the end there is pretty much audible. It is also by far the most offensive part of this conversation. Worst Navi.
the cookies are on the world and the world is burning, thus burned cookies
That's not okay.
The radio silence goes on a beat too long, and the voice that comes back can finally be pinned as 'male', just because the emotionless tone is too low a drop on the vocal register. "Not, not the same one. But. Yeah. I do. But- not the place, definitely not the time, hunt me down o'er it later. I'm calling dibs on your healspam when we get a breather, anyway."
Disconnect, or a mute button, it's like trying to have conversations with Pai, or The Old Pai, not this weird new one. And now it's anyone in range of you or The Weird Pai instead of just Them. Either way, there's no white noise or interjection of thoughts into Jun's rant, despite a choice few coming to mind ("isn't a persona a theater term? that shit hasn't been around for decades" or "why would you put bombs in a tornado, i thought my life choices were bad" or "don't ever mention Chronos around me ever again, no hard feels mate").
Never good at casting, but damn was he good at building the foundations, outright inventing in some cases, this conversation is more of a return to home than any weird Awakening Of The Self trope could've ever been.
"Blah blah, again, not a professional anymore, take me with a stone o'salt. First off, I'm not sold entirely on these things being Persona. Personas. Personae? Fuckitwhatevthey're probably just Titled demons. Proof of reasoning! Exhibit A, please stare at my wolfdogthing. It is named Paimonia. Say hi, Pai!" It does not stop to say hi. "Most likely because, back home, I had the actual goetian demon Paimonia on retainer. They've already made it clear they're not my Pai, but details. Both Pais had to fork off my appearance in some way in order to make themselves manifest in reality proper. My-Pai just looked like a crossdressing me in a ponytail, Alt-Pai is... Is. Uh. ...Hm. Alt-Pai is me when my God gets impatient with my bullshitting."
Alt-Pai is a hurricane of broken mirrors wrapped around a bundle of clustered wires, needles, and black black oil leaking from the tears. Alt-Pai is forcibly shoving itself into the form of a wolf because That's What It's Supposed To Be So That Is What It Shall Be. Alt-Pai is also very very clearly not a human body by any definition of the word. Holy shit.
"And we're gonna steamroll right past that! My bet is this whole Awakening thing of voices shouting in our heads was just to get that ability to manifest something proper. Feel free to argue me on that one on account of I have no clue what a Persona is outside of it being from a banned entertainment venue. Exhibit B! I recognize the name Shax. Never met 'em, think he was aaaaa margrave? No, marquis? One of those Born Into Power type pricks. Iiiii-well, I was about to say check Solomon's research but different realities, welp, Exhibit B Edition 2! Level grinding is probably going towards the fusion spells you're talking about rather than powering up the demon itself, as fusing magic is waaaay more annoying than just augmenting an existing spell. Especially when it's opposing elements, what a bitch.
Again, no idea how your persona-thing works, but teal deers, it might be something that works similar to a persona from your world, but isn't, and trying to apply those rules too closely is just gonna much up making sense of it. Also, in regard to not being able to track people, you can take over the seeing eye dog. You can make sense of it, I can go back to stabbing, everyone wins. Traaaaadesieees~"
The music note at the end there is pretty much audible. It is also by far the most offensive part of this conversation. Worst Navi.