LE MONDE.

it's a crooked game, but it's the only one in town. femc for p5. temp dash only. about. / rules.

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i’ve mentioned it before but orpheus picaro and izanagi picaro are consistently part of hitomi’s roster of personas post pq2.

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I’d like to think feelings get carried through Personas… so even if the persona has no memories of its past user, the emotions of the original persona holder’s journey are still held within.

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                 LET ME FACE, LET ME FACE, LET ME FACE MY FEARS. 

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how dare all the obvious variations of “newgameplus” be taken :/

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speaking of ryuji i really do need a thread where they work out together, especially early in the game. until she gets to go out after dark, hitomi really gives her all in those work outs to try and regain her strength. 

she’s lost all the strength she’d worked up over the last year in the first timeline; she definitely understands ryuji’s frustration at not being able to do something you used to be able to do as easy as breathing.

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god im just imagining akechi finding out about hitomi’s first timeline and how she knows about his plans and just

oof.

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“...scarlet witch is my fave.”

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                 LET ME FACE, LET ME FACE, LET ME FACE MY FEARS. 

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since i neither have my icons with me, nor the energy to edit new ones, i won’t be here until after new years. when i get back home up north, i’m going to try to focus on making hitomi my secondary blog, with cassandra as my primary blog.

until the holidays are over and i’m home again, i’ll be on @loveinclined

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"Hello, sweetie! I'm sorry for not calling too often, your brother says the two of you've been absolutely swamped with school so I didn't want to bother you too much-" Said brother, who can hear some of this, shrugs his shoulders. "But I wanted to make sure your Christmas presents made it to Sakura-san's in time! Rin's sent you two some sweets, too, so look forward to those!" There's a pause, and the voice on the line falters some. "How've you been, honey? Tokyo's treating you well.. Right?"

“yeah, uh- can you just give me a minute, i kinda wanna talk to you...alone,” hitomi manages, gesturing for one minute from her brother. she takes the steps two at a time down to the ground floor of leblanc, waving at sojiro before shutting herself into the tiny bathroom.

and she promptly started crying.

this was her second december 19th away from home, away from her mother, with almost no contact with her. her anger had burned out during her second august, leaving behind only regret and loneliness. but the gap had seemed so big....it was easier to just wait for her parents to contact her than try and bridge that gap herself.

“sorry, sorry,” she says, shaking her head as it gets easier to talk. “i- this wasn’t how i wanted this to go.”

she lets out a watery laugh. her mother must be all kinds of worried right now. the first time she hears from her daughter in a year, and she immediately starts crying, then laughing. 

“i’ve been under a lot of stress lately, but...soon it’ll be easier. i just have to make it to christmas, and then i can relax,” she says, wiping her nose on her sleeve. if she made it to christmas, that is. no- no, she had to have faith. they were stronger this time around. 

“um- the good news is that i’ve made a lot of friends since i came here. i’ve been doing really well in school too. the, uh, student council president is helping me, and we’ve even...started dating.”

she leaves out the part where the student council president is a girl; if hibiki’s already told them about makoto, then she’ll tell her mother. if not...it can wait until christmas.

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“Mmmm…?”

   The hesitation and softness to your sister’s voice is what pulls you from your phone, a text to Yusuke abandoned as the device is tossed on the bed so you can give her your full attention. You’ve noted that Hitomi has been oddly on edge for months now, but she’s never opened up about it, which you found even odder. She always shrugged it off or changed the subject… And frankly, that behaviour has been scaring you. It isn’t like Hitomi at all!

   What scares you even more is the sudden bout of clairvoyance your sister has displayed ever since Kamoshida’s castle. No… Before that. Ever since finding that weird bag in her room while you were packing. You frown at the bag in question, eyeing the embroidered butterfly ( carefully ignoring your own still untouched suitcase ) before meeting Hitomi’s eyes. It scares you, honestly. Every time you look at it, you feel as though there’s something you should be remembering.

   Your sister, sprawled out on the ground as the blood thunders in your ears and you can barely hear your own screaming for her. Your friends panic as a monster the size of a skyscraper looms over you and you cradle your best friend, begging her to hang in there, not to leave you behind–

“I thought so,” The words are rushed, an escape from that phantom nightmare that haunts you enough as it is, and you scoot over on the futon to loop an arm around Hitomi’s shoulder. Hopefully it would be as much comfort to her as it is to you. “I didn’t want to push you too much, especially with Morgana around. What’s up? Talk to me.”

A sigh leaves her, her shoulders sagging, as if she’s finally starting to buckle from the weight upon her shoulders. Who knows? Maybe she was. She certainly felt like it, with the days running out until Okumura’s Palace, and she was no closer to figuring out how to change things.

She’d been noticing Morgana’s more sullen behavior more this time around, and she’d been trying to talk to him about it, but...it was if he was determined to ignore any attempt to reassure him that he belonged on the team. As if he was bound to have that fight with Ryuji no matter what Hitomi did...and that was what scared her the most. What if, at the end of the day, there was only so much Hitomi could change? What if she did everything she could and it still wasn’t enough to alter fate?

“Our next mission is going to be a failure,” she said all at once. She had to rip this off like a band-aid, or else she’d never get it all out. “It’s...it’s going to be Okumura, and after we steal his heart and start to leave, that Persona user in the black mask is going to kill his shadow and force a mental shutdown.”

A deep breath. “I know this because I’ve lived through it all before. Not just Okumura’s palace, but...starting from when we first got here, and going all the way until Christmas Day...I’ve lived through all of that.”

Her eyes meet Hibiki’s, all the anxiety she’s been trying to hide rushing up to the surface. “I know it sounds insane, but...it’s true. Please believe me, Biki.”

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HIBIKI.

“Nope, I thought so too.” 

   Your grip tightens against the table’s edge, and you hope that none of the others notice the slight sway to your stance as you lean against it. You and Hitomi can’t even fight in here; You’ve no right to be feeling so utterly drained and exhausted when all you’ve had to do is keep up with the others and endure a Shadow’s company for a while– While the others scrambled to rescue you, at that.

   You hate feeling so damn useless in here. You hate that it’s the two of you keeping the Palace security so low, given Aragaki doesn’t perceive you as a threat so long as you don’t try to fight the demons his mind conjured up. 

   ( You hate that your caretaker’s been suffering so much most of all and there’s so little you can do to help him, all because he’s taken a liking to you. )

“This entire Palace has been weird from the start. Aragaki really hasn’t been doing anything wrong, but something in him’s distorted enough that a Palace was created to begin with. His Shadow’s been nothing but kind, but that thing…” You trail off, not wanting to linger. Hitomi was kidnapped alongside you. She knows. “If only we knew more about his past. But… If it’s locked away in what’s supposed to be the most secure, private part of this place, I’d be willing to bet it’s a pretty huge source of Aragaki’s grief.”

Hitomi nods; she’d been thinking the same thing. The other palaces were more or less easy to dissect- Kamoshida thought of himself as a king, so he had a castle. Madarame was a hack, but he thought he was an artist, so he had a museum. Kaneshiro viewed Shibuya as a bank, and that’s the form his palace took. Easy to understand.

But Aragaki-san’s... It was just his restaurant, surrounded by layers and layers of security measures. It was the type of lasers and steel doors you’d see in a spy movie, but...why? Was it all just to protect his treasure? No, that didn’t fit either. Maybe...

“What if...you know how people talk about having walls around their heart? Like, to protect themselves from getting hurt?” Hitomi started, sitting up in her chair, a focused expression on her face. “What if this is just...a really, really literal version of that? What if this is all here because Aragaki-san is so afraid of letting people in and getting hurt that a Palace formed? Like...his desire to protect himself was so strong, that walls were built up around his heart.”

Hitomi chewed on her lip, thinking. “I don’t know what happened to him, but between that thing he keeps locked up like a monster, and the stack of dishes of uneaten food in his restaurant....It can’t have been pretty.”

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ziongha replied to your post “ship biases? i can do that hitomi/makoto ( hitomi has a canon crush on...”

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i was gonna post a starter call but. no icons :/

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ship biases? i can do that

hitomi/makoto ( hitomi has a canon crush on makoto! )

hitomi/ann

hitomi/shiho

hitomi/ryuji

hitomi/haru

hitomi/minako ( in pq2, she does develop a crush on minako if she’s not in a relationship by that point )

hitomi/elizabeth ( in the context of a phantom thief au for elizabeth )

i will not ship hitomi with any adult confidants, and i’m reluctant to ship her futaba because i view them as being more like siblings than anything else. i probably won’t end up shipping her with akechi or yusuke either, since i personally hc them both as gay.

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noxtied replied to your post “ship biases? i can do that hitomi/makoto ( hitomi has a canon crush on...”

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’ Oh, good! I was hoping to add theft, endangerment and insanity to my list of things I did today. ’

LILO & STITCH STARTERS. | ACCEPTING.

“Look, are you going to help me or not?” Hitomi said, quickly losing her patience. She had to remind herself, for the hundredth time, that no one else was used to this yet. She was the only one who had memories of that first life, and the only one who could pick locks as effortlessly as she could breathe. 

The lock came undone with a click, and Hitomi opened the door as quietly as possible. “I’m going ahead. Feel free to be lookout if you don’t want to help me.”