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maybe koromaru

but thats probably it

and hes probably a little more okay with the cold since he's a puppy

[Rise can't help leaning in again eagerly, because that puppy is way too cute, and oh, this must be one of the friends he was looking for!]

You're friends with Koro-chan, too? Koro-chan is amazing--I'd never seen an animal able to use a Persona before!

[She sits back and says little quieter, and at least half to herself:]

And I still don't really understand what that collar is...I guess it must let him summon his Persona somehow, though.

Edited 2012-12-08 00:52 (UTC)

hes not the one from my world but hes my friend yeah

his collar is his evoker

youre one of those people who doesnt need to use one arent you

I'm glad he found you, then! You know, he and I teamed up to look for you guys a while back, but all we found was lots of monsters. We sure took care of them, though! Koro-chan's pretty strong!

[And then have a both curious and confused blink.]

What's an evoker?

[Something that apparently lets a Persona be summoned, yes, she gets that much, but that still doesn't explain what it really is.]

[... Fine. He sighs and turns on the video, holding up his evoker.]

Most of them look like this. You have to press it to your head -

[He does so to demonstrate.]

- and shoot it to fire your Persona.

[~~...Haha~ She got him to show himself! That means she wins! Although HEY WAIT, that evoker looks a LOT like a--~~]

Does it--

[Shoot, ~~no pun intended~~ that might not really be the best question to ask here, but she's committed now, so she might as well get her answer.]

...Does it hurt?

[She keeps the tone of her question light and inquisitive but still concerned. Koro-chan had seemed totally fine with it, but then again, his evoker didn't look like gun.]

For...

[Mm. How to answer this carefully...]

For someone who was born with the potential to summon a Persona, no. Any pain involved is just psychological.

[That's enough of an answer for Rise, because yeeeah she noticed that slight pause, so curious or not (and she is), she's still not gonna push any further. ~~She can always just ask Senpai later.~~]

Wow, you must be pretty brave to use something like that, especially the first time!

[It really does look just like a gun after all...]

Oh, I'm Rise, by the way! Rise Kujikawa!

[He sets it down and shrugs.]

I'd been fighting Shadows with pieces of glass stuck in pipes for a while... it wasn't that scary compared to everything else.

... I'm Ken Amada.

[She looks a bit taken aback by the idea of someone so young using such makeshift weaponry...and against Shadows, no less.]

...Man, and I thought Yu-senpai using golf clubs and Yosuke-senpai fighting with wrenches was different.

[...Also not gonna ask about that vague but heavy-sounding everything else, because...he must've been pretty desperate to fight Shadows with that kind of thing, and she doesn't know him nearly well enough to pry. Plus, if it's something unpleasant, she doesn't want to make him talk or think about it anyways. N O P E gotta try to get things more cheerful and then keep 'em that way!]

Nice to meet you, Ken-kun! You can call me Rise-chan, or Risette if you'd rather!

Well it's not like anyone's going to sell a nine year old a spear. ... Or that I'd have money for it.

[Risette? Doesn't that name sound familiar? ... Hm.]

... Sure.

You've been fighting Shadows since you were nine? Whoa!

[Rise doesn't know whether to be impressed or...she doesn't even know what to call the mixture of curiosity, stunned disbelief, and horror she feels at the thought of someone so young having to fight like that for so long, so YEAH OKAY, she'll just settle on impressed. ~~+ Also feeling minorly confused because hey, don't Shadows only appear in the TV World? (Clearly she needs to hang/chat with with the P3 peeps more.)~~]

[...Aaaand Senpai hadn't really given her an answer on this yet, so she decided to just go for it and figure things out later if her offer caused some sort of problem somehow.]

If you get too cold by yourself, come warm up with us! I'll either be in 02-01 or 02-02--oh, or maybe 03-15!

Fighting sometimes. ... Mostly hiding from them when I could.

[He just... sighs. Persona were really the most effective against them, and since he hadn't had one for a long time... he was hurt more often than not.]

... I don't think so.

[Gonna find a puppy instead. :| ]

[That sounds...lonely somehow. And loneliness is something of a sensitive subject for Rise, so seeing this kid isolate himself further gets a stronger response than it maybe deserves. ~~Rise can be preeetty purposefully blunt about things sometimes, sorry Ken.~~]

...You know, it's pretty dumb to turn down an offer for help when you can actually use it. It's one thing if you're being cautious, but Yu-senpai said that you guys are friends! Why would you choose to be miserable by yourself when there are people who honestly wanna help you?

[Oh yeah, calling someone dumb is a GREAT way to make them wanna hang out with you.]

[He narrows his eyes. Of course she wouldn't understand. And really, he's tired and cold and his temper is really short right now.]

Because I don't trust you, for one. For another, Yu knows that I have other people I can go to.

If you're part of Yu's group, then you all seem to have not had to deal with the shit we've dealt with. You all seem to have had more or less normal lives.

Do you have any idea what it's like to have no one want you at all? Do you get what it's like to have no food or shelter? To have to steal just so you can have enough food to survive, or medicine so you don't die? To have to deal with another group with the same powers as you who want to take away the only way you've been able to survive at all?

You don't. You have no idea. You don't understand any of it. You couldn't. I don't trust you, so I don't want to be near you. Is that so hard to understand?

[So stop assuming he doesn't have reasons for it, because you have no idea how bad his issues are, or the issues of anyone else in Strega.]

[Rise isn't feeling the best either--her body aches, she's tired all the time, and she just can't seem to stop shivering, no matter how many layers she wears or blankets she wraps herself in. But then again, Rise never really needs much excuse to tell someone exactly what she's thinking.]

Of course I couldn't know any of that--no one told me anything about it until right this very minute! You said you were cold, but if you don't want anyone's help dealing with it, why say anything at all? And you don't trust me? Fine! So what do I have to do to get you to trust me? And just because other people had it easier than you doesn't mean we don't still understand what pain and loneliness feel like!

[...Still, he's just a kid, and snippy and short-tempered as he was being, if he's telling the truth, his past really was a truly horrifying one. She can't help but feel bad for him, and her own flare of temper fades away, leaving her looking and sounding decidedly contrite.]

But...I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to go through all that. That sounds...really, really awful. I didn't mean to remind you of it, or be so pushy, so I'm sorry for that, too. I just...I don't like seeing people alone, or maybe more...feeling like they have to be alone. That's all.

[TL;DR, she will leave you alone ~~for now~~ Ken. :C]

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