animus_network | 004 ❀ Invisible words explode with scorn

[Hey there tower- you know this face? She doesn't make it a point to use the network often, but when she does, it's usually for a good reason. Today's reason seems to be making announcements, settled in the library with tea beside her and her sketchbook in hand as ever.]

Strega- we will have breakfast tomorrow. All of us. Please don't make me have to come and bring you down. It would assuredly not be worth the trouble.

[Don't make her do it boys. It'll be ugly. Or at the very least, unpleasant.]

Willow- I have more things ready for you, if you would care to come try them on. I feel I may need to request a few more types of fabric from the tower if I am to continue, however. I would like to get the rest of these done properly or not at all.

[Because so many projects, so little of the necessary fabric to use- but half-assing things isn't her style.]

There is one more matter I'd care to bring up, if I may. Her Imperious Condescension, if I might request your attention a moment.

[She picks up her tea then, fingers curling delicately around the cup. It's not an actual request of course, because she takes another sip and continues on regardless-]

It has come to my attention that you have taken issue with the fact that one of your subjects is in a moirallegiance with me. While I am certain you have nothing but his best interests at heart- [she's absolutely sure of the opposite, actually]- I feel I must implore you to kindly mind your own quadrants. Presuming of course, there are any more of your subjects here loyal or willing enough to enter into them with you. If not, perhaps you should look into finding a quadrant-mate outside of the limited number of your people- it seems to be working out just fine for some of the rest of them, after all.

[She takes another sip of her tea, then sets it aside and reaches forward toward the console.]

Ah- and if you should hurt him again like you did before, I believe you will find that not everyone is quite so willing to let you do as you please, Highness.

[Chidori out, yo.]

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[ ... Sigh. He thought as much. ]

Fine.

[ He might not like it at all, but he's not going to get in her way. ]

And hopefully you'll be done in time for breakfast. Do you want me to help with that, by the way? We might need to forcibly drag Jin.

[ Which surprises no one, but, you know. ... Either way, as concerning as it might be... yeah, he really hopes she doesn't run off and make a huge enemy. ]

Thank you.

[He is the only one she will say that to, because he is the only one who really understands, it seems.]

Hopefully I will be. But Ken and I are handling breakfast- would you care to handle Jin? [A beat-] Is there anything in particular you'd like to have?

... Not really. I can handle Jin, though. I'm fine with whatever everyone else wants. And if no one speaks up, then we just... work it out.

[ AKA IMPROVISE. ]

Very well. I'll see what I can find when I head to the kitchen in the morning then.

[Improvising is doable.]

[ ... Small smile. c: ]

Both of us. Besides, if we're going to do this, we may as well go all out. I'll be there when you are.

... And anyway, I wouldn't want to subject the others to cooking. I have a feeling Jin would blow something up and call it cooking.

[Internal autoswoon, .////.]

Ken-kun will be there as well- he's already volunteered.

...letting Jin near an open flame is ill-advised in any situation, I believe.

[ AUTO-OBLIVIOUS BRICK WALLING: activated! The mention of Jin earns a small laugh from him, though. He knows she's right. ]

... I guess you have a point there. I'm... just glad nearly everyone is here. I was worried about all of you, when it was just me.

[ Yes he might be getting a little dumb here, oh well. ]

[Thing she is used to about Minato #257. The laugh makes her own mouth tilt into a smile, and she ducks her head, brushing her hair out of her eyes.]

I'm sorry you had to worry. And I'm sorry you had to be alone.

[She doesn't want him to have to deal with that again.]

But we're all together now.

... Yeah, we are.

[ It's horribly infectious, isn't it? He's just. So pleased to see her smiling, even if slightly when she sort of ducks out of sight, HE CAUGHT IT OKAY.

And... also. Now he just can't help it, so-- ]

It's nice to see you making connections.

[ ... Like to Dualscar. And others. Hee. Chidori is making friends!! c: ]

Hopefully we'll remain that way.

[It is, and she's awful at keeping herself as expressionless as she usually does when Minato looks so pleased- even if what he says makes her tense a little, eyes lowering further.]

You were always better at that than the rest of us.

[Mainly because as long as they had each other, Chidori hadn't ever really wanted to find herself attached to anyone outside of Strega. Or anyone, really.]

You make it seem so simple.

[ Aw Chidori, you're silly. He seems a bit surprised, though. Of course he had to be; there were times they'd needed to gather info or talk to people or get close to targets, after all, and even then, he's gotten a lot better at being social since coming here, he has to admit. ]

You think so?

[ Silly boy aren't you part of what helped get the four of you together more in the first place? He's too modest. ]

Flattery will get you nowhere closer to learning my nonexistent secrets, Chidori.

[ He can never resist the chance to try to lighten the mood. ]

It's true.

[You're their leader for a reason, Minato- and she will take every opportunity she can to remind you that it's for a good reason. You've got something the rest of them never really had until you came along.

Silly protag boys, spreading all that Hope everywhere.]

I don't think you could hide any from me if you tried.

[Oh, but how wrong you are in that regard, Chidori.]

[ Pokerface.

Because ah... Minami.

He really should tell them.

... Soon. He'll talk to her first, before he does that. Surely, taking it slowly would give them all time to come to terms with it? For now... for now, this is just them. ]

... You're probably right. I've never exactly considered it before, though. I admit it's a little easier to talk to people when you're not worried about what we usually are. ... Still, I think it's interesting to learn about others. Not to mention useful.

[If she only knew.

She nods a little at his explanation, fingers tugging at the edge of a sleeve idly.]

Yes- people here are surprisingly accepting of things like...well. Us.

[The strange, the unusual, the out of the ordinary. Orphans, vagabonds, freaks.

Murderers more often than not, even if they didn't advertise that fact.]

It's... strange.

[Not bad, necessarily. Just strange.]

... Most, anyway. I have a feeling we're going to have problems with those other Persona users if they find out everything.

[ Therefore!! ]

I think we should be careful about how much of our fighting abilities they see. While it would ultimately be best to have more allies, I really don't trust any of them.

... They probably wouldn't understand, anyway.

Problems?

[If they have a problem, they can take it up with Medea's Agidyne.]

...you're probably right. It is probably unwise to trust anyone outside of Strega.

... They're naïve.

I'm not saying not to talk to anyone, but you'll probably run into a good deal of annoyance with any other Persona users.

You know, I probably don't need to say it, but... I'd prefer less fighting if we can manage it. The last thing we need to do is end up tiring ourselves out in a pointless battle and pay for it later.

[ HINT. HINT. :C ]

... I'm going to go look and see if we have anything in the kitchen for muffins at some point, too. So... good luck, okay?

[ That's all. He'll leave her be now. ]

I understand.

[And she does, sort-of. She doesn't much like dealing with the constant curiosity about why she's the way she is, or reliving memories she doesn't want to because someone wants to know 'how'.]

I did not intend to start a fight- but I will not back down from her. It's as good as letting her win if I do.

[A pause, and-]

There should be enough to make some plain ones, if we're careful.

I will see you soon, Minato.

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