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[It's a perfectly ordinary day in Tokyo, if you ignore the fact that Akechi just got done enduring a horrific, white palace with crumbling architecture, creepy tentacles everywhere, and scraps of memory locked away and scattered like puzzle pieces, culminating in battling a tentacled abomination to free Wakaba Isshiki's Shadow from the prison of her mind, and... well. A mother-daughter reunion is always nice, he supposes.

He's on the phone when he stumbles in, deep in the midst of a conversation.]

Isshiki-san's condition is stable, but we'll have to relocate her before he notices anything amiss. ...Yes, Dad, I'm all right. Not that I don't appreciate the concern, but-

[The signal cuts out, and... ah. The Velvet Room. And not the Velvet Room of his childhood, but... this one.

At first he bristles, eyes narrowed into a razor-sharp glare. He has half a mind to complain to Igor about locking him out, but all signs point to Ren's "Igor" being impostor, and... no. Wait.

Recollection flashes before him. With that recollection, he grimaces.]

...Of course I'd end up back here.

[He shuts his eyes, brings a hand to his face, and breathes in deeply. He was such a stupid tween, and if people connect him to said tween... Who even knows how much time has passed here?]

[ooc: Older version of

fogboundcrow for the funny. Some info on his profile. Yes, he's wearing a Shujin uniform.]

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[ What the fuck. ] The Metaverse stuff must seem tame to you.

One time, we had to defeat another deity by dancing. I shit you not.

[This is his serious face. His voice? Just as serious. This really is a thing that happened.]

[ He sits back in his seat, narrow-eyed. ] Now you're fucking with me.

It was a being summoned forth by the collective desire for shallow, safe bonds without pain, just as Hi-no-Kagutsuchi was drawn in by humanity's collective desire for isolation and solitude. Evidently, humanity likes to bring about these situations quite often.

[It's funny how it keeps happening. Absurdly frustrating, but funny.]

[ At some point you have to just let humanity suffer the consequences of its own bullshit, in Ren's opinion. But more importantly: ] What does that have to do with dancing?

We got pulled into a parallel reality not unlike the TV world and the Metaverse where we were unable to fight and instead had to use the power of song and dance to free Shadows that were being brainwashed to bond with the aforementioned deity.

[He takes another sip.]

Really, it's not all that odd after the fighting tournaments. In the second one, we faced Shadows that resembled our friends and comrades and could somehow use Personas.

... Shadows can't use Personas.

[ Yep, that's all he has to say. He's staring at Akechi like he's worried about Akechi's sanity. Or maybe just worried about the state of reality... That's been true for a while, but he had no idea how serious the problems were. ]

You're right. They normally can't, but this deity was somehow able to make it so. Perhaps it was an unusual side effect of the red fog.

[Ultimately, it's been years, and he doesn't have the case file immediately on hand. It certainly was odd, tho.]

[ Okay, but seriously, is Akechi bullshitting or not? Because if he is, he's really committed to the bit. But if he's not, truly, what in the name of fuck. ]

I guess you could tell me anything and I wouldn't be able to say nah, that didn't happen.

...There is literally a dog that can use a Persona. Not a Metaverse dog. Just... a dog. An adorable Shiba Inu who I receive pictures of on the regular.

[Here, he'll even show a picture on his phone. Isn't he cute?]

All that to say, I think at this point, we ought to expect almost anything. If a gas station attendant can be a goddess, then for all we know, Morgana is actually the reincarnation of an ancient entity set to bring about the promised land.

[But that might be a little silly.]

[ Ren dutifully leans forward to look at the dog. That... sure is a dog. ]

He might be. He sure the fuck isn't human, even if that's his pet theory—heh. Pet theory.

Then again, Teddie was able to grow a human body, so who knows?

[Here, he'll show a photo of Teddie winking and doing a little pose.]

Though it probably helps in Teddie's case that his original form was large and shaped like a costume. Morgana's... really small.

[ What a freaky-looking creature. ]

What, he grew it like a giant tumor? He grew it in a test tube? What does that even mean?

He grew it inside the bear body and then unzipped his head to reveal himself as an obnoxiously attractive twink.

[He grumbles and brings a hand to his face at the memory.]

He was naked at the time. And sweating. And drinking seductively from a water bottle.

It was a lot for me to deal with when I'd barely turned 13.

...Everything about that is awful.

[ Morgana as a hot twink. Morgana growing a human body inside his cat body and then unzipping his skin. ]

The only thing that would make it worse is if he was buff. Buff, human Morgana.

[He punctuates his comment with another bite of sushi. This is absurd.]

We have to be careful what we say in here. If we think about buff human Morgana too much, he might become real. [ A nightmare... ]

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...I don't know. I think it's a rather tempting thought experiment. Can the collective will of us residents bring untold monstrosities to life?

Perhaps I will meditate on that image for science.

[It would be horrifying in all the wrong ways... Funny if they made it happen, though.]

[ The worst thing is, from knowing his own Akechi, Ren only puts the odds at about 50/50 that this Akechi is messing with him. ]

I'm with you on the general concept. It's just buff Morgana specifically where you lose me. Let's choose something else weird and we can both meditate on it.

[ ...Then again, maybe Ren's not in a position to throw stones, since he's as curious about the experiment as his Akechi would be. ]

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It could be worse. At least I'm not proposing something outlandish like buff Igor.

[...And now that he's said that, he cringes. That's one image that will haunt him.]

[ Ren wrinkles his nose, trying to picture the spindly, weirdly-proportioned being with gigantic muscles.

But then... ] That might be good to know, though. Whether our cognition can affect him.

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Hmmm... We could try to envision all manner of unusual Igors. See if he duplicates.

[This is going to be incredibly silly. Does he mind? Not at all.]

Even... Morgana Igor.

If that's what it takes to avert buff Morgana, I'll do it. Morgana Igor. Morganigor, if you will.

[ He's grinning. This conversation has gone so far off the rails, for like the third time. ]

...We could make this extra cursed. Akigor. Ryujigor. Sojigor...

[All of these are things that should never be uttered aloud. They are playing with dangerous toys. Very dangerous toys.]

Akechigor.