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There's a new presence in the shadows of the Velvet Room tonight.
For a while, there's no obvious sign of this... presumably a person, just the feeling that something is watching from the darkness, listening to whatever cryptic platitudes Igor's spouting about the place tonight. Eventually, though, the presence announces itself as... an Akira, looking at the conspiracy board.
Or maybe he's a Ren? (He's both. He's neither. He's pretty sure Igor is the closest to a familiar entity here. Making connections? That's not going to be a problem at all.)
"...I have no idea what most of this means," he's forced to conclude after several minutes. "Cool."
For a while, there's no obvious sign of this... presumably a person, just the feeling that something is watching from the darkness, listening to whatever cryptic platitudes Igor's spouting about the place tonight. Eventually, though, the presence announces itself as... an Akira, looking at the conspiracy board.
Or maybe he's a Ren? (He's both. He's neither. He's pretty sure Igor is the closest to a familiar entity here. Making connections? That's not going to be a problem at all.)
"...I have no idea what most of this means," he's forced to conclude after several minutes. "Cool."
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"Wow. You're not even an Akechi or anything."
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"A who?"
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"You don't know your Akechi?" Ren is visibly thrown by that. The only other version of him who hasn't met his Akechi back home is the literal five-year-old. "Uh. Brown hair, usually about down to here—" He indicates with a hand. "—brown eyes, real smart, a huge pain in the ass? Any of that ring a bell?"
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That's probably not going to be any less confusing.
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"What's his name, if it's not Akechi?"
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"He has a lot of them, but Crow is his favorite." But not his true name. Akira won't be handing that out for anything, not when it's gotten Crow in enough trouble already.
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"What's your favorite name, then?"
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"My favorite? That one I don't give out to just anyone." Because that's the one with the most power - but it's also the one with the most meaning, considering the trouble Akira went to to claim it. "I'll answer to a lot of things, though. Doesn't look like anyone's claimed Lotus yet, so that might cut down on confusion."
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"That's basically Ren. We're a little closer to evening the board."
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He figures his own name should be obvious, after this conversation, so he doesn't bother to introduce himself. "Anyway, you need help getting oriented or anything? Don't insult the board, by the way, there's a kid who's real proud of it."
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"I can probably help. Unfortunately. I've been here as long as anyone. What are you wondering about in particular?"
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"And there are the Shadows of specific people. Parts of them that they hide or don't like, turning into whole new beings in cognitive worlds. Those just look like their people, but if you fight them, they turn weird. And messing with them affects the person."
...Is that an okay explanation? He has no idea. He just learned on the job, pretty much, and then Morgana filled in the blanks not long before he was brought here.
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It's a good enough explanation for Akira to work that much out, anyway.
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"You usually need a Persona to fight them, but you'd know this stuff already if you were a Persona user. Unless you can protect yourself some other way, you're better off just staying home, dude."
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And, for a moment, melts into the shadows. "Bit difficult to attack something you can't see."
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Imagine if he could do that. Maybe when he got back home, he would stand a chance of surviving. "That can't be taught, can it?"
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Akira doesn't stay hidden while they're talking, at least. "If I can figure out how, and we work out a suitable trade, I'm not against trying. But I can't promise any kind of useful result."
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...That brings a question to light, actually. "Do you even have a phone? If you're... of the Realm. What's the Realm?"
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That power might be diluted here anyway, considering there are so many of not-exactly-Crow around the place, but still.
"I do. I just got one, so I'm not very good with it yet, but I do in fact have it." There's a girl whose heart he'd like to win, and he can't have Kaede pass messages all the time.
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A faerie, though. That explains the stuff about names. He dodged a bullet, not introducing himself earlier. "You can call me Drake," he says. "No one else goes by that one. Can you even use a phone? I thought technology, like, shorted out the minute you touched it. Or is that from something else?"
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