fireandfaith: (backshot)
Ann Takamaki ([personal profile] fireandfaith) wrote in [community profile] personavelvetroomdr2024-01-27 03:18 pm

[open/intro]

Ann knows this place.

This shade of blue, and the song...though its notes flow far more harmoniously than they had the last (and only) time she'd heard them, the melody itself is enough to make Ann's heartbeat kick up a notch. That song only plays in the Velvet Room--and the Velvet Room is not a place she wants to be. Lavenza had said it. Her gut had said it--and Elizabeth had confirmed it. The Velvet Room was in the control of Yaldabaoth, wearing the skin of Igor.

Ann had never met Igor, personally, but both Akira in the previous timeline and the Attendants she'd encountered had painted a vivid picture of him. Taking in her surroundings carefully (this Room matched neither the descriptions of a prison Akira had once given her, or the crumbling ruins Lavenza had pulled her into at the End of a World), Ann eyes the man she can only assume is Yaldabaoth. And, even if it is truly Igor...

She's never met the man, and she doesn't trust anything he has to say to her. She might not be garbed in her will of rebellion, currently, but Célestine is always with her, and steeling her spine with a little of her flame, Carmine stands tall and proud.

Ann takes in the doors. Makes a split second decision that she shouldn't just be rushing into making a decision; Lavenza, and Elizabeth, she trusts--and she's heard Elizabeth describe their siblings enough that she feels as though she can trust them too. She'll poke around in this unfamiliar Velvet Room for now, and see if she can't encounter one of them...or at least someone who can tell her what's going on.

[OOC: check out Ann's AU info and perms here!]


pheasantboy: (shock)

[personal profile] pheasantboy 2024-01-27 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
And as if she doesn't have enough problems, Akechi follows her straight in, via the Iwatodai door. So pleasant as to be vapid, suspiciously easily confused, and with all the Persona power of cheese, she's unlikely to have ever seen his like—or to know what Maruki did to him.

"Oh, Takamaki-san!" Gosh, he's so pleased to see her, though, as much as he tries to hide it. "I didn't know you were here."
pheasantboy: (neutral)

[personal profile] pheasantboy 2024-01-27 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
... So yes, not the Takamaki-san he knows. Wounded by her coldness though he is, it doesn't last more than a moment; he wilts like a kicked dog, then visibly shrugs and forgets about it, as no Akechi would ever do—not even the Detective Prince.

"I'm sorry. I thought..." Thought I knew you; thought maybe we could be real to each other. Thought I might not be alone again, for a few seconds. "I guess we don't know each other, in your world. I'm Goro Akechi. Or I should say, I'm a Goro Akechi."

His smile's already returning, carefree and eerie. "How much do you know? I take it you have just arrived?"

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[personal profile] herewardbound 2024-01-27 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Goro's morning run was, in his opinion, an important ritual that no amount of multi-timeline Isekai bullshit was going to interrupt. And, since Inaba was generally speaking a much more pleasant area to go running, he'd taken to learning the small town's layout for a while every morning, before returning to the 'Tokyo' segment of the place.

It was for that reason that he was passing through the Velvet Room on his way back, offering Igor a half-hearted salute as he entered-

And paused.

Well. Nobody'd mentioned Ann around, but then it was only a matter of time before someone else he knew showed up.

Probably, he thought idly, in the fraction of a second it would've taken for her attention to turn to the Inaba door, someone should inform her that we're not a Shadow. Since that seems to be a recurring assumption.

He raised an empty hand and a half-empty bottle of decidedly blue-flavored sports drink, in the universal sign language for 'not a shadow, kindly don't set me on fire'.

"Morning?"
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[personal profile] herewardbound 2024-01-27 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
That was a very confused 'hi???'. Which could've been from any number of causes, really. Could've been the presence in the Velvet Room. Could've been the contents of the corkboard.

Could've been the two and a half meters of slightly awkward bird demon ducking to get in the doorway, honestly.

"... So I'm going to assume you have questions. Which one would you like to cover first?"

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reluctantprince: (sipping that tea)

[personal profile] reluctantprince 2024-01-27 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, hello there." He grinned looking her up and down. "You seem concerned about the velvet room, but not the way I would expect you to be."

He's drinking his coffee, seemed he had an endless supply these days.
reluctantprince: (sipping that tea)

[personal profile] reluctantprince 2024-01-28 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I expected you to be more confused. You seem familiar with the concept of the velvet room." He looked her over, she was different than his own.

"I guess I should have been expecting it, different universes and such." He sighed. He narrowed his eyes, something was strange about her. He couldn't quite place it.

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[personal profile] fogbornphantom 2024-01-27 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
My, it's been busy in the Velvet Room today, hasn't it? This Akechi walks out of the Inaba door, doing his daily round to check for new arrivals and update Raven's conspiracy board as needed. With Shrike's return, there is some pertinent information to update, but that can wait.

He knows that face. And while it's true that a version of Ann appeared at least at one point, this one seems... confused. Certainly not the same one, but it's comforting all the same. So many of the Phantom Thieves have been absent from his life for nearly half a year now.

So, he takes a chance and approaches, clad in his shujin uniform, black turtleneck, gloves, and... a ring? A rather pretty black ring fashioned after Joker's mask with red gemstones.

"It's a lot to take in, isn't it?"
fogbornphantom: (smug)

[personal profile] fogbornphantom 2024-01-28 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"One of at least a dozen, yes." To his credit, he remains rather calm, even chuckling at the reaction. But, ever the helpful one, he gestures toward a nearby conspiracy board. "If you need more information, my younger self assembled a board that covers most of the basics in more depth, seeing how our host errs on the side of cryptic."

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[personal profile] nyxavatarmakoto 2024-01-27 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Makoto steps into the room and notices a girl with blonde ponytails looking around. She seems a little bit lost, she probably just got here. He hesitates to tap her shoulder just because she seems occupied enough that it's going to frighten her if he does that. "Are you new here?" He asks her instead, hoping that it would get her attention.
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[personal profile] nyxavatarmakoto 2024-01-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Makoto's not really offended that she seems startled. There's very few people he would let touch him either.

It seemed like she'd met some of the Akechis already which meant Makoto didn't need to explain to her the fact this place was somewhere that realities seemed to intersect with one another. "Oh. No, you can call me Makoto Yuki." He offers her back. "I'm from Iwatodai, 2009." He figures that she's probably from sometime in the future, or a future since he doesn't recognize her. Despite having two locations from the past there doesn't seem to be anyone here that was from further back than 2009.

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[personal profile] willowandoak 2024-01-27 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ren is doing the usual thing he does where he uses the Tokyo Door in the Velvet Room as a shortcut. It may be weirdly quick to get from one place to another here, but it's even quicker to just go in the Velvet Room and leave again through the same door. He's carrying two ice creams from Roll Ice Cream Factory, one in his hand and one cradled in his elbow as he opens the door with his free hand.

When he looks up, he sees Takamaki. Huh.

Could be worse. As far as Phantom Thieves go, he doesn't have a problem with Takamaki. She's one of the ones he kind of likes, even, which is a shame, given everything that's going to come out when he gets home. But this probably isn't the one from his world anyway.

"Hey, Takamaki," he says, holding the other ice cream properly so that both his hands are full. Which means he can't stick his hands in his pockets and hold onto his knife. He didn't think this one all the way through. Ren himself is dressed a little differently than Takamaki might be used to, in shabby clothes with earrings and a leather band wrapped twice around his wrist. He also looks underslept, but he smiles at her anyway. "New face. Sorry you're stuck here. Want this?"

He holds out the ice cream that he got for Futaba. He can always go back and get another.
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[personal profile] willowandoak 2024-01-28 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
The Akira confirms she's not his world's Takamaki, which is... a relief, he thinks. Yeah. He watches, amused, as her delighted and absolutely predictable acceptance of sweet food fades into concern.

"Nope. I know my world's version of you, but not you personally." He glances down at his own ice cream—more chocolatey, with some red-pink accents that suggest strawberry—then figures what the hell, and takes out one of the pieces of strawberry pocky that stick out of the cup. "My name's Ren Amamiya, by the way. Akira's my name in some other worlds, for some reason."

He bites into the pocky. Tasty.

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paysforall: (Default)

i see so this is what you were doing last night -

[personal profile] paysforall 2024-01-28 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
This Akechi - who had mostly been passing through to look at that conspiracy pinboard in the corner, to see if it was any use as a catching up tool - is taller, older, and just a bit stranger than any Ann might have encountered. The Velvet Room is enough of a cognitive space that his wings are visible, folded loosely against his back.

He hears the sound of someone else and tilts his head, not so much turning as twisting to look over his shoulder until he can see enough to recognize the other person. The eye that's visible is much more definitively red. "Ah. A Takamaki-san. Hello."
paysforall: (this solemn request)

one word rpg writhe etc

[personal profile] paysforall 2024-01-28 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, she's in for bad news and a hard time, if the sight of him fills her with that kind of hope.

Giving the board one last glance over, he turns in her direction properly. He doesn't actually lean against the wall (there's a noticeboard there) but there's something similar to the idea in his posture, the way his shoulders tip back and he sticks his hands on his hips.

"Through no fault of my own, unfortunately," he says, and although there's something faintly like a joke in the words, his expression is somber, perhaps a little grieved. "I did die at the age of eighteen, if 'how did you survive' was going to be your next question."

Best get the unpleasant part out of the way first.

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cybermask: (Interest)

[personal profile] cybermask 2024-02-05 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hold on, this was new. She hadn't seen another girl other than Haru and Kasumi. She excitedly walks over. "Hi!"

"You must be new here. I'm Futaba." She held out her hand for a handshake. She was just excited to not see another guy. New faces were always welcome and well she hadn't met many in the velvet room. She'd always meet them after they left.

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aknightnotaprincess: (shocked)

Wow I am super late to this. Hope this is okay.

[personal profile] aknightnotaprincess 2024-02-10 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
In hindsight, Shiho should have seen this coming. It was only a matter of time.

She was passing through after having done a relaxing run through Inaba when she spots her best friend and freezes. For a second she wonder if she's dreaming, but then those thoughts disappear because her best friend is finally here!

"Ann?"

She's trying to resist the urge to run up to her to hug, as much as she wants to her Ann badly.

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