The Velvet Room Conspiracy Board
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fogboundcrow[Today in the Velvet Room is a truly momentous day. What makes it to momentous?
Probably the fact that one thirteen year old Akechi has wheeled in an elaborate board full of notes and images pinned and connected by red strings with all manner of ridiculous notes.
Some highlights include...]
Ren Amamiya vs Akira Kurusu?
What even determines whether one is an Akria or a Ren? I had assumed glasses were the indicator, but my timeline's Ren completely shatters that possibility. Crow believes it may have something to do with "dumbass energy." This may be an affectionate use of the term dumbass. He is madly in love with his Ren.
Souji Seta vs Yu Narikami? Other name inconsistencies?
The Kanji here knows Yu Narukami as Souji Seta. I can only conclude this is a similar case as the Akira and Ren discrepancy, but what does it mean? What determines if a timeline is a Souji or Yu timeline? Or an Akira or Ren one?
As of now, I (and Crow), Magpie, and Sparrow all seem to come from Ren timelines, as does our Ren and the other Ren. The only other Ren. Everyone else is an Akira.
I do not have enough data to determine the commonality of Yu vs Souji at this time.
Akechis and Akira/Rens: Fated to be Together?
I get the striking suspicion that Akechis and Rens tend to end up together in most worlds or have at least some manner of ambiguous attraction or connection that may or may not be romantic. They seem like matched sets. Like white and black pieces on a chessboard in some respects.
Vampires are Real and so are Demons
There are vampires here. Two of them. Naturally, that's badass, but Mikage-cho contains actual demons. Some of them look an awful lot like Persona or the Shadows in Mementos. The Shadows in the TV world are very different. Masked, with very abstract forms like floating mouths and... tables. What this says about cognition is beyond me.
Cognitions
Extremely creepy facsimiles of people that are way too cheerful for their own good. They are probably not "real." The Inaba fox, however, seems authentic enough. Igor as well, though he seldom is forthcoming with his answers. "Important" people seem absent, however, such as Dojima-san, Narukami-san and his friends, and as much as I despise him, Adachi.
The people here seem comparable to NPCs in video games, if anything.
Why is it mostly US?
The population of this world primarily consists of Akiras/Rens and versions of me (Goro Akechi). Morgana, two Haru Okumuras, Kanji Tatsumi, Naoto Shirogane, and a few other outliers exist, but I find myself puzzling over why there are so many of us and why there are so few girls. Are the only ones drawn here Persona users or people fated to become Persona users?
Coffins at Midnight?
The Iwatodai door is strange. At midnight, all of the cognitions turn into coffins and a mysterious tower appears. I don't know what this means, but this warrants deeper investigation.
[There are other notes on various things, like the TV world, the way the TV seems to draw from cognition to present its entertainment, and an entire rant about the Gorb Networb and how weird it is, along with "Age Appropriate Posters???" Suffice it to say, someone's been busy, and he's very eager to share his findings...
Please, come bask in his intellect!]
Probably the fact that one thirteen year old Akechi has wheeled in an elaborate board full of notes and images pinned and connected by red strings with all manner of ridiculous notes.
Some highlights include...]
Ren Amamiya vs Akira Kurusu?
What even determines whether one is an Akria or a Ren? I had assumed glasses were the indicator, but my timeline's Ren completely shatters that possibility. Crow believes it may have something to do with "dumbass energy." This may be an affectionate use of the term dumbass. He is madly in love with his Ren.
Souji Seta vs Yu Narikami? Other name inconsistencies?
The Kanji here knows Yu Narukami as Souji Seta. I can only conclude this is a similar case as the Akira and Ren discrepancy, but what does it mean? What determines if a timeline is a Souji or Yu timeline? Or an Akira or Ren one?
As of now, I (and Crow), Magpie, and Sparrow all seem to come from Ren timelines, as does our Ren and the other Ren. The only other Ren. Everyone else is an Akira.
I do not have enough data to determine the commonality of Yu vs Souji at this time.
Akechis and Akira/Rens: Fated to be Together?
I get the striking suspicion that Akechis and Rens tend to end up together in most worlds or have at least some manner of ambiguous attraction or connection that may or may not be romantic. They seem like matched sets. Like white and black pieces on a chessboard in some respects.
Vampires are Real and so are Demons
There are vampires here. Two of them. Naturally, that's badass, but Mikage-cho contains actual demons. Some of them look an awful lot like Persona or the Shadows in Mementos. The Shadows in the TV world are very different. Masked, with very abstract forms like floating mouths and... tables. What this says about cognition is beyond me.
Cognitions
Extremely creepy facsimiles of people that are way too cheerful for their own good. They are probably not "real." The Inaba fox, however, seems authentic enough. Igor as well, though he seldom is forthcoming with his answers. "Important" people seem absent, however, such as Dojima-san, Narukami-san and his friends, and as much as I despise him, Adachi.
The people here seem comparable to NPCs in video games, if anything.
Why is it mostly US?
The population of this world primarily consists of Akiras/Rens and versions of me (Goro Akechi). Morgana, two Haru Okumuras, Kanji Tatsumi, Naoto Shirogane, and a few other outliers exist, but I find myself puzzling over why there are so many of us and why there are so few girls. Are the only ones drawn here Persona users or people fated to become Persona users?
Coffins at Midnight?
The Iwatodai door is strange. At midnight, all of the cognitions turn into coffins and a mysterious tower appears. I don't know what this means, but this warrants deeper investigation.
[There are other notes on various things, like the TV world, the way the TV seems to draw from cognition to present its entertainment, and an entire rant about the Gorb Networb and how weird it is, along with "Age Appropriate Posters???" Suffice it to say, someone's been busy, and he's very eager to share his findings...
Please, come bask in his intellect!]
