The shout-out wasn't needed - Maruki did exactly what made an All-Out Attack so potent - kept the shadows scrambling and prone.
Personas were funny, Hamuko noticed - they had subtle ways of making your fingers twitch at different times, making your impulses change, like a different aspect of yourself solidifying. Hamuko never understood what it must feel like to only ever have one self.
When aligned with Thanatos, every swing of the blade, every moment where she reached out with bare hands and grasped flesh or feathers or fur for purchase to drive a blade in deeper, over and over and over, a mix of euphoric relief and visceral calm...
Maruki was perfect. He kept the shadows distracted, reeling, which laid them out nicely to meet their final end by a blade that was likely too dull. All of the stress and anger and adrenaline flooding into every stab, every twirl of the naginata to use both hands and swing it down on the next shadow like a guillotine. Perfect clarity.
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Personas were funny, Hamuko noticed - they had subtle ways of making your fingers twitch at different times, making your impulses change, like a different aspect of yourself solidifying. Hamuko never understood what it must feel like to only ever have one self.
When aligned with Thanatos, every swing of the blade, every moment where she reached out with bare hands and grasped flesh or feathers or fur for purchase to drive a blade in deeper, over and over and over, a mix of euphoric relief and visceral calm...
Maruki was perfect. He kept the shadows distracted, reeling, which laid them out nicely to meet their final end by a blade that was likely too dull. All of the stress and anger and adrenaline flooding into every stab, every twirl of the naginata to use both hands and swing it down on the next shadow like a guillotine. Perfect clarity.