Memory Share Broadcast

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[ Should someone actually want to find her, Mitsuru can be found in the The Fountain Square sitting at the gazebo writing in a small notebook. Occasionally, she takes a break to stand, walk around, and eventually even look at the strange falling leaves. A mistake as when she does memories come back. The memories that play out unbeknownst to her on the network are: ]

A Recording of Mitsuru in her room after having taken a shower. No warnings, just her being down on herself a bit and talking to herself in a towel.

First use of Potential Stops at the 4 minute mark. The first time Mitsuru used her Persona ability as a child. Includes creepy amoral scientists using a kid for her powers and some death/transformations.

Script of Mitsuru's shitty fiancé An altercation between Mitsuru, her fiancé, and Minato. Content warning: verbal abuse, talk of parental death, huge age gap relationship, and just a generally awful person.

Comments

[castoredux]

How's that guy in the best interest of the Kirijo Group?

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A merger with his company would make the Group stronger.

[castoredux]

Ain't the group pretty strong already?

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No. After my father's death things became...complicated. Very complicated. Even before that there were problems due to the focus on Shadows. Some in the Group weren't happy with how much of the budget went to that.

[castoredux]

So it's new, huh, this guy?

And what, the answer was marrying you off? Forget everything that happened with Strega, all that. When senior year started, you really think we were just going to go our separate ways?

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My mother and father were also an arranged marriage Shinjiro. They learned to love each other greatly. I suppose I told myself perhaps I could too.

No, of course I did not think that! Why would you ask such a thing?

[castoredux]

Did your dad ever treat your mom that way?

And you think Aki and me would put up with that guy?

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No, certainly not.

Akihiko had no idea. Nor did it ever cross my mind that either of you would have or express an issue.

[castoredux]

[The text doesn't come immediately. She has a point. She didn't have a reason to think either of them would care. Hell, he hadn't even thought she deserved a guy like him. Back home, he probably wouldn't have thought he had a right to care.]

I'm sorry.

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For what...?

[castoredux]

Not being there for you.

You said you wanted to go places me and Aki went all the time. We were oblivious. No wonder you didn't share things with us. It's not like we let you know we cared.

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We all had much more important things to deal with than things like that.

[castoredux]

No.
We all THOUGHT we did.


There's nothing more important than that.

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I would say that dealing with the Dark Hour was much more important than my social life.

You seem strangely invested in this, Shinjiro.

[castoredux]

It's not just your social life, though.

It's your LIFE, Mitsuru. Who you are outside the Dark Hour.

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The Dark Hour was all that was important to me. Fixing the mistakes of my family. I...suppose I'm not certain who I am outside of that.

[castoredux]

[He doesn't say anything for a moment, because he realizes something: none of them do. Akihiko is focused on being the strongest person he can be to avoid people getting hurt, Mitsuru was focused on the same for her own reasons.

Shinjiro hadn't really amounted to anything aside from their sidekick.]

Maybe we ought to work on that.

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Where do you suppose we should start?

[castoredux]

Why don't we check out the food places around here? Together?