[Oh, that question. He knew it'd come. Akihiko crosses his arms]
We found out answers to that. You can already guess there's a whole, long story here? Probably too long to tell standing around in middle of a funhouse.
[In a way it's an indirect way of saying he's willing to talk, but probably somewhere else where one can sit down]
[ well, in any case, she will turn and begin walking to find the exit. this is his sign to follow, and the look over her shoulder indicates he should walk and talk. ]
Finding the way out of the funhouse probably will take a bit. It gives Akihiko time to start. Time for a slight recap of the Persona 3 backstory, hell yeah. Any errors will be chalked up to Akihiko's storytelling and not that I forgot a detail, totally, definitely, that's it, yup. Let's see, little by little...]
I said it's a long story because it started ten years ago. The family of one of my friends -- Mitsuru, the tall girl -- funds everything in Tatsumi Port Island. They're that rich. Her grandfather somehow found out about Shadows, and formed a team to make experiments with them. What they tried to do at the start...I'm not sure I believe it was any good. Probably was something about time.
But during this, these scientists found out too much. They saw the dangers of messing with them, and they lost themselves in nihilism. They got obsessed with bringing the Fall. That's the end of all life.
[Oh, there's the exit of the funhouse! Akihiko steps through, and thanks to the way doorways mess around in heaven, Zuriel and Akihiko end up at the bar. Well, that sure is convenient! Good to get a drink, have a bit of an interruption, and see Zuriel process the fact a bunch played around with supernatural things beyond their understanding and, as probably is typical in that kind of happenings, lots of innocent people pay for it]
[ she's listening at least, and this doesn't entirely surprise her. isn't this how it always goes? people messing with things they don't fully understand until somebody gets killed, or worse. as they exit the funhouse and the door yeets them into the bar, she doesn't exactly stop. she's still walking, leading them out of the bar and toward the cafe instead. ]
What did they think they would actually accomplish by experimenting with Shadows? [ she does not sound too impressed. ] What on earth would possess them to think that was a good idea?
You tell me! It probably was some attempt to harness their effect on time or space or something like that. No matter what it was, it takes only one look at them to know nothing good could come from this. It's not like they're some misunderstood creature!
[Well, he probably heard a reason or two of why the Kirijo Group went ahead with that, but in his eyes they're irrelevant because what happened as a consequence of this sure overshadows whatever reasoning those scientists had. It's really hard to consider anything else when it all lead to such severe ruination of spacetime and later the end of the world. Screw them and whatever reasoning they had to think this was a good idea]
In the end, this got so insane one of the scientists disagreed and sabotaged the experiments to stop it all. The laboratory was destroyed by the Shadows, the one that would cause the Fall split into twelve pieces, and the Shadows' rampage created the Dark Hour.
As if all that wasn't enough, the cover-up included building Gekkoukan High right where the laboratory used to be. Of course my school transforms into a nest of Shadows every night -- that was the same spot this whole thing started!
[Akihiko and his friends are pretty much cleaning up the mess a bunch of nihilistic scientists made ten years ago]
Foolish men who think they can control the things bigger than them. [ they may not even all be men, but it's just her thoughts on that. again, sounds familiar. ]
Your high school must not be that old then if they built it on top of an old lab. Do people not remember the lab used to be there? Or that it was apparently destroyed? And what exactly is the Fall?
They're really good at covering up everything. Anyone who knows anything must have been convinced to keep quiet. That's how much influence they have in my city.
[Really, it's a good thing Mitsuru and her father were different. Had they done the same as the rest, there wouldn't ever have been an attempt to solve anything. Nobody goes against Kirijo!]
Take a guess: it's the end of the world. Everything dies in one night. Everyone wanting that kept calling it 'salvation'. I had never heard anything more defeatist than that.
You...now that I think about it, you told me about evil people trying to use that forest. Was it anything like this?
[Maybe less apocalyptic, but still potentially disastrous! I'm rather curious about her canon, honestly!]
Yeah, that also sounds right. People with money tend to be the same people with power. Trying to cleanse a whole world is insanity, but of course there were people who believed it,
[ she pauses a little to think before shaking her head. ]
It wasn't exactly like that. The people involved released something they weren't meant to, willingly and unwillingly, and the only way to kill it was to kill another being. Not exactly the most confidence-inspiring thing in the world to hear.
This other being was someone wholly innocent and unrelated...?
[Yeah, hearing that someone else had to be killed sure makes Akihiko think of a certain someone he once knew. There's absolutely no way what Zuriel is talking about was anything close to that, but still, having to hurt someone so something else can happen brings thoughts Akihiko didn't think he'd have to dwell on again]
It was whoever was willing to give up their life. "Willing death to pay for unwilling death." And so someone we all cared about decided it should be him, since he was fated to die that year. He chose to go through with it knowing it was likely his time.
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We found out answers to that. You can already guess there's a whole, long story here? Probably too long to tell standing around in middle of a funhouse.
[In a way it's an indirect way of saying he's willing to talk, but probably somewhere else where one can sit down]
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The beginning, then.
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Finding the way out of the funhouse probably will take a bit. It gives Akihiko time to start. Time for a slight recap of the Persona 3 backstory, hell yeah. Any errors will be chalked up to Akihiko's storytelling and not that I forgot a detail, totally, definitely, that's it, yup. Let's see, little by little...]
I said it's a long story because it started ten years ago. The family of one of my friends -- Mitsuru, the tall girl -- funds everything in Tatsumi Port Island. They're that rich. Her grandfather somehow found out about Shadows, and formed a team to make experiments with them. What they tried to do at the start...I'm not sure I believe it was any good. Probably was something about time.
But during this, these scientists found out too much. They saw the dangers of messing with them, and they lost themselves in nihilism. They got obsessed with bringing the Fall. That's the end of all life.
[Oh, there's the exit of the funhouse! Akihiko steps through, and thanks to the way doorways mess around in heaven, Zuriel and Akihiko end up at the bar. Well, that sure is convenient! Good to get a drink, have a bit of an interruption, and see Zuriel process the fact a bunch played around with supernatural things beyond their understanding and, as probably is typical in that kind of happenings, lots of innocent people pay for it]
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What did they think they would actually accomplish by experimenting with Shadows? [ she does not sound too impressed. ] What on earth would possess them to think that was a good idea?
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[Well, he probably heard a reason or two of why the Kirijo Group went ahead with that, but in his eyes they're irrelevant because what happened as a consequence of this sure overshadows whatever reasoning those scientists had. It's really hard to consider anything else when it all lead to such severe ruination of spacetime and later the end of the world. Screw them and whatever reasoning they had to think this was a good idea]
In the end, this got so insane one of the scientists disagreed and sabotaged the experiments to stop it all. The laboratory was destroyed by the Shadows, the one that would cause the Fall split into twelve pieces, and the Shadows' rampage created the Dark Hour.
As if all that wasn't enough, the cover-up included building Gekkoukan High right where the laboratory used to be. Of course my school transforms into a nest of Shadows every night -- that was the same spot this whole thing started!
[Akihiko and his friends are pretty much cleaning up the mess a bunch of nihilistic scientists made ten years ago]
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Your high school must not be that old then if they built it on top of an old lab. Do people not remember the lab used to be there? Or that it was apparently destroyed? And what exactly is the Fall?
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[Really, it's a good thing Mitsuru and her father were different. Had they done the same as the rest, there wouldn't ever have been an attempt to solve anything. Nobody goes against Kirijo!]
Take a guess: it's the end of the world. Everything dies in one night. Everyone wanting that kept calling it 'salvation'. I had never heard anything more defeatist than that.
You...now that I think about it, you told me about evil people trying to use that forest. Was it anything like this?
[Maybe less apocalyptic, but still potentially disastrous! I'm rather curious about her canon, honestly!]
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[ she pauses a little to think before shaking her head. ]
It wasn't exactly like that. The people involved released something they weren't meant to, willingly and unwillingly, and the only way to kill it was to kill another being. Not exactly the most confidence-inspiring thing in the world to hear.
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[Yeah, hearing that someone else had to be killed sure makes Akihiko think of a certain someone he once knew. There's absolutely no way what Zuriel is talking about was anything close to that, but still, having to hurt someone so something else can happen brings thoughts Akihiko didn't think he'd have to dwell on again]
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