mortal_son: (one bullet at a time)
Shinjiro Aragaki ([personal profile] mortal_son) wrote in [community profile] genessia2017-09-22 01:39 pm

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[ TEXT ][ Forward dated: Saturday night ]

[ Private Message to Ace: ] find a good home for Princess. thanks.

[ Private Message to Mitsuru: ] Take care of Aki.

[ Handwritten Note to Akihiko: ] [ The note for Akihiko is left by the giant friggin thing of protein powder he leaves on the kitchen counter. There's a prescription pill bottle with two capsules left, set alongside the note. There's also all the cash Shinjiro earned from his grocer job and the dog bounty. There are small water stains on parts of the note. ]

I'm sorry.

I know you can wish yourself back, but I'm not going to. The only thing I want to get rid of, I can't get rid of, and it will just kill me again. Or somebody else, again.

This isn't your fault. This was always going to happen. This isn't your fault.

Goodbye.



[ ACTION ][ Same forward date ]

[ Hello, Attleton Guardians. It's 11:17 PM. Someone has gone through a certain portal to the TV World. ]



[ VIDEO ][ Forward date: 12:00 AM Sunday morning ]

[ A grainy image flickers over the network.

There's a Shinjiro in the frame. A younger Shinjiro - shorter, scrawnier, perhaps about 15 years old. He's wearing an orange jumpsuit, like a convict. He's also filthy, as if he had been crawling through dirt and mud.

He seems to be hiding somewhere, crouched down, dimly lit.

The camera shows his gold eyes, and he appears to be looking around, furtively. ]


I did it - I think I'm in the clear.

It took me forever to get out, but you gotta be extra motivated when you've got a deadline?

And boy, was I motivated.

You gotta be motivated when it's your fucking execution!

[ Laughs, sounding nervous and afraid. ]

Didn't deserve it. But. Nobody listened to me, did they? Nope. Nope. Nada. And so they've got me on the hook for somethin, blowin it all outta whack, and -

[ Laughs again. This time, more cocky and filled with bravado. ]

Well. They called me a damn monster.

So I'm gonna be a monster.

I'll be just what everyone's afraid of.

[ Stands up, points at the camera. Reveals he had an axe, propped up against the wall, out of the frame before. He holds it now, menacingly. ]

So, listen up, Genessia.

That asshole killin werewolves, they've been caught, right? Well -

[ Chopping motion with the axe ]

- won't have to track 'em down, then. They're dead.

Same goes for that shithead who set off all those bombs.

The crazy person whackin off people with high scores? Schkt. Dead.

The bastard targetin whoever's wearin fur? Maybe I'll skin 'em. We'll see!

That necromancer could be dead body parts for somebody else to play with.

Someone was spearin up people in Genessia City - I can kinda spear people with my axe. They'd be against a wall, anyway.

Oh, I haven't forgotten 'bout the fucker stealin hearts. I can take his. Chop chop chop!

Easy.

[ His smile is a bit unhinged, now. ]

But why stop there?

I'll go back home - visit Takaya. Fuck him up, good, maybe change how shit goes down. See if he ever hurts anyone ever again.

I haven't forgotten about that shithead Ikutsuki. I'll get back right when we left, right? So one good chop - HA - and nobody's gotta die.

[ Leans in close, with the axe near his face, to the 'camera'. ]

I did my time. But. You gonna treat me like a monster, even now?

You're gonna get one.

iceandwhips: (pic#10034070)

[Video]

[personal profile] iceandwhips 2017-09-22 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[The text she'd received hadn't made sense. It had seemed like a goodbye and any attempt to contact Shinjirou had gone unanswered. She'd made plenty. She'd also attempted to contact Akihiko, but another friend that didn't answer her.

By the time the video starts playing on her phone, there's a tight knot of anxiety in her stomach and she's ready to find him and demand an explanation

But she stops as she takes in the golden eyes and strange behavior. It's almost like... The TV World that they'd visited in Yaso-Inaba.]


Shinji? What are you doing?
iceandwhips: (Get. Out.)

[Video]

[personal profile] iceandwhips 2017-09-25 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She responds to his attitude with a cool tone she's reserved for those who've severely irritated her.

She knows how Shadows work in the TV world and why they come around now, thanks to all the information she received from Narukami's group and the reports from the Inaba police.]


Don't be absurd. I've never been able to stop you from doing what you want, so why would I think I could so now? You're responsible for what you're doing and saying.

[He'll regret this all later.]
iceandwhips: (Tiny and angry)

[Video]

[personal profile] iceandwhips 2017-09-27 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[The Shadow touches on something she's fought with her conscience for years. If it hadn't been for her family, hadn't been for her own ability to manifest a Persona, Shinjirou and Akihiko—and the others by extension—wouldn't have suffered the way they had.

But that doesn't mean she regrets the connections she's had with the rest of those who were in SEES. Guilt hasn't erased the memories of her friends who'd helped her stop being prisoner to her family's honor and that special brand of guilt.]


I have never once regretted my association with any of you, Shinjirou. I only wished that it hadn't caused you and the others so much pain. We were all used and betrayed by those who we were supposed to trust, but Akihiko and I were too young to really stop and question things back then.

If anything, I've proceeded as best I could in memory of your sacrifice. I'm not the only one.
iceandwhips: (You're dead)

[Video]

[personal profile] iceandwhips 2017-09-28 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I never asked you to sacrifice yourself for any of us, Shinjirou! Never once in the entire time that I've known you and Akihiko did I ask you do give anything that I wouldn't have given up myself first!

The simple fact of the matter is that Amada was a child and we all felt guilty for our part in the death of his mother. And Takaya would've murdered him just as soon as any of the rest of us for his plans.

So don't you dare talk to me about taking care of the others! You were dying the entire time from those horrid pills because you were running away from your part in the tragic accident. I won't be lectured or condescended to by a coward.
Edited (word order) 2017-09-28 03:34 (UTC)
iceandwhips: (Get. Out.)

[Video]

[personal profile] iceandwhips 2017-09-29 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
You are nothing but another manifestation of my friend. You are a part that he needs to face, so running away from him does no good for anyone either.

Fitting.