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Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-08-14T00:07:15Z

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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
|}

'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ''ukiyo-e'' painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

== Approaches ==
'''(Proficiency) Deft Brushstroke:''' Yusuke applies his well-honed precision and grace to solve the problem.

'''(Guts) Snacking Arts:''' The conviction to persist when one's budget and access to food is low can be applied to many other arduous situations.

'''(Academics) Student of the Greats:''' Yusuke has an esoteric knowledge base, with any number of facts that connect back to art or beauty stored in his mind.

= Relationships =

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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Address
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| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Ren-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Makoto Niijima]]
| Niijima-senpai/"Queen"
| The Priestess
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| In possession of brains, beauty and brutality in equal measure. Yusuke is impressed by the strength of her rebellious conviction, and revels in their battle-competition.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|-
| [[Tsubasa Seki]]
| Seki-san
| The Devil
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fellow artist, though one with a heavy burden on their shoulders. Yusuke has taken note of their plight.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

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[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Gekkoukan High School]]
[[Category:The Phantoms]]
[[Category:Focus]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-08-13T23:50:28Z

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|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
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'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ''ukiyo-e'' painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

== Approaches ==
'''Deft Brushstroke:''' Yusuke applies his well-honed precision and grace to solve the problem.

'''Snacking Arts:''' The conviction to persist when one's budget and access to food is low can be applied to many other arduous situations.

'''Student of the Greats:''' Yusuke has an esoteric knowledge base, with any number of facts that connect back to art or beauty stored in his mind.

= Relationships =

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| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Ren-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Makoto Niijima]]
| Niijima-senpai/"Queen"
| The Priestess
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| In possession of brains, beauty and brutality in equal measure. Yusuke is impressed by the strength of her rebellious conviction, and revels in their battle-competition.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|-
| [[Tsubasa Seki]]
| Seki-san
| The Devil
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fellow artist, though one with a heavy burden on their shoulders. Yusuke has taken note of their plight.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

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2025-08-12: Stolen Lives

2025-08-13T22:44:16Z

Namillus:

*'''Log: Stolen Lives'''
*'''Cast:''' [[Umie Akabane]], [[Ren Amamiya]], [[Tatsuya Sudou]], [[Yusuke Kitagawa]], [[Ann Takamaki]], [[Makoto Niijima]]
*'''Where: ''' An Alleyway in Shibuya
*'''OOC Date:''' August 12, 2025
*'''IC Date:''' June 25, 2012
*'''Summary''': ''A call is made to the Joker Killer, and he goes on the hunt: this time in Shibuya, where circumstances allow for the former king to glance at a vision that reminds him of what he's lost.''

----

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
The letter is inconspicuous at first glance: a plain, standard issue envelope that was laid on the sales counter at some point, its carrier anonymous and unnoticed. Flipped over, it displays a colorful mismatch of fonts, each letter clipped from a magazine or newspaper and pasted on.

'TO: UMiE AkaBAnE'

"Aoki-san, you still need me to fill in tomorrow night, right?" Adjusting the top of her red uniform as she steps behind the counter, Umie chats back with the slightly older co-worker disappearing through the back doors. After Aoki's reply, Umie grins. "Yeah, it's fine." She adjusts the pins in her two hair buns. "You covered for me earlier, remember? Fair's fair."

The fingertips that flip over the envelope may not be the first, if Ren (or Morgana, somehow) had tried to examine it before Umie came in for her shift. "... Huh."

"...!" If Ren or Morgana are nearby, they'd also feel the reaction: the sudden blip of resonance appearing from out of the blue with a grim intensity, like a lightbulb shorting out in one swift burst of light. It's unmistakably Umie, and on top of that, she's highly disturbed.

The envelope falls to the floor as Umie ducks behind a display of wrapped pastries by the cash register, opening the folded letter to read over garishly arranged text.

'Dear Soon to be Dead Umie Akabane, I don't know where, I don't know when, but I will find you, I will kill you, and I will enjoy it, signed Joker Killer'

The resonance dims, like a slowing heartbeat, before climbing to an even higher summit.

To any customer that comes in at that moment, they'd see just a cashier, staring at the letter with a blank, banal expression, eyes distant. It'd take someone more observant to notice the slight tremble of her red-nailed fingers, or how the fingers begin to crease the paper.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
For all that Ren is aware that Umie's a Persona User, he doesn't have a reason to rifle through her personal mail--especially when they're both on the job.

He's busy re-stocking the shelves when it happens: that blip of resonance, like a storm surge through the store, emanating from Umie. He pauses and looks up in time to see Umie duck behind the pastries and the envelope drift to the floor.

"..." Glancing at his workload, Ren slips closer to the register counter and gingerly picks up the envelope. The cut-and-paste letters don't inspire confidence, any more than that dip and climb of Resonance does.

"Akabane-san?" he says quietly, slipping around the counter. His eyes dip to her fingers, trembling as they crinkle the letter she's reading. Even so, he offers her the envelope. "You dropped this..."

Once he has her attention, regardless of whether she takes the envelope back or not, his gaze darts to the letter, trying to see what has her so shaken.

"Is everything okay?" he asks as he does so.

It's all nosy of him, he knows, but some serious alarm bells are ringing in his head. This isn't something he can pretend to not notice.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
Already, that resonance is disappearing like passing raindrops on a dry sidewalk, leaving no evidence it was even there to begin with.

'Akabane-san?'

Umie's head snaps up towards Ren with a sharp look, like a ready knife that just as quickly is pulled back from an unintended target. "... Oh, Amamiya-kun." Her gaze flicks to the side, apologetic.

Umie stills the instinct to snatch that stupid envelope from Ren with a swift swipe of her hand; instead, she politely tugs it out from his grip.

'Is everything okay?'

Ren Amamiya: a co-worker who seemed to be all around a nice person, whose avoidance of certain topics in their occasional chitchat suggested to Umie that he was someone who kept his personal life private, even in casual conversations. In other words, he was a normal teenager. He wanted no trouble. He, and everyone in this store, are people who *need* no trouble. They're just ordinary people, and she's the one who carelessly let trouble follow her back.

"It's just a rude prank," she lies through her teeth, trying to fold the letter away from his eyes.

She can't help the soft smile that bleeds through, however, recognizing the initiative in his words and actions. He didn't need to be concerned about her. He could have pretended he saw nothing and been on his way.

"You know... being curious like that could get a person into trouble." She dips her head, hushing her voice for Ren to hear alone. "... But maybe that's why I find you a likable person, Amamiya-kun."

She folds the letter and pushes it into the pocket of her pants. "I need to get out of work, just in case. Gotta report this to the proper authorities, and all that jazz."

Umie's lying; why would she want to get out of work immediately, if she says it's just a prank?

She also doesn't see that parts of the glued together words have come undone from the bottom portion of the letter as she folds it; with her eyes on Ren, there was no chance she'd see the words fall to the floor as she attempts to brush by him to the back room.

Will kill you
I wil enjoy it
Joker Kill r

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
No evidence but what Ren sensed--and there's no denying what he sensed just then. Too sharp and too intense for it to be just his imagination, and too familiar to what he encountered that day in the Metaverse to be someone else, he knows it was her.

It could just be a "rude prank." Depending on just how rude it is, maybe it could've prompted a reaction like that. But...

"Oh--thanks," he murmurs, offering her a small smile back. He doesn't argue with what she has to say. He recognizes she's trying to avoid getting him caught up in whatever just happened. He simply watches her, stepping back out of her way as she shoves the letter in a pocket and leaves for the back room.

Something falls from her pocket, maybe dislodged from the sharp motion. His eyes follow the cut-and-paste words to the floor, and when he reads them, his pulse jumps.

He's not supposed to mess with his phone on the store floor. He has to focus on his work. All the same, when he returns to the shelves he was stocking, cut-out words untouched so Umie can let herself think they were unnoticed, he takes a moment to furtively pull his smartphone out and send a few messages to a certain group chat.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
Ren answers Umie's smile with one of his own just before he steps aside. As terrible as retail can be, it's never been... unpleasant, working here. It's nice, even, in those times she gets to chat. Certainly more foot traffic that she's used to, but everyone's just trying to get through their day. It solidifies her resolve: she'll handle it, and all of them will be none the wiser.

Just like always.

Glancing back towards the counter in case anything was left, she finds the words that slipped from her pocket; with a covert glance towards Ren (who seems to be none-the-wiser by ducking back into work), she picks up the leftover evidence and stuffs it into her pocket.

There's some cover inadvertently created when Umie talks to their boss in the back; from the awkward words back and forth, the lies, the apologies, the promises, it's clear she's *not* letting their boss know about the letter, which has made things harder on her, and easier on Ren as attention is brought to her.

The clock is already ticking, when, finally, after promising to make up with a string of night shifts, she wears their boss down. Umie isn't completely concerned; she has time. While nothing rules out the Joker Killer coming after her during the day, his past attacks, from her research with Shinjiro, point to them being tied with the supernatural, like with the attack on Kasugayama High. He(?) would attack during the Dark Hour, then. He'd likely use that... power. He'd never expect it to be used against him, if it came down to it, right? But before that, she should think of other measures...

She needs to get her weapon, some supplies, and oh. Right. She needs to call people. Whipping out her phone as she opens the door to the back alley, she scrolls through her contact list. Katsuya? Yes. Shinjiro? Yes. Tatsuya? .... All Umie could think about is how he held that Kasaugayama student, like he was scared that that young man would evaporate out of his arms. (As well as the other things that happened, but her mind is currently not touching that with a ten foot pole.)

It's okay. She has this all figured out.

It'll be alright.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
It's convenient that Umie goes into the back to talk to the boss and takes a good long while into talking them into letting her leave early today. It means Ren has time to go outside to "sweep the entryway" (actually get Morgana's attention and let him know to follow Umie when she leaves).

Maybe it's an unnecessary concern. She's a Persona User; she has Persona User friends. Ren knows this about her. At the same time, it's just not in his nature to see someone clearly in trouble and not at least try to do something to help.

Now it's just a matter of seeing if he and his friends can converge on her location in time to help her against the ''evil'' Joker.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
It had started the moment Umie had stepped outside, phone in hand; Morgana would have had only minutes to get into position after Ren let him know to follow. The chase begins with a chaotic din of resonance, perhaps familiar to anyone who's felt the Mark used in their presence, though, with it coming from the Joker Killer himself, the conductor may have some different tricks up his sleeve for this act.

After another burst of alarm from Umie's resonance, Morgana would see the splash from her footfalls as she runs, her original plan hastily abandoned in favor of another: running away. Away from the crowd, away from Triple Seven, further into the alleyways. It's for a good reason: whatever is coming is going after Umie exclusively, she reasons.

Think. Think. Ah. Umie has plans. Let's run down them, shall we?

=Plan #1=: It comes to her, naturally: Badb's return affords Umie more than the small boost in reflex and other generalities. Her resonance cloaked itself already; it's just another step to use Badb's conceptual mein to cloak herself. It buys time, just enough to think Umie has a chance. (Unfortunately, that may complicate Morgana's task, but there's more than one way to track a target down, and Umie's no Phantom Thief.)

=Plan #2=: Get enough distance between her and Joker Killer, and call someone on her phone. Unfortunately, that's why her right hand is bleeding right now, and her phone, with its red good luck charm, is on the ground, tossed aside with a strike of the Joker Killer's weapon. Ah, he's playing with her. Great.

=Plan #3=: "I have a Sevens Badge too!" Whether or not the rumor would work outside of Sumaru City isn't tested, because she *doesn't*, and lying didn't work. She threw her work badge at the Joker Killer as a distraction and ran when it seemed to not make much of a difference.

=Plan #4=: Umie's treasure trove of status effects do not seem to work for long and that's *bullshit*. Seriously, why can't they work when you need them the most?! And Dark? Oh, Dark. You are so useful, but this is the last person it'd work on.

=Plan #5=: Water. Aqua works. Good, this is an advantage. Too bad she didn't think of it when she _had her phone_, and besides that, the moment she attacks is the same moment her shroud is blown.

=Plan #6=: Try to double back and find her phone. Ah, that'd be great, but she's gotten a few more healthy slashes since then, and the old surgical scars over her heart are beginning to remind her that she was never, ever meant to be a long-distance marathon runner.

......

=Plan.... 6? Or was it 8?=: She was going to.... do something. Did she see something? Sense something? Is someone else out there?

A child-like voice, like the tinkling of bells, distracts Umie. '... You're out of ideas... which is why you're about to die, still wearing your Triple Seven uniform.'

She's going to die _still wearing her Triple Seven uniform_.

'... It's too bad you can't fight back any other way~'

She sees the memory of Akechi's face, framed in the glow of late afternoon. Behind him was an outline of a hand, drawn in chalk, with the shape of something wrapped on it like the shadow of someone else's own, forever intertwined. 'The next time I saw her, she was no longer with us. Nothing of what was left of her was recognizable, except...'

"Teleportation... goddamn... cheating... *son of a--*" Umie gasps, as she falls into the mud.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Tatsuya Sudou has posed.
<poem>
The Old Maid had it all planned, he was simply going to wait for the prey to leave her job and then immediately stuff her into a supernatural hole. Still the voice did say that she was like him, so maybe, just maybe it was worth giving her a test. Maybe she could be another him. Yes, perhaps she could be the start of the new circles of masked people, or whatever the voice called it. A whole team of masked people going into the supernatural world and committing crimes that no one could explain.

That is of course why he sent the letter, it was a part of the test, how would she respond to it all after all. After that he simply watched from a roof top, pacing back and forth as if a lion at the zoo, waiting for one of those idiot kids to oh there she is. Sudou spots his prey stepping out of her place of work and Sudou frowns as she steps into the rift into the supernatural. For a moment he had hoped for something more. Looking at his shadow, "Yeah yeah we can't all start off like the Joker." At that point Sudou steps off the roof and disappears.

Since he stepped off the roof, he has been terrorizing Umie, toying with her, showing up no matter which way she turns. He tried to warn her though when he first showed up, he even gave a light bow before telling her "Don't run, not when we are playing lions. You know what runs? FOOD runs!" Since then he has given chase. Finally though it appears the chase is over as he appears in front of the now muddy Umie.

"Well I guess he was wrong about you, you're nothing like me."
</poem>
AS: Tatsuya Sudou has readied for combat as Old Maid! He is now fully healed! Ready for 4 opponents!

<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
Morgana left as soon as Ren explained the situation to him. Ren still has to finish up his shift--he can't just leave early, especially not when Umie just did--but Morgana is... I mean, ''looks like'' a cat, so he can prowl where he pleases. Good thing, too: Umie is jumped almost immediately after she leaves. The supernatural space that the Joker Killer creates means Morgana becomes Mona--and Ren can feel that space get created thanks to his own supernatural sensitivity, which means he can send another text to his friends saying that actually, this is happening ''now''.

Mona jumps from shadow to shadow as the Old Maid stalks Umie. It burns him up inside not to go immediately to her aid, but this is a dangerous enemy--''the'' Joker Killer. He can't risk Umie's life by jumping out recklessly and making sure the others don't know where to find her. The best thing he can do is keep a close eye.

But soon it becomes clear that playtime is reaching its end. Mona will have a quick-and-dirty explanation of what's going on for Fox and Panther when they arrive-- "That maniac with the paper bag on his head is the Joker Killer, and he's out to kill that woman, Umie Akabane! We've got to stop him!" --and then it is immediately go time.

And by 'go time,' one means 'make a cool and flashy entrance to grab the evil Joker's attention.' They ''are'' phantom thieves, after all. They've got to do this with ''style''.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>Today is going to be a strange one, even by the standards of Yusuke Kitagawa's short time as the Phantom Thieves' 'Fox'.

Summoned to Shibuya by an urgent text from their leader, Yusuke is only a short way down the street from Scramble Crossing when he feels the wave of nausea. Grimacing, he ducks into an alleyway, in part so that he doesn't gracelessly lose his lunch in the middle of the street (meagre as said lunch was), in part so that nobody sees the blue flame flickering across his body, leaving him in his Fox guise.

Relieved that he's not going to throw up, Fox makes haste towards Triple Seven, in time to rendezvous with Panther and Mona; a quick briefing, and he nods, hastening in the direction Mona guides them.

====== ======

Of all things to happen in this kind of twisted space, the sound of a gunshot was likely among the least expected. Perhaps even less expected is that the shot is empowered, blue light helping it punch through the man in the paper bag's supernatural resilience.

Atop the very rooftop Sudou abandoned, Fox lowers his assault rifle, the glowing woodcut-painting of Goemon towering over him, the stern ronin glaring fiercely down at the Joker Killer. "Halt, villain!" He yells out. "The Phantom Thieves have come, to steal your prey from you!"
</poem>

AS: Persona! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Pierce skill Single Shot on Tatsuya Sudou!

<Pose Tracker> Ann Takamaki has posed.
<poem>
"W-wait. We're what?!"

This had been Ann Takamaki's alarmed question for her phone as she stares at the messages sent off in the Phantom Thieves' group DM. Unfortunately, phones can not actually respond to startled demands in this particular day and age, no matter how dismayed it may be, and so the blonde Shujin Student just belted out a little curse and flurried out a message with the swift dance of opposable thumbs:

> Wait. we're what?!

But there's no time to complain. No time to even think. Someone's life is in danger -- someone needs their help. NOW.

Already in Shibuya, Ann tries to tell herself she's ready as she grabs firm hold of her purse and starts sprinting in the direction provided.

She's not. Not at all. Not for something like -this-. Not in the real world, especially!!

"Oh no oh no oh no--!!"

But... that doesn't stop her, even for a second.

~ <3 ~

There's something viscerally frightening, being in the presence of a real killer.

That isn't to say Ann -hasn't- been in the presence of murderers. Unfortunately, she has. Kamoshida nearly got Shiho killed -- whether she chose to jump or not, he was the one who gave her the push, and that blame lies wholly with him. Madarame killed Yusuke's mother through deliberate inaction, just to steal her prize work -- to say nothing of whatever deaths might have been caused by his neglect and exploitation.

And Kaneshiro... well, he's a criminal. He -has- to have been involved in death somehow, directly or indirectly. (Probably indirectly, Ann assumes, which is just the gut feeling she got looking at the guy.)

But someone who deliberately, purposefully, ''personally'' takes a life? It's something you can only understand in the abstract--

"H-- HEY! You!"

--until you're suddenly face to face with it.

There's a slight hitch in that voice when it cuts through the air just behind the Old Maid. It's not nearly as dramatic or as steeled as the one preceding it; it sounds more like someone trying to convince themselves they're unafraid, then actually -being- unafraid. And yet--

"DANCE, CARMEN!"

-- and yet it doesn't stop the violent talon of pure, broiling flame that lashes across the distance between the Joker Killer and his intended victim, intending to intercept him just before he can reap his prize. In the distance, a young woman with platinum blonde hair, dressed in the red leathers of a classical cat burglar, stares him down -- one hand on an intricate whip, the other on the glowing cat's mask she wears. Behind her, Carmen looms, a large tongue of flame from her cigar dwindling down towards embers as she grinds her heel into the love-struck man beneath her.

Panther's eyes narrow. She has no idea -why- they're able to use their Personas here, but she's quietly breathing the largest sigh of relief over it. She wasn't sure her bear mace was going to cut it, here.

"Back off, you creepy Jason knockoff!"

So much so she frankly does not care that no one is going to understand that mad awesome diss.

(seriously though what kind of movies were her parents letting her watch as a kid)

</poem>
AS: Persona! Ann Takamaki has used the Fire skill Agi on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Block Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 78 Pierce damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Single Shot. Critical Hit!
AS: Block Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 48 Fire damage from Ann Takamaki's Agi. Resist!

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
In Mona's defense, it was completely the correct call. He'd have no way of knowing it, but if he had come out, Umie's weakness for furry vaguely Mothman-sized things might have circumvented her survival instincts.

Besides, Umie would've chosen the same route, if it meant setting up a proper assault. Maybe.

'Well I guess he was wrong about you, you're nothing like me.' "... I'm glad... you're just as disappointed in how things... are turning out," Umie spits into the mud, heaving herself onto her elbows.

She had just promised Tatsuya she'd help him, yesterday. If he hears about this, he'll blame herself. And Katsuya... likely the same, because he's been working on this case. Shinjiro, definitely. (Akechi? She's sure he'll live with his disappointment on a lead disappearing.) Think, Umie, think, be the tutor-sensei they all need right now!

RIght. There's one final, final plan. It's a long shot, but it just might work. ".... It took you way too long... they're here!!" She's pointing a shaky left hand behind Joker Killer. The plan? Redirect his attention, get away while he's looking.

..... Wait. Was that a gunshot? It may be the blood loss talking, but yes, there is someone, and that person looks... vaguely heroic, even if she chafes under the choice of words. Prey? _Prey_?! Keep it together, Umie, you're hallucinating. (But yeaaah, that mask looks about right.)

Umie attempts to push off her elbows onto her hands. Just back away, and...

And now, a second person. Fantastic hair, sets off the red really well. (_Umie, FOCUS_.) Umie can hear some element of fear in her voice, and why not? This is--

'Back off, creepy Jason knockoff!' Umie sputters a laugh. Someone charging into a situation like this? That's an underdog.

She likes those.

Umie points her left fingers outwards. "Badb! Go---k!" It's alright if Umie's voice cracks; Badb unfurls from her kneeling position, a proud grey humanoid woman in a hooded shawl of deep grey and dark red. With a slit smile, it gestures towards Panther, granting her a boon of a temporary shield.

Yes, Umie, give the wrong person Shroud. But it's not like you knew Joker Killer is a fire type.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Umie Akabane has used the Recovery skill Shroud on Ann Takamaki!

<Pose Tracker> Tatsuya Sudou has posed.
<poem>
Sudou looms over the girl, his smile hidden by the bag as he raises his sword, "Well let's just put an end to this and maybe in the real timeline you will be more worthy. " As he is about to stab it into Umie to see if she has candy inside of her what sounds like a crack of thunder echos the sky as The Old Maid stands there before stumbling back.

It felt like he got punched. No not a punch, more like something stabbed him. A bullet? Was he shot? Do people do that in the supernatural... His thought is interrupted as fire tries to hurt him, or maybe come on to him. The source of the fire has left it unclear. Sudou tilts his head a bit perplexed from the source. "Phantom...thieves?"

Sudou stares at Fox and Panther for a long moment, before looking at Umie, "I know we were having a moment and everything but are you seeing these Feathermen wanna-be's too or is it just me?" Suddenly his mark has a Persona creature with her and he chuckles. "Ok that's cute, you and the two cosplayers here think you can stand up to me. " Reaching to the bullet hole, he puts his fingers into the bullet hole and with a little fumbling around and a grimace hidden by the paper bag he retrieves Fox's bullet. "Now I'm interested."

The bullet falls to the ground as The Old Maid raises his sword and strikes the air sending blades of wind out towards Umie and Fox. Then he points his sword to Panther, "So you like to play with fire!" A ball of fire appears in his hand before he launches it at Panther. "Lets see who burns first!" His declaration breaks down into a cackle of enjoyment.

Mona goes unnoticed.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Slash skill Vortex Slash on Umie Akabane and Yusuke Kitagawa!
AS: Persona! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Fire skill Blaze on Ann Takamaki!
AS: Block Worst! Umie Akabane takes 67 Slash damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Vortex Slash.
AS: Take! Ann Takamaki takes 57 Recovery healing from Umie Akabane's Shroud.
AS: Eclipse added!
AS: Avoid Neutral! Ann Takamaki takes 55 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Blaze. Resist!
AS: Blast added!

AS: Counter Neutral! Yusuke Kitagawa takes 63 Slash damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Vortex Slash.
AS: COUNTER! Tatsuya Sudou takes 21 Slash damage in return for his attack!

<Pose Tracker> Makoto Niijima has posed.
<poem>
Sundays are often rather uneventful days for Makoto Niijima. Get the house tidied, do the week's grocery shopping, maybe make a visit to Jinbocho if time allows (this week it definitely doesn't), finish any outstanding homework (unfortunately necessary this week), extra study for mock exams and on a normal Sunday, preparing dinner for herself and Sae.

For the last few weeks, however, Makoto's been eating alone at night the past few weeks.

So right now, she's standing in the kitchen, trying to work up the motivation to cook a meal just for herself. Sure, there had been plenty of nights where Sis had to work late, her total absence while working on the Kaneshiro case has been... difficult.

Upsetting, even.

The beeping of her phone pulls her out of her own head, and she walks over to the counter to pick it up- and stares at the messages briefly. The Joker Killer...?

Even a week ago, Makoto would have paused, suggested calling the police or anything else. She'd think about the consequences, what other options there would be, she'd way the risk.

Today, it takes no thought of all.

>On my way.

-----

It took a little longer to make it to Shibuya from Shinjuku than expected, and while the others had met up with Mona, Makoto had managed to find Ren just getting off his shift, and that meant they were heading towards the target together- and suddenly, it feels like they cross an arbitrary threshold and it shifts. It's not Makoto anymore. She can feel the cold steel of her mask upon her face. She doesn't know how or why she can use her Persona now. But there will be time to analyze it later. Instead, she feels a sharp smile come to her lips as she turns her head to Joker. "Let's ride."

----

The cackle of the Joker Killer might find an unexpected interruption in the roar of a motorcycle engine- and the roar of something living, breathing, enjoying her freedom. Queen rides through the Shibuya in a way she never could have before. Johanna responds to her intent as much as her steering, and she can ride through somewhere that should be as crowded as Shibuya central in a way no normal person could. The wind in her hair is a thrill- and so is the chase.

"There!" She yells to her passenger, as she spots Panther and Fox facing off against a man who has murdered thousands. That nuclear flame of rage burns in her chest as much as they burst out of Johanna's exhausts.

She is notably not decelerating as she screeches around the corner, adjusting her angle to line up with the murderer.

"Now's your chance to get off." She says, the one warning she gives Joker (the good one) before she guns it towards the Joker Killer (the bad one), Johanna's fury going full speed at the threat.
</poem>

AS: Tandem! Makoto Niijima has used the Strike skill Vajra Strike on Tatsuya Sudou!

<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
As Fox and Panther move in to decisively take the heat off of Umie, Mona leaps down next to her, scimitar in one... paw? How exactly does he hold that blade...? (Some things are better not to question too deeply.) "So ''you're'' the infamous Joker Killer, huh? Somehow I thought you'd be more dignified, but I guess this is as much as anyone can expect from a bloodthirsty murderer! You won't be claiming this life today! ''Zorro''!"

And that's how a very small cat-looking creature summons a Persona in the shape of a large man, who raises up a rapier and calls down healing energies on Umie. It's not going to cure every single one of her wounds, but it'll at least ensure she doesn't bleed out while trying to fend off her attacker. It brings her to baseline, one might say.

A good thing, considering the Old Maid hasn't given up on cutting her down.

~ * ~

Ren meanwhile rushes out of Triple Seven the instant his shift is over, not even stopping to accept his pay for the day ("I'll come back for it later!"). This means he leaves still in uniform, but it also means that he meets up with Makoto with not a moment to spare. There is a shift--a nauseating line in reality--and the both of them transform, blue fire burning their masks and costumes onto them.

He smirks back. Looks like he gets to ride with her first, for all Panther enthused about it before him.

~ * ~

The roar of Johanna's engine is a thrill as Joker holds on to Queen from behind her. No need to ask where; he spots Panther and Fox as Queen points them out.

"More's the pity," he quips, just before he kicks a leg up and leaps off the back of Johanna. As he somersaults in mid-air, he activates the grappling hook wire on his left wrist. It catches onto the side of a building and lets him swing in from the other side of Queen. As she accelerates her Persona into the Joker Killer, Joker opens fire with his handgun, punctuating his wired flight. Partway through his arc, he disengages the wire and sails upwards, kicks off a wall, and somersaults again to nail a three-point landing in between Umie and the Old Maid. He rises up slowly, dark eyes intense behind his back; his gun is gone, replaced by a rainbow-colored knife. He smirks, taps that blade on his shoulder--and gestures at the Old Maid to 'come get some.'

What's the point in being a phantom thief if you aren't going to be as extra as possible?
</poem>

AS: Weapon! Ren Amamiya has used the Pierce skill Makaronov Shot on Tatsuya Sudou! 3 Hits!

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"''Feathermen wanna-be's''???"

Whoops, Fox, you said that out loud.

"Excuse ''you'', sir, these are ''bespoke'' designs, borne from our souls to armour against your wickedness!"

He would likely espouse further on the differences between the themed, shared designs of a given Featherman season versus how each of the Phantoms' Wills of Rebellion shrouds them against the supernatural - but the man in the paper bag mask pulls the ''bullet'' out of his ''head'', and even that gives Fox some pause.

Pause enough for the serial killer to move like a blur with his sword, waves of sharp air filling the distance between them.

Grimacing, Fox throws away his rifle (it disappears in a puff of blue fire) and in a moment's thought he's drawing a blade of his own - a black blade that seems to drink in the light Goemon emits, to clash with those razor waves, and deflect some of them back at the Joker Killer.

It's an exchange that, he won't lie, he comes off worse for.

Fortunately, there is another loud sound in the air - a roaring engine.

Fox's grimace turns into a smirk as the cavalry arrives, and as Johanna barrels towards the Joker King, he approaches from the other direction, tearing at his mask in a spray of blood and cognitive flame. "GOEMON! CUT HIM DOWN!"

The incongruous woodcut-ronin manifests again, great kiseru pipe plunging down towards Sudou as Fox lunges in with his own katana, opening up with a flurry of blows from both Phantom Thief and Persona alike.
</poem>

AS: Tandem! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Slash skill Dual Slice on Tatsuya Sudou! 3 Hits!

<Pose Tracker> Ann Takamaki has posed.
<poem>
He's pulling a bullet.

Out of his head.

"Wh -- are you seriously some slasher monster?!"

Behind the panther's facade, Ann visibly pales. This is beyond their ken -- all of them, really. Fighting strangeness in the Metaverse is one thing -- there's a layer of extra-reality to Palaces and Mementos that helps Ann, at least, to absord the disturbing nature of their spaces to some degree.

But this is the real world. Or at least, some degree of it.

"FOX! LOOK OUT--"

And seeing -that- happen -here- gives her the distinct impression that they might be out of their league, here.

Her warning comes too late. Yusuke's quick reaction spares him from the worst of what the Joker Killer has to offer, but still -- he's not looking good. Nor is Umie, barely choking out a sound as she... summons her own Persona? Ann's eyes go wide.

"Wait, for real--?!"

She barely gets it out before the temporary salve Umie offers is immediately countermanded by the unstable conflagration that is Tatsuya Sudou. "Oh crap--!" Panther, to her credit, reacts quickly; or at least, her subconscious does. On her way towards Umie, the leather-clad Phantom Thief is already pivoting the second she hears Sudou address her. Her gloved palm snaps -out- like a STOP motion -- and in front of her manifests Carmen, the frills of her rose-like dress swooping up like a matador with their cape.

As if in direct response, one of those love-lorn servants of the fuschia femme fatale LEAPS in front of the gout of flame like a secret service man diving in the path of a bullet, heart eyes lighting up in delight for having protected its mistress.

The force of it though, the heat of it as it buffets against the wall of her soul -- it's -still- enough to make Panther recoil with a grimace, one arm lifting to shield her face from the licking tongues of flame directly in front of her.

"This is -so- not good--" she hisses to herself--

Which is just about when the cavalry arrive.

"Joker!" Panther exclaims as the duo make their EXTRA SPECIALLY EXTRA ENTRANCE. "Queen!!" Her eyes light up. So COOL--

Ann doesn't spend any time fawning though (or at least, not anymore than is reflexive when people are doing SUPER COOL MOTORCYCLE FLIPPY GUN STUNTS IN FRONT OF YOU); soon enough she's back to sprinting towards Umie, eyes narrowed. The Old Maid wanted a firefight.

But she's got higher priorities right now.

"Come on, Carmen!"

And as Umie struggles back onto her feet -- she'll see that fuschia woman gripping the vine leashes of her servants tight as their eyes light up and healing magic emanates off them, suffusing Umie with a tender warmth. Is she -- squeezing the love out of them--??

It's a stark contrast to the genuine concern coming from Panther as she stops in front of Umie and leans down, offering a hand and a warm, confident smile.

"Hey -- it's okay," she assures, firmly. "We're not gonna let that bastard get you."

</poem>
AS: Persona! Ann Takamaki has used the Recovery skill Dia on Umie Akabane!
AS: Take! Umie Akabane takes 73 Recovery healing from Ann Takamaki's Dia.
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 83 Strike damage from Makoto Niijima's Vajra Strike. Critical Hit!
AS: Block Neutral! Tatsuya Sudou takes 10 Pierce damage from Ren Amamiya's Makaronov Shot.
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 9 Pierce damage from Ren Amamiya's Makaronov Shot.
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 27 Pierce damage from Ren Amamiya's Makaronov Shot. Critical Hit!
AS: Avoid Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 31 Slash damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Dual Slice.
AS: Avoid Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 18 Slash damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Dual Slice.
AS: Avoid Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 31 Slash damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Dual Slice.

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem> Phantom thieves? ".... You're... kidding." Umie stares out at Panther, and then Fox. She's feeling delirious now, but that's probably why she's laughing, mud dripping from her chin as her head bobs with the motion.

She looks up, her face and tone completely flat now. "Nope. Just your imagination." Her smile sprouts there, ever widening until mirrors the one on Badb. "Haahhh. Stressful day?"

Two people, plus her. It took more at Kasugayama, but they don't need to *beat* him, they just need to *survive*.

"Keep focused or you're going to lose the advantage... uh... Red-san!" The nicknames can't all be winners, but Umie doesn't want to be the reason their advantage is lost.

It's at that point, when Umie hears the sound of a motorcycle, that she feels the wounds on her body healing. Umie looks at her right hand, and then back to the emerging Mona, then gets up on her feet. Wait, no, that was a Persona, so.... It couldn't be. Still, her protective instincts are triggered. ".... Thank you. Uh, stay by me, please," she says, oddly polite.

Even if her wounds are healed, she's knows better than to try anything tricky, and besides, when the Old Maid sends out blades of wind out at her, she keeps by Mona, throwing up her hands up to try to take on the blow.

... Carmen's display of 'love' is odd, but, considering her own Persona's... tendencies, Umie gives a grateful nod back, unable to think of a proper quip.

After a moment, all Umie can find is simple: "Thank you," she says, giving Ann a slanted grin back, as well as quiet dip of her head towards the whip-wielding young woman for her help. "Fox-san, helping you next!" Oh, that's what Panther called him, right? Well, that makes it easier. She points to him now. "Badb! Shroud!"

Badb is still in the air as Queen pulls in, drawing a gasp from the muddy convenience store clerk. "... How?! Your-- but!!"

Queen. ... Joker?!

That's... Joker, landing in that same three-point crouch. No longer Mask-san.

"Detective-san." Blink, blink. "... You were a Phantom Thief the entire time. Huh." (Umie, _why would he tell you he was one?!_) "... And yeah, this is the Joker Killer," she says, attempting to project a more serious tone, "Teleportation, has a sword... Water works, I think. Seven Sisters badges... might." What element is a badge? "Get me out of this and you and your friends get information. Deal? We'll figure out the logistics later."
</poem>

AS: Persona! Umie Akabane has used the Recovery skill Shroud on Yusuke Kitagawa!
AS: Umie Akabane spends Limit on Shift! Ren Amamiya can use another Weak skill this round!

AS: Take! Yusuke Kitagawa takes 56 Recovery healing from Umie Akabane's Shroud.
AS: Eclipse added!

<Pose Tracker> Tatsuya Sudou has posed.
<poem>
Sudou wasn't about to let up from all of the attacks, not when things were only getting started. That is until a motorcycle comes riding in, "I must have missed the part where people just bring things like motorcycles into the world. This place is a place of serenity and peace not a place for you to..." Sudou's crazy rant is silenced and replaced with an "Ooof" as the motorcycle hits him and despite bracing himself he still rolls backward while taking more bullets embedding themself in his body. He really is starting to feel like guns need to be outlawed in the supernatural.

Still he doesn't stay down, as he climbs to the feat, the fox one and his Persona is charging in and The Old Maid works to parry and evade the slashes until he is able to break back and keep all five or six of them in his line of sight. Despite all this Sudou was enjoying himself, this was fun, he hadn't had a fight like this since he met up with Strega in that horrible statement.

That is until a name is shouted, "Joker where?" Sudou's attention is diverted as he looks around until he tracks who the one in red is talking about. "You? They call you Joker? And you went and gathered a whole team of masked people?!" The killer intent behind the mask is all but palpable, "You damn poser!" The killer intent shifts and twists in this pocket of the supernatural and takes on a life of its own as The Old Maid's sword erupts into black flames.

"You dare try to steal my life! My real life!" Waves of heat and hatred flow off the Joker Killer through the alley. Sudou charges toward the supposed Joker shouting as he does, You are not the Joker, the Joker is not free yet. He will be though, and I will hand him each of your masks." The black flame sword comes crashing down at Joker as The Old Maid works very hard to make him mince meat.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Recovery skill Burning Spirit on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Take! Tatsuya Sudou takes 73 Recovery healing from Tatsuya Sudou's Burning Spirit.
AS: Atk_Up added!
AS: Persona! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Fire skill Heat Wave on Ann Takamaki, Umie Akabane, Yusuke Kitagawa, and Makoto
Niijima!
AS: Tandem! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Fire skill Dark Fire Slash on Ren Amamiya! 2 Hits!
AS: Block Best! Umie Akabane takes 65 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Heat Wave.
AS: Avoid Best! Yusuke Kitagawa takes 31 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Heat Wave. Eclipsed!
AS: Eclipse removed!
AS: Avoid Worst! Ren Amamiya takes 98 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Dark Fire Slash.
AS: Avoid Best! Ren Amamiya takes 90 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Dark Fire Slash. Critical Hit!
AS: Block Neutral! Makoto Niijima takes 56 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Heat Wave. Resist!
AS: Block Worst! Ann Takamaki takes 85 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Heat Wave. Resist!

<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
"Panther!" Joker calls back to his friend. He smiles at his back as she goes to join Mona in protecting Umie. Between the two of them, they should be able to keep her safe while the rest of them take the Joker Killer on.

Which is good, because between her and Fox, it's clear the Joker Killer is living up to his name. He's out for blood and doesn't care who gets in his way... The information Umie provides gets her a crisp nod.

"Deal," Joker tells Umie. He isn't about to explain that he was going to do his damnedest to get her out of this with or without any information in return. Information is still good to have, for everyone's sake.

The Old Maid zeroes in on Joker and calls him a poser. "What?" Who's stealing his real life. "What." And he's going to hand him to the real Joker--Joker has nothing to say to this, and that's because the Old Maid is charging in at him with sword aflame. Even moving as nimbly as he can, the sheer proximity of the Old Maid's sword is enough to lick and crackle at his coat dangerously. Joker has no idea what he's talking about, but it's unmistakable that he wants to kill him for, apparently, also being called Joker.

He snarls in pain as he's forced backwards, weaving out of the way of a direct hit but taking bad damage all the same. "Get back!" he calls to Umie, sweeping his free arm around. His white mask goes up in blue flame, and he covers his face with a red-gloved hand...

"Persona!" he calls, just before a great masked fiend with black wings arises. They wave a clawed hand, and energy seeps at the Old Maid, potentially slowing his movements and making it more difficult to land critical hits.

This is before the dark Persona leers at him with a wicked smile--which might sap the Old Maid's hostility some, or might well make it even worse. "Queen! Show us what you've got!" Joker calls, meanwhile--she's the team's new tactician, and with Umie's support, now is the best possible time for her to strut her stuff.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Ren Amamiya has used the Almighty skill Sukunda on Tatsuya Sudou!
ARCANA: Ruin: Ren Amamiya gains 1 Limit!

AS: Persona! Ren Amamiya has used the Almighty skill Evil Smile on Tatsuya Sudou!

<Pose Tracker> Makoto Niijima has posed.
<poem>
The fact that the Old Maid can take a Johanna going full speed and only get sent rolling is already concerning enough- that he gets back up and withstand Fox's assault and Joker's full barrage is even more concerning. No wonder the police haven't been able to stop him-

Umie's warning echoes out, and Queen takes note. He can teleport, and he might be weak to water. That's... a bigger problem. But even more worrying of all is that wave of flame and hate that Queen can feel. That burning hatred crashes against her, and it stings even as she's able to brace herself for impact, Johanna helping soften a blow that might have killed a normal human.

"...Stealing your life?" Queen frowns, but only has a moment to do so before the black flame sword cuts into Joker, with all the Old Maid's rage manifest. "JOKER!" She yells, and Johanna skids to a halt in a long 180, and she drives straight for their leader, launching off the bike shaped Persona and flipping mid air to land next to him, her Persona coming to a halt next to her. "Diarama!" She calls, manifesting Johanna's healing magic toward him- but Joker says to show them what she's got...

Fine. She can do that. "Panther!" She yells, slipping into the role Joker requested. "Pin him down as best you can, give him as little room to maneuver as possible! Fire, bullets, whatever it takes!" The Joker can teleport, but hopefully it's harder under fire. "Fox... when Panther makes an opening, freeze him and carve him up like an ice sculpture! Don't give him room to move!"
</poem>

AS: Persona! Makoto Niijima has used the Recovery skill Diarama on Ren Amamiya!
AS: Makoto Niijima spends Limit on Shift! Ann Takamaki can use another Weak skill this round!

<Pose Tracker> Ann Takamaki has posed.
<poem>
The sight of Umie summoning up that Persona User leaves Panther with so many questions. Was the Joker Killer targeting Persona Users?? Was the whole rumor thing just a red herring this whole time?! Wait --

Does 'Joker Killer' mean he kills Jokers?!

-- no that's stupid but STILL Ann thinks she's onto something here.

Detective Princing isn't so hard, that Goro Akechi should get off his high horse!

Right now, though, the myriad questions flying through Ann's thoughts are tabled in the face of making sure Umie's still -alive- to ask questions. As Carmen's healing spell finishes itself out, Ann turns her attention back towards the Old Maid -- just in time to see him ranting, and igniting his blade in -black- flames.

The things he's saying -- they're so confusing.

"Oh god," Panther says aloud for no one's benefit, despite Umie's proximity, "this guy's completely insane--!"

Because, like. Umie probably doesn't need to hear this right now!

"Hey, look out--" Panther, at least, has Umie's safety first and foremost on her mind -- as that rippling wave of heat comes, the whip-wielding cat burglar tries to -lunge- between Umie and all that force; it might give her the precious time she needs, but as for Ann--

"ggAH!" The yelp that comes from her is palpable; even that innate resistance to passion's primal flame does little for the sheer, unhinged HEAT that exudes from Sudou, knocking her clear off her feet until she hits ground in a smoking bounce. A single rebound sends her twisting with surprising flexibility through the air (thanks, cognitive world), until she is landing in a three-point stance, skididng across the earth. "Ugh... ow... --Joker!! Watch out--!!"

But the Joker Killer is still coming after him like a man obsessed. Ren manages well enough -- but Ann is still scrambling when she hears Makoto's voice, that commanding tone providing her some manner of clarity within the firestorm of Sudou's insanity.

"R-right!" Eyes narrow behind their mask. And Ann unfurls her whip as she drags herself back up onto her feet.

"... Fine. You want to fight fire with fire, you psycho?! Let's see how you like the heat!!"

Ann grips her mask with one hand. The whip CRACKS in the other. And summoned by her fiery fury, Carmen manifests before Sudou; heeled foot digging into the back of one of her servitors head, she yanks his thorny rose-vine leash -back-. Magic RIPS out with the motion -- and all that protection Sudou's power gave him to the very fires he loves so much?

It's all gone.

"LET'S DANCE!"

Carmen draws a deep pull of her cigar.

And when she exhales, it BILLOWS outward in a plume of fire, rippling towards Sudou and -past- him. It'll burn if it manages to hit, but more importantly --

-- it IGNITES a fence of the very flames he was so resistant to before, trying to fence him in, to shepherd him into a corner--

"FOX! NOW! GET THAT CREEP!"

-- for the coup de gras.

</poem>
AS: Persona! Ann Takamaki has used the Almighty skill Fire Break on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Persona! Ann Takamaki has used the Fire skill Agi on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Ann Takamaki: Blast removed!
AS: Ann Takamaki spends Limit on Shift! Yusuke Kitagawa can use another Weak skill this round! SP +10!

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"Well. I suppose you wouldn't be a supervillain serial killer without a tentative grasp on sanity."

'the real Joker'... Curious. He's also reacting to the fact that they all wear masks...?

You can practically see the large cartoon question mark appear over Fox's head at the paper-bag-man's ranting, but there's no time to think about it - he's having fire hurled at him! He ducks away, the tip of the tail latched to his waist needing a roll to put out, and stands up, singed but focused.

Fortunately, the Phantom Thieves are a ''team'', and their next objective is to steal their enemy's momentum. Joker saps the Killer's reflexes, and Queen steps into her role as their tactician. Fox nods once, and settles into a kendo ready stance, forcing his breathing to calm.

The Joker Killer is encircled by a ring of flame that Carmen has rendered him suddenly vulnerable to, and Fox grins. "Goemon, strike!" The phantasmal ronin inhales, and breathes out a wave of ice that coalesces around Sudou, blowing out the flames trapping him to trap him in ''ice'' instead.

Then Fox moves, blade flashing with cold intent and snowflakes trailing in its wake. One. Two. Three.

He sheathes the blades, and as it ''clicks'' home in its scabbard...

The ice shatters.
</poem>

AS: Yusuke Kitagawa spends Limit on Psych!
AS: Persona! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Water skill Bufu on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Tandem! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Slash skill Blade and Brush on Tatsuya Sudou! 3 Hits!
AS: Yusuke Kitagawa: Psych removed!
AS: Yusuke Kitagawa cancels 3 attacks on Tatsuya Sudou.
AS: Tandem! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Water skill Frigid Wrath on Tatsuya Sudou! 3 Hits!
AS: Take! Tatsuya Sudou takes 0 Almighty damage from Ren Amamiya's Sukunda.
AS: Spd_Dn added!
AS: Take! Tatsuya Sudou takes 0 Almighty damage from Ren Amamiya's Evil Smile.
AS: Sick added!
AS: Take! Tatsuya Sudou takes 0 Almighty damage from Ann Takamaki's Fire Break.
AS: Fire_Break added!
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 74 Fire damage from Ann Takamaki's Agi. Weak!
AS: Haze added!
AS: Avoid Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 121 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Bufu. Critical Hit! Weak!
AS: Avoid Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 49 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Frigid Wrath. Weak!
AS: Avoid Neutral! Tatsuya Sudou takes 73 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Frigid Wrath. Critical Hit! Weak!
AS: Avoid Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 59 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Frigid Wrath. Critical Hit! Weak!

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem> "..." Come to think of it, Tatsuya (Suou) said similarly strange things, like 'this time'. Strange little slips that she later roughly attributed to the Mark.

But Joker said it too: 'in the real timeline', bringing up old, bad memories. (Thankfully, not of another world.)

What exactly is the Mark?

"That name's important to him, for some reason. Use it to your advantage. He doesn't have his Strega allies with him; you guys have as good a chance as any to make this a fight he'll remember."

Forgive Umie; she's still so overwhelmed by the stylish theatrics of this group she can't even be cynical about it. Instead, she feels... inspired. "... Make him rue the day he step foot in Shibuya," she hisses, anger raising in her voice at a low volume as she draws back, prompted by Joker's hand. "... and maybe he'll run and tell that *asshole* who called him on me that his heart's _not even worth the attention_."

Oh, Umie. If only if it were that simple. You've got the wrong person to send out that message, and the wrong person who called.

But she's on a roll. "... So. Yeah. I'm going to help these nice people beat you back out of Shibuya, and when I get back in tip top shape, I'll more directly help my friends _chase you out of Sumaru City_." She snaps a finger in the air, adding, in a singsong tone, "Look forward to it, _Old Maid-san_! Come to me, Badb!"

Some of this is her own frustration, but just as much, people like Shinjiro, and Tatsuya. But a lot of it? The Phantom Thieves themselves. All the questions of ethics, and how the Phantom Thieves could easily fall to corruption themselves are furthest from her mind right now.

(Wait, Umie, you are not supposed to be trying to draw aggro here.)

No, _she is_.

Because Panther's right there, taking the brunt for her, and Umie *hates it*. "Go, Panther-san!"

</poem>
AS: Persona! Umie Akabane has used the Recovery skill Shroud on Ren Amamiya!
AS: Umie Akabane spends Limit on Shift! Ann Takamaki can use another Weak skill this round!

<Pose Tracker> Tatsuya Sudou has posed.
<poem>
The Old Maid is lost in rage and that blinds him to many things. For example that this is a well organized crew for example, or that despite some of these attacks not doing things he is slowing down and making him lose some of his rage. He doesn't even notice the fact that fire is hot, that is until that damn red persona that keeps trying to show off how in control she is by stepping on the patriarchy covered in fire. Who knew fire could be so hot, fortunately the Fox mask comes in to help cool him off, and Sudou knows one thing. Water has never done him a damn good.

The Joker Killer stumbles a bit as he tries to run from Fox boys attacks but just can't get away. They hurt in ways that Sudou wasn't ready for and as he stumbles back. One thing is true, Sudou is bleeding, a lot.

The Old Maid just stands there for a moment, like some Jason rip off, as he gathers himself. Then he begins to speak again, " Yeah yeah, I know. I know damn it. I just...just look at them and the name and... I know he isn't him. I know that, I know who that is. I just...all this. " There is a deep sigh as he seems to regain some composure. "Yeah you are right. Play it cool."

The killer intent isn't gone, its just refined. The burning blade is still burning but the flames are smaller. Looking at the Fox and the poser, he swipes his sword quickly, lashing out with blades of air again to if nothing else hold them at bay. That is when he charges forward, with a wink given to carmen through the paper bag, he runs right past the red cat girl to the motorcycle chick.

"Healing is now a punishable offense!" Sudou raises his sword and slashes with the heated blade at Makoto before turning towards the original target. "Don't think that excludes you either." A break and a mad dash as he charges at Umie before leaping into the air driving his sword forward.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Slash skill Vortex Slash on Ren Amamiya and Yusuke Kitagawa!
AS: Tandem! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Fire skill Burning Slash on Makoto Niijima!
AS: Weapon! Tatsuya Sudou has used the Pierce skill Stab at Thee on Umie Akabane!
AS: Tatsuya Sudou: Loses 8 SP from Sick! Sick removed!
AS: Block Best! Umie Akabane takes 79 Pierce damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Stab at Thee.
AS: Counter Neutral! Yusuke Kitagawa takes 127 Slash damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Vortex Slash. Critical Hit!
AS: COUNTER! Tatsuya Sudou takes 34 Slash damage in return for his attack!
AS: Counter Best! Makoto Niijima takes 72 Fire damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Burning Slash. Resist!
AS: Poison added!
AS: COUNTER! Tatsuya Sudou takes 68 Fire damage in return for his attack! Weak!
AS: Take! Ren Amamiya takes 93 Recovery healing from Makoto Niijima's Diarama.
AS: Take! Ren Amamiya takes 54 Recovery healing from Umie Akabane's Shroud.
AS: Eclipse added!
AS: Avoid Best! Ren Amamiya takes 68 Slash damage from Tatsuya Sudou's Vortex Slash.

<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
As much as he appreciates Queen and Panther's concerned shouts of warning, Joker does not have the space to call back to them while fending off the Old Maid's attempts to straight-up skewer him. The healing energy of Johanna's Diarama lets Joker breathe out a cool, refreshed breath of relief. Queen keeps a cool head while she's at it, directing the others with a plan to counter this killer.

He does not think that he kills Jokers, but there sure as hell is something weird going on here. What's all this about a true Joker and people with masks? But--while all of them have noticed that, there's precisely nothing they can do about it right now.

Still, as Panther and Fox deliver their one-two punch, Joker grins, however grimly. Carmen's power lets her break the Old Maid's resistance to fire and turn up the heat on him, while Fox launches himself in with freezing fury.

It is, no pun meant, very cool.

Umie's mentioning something about 'Strega allies.' Joker doesn't know what that's about, nor about who (she assumes) called the Old Maid on her, but the main takeaway is that this guy could be an ''even worse'' fight than he is right now. That's sobering.

So is the Old Maid staggering back and seeming to regain some composure by talking to someone who... isn't there. Who isn't visible? He shouldn't be able to talk to someone long-distance in a space like this... should he? Joker realizes he has no idea, and that gets his guard up.

It's well-timed. The Old Maid comes at him swinging, and thanks to the shroud of darkness that Umie calls down from Badb onto his form, he manages to evade another direct hit. A very good thing, when 'a direct hit' probably would have meant getting gutted.

"Oh no you don't," he growls when the Old Maid goes after the healers. Something shifts in his mask, and the blue flames shatter as, instead of that dark-winged fiend, he calls up-- "Ame-no-Uzume!!"

A Japanese-looking woman covered in fans and cloaks dances up into existence. She sashays to one side, snapping one of her fans upwards, and waves upon waves of nuclear fire pour down on the Old Maid, taking advantage of the weakness Panther instilled in him earlier. Fitting, since she represents the bond they share-- for all that her attack is meant to give Queen the space she needs for a counter-attack against the Old Maid.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Ren Amamiya has used the Fire skill Trio Freila on Tatsuya Sudou! 3 Hits!
AS: Ren Amamiya spends Limit on Shift! Makoto Niijima can use another Weak skill this round!

<Pose Tracker> Makoto Niijima has posed.
<poem>
Makoto is very occupied with tactics and Ren's injuries, and doesn't have time to focus on who or what the Old Maid is talking to- but she can hear the rage at her, the Joker Killer declaring that Healing Is Forbidden, and coming at her with his sword. The flaming blade slices at Makoto, and she moves. If her hands were empty and the sword weren't on fire, she could try for a sword catch.

With that not an option, she hurls a punch at the Old Maid's blade, her tekko smashing into it as it comes toward her, blunting the impact so it only slices at her other shoulder, the hateful flames of the Joker Killer clashing with the nuclear fires of Johanna. It hurts, sure, but it also makes Queen angry. She throws another punch, aiming to knock the Old Maid's sword out of the way before rushing in with a rapid combo of punches toward his gut, before Joker provides her an opening with fires similar to Johanna's. It'sd the opening she needs, as she launches into a high backflip to land back on Johanna, giving herself what she hopes is enough distance.

Fox has taking a hit, and a bad one too. If he takes another like that...

"Johanna, Rakukaja!" She calls, extending her hand toward Fox, letting the barrier of blue light surround and fortify him, before turning her eyes to the Old Maid.

"You're really pissing me off, you ''murdering trash''!" She lets out a roar of defiance. "If you like fire so much, then burn to ash! FREILA!"

Her own powerful burst of nuclear fire joins in the trio sent by Joker, revving Johanna's engine to empower the blast with her anger.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Makoto Niijima has used the Fire skill Freila on Tatsuya Sudou!
AS: Makoto Niijima: Loses 54 HP from Poison!

<Pose Tracker> Ann Takamaki has posed.
<poem>
Fading fire lapping its dwindling embers around her, Panther draws deep, steadying breaths as the exertion of this life-or-death struggle start to build up in her. She feels the cold of Yusuke's aftermath dancing at her flushed cheeks, and a smile dares to bloom on pink lips.

"Heck yeah, F--" she begins to cheer -- only to see the Old Maid still there, paper bag and all like some sort of grim mockery of their own masks, just.

Standing there.

"--ox--?"

Bleeding. Smoldering. But still -standing-.

And -talking to himself-.

There's something seriously wrong with this guy, and Ann's not entirely sure it's completely to do with mundane, everyday reasons. What is going on here...?

Of course, this is about when Umie starts taking the immortal zombie bag man to task with an untold amount of shit-talk. Sky blue eyes fluttering in a blink, Panther looks Umie's way as she cheers her on; despite everything, she manages a grin, rubbing the back of her head. "Aheh, you better believe it! But, you know, he -is- a crazy serial killer, are you sure you should be--"

And this is exactly when he rips right past Ann and her Persona with a cheeky wink and a flash of steel.

It's so fast. It's so -fast-. She just smells the stale stench of air left in his smearing wake. Her mind is still catching up with what just happened by the time he's upon Queen. There's no time to even shout; not even trust that Makoto can protect herself. By the time she begins--

"Wa-- Qu--"

he's already turned his attention on Umie.

"--NO!"

He lunges. She's too late. She knows it. Her teeth grit, she spins in the direction he's rushed off to, even as she snaps one gloved hand Yusuke's way. The snaring -yank- of a rose-thorn leash sends one of those besmitten servitors of Carmen swinging past Yusuke's orbit, the heart-shaped flashes of his eyes providing what healing it can for the onslaught he's endured. As for the rest?

"HEY! You weird scumbag! Look here!"

Ann unfurls that whip. Umie's hammering of his nerves got his attention. It's like a bull in the arena--

"I don't know who the heck you're talking to, but you heard the lady! You're getting out of Shibuya! Take your gross horror movie fetish--"

Carmen leans down, tapping the tip of her cigar to Ann's whip. And the entire weapon -ignites- in flames as Ann -dashes- for Sudou.

"--and your weird Joker obsession--"

One crack of the whip -- two. The flaming lash snaps down across the killer's shoulder, then whipcracks across his bagged face, the burning length seeking to snare there and then -yank- to unsettle his footing.

"--and get the hell out of Shibuya!"

Blue gaze livid, Ann snaps off a two-fingered salute, and ducks--

--whereupon Sudou might see Carmen behind her, already winding up to hurl a -tremendous- blaze of flames, narrow and white-hot, direct at the Joker Killer to match the torrent that Ren's Persona wields.

"There's only one Joker that matters here, and it sure isn't whatever crap you've come up with!"

</poem>
AS: Persona! Ann Takamaki has used the Recovery skill Dia on Yusuke Kitagawa!
AS: Weapon! Ann Takamaki has used the Fire skill Feel the Heat on Tatsuya Sudou! 2 Hits!
AS: Ann Takamaki: Eclipse removed!
AS: Take! Yusuke Kitagawa takes 72 Recovery healing from Ann Takamaki's Dia.

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>Again, Fox strikes the whirlwind that Sudou kicks up, attempting to turn the razor-air back on their enemy... and again he comes the worse off in the exchange, this time bodily slammed against the wall of the alleyway as his black kogatama clatters to the ground.

He coughs, mask cracked and chipped, as he picks himself back up, grabbing his blade again. "Not... Finished..." he pants, reaching up to tear the damaged mask away in another spray of blue flame and blood. "GOEMON! ONCE MORE!" His persona gestures, and waves of vividly blue water crash into Sudou, swirling and pooling like that iconic woodcut the ''Great Wave''.

Wary on account his exhaustion, Fox assumes a guarding stance while their enemy is dealing with the Thieves' renewed offensive. The sight of his muse in spectacular array fills him with new strength, though, as Carmen dances to soothe his aches and rain hellfire upon Sudou.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Yusuke Kitagawa has used the Water skill Double Aques on Tatsuya Sudou! 2 Hits!

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem>
'But, you know, he -is- a crazy serial killer, are you sure you should be--'

It may as well be the scent of blood in the air; Umie and Badb are one in intention and spirit, wanting to push and push and push at a weakness. As the Joker Killer comes at her, there's something dark on Umie's right wrist and upper hand; it's hard to see through the mess of blood, mud, and cut fabric.

Even if someone were to look at that moment and even see it as something more than just a shadow, what else could it be but something else that'd be just as mundane? She has no cognitive armor; just the possibly luck-stated Triple Seven uniform.

(The Joker Killer himself may be a different story.)

The look on Umie's face shows that she knows it could have gone a lot differently. "...." Their personas afford them so much grace, just by existing. ".... Panther-san. Are you okay?"

The shift in Personas so close by Umie draws her attention; while she's inadvertently been in battle with Fools before, it wasn't close enough for her to notice it, before.

.... How? That's... a different persona...? How is that even possible?

It also snaps her back into the right mindframe; this isn't a normal battle. She nearly died.

They came to protect her, and she *needs to act like it*.

"Badb," comes her command, more subdued, softer, as she focuses now towards the one with the unorthodox Persona: Makoto. "... I have a bad feeling..."

That dread that begins to creep up in Umie's chest; she's not sure if it's her own paranoia, or something else she's sensing in the air.
</poem>

AS: Persona! Umie Akabane has used the Recovery skill Shroud on Makoto Niijima!
AS: Take! Makoto Niijima takes 56 Recovery healing from Umie Akabane's Shroud.
AS: Eclipse added!
AS: Avoid Neutral! Tatsuya Sudou takes 50 Fire damage from Ren Amamiya's Trio Freila. Weak!
AS: Blast added!
AS: Avoid Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 56 Fire damage from Ren Amamiya's Trio Freila. Weak!
AS: Blast added!
AS: Avoid Neutral! Tatsuya Sudou takes 50 Fire damage from Ren Amamiya's Trio Freila. Weak!
AS: Blast added!
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 102 Fire damage from Makoto Niijima's Freila. Weak!
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 73 Fire damage from Ann Takamaki's Feel the Heat. Weak!
AS: Block Best! Tatsuya Sudou takes 110 Fire damage from Ann Takamaki's Feel the Heat. Critical Hit! Weak!
AS: Avoid Worst! Tatsuya Sudou takes 92 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Double Aques. Weak!
AS: Avoid Neutral! Tatsuya Sudou takes 82 Water damage from Yusuke Kitagawa's Double Aques. Weak!
AS: Tatsuya Sudou is unable to continue fighting!

<Pose Tracker> Tatsuya Sudou has posed.
<poem>
These brats just kept coming. Over and over they kept coming, it was worse because of that damn smoke or whatever that made the burning burn more. It hurt so much.

Then of course they all decided to use fire as if they were trying to make a point about how bad fire was. In a way he even welcomes fox boys water based attacks. The cool nature seems to ease the burning. However it leaves him feeling ice cold, that could also be as a result of blood loss.

Taking a deep breath the The Old Maid raises his sword and large swirls of magic, more then he had shown to this point, seems to be gathering. That is until the wind created by magic blows a piece of cloth into Sudou's face.

Sudou looks at it, looks at Umie's uniform for a moment before saying, "Well fuck." Suddenly all the magic is gone. It's as if Sudou just pulled the plug on whatever he was doing. "You won't always have this around though." He crumbles up the emblem and throws it at Umie before he simply turns around and walks away from the fight.

Not another word is said as he walks towards a corner full of shadows. He tosses the bird to the group and then simply disappears into the shadows.
That's it...

Fight over...

Everyone go home.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
<poem>
And just like that, the fight is over.

Joker stares at the Old Maid and the bird he throws as he walks off into the darkness. There is no logical connection to him for what just happened. He turns his stare to the cloth that the Old Maid had thrown back at Umie.

Then it occurs to him that if that guy somehow made a supernatural space, and he's leaving, they're all about to change into their street clothes right in front of Umie.

"The show's over," he announces to his friends. "Everyone, scatter." He locks eyes with Umie for a brief moment. "We'll call on you later."

And with that, he unleashes his grappling wire to latch it onto an overhang above. He's pulled up in a flash and vanishes an instant later.

...Ren Amamiya will be back at Triple Seven a little later to collect his pay and also his not-a-cat.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>The Old Maid looms, dread power roiling around him. Fox tenses, trying to steady his stance, but the point of his blade is wavering, and --

-- and then he stops?

The malefic serial killer simply... flips them a rude gesture and disappears?

"..."

Fox doesn't know what to make of that - it's only when their leader calls out the scatter order that he realises what Joker has - that their cognitive disguises are about to discorporate.

With a stoic nod, Fox sheathes his blade and leaps back up to the rooftop in a blur of shadows, before vanishing.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Umie Akabane has posed.
<poem> Or... maybe not. Well, that's enough bravery for today. As Joker said, the show's over.

Get it together, Umie, before you start making that goofy grin like you're a little kid. These are--

..... how old are these people? She'd have no way of knowing, why'd she assume--?!

"Better get going. This zone the Joker Killer's created is only going to last for so long. We'll play it by ear."

There's the sound of sirens in the distance; something must have finally caused someone to call in.

This'll need to be reported.

WAIT, SHE SHOULD--

"Thank you--" Oh no.

Damn it Umie, act like a proper adult for once!!
</poem>
[[Category:Logs]]
[[Category:Season 1]]
[[Category:Season 1, Episode 1]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-07-03T10:28:41Z

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! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
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! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
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! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
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! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
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'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ''ukiyo-e'' painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

== Approaches ==
'''Deft Brushstroke:''' Yusuke applies his well-honed precision and grace to solve the problem.

'''Snacking Arts:''' The conviction to persist when one's budget and access to food is low can be applied to many other arduous situations.

'''Student of the Greats:''' Yusuke has an esoteric knowledge base, with any number of facts that connect back to art or beauty stored in his mind.

= Relationships =

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 75%; text-align: center;"
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Name
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Address
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Arcana
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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;"class="unsortable" | Info
|-
| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Amamiya-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

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[[Category:Characters]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-07-03T10:28:05Z

Namillus:

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|-
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|-
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|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
|}

'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ''ukiyo-e'' painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

== Approaches ==
'Deft Brushstroke:' Yusuke applies his well-honed precision and grace to solve the problem.
'Snacking Arts:' The conviction to persist when one's budget and access to food is low can be applied to many other arduous situations.
'Student of the Greats:' Yusuke has an esoteric knowledge base, with any number of facts that connect back to art or beauty stored in his mind.

= Relationships =

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 75%; text-align: center;"
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Name
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Address
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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;"class="unsortable" | Info
|-
| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Amamiya-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

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[[Category:Characters]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-07-03T10:25:09Z

Namillus:

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|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Yusuke Kitagawa'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:P5RYusukeKitagawa.jpg|300px]]
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
|}

'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ''ukiyo-e'' painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

= Relationships =

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|-
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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Address
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Arcana
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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;"class="unsortable" | Info
|-
| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Amamiya-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

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[[Category:Characters]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-07-03T03:05:10Z

Namillus: /* Relationships */

{| class="toccolours" style="width: 15%; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; text-align: left; font-size: %110" cellspacing="2"
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Yusuke Kitagawa'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:P5RYusukeKitagawa.jpg|300px]]
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yusuke Kitagawa
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Male
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 16 (January 28, 1996)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Dark Blue
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Dark Grey
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'11" (181 cm)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| Shibuya, Tokyo
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| Gekkoukan High
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Second Year
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Focus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Persona:
| Goemon
|-
! style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 5 (FC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| The Phantoms
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Namillus]]
|-
|}

'''"I do not paint for others' comprehension."'''

Attending Gekkoukan High's art program under a scholarship, Yusuke Kitagawa is the foster-son of the now-disgraced Ichiryusai Madarame, who was recently targeted by the Phantom Thieves and confessed to having exploited the work of the students he took on to further his own acclaim as a so-called 'Infinite Font of Ideas'. Now out from under that shadow, Yusuke is an eccentric young man known for speaking his mind bluntly and an obsession with the pursuit of beauty that shapes his entire worldview.

= Background =
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
A blank canvas, waiting to be filled.

= Persona =

'''Goemon:''' Appearing as though he has stepped out of an ukiyo-e painting, Goemon is clad in a rich indigo kimono and towering geta sandals, brandishing a gigantic smoking pipe as though it were a blade. A tremendous pompadour contrasts the elegance of his garb to give a powerful impression of delinquency.

= Special Skills =
Yusuke is well-deserving of his art scholarship at Gekkoukan High, though since Madarame's confession he seems to be labouring under some kind of art block.
He's also very skilled at rationing, though feeding himself is... definitely a much lower priority than pursuing his artistic career.

= Relationships =

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 75%; text-align: center;"
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Name
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Address
! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;" | Arcana
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! scope="col" style="background:#30488a; border: 2px #ff0505 solid; font size: 110%;"class="unsortable" | Info
|-
| [[Ann Takamaki]]
| Takamaki-san/"Panther"
| The Lovers
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Yusuke's muse - his new inspiration, however reluctant she might be to inhabit this role.
|-
| [[Ren Amamiya]]
| Amamiya-san/"Joker"
| The Fool
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Leader of the Phantom Thieves; the young man who revealed the truth Yusuke was trying not to see.
|-
| [[Morgana]]
| Morgana-san/"Mona"
| The Magician
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A fascinating creature whose knowledge promises to be extremely valuable.
|-
| [[Ryuji Sakamoto]]
| Sakamoto-san/"Skull"
| The Chariot
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| Inelegant and crude - but at least Yusuke can respect his strength and loyalty.
|-
| [[Ichika Kawase]]
| Kawase-san
| The Temperance
| ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
| A chance encounter. Yusuke recognises her as another artist's muse, and quietly approves.
|}

= Logs and Cutscenes =

==Season 1==

===Logs===
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[[Category:Characters]]

Yusuke Kitagawa

2025-07-03T02:55:47Z

Namillus: /* Special Skills */

Yua Ooshiro

2025-07-03T02:05:29Z

Namillus:

{| class="toccolours" style="width: 15%; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; text-align: left; font-size: %110" cellspacing="2"
|-
! style="background:#176067; border: 2px #0F4C53 solid; font size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Yua Ooshiro'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:Yua_Profile.png|300px]]
|-
! style="background:#176067; border: 2px #0F4C53 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yua Ooshiro (大城結愛)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age (Birthdate):
| 23 (February 28 1989)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Teal
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Red
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'0" /153 cm
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Residence:
| A Penthouse in Aoba Ward
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Workplace:
| A School Near You!
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Job:
| Part-time Dance Instructor (Physical Education)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Role:
| Nemesis
|-
! style="background:#176067; border: 2px #0F4C53 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Persona 2 (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Groups:
| [[New World Order]]
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:L|Crossroads Bar]]
|-
|}

'''"I see you, Sybil! Tremble and quake!"'''

A now-wealthy Okinawan woman, Yua Ooshiro was a lost Seven Sisters alumnus who recently reappeared. A ballerina with training in several other styles, she works as a dance instructor to help disengaged students across several Tokyo campuses. She also runs after-school tutoring for individuals and small groups in her Aoba dance studio! She's a strange and theatrical woman, but she is caring, gentle, and generous towards the youth she instructs -- though she can be stubborn, pragmatic, easily flustered, and intolerant of laziness. Neither will she tolerate invasive questions, particularly about the mysteries surrounding her. Secretly, she was kidnapped by the New World Order to Blacksite Revelation for the Sibyl Project, forcing her Awakening through cruel experiments. A reluctantly valuable asset controlled by her handler-slash-partner, Miho Ijuuin, Yua is a talented Artificial Navigator specialising in remote interference. Her fearsome, angry capabilities are augmented by a strange Mark stamped across her blind left eye.

= Background =
Some things are known about Yua. She comes from Okinawa -- her habit of lapsing into the Okinawan pronoun 'wan' instead of her usual Japanese 'ware' has earned her the derisive nickname of Puppy-sensei by some of the students. She's materially well-off, because students have seen her being escorted to school grounds by a ''chauffeur.'' And she disappeared for a few years, because Miho Ijuuin declared to the cameras after the 2008 Olympics that she was going to ''find her''. She doesn't call attention to that last part, though, and sharply shuts down any attempts to explore it. Presently, she works as a part-time teacher, appearing once a week at all four major campuses to run dance classes mainly targeted towards students who have disengaged from PE or from school generally.

==Season 1, Episode 1==
TBA

= Persona =
* Gretchen (Empress): A lovely maiden who Faust fell in love with, though she hated the Devil and was a good, God-fearing woman. She is loved by Earth, and affected by the Light. At the end of Goethe's Faust, she accepted her fate -- which is why Gretchen is mad at Faust, now, for dragging her out of the dungeons. She's also mad at ''Yua''. Jail bars driven through her arms allow her to imprison Yua whilst she's Navigating, protecting her from harm.

= Special Skills =
Yua's eye is Marked. This Mark is strange. Strange how? This is an exciting mystery.

Yua's Evoker is a ''Revolver'', accepting Skill Cartridges which she may use to power up her attacks with new tactics.

Yua is a remarkably talented Anti-Navigator who also has strong Navigation abilities, gained following a surgical procedure performed on her left eye which apparently blinded it. Her main talents lie in interference and sabotage.

== Mark Suppressant ==

Yua was used to create a line of Mark Suppressants. These lower the output of one's Marked abilities in exchange for 'slowing the clock', allowing one to use their abilities more without being destroyed. And these were created and made available to those in the NWO as an afterthought to...

== Mark Enhancer ==

... Mark ''Enhancers'', which instead amplify one's Marked powers in exchange for whatever happens when one hits the ground faster. (Probably nothing. It's fine.) These drugs are, by necessity, extremely experimental, but they are available to those in the NWO brave enough to test them.

=Relationships=

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|[[Miho Ijuuin]]
|Mimi
|4. Emperor
|NWO
|★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
|''"Memimi!"''
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|[[Myunghon Yeo]]
|Myucchi
|15. Devil
|Cardboard Dragon
|★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
|''"What is inside was torn apart. Sew it up tightly. I trust you."''
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2025-07-02: How It Ought To Be

2025-07-02T23:49:57Z

Namillus:

*'''Log: How It Ought To Be'''
*'''Cast:''' [[Ichika Kawase]], [[Yusuke Kitagawa]]
*'''Where:''' Port Island Station, Tatsumi Port Island, Iwatodai City
*'''OOC Date:''' July 02, 2025
*'''IC Date:''' June 04, 2012
*'''Summary''': ''Ichika Kawase and Yusuke Kitagawa are both at Port Island Station--but what Yusuke sees that Ichika doesn't is the /cops/. He spares her some trouble, and they have a conversation.''

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<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
It's a lovely (hot) (clear) day in Iwatodai, and Port Island station is as bustling as ever. It's Monday afternoon, and Ichika Kawase is ''not'' still in uniform. She's made the trip over from Sumaru, and is in a casual outfit of midriff-baring tanktop (skull on the front, naturally) in black, and cargo pants in green, baggy. Her sneakers are soft and black. And she is standing...

At Rafflesia, looking over some flowers! "Hm hm..."

She's also ''towering'' over the shopkeep, a bleached-blonde girl of nearly six feet tall. And in her free hand at her side is a bag from one of the art supplies stores nearby.

A student at Gekkoukan's art program might recognize her as a regular feature in the sketches and occasionally sculptures of one Yuusei Ogawa, a student in good standing in his third year.

But surely that's not too important right now!

There's a cop looking at her, though. From a distance, from the raised part of the platform, he is looking right at the delinquent-looking girl and frowning. But he hasn't approached yet.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>It's hot, but at least the sky is clear. The sunlight cast upon Port Island Station draws out the brightest tones and makes deep shadows. Something like Rafflesia in particular stands out to the practiced eye of one Yusuke Kitagawa, the flowers it sells standing out spectacularly against the ordinary tiles underfoot.

The girl standing at the shop draws his eye, too. Almost moving by reflex, he sets his schoolbag at his feet to bring up both hands, shaping a frame with his thumbs and index fingers. As he turns it from portrait to landscape, though, his gaze flicks to the side, noticing the officer watching from a distance.

For a moment, he almost decides to walk away. The ugliness of the law bothering others is hardly something he's interested in, after all -

... - but Joker would step in.

And so:

"Pardon me," he says, as he approaches Rafflesia in general and Ichika in specific. "Might I inquire: Which store did you get those art supplies at?"
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
Ichika doesn't have the same eye for beauty that Yusuke does, but flowers are easy enough to appreciate. And indeed, she wouldn't make a bad image herself; her looks are model-like, her makeup exactly calculated to bring out her best features. However...

The officer makes for a worse picture. She hasn't noticed the officer yet, despite her usual vigilance. Neither did she notice Yusuke until suddenly--

"Mm?" she asks, and turns towards him from a few roses she'd been looking at. "Sure," she answers. "Right down the way there--Art Off. Are you an artist?" she asks.

Then she considers. "If you are, could I ask you to look over what I got? I'm getting some things for someone, and I'm ''pretty'' sure I got what he asked for, but..."

"I don't have any talents like that myself."

The officer, seeing Yusuke approach her, frowns a little more... but doesn't approach. He hasn't noticed that Yusuke's noticed him.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"Ah!" A normally stoic visage brightens immediately as Ichika points out Art Off. "Thank you so much; I have not had the luxury of exploring the stores here much, I usually buy my supplies in Shibuya." That implicitly answers her question about his inclinations, but he elaborates by way of introduction: "Yusuke Kitagawa; I'm in Gekkoukan's scholarship program. I would be delighted to take a look."

If nothing else, he can assess the quality of the local supplies for himself.

Keeping a wary half-eye on the policeman as Ichika starts to go through the stuff in her bag, Yusuke hopes that his more elegant presentation will defuse the potential confrontation, but isn't certain. Perhaps more pleasant conversation will assist in that.

Ah, perfect: "Do you have a particular preference for roses?"
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
"Oh, Shibuya would probably have a lot of stuff like that, huh?" She smiles when he goes brighter. "Oh, then even better," she says. Not just an artist but good enough to go to Gekkoukan on scholarship. "Ichika Kawase," she replies. There's a Kawase at Gekkoukan too--but Yusuke may or may not know of her. She's in music instead of visual arts. "I go to Kasugayama... but my boyfriend lives here, and so does my family."

She pulls each out of the bag; inside are some high-quality art supplies, particularly a few nice pencils and a new sketchbook. "He mostly sculpts but he likes to draw too," Ichika explains.

The officer, seeing that she's got ''pencils'' and not drugs, and that Yusuke at least looks like a Nice Boy, finally shakes his head and moves on to look at something else.

"I do," Ichika answers. "Red roses especially. Something about... beauty being something you handle carefully, because it might have thorns to protect it."

"But they're also just pretty," she admits.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"Hmm." If he's allowed, Yusuke will pick up one of the pencils and hold it up to an appraising eye, balancing it and rolling it between his thumb and forefinger. An average person might wonder: it's a pencil, how much ''really'' is there to distinguish it from another?

Quite a lot, actually, to someone like Yusuke.

"In Hanakotoba," he says as he assesses the quality of the supplies - that's the Japanese version of the language of flowers, by the way - "the red rose symbolises true love. I, myself, am quite partial to the pink ones."

Evidently, the pencils meet with his approval, because he nods and hands it back. "I'm sure he will be very pleased with them," he judges.

... sculpture, sketches... "... Ogawa-san is your boyfriend? I was wondering why you looked familiar."
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
He is allowed! Ichika welcomes Yusuke appraising them, since that's what she asked him to do. Indeed she does wonder what he can see that she can't... But she knows there's ''something'', by the way he looks. She thinks less on that and more on the flowers, when he mentions them. "True love, huh." A glance down. "...I wonder." Is that what she's chasing? Or is it something different?

"The pink ones are great, too. I might not look like the kind of girl who appreciates pink," she says, not quite self-deprecating, "But I do like those too."

The pencils are good, and Ichika carefully packs them away. "Great," she says. "Thanks, Kitagawa-san. I'd hate to get him a gift that wasn't any good."

He recognizes him by those things! Ichika blinks in surprise once--and then nods, pleased. "Yes," she says. Well, he's one of them. He's the one in this city. That's good enough. "...Does that mean he actually showed people the sketches he was doing of me?" she wonders. If Yusuke is perceptive to color in faces, he might notice that even beneath her foundation Ichika is faintly red at that prospect.

"Ah, I mean..." It's a little embarrassing to be the Subject. Flattering, but embarrassing.

</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"You are something of a frequent subject of his works - it would be difficult ''not'' to notice," Yusuke explains, a brief smile forming on his lips. "And for you to be recognised ''by'' that art speaks volumes to his skill, and how captivated he is by you as his muse. I might almost be envious." He has certainly noticed the colouring of Ichika's cheeks, but there could be any number of reasons for that, and so he plows on in his own way.

There is also a subtle relaxation of his stance as the officer moves on, doubtless to bother somebody else.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
It's true; Ichika can imagine that if he weren't any good, she wouldn't be very apparent. At least the sketches are mostly of her face...

"We were friends before we started going out," she explains. "...But a muse, huh? I guess I can accept that." She smiles. It's not a description that pins her down too much. It's romantic, without being... heavy.

"Well, I hope you can find your own," she says. "I can't imagine most girls wouldn't want to be."

A beat, then, as she glaces over, sees the officer moving, and--

Realizes.

"Oh," Ichika says. "...He was following me again." Of the officer. She sighs. "They keep trying to move me on, even when I'm not in uniform. It's... annoying."

But given that Yusuke just relaxed...

"Huh. You noticed too?"
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"Oh, I do have my own," Yusuke says with a nod, "but..." he trails off - evidently there's something complicated going on there.

He clicks his tongue in disapproval as Ichika explains that she gets that kind of attention from the law quite a bit. "Wasteful," he opines. "There are much greater problems in the world; why add to its ugliness by bothering a resident just because she happens to go to a different school?"

... It's much more complicated than that, Yusuke. Does he really not notice the layers at work here?

"... He was not taking much care to hide his suspicion, no."
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
But? Ichika tilts her head, but when no answer is forthcoming, she doesn't push the matter farther than an obvious curiosity.

But wasteful? "True," Ichika answers. "But that's how it is," she says. "They're more interested in pushing around the people they can than following the ones they should."

Pause. "...I shouldn't say too much about that, though." People might get the right idea. She considers, and picks up a small bouquet of roses, instead.

"Instead, I'll get him flowers for once."

She turns back to Yusuke. "I guess an artist has to be observant... Well, thanks. If you hadn't been here he might've given me more trouble. So that's twice over I owe you."

There are many, many more layers... but not all of them are apparent, at least.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Yusuke Kitagawa has posed.
<poem>"It is how it is," Yusuke agrees, "but not how it ''ought'' to be."

Still, the conversation moves on, and he nods as Ichika says she'll get her boyfriend some roses. "I'm sure he would be delighted." He shakes his head when Ichika says she owes him twice over. "I had enough reason to approach you anyway, so please don't consider yourself indebted to me for that."

He glances at the clock in the shop. "Hm. Speaking of, I had best hurry to Art Off, it seems that business hours are drawing short." He steps away, to head over to that store. "Please give your beau my regards, Kawase-san."
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
<poem>
Not how it ought to be...

For some reason, that's going to stick with Ichika. She doesn't usually think these days of how things 'ought' to be--just how they end up being. ...Still, Yusuke had reason to approach her anyway? "Hmm. OK."

A nod then. "Hope you find what you're looking for," she says, and waves his way. "Will do, Kitagawa-san. See you around."

With that, she turns around, and goes to find the owner of Rafflesia to finish her shopping.

Art Off... is on!
</poem>

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2025-06-27: Cause And Effect: What do they say about Osaka Girls?

2025-06-28T11:35:54Z

Namillus:

*'''Log: Cause And Effect: What do they say about Osaka Girls?'''
*'''Cast:'' [[Minako Arisato]], [[Yukari Takeba]], Natsuki Moriyama
*'''Where:''' Gekkoukan High School, Tatsumi Port Island
*'''OOC Date:''' June 27, 2025
*'''IC Date:''' June 01, 2012
*'''Summary''': ''Two second years witness some girls boasting about Bullying someone. Only one intervenes. What do you mean you have no real skin care routine!?''

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<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
<poem>
It's mid-afternoon, threatening upon late-afternoon given the changing colors of the sky as the summer Sun descends further West. That doesn't help with the heat though, Yukari's been sweating from Archery Practice, Clean Up - and a second Round of Clean Up caused by the First Years leaving before realizing they forgot to properly wipe down the Bows.

She finally changed out of her club uniform and got the last of that sticky feeling off her hands, as she treads down the breezeway connecting the Athletic Building to the Classroom Building. "Phew, what a workout. Next time I'm going to catch those first years before they go and teach them how to clean up properly."

She's taken a few steps down to the sidewalk when, right by the young Persimmon tree-

"Aha-ahahahahaha!" Two girls, laughing uproariously. It was enough at least to turn her head at first to glance, as if somewhat annoyed by how loud they were being but-

"So then I pretended to take a picture with my cell phone. And she totally freaked out and started crying! It was like we caught her red-handed or something. You should've seen the look on her face. It was priceless."

-what the Orange-Haired Gyaru Girl (Moriyama? She thinks?) actually said is what caused her to stop, watching them from a slight distance. As the girl with her with darker brown hair laughed back, "Wow! That's pathetic!" "I know, right? I've never laughed so hard in my life!"

Yukari's annoyance at the noise complaint, changed to clucking her tongue in greater disapproval, "Tch, bullies..." She remembers, how the kids at school when she was younger bullied her, for being the 'Disaster Daughter' of a dead man, who couldn't take responsibility.

She remembers...

But she doesn't do anything, but stand there, taking a breath to compose herself... then intending to walk right on.

What good would it do to speak up? To say anything? It would only make things worse for everybody.

</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
<poem>
Minako Arisato is, for her part, getting out of Volleyball Club. She has, likewise, worked up a sweat; a few beads of it still run down her cheeks, and her red hair is darker with it. She met up with Yukari there, after getting out of her club. And, like her, she is walking along that breezeway.

She smiles. Easily, as always; her crimson eyes shift sideways to regard her and to consider what she says. "You have to show them the ropes! It's the duty of a senpai~"

She says it cheerily. But she pauses, as voices catch her ears. Minako's smile flickers, like static through a television set. It flickers and the n it turns off, like the channel was changed.

Her expression hardens at the orange-haired girl and the brown-haired girl. She glances sideways at Yukari.

Then she looks back at the girls.

There are her own memories to contend with. Mocking laughter in a school in Sapporo, when she said she hated the cold. Yelling at someone who picked on her brother. She takes a breath to compose herself.

Then she steps away from Yukari, towards the persimmon tree, and towards the two girls. It's like there is a dotted line where she ''used'' to be, next to Yukari.

Her voice carries, in a cheerful and merry tone. "Oh my gosh, I must have seen that show, too!" she says. The smile is back on her face. "It's ''so'' funny when fictional people have misfortune, right?"

She laughs. "Because, I mean, what kind of dumbass would laugh at a real person? That's so..." The smile fades. "...Not cool."

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
<poem>
"Huh?" Yukari seems somewhat mortified that Minako overheard her, not expecting her to just - catch up to her like that! Despite you know, the fact that she should, because she knows Minako is in the Volleyball club, but she quickly recovers with a smile her way, "Well, they could make my ''duty'' a little easier you know. It's not like I don't have enough tasks as is, showing them the ropes."

''Some'' of them have never done Archery before, making them total beginners. Which came with it's own challenges, including some mishaps with them buying the wrong gear.

"I thought you'd have gone back already Arisato-chan, given how I had to stay late. Well... if we're going the same way."

It's an invitation at least, a soft invitation. She could at least relax some with one of the newest members of SEES being a girl in her same year.

As the two pause though, she's about to walk on when Minako walks away and- "Huh? What're you...?" She never finishes the question, as Minako cheerily starts laughing, and Yukari momentarily taken aback that Minako was getting involved at all.

But then she follows her lead, and begins to chuckle, "Yeah I mean, think about it-? It's great and all when it's fake, but think about the kind of person you'd have to be to live like that?"

The words actually slide out real casually there. Yukari doesn't even seem scandalized by 'dumbass'.

"But the world is full of all kinds, you know? If you're not doing something useful with your time like finding someone to fix a fifty-yen dye job, then I guess being that brand of pathetic is all you have left."

Now, Natsuki and Maki had noticed things when Minako said something, but Natsuki definitely notices Yukari's follow-up, as she steps up towards them, hands at her side, "Got anything else to say about my style? Because don't think being with that transfer student will keep me from smacking the words right out of your ugly mouth Takeba-"

It was easy to miss the moment Maki started staring - with how Natsuki stormed right off, not so easy to miss how she started saying: "Natsuki... Did you hear a voice? It's... calling me?"

Natsuki looked over her shoulder as if jarred out of a wind up, "Uh? Do you mean them?" She looked around suddenly, as if wondering if Maki had seen a teacher. "I didn't hear anything." Maki stared blankly into the distance, past the rustling leaves of the Persimmon tree, eyes just growing blank, and Natsuki, disturbed, stepped towards her.

"Uh, Maki-chan? What's going on? You there? Are you listening to me?" She puts a hand on Maki's shoulder, and Maki was silent for a good ten seconds, before uttering, "... Huh? Is that you Natsuki...?"

Natsuki gave her a look of genuine concern, "Let's swing by the nurse's office. Nngh, he better not make you try anything weird." Before she then looks towards the pair, "Guess you lucked out. Don't think I won't forget this though."

As Natsuki led her friend away, Yukari watched them for a moment. Maybe Maki's behavior was weird, but she just assumed she had a medical condition or something. "... At least they left. Ugh, I can't stand girls like that. Let's just go."

Veering off from taking the path inside the school to the front as that'd pass Natsuki and Maki, she veered off to a more circuitous one across the campus, "I didn't think you were the type, Arisato-chan." Yukari said after a moment, breaking the silence again, "I thought even when you made waves, you were still the kind of girl who goes with the flow." She comments - with a description that seems almost contradictory...

... but only ''seems'' that way.

</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
<poem>
Minako flashes Yukari an apologetic smile. Even if, really, she isn't very sorry. "It would be handy," she says. "Not that I'm really anyone's senpai yet." It comes with being a transfer student -- ''and'' with it being so early in the school year -- and being more of an unknown quantity, still.

"Nope! Not yet," she says. "You know how Iwasaki-san is. She pushes ''hard''." But, then there is a smile at the invitation.

Such as it is.

"Sure," she agrees. But, the interruption comes. Her eyes do widen a little, when Yukari backs her up -- and turns up the intensity of the meanness.

But the back-up is welcome.

She stands her ground, eyes on Natsuki -- then on Maki -- and her eyes narrow at the threat. She adjusts her bag a little; she glances at Yukari. A part of her wonders if she is about to have another Gekkoukan First: her first fight!

But it isn't that. She blinks, and then looks at Maki. Then, she looks at Natsuki. Her frown deepens. What in the world...?

"Yeah. Let's go." She glances back at them. "That was weird," she says, with a sigh. Then she falls in, next to Yukari. She walks for a couple of steps in silence, even after Yukari's observation. "Well..." She trails off for a second.

Her frown vanishes. Her warm smile returns, and the full force of it is directed on Yukari Takeba.

"I just didn't like hearing them talk about someone like that," Minako says. "And then I stepped in. I'm not entirely sure why I did... but it worked out, huh, Takeba-chan?"

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
<poem>
"Won't be long before the first years look up to you, given how I hear you're holding your own at practice." She offers that compliment at least, and it is genuine. She'd heard that much about Minako's performance even if she hasn't attended herself.

It ''is'' weird though, what happens. Yukari tries not to feel unsettled. She'd seen a girl get Hypoglycemia once, with that stare that was just a little off, until she was able to get her some juice.

She has a feeling Nurse Edogawa will give them something that isn't ''that'' tasty, but that's no longer her problem!

"Yeah..."

Yukari looks like she's only casually paying attention to Minako, but she's still not quite sure what to make of her. Her initial impressions had been positive but...

... she read the file...

... she surveiled her brother as he slept...

... she'd said to her too, that she could relate to her, and if she could...

...if she ''really'' could...

Then it meant that Minako wasn't normal either. Just like her. She'd lost her parents... and been scarred by it.

That warm smile illuminating on her, Yukari's seems almost dim in comparison. "Yeah sure, I guess." She agrees, mildly, "Just, you know..."

As they came around the side of the Classroom building to the front, "...when stuff like that happens, I always wish I was the type of person to intervene like that. But then I think..."

Her bag is mostly still, in comparison to the rhythmic swish of pink from her cardigan tied around her waist. "... what's the point? They weren't even hurting someone right now. And, whoever it is they're bullying, they're not going to stop, they'll probably be even more cruel to her next time because of us."

Does she sound like she's already preemptively blaming herself for that? "I wish it really was that most people didn't approve of it, but... most really kinda do huh? Or at least they'll accept it, because they think the person will take a hint and strive to fit in better."

Yukari doesn't say 'I did.' Because that gets into a certain kind of personal. She always hated it, but she did work to fit in better.

Now... noone would ever think that she feels like she doesn't.

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
<poem>
Minako laughs a little at Yukari's compliment. Laughs, but doesn't remark. She isn't sure what she thinks of first years looking up to her. Something about it, for one terrible moment, bothers her. Fortunately, she doesn't have to ruminate too hard on that.

As they start walking again, she glances sideways at Yukari. She thinks that Yukari is distracted -- assumes she must be thinking about the way that girl went off, glassy-eyed. (It's still in the back of Minako's mind.)

She comes around the side of the building with her, waiting for the other girl to finish her thought. "...Yeah," she agrees. "People do accept it. I don't like it."

She looks up at the slightly overcast sky for a moment. The sun glints off the windows of Gekkoukan High's upper floor. "But it's not our fault if they decide to be more cruel. That's on them," Minako says. "And..."

She frowns. It bothers her to think about, for a moment. "...I don't know. When I see something go wrong, I just have to--to step in and try to fix it."

Minako looks ahead, at the expanse of Gekkoukan's sidewalk in front of her. She keeps walking, but her thoughts go elsewhere.

She doesn't catch the way that her smile fades. "I guess it makes me feel better than doing nothing."

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
<poem>
It's a soft nod, well implying that she doesn't like it either, even if her words had made that patently obvious already.

She does listen to Minako speak about how it's not their fault, but Yukari doesn't quite buy that, she doesn't speak up right away, waiting for Minako to finish. That means a stretch of silence, as they walk down the front of the school.

There aren't many students gathered here at this time of afternoon. Just a couple of scattered groups chattering, about to go home themselves.

It's only after Minako does finish talking that, she finally has a pensive look, and gives a thoughtful reply, "I guess... even if it's not though, we have to think about the effect our actions have on others. It's like, natural law."

What does she mean by that? She clarifies before long. "You know like, the laws of motion in class. Cause and effect. Action and reaction. Maybe we're not at fault for how they decide to react, but our actions still caused it anyway."

Yukari can't believe that her father is at any way at fault, the memory of that man who loved her so but even if he's not, him being the head of the project... he still died anyway for being a part of it, for being caught up in that disaster, and she and her Mom still took the blame anyhow.

They're still suffering for him working for the Kirijo Group, or at least Yukari is. She doesn't give that charity to her mother on most days.

...

"But I guess I can relate to that." She says, as her hand cards through the side of her hair, and she looks at Minako.

"After all, that's what we're doing in SEES too, right?" She says with a subdued smile her way.

"Even if we don't know how it all came to be, standing by and doing nothing wouldn't sit well with me. And besides..."

As she heads out and towards Port Island Station, alongside her says, "... Erasing the Dark Hour will make things better for everyone."

It's not like those girls - it's not like that at all. Them fighting to erase it, it can't 'cause' things to get worse for everyone else.

She has to believe that.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
<poem>
The effect their actions have on others? That prompts a blink from Minako. A blink and a sideways glance at Yukari, as she explains more. Natural law; like the laws of physics and motion, the way a pool table's balls will go flying as one collides into the other. She blinks once, and then she looks down for a moment.

It's not out of any sadness (not ''really'', she tells herself). Minako nods after a moment. "...Yeah," she says. "I see what you mean. We set it in motion, even if our intentions were good. But--" She looks sideways at her.

"Not doing something..." She thinks of her brother. "...It's a choice, too. It has a cause and effect, right?"

She does pause, though. Is that what SEES is doing? She considers -- but she nods quickly.

"Yeah," she says. "Ending the Dark Hour -- and Apathy Syndrome -- that'll help a lot of people. And... you know."

She hesitates. Then, she looks back at Yukari. That warm smile is back on her face.

"I don't want people to suffer, Takeba-chan." She keeps smiling. And she leaves unsaid -- and she hopes for and hopes against Yukari's understanding -- the addition: 'Like I have.'

</poem>
<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
<poem>
Yukari considers for a time, the idea of not doing something.

She remembers that boy in elementary schooler, who came up to her, as the others were taunting her. She'd been lashing out, fighting back with her words.

'Your daddy killed my Daddy.'

He had said, and she suddenly had the fight stolen out of her. No defense of her father, no words of recrimination.

She still believed in her father, even then, but to that... she chose to say nothing.

"Yeah." She agrees, "It is. Just... maybe sometimes it's the right choice." It's a very mild disagreement, "It's not like I'm saying I'm better or anything." She cautions, "After all, you heard what I said. I actually like the Ganguro style. I think it's amazing someone feels bold enough to make that kind of statement about themselves."

But the moment she had to back Minako up, the words of cruelty against that style flowed out so easily.

She nods in agreement, but then that warm smile...

... she can't quite believe it, this time...

... and in that moment...

... she wonders if Minako's way of life is just as lonely as her brother's.

"I hear you."

The thought is there, and gone in half a second, the difference between the taciturn, deadpan boy whose eyes seem dead most of the time, and his bright smiling sister who seems so full of life...

... is far less of a gulf than she imagined.

"Just, you know..." And in that second, Yukari shifts in her walk slightly, her bag nudging Minako even more gently than an elbow, as she smiles back at her, "... as capable as you are, you don't have to do everything. Give me a chance to get stronger too, and I'll back you up more."

It's maybe not prying too deep, but she understands... sometimes, prodding, you reopen old wounds. Cause and effect. She doesn't want to cause Minako to suffer either.

And well, despite her misgivings, she did step in too - once Minako did. And Minako might catch her inspecting her smile - her face a little too closely for a moment enough that Minako might wonder if she's understood a little TOO much, before-

"You know, on the ride back, you should tell me all about what skin care routine you use. I'm really curious how you manage it playing a sport like Volleyball!"

It's a trap, Minako. She suspects that you maybe don't know all that much about it...

... and wants to recruit a fellow acolyte into the church of beauty.

Maybe she in fact, wants the boys of the school to suffer a bit because Minako has the potential to be one of the most beautiful girls in school, in her expert opinion.

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<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
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Minako blinks, when Yukari admits to liking the Ganguro style. She didn't realize -- she had sort of clocked Yukari as a high fashion, high style type who liked the popular trends that weren't too flashy. But, then, after a second, Minako nods her head with understanding. "Yeah, I see what you mean. It ''is'' pretty cool."

She smiles. And it's warm as ever -- but there's something genuine. "Well... even if you had to lie to do it--actually, because you did. I appreciate the back-up."

There is a moment of quiet, though. And maybe her warm smile isn't enough to cover everything up. Maybe it isn't enough to hide what she usually hides.

And Minako knows that. She knows when she didn't quite pass the test.

But she blinks at the expression of understanding. And she wonders about that, glancing sideways at Yukari. And there's a smile -- a small laugh! -- when her bag nudges her side. "Is that so?" she asks. "If you can keep up with me--"

She clenches a fist, then she does a fist pump. "I'll be glad to have you backing me up!"

She does blink again, though. The smile almost falters, as Yukari leans in. She is--she is really close. Her eyes blink, and there's a hesitance...

...before her expression softens a little. Did Yukari see through her smile? Or did--

Oh.

''Oh''.

Minako's red eyes blink and she glances up at the school gates, as they walk out of them. "Oh, I dunno, I mean--" She scratches her cheek with a finger.

"Lotion like twice a week, maybe?"

She doesn't know what she just walked into.

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"Hey don't worry about it." She says, accepting her appreciation but also brushing it off subtly, "We girls have to stick together, especially in a dorm where the guys outnumber us."

...
...
...

The irony of these words rings throughout every dimension of the Collective Unconsciousness until it reaches Nyx itself and passes through the fourth wall of reality, and Yukari is oblivious to the fact that this trend will last.

... A single day, at best.

And only because she's not counting Mitsuru is it not already true.

Yukari blinks at the fist, then balls her hand up into one and makes contact, "Ehehe!" She breaks out into a little laugh on the contact, "Having family like your brother has made you a little bit of a tomboy huh? It's pretty endearing actually." She says, with a grin, perhaps also referencing the 'dumbass' comment earlier.

It's not meant to be an insult, in fact, it's kind of a compliment in a ''sense''. Being a tomboy helps make Minako so much more capable at fighting than she is, and at a more physical sport like Volleyball. There's nothing wrong with girls being - a ''little bit'' like one of the guys, just a little.

After all, her whole life, she's equated girls - women with being weak. And she doesn't ''want'' to be weak. She needs to be strong. She needs to be independent.

She needs to be not like her Mom.

"Don't worry, I'll do my best to keep up with you."

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...

BGM Interrupt: Pink Sniper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2counq-044

Then Minako says those words and it's like there's a shattering sound of glass in the background, strong enough to be like an Evoker breaking reality.

"What? No way! Your complexion is so smooth-!"

Minako feels her hand, which had previously been bumped, suddenly get gripped, as Yukari makes a 290-ish degree turn in the space of half a second if Minako doesn't resist change direction Northwest. "And we're keeping it that way. Change of plans. We're going across the bridge to Paulownia before we head back to get you ''everything'' you need."

As she grips Minako's hand, she glance at her hands, "What nail polish do you even use?"

This is apparently another manifestation of her backing you up - ''as a girl'' Minako, get used to it.
</poem>

<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
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"No kidding!" Minako says, with a laugh. "I'd be happy if we even got ''one'' more girl."

The wheels of destiny are in motion.

She does look at Yukari with surprise -- but good surprise at the laugh. Then, she nods, and she turns around to walk in front of Yukari. While, in fact, she walks backwards. This is so she can pose -- hands on her hips, striking a pose.

"I had to be multifaceted, like a diamond. Or maybe a Swiss Army Knife. Because--" She grins, ten she winks. "--keeping Minato out of trouble is a full-time job~"

She doesn't take it as an insult. Then, she smiles a little more brightly, and nods. "I'm gonna hold you to that, Take--"

Minako's hand gets gripped and she yelps, her feet stumbling for a second. It all happens faster than she can keep up with. She does a hop and a skip, and then she is falling in behind Yukari. Bearing? Northwest.

"Eh? EH?" she stammers, and she suddenly has a hint of an Osakan accent: "What the heck do I need? Did I say somethin'!?"

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Soon - a universal reality will come crashing down upon them both.

For now though, their innocence remains intact.

"I can imagine! I still remember the night he showed up at the dorm during a Dark Hour, he acted like he didn't even notice the coffins on the way to the dorm just because he had his headphones in."

She can laugh about it now, after the fact, she actually finds it... weirdly endearing, if not for the fact that he seems so detached from caring about so many things he ought to, if he's going to be involved in this.

...
...
...

Blink.

"Swiss Army Knife..."

It's a weird thought to her, and she has to imagine what one looks like, after all they're illegal in Japan to just carry around.

But it's not long before she's pulling Minako along. The Osakan accent, actually convinces Yukari she is a lot like her. After all- the accident happened here, that night.

And Minako like her - moved around the country after, that's proof of that.

Except, she didn't pick up the Kyoto Dialect herself, maybe because...

... she hated it there.

"Your dialect is adorable by the way. I get why you hide it. If anyone at school heard it they'd expect you to break out into a Manzai routine with your brother or something."

Well, at least they know who'd be the Tsukkomi and who'd be the Boke right away.

"Don't worry! It's not all that much. Just the basics."

What a relief, that it's just the basics...

"Some tsubaki cleansing oil to purify, rice bran exfoliant to polish, then some beauty water - Oh, I mean 'essence' to plump, and finally a hydrating facial cream to nourish your skin. You may want to write this down? It'll come really naturally after just a few months."

A beat.

"While we're at it, what's your favorite brand of foundation, eye shadow, eye liner, mascara, and lip gloss? I definitely have my own favorites, but I bet I can help you touch up your own routine."

Gender is the name of your destroyer, Minako Arisato.

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<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
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Minako laughs a little, and one would have to know her well to catch the nervousness in that laughter. "Right? It's hard to imagine!"

BACK IN APRIL:

Just after the stroke of midnight, on her way to the dorm for the first time, Minako Arisato strolls through streets lit an eerie green. With her headphones in, it's as if she doesn't even see the coffins and pools of blood on the ground.

NOW, IN JUNE:

Hearing that her dialect is adorable -- well, ''that'' gets Minako to turn a little pink in the cheeks. She glances to the side, but when she smiles at Yukari, it's a little different. It's quieter, maybe a little happier, yet still warm. "Really? Well..."

She laughs, a little. "...Maybe I'll let ya hear it a little more~" She nods, then. "But, that's it. And... well, I only picked it up when I moved to Osaka when I was little."

Yukari knows when that was. She read her file.

And then: the basics!

Minako looks at Yukari, with a slight stare. "C-Can you write that down? Uh--" She blinks, her eyes widening. Then she blinks again.

"Heroine Make? For all of them?" she asks. Then, more cheerfully: "You can get it at a drug store!"

Yukari's mission becomes clearer.

And -- despite her response -- Minako grows thoughtful. Her head tilts -- and then she leans in. Closer to Yukari, to ''really'' look at her face. (Turn about is fair play.) "But... you know, Takeba-chan..."

She smiles. This close, Minako's lip gloss has a little gleam to it. "...yours is a lot better than mine. I really could learn a thing or ten from you."

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<Pose Tracker> Yukari Takeba has posed.
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It's so so hard to imagine-!

For Minako at least, because she hides it well. Yukari would be a little disturbed if she knew it was that intense.

"Anytime you feel like showing it." She grins at her, "It'll be our little secret." She says, as she raises a finger towards her lips, the rest of the hand holding a back, like a shield for her upper body, and winks with her right eye.

Of course she does that right now, as soon as she's convinced Minako won't just ''bolt''. She lets go of her hand, finally, walking alongside her.

"Huh? Oh sure- Or you know, I can shoot you a mail."

Which is when Yukari fishes out her pink flip phone from her bag, opens it up and starts typing a mail one handed as they walk.

Minako definitely sees emojis.

"What? The one with the manga characters from like the... seventies on the packaging?" Minako notices her grip on her phone go lax for half a second, before suddenly tightening, "You can't use that! Nope we're fixing this today. I refuse to allow one of our secret weapons at SEES prematurely age her skin that much by using ''bargain brands at Aohige''."

You know if they die tomorrow Yukari, it doesn't matter if she prematurely ages her skin?

That's when she notices Minako leaning in close to her, really close, and she seems momentarily confused by-

"W-Well-" She fumbles a touch, and it's difficult given her makeup to notice the faint shade change of her skin. "-right! This is what I know best, after all."

Then there's a sigh, as she picks up that small air of mischief - that gleam on her lower lip, and pinches her nose for a moment, "Get serious though." There's a light tone of exasperation, before she lowers her hand. "You're as bad as Junpei-kun sometimes."

If that's the case, then why aren't you treating her like Junpei then?

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...

Shut up. That's why.
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Minako sees the way that Yukari winks -- and the exaggerated motion with one finger to her lips -- and then there's a cheerful nod of her head. Energetic, even. She likes the idea of a secret -- and a secret that's something she thought she might get made fun of. After all, Yukari is right. People might latch onto that accent.

And Osaka is a place with fond memories for her.

She looks sideways at Yukari, as she lets go of her hand -- and Minako's eyebrows raise a little. "That sounds perfect," she says.

Before she opens her mouth -- then closes it -- and then nods. She did ask for Yukari's help, after all. "R-Right, no more Heroine Make..." But then she leans backward.

Not so in Yukari's space. She brightens up, as Yukari pinches her nose. Minako laughs, doing a little twirl, before she falls in step beside her again. "Maa, maa~" she says. "That's harsh, Takeba-chan!"

But she doesn't say it like she thinks it's harsh in the slightest.
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Osaka was one of those places she never lived. She envies the idea of a people who can be more open though, while still being Japanese.

She envies a lot of things though. Far too many.

There's a little chime on Minako's phone, and a mail and-

That is far too many steps. The scroll bar - it's, too small - it's TOO SMALL!

"Great. That's just the basics right there. I'll be happy to teach you more advanced tips once you get the hang of it."

Minako's little laugh, at first Yukari has that 'get serious' look on her face. But it starts to crack after a moment.

And she giggles a moment too. "Geez... I can't even keep a straight face around you. What's the deal? Maybe it really is true what they say about Osaka girls." Usually it's negative, what people say, but she seems to mean it quite positively.

After all, she hasn't had many people who could make her laugh when they're together.

Since well... ever, really.

"You know what? It's really better if I just show you the first time. Thankfully Ekoda-sensei was in a good mood today so I can take my time showing you the ropes after we get back."

>Yukari seems like she's in a good mood!
>You went shopping with Yukari!
>You went back to the Dorm after!
>Hours pass...

"Huh?" Is Yukari's response when the lights go out in the middle of doing Minako's nails... ... ... because it's the Dark Hour

"Whaatttttt? No way it's that time already? Well - we already know we're not going to Tartarus tonight, and I can't leave the job half done, so guess we wait..."

She glances at the window critically, at the light of the moon pouring through, "... no. I really don't think I can trust that lighting to finish up." She sighs.

>Time passes...

A duel takes place - beneath the sickly glow of the moon. "Got any fives?" As she warns, "... Watch the nails."
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Minako's eyes widen a little when she gets the mail. It's -- it's ''so'' much information. So many steps, so many things to go through. And this is just the basics? But--

Right. She has to start somewhere. The redhead nods, and she does her best to put a serious expression on her face. For just a moment. "I'll look it all over... and start putting it into practice!"

The serious expression doesn't last, though. In fact, when Yukari giggles -- well, that gets ''another'' laugh out of Minako. "So what ''do'' they say about Osaka girls?"

Nevermind that she is also a Sapporo Girl, a Sumaru Girl, and a Tatsumi Port Island Girl. But that's a little deeper than she wants to go, when she wants to have fun.

And thus, she follows after -- with eagerness. Supplies are bought; a whole new line of makeup and skin care prducts. And, of course, her Heroine Make products are in the bin. Minako looks down at her nails, and they're red--

--then, they have that eerie green light. "Oh, come on," she says. She glances out the window. "Not faaaair."

>Time passes...

"Uh--darn. Yeah, I do," Minako says, as she starts to slide over a card. But then her eyes widen. Right!

Her nails!

Which is how, in trying to ''not'' mess them up, she sends the five of clubs and five of spades flying into the air. And, for good measure, the queen of hearts too.

<Public> Penguin Sniper says, "The Reaper as it comes at you plays this soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_PVPyn6n8"
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"What do you think they say about Osaka girls?" Yukari counters, a little coy about that. "Honestly." There's a smile and a sigh, "You're gonna prove them all right."

In that, there are a lot of guys she knows who say they'd really love an Osaka girlfriend, because they know how to have fun, because they're more straight up with you. Yukari moved around the country too, but in her eyes it wasn't formative in any positive sense.

The only thing she took with her is how much her mother got along like oil and water.

It's not fair.

The Queen of Hearts lands-

... just as the Dark Hour ends, "Oh hey, looks like we're back." She puts her hand down, and reaches over to inspect her nails. "Good - good. They were mostly dry after twenty minutes." She notes, "Just wanted to encourage good habits when I finished the rest."

Setting up nearby her, leaving the card game unfinished, she goes on.

"It's really kind of a crime that no one taught you how to do this the right way already."

She's not really accusing Minako in the sense of it being her fault. She is at least, only doing her natural nails and keeping them short because she's taking volleyball into consideration.
</poem>

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"Hmm. Must be something nice, then!" Minako says, with a laugh. Even if she knows -- really -- it probably isn't something so nice. But that's how it goes, sometimes. And... besides, it's not as if this something besides nice.

She looks up at Yukari -- and then blinks with surprise when the Queen of Hearts card's landing seems to dispel the Dark Hour.

Just a coincidence, but a pleasant one.

She offers her hand, when Yukari reaches over. She breathes out a sigh of relief, that her nails are fine. "Good!" she says. "If I'd messed them up, that would have been a bummer."

She looks up, then, at the observation. She thinks, for a moment, of her mother -- and her life was cut too short. She thinks of an aunt who never quite had time; of two grandmothers who were too elderly to take such a ting on.

Minako thinks about them, but then she smiles instead.

"Mm," she murmurs. "I've got the chance now."
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"Well... yeah."

She agrees mildly, as she works the brush gently down the nail, with an adept's precision.

"It's not our focus here I guess, but..." She stops her work for long enough to mull that over before...

"... we have our lives to live too."

However one does that. Honestly? She has no idea how, really. She has things she does for herself, things she does to prepare herself for her life ahead, for it's responsibilities.

Her heart has been fixed upon her father so long, that she doesn't know what comes after the Dark Hour is gone, and she knows what happened to him.

But right now? She can teach Minako how to do her nails properly.

Even if she can't figure out what she'll do after, she knows that she is enjoying this ''now''.

It's enough for her, for that to be true.

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