#prophetrick

A sheepish grin quickly crept up on Yasuhiro’s face as he strode into the clinic. Without a care in the world, he placed his bookbag on the table next to her and pulled out a heart-shaped box. Next to it was a hefty jar that he could barely fit around one hand.His voice carried the energy of a young boy waiting to show off his beetle collection.

“See, um, I still feel kinda bad about Red Day so..I thought I’d get you a few things to make up for it!” Yasuhiro gestured to the box, explaining that he prepared his special cocoa bread. His own spin on a family recipe, no less! As for the jar, he explained, contained manuka honey. His mother, a nurse, had told him as a child that honey was used in dressing bandages. Mikan was adept at dressing them as, and could perhaps could use them for something of her own. If not, then she may find it just as fine as an ingredient. “Some honey for a ‘honey’, y’know!” he concluded, chest puffed out slightly.

There was a moment of slight hesitation in Mikan’s features as she processed the gifts being presented to her. She recalled he’d been rather dismissive when she’d offered her own box of chocolate on Valentine’s day but she assumed it was because he hadn’t expected the gift from her. They’d only really spoken a handful of times before and neither had seemed remotely interested in the other. But Mikan had decided that she wanted to make as many friends as she could this year, so what a better way to make friends than through sickly sweets?

“Oh, you made this?” She asked. Her curiosity had gotten the better of her and she’d already opened the box, looking over the baked goods. “I didn’t know y-you could b-bake H-Hagakure. That’s impressive!”

The honey intrigued her as well. Manuka honey could be rather expensive and rare to find. The fact that he’d brought her a huge jar of it had her slightly panicked. He’d probably spent a lot of money on it! “Ah... Th-thank you,” she added. “Y-you didn’t need to g-get me anything. But I r-really appreciate it.”

“Hiro!” The two blonds called out to him, quickly hustling over to him as fast as both wearing heals and respective experience in running in heals. “Hiro, you’re like all into aliens and shit, tell Miss Sonia I’m an augmented human!” Miu started out the gate with a bold demand.

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The desire for more strong female representation in media is a huge inspiration.

I remember having an itch, and picking up a canon character wasn't the answer. There was a very strong need to create when Ariadne first came into being, and I poured way too much time, love and energy into making her who she is. So while I have made original characters before her, and with quite an amount of detail themselves, I don't think any of them came as naturally. Those who came before were created for someone, or for something. Ariadne on the other hand was created simply for me, and me wanting to, and once I started I fell hopelessly in love.

That inspiration went from this intense sudden creation (which I gushed about to who I'm about to tag), to this sustained and wholly fleshed out original character when @stratagemichor entered the arena and Ariadne was then a twin character with the creation of Vergil alongside her. That was game over. Never has she left my mind or gone quiet since, so clearly Skit who writes Vergil has been another well of inspiration, being able to throw ideas to one another and have someone to collaborate with has undoubtedly given Ariadne more life than I could have given her alone.

As for other media! If I were to name other characters from media that serve as inspiration I'd have to include: Gretel (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), Tituba (Salem), Lagertha (Vikings), San (Princess Mononoke), Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher media), Satsuki Kiryuin (Kill la Kill - however I have OPINIONS about the show, I recognise the character's strength) and various others where I couldn't possibly name them all off the top of my head.

In P1 and P2, every character’s Persona is shown to have a certain amount of “navigation” potential. For example, characters will sometimes state their Persona feels “anxious” or “senses something dangerous up ahead”.

I think the same is true for the games after, and Fuuka, Rise and Futaba are just those rare cases of Persona Users whose Persona’s energy is more focused on sensing or transmitting information, rather than on self-defense or expressing aggression. Mitsuru’s case is a good example of that: Her Persona is mostly combat focused, but its sensing capabilities are strong enough to help navigating Tartarus. 

Fuuka actually voices a hypothesis about that late in Persona 3: Her Persona is primarily a scanner because Fuuka is extremely concerned with understanding what other people expect of her, to the point that it reflects in her Persona. 

Similarly, Rise has a preoccupation with how she is *perceived* by other people and how she can make them perceive her differently, so her Persona “broadcasts” information about her to others and about others to her. 

As for Futaba, while she is a shut in who’s not especially connected to the outside world, she’s always hungry for information, hence why her Persona is Necronomicon, and that hunger for information is reflected in its powers: She can use her Persona to *suck up* information about the things around her and distribute them. It’s a result of her extreme curiosity.

So to sum up, Fuuka’s Persona reads hearts, because Fuuka wants to understand people. Rise’s Persona broadcasts her thoughts and receives the thoughts of others, because Rise wants to broadcast herself and receive other’s feedback. Futaba’s Persona sucks up and distributes information, because Futaba is one of what Japanese scholar Azuma Hiroki called a “Database Animal” herself. 

Before you ask, Mitsuru’s case is a little different: Since she’s desperate to learn what she needs to do to safe her father from her family’s legacy, that “despair to learn” is reflected in her Persona. 

(It wouldn't surprise me. We don't get to see how the survivors adapt with therapy or chronic illness due to inhaling polluted and other particles.)

;; Like, hear me out.

Toges carrying a hankie everywhere. Like, straight up cloth he coughs in, embroided with the Togami initals (If he sewed it on himself, thats for you to decide.) And he just, has moments of violently coughing, and some sequences he has to wash the hankie due to blood, or something else.

Fukawa would have the worst luck with it.. Considering Towa. Unless It has a air cleansing facility like i think it does.. But, if I’m wrong, Fukawa would have it worse then the other survivors. Part of me wonders if she’d have Asthma because of it?

And even though Aoi is really healthy, I think this probably stunted her a fair bit. And even with Naegi’s normal health, he’s probably like, having to take moments to just

“--I don’t know what you’re saying.”

     ❝ so, it’s not all a scam? the stuff you do?          i mean, some people must be like that ... but some of it is real,         right? i want to believe it is! it sounds so magical! ❞