#1 FoolMoon Shipper

Leaving Menae...

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eating disorder recovery is just getting angry over and over again because food is treated like some horrible necessary evil instead of one of the great joys of life. eat some nuts because they taste good and you are a living thing that thrives on pleasure and calories. you need both.

errr....it's been a long time since I've really thought abt it and had it fleshed out but it's stayed in my heart for a couple yrs now. Never played the answer and not sure what it's rly abt other than...letting go? So if this is just the plot of the answer then LOL

It has to do with a mix of the main p3 novels. I pulled a little from each. I vaguely remember..

There's a moment where Shinji saves Jin from a Shadow attack and they share a tender moment eating katsudon together. And that's where Shinjiro gets the idea behind going to meet the rest of S.E.E.S. Jin mentions them off-handedly and Shinjiro goes to see them. He's indifferent to Leader the first time they meet but thinks she's cute.

Elizabeth has both Kotone's and Shinjiro's watches after she gets door-kunned. Elizabeth was expecting Shinjiro even before his first loop because Kotone told her Shinjiro would, eventually, show up and gave her both watches for safekeeping. (Kotone grabbed his pocket watch before the first loop but Shinjiro leaves it under her pillow or asks her to hold it for him on other loops. She, at some point, gets the feeling this has happened before but largely ignores it..) El and Shinji keep their memories each loop.

Uhhh...Kotone gives Elizabeth the watches....right after the Nyx fight, I think. Like immediately iirc

Elizabeth is an enigma and not very helpful in any meaningful way but she gives Shinji the power to repeat the loop. She welcomes him back to the alternate Velvet room each time. I think in my version the colors were bright magenta/red or something?? Maybe green. Sometimes he came back bloodied and uncharacteristically frantic. Sometimes he would dip in and out, eager to reset because he thought he discovered a way to hammer out one little quirk to save her.

From what I remember, he first meets Elizabeth when he's in a coma having these weird dreams about "some girl". Kotone is blurry but the colors of her hair and outfit are there. Just blobby.

He eventually wanders around and meets Elizabeth. And they make some sort of pact with Shinjiro still being apprehensive. Elizabeth claims her reasoning for helping is because she's "just curious" about Kotone and this irks Shinjiro. He doesn't know why but it does. Like maybe she isn't telling him the whole truth or knows something he doesn't.

Anyway, I had the idea that giving Shinjiro the ability to do this comes at a cost to her. Like maybe every loop she tore a page of her book out and the thinner it was the weaker she became. Or she faces punishment from Igor? Or maybe Igor decides it's fine because he knows the true outcome of this?

They're just spinning the wheel. And I think about halfway into it they realize it? That there's nothing to be done to save her. Elizabeth before Shinjiro. But these "new, bizarre human feelings" make her want to keep going. It's like how people will watch ants carry corpses to a graveyard. Something interesting to watch.

Shinjiro decides to loop until he eventually finds a way to either "fix" the timeline or is able to accept that there is nothing he can do to save her in the end. And that's when they finally rank 11 :)

I think Shinjiro would feel too guilty to let her repeat that despite wanting to share the night with her, even if he only gets that one night with her before repeating all this traumatizing shit.

Also, I had it in my head that one of the first things he wanted to try was taking her place and then hating himself even more for being too weak. He can't even control his own persona so what makes him think he could be a wildcard or the universe... So it leads him to wondering what would happen if he never took the medication. What would happen if he had just never joined s.e.e.s at all, what would happen if he never fell for Kotone etc...but there isn't a point to wondering all of that because this was Kotone's destiny from the start.

Nobody tell that to mr. king hate myself though cuz he won't listen anyway

I had this idea since before the end of my first playthrough of P3P. He gave vibes like he'd seen Kotone before. And sometimes the stuff he says sounds like he's being facetious about it? Or he hints at it like he wishes he could just tell Kotone that he's been here before.

Unfortunately, I cannot take all the credit for involving Elizabeth. Her meeting with Kotone and being left in charge of the watches is from the novel that's about their relationship. I lack the skills to translate it and the scans I had of it were VERY poor quality. Lost to the abyss, now.

The hospital thing being pointed out.....I....(genius) Both times he is in the hospital in canon it's also for the sake of someone else..

I like the idea of him bleeding out and thinking it's finally all over. And he's just "sorta at peace with it" because he is simply so tired. But then he wakes up in the hospital. And his first thought is how he needs to get to Kotone to keep his promise. (In canon, without time loops involved. But now I like it for this AU)

I have always been attracted to the theory that they both pass on the rooftop together.

Maybe his eyes are getting heavy....and then he wakes up :)

To 2025:

Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.

They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.

This clip is from 1968 and discussed assassination after Bobby Kennedy died.

is the ability to process these things.

taking away the words for bad things

means when they HAPPEN- and bad things will still happen around us-

WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THEM without the WORDS.

When the word is accurate, USE THE WORD. Say Death. Say Murder. Say Rape. Say Prison, say Riots, say War, Say Famines and Disease. Say Bigotry. Say Hate crime. Say Racism. Say Fascism. Say Abuse. Say Hurt. Say Pain. Say Grief. Say Fear.

We must not lose the Truth of what a word means.