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[It takes Jun a little while to get back to him, because he's not really certain that he was ready to. But here he was, turning on the video on the communicator, because he feels like he would be more honest if he were speaking rather than typing.

So! Have a distressingly similar face to your own staring at you.]

Hello, Kitagawa-san. I am Jun Kurosu.

...Am I right in assuming you are a Persona user? One of them from the future?

[for a few moments, yusuke just stares at the monitor screen, contemplative. well. that raises a whole load of questions, doesn't it? and jun's face is strangely similar to his own... it's not entirely the same, but it's hard not to immediately want to know more about him and his situation that way.

and he knows yusuke has a persona. he knows yusuke has a persona, meaning he must have one of his own. he knows he's from the past. just how long have people like them existed? how long have personas been summoned for? questions swirl around in yusuke's head before he remembers he should answer him.

yusuke turns on the camera, reflecting his own face back at jun's.]

Hello, Kurosu. May I ask how you came to that conclusion?

[What the heck? The face staring back at him gets Jun to tilt his head a little, brow knitting together in some confusion. Weird.]

Your experience with a being manipulating cognition, as well as the fact that I can sense the numerous other Persona users on this station. Toudou-san mentioned that most of you are from later than him and myself. My most recent year was 1999.

[yusuke's eyes widen]

You can sense other Persona users? How?

[he'll address the time discrepancy in a minute, but that part needs to be addressed]

I dunno. I just... can?

[How can you guys not? He is so confused, honestly.]

Toudou-san can as well, as can everyone else in my group. We've always been able to, ever since we could summon them ourselves.

We can feel their energy, their aura... Can tell how they're feeling, as well.

That's incredible. I've never been able to sense anything like that from other Persona users. The only one of us who can is Futaba, but that is due to the nature of her Persona in particular.

[he crosses his arms in thought]

The year is 2016, where I and the others are from--or when we're from, I should say. I knew there were other Persona users on the station aside from our group, but as we're trying not to catch anyone's attention, I had not approached them yet.

Yes, Toudou-san had mentioned... that something had changed. And that you all are rather secretive about it. I do not intend to tell anyone about the abilities of others, but... I'm open with mine.

[He still assumed it was his fault. But at least they did have one person able to sense personas??? Just wait until Jun finds out you all only have one.]

It's still so hard to believe that 2016 ever comes. The last thing I remember... the world had ended.

! ... I see. Is that why you suspect reality has shifted?

Indeed.

[How could he be here? How could 2016 have ever come?]

Tatsuya, Eikichi, Lisa, and myself... we agreed to give up our memories, in order to bring the world back and change it's fate, but... now I'm here. And I haven't forgotten.

Nyarlathotep was not killed. How could we kill an incarnation of the collective unconscious...? As long as darkness exists within the hearts of humans, he'll exist.

[why would giving up one's memories change the world's fate? and even if it could... how terrible, for the ones who have to live with that decision, yusuke thinks to himself. he looks down in thought]

Just now, you said 'Tatsuya'. So Suou is part of your group too, then?

[he must also be a persona user, if that's the case]

This... Nyarlathotep. I don't think I've ever heard that name before. Unfortunately, I am not as versed in world or Metaverse lore as Futaba or Morgana, neither of whom are present. I cannot tell you of connections between what has happened in my world and what has happened in yours... if there truly are any.

[it could all be a coincidence, though it doesn't seem that way]

But it seems we have a great deal in common, regardless.

Y-yes, he's... [Please excuse Jun for a moment while he becomes a blushy mess. He just really likes Tatsuya alright it's not WIERD.]

He was. In my group.

[He clears his throat. Yes. Business.]

I suppose... there is a possibility that it's a completely different timeline, but. We were under the impression that we needed to forget in order to maintain it... but here we are, and we still remember.

[He wears a bit of a shy smile at that, though. He was glad he remembered, no matter the cost.]

[oh that was an unusual reaction. iiiinteresting. yusuke resists the urge to make finger frames and peer at jun through them, only because it would be pointless since he's on a framed screen anyway.]

Do you think that you were lied to, in that case?

[One day Jun will be less flustered about literally everything regarding Tatsuya. Today is not that day.]

I think it's very possible, considering that Philemon admitted to the fact that everything that we went through was basically a social experiment to see if humans were 'worth' getting to continue to exist, despite some apparent wish they had for destruction.

[Yeah that. Pisses him off.]

He said that he and Nyarlathotep were 'two sides of the same coin'. I can't help but have my trust in him waver.

If that's so, then it is clearly these two entities who are to blame for deceiving you and your friends so. And with the fate of the world at stake... how detestable.

[yusuke sympathizes with having to deal with Some Bullshit]

Just checkin' in... I didn't say anything embarrassing to you when I was hocked up on a bajillion hours of sleep loss right

If you did, I don't recall. I was preoccupied, and I think I am missing several long spans of time. When I try to think about what happened, all I can hear in my head is the first verse to "Mambo No. 5".

Holy shit, you too man? Cept for me it's just "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" over and over again like

Yeah

Dude

Just effin' bury me already this shit sucks

I will do no such thing. Once we have rested properly for a few days, I'm certain everything will go back to normal.

[...]

No, I take that back. Perhaps not entirely normal.

This is a one way effin' ticket to strange town population us and there's no way we're gettin' offa this shit so buckle in and get ready for worse shit I guess

I mean

Really though you're okay right?

Last week was rough, this is me checkin' in on ya

I appreciate the gesture, although you should really learn when to use commas.

And I am alright, albeit tired and somewhat perturbed by an experience I had a few days ago with Ren.

Some people are born with the ability to comma others have to comma onto to it dude.

[His grammar is atrocious but his puns are on point.

And by on point, I mean, they're horrid.]

Oh...

Yeah, I mean. I guess, same?

What happened?

Hey.

Just checking in to see how you're doing. I didn't see much of anyone toward the end there, so I lost track of you.

I'm sorry.

Well played.

[if you think yusuke's going to have a problem with puns, think again]

We danced. He's quite skilled at it. He showed me how to salsa and tango. He would make a good ballet dancer, too.

[what about that is 'perturbing', hmm?]

[the '@fox is typing...' message appears for a while before yusuke finally replies]

I'm fine now, thank you. We were all not quite ourselves for a few days.

[another reply comes, but only after the '@fox is typing...' message appears for another whole minute]

Are you feeling alright?

[ Like any good teenage ne'er do well Ren's waiting for responses with the messaging app open. should he read into the length of time between messages? ]

Other than the persisting sense of unreality that I've actually gotten to sleep more than a few minutes at a time?

[ @joker is typing... stays on the screen, disappears, then reappears. ]

Unsure. Still trying to get back to normal.

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