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WHO: Ryuunosuke Uryuu and anybody else~
WHEN: Dark Hour, Aug. 14.
WHERE: the city streets
SUMMARY: After a month in Prospero, Ryuunosuke gets his Persona at last.
RATING: PG-13-R for language, violence that ends in death, and thinking about murder, possibly higher if Ryuunosuke decides to be even more of a creep.
WARNINGS: Ryuunosuke is a serial killer and will be thinking about this, possibly at length. There is a battle between player characters.

He was careless because he was frustrated.

Sure, he'd met a few cool people lately, and that had been fun! He wasn't even the only person killing now, and it was great to watch people die without having to do any of the work himself, but...

He liked being the best - well, no, that wasn't it. He liked being creative. He put effort into killing people. He wasn't just a thug, he did things with artistry. Especially lately, after he summoned Caster, but even before that, he prepared for everyone he killed and suited it to what he knew of them.

And now - what had he done? Killed two people in the same way, simple stab wounds. Anyone could do that, the Joker had done that within twenty-four hours of showing up when it had taken Ryuunosuke a whole month to get this far. Was that all he was good for now? He'd gone from turning people into real art down to the very basics of just making them stop moving? That was all? If he had one of those Personas, he could try killing in ways he never could before, but he didn't have one of those either.

Since he was thinking about this as he killed Shadows (disappointing, they could barely be said to die at all they were so boring), it wasn't too much of a surprise that he got into a bad place. One of the creatures leaped at him, and instead of skewering itself on Ryuunosuke's knife it knocked it out of his hands out of reach.

Why had he ended up with his back against the wall? Stupid. He scrambled madly for anything in reach to defend himself with. He didn't fear death and knew perfectly well that his own blood had a beautiful crimson color, but he was still looking for something even more enrapturing. He wouldn't find it if he died again, and he needed to be armed if he wanted to live.

Shit. Nothing. He was going to have to do this bare-handed until he could get at his knife again. Geeze, this was annoying. He'd have been a disappointment to that guy if he saw him like this, reduced to killing in only the most basic of ways, worried about just making it through the next few minutes-

Something unbelievably cool happened.

The Shadow that had been about to pounce upon him was suddenly lifted. It struggled in vain as something like an elephant, but armored and on two legs, held it by the throat. It had only a moment to struggle before the creature snapped its neck.

"Thou art I, and I am thou. I am Vetala, and your desires shall be my desires." His Persona's imposing features disappeared.

"That..." Ryuunosuke took a steadying breath. The other Shadows in the area had fled at Vetala's appearance. "That's seriously a demon I called... This is so awesome!"

Grinning like a kid in a candy store, Ryuunosuke felt around for his knife, then started to search the city for every last Shadow he could test out his new power on. Persona, demon, who cared what he called it? It was his, and he wouldn't have to be bored again for a long time.

[Ryuunosuke will be running around the whole city testing out Vetala, so feel free to encounter him anywhere, or to witness this event!]

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"Won't be a newbie for long. I'm already getting used to ordering him, it, something, around." Ryuunosuke whistles cheerily.

"Hm. Can it do anything besides smash?" Asuka asks. Yes, Personas are definitely 'its', not people what are you talking about. Just tools. Like Evangelions.

"...Snapped a Shadow's neck when I summoned it."

It's level one, don't expect a lot.

"Well, that's something," Asuka says teasingly. Harshly teasingly, even though all Brynhildr's done yet is stab things.

"Wait, do these things even have necks?" she suddenly wonders.

"I thought it did. Maybe it was a weird one?" Ryuunosuke suggests. ~~In this thread, his mun has totally failed to look up the names of Shadows and picture them.~~

"Well, they're all different shapes..." Asuka says. Man, this is going to bug her all night now.

"So've you got plans for your new superpower?" she asks, looking down all four streets from this intersection. Clear. She'll need to go someplace else to train.

"Yeah~" There's a happy lilt to his voice now. "I'm going to figure out every single part of what it can do, because I've never had anything like it. I'm not gonna waste something cool like this."

He's also going to kill a guy with it if he can.

It'll be fun.

"Glad to see you have a scientific mind, Mr. Uryuu," Asuka says, pleased herself that other people are trying out these fun weapons, and also completely oblivious to the fact that she's talking to a sociopathic murderer.

Ideally, they find out about the sociopathic murderer thing just when it's too late to do anything about it.

"Of course. I don't know if anybody here is going 'ho hum I make stuff with my mind now' but if they did, they'd have to be real idiots."

"In my experience, most people are real idiots," Asuka says with a weight of philosophical certainty. "I bet that Gilgamesh jerk would ignore his just to prove how much of a man he is without it."

Plus, he's from before the age of alchemy, let alone science.

"Yeeep. He's really an ass," Ryuunosuke comments honestly. Not like him, though. He's a nice guy.

"Anyway, if you wanted to team up now, I thought I'd do some more exploring in that weird building," she says. She'd prefer if he had some ability that could get around the defenses of those verdammnt Mayas, but fighting alongside a cute, intelligent male for once wouldn't be bad in itself. And besides, why wouldn't he want to join forces with her?

"Sure! It sounds like fun," he answers with a bright smile. Why not? She can kill things, she gets along with him, it works out.

(He'll split up with her later and then die.]