post palace hot pot party (week 7)

[townmusician]

[Yoon's Palace has faded away, but the fact the God of Conflict decided to show up and intervene again...

Well, that's! Not a good sign! To say the least! But there's nothing to be done about that right now, and Haruka isn't of the mind to really sit and wonder about divine conflicts and grandstanding and all of that, anyways. It's not his problem. The people who deal with that sort of thing on the regular can be in charge of all of that.

What he's in charge of (by virtue of being annoying) is... hot pot. Specifically rounding up everyone and dragging them out to a hot pot restaurant in the city.

He'll miss having money but... he'll just have to work hard to earn it back... Have fun, everyone. (Or maybe he can find a way to charge Mina for this?)]

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[metagame]

Yo.

[Later in the night after everyone has finished eating, Atem tries to approach Soujuurou discretely. Which... given his hair... is a feat... but he's trying!]

Soujuurou, may I have two orders to go?

[There's something he still needs to do.]

[emptyself]

Oh, Atem.

[ he nods, pulling out his notebook. ]

What would you like?

[metagame]

Do you know what Jordi would have wanted..?

[Because looking at the menu is a little overwhelming.

He was a fish man. Fish???]

[emptyself]

Um, well he seemed to be part fish so… maybe something that has fish? Or some sort of seaweed…

[ he’ll point at the menu items that seem to fit that. ]

But is there something you plan to do with that? I mean he’s…

[ in no condition to eat any more, to say the least. ]

[metagame]

[Eh? Why'd Soujuurou trail off like that?]

He's what? Dead? Even the dead need to eat.

[emptyself]

Oh.

[ atem.








you’ve lost soujuurou. ]

Okay.

[ sure, the dead need to eat. must be one of those modern society things. ]

[metagame]

[Glad they cleared that up!]

So you recommend the seaweed? How about... [This is hard, he scans the menu again for anything else.] Salmon?

[emptyself]

Yeah, sure.

[ he nods, writing it all down, diligently.

and while he knows, he knows this isn’t any of his business… he sets the pen and notebook down, a confused expression clear on his face. ]

Sorry, how are you planning to feed Jordi this? He can’t swallow or digest anything.

[ because he’s, as far as soujuurou is aware, dead???? like very very dead????? ]

[metagame]

His Ka-- [wait, maybe he needs to use the name everyone else does so Soujuurou can finally understand?] Persona can still eat.

[emptyself]

You adopted it? That's nice.

[ LIKE A PET... ]

[metagame]

No, I didn't adopt it... Is it even possible to adopt a Persona?

[Losing the thread here guys.]

[emptyself]

Oh, so you're feeding a stray. That's very diligent of you. I'll go get that order for you.

[ can't lose the thread if you never had it in the first place. ]

[metagame]

You shouldn't call it a stray, it still belongs to Jordi.

[Would he find that offensive? Should he add extra fish just in case Jordi's Ka causes them misfortune for being rude?]

[emptyself]

So you did adopt it, then. You shouldn't be so shy about it, there's nothing wrong with that. If anything, it's admirable.

[ because the issue is that he's not conflating persona with the soul... but seeing the persona as something like a very big animal that atem somehow managed to adopt after jordi's passing. ]

[metagame]

No? I just said it still belongs to Jordi...

[He presses his lips together.]

[emptyself]

Okay, okay. I'll get that order for you, so please wait.

[ atem is being shy... but he won't push it. it's no good to bully someone who is so obviously trying to do his best. ]

[metagame]

Thanks..?

[For some reason, he feels misunderstood.]

[beathollow]

( nibbling some veggies and watching this with something akin to amusement )

[metagame]

[Someone's watching him.

He turns to see it's just Mafuyu. ... and he does an awkward little wave to her. So much for being discrete!]

[beathollow]

( little wave!

... but then, she speaks softly: )

Offerings are important. I think they both would appreciate it... to be remembered and gifted, even in the end. So, I think you should.

[metagame]

[His shoulders relax slightly at her mentioning offerings.]

Would you like to join me?

[beathollow]

... I'm not sure I have that right. I didn't know him at all. But others- like Maizono, or Arven- might. They're very kind people.

[metagame]

I didn't know him well either.

[His heart aches at the admittance.]

That doesn't mean we're incapable of honoring them. If they're not remembered and we don't provide nourishment to their Persona, they'll cease to exist.