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dave strider ([personal profile] oculusriffs) wrote2018-04-28 11:13 am
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TG: this is going to be fucking stupid isnt it


[want to get in touch with Dave? you can leave a TEXT, VOICE, or VIDEO message — or alternatively, he shouldn't be too hard to track down in person. it's a hunk of junk space house. in space. he's around here somewhere.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-09 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I mean. Kinda? That's surprisingly close to the level of bullshit that we had to deal with.

[Funny how now, he relatively wishes for his catbus and his friends to be exploring the veins of those nightmares that ran deeply under the city of Tokyo, subway lines that connected people and yet divided them so easily. Killing a shadow was a piece of cake- there was always some bit of accomplishment in doing it, even when no one had a clue about what was going on.]

And then sometimes we held 'em up and made 'em give us money.

[Okay, maybe he should chill with that shit.]

But... I dunno how to really talk about the mask, though. It's not a dude living in it. It's me? Like, in the nightmare metaphor, it's just my own thoughts and feelings given a form. It's what happens when you face yourself for who you are and accept it. The mask is just realizing that like... you wear a not-literal-kinda mask against people to keep yourself safe.

That makes... no goddamn sense, I'm sorry, man.

[Consciousness is a weird fucking thing in Persona.]

But we should figure out how to trap one of the ghosts. Then we might be able to figure out what the hell it is they want.
Edited 2018-06-09 05:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-10 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, basically. Futaba tried explaining it a few times, but it's related to something called cognitive psience. Shit was way outta my league, so I just went along with it. Something to do with individu... individi? Forget it.

[Individuation, the process of learning that a person's societal image that's been learned through various efforts of the superego is just a role, and not the identity of the person who performs that role. Two separate things, and once disjointed, allows the user to grasp onto a power that belongs to themselves and wreak havoc with it. Or something like that. Ryuji should've listened to her more.

So, he'll settle with the idea that it's just a version of himself fighting on his behalf. Ryuji carefully approaches the bed, eyeing Lisa, wondering if she'll open up to him a little bit. She perks her head up, and that's enough of a sign that he shouldn't force the friendship. Maybe it's better to give up and let her come to him. Maybe that'll happen in a year or two.]


Musta gotten real tiring after a while. Keeping track of everything like that. Hell, I know I'd be frustrated if there were two of you in the same room. One of you is enough of a pain in the ass. [Ryuji smirks, trying to make light of a pretty serious implication here. He doesn't really put any bite behind his words though; if anything, it's dumbly fond sounding. Which isn't how he intended on that to go, but whatever.]

I know of a way. Or well, I used to know. It's not really an option anymore, though.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-12 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[It's okay. Two years later and I'm still wondering what the fuck Atlus was thinking when they created this series.]

April?

[It takes a moment for it to settle in. He has to think about that for a moment, but then the image of 3-4 Daves all conspiring to play pranks on him brings him into the enlightenment of the gravity in that situation. Practically a Bodhisattva at understanding how much fucking HELL THAT WOULD BE, he crosses his arms, and scrunches his face.]

Hard pass?

[Oh god... how does he even... where does he. Open mouth and insert foot. Or something larger than that, because Ryuji's can definitely fit more than a foot and have him still blabbering about.]

It involves going into a different dimension. The Metaverse, it's called. It's made up of peoples' feelings and thoughts, and stuff that can't usually take form in this world can over there.

[That really doesn't actually explain much of anything, so Ryuji tries to pace his thoughts and make it a little more helpful? If he can actually do that properly.]

If a ghost is haunting this place, they probably have some extremely negative feelings. If you can go into that world, you can do things to find out what those are and sorta... take... them. Right oughta them.

[Ryuji, stop, this is confidential. His friends would be so upset with him.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-12 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[That's... pretty aptly described. The only difference is that the dream bubbles actually allowed you pass through them. The Metaverse was a thing you had to infiltrate and commit subterfuge in order to get what you needed done out of it.]

Terezi... doesn't ring a bell. [He's texted with her though! And found out that she calls cats "purrbeasts" or... wait, what was it? PURRB34STS. Or whatever that was supposed to be.]

Sounds pretty neat though? I mean. It's hard trying to figure people out. Or what they want, really. I guess.

[He should offer a little bit of a caveat here, though-]

To be honest, most of the hearts I stole were from living people. It's just a guess about the ghosts, honestly. Not that it matters anymore? Since I... can't go there anymore.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He offers a small consolation prize of a smile. Their attempt to kill Yaldabaoth was supposed to be their last heist together as a group. Ren's confirmed that, in a roundabout way, the future for them as phantom thieves has pretty much come to a close. It's a weirdly sad feeling, when you have purpose and meaning, only to see it yanked out and made inert. These cycles keep happening to Ryuji and he never knows what he's supposed to do with his life when things come to a close.

Grin and bear it, he guesses.]


Yeah. Heart snatching. Like, just shoving my hand into people's chests and ripping them still out. [Holding out his hand, like there's a living, beating thing there, complete with pulsating.]

I'm dangerous, you gotta watch out for me.

I mean. Nah. It wasn't that hardcore. It was all metaphors, anyway.

[What the hell is with the Ghostbuster shit, though?]

Well... we already got the tacky jumpsuits. Now all we need are superpowered soul vacuums.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Locked doors, huh? Kinda makes you wonder what the hell's such a secret about this place that it's gotta be under lock and key.

[Although he did remember hearing about people phasing through doors and then playing The Floor Is Lava, only the floor was actually liquid metal and trapped you there for a while.

Oh.

Right. Safety first, though. He takes the first aid kit, and opens it up. Did he really need antiseptic and a bandaid for a cat scratch? Probably not. But then again... Lisa could be carrying the uber bacteria. The one that's going to eat everyone's flesh and turn them into zombies.

So he'll just... try to stop that from happening.]


Aw, man. Was totally hoping for Goodbye Kitty ones. [He does that really gross, unsanitary thing where you use your teeth to pull the back of the bandage off. Good job, Ryuji.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-15 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji just stares at him dumbly.

That wasn't a pun.

That wasn't even kind of intended. What irony was th---

Goddamnit.

(But in retrospect, it's pretty brilliant)]


Ye...ah. That's what I was goin' for. [But the pink ones were kind of cute. With the little cartoon kitties and the blue bows in their hair? Soulless stare that makes one wonder what eldritch horrors Goodbye Kitty has seen to look so empty on the inside.]

C-careful! [And bam! He's bandaged up. Looks dapper as hell.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-15 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[LET'S ROLL INITIATIVE, boy.








Except not, because this isn't a hostile encounter. In fact, it's so not hostile, that Lisa is just swooned by Dave's innumerable hidden charisma stat, which was stacked in his favor from the beginning. Ryuji, on the other hand, looks on in awe. How one man could contain such a beast just by his bare hands. Clearly he is to be feared and respected.]


I hate you so much.

[Yet his voice doesn't indicate anything of the sort. He'll be forced into the realm of being the Royal Litter Box cleaner for a despot that has no love for him. One day, though. One day he'll get that sweet social link to work in his favor.

Just in case, though, his grip on the first aid kit is admirably fastidious.

Let him love you, Lisa. He has so much of his heart to give.]


Swear... it's like I'm part dog or something.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-18 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't mind Ryuji, he'll just... casually... snap a photo of that with his smart watch. There's bound to be a point when Ryuji eventually pisses Dave off, and it's always good to have a reminder that there are cat headbutts to be had instead. Or just tease the hell out of him. Probably the latter. They're 1 for 1 on the embarrassing cat pics.

Except his isn't so embarrassing, it's just. Dumbly adorable.]


So... you're tellin' me to get my cat high so that she'll chill out long enough for me to cuddle her.

[What could go wrong?]

I'm kinda jealous of you right now, not gonna lie. [Still, he'll keep his distance.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-19 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Far be it from Ryuji to stop Dave if he feels like napping and cuddling up with a little bit of Lisa time all to himself. He half wonders if she'll end up being just like Morgana; when getting cold he would just climb up on top of a sleeping Ren and sleep right on his stomach through the night. And that cat loved to sleep. In fact, he told them constantly how late it was and how they should probably all go to bed. Over, and over, and over again.

But, oh, hey, Dave just called him cool. That's pretty damn neat. He'll just be over there, swimming around in the compliment and drinking that shit up like it's air. He doesn't even go through the motion of figuring out if he had meant cool as in having a temperate personality or anything, just. You know. Cool.]


Maybe we'll just have a heart to heart. Build up that trust. And then when the moment hits, she'll brush up against my leg and bury the fish shaped hatchet.

[He wants to go over there so badly and join him, to just pet her head at least once, but he also doesn't want to ruin it for Dave. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, he's more like a hedgehog than a loyal lab.

Or maybe cat's just don't like him.

Eh, whatever.]


You should come by and do this often. Maybe it'll soften her up a little bit. You know, you bein' the cat whisperer and all. You can just be all like "hey, he's a good guy" or something like that. Or whatever you would say, I don't wanna put words in your mouth or anything. Cats can tell when you're bein' disingenuous.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He didn't expect this to happen so soon? It's going so fast, from 0 to 80 in a 25mph zone, and Ryuji's staring onto this fine mess and waiting for the inevitable irritability to start kicking in. Is Dave going to live up to his new titular role as the Cat Whisperer? Is Ryuji ever going to make friends with Lisa?

Find out next time, on---]


Oh my god.

[He literally just referred to Ryuji as his pooper scooper and he doesn't??? know how he actually feels about that at the moment. He's not wrong, it's just. Man, he's willing to accept the responsibility that comes along with pet ownership no problem, but he doesn't want to talk or hear about the gross litter box cleaning that he has to do- it's a begrudging task that even a true labor of love wouldn't satisfy.

And then, in a smaller voice, just to himself, as his features twist into increasing levels of incredulity:]


Dude...

[This is actually terrible, why did he ask Dave to do this?]

Do I...?

[Ryuji lowers his nose and lifts his shoulder upward a little bit to see if he actually smells. Embarrassing human being, right here.]

I don't smell. [Confirming to himself, really, voice still low and self-assuring.]

Dave... man... that was... super goddamn heartwarming and all, but shit.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
And you're only good as your word.

[It's one of those cliche things that stuck with Ryuji from a pretty young age. He can't do the lying thing, can't try to impress people with dishonesty, and is pretty much immovable when it comes to the things he values. If people don't like that about him or think he's naive to behave that way, that's their problem.

And granted, the lack of space deodorant is totally shittsville, population: Reverie Station... but like everything related to the way Dave unravels himself, from what Ryuji can see reading between the lines (as bad as he is at that to begin with), is reassuring.]


You... you think it's time to give it a chance or should I wait a bit for it to sink in first?

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