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The Velvet Room exists between the consciousness and subconsciousness. It is inaccessible by characters who do not wield a Persona or have lost their Persona for various different reasons. In fact, its entire existence is limited only to Persona users and to the regular individual, they will not be able to even see the entrance to the room. Although it is stationed primarily in the castle, the entrance of the Velvet Room may also be found in various different locations, such as by the dungeons and the shrine. Sometimes, there may be a "malfunction" and an ordinary door will actually lead into the Velvet Room. Why does that happen? Well... perhaps characters will have to ask the attendants for that answer.

Within the room, two attendants occupy the space. These attendants act as guides and will perform various different duties in order to assist the characters. They will pass on plot information, answer questions, give out requests (with the promise of a reward, of course), forge magic-infused weapons, heal, and such on. Requests, in particular, are given out ICly and OOCly monthly and may be undertaken by any character who wishes to complete them. Please see the first toplevel of this entry for more information.

The attendants may be regularly contacted by entering the Velvet Room and, as a result, players may comment to this entry to interact with either attendant. Players may specify which attendant that they'd like to interact with or allow the mods to choose. These threads may be used towards AC and bonus activity. However, due to the attention-intensive nature of NPC threads, these threads may be quickly wrapped up in order to save time for the mods.

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🢒🢒 minato

The attendant you might have to wake up, pretending to be asleep so you have to bother Souji instead of him. His requests tend towards what he wants to do or eat at the moment, but he seems to enjoy seeing the world, though he isn't always good company. Seriously. Go bother Souji instead.

🢒🢒 souji

The more talkative attendant between the two, though he could say some pretty bizarre things. He also seems overly fond of cats for some reason and will unironically go "nya". His requests normally seem to involve taking him out somewhere or bringing him particularly... strange objects.

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[ When Vassago disappears, Messiah does too, in bright blues and whites that settle over Minato's shoulders instead of at his feet that turn to point to Terry, Minato crouching in front of him and looking at him closely. He doesn't heal Terry, nor does he get rid of the debuff; he just crouches there with his arms on his knees and watches.

"How are you feeling?" sounds like a stupid question, so Minato doesn't ask it. "What do you think?" would be the next one he wants to ask, but he doesn't ask that one either, because Terry looks like he's having a lot of trouble with that too.

If that's the case, he can never go wrong with: ]

...What do you want to do?

I... I don't know. Where--

[ --It's the castle. It's the castle that he woke up in his first day here. It's the castle that has the portal. He looks at Minato's clothes and the color feels like it reminds him of something else, but it won't come out no matter how hard he tries while he tries to catch his breath from his lungs suddenly being able to function. ]

... I don't know where to start. I feel like I should know you...

Knowing me doesn't really have anything to do with what you want to do...

[ He'd be working his single brain cell too hard over something that doesn't even matter, so he shouldn't bother. ]

How about you start with what's bothering you the most? Then work your way down the list.

[ He tries to calm himself down and loosens the curling so that he can try to relax a little more. ]

Why I'm here, who you are, and why that dragon was attacking me--

[ He cuts himself off. ]

... Minato. Okay... thank god. I can... I can still remember a little.

[ Yeah, he wasn't going to spill all that to a "complete stranger". ]

...Who I am shouldn't rank higher than why that dragon was attacking you...

[ Minato doesn't address any of the concerns directly, though, nor does he mention Vassago by name because names aren't important. But he does go ahead and sit down when Terry relaxes a little, and then flops onto his back to stare up at the crumbling ceiling. ]

Does it bother you that much? Not knowing why you're here.

It's not a matter of ranking... but it's gone anyway and you're right here next to me, so... that should be important right now.

[ In the end, it was a little bit of ranking after all. ]

Of course it matters, but it looks like I should be safe for now... My head hurts...

[ Minato hums in his throat— not the sort of understanding or acknowledging hum, but the sort of hum that fills the silence when he otherwise has nothing to say to that. He decides not to tell Terry that he's never safe. ]

...So if I bring the dragon back and then fuck off, your priority will change?

[ Terry immediately grabs Minato's arm in panic, seeing that a sudden rush of adrenaline and possibly fear overcomes how heavy his body feels. He's not going to let go of him now. ]

[ That's no good, is it? A while ago, if asked whether he's scared of Vassago, Terry always answered that he wasn't, and Minato can't help the nagging thought that the reversion is his own failure, not Terry's.

He can summon without lifting a finger, and he can put Terry into the ground if he so chooses. Maybe Terry doesn't remember either of those things. But again is the urge to force Terry into it, to summon Vassago— to make Terry summon Vassago- and make him face his Persona again and again and again until he does it right.

Terry can't die, after all, so, ]

What are you so afraid of?

... I'm not sure.

[ If Minato actually does that, I wouldn't mind... 👀

After calming down from the initial adrenaline, Terry slowly manages to let go of Minato's arm. He feels the rest of his memories coming back as he forces himself to sit up despite the fatigue. He wants to stop feeling so exhausted, and he figures that one way to get rid of the fatigue is to kill something in order for his passive to kick in. However, Terry seems to understand why that association is dangerous, because it's like being in a high state of euphoria if he gets violent and kills something, and that's not what he wants. On the other hand, his violent tendencies seem to call out to him constantly after he managed to summon Vassago. It's an innate demigod thing that he failed to suppress correctly. This sucks. ]

Haha, yeah... what am I scared of...

[ He says that even though the fear of losing his memories for a moment made him internally reel and want to scream. He needs to be calm now. ]

[ There's nothing to be scared of, and yet Terry is still scared. Minato remains silent, lying there o the ground with his hands folded over his stomach, and doesn't look up at Terry for a while, and when he finally does, it's with almost apologetic eyes. ]

Is it because you don't understand him?

[ It's the only thing he can think of, the same way so many people are afraid of death, because they don't fully understand it— they can't fully understand it, until it happens, and by then they won't have the capability for understanding any longer. ]

The same reason you don't like mysteries or puzzles...

[ You really can't brute force understanding, and that goes for Vassago just as much as it does for Terry. ]

[ Terry glances over at Minato when he asks the question and looks back forward, not meeting Minato's eyes. ]

... I understand him, but that's exactly the problem. If he was a mystery, I already solved it a long time ago. Despite that, I don't ever want to acknowledge the result. Vassago showing up always shoves that unwanted result in my face when I end up having to think about what he represents. I hate it.

[ The longer he talks, the more spiteful his voice gets. Pure, unbridled hate drips from it. ]

I'd rather die than accept him, since accepting him would mean that I die anyway. "I" won't be here anymore if I do. If I'm going to die either way, at least give me the choice to die as myself.

That's selfish.

[ But not a bad thing. Minato gets the feeling, every time he remembers something of a past life and he takes on qualities of this other Minato that lived once upon a time, and eventually, "he" won't exist anymore. Not as himself. He doesn't fight it, though, because he's selfish. ]

But I want to help. There'll be a time where you'll have to face this again. You'll have to fight. And I won't be there. If you plan to reject him, promise me you won't go into the fighting thinking you'll die.

[ Terry laughs, though it sounds like more air than his voice. It's a little broken and hollow. He feels drained, so he flops back on the ground onto his back next to Minato. ]

I don't go picking fights thinking that I'll end up dying as an end result, so... yeah. I'll promise you that much.

[ If he does end up dying due to miscalculations, well... he tried...? But he closes his eyes. ]

You probably know this already, but as long as I drink blood every now and then, I won't die. As long as it's not my own, anyway. I'll be fine. Despite me saying what I said earlier, I won't actually die...

Not physically, maybe...

[ But the way Terry laughed just then, it feels like he's been in the process of dying for all this time. If he hollows out too much, he'll end up like Minato, and that's just about the worst thing there would be. He doesn't want that to happen, and he doesn't want Terry to die. He was kind of hoping they become friends, and stay that way for a long time. ]

How's the blood drinking coming along?

[ Subdivided AU Minato made another vampire blood tofu, would this work for Terry?? ]

[ Aw, MInato... Terry will stay your friend no matter what you do... :) As long as whatever form is mostly blood, it'll work. He can eat rock crystals made from blood and that would work too, but he finds that as a hassle, so he might as well just drink it and get it over with. ]

I only need to drink it when I'm nearly running out, so...

[ Hm. ]

I don't need any right now. It still makes me sick when I drink it though.

[ Living is painful. ]

[ Minato nods, because yeah, drinking blood feels kind of gross and he'd probably feel sick at the thought of it too. ]

Do you have to drink it, or can you inject it or something?

[ Do what druggies do when they have no patience for taking things by mouth ]

I need to take it by the mouth, so I need to drink it.

[ Blood transfusions don't help his lifespan, unfortunately. He also hates needles, so don't make him take too many shots. He'll die on the inside even more. ]

Oh. ...In the Nordic countries, they make blood pancakes. Want to try someday?

[ aka Minato wants to try, and he needs somebody to make it happen. New experiences, or whatever ]

[ I had to google what blood pancakes were and I read a tidbit that I'm not sure I can ever unsee again...

Terry closes his eyes again and pinpoints what the heck those are. Since he's still exhausted, he's just silent for thirty seconds before he speaks up again. Admittedly, he's also curious in how it'll taste. ]

I guess we can eat bear meat alongside it.

[ While Terry had his eyes closed for so long, Minato assumed he'd nodded off and is kind of surprised when he speaks again, jolted awake from the beginnings of his own nap and bumping the back of his head against the ground. ]

Oh. Yeah, that'd be efficient. I ended up wasting a lot of blood last time I butchered something in your room.

[ Sorry... But Souji was kind enough to clean everything up, and hopefully he'd gotten all the stains. ]

[ ...

Now that Terry is more relaxed, he feels the heat in the surroundings and it's suddenly hot. This sucks. His mind was off it even when he was moving around, generating heat, but no. NOW has to be the time when he notices. ]

Why do you do so much in my room...

I didn't want to get the lounge dirty...

[ He could say something about liking Terry's room more than his own, which is largely just a half filled closet and empty floor space, but... no. ]

I guess it's 'cause it's a "lively" room? You're always coming in and out of it, so the floor's going to be worn down anyways.

So you want to wear down the floor even more... doesn't that mean you'll need to replace the flooring eventually?

[ He starts fanning himself now. ]

It's hot... [ whine ]

Everything in that train's been worn for hundreds and thousands of years. If you invest in high quality goods, you pay for durability.

[ He did not pay for any of this, though, and everything gets fixed up by magic or by Souji anyways. But when Terry mentions being hot, Minato silently calls for Nekogami, who comes out with a temperature drop of ten degrees and drapes himself over the back of Terry's neck and shoulders to be a portable AC. ]

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