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[pheromonecoffee]

Let's set the scene here.

Bridge. Late night. Green full moon.

Six year old alone in the backseat of a car. Front seat? Two coffins.

Giant explosion. Car destroyed. Boy not destroyed. Coffins in car probably destroyed. 90% chance of coffin destruction.

Giant monster. Robot teenage girl fighting monster. Robot girl losing.

Robot girl stuffs giant monster into six year old. How? Fuck if I know.

Moon stops being green. Bridge is on fire. Car is on fire. Six year old is not on fire.

[Video flashes on. Matt's hanging around LCU's campus. It's pretty dead since it's only summer sessions and he's not by the library or anything. He'd come to pick something up, and... Well, the walk here had been eventful. He should drive more, as attested to the scrape on his cheek. He's a lucky kid.

That aside, he looks... not very amused.]

So if we're playing the crazy echoes game anymore, I think I'm winning. [He laughs a little, covering his face with his hand in sheer exhaustion.] Coffins in a car? You know what the craziest shit about this is?

I seriously think I just watched Minato's parents die. That's... that's some fucked up kind of thing to show a guy. And that... thing. That monster.

[And Matt completely freezes. And then he laughs. And it's not a good laugh--it's a kind of crazy, kind of broken laugh.]

No wonder he had to die. That thing inside of him... [And then his laughter just completely stops and he drops the phone he's recording on. That thing. That thing looks so similar to Thanatos. And Thanatos... Thanatos is Phillip. His friend. He curls himself up where he sits, resting his head on his knees and the video just shows the summer sky.]

Let's just pretend. This never happened.

Comments

[substitutable]

Your safety comes first.

[pheromonecoffee]

I'm on a college campus. I didn't even get hurt.

[substitutable]

I don't want you getting hurt. It's a mostly empty campus for the summer, there's more people off campus today.

[pheromonecoffee]

And then you're going to go home alone.

[substitutable]

I drove here. It's better than you walking home alone.

[pheromonecoffee]

You're stubborn. I took the bus.

[substitutable]

You're not one to talk. You still got assaulted.

[pheromonecoffee]

And I successfully defended myself.

[substitutable]

If you went home with somebody, you likely won't have to again.

[pheromonecoffee]

The bus is well populated.

[substitutable]

So you're going to be looking over your shoulder the entire ride because they know who you are but you don't know them.

[pheromonecoffee]

If they want to get me that badly, they're going to get me no matter what.

[substitutable]

So don't make yourself an easy target for them.

[pheromonecoffee]

I'm pretty sure I could've killed them if I tried. I'm not an easy target.

[substitutable]

If they attack you in a bus with people in it, I don't think you'd be summoning any Persona to fight back against them.

[pheromonecoffee]

If they attack me on a bus with people in it, they're going to have bigger problems.

[substitutable]

[You impossible little] The faster you get your errands done and call your aunt the faster you can get rid of me, you know.

[pheromonecoffee]

I'm going. I need to get to the science building.

[substitutable]

[He will take a step back, and point. It's that way.] Across campus.

[pheromonecoffee]

I know. I've been here, before, remember?

[substitutable]

Just making sure. [He will wait for Matt to start walking.]

[pheromonecoffee]

[He's walking, he's walking. Adjusting his bag, too.]

[substitutable]

[He'll walk beside him! And he's quiet, like he said he'd be, backpack slung over one shoulder.]

[pheromonecoffee]

[Matt will end up looking for one of the science professors! They chat about his dad for a little while and the professor shows concern for Matt's face but he brushes it off like normal. :|b]

[substitutable]

[Shin just stands back at a distance where he can hear their voice but won't really be able to make out their conversation! He's put in an earbud and turned on the music on his phone, too. He's just waiting.]