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My name is Sachiko Samurakami.
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Topic Started: Nov 4 2016, 10:32 PM (200 Views)
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Nov 4 2016, 10:32 PM
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I'm the best! I'm the king of me! I'm gonna eat chips out of the garbage!
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[This thread was posted a few hours after the end of Sesshoseki.]
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Post By: Sachi76 Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:32
My name is Sachiko Samurakami. I recently awakened to my Persona while in the ruins and soon after discovered this website.
My daughter, Nana, died a few months ago. I know that she did awful things and hurt the people of this city. I should have done more to control her, and I'm sorry for everything she did. There is nothing I can do to bring the people she hurt back, or undo the damage she caused. But I will accept any judgment for what she has done.
But if you will accept me, I want to help bring all of this to an end. No one else should have to lose their child because of this place.
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Nov 4 2016, 11:21 PM
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Post By: Light_The_Hearth Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:34
It's nice to meet you, Samurakami-san! Welcome to our lovely community! And there's no need to apologize for your daughter's actions. I never knew her personally, or even heard about her before all this, but you don't need to hold the guilt.
Just help up solve this thing ^_^
That's all you need to do!
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Nov 5 2016, 09:54 AM
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Post By: problematicSolutioner Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:36
The parent of a Persona User, becoming a Persona User themselves? And just after discovering the site? Quite intriguing.
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Post By: ShonashRavine Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:37
oh man, this is kinda awkward... I'm sorry for your loss, even if I didn't meet Nana, hopefully we can work together to solve this issue!
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The One True Nobody
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Nov 5 2016, 04:43 PM
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
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Post By: Hollyhearts Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:42
Are you serious? Well fuck me, ma'am, I barely even know how I feel about your daughter, I'm not about to judge you for it. It's not like she never did anything good for anyone along the way, that's all I'm saying.
I'm not out there fighting monsters or anything, so I'm not gonna offer to help. But take care of yourself. My boyfriend also wants me to tell you that "someone who doesn't want to be controlled can't be, so don't go taking all the blame on yourself that way." Does that sound pompous? Probably does, I bet. Noburu's a bit forward, but he means well, I promise.
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Post By: HuangLong Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:45
When someone asks you to pass a message along, make sure it's the whole thing, June.
Someone who doesn't want to be controlled can't be, so don't go taking all the blame on yourself that way. Even if you do blame yourself, don't turn blame into another mistake.
That's all.
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Post By: Hollyhearts Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:46
Thank you, Mr. Psychiatrist Man, now come back to the bed and stop delaying the inevitable! Your arm will be a construct of pure tattoo ink by the time this night is over, or my name isn't June Hollyfield!
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Post By: ValkyrieProfile Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:50
Ma'am, I'm sorry for your loss, but I think you may be overestimating the bad your daughter was guilty of. I never spoke with her (she only ever seemed to attend Kendo Club on the days that I was out), but I do know enough to say that while Nana-san did not necessarily pursue her goals in the best of ways, she was never malicious in her intent. For whatever that might be worth to you, I feel nothing but regret that she passed before she could be steered down a more constructive path.
When it comes to unraveling the mystery of the ruins and protecting the city from the Shadows prowling its halls, we are all equals so long as we pursue that goal in earnest. So, welcome. You may call upon me whenever you need a companion to follow you into battle.
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From: Izunome To: Sachi76
Oh my God. Sachiko-san, I'm sorry you've been dragged into this, too. And I'm sorry I wasn't able to tell you everything there was to tell before. I never know how to explain any of this to anyone. I hope you can forgive me, but I'm here for you if you need anything, including someone to accompany you into the ruins. I want to end to this, too.
Are you doing alright? Did anything bad happen when you were brought into the ruins?
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From: C0ff3eGrrl To: Sachi76
I'm sorry for being gruff with you in the ruins. I don't expect you to suddenly like me because I said that or anything, but too many people have gotten hurt or worse doing reckless things in there, myself included, and I just didn't want you to be one of them. Since you're out and safe and have time to approach things with cunning and caution, I hope we can put the rocky start behind us and work together to ensure that those ruins take as few lives as possible between now and whenever the hell we fix this mess.
Please do not enter the ruins alone until you are confident in your Persona's abilities. I can hardly say "don't go alone at all" (I'd be a hyprocrite if I did), but even for those of us who've been around a long time, the deeper areas are too dangerous to explore solo, and for someone who hasn't strengthened their Persona, even the Shadows near the entrances can be dangerous to take on without backup. There will never be any shortage of people willing to watch your back in there, and if you feel you need someone who isn't a stranger, then you can always contact me, Chika, or my mom.
Be careful. And don't go getting yourself killed. It might not mean much to you right now, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you, either in the ruins or outside of them. I have a promise to keep, you know?
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Nov 5 2016, 05:11 PM
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Post by: ThisMachineKillsShadows Date: 2014-XX-04 at 22:57
The OP of this topic is obviously quite new to all of this, so aside from the usual 'sorry for your loss' platitudes, I'll say it's not a good idea to use your actual name or publicly share here. There's been some problems and this is hardly a secure place for those sorts of introductions. Not sure it ever was.
As for everyone else: Y'all motherfuckers should have known better.
Now, back to what I came to say @ Sachi76 It's been said before, but you're not responsible for what was done is your daughter. Not you. I'll not get into my opinion of those actions or what they meant, but facts are facts.
With that in mind, don't feel obligated to try and hit the ground running. Its understandable to be confronted with a large problem and want to help but you're not obligated to do anything. Not because of what someone-be they a stranger or your own flesh and blood- has done or hasn't in the past at least.
You don't owe anyone here an apology on behalf of Nana. If anything, I'm sorry for what you had to go though and how you had to find out what's really been going on like this.
Take it one step at a time and be careful.
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Nov 6 2016, 10:23 AM
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I'm the best! I'm the king of me! I'm gonna eat chips out of the garbage!
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Post By: Sachi76 Date: 2014-XX-04 at 23:00
If what I've read on here is correct, almost all of the rumors about my daughter were true. So you'll have to forgive me for feeling like I've failed as a mother.
I've never used these kinds of websites before, so I'm sorry for being unfamiliar with how this works.
I don't plan on dying down there. So if I go in, I'll make sure to ask for help.
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From: Sachi76 To: Izunome
It's fine. Eri told me everything months ago, anyways.
Nothing bad happened. I got a Persona and visited Kanon's mural, and then we left.
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From: Sachi76 To: C0ff3eGrrl
Who were you to my daughter? Your name is everywhere when she comes up, but I never once heard her mention yours.
I don't plan on going alone. I was serious when I said I had no plans of dying down there.
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Nov 6 2016, 02:04 PM
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
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From: Izunome To: Sachi76
I had to ask. Sometimes, we manage to get to a person, guide them through their awakening, and get them out without any incident. But sometimes the timing is bad, someone ends up in there while no one is exploring or patroling. It's rare, but Spencer-san tells me that he sometimes does find someone who died shortly before he started his nightly march around the ruins, and sometimes they get taken in through an entrance we didn't know about--that hasn't happened since Kyo started mapping them out and sealing them up, though.
Thanks to this community, we can at least make sure that once a person has awakened, they have all the knowledge they need not to become a casualty, whether they choose to re-enter the ruins or not.
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From: C0ff3eGrrl To: Sachi76
I honestly don't know who I was to Nana. There are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. All I know is who she was to me, someone I trailed after and tried to imitate when I was younger, and someone who blundered back into my life later on when starting her organization brought her into conflict with a friend of mine. I know she didn't hate me, but I'm not surprised she never talked about me. Half the time when we were talking, it was because one of us had done something that got under the other's skin enough for an angry lecture.
I think of her as an important friend. It's uncomfortable not to know exactly how she thought of me in return, but that's the way it is. I saw a lot of myself in her. I guess I hoped I could help her grow the same way I had, but the regrets holding her down were just so much heavier than mine that I never knew how to really reach her. Chika knew her better. I'd hoped she could do what I couldn't, since it seemed Nana might have been growing attached to her, but, well, there just wasn't enough time. Nana had a bad habit of making herself hard to speak to.
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Nov 8 2016, 10:29 PM
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From: Sachi76 To: C0ff3eGrrl
Speaking as her mother, I think we were both several years too late to change her mind. Maybe even to help her. Even if it's hard to see it that way from inside your own head, it's just what we have to keep telling ourselves.
If it means anything, I think she probably thought of you as a friend as well. Albeit, a very frustrating friend. :)
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Nov 9 2016, 09:15 PM
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From: C0ff3eGrrl To: Sachi76
Thanks for saying so. I'd like to think that's what she felt about me. It'd at least put the two of us on even footing with each other.
I'm not convinced that things couldn't have gone differently, but it's hard not to dwell on what-ifs and all, as I'm sure you know. It's the one recurring theme every time I lose someone important to me, anyway.
I'm one of the strongest Persona-users around at this point, not to boast or anything, and pretty well-trained physically for my age. Probably only the Persona-users who're cops would be better in a fight with Shadows than me. Not proud of everything that lead to who I am these days, but I am what I am and I'm in control of how I use it: best to do the best I can in the best places I can find to do it. I hope as time passes, you'll come to think along the same lines about yourself. Not that I know a whole lot about loss, but it's what helps me deal with mine. The ruins are one thing, yeah, but as you move forward, don't close yourself off to finding more to focus on.
Platitude quota met, I guess. I was actually going somewhere else with all that and got sidetracked: if you need me in the ruins, I'll always be there, and you don't need to hold back on asking me for fear of my safety or anything. I've got too much I still want to do to be stupid or reckless. Even if I've been both in the past.
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