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Musical Darkness( A Persona RP); There goes RP Virginity.
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Topic Started: Dec 5 10, 1:24 PM (5,464 Views)
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Nov 9 11, 8:46 PM
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"If I'm right, Akira and the others are facing something no teenager is prepared to face. Their own dark side. Who's setting up the meeting is unknown, that's what we should find find out. The rest is, shall we say, a bit too bizarre for you to think about for now. With luck, I'll be there to ease you into it when the time comes." Mr. Coolidge said, thinking on the bench.
'What do the victims have in common...I need to find out.'
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Nov 14 11, 3:04 AM
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"Dark side?" Lily swayed for a moment. "I may not have a lot of experience in this country... never mind teaching... but I do believe that I am able to grasp what is going on. I should not be left in the dark, Mr. Coolidge. It is only because I want to help."
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Nov 14 11, 10:57 PM
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"Let's just say...someone like you wouldn't be able to find her. I'd rather not go into too much detail, it brings up some rather unpleasant memories, but if you insist, I'll indulge you. Right now, I believe Akira is trapped in another world, a world built upon the views one has of them self. Let's say, for example, a girl wanted to her hometown that she's destined to live in forever. She may perhaps she herself as a caged bird, or princess trapped in enormous castle, or whatever exaggeration she has cooked up in her mind. These views, along with society's views, build a world around them filled with monsters that represent issues within that person's life. All these monsters, called Shadows, are attracted to one central Shadow, one that is a direct representation of yourself that you refuse to accept or show to anyone, and the more you refute the fact that it is you, the more powerful it becomes, until it eventually becomes rabid enough to kill you. They bring out the worst in you....however, if you can accept what they are, they change into your greatest strength. Persona. Pe-ru-so-na...." Mr. Coolidge said the word again in Japanese, it bringing back horrid memories of the other world.
"You can't enter the world unless someone who can enter it takes you with them. Then, you are free to wander back and forth, after gaining your Persona of course..." Mr. Coolidge sighed as he looked at Miss Tennor.
"Though most of us found the hardest part to be facing your Shadow...I saw it differently. I found the worst part to be watching the others deal with their Shadows, bringing back your own doubts and fears, reliving them as someone who desperately needs your help is terrified of what your thinking of them. I've seen it happen.....I forget how many times...it was a large group, and I was one of the founders of that investigation. But not the leader...only the Fool can be the leader. Hopefully Akira can find the Fool." Mr. Coolidge said, simmering down and shaking a little.
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Nov 17 11, 4:13 AM
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(Sorry! I was away in Montreal then when I came back I went through some emotional trauma that made me neglect everything .. but now it's all better)
The thorn in her side was pushing her, pushing her to the brink of acceptance. Akira realized that there would always be a scar .. that there would never be something as whole and pure as a newborn baby, but she had to do it. She had to; with no choice, she exhaled.
"I hurt myself the most. It was always me, all along .. but I wanted to grieve upon others rather than direct that pain towards me. It was too potent - too strong for someone like me to handle alone. I miss my brother, I truly do, but I need to fix myself. I understand that I can never bring him back .. I don't know why I put on a mask."
She wiped away her eyeliner from her right eye and looked up.
"Why do we hide? Why are we afraid to show who we are? Tell me. Tell me why."
Akira proceeded to wipe off the eyeliner from her left eye and the face of a young girl appeared from the previous mischievous appearance she once held.
"I don't need to hide. I can accept myself for who I am. There should never be any regrets in life. I may be a failure in school, I may fail my friends, even my family, but I should never fail myself."
She thought back to the day her brother died. Prior to the tragedy, she had seen a little boy die in front of her eyes - she had been too late. The blood was smeared across the pavement and all she could do was stare. There were a gang of thugs slashing at his chest and laughing at his pain, his misery. He cried out for help, but Akira was not strong enough to stop them .. never strong enough to protect anyone. They continued with their mockery in the playground. Akira was hidden behind the vegetation growing around the park for fear of being a victim herself. After the thugs were done, they walked away, remorseless. She saw herself walking up to the little boy and throwing up at the sight of him. His face, clothes, arms, legs .. all drenched in his own blood. She desperately called 911 and asked them for an ambulance as soon as possible .. but it was hopeless. She stared at the boy's plain, blank face staring at her. His eyes had misted over and she could tell that he was gone from this world. The ugliness of it all could never be concealed. In her dreams, Akira visited that scene again and again .. she used her brother's death to forget about it. It was wrong she knew, but the image was too vivid, too scarlet. Down the rabbit hole she would go .. and the boy would scream helplessly, helplessly.
"Why aren't you doing anything?" he cried out in pain.
Akira closed her eyes - and after keeping silent for the duration of each nightmare - finally replied, "I was afraid."
"I can promise you now that I'll defend anyone .. even if it costs my my life. No one should have to die by themselves .. like my brother. He was always attending to his studies that he probably wasn't aware of the fire. I didn't do anything then, but I swear to protect anyone; regardless of whether I know them or not."
The images of blood that once haunted her, the boy's blank eyes, they whirred inside her head. Akira stared at the image of herself as it began to shimmer. She touched the doppelganger.
Eythl Justalyne
An immediate release wavered throughout her entire body.
She whispered, "Ren."
(I'll post tomorrow about what my persona is going to look like! Chibi forgot to tell me how to get my persona ..)
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Lenna Suzaka
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Nov 18 11, 6:12 PM
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(Awww.... hope you're doing okay... and DAMN I could have stalked you, lol. I live pretty close to Montreal, though I'm not in Canada at all)
Lily sighed in response to the entire story. "So... it's rare, isn't it?" She first asked with curiosity in her eyes. She rolled on the balls of her feet for only about three minutes in an attempt to ensure that she understood everything. "So to gain a Persona, I must enter their world? Or... what? Furthermore..."
She began to speak in Japanese.
"What IS a Persona? What exactly are shadows? I am guessing they are not your everyday mundane shadows that do nothing. I am going to guess they are reflections of yourself, but that is why I am asking you, Mister Coolidge." She then folded her arms. "How does this correlate with the kid?"
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Nov 19 11, 11:33 PM
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(Taking break from take home test....)
"Not as much rare as...it needs a trigger. Something has to be causing it." Mr. Coolidge explained.
"A Persona is...your ability to face yourself made manifest. Hmm, that may be a bit confusing. Okay, think of your best qualities, turned into something that you can fight with. It's really hard to explain. Think of it this way. If a Shadow is a person's worst thoughts and feelings manifesting into something terrible, a Persona is something you get by accepting those downfalls and seeing the good in yourself, creating a being that embodies your better qualities. The scary part is seeing the similarities between someone's Shadow and someone's Persona. And to bring it back to Akira...she's probably faced her Shadow by now. The worst qualities of one's soul...and if she didn't accept them, she's either dead or was saved by the Fool." Mr. Coolidge said, getting up.
"One more thing, if you desire your life, you'd never want to enter the other world."
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Lenna Suzaka
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Nov 20 11, 10:30 PM
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"So a Shadow is negative... Persona positive," Lily replied as she shook her head. "What do you even want to do? You can't just possibly sit here and twiddle your thumbs. I wouldn't give a damn about my own safety. If possible, I would like to enter that world. I can't abandon any of my students, Mister Coolidge. You know very well that these kids are... well, important. Akira... she shouldn't face anything like that alone. It doesn't sound good at all. So I say we do something about it."
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Nov 21 11, 1:14 AM
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"Not really a negative or positive kind of thing either..." Mr. Coolidge said, strangely pressing against the screen of a TV. "Not that..." he said, walking around to find a clock. "Not the right time for that...Must be something new." Mr. Coolidge said, shrugging.
"I have no idea how we get in. Think of it like a twisted version of Narnia, you get there when you least expect it, but then you go there whenever you need to." Mr. Coolidge said, looking around.
"To enter that world, we'll need to wait for someone to come out of it."
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Lenna Suzaka
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Nov 28 11, 6:48 PM
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(err... I want to keep this going, but... what about the others?)
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Nov 30 11, 11:11 PM
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(Hey .. sorry, my problem blew up even bigger and impacted my life in a really big way .. but I'm hoping that it'll finally be over now. Sorry about the delay.)
Mist surrounded her and a dark blue light bathed everyone in its beauty. Wings weaved from pale, translucent silk cloaked her and hid Akira from view. After 2 minutes, her transformation was complete.
Her face was masked and her eyes were slits in pure black. Her skin was scaly and appeared to be covered in aquamarine jewels, decorating every inch of her body. There were long claws on her hands and she appeared to have sprouted wings on her back that seemed to be made of mist.
She was a vision of horror and beauty;intertwined with each other.
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Dec 1 11, 1:36 PM
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(I wasn't sure, but apparently, they want to keep it going.)
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Dec 2 11, 7:42 AM
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(Alrighty then, I will post now! And glad your life issues are being handled better)
"Seriously? You're telling us to just sit around and wait?" Lily cried out vehemently as she placed a tensed palm to her forehead. "Mr. Coolidge, I understand where you're getting at. Are you SURE there is no way to intervene without waiting? Do you know how silly that sounds, waiting????" She paced again with nervousness, knowing that she was growing irritated with worry.
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Dec 3 11, 8:40 PM
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"I told you. We need to find the one responsible. Chances are, he doesn't enter the world himself, so he has to be someone who could get access to the hospital room." Mr. Coolidge said, as he groaned upon hearing his last name again. "Call me Peter if you must, stop using my last name if your going to force yourself into this. If I were you, I'd just wait and let the crazy man sort out his issues." "Peter" Coolidge said.
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Dec 5 11, 11:53 AM
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(This is why i Love SeneL!)
As the glowing essence encased Akira she fell down to her knees, clearly exhausted by the sudden turn of events. Ren dragged himself towards her grasping her hand; his conscience was drifting from him. He struggled as he wrestled the mp3 from his blood stained jeans. He had no time to waste; Akira was losing more blood from her injuries. After scrolling for the single song he tapped the “play” button as he himself drifted into blackness.
The motion had already begun; both their bodies grew transparent and soon did not exist at all in this world.
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Surrounded by plainly painted pasty walls, Ren had been awoken by the sudden impact to his face. He was back. Ren’s eyes carried him to focus on the blurry image that appeared in front of him: Lily. He turned to his side to see Akira sleeping carelessly as if the trip had been absent from her mind. Satisfied by the return home Ren smiled painfully and drifted once more.
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Dec 6 11, 11:27 PM
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"If he's our Fool, we're in serious trouble." Peter said, walking over to the two, unfazed by the sudden appearance. He examined Ren, and then nodded, seeming to confirm something in his head. He then got up and with a sudden urgency, called out for the nurses. "I need a doctor over here now! We have two teenagers down, with serious wounds!!" Peter rushed some nurses over and then wrote a small note and stuffed it in Akira's hand.
"Paul's waiting for you. Visit him when you are up to it, okay?" --Mr. Coolidge
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Dec 7 11, 7:39 PM
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This... this has happened? Lily had hurried over to the teens and Peter. She was not worried so much as curious as to what was going on. She wanted it all to be better, but she knew it just could not happen. At least not yet anyway.
She sighed as she noticed the nurses rushing over to help the injured. Turning around, she thought about what Peter had said. Fools... Persona... this is all too confusing... She thought.
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Dec 11 11, 11:26 AM
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~~~(Intermission point)
He blackness licked the edges of his eyes as his vision took over. Everything was blurry around him until it took focus on the two figures that laid close to his bed. The tension from his body grew thick, he wasn't able to move anything but his arms.
This will take a couple of days...
He stared at Lily his eyes demanding answers, "Where is Akira? Is she alright?". Ren clenched his fist trying to regain the feeling in his hand.
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Dec 15 11, 7:46 PM
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(Lenna, you want me to post?)
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Dec 16 11, 4:56 PM
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(Please?)
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Dec 17 11, 12:11 AM
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"We'll let you know boy, first I need you to answer a few questions for us. Who are you and how did you find the other world." Peter said, approaching the bed.
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