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♥ ☽ stumblin', but yeah i'm still lookin' hella fine
Who: Yukari and everyone.
Where: She'll be reappearing on the beach, then making her way back down into the city via elevator and towards the Coral. So anywhere you'd like to run into her in between there!
When: Late evening/close to midnight
Style: I'll match! I'm up for either--action spam or prose.
Status: Open!
[The last thing Yukari ever expected, was needing to rely on someone else for healing. Or in Vatheon's case, something else--like the Coral. She'd always healed herself. People relied on her for healing. But it just can't be helped, in her condition: she's soaked, her clothes are torn, and there is a fair amount of blood indicating a very heavy and intense battle.
...And what a battle it was.
She doesn't want to think about it much, though; it hurts to think how badly she'd lost. It angers her, even; how incredibly unfair. How dare she, how dare she...?]
Damn--! [Her fist slams into the sand of the beach where she's ended up, and she stumbles to her feet.
Then she sighs, remembering.
Remembering Vatheon. Remembering how much weaker she is here. Diarahan wouldn't cut it in the long run; so she knows she should make her way to the Coral as fast as possible before anyone sees her.
A heal, a change of clothes, maybe--
Once again, she's forced to put everything behind her; because Aigis had won, and now she'd have to live with knowing that.]
How long...?
[--has she been gone?
This is the first that's ever happened to her. It's so disorienting, but she decides maybe that's not the most important thing right now. Annoyed and highly emotional as she is, she sighs again and walks towards the elevator, occasionally wincing.]
Nngh.
[...Time to find her own answers here, she supposes. She doesn't need a replacement leader to do that.]
Where: She'll be reappearing on the beach, then making her way back down into the city via elevator and towards the Coral. So anywhere you'd like to run into her in between there!
When: Late evening/close to midnight
Style: I'll match! I'm up for either--action spam or prose.
Status: Open!
[The last thing Yukari ever expected, was needing to rely on someone else for healing. Or in Vatheon's case, something else--like the Coral. She'd always healed herself. People relied on her for healing. But it just can't be helped, in her condition: she's soaked, her clothes are torn, and there is a fair amount of blood indicating a very heavy and intense battle.
...And what a battle it was.
She doesn't want to think about it much, though; it hurts to think how badly she'd lost. It angers her, even; how incredibly unfair. How dare she, how dare she...?]
Damn--! [Her fist slams into the sand of the beach where she's ended up, and she stumbles to her feet.
Then she sighs, remembering.
Remembering Vatheon. Remembering how much weaker she is here. Diarahan wouldn't cut it in the long run; so she knows she should make her way to the Coral as fast as possible before anyone sees her.
A heal, a change of clothes, maybe--
Once again, she's forced to put everything behind her; because Aigis had won, and now she'd have to live with knowing that.]
How long...?
[--has she been gone?
This is the first that's ever happened to her. It's so disorienting, but she decides maybe that's not the most important thing right now. Annoyed and highly emotional as she is, she sighs again and walks towards the elevator, occasionally wincing.]
Nngh.
[...Time to find her own answers here, she supposes. She doesn't need a replacement leader to do that.]
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[She's actually reaching around her neck at where she had kept hers for the entire tournament, her eyes widening. Nothing is there, though, and then she stops, relaxing her hands.]
Each of us had a part of the key we got, after...
[After they fought...
him.
That Shadow. All of their negative feelings and emotions, conglomerated into that form of all things. Sh-she just allows the sentence to trail off for the moment.]
I guess she already took mine.
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I'm sorry, Yukari, I don't understand.
After what...? What keys?
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An apologetic look, and then...
Well, she has to start somewhere.]
We got them after we fought that Shadow at the bottom of the Abyss. Metis and Fuuka both told us it was born from our regrets...our unspoken desires, manifested through our Persona.
He...
[A pause.]
He looked like you.
And that's...why we were trapped until we won. None of us wanted to leave. ['Leave you...'] None of us...wanted to let go.
[We. Because it's not her fault. None of them wanted to let go any more than she did--Yukari's just the only one who had the guts to admit it in the end.]
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That looked like him, born of their regrets.
Minato closes his eyes slowly. In the end, it was his fault, in a way. In the end, they couldn't let him go, even after the choice he'd made...
Ha...What a bitter realization. He'd had no idea it would affect them all so much.]
...I see.
I'm sorry that you had to go through that.
[Not sorry for his choice, never sorry for his choice, but for that...yes.]
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...Because she hadn't explained it just to get any pity or to make him feel bad. He had asked, and she felt he should know...especially now that she knows a bit more about what becomes of them.]
...It isn't your fault.
[She realizes that now, at least. She might've blamed him before... it's easy to blame him, particularly when he's never regretted his choice.
Yukari is only beginning to get comfortable with the fact that she shouldn't, and never will.]
It was ours, in the end. But...I guess it doesn't matter much now.
[At least for the moment. She's back. With him...]
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...He didn't mind the blame, but them blaming themselves...]
You don't have to blame yourselves either.
Nobody could have known what would happen.
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That includes him, too, huh? He had no idea, the choice he'd have to make, how difficult it would be on them.
...Either way, she is calmer now at least. For the first time that night, it feels like she can rest. So she quietly leans her head back with a sigh, allowing herself to gradually lean on his shoulder.]
I don't know that we would've fared any better, even if we had known...really.
[Even knowing that clinging to the past would trap them in the past...on March 31st.
No. Even after she found out, she hadn't changed her mind. She wanted to go back. To save him.]
...But yeah. You're right.
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We all agreed, didn't we?
That we...would go into it, expecting that maybe we would have to die. We all knew that.
It was one of our promises.
[The other...was the graduation meeting.
And yet--]
But I can't blame any of you for forgetting it when things turned out how they did...
[1/2]
It was only him. There was no 'we,' because he was the only one who...]
[2/2]
...]
I won't forget again.
[How could she? That hurt, too. The two-or-so months when she could remember what they even did...that must have been painful for him.]
After all, we made new promises, didn't we?
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That they would be there and they would remember. He'd thought it was clear that that was so, as he had been there--but sometimes, things need to be stated, don't they?]
We did.
And I know you won't, Yukari. I've always known that you guys would never break a promise.
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...Good.
[After gazing at him for a long moment then, pulling away; realizing that she's still wet and filthy.
...She'd rather not get any of that on him.]
You must be tired now...maybe we should go home.
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And again.]
I must be tired?
[....]
Come on, Yukari-chan. Let's get you home.
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Heh.
But she smirks, nodding quietly.]
Yeah...
[Her voice is a tired sigh. She is imagining her bed, the one she's grown so accustomed to in the Volo Dorms.
...And the thought of it is so comfy, she doesn't even want to move. Ironic--
Moving would get her there faster, wouldn't it?]
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Don't mind if Minato just quietly links his arm through hers, clasping her hand and quietly leading her that way.
And a quiet, but warm tone to his voice--]
You can lean on me, you know.
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She hears those words, and she almost wants him to say them again, but contents herself with following along with him quietly on the path home.]
Yeah...I know.
[And lean she does, because her body doesn't exactly give her a choice in the matter. Then her lips curl into a small, barely noticeable smile.
...]
Hey, Minato?
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Of course he's listening. He's always listening.]
Mm?
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Still tired--said almost in a yawn, yet she still manages to make it sound almost threatening:]
I hope no one's touched my room while I was gone.
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A sigh and he shakes his head.]
Nobody has touched it.
We're not in any hurry to get rid of you.
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But she seems content with that answer, grinning slightly.]
Thanks.
[And that is that, she supposes. From one home, back to another, yet she can't find it within herself to mind. Maybe she's too tired to.
She can only hope Minato will fill her in on the things she's missed since she's been gone.]
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Of course he'll fill her in--when she has gotten some rest.
But for tonight? For tonight, he just leads her to her room and bids her goodnight.
Because Yukari is back, and that's enough for tonight.]