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[On the instant of your death, you're suddenly outside of your body - probably staring down at the remains it's become.

Yet, you're not alone. For all of you (except Szayel), a young man appears from behind you, his face set into a firm, yet sad, scowl. His shaggy strawberry blonde hair is pretty eye-catching, along with the black and white Shihakusho he wears and the large sword on his back, even as he gently tries to lead you back into the lobby and away from what was once your body. You can still clearly hear and see the living, if you want to try - but they can't see or hear you.

'Welcome to the world of the dead in this Resort,' he says, quietly. 'Looks like you're stuck here with the rest of us.'

He hands you a tablet, just like the one you had before. "You'll need this if you want to keep talking to them,' he explains, looking sad.

It looks like you've passed on, and yet...You still feel like you have a role to play in all of this.]

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[justonezero]

[He pretty much writes his way all around his arm to the elbow when he pauses.]

...4982338... huh?

[...Shoot. He totally lost track of what he was doing here.]

[messianic]

Hm...?

[...???]

What are you up to, Nanase-kun?

[justonezero]

[Caught!]

I was trying to practice calculating everyone's weaknesses, but yours is really complicated.

[He couldn't even get to trying to process it in the first place.]

[messianic]

Oh... because of my Personas.

[This apparently doesn't surprise him. He just comes on over to chill next to Yoshi.]

I think if I probably focused and made sure just to have one Persona at the ready, it'd be a bit easier on you.

[He will do so, calling Messiah to the forefront of his mind--so now his weakness is dark magic.]

Can you get it now?

[justonezero]

Let me try!

[His eyes flick over the numbers Minato can't see, and he once again mimes writing the numbers along his arm. It takes a bit, but eventually the hand motions stop.]

...Dark magic?

[messianic]

Yes, that's right.

[GOOD JOB YOSHI.]

My weaknesses and strengths change based off of which Persona I'm using at the time, so that's probably why it was so confusing.

[justonezero]

[He did it!!]

So the Personas have their own weaknesses?

[Huh!]

There were a lot of different numbers, so I couldn't figure out which ones to calculate.

[messianic]

That's right. Without them, I'm just a normal human being.

[So they each give him their strengths and weaknesses.]

Messiah's light-aligned, which is why it's weak to dark. [also: because jesus]

[justonezero]

Ohhhhh.

[A beat.]

So what are Personas, anyway?

[He still has no fucking clue.]

[messianic]

You could call them... a mask to face hardship with.

[PSYCHOLOGY.]

... Or just aspects of my personality given form that I can use to fight with.

[justonezero]

So if it were me, it would be a disaster!

[Ahaha...]

How many aspects of your personality are there?

[messianic]

[Opens mouth

closes mouth

Like 170]

... I have twelve right now.

[justonezero]

...

"Right now?"

[messianic]

...Yes.

I can swap them out, when I can access the right place to do it... but I can't do that here.

So I'm stuck with the twelve I've got.

[justonezero]

But I thought they were your personality?

[Was Minato secretly everything all along. How does this work. What the fuck is Persona really.]

[messianic]

[Minato had the multiple personality disorder all along.]

Oh--yeah. Well. Everyone generally only has one Persona, but... I'm a Wild Card, so I can use a bunch of different ones. I'm not sure if they really reflect my personality so much as the human subconscious sometimes...

[Minato, just stop.]

It's a long story to try to explain why, so I guess let's just leave it at that.

Akira's the same way, though.

[justonezero]

So basically, you're the absurdly well-balanced protagonist.

[messianic]

[MMMM.]

... It feels weird to call myself the protagonist...

[justonezero]

It just means you can power through things and fill in all the niches your friends don't specialize in though, right?

[He's

literally just talking about JRPGs, he has not played Persona specifically.]

[messianic]

Hm, I guess so... That's usually the role I played with my team, too.

[Literally every single niche possible.]

So I'm ready to do that here too.

[justonezero]

That's pretty much the protagonist's job! You won't find a more balanced member of the team!

If Akira can do that too, we're going to have a really powerful group going in.

[It's starting to look like they might really be able to pull this off...]

[messianic]

[They can definitely pull this off.]

We have a wide range of abilities here... we're definitely going to be fine. I think it'd be a mistake for the immune system to underestimate any of us here.

[justonezero]

I think I'd prefer it underestimated us, actually! It can underestimate away!

[PLEASE BE GENTLE, WHITE BLOOD CELLS.]

[messianic]

[Oh my god.

That gets an amused snort out of him.]

Yeah, you're right about that. I won't argue it, don't worry. If we can be underestimated...

Well. We're all going to get out of this alive. It's fine.

[justonezero]

Yeah... I'll do everything I can.

[He has a reason to live now. But he has to be able to get back first - and with everyone at that.]