She has a Persona, her mother's a cogpsi researcher, and she's already curious about all of it and stumbled into Mementos by accident. What should I do, forbid her from going so she ignores me and goes out and does it on her own and gets hurt?
Lock her in her room?
Maybe I've already fucked up and I should've just left her wandering the streets of Yongen-Jaya alone?
I'm not trying to mock you here, I'm genuinely at a loss for what the fuck I'm supposed to do in this situation, so my best guess so far is 'let her do it in an environment where she'll have a dozen people to watch her back'
If either of her parents were here I'd be more than happy to let them handle this, but so far we haven't had that good fortune.
You're not wrong on any of those accounts. I don't disagree, necessarily, but I don't like it.
Humans are... squishy. Children even more so. I can't help but wonder why Igor- or whoever it is that makes this shit happen, keeps choosing teenagers for this, and throwing in little kids for fun I guess.
I was made for this. Most people were, decidedly, not.
[There's a pause between his texts, but soon, another one pops up.]
I'll be joining the Tartarus explorations from now on, Palace guard duty permitting. I don't believe I need the training as much as the others, but an extra pair of eyes can't hurt.
I don't fucking know. I know of several older people with Personas, but it seems much more common in younger people.
The most charitable explanation I can think of is that the majority of adults are too set in their ways and unwilling to change, whereas teenagers are by and large nothing but change. We're still barely figuring our shit out.
...
I just realized it's June and I can't actually call myself that anymore. Dunno how to feel about that.
I'd say the Kirjo Group creating me and my siblings was an attempt to go against that grain, but we both know that's not true. I loathe it.
I'd say most of the population, teenagers included, don't care about change so much as they care about keeping their heads up their asses. People don't want change. They want the world to cater to them. I guess the few exceptions to that become Persona users.
...
God, time is fucked here. It should be Christmas day, according to my internal calender. It clearly isn't, but it is jarring.
Yeah, I feel that. I've just stopped trying to keep track at this point, time's a construct of human perception anyway. It's June 2016 here, something in 2018 probably in Tokyo, March 2024 back home, and whothefuckknows in the other fucking place like this I've been. I choose not having a fucking aneurysm.
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Date: 2024-06-18 07:44 pm (UTC)From:Lock her in her room?
Maybe I've already fucked up and I should've just left her wandering the streets of Yongen-Jaya alone?
I'm not trying to mock you here, I'm genuinely at a loss for what the fuck I'm supposed to do in this situation, so my best guess so far is 'let her do it in an environment where she'll have a dozen people to watch her back'
If either of her parents were here I'd be more than happy to let them handle this, but so far we haven't had that good fortune.
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Date: 2024-06-18 07:57 pm (UTC)From:Humans are... squishy. Children even more so. I can't help but wonder why Igor- or whoever it is that makes this shit happen, keeps choosing teenagers for this, and throwing in little kids for fun I guess.
I was made for this. Most people were, decidedly, not.
[There's a pause between his texts, but soon, another one pops up.]
I'll be joining the Tartarus explorations from now on, Palace guard duty permitting. I don't believe I need the training as much as the others, but an extra pair of eyes can't hurt.
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Date: 2024-06-24 05:21 pm (UTC)From:The most charitable explanation I can think of is that the majority of adults are too set in their ways and unwilling to change, whereas teenagers are by and large nothing but change. We're still barely figuring our shit out.
...
I just realized it's June and I can't actually call myself that anymore. Dunno how to feel about that.
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Date: 2024-06-24 06:52 pm (UTC)From:I'd say most of the population, teenagers included, don't care about change so much as they care about keeping their heads up their asses. People don't want change. They want the world to cater to them. I guess the few exceptions to that become Persona users.
...
God, time is fucked here. It should be Christmas day, according to my internal calender. It clearly isn't, but it is jarring.
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Date: 2024-06-24 06:56 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2024-06-24 07:37 pm (UTC)From:I could probably calculate it but also: no. I'll just assume you're old compared to myself and the other versions of us.
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Date: 2024-06-24 08:02 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2024-06-24 08:14 pm (UTC)From:and if they didnt we beat em with a sock full of rocks til they learned to keep their mouth shut
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Date: 2024-06-24 08:20 pm (UTC)From: