[ic] a silence more eloquent

[lakebrat]

All right, the jerk of the train that apparently conveys him from one place to the next was no more welcome the second time. That's going to take some getting used to.

As is the fact that Yongen looks clean. Like someone polished the alleys and the bricks, or nudged them ever-so-slightly out of focus. Goro's not entirely paying attention, though. What the hell is he going to do about Ren?

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[lakebrat]

"You're our navigator." He gestures slightly above his head with one hand. "Above the battle, pulling in all the information in your UFO."

It's not that he doesn't like the idea of Futaba on the front lines. She certainly has the right, if she wants to. It's just that it's always more comfortable to have her protected far up, or at the back. "Does that sound familiar, or are you more frontline yourself?"

[cybermask]

Ah yes, that persona she was familiar with, especially after recent events. "Front lines myself. It's only me and Goro afterall." She kept far away from the theives. She didn't work well on teams and she swore them off after that disaster.

"I've got the ufo too, but I've also got Merlin which I use for most attacks."

[lakebrat]

"Merlin, the wizard? Really?" His face blossoms into life, connecting despite himself, as he's rather prone to do. "I'll be sorry now if you tell me it's a bird."

Only him and her, though? Seeking revenge on Shido alone? Without even Sojiro? More alarm bells are ringing.

[cybermask]

"Yep!" He seemed to be enjoying finding out about her personas. That was something she liked to entertain.

"I guess he's got bird like qualities, but he is mostly based on the wizard."

[lakebrat]

"I suppose that gives us something in common. My Persona is Lancelot—well, the first one, I mean. The knight of the Round Table." Who betrayed his master, and died a sad death alone in disgrace, but let's not examine that too closely. His mouth twists a bit knowingly as he tells on himself.

"You've got the power of the wild card too, hm?" When nobody else on his team does; it's only him, and, it seems, Ren. Is that significant? Are more such people brought here? Or is it something else?

[cybermask]

Oh? That was interesting! Lancelot, she'd need to see him in action. A good ol' two people team up.

"Yeah, didn't know I could do anything with it until I came here." She shrugged. "I had the blue door but it was locked when I went to it most of the time. The hypothesis I have with the wildcard trait is that it means whatever events happen around you, typically you are caught in the center of it. Those here that don't have that trait don't seem to have a large major, for lack of better words, plot."

[lakebrat]

"They're not the protagonist, you mean?" Different worlds, yes, but he hazards it anyway—his own Futaba would relate.

[cybermask]

"Yeah, exactly!" she smiles. "I need to do more testing but, the wildcard tends to be able to have a bit of space to have their own team and it seemed whatever happens, happens around them. If it's the phantom thieves, or SEES. The metaverse or Tartarus or the Tv dungeon situation."

[lakebrat]

"Huh. Which ones are SEES, again? A predecessor of the Phantom Thieves, I take it."

He saw them mentioned on the board, but not in any useful detail.

[[ooc: and then they went to investigate Leblanc and its attic, and BMTaba saw Goro's attic and saw him have a minor happysad over a mysterious pot of sunflowers, ooooooh.]]