I... Haven't met many people. Been super busy with STEM, you know? Meeting people with specific needs, and other people who can build and stuff. And-- uh, people from alternative worlds of mine, that's also happening. I'll say hi if I see her, though.
(maybe. he has foot in mouth disease, so he might not.
but either way, he is a little surprise that she goes for his drink, he's not at all stopping her from it, but should she be drinking on the job...)
Uh, my senses are a bit crazy. Maybe... It'll take a while for me to get used to it.
[Drinking on the job isn't the problem -- her former boss was Dazai!! -- but drinking customers' drinks definitely should be...
There's so little actual alcohol that she barely tastes it, though, leaving her frowning with a little disappointment. Not because she wanted the alcohol taste, but because that means whatever's wrong with his senses means that he might not enjoy the drink she made. That's too bad.
At least she doesn't call him out on the lie, sliding the drink back to him with a shrug.] Well, if you don't like it, I can make you a new one without any. Maybe alcohol here is different from your world.
No, no, it's just-- I need to get used to it, it's all!
(please, don't make that face :( he likes it, he's just not used to it, but here, see, he's taking another sip, and his face is way better than before! it was just the first one he wasn't expecting!!)
See, all good!
And, uh. Quill. Making jet fuel, so that's been actually pretty fun. He's also got these boots, he flies around with them, they're pretty cool. Uh, an android also came around, her name is... Aigis? She wanted to check if I can fix her in case it's needed. I have plans of making easy replacements for her, so in case something does, she doesn't have to wait till we are all done with making another as good as. Making screen readers that are a bit more intuitive than the one on the phones, we got quite a few blind people. Uh, making the webs for myself and Spider-woman, too. They're synthetic, so it's fun. We gotta take things as they are, then chemically break them down into the pure elements, so we can use it, so I'm making a little lab to make everything easier.
[Well, it's nice that he's trying, at least! Luckily for him, Kotone's not the type to call him out on the obvious lie, so she'll just let him have this, even if she hums a little doubtfully. Alright, if he says so...
Jet fuel, though, huh? Sounds like it might blow up her building, so hopefully that doesn't happen. Screen readers would be really useful, she knows Toph needs that, and then webs for him and Spider-Woman -- lame codenames still, but ok! -- and of course the most important-]
I'm glad you met Aigis! You gotta take really good care of her for me, okay? She's really special.
(he wouldn't be surprised - kotone is just so friendly, so nice, that it doesn't shock that she might have met aigis here, and decided that they're friends now. considering how she got peter in a bar, her power must be acknowledged.)
I mean, yeah, of course. She said she was made to fight, and I can imagine she hasn't been programmed for living a "normal" life-- wait, did you say teammate?
[Did he expect more answer than that... sorry bud, just because he talks a mile a minute doesn't mean she has to. She tends to take whatever the opposite conversational strategy is with whomever she's speaking to.]
She went to school with us for a few months, but normal human stuff can kind of be hard for her. Don't teach her anything too weird, okay?
[Clearly a joke, because Peter seems like a good boy.]
I wouldn't teach her anything weird, what kind of weird things are you even talking about, Kotone?!
(wait, he's getting side-tracked again, he had something to ask and she skated right through it! if he doesn't pay attention to things, she's going to play him so easy...)
What did you mean by teammate? Why are you teammates with a war android, Kotone????
[Does he... she's sure Junpei could think of weird things to teach Aigis if Mitsuru and Yukari weren't around, but Peter seems too much of a good guy to do stuff like that.
Also drat, she almost got away with it! But she laughs and shakes her head, because,] Aigis isn't a war android. She's an Anti-Shadow weapon.
... And what's a Shadow, Kotone? I thought you were just a school girl! Do they have these things here, too? Because there are monsters, but I never heard of Shadows.
(shut up peter
either way, he looks both amazed and a little concerned - there's so many universes he doesn't know yet, a lot he wasn't aware of.)
... Wait, then again, did you have like a secret identity too or anything like it? You seem like you were too desensitized to my thing.
[Oh, Peter... it's funnier to pretend she's just totally normal, but if this guy is going to be helping out Aigis, he should know what he's actually working with. Eugh, can't she get Mitsuru or Minato to explain, though?! This is so much work. Peter gets the short version.]
Shadows are monsters created from the dark parts of the human subconscious. I don't think there's any here, though! At least, not yet. [And a shrug. Who knows what the future holds, after all!] Me and my team fought them. I dunno about secret identity, but it's not like we advertised what we did, either? Most people didn't have any idea we were fighting.
[She snorts a laugh, bright and loud, at the very idea. That's Akira's thing!]
Nope! [Her eyes sparkle a bit as she rests her elbows on the table, leaning in as if to share a secret.] If I told you there was a secret, hidden hour in the middle of the night, would you believe me?
[Yeah she never made that connection. Peter is too smart for her!]
Not anymore! [she reassures him, as if that's a reassurance.] But yeah, there was a hidden hour at midnight where normal time would stop and Shadows would emerge. Only people who had the potential to awaken a Persona could be awake during it. Everybody else would be transmogrified into coffins.
[She draws back and moves further down the bar for a moment, grabbing a tray of recently-washed glasses to bring back and start to dry. She is still working, after all!]
(he has never looked more confused in his life. because. time. does. not. stop. it's continuous!!! it's a forward arrow!!! this is fucking with his brain, and he can't control his face, i'm so sorry.)
... But, like, wait. Okay. I can buy time slowing down, because you know, one second on Earth is not the same around the universe, can we settle on time slowing down? Can we do that? -- Wait, coffins? Oh my God, Kotone, is everyone in your universe dead?!
[She hums and shrugs in a way that indicates that she doesn't know about that, she doesn't care about that, and it just is what it is. If it makes Peter feel better! But clocks had stopped during the Dark Hour, so she doubts it.
The second question she can answer firmly, though.]
No, they're not. They turned into coffins during the Dark Hour, and then turned back once it was over, every night. [She died so everyone else would have the chance to live, after all.] We ended the Dark Hour for good, though, so that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore!
(no, no, kotone, they were moving so slowly it looked like they were stopped, see, this makes so much more sense. illusions... or so he will tell himself for eternity.)
... Very, uh, exciting life at home, hm? I would never have thought. And now, what will you do?
[Well, that's a funny question, isn't it? She doesn't answer immediately, instead just grabbing another tray of freshly-washed glasses to start drying and putting away.]
Well, I guess I'm working in a bar in Aldrip! Oh, and I do the Cooking Club, and the Sewing Club, and sometimes I work at a little café a few streets down. I make sure the Game Parade Arcade stays stocked, too.
[If he's good at reading between the lines, there's no mention of home. Maybe for a reason?]
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(maybe. he has foot in mouth disease, so he might not.
but either way, he is a little surprise that she goes for his drink, he's not at all stopping her from it, but should she be drinking on the job...)
Uh, my senses are a bit crazy. Maybe... It'll take a while for me to get used to it.
(HIS LIE IS OUT SO FAST.)
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There's so little actual alcohol that she barely tastes it, though, leaving her frowning with a little disappointment. Not because she wanted the alcohol taste, but because that means whatever's wrong with his senses means that he might not enjoy the drink she made. That's too bad.
At least she doesn't call him out on the lie, sliding the drink back to him with a shrug.] Well, if you don't like it, I can make you a new one without any. Maybe alcohol here is different from your world.
[Take the out, buddy.]
Who else are you helping? Besides Scott.
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(please, don't make that face :( he likes it, he's just not used to it, but here, see, he's taking another sip, and his face is way better than before! it was just the first one he wasn't expecting!!)
See, all good!
And, uh. Quill. Making jet fuel, so that's been actually pretty fun. He's also got these boots, he flies around with them, they're pretty cool. Uh, an android also came around, her name is... Aigis? She wanted to check if I can fix her in case it's needed. I have plans of making easy replacements for her, so in case something does, she doesn't have to wait till we are all done with making another as good as. Making screen readers that are a bit more intuitive than the one on the phones, we got quite a few blind people. Uh, making the webs for myself and Spider-woman, too. They're synthetic, so it's fun. We gotta take things as they are, then chemically break them down into the pure elements, so we can use it, so I'm making a little lab to make everything easier.
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Jet fuel, though, huh? Sounds like it might blow up her building, so hopefully that doesn't happen. Screen readers would be really useful, she knows Toph needs that, and then webs for him and Spider-Woman -- lame codenames still, but ok! -- and of course the most important-]
I'm glad you met Aigis! You gotta take really good care of her for me, okay? She's really special.
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(he wouldn't be surprised - kotone is just so friendly, so nice, that it doesn't shock that she might have met aigis here, and decided that they're friends now. considering how she got peter in a bar, her power must be acknowledged.)
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[Sort of. Technically Aigis is Minato's teammate, not Kotone's, but that doesn't change how important Aigis is to her.]
Aigis is still learning how to be human, so help her out, okay? Not just with the technical stuff.
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(what IS this girl, guys.)
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[Did he expect more answer than that... sorry bud, just because he talks a mile a minute doesn't mean she has to. She tends to take whatever the opposite conversational strategy is with whomever she's speaking to.]
She went to school with us for a few months, but normal human stuff can kind of be hard for her. Don't teach her anything too weird, okay?
[Clearly a joke, because Peter seems like a good boy.]
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(wait, he's getting side-tracked again, he had something to ask and she skated right through it! if he doesn't pay attention to things, she's going to play him so easy...)
What did you mean by teammate? Why are you teammates with a war android, Kotone????
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[Does he... she's sure Junpei could think of weird things to teach Aigis if Mitsuru and Yukari weren't around, but Peter seems too much of a good guy to do stuff like that.
Also drat, she almost got away with it! But she laughs and shakes her head, because,] Aigis isn't a war android. She's an Anti-Shadow weapon.
[Totally different!]
We fought Shadows together.
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(shut up peter
either way, he looks both amazed and a little concerned - there's so many universes he doesn't know yet, a lot he wasn't aware of.)
... Wait, then again, did you have like a secret identity too or anything like it? You seem like you were too desensitized to my thing.
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Shadows are monsters created from the dark parts of the human subconscious. I don't think there's any here, though! At least, not yet. [And a shrug. Who knows what the future holds, after all!] Me and my team fought them. I dunno about secret identity, but it's not like we advertised what we did, either? Most people didn't have any idea we were fighting.
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... Oh. OH. Okay. Okay, yeah, ok. That kinda helps me understand. But-- how did they not know? Did you go inside people's brains?!
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Nope! [Her eyes sparkle a bit as she rests her elbows on the table, leaning in as if to share a secret.] If I told you there was a secret, hidden hour in the middle of the night, would you believe me?
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What, like, how? Like a day has 25 hours? I mean, I can believe you with all these weird worlds, but you know, that defeats a lot of math, Kotone.
(and the math never lies, so he's whispering a bit of that last part.)
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Not anymore! [she reassures him, as if that's a reassurance.] But yeah, there was a hidden hour at midnight where normal time would stop and Shadows would emerge. Only people who had the potential to awaken a Persona could be awake during it. Everybody else would be transmogrified into coffins.
[She draws back and moves further down the bar for a moment, grabbing a tray of recently-washed glasses to bring back and start to dry. She is still working, after all!]
That's when we would fight Shadows.
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... But, like, wait. Okay. I can buy time slowing down, because you know, one second on Earth is not the same around the universe, can we settle on time slowing down? Can we do that? -- Wait, coffins? Oh my God, Kotone, is everyone in your universe dead?!
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The second question she can answer firmly, though.]
No, they're not. They turned into coffins during the Dark Hour, and then turned back once it was over, every night. [She died so everyone else would have the chance to live, after all.] We ended the Dark Hour for good, though, so that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore!
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... Very, uh, exciting life at home, hm? I would never have thought. And now, what will you do?
(ahahahaha)
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[Well, that's a funny question, isn't it? She doesn't answer immediately, instead just grabbing another tray of freshly-washed glasses to start drying and putting away.]
Well, I guess I'm working in a bar in Aldrip! Oh, and I do the Cooking Club, and the Sewing Club, and sometimes I work at a little café a few streets down. I make sure the Game Parade Arcade stays stocked, too.
[If he's good at reading between the lines, there's no mention of home. Maybe for a reason?]