maskormenacelogs | August Bonding

WHO: Tohru Adachi (with some open prompts)
WHERE: Largely Heropa this month
WHEN: Through the month of August
WHAT: The last two months were hell on wheels for Adachi, and he's determined to focus on work getting his schedule back on track.
WARNINGS: None yet.

[ Early Morning | Heropa Streets | Viktor ]
[ Though he had promised he wouldn't be running away from Viktor that... didn't end up being the case. Once the rains had abated and allowed for him to go back home and recover from his cold, the horror of what he did finally set in. He had kissed a drunk man. If said drunk man hadn't been sober enough to push him away... well, he wouldn't have gone that far, but he certainly would have done a little more than just a kiss. How he felt about Viktor was getting way out of hand, and was definitely probably the reason for 90% of his problems. ]

[ Dammit, why did he have to be engaged? Or why did he have to be so free with his affections? This wouldn't be as much of a problem if either of those weren't a thing. Though as soon as such a though occurred to him, he had to smack himself. He wouldn't want to wish Yuuri into non-existence! Nor did he want Viktor to change the kind of person he was; that was part of what made him so damn likable! Why the hell was this so complicated?! ]

[ He knew he couldn't avoid Viktor forever, but he didn't want the chance of running into the others when he did either. So, Adachi opted for meeting him at the early morning workouts he had been missing out on for various reasons over the last couple months; seriously, if he managed to get through this month without any kind of serious injury, he'd be impressed. ]

[ Adachi stood there awkwardly once he approached, not sure what to even say after over a week of avoiding him. He rubbed at the back of his neck, before sheepishly raising his hand in greeting. ]

Y-yo!

[ Nailed it. ]

[ Night | Heropa Ice Rink | Open ]
Why are you still paying for this?

[ Adachi looked up from where he was writing out a check, raising an eyebrow at the ice rink owner. He was "awake" for once, staring up at him from around his "I rather be fishing" hat. ]

Your friends aren't coming around, you know.

[ A sour look came to Adachi's face at that, and he ripped out the check, slapping it down. ]

Just take my money, and let me get my skates.

[ He was out on the ice before long, blades cutting along the surface as he started on his circles, but he wasn't really focused on it. He really didn't need the reminder that the others weren't around that much, that him trying to learn this was probably going to be for nothing. But, dammit, he wanted to do this; there was so much he wanted to say and didn't have a lot of time to say it, or the words to say it. He had to do this now. ]

[ Adachi went drifting from circles to some attempt at a program, not that it was very much of anything. There was still a lot he didn't understand, especially how things were supposed flow together. Anyone that came in would be able to see he made an attempt at trying to understand, though. A small notebook was sticking out from his dufflebag where he dropped it, with the names of moves and positions along with scribbled stick figure drawings giving an idea of what they were supposed to look like. There were a lot of notes on the margins as well, mostly consisting of, "Hands go where!??!?!" ]

[ He's trying at it! A little harder than he tries at anything else at least. ]

[ Private Communication to Persona Users ]
So uh...

I know there's like.

A lot.

That we need to talk about with each other and all that? But uh... we've all got the same power, and we're all more or less on the same side. It's probably best if we at least prepare ourselves to fight like a team if we need to.

So uh

I'm totally up for training with any one of you guys. I need to find a new place to do it now that my old one's been compromised, but we should try to get to know each other's skills better.

[ He really hoped that sounded sincere, because he was definitely trying to be. ]

[ Wild Card ]
[ When Adachi isn't busy with others, he'll be all around the porter cities working various cases for his native clients. He's up for being stopped for just about anything. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

How far above does a city have a legitimate claim to?

It was fun.

I dunno? I don't know America's policy on that.

Something tells me a vehicle wasn't involved...............

Why would I need a vehicle? There are people here who can fly.

Isn't that dangerous when they're not your powers?!

What if they quit on you mid flight?!

Goemon would probably catch us.

us???!?????!??!!

You took someone else with you??????????

It was Yuri's idea in the first place.

We did it right after using the cards, it was perfectly safe. Don't lecture me, you barely even know how it works.

[ Of course it was Yurio. Of course. ]

I'm telling Viktor.

And your training privileges are revoked. I'll go find a new training place with Akechi-kun.

[ AKA, that was probably the closest he'd come to grounding someone ever. ]

Tell him if you want, it isn't a secret.

"Privileges?"

As if I should be thankful for an opportunity to babysit you?

[ It isn't grounding if you have no power over him whatsoever!! ]

Wow rude.

I don't need a babysitter.

You're just pretending to be one remember??????????

Pretending.

Yes.

.............................

Rude.

Teasing aside, you are going on the Heaven Scent raid, is that correct?

We should work together with Futaba.

Eh? You're going too? I didn't see you on the post.

She set up my communicator to post anonymously if I choose to.

Of course she did.

[ Probably took her two seconds instead of two years. In his defense, phones still flipped up in 2012. ]

But yeah, it would be a good idea to coordinate. The heavy hitters working together is a good idea.

We try not to tell everyone about our Personas as you do.

It's only the three of us, Akira is staying behind.

Excuse me? I'm not the one that blabs about my powers. The only time I even used my Persona in public was against that fire snake.

[ Well. And the time that he lost control after his powers came back while imprisoned on that sub. He was pretty sure no one knew that was him doing that though. ]

That was a disaster, but Futaba and I still managed not to give ourselves away.

I just did what I had to. There were too many people around not to notice, but it doesn't seem to have changed much of anything for me.

[ If anything, he's seen an increase in clients. He's really going to need a new place at this rate. ]

Of course it wouldn't, all your secrets are already out.

Fair point.

Even blabbing on the network about what I did doesn't seem to have bothered the natives.

That's.

Really weird.

Not everyone feels strongly about things they are so far away from.

I guess. It's still unsettling; reminds me of things from back home, and being on the outside of it isn't that fun this time.

[ Not that it was fun last time... ]

Anyway; grab the gremlin; we should talk about this ASAP.

Your place? I don't want my housemates to worry.

[ translation: Jaime knows way too much already. ]

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