AU week - P3!Yusuke

[dwellsinthedetails]

Yusuke barely breaks his stride upon realising he's entered Milliways instead of his dorm room. Very well; he can set to gathering his thoughts here just as easily, and he'll still have plenty of time to make certain he's ready for tonight's mission.

He'd spent a very fulfilling afternoon out with Akira, taking in a marathon of art films at the Port Island movie theater, but this evening has rather put a damper on the mood so far. Ryuji wouldn't stop talking about some girl he met at the station, which for some reason meant pestering Yusuke all through dinner for 'tips on talking about art'; the deep scowl on Makoto's face, and the fact that she excused herself as soon as she was done eating, suggested she had yet another in what seems to be an ongoing series of arguments with her sister about rejoining their team. Haru said that her father plans to drop by the dorm tomorrow with some kind of news - whether it's about the pair of other Persona users who locked them in a bunker at the beginning of the month, or a new recruit, or something else entirely, she didn't know. Both fall term and the next full moon (and with it, another great battle) are approaching far faster than anyone would like.

And to top it all off, apparently a few more civilians have wandered into Tartarus, and Akira would prefer to fish them out as soon as possible. How this keeps happening when Gekkoukan touts its security as a school campus, they have yet to figure out, but it's rather tiresome. Yusuke had been hoping to wrap up his summer homework this evening.

Perhaps, now that he's happened upon Milliways, he'll have the chance when he goes home. For now, though, he settles into his usual seat near the observation window, drawing a patchwork of the view in front of him and a highly improbable tower soaring into the sky.

Comments

[childofrebellion]

(OOC: Cassian's a second year engineering student.)

Cassian's always curious when he sees anyone drawing in Milliways. He's learning how to draft and sketch but its not his best skill. The tower catches his eye as he looks for a table and he asks. "Is that a real place?"

[dwellsinthedetails]

It's a moment before Yusuke pulls himself out of his work enough to respond.

"Yes and no. It's the site of an... anomaly my friends and I are dealing with at home."

[childofrebellion]

"Anomaly sounds ominous. Is it doing anything?" Towers can be used in many ways.

[dwellsinthedetails]

"Other than sprouting out of our high school every night, being full of monsters, and periodically kidnapping people, do you mean?"

[childofrebellion]

That sounds like something out of a horror movie to Cassian his eyes go wider. "Any way to fight it?"

[dwellsinthedetails]

"That's what we're working on. Our best bet so far seems to be fighting the monsters, ad trying to find the top of the thing."

And maybe then, they'll find some answers.

[childofrebellion]

"What's its construction like and what's underneath it? I'm studying to be a civil engineer." Cassian says as he pulls up a seat.

[dwellsinthedetails]

"It's a supernatural phenomenon. Other than the lobby, it doesn't even have the same layout from night to night." And yes, they've all wondered at one time or another how the damn thing stays up when the stairwells aren't even consistent from floor to floor.

[childofrebellion]

"You've tested it?" It seems like he has but Cassian likes to check.

[dwellsinthedetails]

"On multiple occasions."

[childofrebellion]

"How aren't you dead?" Though he might be dead, this is Milliways.

[dwellsinthedetails]

"Largely by not being inside when the tower takes shape. Evidently the one time that was attempted went... poorly - not to the point of fatalities, but badly enough that it was agreed upon not to try it again."

[childofrebellion]

"Its on a schedule?"

[dwellsinthedetails]

Yusuke shrugs. "Of a sort. It's tied to a recurring anomaly that takes place at midnight each night."

(Don't ask how the school never shows any signs of structural damage afterward.)

[childofrebellion]

"I guess being reliable is useful."

[dwellsinthedetails]

"Something like that. We'd prefer it not happen at all, but it does at least keep to a regular schedule."

Give or take the fact that the Dark Hour can't possibly be a strict 60 minutes. They'd spend most of that time reaching the sites of some of the full moon operations, and be left with no time to deal with the Shadows once they got there.

[childofrebellion]

"Do you know what started it?" He knows they're obvious questions but he doesn't know and sometimes talking something through helps.

[dwellsinthedetails]

"An experiment that ended poorly. None of us are clear on the details of what the experiment was trying to achieve."

Only that it ended in disaster, with Futaba's mother caught in the crossfire.

[childofrebellion]

"Which makes it harder to understand what happened. It sounds awful."

[dwellsinthedetails]

"It's certainly unpleasant, yes."

[childofrebellion]

"Who else is fighting it?"

[dwellsinthedetails]

Yusuke frowns a bit. "I'm not certain that anyone other than myself and my friends have the ability."

Other than the two who locked them in that bunker, anyway, but they're more interested in the Dark Hour continuing.

[childofrebellion]

"Damn, that's intense."

[dwellsinthedetails]

"It is, a bit, but we've managed quite well so far."

[childofrebellion]

"That's good. Bad things are a little better when you're not dealing with it alone."

He considers the papers in his hands, disasters, no matter of what alter lives.