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[khajidont]

Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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[khajidont]

[Ugh. This is kind of a who-came-first kind of question, isn't it? It sounds like Shinji's just been kept in some sort of awful cycle.]

You don't think it would make it any easier to deal with without having Castor to worry about then? It's not like I didn't already know that Shinji's got some stuff to work through no matter what

[dormition]

[An awful cycle is how Minato thinks of it, at least.]

Until he was Ported out and came back, the time you've known him, he hasn't had Castor, right? How was he?

[khajidont]

Not great. But he's gotten a lot better

[dormition]

Do you think that's because he hasn't had Castor, though?

[khajidont]

I get this funny feeling you're trying to lead me to a specific answer dude

[It's all those answering his answers with more questions. Like he's talking a shrink.]

But no it's because he worked hard at it. Might have been easier for him without Castor might not have been. Only way to know is to straight up ask the guy

[dormition]

Sorry. I don't want to be leading. If you disagree with me, I'm interested in what you think instead. I might be wrong, but...

It might have been easier not having Castor, but I think it was having Akihiko-san and you around, supporting him, that did it. And because after his death, Shinjiro-senpai had a form of closure; he's able to face it in a way he never was in the past.

[khajidont]

It's okay. I don't disagree with you, I just don't really have an opinion on it yet

[He still has so much to learn about Personas, about how they work, and what they mean. He's comfortable to continue leeching off of Minato and Ken.]

But you're right about one thing. Having people around you who care about you is always going to make things easier. And now that he's got Castor it's not going to go away anytime soon so he may as well make peace with him

And we can help with that too

[dormition]

[Jaime really lucked out on the answers front when they showed up, that's for sure.]

Yeah. I talked to him about it. Practicing summoning will be good, so I offered, and he said he had another friend helping him, too.

But... I also think it would just be sad if a Persona-user were never comfortable with their Persona. That's probably because I'm so close to mine, though.

[khajidont]

[...annnnd that friend is him, because in the end, Jaime agrees with Minato.]

It's good you're close to yours. And while it's still around I think it would be good for Shinji to actually accept his too. But if what you're saying about it being a reflection of himself is true then that's probably going to take a while

[Sorry, Shinji.]

[dormition]

Yes, it will. I told him he'll have to be patient. But I think together we can make it happen.

By the way... did you know that he and Akihiko-san have matching Persona, from the constellation Gemini? That's cute, isn't it?

[khajidont]

Wait for real? That's like freakin destiny in motion

Never tell him I said that that sounds so cheesy

[dormition]

Well, if you think he doesn't know you're cheesy already... Okay.

But yeah, for real. At that point it does seem like fate.

[khajidont]

WOW

[khajidont]

does everyone know how much attitude you've got under there

[dormition]

Probably not.

It's a special privilege for you, Jaime-kun.

[khajidont]

That's just you being devious. Nobody's gonna believe me when I say you've been picking on me

[dormition]

That's what makes it such a good plan. My cover is immaculate.

[khajidont]

You really thought this one through. You're ready to put your supervillain plans in full motion

[dormition]

If you join me in my supervillaining, I can present it as a plot twist right at the end.

[khajidont]

Only if I get to be a separate supervillain instead of your sidekick

What's your villain name

[dormition]

Of course. You're not sidekick material.

Judgement.

[khajidont]

Oh dude that's actually a good name. I was just gonna go goofy with mine

There's a supervillain back home who calls himself condiment man though and I don't think I can beat that

[dormition]

It's my Arcana. Right now, anyway.

Wally said that you'd probably try to give career counseling to someone holding you at knife point. You could be the Counselor.

[khajidont]

Okay first of all wally doesn't know what he's talking about but second of all the Counselor sounds like a totally ominous supervillain name. Like I'm gonna go and talk people to death. I like it

But what do you mean it's your Arcana?

[dormition]

I can picture it. Ironic names are good for supervillains, too.

Well, Persona all belong to one of the Major Arcana. It usually has a connection to the user's personality. Since I switch Persona, mine changes, but at the moment I'm Judgement. [Since that's Messiah's Arcana and Minato really counts that as 'his' Persona in the same way Orpheus had been his. Not a borrowed one, but truly indicative of his personality.

There's a moment where he wasn't planning on explaining the other use of Arcana, and then he realizes Jaime already knows about Elizabeth so he might as well. He's not ready to talk about social links, but, nonplussed, he adds,] Everyone has an Arcana, even if they don't have a Persona. I can usually sense it.