MoM IC Contact

[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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[dormition]

I don't need it so much anymore, but it used to help me a lot. It's a nice shortcut.

Would you like to know what yours is?

[khajidont]

[...WHAT IF IT'S SOMETHING UNFLATTERING.]

Sure. Can you tell me what it means too though? I think you'll be better at explaining it than if I just googled it

[dormition]

[It's the most uncomplicated, positive card in the desk, Jaime.]

The Sun. Success, positivity, confidence, and enlightenment. One of the most straight-forward cards, the Sun indicates a return to the basic nature of joy without elaborate scheming to bring it about. When under a lot of pressure, you might reverse and become depressed and withdrawn.

[khajidont]

[...oh.]

Are they all this nice? I mean that all sounds really nice

[He's not self aware enough to trust that it's all true, but yeah, it's pretty on the nose.]

But thank you

[HE FEELS LIKE HE GOT A COMPLIMENT]

[dormition]

The Sun is the most positive card in the deck. [Never let it be said Minato doesn't say exactly what he's thinking.]

The rest aren't this nice but it's rare for any of them to be outright bad. People aren't, so tarot wouldn't be. You're welcome, but it's not anything I did. It's just you.

[khajidont]

Maybe I'll have to read up on it. Do you usually tell people what tarot they are?

[dormition]

You're the first person.

[khajidont]

Why? Cause it's weird for people back home or what?

[dormition]

They don't know about the Velvet Room. The things with Elizabeth, I mean. It would be awkward to explain.

[But he'd told Jaime. Which means something, although Minato isn't self-analytical enough to understand it.]

[khajidont]

I can see why. But you've told them a little about it now right? Now that she's here I mean?

[dormition]

I said she has the Persona Compendium and that she would give me requests.

[khajidont]

And nobody had any more questions after that?

What am I saying. Of course they didn't have any other questions.

[dormition]

I can't remember if I told anyone that aside from Akihiko-senpai, and that was when Shinjiro-senpai was missing... He was distracted.

[Minato's stellar communication failures involve not only content, but timing.]

[khajidont]

Geez no wonder! You probably could have picked a better time to talk about it

[dormition]

It wasn't intentional. Shinjiro-san knows she has the Compendium, too. But I think that's it. There isn't any point in complicating things.

[khajidont]

Not unless they actually want to know I guess. Now that they know about one thing if they actually want to know more they can ask

[...but unlike Jaime, they don't chase after every little thing like a dog with a bone.]

[dormition]

If they realize there's something to ask about... It's easier if they don't know.

[khajidont]

For you or for them?

[dormition]

I don't think my fate would be easier for them to accept if they understood it better. It might be harder.

[khajidont]

You're probably not wrong.

It's up to you but since I've been here I've kept a lot of secrets that people say is for everyone else's own good. Maybe they're right some of the time since we can't do much about a lot of them but they're wrong some of the time too. From what I've seen people mostly want to know the truth even if it's hard.

[dormition]

If someone asks you, you don't have to lie for me. If they want to know... I'll tell them.

But I'd rather they were as happy as they could be for as long as possible.

[khajidont]

I don't think they'd ask me in the first place.

[He deliberates over what he wants to say before he sends his next text message. Honesty is the best policy. Akihiko would definitely want to know, he thinks, and so would Ken.

But in some ways, Minato has to be able to be selfish too.]

And I won't tell them on my own or anything. If this is something you'd rather keep secret for a little while longer I don't mind.

[dormition]

[Minato is definitely being selfish. If there was ever a situation that necessitated him having to tell his friends, he would do it without hesitation, this such a minor sacrifice compared to everything else he's given up.

But he still is reluctant to give up every piece of himself if he doesn't have to.]

Thanks. In the beginning I just wasn't used to talking about anything. By the end, I guess I didn't want to go back to being the strange one again.

[khajidont]

Yeah. I can get that.

But at least here you don't have to be the strange one. You can just be Minato.

[Everyone here's nuts. Minato is just another in a long line, and just happens to be one of the oddballs that Jaime's inordinately fond of.]

[dormition]

It's true, I'm not even noteworthy.

I like it.