Track 08 - I'll Be There

[princeofjunes]

[PHONE - AFTERNOON - Filtered to: Persona casts (all), Ruri, Shana, SHIKI, Gilgamesh, Lancer, anyone I forgot that he has a moderate amount of CR with]

Hey guys, it's Yosuke. I just thought I'd check in, see how everyone's doing. I know it's been sort of rough lately, so...

[PARK - EVENING - OPEN]

[He's been coming here a lot lately. It really

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phone

[kickassncrafts]

I'm fine I guess.

[Not really all that fine, he checks Naoto's drone regularly. BUT NO ONE HAS TO KNOW.]

[princeofjunes]

You sure?

I've been a little worried about you, man. I haven't seen you much.

[kickassncrafts]

I've been around, maybe we just missed each other.

[princeofjunes]

Yeah, maybe.

You know I'm a dad now, right?

[kickassncrafts]

[Way to say that in the worst way possible.]

You're what?

W-we ain't been here that long I-I-I mean--

[princeofjunes]

[It was intentional, Kanji. You just fell into Yosuke's trap.]

Yeah, the town made me the dad in some house. On my birthday.

A month ago.

Seriously, what have you been up to? Something's not right.

[kickassncrafts]

You can't just say somethin' like that and--

Your birthday was a month ago?

[princeofjunes]

Yeah, I just said that.

Come on, man. You're starting to worry me. What's got you so preoccupied?

[kickassncrafts]

Nothin', really. It's just... You know.

[Yeah, that makes sense, right.]

[princeofjunes]

[No, it does not make sense. But Yosuke has a pretty good idea, so he takes a stab in the dark that is not one at all.]

... Naoto?

[kickassncrafts]

[SILENCE. Obvious Kanji is obvious.]

[princeofjunes]

... I know how you feel, man.

[And then he's silent for a few moments. He's never been great at this stuff - not like Souji is. What does he even say? He can't just leave Kanji hanging, he's a friend.]

Look, a friend of mine told me some stuff about droning. You want to hear it?

[kickassncrafts]

[A bit uncertainly:] What about it?

[princeofjunes]

Well, it's a theory. So it might not be true, and I can't really explain it right.

But she said that she's pretty sure these bodies are all just copies of us that they somehow forced our brains into. So when people are droned, it might just be their mind escaping back to the real world. Our world.

It might just be that she's free now.

[kickassncrafts]

...Someone put our brains in clone bodies?

[princeofjunes]

Don't ask me why, man. And it's not like I asked to see her evidence, but I guess she has at least some proof that it might be true.

And not actual brains, just. Our minds, or whatever.