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Character Name: Ryoji Mochizuki
Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Entry Point: FemC’s canon; At midnight on December 3rd after leaving the SEES’s dorm
Canon Resource Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Persona_3#Ryoji_Mochizuki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei:_Persona_3
Character Background:
On November 9, 2009, Ryoji Mochizuki transfers into Gekkoukan High School. Ryoji immediately befriends Junpei Iori, a member of SEES and one of the main character’s best friends, and is introduced to MC herself later that day. Immediately upon meeting her, Ryoji is struck by an odd feeling, a mix of nostalgia and familiarity that leaves him momentarily dazed. After recovering, Ryoji recaptures his usual charm and social ease and forms a bond with the MC, establishing himself as her Fortune social link.
Over the next month, Ryoji begins to ask Minako out on every available occasion, and the two spend time together during their school trip to Kyoto. Eventually. Ryoji confesses both his interest in the MC and his confusion over said interest. There is something more to their connection, he realizes, than simple attraction, but, at a loss over its origin, he contents himself with pointing out how similar their lives are and how many experiences they seem to share.
On December 2nd, the significance of their familiarity becomes clear. Aigis, a robot whose purpose in life is to destroy shadows, finds Ryoji awake during the Dark Hour. She remembers what he had forgotten, and reminds Ryoji of truths he would have rather not recalled.
Ryoji is Death, the thirteenth arcana. Ten years ago, a large number of shadows were collected in a laboratory, and upon their unification, Ryoji came into existence. He was not meant to exist, and before long, his body began to lose pieces, leaving him frail and incomplete. Aigis found him in his weakened state and attempted to destroy him while there was still time, but even without the full force of his powers, he was more than a match for the robot. Desperate and failing, Aigis sought a way to contain Death, to keep him docile and controlled even after she had ceased to operate. Aigis found her solution in the form of a small girl standing nearby. The girl, who would eventually grow up to be the MC, was a suitable vessel, and, due to Death’s weakened state, Aigis was able to lock the shadow away within her.
However, Death’s missing pieces remained free, and, ten years later, these large shadows began to reawaken due to the MC’s, and thus Death’s, presence. During the full moons, these shadows appeared, and SEES fought them off one by one in hopes of destroying them. However, in reality, they had been leading Death to all of his missing pieces, and Ryoji helped to guide them along this path by appearing to the MC as a small child named Pharos. Upon recovering his lost parts, Death gained the power to free himself from his vessel.
Despite his newfound freedom, Death stuck by the MC. He forgot what he was and what he would become, and instead pretended to be human.
Aigis’s attack on December 2nd is unsuccessful. Ryoji easily buffers her off, but, afterwards, he stays by her side and waits for the rest of SEES to appear. He then tells them the truth about himself and the role he must play.
The unification of shadows brought about the existence of a creature called the Appriser. The Appriser exists to bring about the rebirth of the great maternal being, Nyx, the goddess of the night and mother to death, sleep, and all shadows. Nyx is immortal and undefeatable, and she will fall upon the world, bringing darkness to all and extinguishing the will to live from all beneath her.
The members of SEES seek a way to prevent this from happening, but Ryoji explains how impossible that would be. The solution, he decides, would come in the form of surrender. The Fall of Nyx cannot be stopped, but Ryoji describes a method by which the world would end, not in pain and panic, but in peace. Were he, Death, to die, everyone’s memories of the Dark Hour would vanish, and they would live out the rest of their days in ignorance.
The only problem is, Death usually cannot die. However, if the MC were to shoot him, it just might be possible.
Abilities/Special Powers:
While Ryoji is not an active combatant in the Dark Hour and does not possess a Persona of his own, he is by no means powerless. Being the personification of Death has it perks, and those come in multiple forms. Ryoji has large quantities of reserve power, and he can raise these in waves to act as barriers or projectile weapons. Additionally, Ryoji can assume multiple forms, primarily Death’s shadow form, which wields a long-sword, and a form similar to the Persona, Thanatos, which exercises control of Mudo and Hama skills, allowing him to act as both an exorcist and a demon in turn.
First Person Example:
I grit my teeth, my trembling hand knocking against the door handle, and if, at any point, I had doubted that I had a heart, I’m learning otherwise, because it’s crumbling to dust in my chest, and it…it hurts.
“I will disappear with the coming of Nyx anyways,” I say, because there’s not much left to discuss, “so don’t worry about me. I’ll be back on New Year’s Eve.”
And that’s it, I suppose. I’ll give them time to…to think, and to decide and to understand. They have to understand. I mean, yeah, it’s scary, scary enough that I feel like I’m choking and my mouth’s slick like I want to throw up, which is weird, because I’ve never choked before, and I’ve certainly never gotten nauseous, but I figure that, by association, I’ve learned what it would be like, and it’s something like this.
Scary as it is, though, they will see in time, and then they’ll understand, and they’ll act, and it will be over.
Simple.
Painless even.
Until then, though, I’ve got to disappear. They have to stop seeing me as a person and realize that…that I’m their enemy, I guess, or that I just want what’s best for them, or…
Well, maybe it would be best if I didn’t factor into their decision at all.
I’ve got to get out of here before I ruin their carpet or rip the handle off of this goddamn door.
Leaving their lives starts with getting out of this dorm, though, so I close my eyes, and will myself to be elsewhere. Anywhere else. Time, space…it’s all pretty inconsequential after a certain point, and I’m definitely past that point…
The door’s just I door, I suppose, but I let it be something else. I’ll come back to this dorm when it’s time, when they’re ready to do what needs to be done, but until then…
Anywhere else.
It’s light outside, which isn’t a surprise, I suppose, but the green is nice, peaceful even. It’ll be nice, I think, being away from people for a while. I…I really like people. They’re…well…but part of me thinks it’s not worth the effort keeping up appearances at this point. Alone is best.
A shout rises on the air.
A sigh, one a long time coming, scratches its way out of my throat. Well…that works too, I suppose.
Third Person Example:
Trying to sneak a peak at the girls in the hot spring had been dumb. Ryoji acknowledged that now and even huffed a soft, depreciating laugh against one of his pillows. He’d known the women in his particular friend group were…well, strong willed was one way to put it…‘fiery warrior babes’ was another…but, knowing and seeing were two entirely different things. And, yes, there had been cold, brutal condemnation in Mitsuru’s bright, red eyes, and snarling fury in Yukari’s browns, but…
…but Ryoji hadn’t noticed, really. He must have registered their reactions subconsciously, because he was able to recall their upset now in retrospect, but at the time, all of his attention had narrowed in on one thing.
Despite everything, a small smile wormed its way onto his face as his cheeks warmed at the memory. She’d been…amazing, all chestnut hair, pale skin and bright, bright eyes.
And disappointment. The flush on his cheeks cooled.
What if she didn’t want to see him again? What if the buzz in his skin that he saw mirrored in her eyes stopped short and became one-sided, because she had thought him better than that and no longer wanted anything to do with him?
Ryoji was not sure he could take that. It already hurt, being separated from her. Here, with only walls and wood between them, it was okay, but back home, in the middle of the night, he felt her absence like a lost limb, and to feel that at school…to feel that emotionally…
…to be cut out of her mind and out of her life…
Ryoji ducked his head into a pillow, eyes shut against the soft fabric. He felt cold, despite the blankets, and he burrowed down deeper, wrapping himself in the dark. He would apologize tomorrow. He’d make her understand that he had only had eyes for her.
As Ryoji began to drift off, he grinned softly. Boy, had he only had eyes for her. She had no idea.
Email: gingerandrust@gmail.com
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Character Name: Ryoji Mochizuki
Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Entry Point: FemC’s canon; At midnight on December 3rd after leaving the SEES’s dorm
Canon Resource Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Persona_3#Ryoji_Mochizuki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei:_Persona_3
Character Background:
On November 9, 2009, Ryoji Mochizuki transfers into Gekkoukan High School. Ryoji immediately befriends Junpei Iori, a member of SEES and one of the main character’s best friends, and is introduced to MC herself later that day. Immediately upon meeting her, Ryoji is struck by an odd feeling, a mix of nostalgia and familiarity that leaves him momentarily dazed. After recovering, Ryoji recaptures his usual charm and social ease and forms a bond with the MC, establishing himself as her Fortune social link.
Over the next month, Ryoji begins to ask Minako out on every available occasion, and the two spend time together during their school trip to Kyoto. Eventually. Ryoji confesses both his interest in the MC and his confusion over said interest. There is something more to their connection, he realizes, than simple attraction, but, at a loss over its origin, he contents himself with pointing out how similar their lives are and how many experiences they seem to share.
On December 2nd, the significance of their familiarity becomes clear. Aigis, a robot whose purpose in life is to destroy shadows, finds Ryoji awake during the Dark Hour. She remembers what he had forgotten, and reminds Ryoji of truths he would have rather not recalled.
Ryoji is Death, the thirteenth arcana. Ten years ago, a large number of shadows were collected in a laboratory, and upon their unification, Ryoji came into existence. He was not meant to exist, and before long, his body began to lose pieces, leaving him frail and incomplete. Aigis found him in his weakened state and attempted to destroy him while there was still time, but even without the full force of his powers, he was more than a match for the robot. Desperate and failing, Aigis sought a way to contain Death, to keep him docile and controlled even after she had ceased to operate. Aigis found her solution in the form of a small girl standing nearby. The girl, who would eventually grow up to be the MC, was a suitable vessel, and, due to Death’s weakened state, Aigis was able to lock the shadow away within her.
However, Death’s missing pieces remained free, and, ten years later, these large shadows began to reawaken due to the MC’s, and thus Death’s, presence. During the full moons, these shadows appeared, and SEES fought them off one by one in hopes of destroying them. However, in reality, they had been leading Death to all of his missing pieces, and Ryoji helped to guide them along this path by appearing to the MC as a small child named Pharos. Upon recovering his lost parts, Death gained the power to free himself from his vessel.
Despite his newfound freedom, Death stuck by the MC. He forgot what he was and what he would become, and instead pretended to be human.
Aigis’s attack on December 2nd is unsuccessful. Ryoji easily buffers her off, but, afterwards, he stays by her side and waits for the rest of SEES to appear. He then tells them the truth about himself and the role he must play.
The unification of shadows brought about the existence of a creature called the Appriser. The Appriser exists to bring about the rebirth of the great maternal being, Nyx, the goddess of the night and mother to death, sleep, and all shadows. Nyx is immortal and undefeatable, and she will fall upon the world, bringing darkness to all and extinguishing the will to live from all beneath her.
The members of SEES seek a way to prevent this from happening, but Ryoji explains how impossible that would be. The solution, he decides, would come in the form of surrender. The Fall of Nyx cannot be stopped, but Ryoji describes a method by which the world would end, not in pain and panic, but in peace. Were he, Death, to die, everyone’s memories of the Dark Hour would vanish, and they would live out the rest of their days in ignorance.
The only problem is, Death usually cannot die. However, if the MC were to shoot him, it just might be possible.
Abilities/Special Powers:
While Ryoji is not an active combatant in the Dark Hour and does not possess a Persona of his own, he is by no means powerless. Being the personification of Death has it perks, and those come in multiple forms. Ryoji has large quantities of reserve power, and he can raise these in waves to act as barriers or projectile weapons. Additionally, Ryoji can assume multiple forms, primarily Death’s shadow form, which wields a long-sword, and a form similar to the Persona, Thanatos, which exercises control of Mudo and Hama skills, allowing him to act as both an exorcist and a demon in turn.
First Person Example:
I grit my teeth, my trembling hand knocking against the door handle, and if, at any point, I had doubted that I had a heart, I’m learning otherwise, because it’s crumbling to dust in my chest, and it…it hurts.
“I will disappear with the coming of Nyx anyways,” I say, because there’s not much left to discuss, “so don’t worry about me. I’ll be back on New Year’s Eve.”
And that’s it, I suppose. I’ll give them time to…to think, and to decide and to understand. They have to understand. I mean, yeah, it’s scary, scary enough that I feel like I’m choking and my mouth’s slick like I want to throw up, which is weird, because I’ve never choked before, and I’ve certainly never gotten nauseous, but I figure that, by association, I’ve learned what it would be like, and it’s something like this.
Scary as it is, though, they will see in time, and then they’ll understand, and they’ll act, and it will be over.
Simple.
Painless even.
Until then, though, I’ve got to disappear. They have to stop seeing me as a person and realize that…that I’m their enemy, I guess, or that I just want what’s best for them, or…
Well, maybe it would be best if I didn’t factor into their decision at all.
I’ve got to get out of here before I ruin their carpet or rip the handle off of this goddamn door.
Leaving their lives starts with getting out of this dorm, though, so I close my eyes, and will myself to be elsewhere. Anywhere else. Time, space…it’s all pretty inconsequential after a certain point, and I’m definitely past that point…
The door’s just I door, I suppose, but I let it be something else. I’ll come back to this dorm when it’s time, when they’re ready to do what needs to be done, but until then…
Anywhere else.
It’s light outside, which isn’t a surprise, I suppose, but the green is nice, peaceful even. It’ll be nice, I think, being away from people for a while. I…I really like people. They’re…well…but part of me thinks it’s not worth the effort keeping up appearances at this point. Alone is best.
A shout rises on the air.
A sigh, one a long time coming, scratches its way out of my throat. Well…that works too, I suppose.
Third Person Example:
Trying to sneak a peak at the girls in the hot spring had been dumb. Ryoji acknowledged that now and even huffed a soft, depreciating laugh against one of his pillows. He’d known the women in his particular friend group were…well, strong willed was one way to put it…‘fiery warrior babes’ was another…but, knowing and seeing were two entirely different things. And, yes, there had been cold, brutal condemnation in Mitsuru’s bright, red eyes, and snarling fury in Yukari’s browns, but…
…but Ryoji hadn’t noticed, really. He must have registered their reactions subconsciously, because he was able to recall their upset now in retrospect, but at the time, all of his attention had narrowed in on one thing.
Despite everything, a small smile wormed its way onto his face as his cheeks warmed at the memory. She’d been…amazing, all chestnut hair, pale skin and bright, bright eyes.
And disappointment. The flush on his cheeks cooled.
What if she didn’t want to see him again? What if the buzz in his skin that he saw mirrored in her eyes stopped short and became one-sided, because she had thought him better than that and no longer wanted anything to do with him?
Ryoji was not sure he could take that. It already hurt, being separated from her. Here, with only walls and wood between them, it was okay, but back home, in the middle of the night, he felt her absence like a lost limb, and to feel that at school…to feel that emotionally…
…to be cut out of her mind and out of her life…
Ryoji ducked his head into a pillow, eyes shut against the soft fabric. He felt cold, despite the blankets, and he burrowed down deeper, wrapping himself in the dark. He would apologize tomorrow. He’d make her understand that he had only had eyes for her.
As Ryoji began to drift off, he grinned softly. Boy, had he only had eyes for her. She had no idea.