[ Hanamura-san. The name strikes him almost as much as the day Rise abruptly switched over to Arisato-san.
It aches in a deep place that his friends and - this person, still important to him even in spite of everything that's happened - may never be on a casual basis. Too much has gone wrong. Yosuke and Rise probably won't ever forgive Minato, and Yu thinks that's his fault. For slipping, for being so obviously upset about everything.
These thoughts flash through his mind as Minato asks him a question. Yu simply nods, shoving down all that ache and buzzing as he answers. ]
Yeah. All my teammates faced their Shadows. The true self... [ His voice trails off into a murmur. ] Their Shadows were them. Just the parts of themselves they couldn't accept. Repressed feelings or desires...
[ Yu grips one hand with the other, pressing his thumb into the center of his other palm. ]
Once a Shadow has been subdued, it's up to the person it belongs to to accept it. Then the Shadow transforms into a Persona. The facade used to overcome life's hardships...
[ He knows Minato will understand that much, and his eyes are far away as he recites the familiar words. ]
... like you can probably guess, I never faced my own Shadow. I had the power to enter TV's, and my Persona, from the very beginning.
[ W- Wow... that's crazy! I was trying to imagine what my shadow would be like just now, but now I don't want to, if it could kill me. And I don't think you should want to, either.
Don't worry. It's not that I want to meet my Shadow. It's more that I wonder what form it would take, and what kinds of things it would say. But it's not something I dwell on.
Yu lets his gaze fall. That had turned out to not quite be true, in the end... ]
I'm ... I'm sorry, [ he mumbles, his thumb shifting down to press on the inside of his wrist and the hand he was gripping curling into a fist. ] That you had to run into mine. It didn't say anything that wasn't true, but it was cruel, and that wasn't all I feel.
[ He meets Minato's eyes again. He can't deny the things his Shadow said, no... but the real him, all of him, would never want to be that cruel or that harsh, and the Shadow, of course, didn't have any of the neutral or even positive things he still feels. ]
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It aches in a deep place that his friends and - this person, still important to him even in spite of everything that's happened - may never be on a casual basis. Too much has gone wrong. Yosuke and Rise probably won't ever forgive Minato, and Yu thinks that's his fault. For slipping, for being so obviously upset about everything.
These thoughts flash through his mind as Minato asks him a question. Yu simply nods, shoving down all that ache and buzzing as he answers. ]
Yeah. All my teammates faced their Shadows. The true self... [ His voice trails off into a murmur. ] Their Shadows were them. Just the parts of themselves they couldn't accept. Repressed feelings or desires...
[ Yu grips one hand with the other, pressing his thumb into the center of his other palm. ]
Once a Shadow has been subdued, it's up to the person it belongs to to accept it. Then the Shadow transforms into a Persona. The facade used to overcome life's hardships...
[ He knows Minato will understand that much, and his eyes are far away as he recites the familiar words. ]
... like you can probably guess, I never faced my own Shadow. I had the power to enter TV's, and my Persona, from the very beginning.
[ W- Wow... that's crazy! I was trying to imagine what my shadow would be like just now, but now I don't want to, if it could kill me. And I don't think you should want to, either.
Don't worry. It's not that I want to meet my Shadow. It's more that I wonder what form it would take, and what kinds of things it would say. But it's not something I dwell on.
Yu lets his gaze fall. That had turned out to not quite be true, in the end... ]
I'm ... I'm sorry, [ he mumbles, his thumb shifting down to press on the inside of his wrist and the hand he was gripping curling into a fist. ] That you had to run into mine. It didn't say anything that wasn't true, but it was cruel, and that wasn't all I feel.
[ He meets Minato's eyes again. He can't deny the things his Shadow said, no... but the real him, all of him, would never want to be that cruel or that harsh, and the Shadow, of course, didn't have any of the neutral or even positive things he still feels. ]