The Ache of Distance
Dec. 15th, 2022 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madimpossibledreamerYou can thank Crystaahhl for these. I didn't know she was streaming P2 and am now marathoning VODs. I then looked at my Tatsuya tag and went 'wow, for my fave Persona protag he sure doesn't have enough, and I've got a ton on his Jojo's double. This needs to be fixed.
In this AU, the Shadow Operatives were created by Tatsuya and Katsuya, the latter of whom who used his police connections to create the group, and who obtained funding from Yukino’s friends, particularly the Nanjo Group. Katsuya and Maya got married, and he mainly focused on the administrative work, while Maya still chases out stories with her photographer, which sometimes lead to encountering demons and Shadows. She’s not purposefully looking for a fight.
I’m taking vague inspiration from Eyes of Heaven for this because Jotaro and Kakyoin are obviously Tatsuya and Jun. Tatsuya managed to rewrite reality in such a way that everyone could retain their (general) memories without the world unravelling, but he alone carries the burden of the final confrontation and the failed worlds and as such is dealing with a lot of PTSD (and has about as much guilt and emotional processing as Jotaro). So he’s isolated himself and it can’t last. It's still really angsty, but not as much as canon. As much as P2 will forever be my favorite Persona game...possibly SMT game. I dunno. I really like the Raidou aesthetic, too.
Jun is making a living as an artist/ikebana arranger (kadōka), and also teaches classes. (I think he ended up choosing that so it’d be easy to leave for Tatsuya, if he ever asked. He has more control of his schedule this way.)
This also is a bit of a prologue. And for the elephant in the room, yeah, I do plan on finishing The Joker Game eventually. I started it while I was still really into Doctor Who, though, and then Moffat went and killed most of my enthusiasm. I still want to watch, for example, the rest of Thirteen. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I also might have forgotten some of where I was going with it. It's still staying on hiatus for now, most likely, unless this all inspires me there, too.
This does retain the same Tatsu-chan nickname.
~Dreamer~
In this AU, the Shadow Operatives were created by Tatsuya and Katsuya, the latter of whom who used his police connections to create the group, and who obtained funding from Yukino’s friends, particularly the Nanjo Group. Katsuya and Maya got married, and he mainly focused on the administrative work, while Maya still chases out stories with her photographer, which sometimes lead to encountering demons and Shadows. She’s not purposefully looking for a fight.
I’m taking vague inspiration from Eyes of Heaven for this because Jotaro and Kakyoin are obviously Tatsuya and Jun. Tatsuya managed to rewrite reality in such a way that everyone could retain their (general) memories without the world unravelling, but he alone carries the burden of the final confrontation and the failed worlds and as such is dealing with a lot of PTSD (and has about as much guilt and emotional processing as Jotaro). So he’s isolated himself and it can’t last. It's still really angsty, but not as much as canon. As much as P2 will forever be my favorite Persona game...possibly SMT game. I dunno. I really like the Raidou aesthetic, too.
Jun is making a living as an artist/ikebana arranger (kadōka), and also teaches classes. (I think he ended up choosing that so it’d be easy to leave for Tatsuya, if he ever asked. He has more control of his schedule this way.)
This also is a bit of a prologue. And for the elephant in the room, yeah, I do plan on finishing The Joker Game eventually. I started it while I was still really into Doctor Who, though, and then Moffat went and killed most of my enthusiasm. I still want to watch, for example, the rest of Thirteen. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I also might have forgotten some of where I was going with it. It's still staying on hiatus for now, most likely, unless this all inspires me there, too.
This does retain the same Tatsu-chan nickname.
~Dreamer~
Main Points:
Persona 2/eventual Persona 4 crossover
Chapter Summary: Tatsuya has isolated himself and his friends are sick of it because they don't understand.
Word Count: 310
Rating: gen
Pairing: Eventual Jun/Tatsuya (again)
Tatsu, Jun thinks with a secret grin, doesn’t change. Hearing from him is as unpredictable as always, and he falls asleep mid-sentence as soon as they get into the car. The jet lag is almost certainly plaguing him, but knowing the man as he does, falling asleep anywhere at any time is a certainty he probably should have counted on when picking him up from the airport.
He’s as quiet and closed off as he’d been, too, trying to prompt Jun to talk instead. He’d clearly enjoyed listening about flower arrangements even if he wasn’t following a word, loneliness clear in the way he was just enjoying Jun’s company quietly, even if he had no idea what to do with it.
Really, his falling asleep was a relief. Not that the kadōka didn’t enjoy being around his friend, but he’d forgotten and grown unused to how intense the man could be. Kashihara thought he had adequately prepared for his friend’s visit, but he had been mistaken in that regard, how those intelligent eyes had looked him over and silently queried about the sleepless bruising under his eyes or how he had seemingly found no difficulty in trusting Jun enough to easily fall asleep in his presence (an honor, no matter how much Eikichi groused) despite that for nearly a decade now he hasn’t seen fit to confide his deepest troubles and sorrows in anyone.
Jun growls, but eases his grip on the steering wheel, forcing his Persona back within. If it comes to blows, he’s settling this with his fists, but one way or another this comes to end tonight. He is getting some kind of answers even if he has to beat them out of Tatsuya—or kiss them out of him, as while he’s still just as infuriating, if anything he’s grown even more handsome over the years.
