( how to be a hero )
“Wait. Yosuke.”
“Yes?” He looks slightly nervous. He usually does around you, but that amount is new, probably having to do with your tone.
“Do you—” argh, how do you even finish this question— “like our mysterious transfer student?”
Yosuke likes to bounce a little on the balls of his feet when he’s nervous. He’s doing that now. “Um.”
You’re happy he’s moved on, but a little sad too. It wouldn’t be fair to him if he was still hung up on you, but at least you don’t completely miss him acting like a precious little puppy around you (he still does, evidently, considering he probably didn’t realize his feelings midconversation here) and he hasn’t kicked you out of his life.
“If he turns out to be the murderer or otherwise breaks your heart, I’ll ask Chie to galactic punt him into the sun. They’ll never find the body,” you tell him, and he blushes scarlet.
“Thanks,” he mumbles, trying to melt into the floor, and you laugh and pat his head. He ducks and grumbles but he’s grinning.
( just after Yukiko's spot on the Midnight Channel )
( >The strength of heart required to face oneself has been made manifest... )
It gets confusing quick, keeping track of all the Personas. He’s got the most, because he has less Arcana he just can’t equip and because he’s got a bigger pool he can carry around in his psyche at one time, for whatever reason. Still, useful as it is, he doesn’t want to waste too much time in the Velvet Room, staring at the weird magic-real world equivalent to menu screen.
It’s on him to pay attention to all this analysis stuff—powers, weaknesses, and the like. Sure, Teddie can help, and he puffs up, being able to confirm and help his Sensei get ready for a dungeon, but still…there’s a lot going on, memorizing isn’t his strong suit, and he needs a system.
So he builds a ‘playlist’. He associates every Shadow, every Persona, with a song, and pretty soon he doesn’t need to even glance at the Compendium or what his party members currently have equipped to know what’s there. He just…knows.
It has an effect on how he switches Personas, too—Chie does a fancy twirl to switch between hers, and he’d started with swapping between cards, but that hadn’t felt right. Hadn’t felt like him. Now he scrolls like he’d scroll through a playlist on his mp3 player, and that feels right.
( yosuke's gotten used to the weird, at least )
( to be fair there's a lot on his mind )
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