[This information stops Yosuke's mind immediately. For several seconds, he's silent on the other line as he digests it.
...of course. That makes sense. That makes total sense. That's why Ichigo couldn't tell this entire time! He wasn't lying at all. He just... didn't know. He couldn't know, just like the rest of the Investigation Team couldn't have known.
He has to swallow down a lump in his throat before he speaks again. No, focus - this is really important.]
...I... don't know. Like... what could that mean? He's soulless?
[he goes quiet again, thinking. Yosuke was always the ideas guy. Come up with some ideas!]
Did he say anything else about it? Any more details?
[He has to think back a bit, it's been a couple of months since he and Ichigo had this talk.]
He was quick to defend Adachi, but when I started asking him why and stuff, he didn't seem to have an answer. Like, he said stuff about Adachi being his friend and that's why he stood by him, and when I asked him about you being his friend too, and why he chose to believe Adachi and not you, he couldn't answer it.
He got upset when I gave him shit for him complaining about being left in the dark by you and Adachi about things, too. Mister 'Oh I'll be the hero all by myself' didn't like not having all the facts, which might have something to do with all of this.
...Hah. [he laughs softly.] 'I'll be the hero all by myself,' huh. Man...
[That dumbass. But even as Yosuke thinks that, he feels his heart squeeze. He's really missed the guy... and he's been worried sick about him. It's weird to hear about how Ichigo couldn't come up with an answer when faced with the holes in Adachi's story, yet still stuck by his side.
The only explanation is that Yosuke fucked up somewhere along the line where Adachi didn't. It's Yosuke's own fault...]
Mmm, well. I don't know. Maybe his Persona is protecting him? Maybe he's just that good at fooling people...?
[he mulls it over for another moment.] Or... well, this is a long shot, but back in our home world this thing possessed him, and we had to beat it. It could have something to do with that, maybe... but I think Adachi came from before that happened. I can't be sure.
Um, long story short, it's like... a condensed part of yourself? A face you show to the world when you're trying to get through the hard stuff that bothers you. Me and Souji and the others from our world, we can summon them to fight for us. My Persona protects me... and I can tell it what to do, too.
So maybe Adachi is using his own, to block Ichigo's eyes? [it's a shaky theory... wouldn't Adachi have had to learn that Ichigo could tell when people were lying before he'd know that he needed to block it? Or, hell, maybe he did but that's exactly what happened.]
Mmn, no, I don't think he has anything like that going on, unless it's in his soul instead of just in his body. I didn't feel anything like a condensed part of him when I ended up in him-
[C'mon Kon, if you're gonna lie you have to try to sound believable. Instead, this is only serving to raise enormous frantic red flags.
There is another long pause as Yosuke searches for the right words or action to take here. When he speaks again, there is a harsh bitterness in his voice.]
What? No! I'm only doing this for myself! Even if nobody else cares, I want the truth.
[...Maybe telling the truth is a good way to get to the truth.]
Okay, look: what's up with me, it's got nothing to do with Adachi. It's something from my world. And it could cause a lot of trouble if everyone finds out, so don't go blabbing about what I'm about to tell you, alright?
[The problem is, where does he start? And how much should he tell? Does Yosuke need to know the whole history of mod-souls, or just a quick summary? ]
Okay. Well.
The whole thing about body-powers? That's not a lie. I'm a body-hopper, I take over other people's bodies and control them. I don't have a human body of my own, because i'm not human.
This body? It's actually Ichigo's. For him to fight hollows, he has to leave his pysical body and fight as a soul. I take over his body and pretend to be him when he does that, so nobody notices that he's missjng.
So... you're not Ichigo's twin. You're, like... literally Ichigo. Or, your body is... right?
[whoa, that is insane. and actually really cool.]
Dude, why are you lying about that? There's weirder stuff here. Like, I heard a talking bird is working at the clinic now. A disembodied spirit or something is no big deal.
Right before I showed up, that clone-thing happened. Ichigo figured it'd be easier to say that I am his twin than to try to explain the truth. Plus, not everybody in my world is okay with mod-souls, so it protects me from them if they don't know.
So this is Ichigo's body, right? Since it's his, he can kick me out of it. He did that on accident one day, and I got knocked into the next closest body, which was Adachi's.
[That's not the full truth, he's leaving out the bit about being a piece of candy. But it's pretty much the truth. ]
...Jeez. That sounds kinda rough for you. I mean... somebody can just knock you out like that?
[he ponders.]
Wait, I don't get it. Ichigo is already here, with his own body that you're not in. So... uh, does that mean he can still kick you out of the - copied body? Or, no, did the Ichigo of the body you're in kick you out...? And what happens to Adachi while you're in his body?
Well, Ichigo is special anyway. He's got soul-powers, remember? He can knock me out of any body, I think.
[Hm....how to explain what happened to Adachi....]
Well, he kinda just hung around there. I didn't check to see if his soul chain was there, but I'm guessing it was, so he wouldn't have gotten far anyway. As soon as Ichigo shoved me out of Adachi's body, Adachi's soul went right back in.
...er, people who are alive have their souls literally chained to their body, so even if they have an out-of-body experience they can't get far away from it. Only people with special soul-powers, like Ichigo, don't have those chains.
And, well, dead people too. When you die, the chain breaks, and you can't go back in your body.
[Yosuke doesn' actually know anything about Ichigo's powers. The most he knows is that he has them, but he's never actually seen him use any kind of special power, much less heard what it does.
Still, he understands Kon's explanation of what happened with Adachi, and decides it probably doesn't really matter anyway. Focus on the issue, Yosuke.]
So... what happened, then? Obviously you got back into your Ichigo body. [that is such a weird thing to say.] But did everybody freak out? When you do that to somebody, does the other person realize they're out of their body?
Sometimes? Like, when it happened to Karin ages ago- er, Karin is Ichigo's little sister- she thought it was just a freaky dream and didn't have clear memories of it. But sometimes people remember the whole thing. Some freak out, some don't, it depends on if they've seen freaky stuff before or not.
Usually it's people with strong powers who remember, too. It's often a sign that they've either got latent powers, or they've already developed them-
[And suddenly Kon stops. Because he's just realized something very, very troubling.]
Yeah. When I say you can "summon" it, it's just what it sounds like. It's like - I don't know how to explain it - like a monster, or creature, or something like that? Except most of them look like people in costumes and not really animals...
And yeah, they can do all those things. Attack, cast magic, heal people, protect you, all of that.
[Kon's phone will suddenly get a video call request. While it's pending, a sound similar to glass shattering and wind blowing can be heard on the other line.
Once it's accepted, the video will open with Yosuke's Persona already inside the frame, towering behind him, floating a short distance from the ground.]
...This is mine. Say hi, Susano-o. [Yosuke turns the phone around and holds it up to his Persona, showing it off. The creature doesn't have much of a face to register a reaction with, but it manages to look calm somehow.]
[YEP that is the first question that comes to Kon's mind. Now how this is all possible, not anything about the logistics of Personas, just fan blades.]
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...of course. That makes sense. That makes total sense. That's why Ichigo couldn't tell this entire time! He wasn't lying at all. He just... didn't know. He couldn't know, just like the rest of the Investigation Team couldn't have known.
He has to swallow down a lump in his throat before he speaks again. No, focus - this is really important.]
...I... don't know. Like... what could that mean? He's soulless?
[he goes quiet again, thinking. Yosuke was always the ideas guy. Come up with some ideas!]
Did he say anything else about it? Any more details?
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[He has to think back a bit, it's been a couple of months since he and Ichigo had this talk.]
He was quick to defend Adachi, but when I started asking him why and stuff, he didn't seem to have an answer. Like, he said stuff about Adachi being his friend and that's why he stood by him, and when I asked him about you being his friend too, and why he chose to believe Adachi and not you, he couldn't answer it.
He got upset when I gave him shit for him complaining about being left in the dark by you and Adachi about things, too. Mister 'Oh I'll be the hero all by myself' didn't like not having all the facts, which might have something to do with all of this.
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[That dumbass. But even as Yosuke thinks that, he feels his heart squeeze. He's really missed the guy... and he's been worried sick about him. It's weird to hear about how Ichigo couldn't come up with an answer when faced with the holes in Adachi's story, yet still stuck by his side.
The only explanation is that Yosuke fucked up somewhere along the line where Adachi didn't. It's Yosuke's own fault...]
Mmm, well. I don't know. Maybe his Persona is protecting him? Maybe he's just that good at fooling people...?
[he mulls it over for another moment.] Or... well, this is a long shot, but back in our home world this thing possessed him, and we had to beat it. It could have something to do with that, maybe... but I think Adachi came from before that happened. I can't be sure.
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How about you back up a bit and explain what a persona is, first of all.
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Um, long story short, it's like... a condensed part of yourself? A face you show to the world when you're trying to get through the hard stuff that bothers you. Me and Souji and the others from our world, we can summon them to fight for us. My Persona protects me... and I can tell it what to do, too.
So maybe Adachi is using his own, to block Ichigo's eyes? [it's a shaky theory... wouldn't Adachi have had to learn that Ichigo could tell when people were lying before he'd know that he needed to block it? Or, hell, maybe he did but that's exactly what happened.]
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Er... yeah, it would be in his soul, I'm pretty sure. It's something mental, not physical...
[okay, he has to ask.] What are you talking about, "ended up in him"??
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Well.
Ichigo has soul-powers. So. I have body-powers?
[Setting up that twin dynamic in regards to superpowers aww yeah.]
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There is another long pause as Yosuke searches for the right words or action to take here. When he speaks again, there is a harsh bitterness in his voice.]
Are you doing this for Adachi?
Did he tell you to talk to me about all this?
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[...Maybe telling the truth is a good way to get to the truth.]
Okay, look: what's up with me, it's got nothing to do with Adachi. It's something from my world. And it could cause a lot of trouble if everyone finds out, so don't go blabbing about what I'm about to tell you, alright?
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[Whatever this is, let's hear it, because as it stands Kon is incredibly fishy.]
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[The problem is, where does he start? And how much should he tell? Does Yosuke need to know the whole history of mod-souls, or just a quick summary? ]
Okay. Well.
The whole thing about body-powers? That's not a lie. I'm a body-hopper, I take over other people's bodies and control them. I don't have a human body of my own, because i'm not human.
This body? It's actually Ichigo's. For him to fight hollows, he has to leave his pysical body and fight as a soul. I take over his body and pretend to be him when he does that, so nobody notices that he's missjng.
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So... you're not Ichigo's twin. You're, like... literally Ichigo. Or, your body is... right?
[whoa, that is insane. and actually really cool.]
Dude, why are you lying about that? There's weirder stuff here. Like, I heard a talking bird is working at the clinic now. A disembodied spirit or something is no big deal.
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Well, uh, continue then. You were... in Adachi's body? How does that work? What happened to Ichigo's body while you were doing that?
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[That's not the full truth, he's leaving out the bit about being a piece of candy. But it's pretty much the truth. ]
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[he ponders.]
Wait, I don't get it. Ichigo is already here, with his own body that you're not in. So... uh, does that mean he can still kick you out of the - copied body? Or, no, did the Ichigo of the body you're in kick you out...? And what happens to Adachi while you're in his body?
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[Hm....how to explain what happened to Adachi....]
Well, he kinda just hung around there. I didn't check to see if his soul chain was there, but I'm guessing it was, so he wouldn't have gotten far anyway. As soon as Ichigo shoved me out of Adachi's body, Adachi's soul went right back in.
...er, people who are alive have their souls literally chained to their body, so even if they have an out-of-body experience they can't get far away from it. Only people with special soul-powers, like Ichigo, don't have those chains.
And, well, dead people too. When you die, the chain breaks, and you can't go back in your body.
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Still, he understands Kon's explanation of what happened with Adachi, and decides it probably doesn't really matter anyway. Focus on the issue, Yosuke.]
So... what happened, then? Obviously you got back into your Ichigo body. [that is such a weird thing to say.] But did everybody freak out? When you do that to somebody, does the other person realize they're out of their body?
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Usually it's people with strong powers who remember, too. It's often a sign that they've either got latent powers, or they've already developed them-
[And suddenly Kon stops. Because he's just realized something very, very troubling.]
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... Uh, are you there? Kon?
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That persona thing you mentioned before. Is that like a power of some kind? Like, could it be used to attack, or defend, or heal, or something?
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And yeah, they can do all those things. Attack, cast magic, heal people, protect you, all of that.
Actually...
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Once it's accepted, the video will open with Yosuke's Persona already inside the frame, towering behind him, floating a short distance from the ground.]
...This is mine. Say hi, Susano-o. [Yosuke turns the phone around and holds it up to his Persona, showing it off. The creature doesn't have much of a face to register a reaction with, but it manages to look calm somehow.]
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Why does it have fan blades for a face?
[YEP that is the first question that comes to Kon's mind. Now how this is all possible, not anything about the logistics of Personas, just fan blades.]
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