Futaba's quiet while she changes out the bandage on his arm, making sure it's not too loose, but not too tight once she starts wrapping him back up.]
I know I told you about the Phantom Thieves and going into Palaces and stuff— like dreamwalking here, but it's a little more complicated, but I won't bore you with the psyche psience stuff. But I gotta explain the Palaces part, because that's important. When enough negative emotions welled up in someone like greed or whatever, it'd create a big ol' Palace in the Metaverse— the dream thing. Most everyone we went up against before and after I was recruited were bad people, but... I was one of them too. N-not because I wanted to kill people or was greedy though!
[Just throwing that out there.]
It was before, even before I was still a shut in. Mom was a scientist, and she was doing cognitive psience. Er, in layman's terms, stuff that goes on in your subconscious, which is why it's easiest to describe it as dreams for you without getting too much into it. [She knows Beat, saying it's like dreams is like one big ELI5 for him.] Anyway, mom's research ended up getting stolen by that asshole Shido, but... if you kill someone in the Metaverse, their 'shadow' or whatever, they go crazy in the real world and end up really hurt or worse.
[She pauses as she finishes wrapping up his arm, and continues on to the tape on his ribs, peeling carefully.]
Well, they did that to my mom. She treated me well and all, I really loved her. But after they got to her... [This is probably the only thing she's still sad about, but it still makes her mad as well, so her face is a mixture of emotions.] she threw herself into traffic when she was walking with me. Her note was fabricated and I was blamed for her doing that in it, saying I was too demanding and too selfish, she couldn't deal with me. It's why I was a shut in, cause I was hearing and seeing things after that. My uncle treated me pretty badly before Sojiro took me in, but he didn't know what to do with me either. So I had a Palace too, and my mom, that sphynx monster, was the keeper.
[Once the tape was off, another fresh round starts going on.]
So she was quite literally right out of my nightmares. She yelled like that in my hallucinations and then at the top of my Palace. [She looks up to him with a complicated grin; not unhappy but not exactly excited, either.] A subconscious is weird. My Palace was a 'tomb', an old Egyptian pyramid with plenty of the same decorations, just... updated. With air conditioning. Brains are weird.
[That's the most important (not really) part, but don't ask questions about that.]
cw for suicide and trauma and all that happy jazz from p5
Futaba's quiet while she changes out the bandage on his arm, making sure it's not too loose, but not too tight once she starts wrapping him back up.]
I know I told you about the Phantom Thieves and going into Palaces and stuff— like dreamwalking here, but it's a little more complicated, but I won't bore you with the psyche psience stuff. But I gotta explain the Palaces part, because that's important. When enough negative emotions welled up in someone like greed or whatever, it'd create a big ol' Palace in the Metaverse— the dream thing. Most everyone we went up against before and after I was recruited were bad people, but... I was one of them too. N-not because I wanted to kill people or was greedy though!
[Just throwing that out there.]
It was before, even before I was still a shut in. Mom was a scientist, and she was doing cognitive psience. Er, in layman's terms, stuff that goes on in your subconscious, which is why it's easiest to describe it as dreams for you without getting too much into it. [She knows Beat, saying it's like dreams is like one big ELI5 for him.] Anyway, mom's research ended up getting stolen by that asshole Shido, but... if you kill someone in the Metaverse, their 'shadow' or whatever, they go crazy in the real world and end up really hurt or worse.
[She pauses as she finishes wrapping up his arm, and continues on to the tape on his ribs, peeling carefully.]
Well, they did that to my mom. She treated me well and all, I really loved her. But after they got to her... [This is probably the only thing she's still sad about, but it still makes her mad as well, so her face is a mixture of emotions.] she threw herself into traffic when she was walking with me. Her note was fabricated and I was blamed for her doing that in it, saying I was too demanding and too selfish, she couldn't deal with me. It's why I was a shut in, cause I was hearing and seeing things after that. My uncle treated me pretty badly before Sojiro took me in, but he didn't know what to do with me either. So I had a Palace too, and my mom, that sphynx monster, was the keeper.
[Once the tape was off, another fresh round starts going on.]
So she was quite literally right out of my nightmares. She yelled like that in my hallucinations and then at the top of my Palace. [She looks up to him with a complicated grin; not unhappy but not exactly excited, either.] A subconscious is weird. My Palace was a 'tomb', an old Egyptian pyramid with plenty of the same decorations, just... updated. With air conditioning. Brains are weird.
[That's the most important (not really) part, but don't ask questions about that.]