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The Future Foundation Induction Meme

Through some happenstance or another, you've ended up coming into contact with the Future Foundation. Was it by accident? Through a friend in their employment? Or maybe they came to you for help? The particulars don't really matter now. The important part is that you've either volunteered you're services to them or been volunteered in turn and now you're here for your first day as an agent. Well, a trainee agent. After all, today's your orientation and initiation day. How exciting!

Take the chance to wander around and settle into this huge base of operations and get to know your fellow agents. Maybe they're newbies like you or maybe you'll run into one of the permanent staff members.

Either way you'd better settle in good and proper because you're going to be here for a while. No one said beating Despair on a multiversal scale was going to be easy, after all.


1. Post a toplevel with anyone you like! This is basically just a big mingle for whoever wants to join so you don't have to have been part of DRRP proper at any point.
2. Tag around and cause shenanigans
3. uh i guess i didn't really need more than two points for this did i
4. JUST HAVE FUN OK

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Sho Minazuki | Persona 4

[sundayshotime]

So I hear you guys like genocidal gingers. Well sadly this one is pretty second rate compared to the oldbies. Suggested by one Tohru Adachi for 'deserving a second chance' but also 'being an absolute shithead', Sho isn't exactly easy to get along with.

Usually he can be found in the Training Area taking on all comers. But during any kind of Team Building exercises he's hard to find. The word 'sheeple' is often heard unironicly. But he can generally be found just about anywhere, especially if you don't want him there.

Oddly, for all his bitching he's fairly devoted to the cause. Wonder why...]

training area

[mopocalypse]

[Haruka's got a face guard -- don't need a repeat of the rose whip incident -- but she's racking up combos on the punching bag. She dodges its swing back and waves wildly.]

New guy! Is whatever you're doing fun?

[sundayshotime]

[Sho in the meantime was going to town on a wooden dummy with a boken. Seems he wasn't allowed any sharps just yet]

Tch, would be if they gave me a real weapon...

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[mopocalypse]

Don't worry, don't worry! It's fun with the training weapons anyway. And you get hurt less! [She flips up the face guard and briefly touches the scar under her eye, then grins.] Buuuuuuuut, you probably just want to look "cool," right?

[sundayshotime]

Heh, a guy like me doesn't need to TRY to look "cool". You could even say I'm an-

-ice-pert.

[mopocalypse]

[giggle fit]

That's terrible! No way, no way! But have you ever done a fun fight where you're not trying to hurt anybody? I do that all the time.

[sundayshotime]

[He's so proud of those small giggles. Damn right he's funny af. But the question makes him pause]

Hell yeah I've had LETS of fun fights... but hurting someone is the point of a fight. You don't make any sense.

[mopocalypse]

No, the point of a fight is to win! That's why at my school, we set up classroom battles. Have you ever subdued someone with a clothespin before? Or suffered a humiliating loss to a roll of TP?

[sundayshotime]

... I mean, I could probably kill someone with toilet paper. If I was on a roll.

[....Sho no]

[mopocalypse]

I... actually don't know what to say to that. Which is weird, because you'd think I'd know, like, ten different things to say to that? The world is super mysterious.

[sundayshotime]

That means I win.

[mopocalypse]

We were competing over who could confuse the other more? Why didn't anyone tell me? I could've told, like, ten of Dave-kun's stories! But only the parts I remember, which would make them make even less sense!

[sundayshotime]

Were we? Hell if I remember. But whatever we were doing I already won so just get over it.

[psywaves]

[It's a strange experience, fighting - practicing against - a human directly. Mewtwo's never unleashed the full power of its psychokinesis on Sho, not the vicious tornado or the barrier ball or the energy blasts that can punch holes in concrete. But the strange (very strange) human manages to be fun to fight, if Mewtwo limits itself to nothing more than its spoon and its physical agility. Future Foundation business is just that, and as satisfying as it is to level buildings in the name of fighting evil, it lacks the personal thrill of a one-on-one battle.

It's nice that Mewtwo doesn't have to use his telepathy. Few of the humans here understand how to deal with a Pokemon, and many of them expect it to speak to them and become confused when it refuses - it's managed to use that ability with only two humans since coming here, one out of true respect and one out of nothing but necessity. But Sho is almost like a Pokemon, in that he loves combat, and can be goaded into it with barely more than eye contact. Their demeanors are different, but they both have aggressive hearts, and Mewtwo feels as though communication could pass between them through battle alone, sating its restlessness without demanding it bare its thoughts to someone else. It'd be nice if he were more like a Pokemon, or even just more like a trainer, but...

...it'll do. Mewtwo is bored, and Sho is the best fight around when it wants it to be vicious. Walking into the open floor of the training center and materializing the spoon is enough indication of what it's here for. It stares at him across the room, tail lashing - show it what you've got.]

[sundayshotime]

[Sho's killing instincts are well honed, and Mewtwo is right- he's almost more like a pokemon then a normal human. Trained for battle and almost more instinctual then anything else. So when the pokemon appears and arms itself he knows he's there at once. Sho turns, a sharp grin on his face and his twin swords already out.

He kinda wants to fight Mewtwo full on one day- he's convinced that Tsukyomi would make up the difference of the pokemon's powers. Seeing the level of destruction it can cause only makes him MORE eager, even though if he had any common sense he'd know there was no chance he could ever win.

But this is fine for now. With a snicker he charges, swords up and crossed- since he's sure the pokemon will come at him attacking]

[psywaves]

[Steel makes a funny high-pitched noise when it strikes solid psychic energy. Mewtwo could raise the winds, flick the human aside - but where's the fun in that? It leans into the battle, teeth bared, weapon locked against Sho's blades.

Eye contact is almost a respectful gesture, in this. It's a sign the battle's being taken seriously, allowed to take up Mewtwo's whole focus - or most of it.

The spoon's shape distorts after a few seconds of evenly-matched struggling, stretching out and arcing around to jab at Sho from the side. (It's not cheating if the opponent wants to be challenged.)]

[sundayshotime]

[Sho had his teeth bared as well, blue eyes fever bright. Merging with Minazuki had eased some of hi manic nature, but Sho was still Sho- this was what he lived for.

When Mewtwo's weapon shifts he breaks off from the clash with one of his swords to catch it- but holding Mewtwo off on two fronts is impossible, it's too strong. So he breaks away fully, jumping back and giving his weapons a spin]

Here kittykitty~

[Come at me bro]

[psywaves]

[Come at him, Mewtwo does.

Now it's an agility game - the Pokemon's anatomy is just feline enough to allow fluid leaps, and flips that Mewtwo follows through with the weight of its tail, and he jabs and slashes as he goes, ducking around Sho and hunting for an opening. There's no tricks with the spoon this time; just strikes and blocks that come quicker and fiercer the longer they go.]

[sundayshotime]

[And Sho matches it blow for blow- he was trained on robots built to battle Shadows. Things that could fly and move in unnatural ways. He doesn't spare time to think about what he's doing, he just REACTS- his style is 100% overwelming force. Hitting over and over to try and wear his foe down. But Mewtwo isn't human, so instead of rushing over it he's just matched. His every attack is blocked and countered.

Sho IS human though, he will wear down first if there's no break. You wouldn't guess by looking at him though, with how he's laughing like a kid in a candy store]

[psywaves]

[Mewtwo can sense Sho wearing down, after a point. His counters get less ambitious, and the force behind his strikes - which is never restrained - starts to drop, so slightly that Mewtwo might never notice if he weren't wired for battle and a Psychic-type on top of that.

"Letting" Sho win, or even keep matching it, by dialing back its ability doesn't even cross Mewtwo's mind. Instead, to keep the game going, it ends one clash by flipping back, crouching, and looking Sho in the eye - then it darts back, as though trying to flee, turning the dynamic of battle so Sho is on the offensive.

Catch it if you can!]

[sundayshotime]

[If it was Minazuki he would have been suspicious of the pokemon 'flee'ing. But while Sho inherited some of his restraint he CERTAINLY got none of his common sense.

So of course he gives chase.]

Hey, get back here! Don't make me have to think up a pussy joke!!

[psywaves]

[ ~yay~

But once Sho starts attacking, Mewtwo can start blocking, doing just as Sho had been seconds earlier. And it'll keep going, prolonging the game, until Sho either puts a scratch on it or gives up.

Not an easy feat, but neither is it an impossible one. There's a lot of Mewtwo to hit, and without flying out of reach, raising a Barrier, or changing the shape of its spoon, jumping around can only get it so far.]

[sundayshotime]

[Sho has no common sense, but he can be smart when it comes to his sphere of training. So he keeps up the pressure- and one moment when Mewtwo lands from a jump he stops using what he relies on most, his swords, and drops into a sweeping spin kick.

Mewtwo is heavy, but it's legs look like they might be a weak point. Especially since Sho knows it usually hovers]

[psywaves]

[Good call. Mewtwo had been about to jump again, weight leaned into what would have been a psychic-boosted leap - the kick sweeps one foot from beneath the Pokemon and it's forced to drop and roll back to its feet, wasting precious seconds on the recovery.]

[sundayshotime]

[And Sho takes advantage, jumping at him, swords raised to strike]

Gotcha!

[And leaving himself hella open doing it- but hey, defense was never his strong point]