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[gorobo]

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[pancakeboy]

[Sigh. Perhaps he should have expected a literal response.]

It was more of a rhetorical question.

I feel a little like throwing up myself, after how matters transpired.

[gorobo]

[He's a little embarrassed he didn't catch that. Damn.]

Ah.

I'd describe the feeling more like my battery corroding. Or perhaps my wires getting caught in something.

[pancakeboy]

Yes. That's exactly how it feels. Like something inside me grinding to a halt.

I wish I'd known we were doing this to assist Frog's love life. I could have stayed home.

[He wouldn't have stayed home.]

[gorobo]

Hah. Isn't that just the truth?

They certainly weren't shy about it. A happy end for all. How cliché.

[He wouldn't have, either.]

[pancakeboy]

Happy, yes.

[What does that even mean? What can he even do about the way his own Ren is fading, slowly, like his mother?]

I suppose I don't necessarily begrudge them it. Perhaps living with Crow has inured me.

[gorobo]

Clearly it has.

[He's... he doesn't know. It made all his circuits spark with something at the way they just were so...

... well, nevermind.]

It just pisses me off, I suppose. I don't care for either of them at best, so I don't care to see it, either.

[pancakeboy]

Yes. Truth be told, Frog's entire deal gets up my nose more than a little. He's Amamiya, but with far more luck, and none of the charm. Or the dress sense.

And as for Drake.

[And as for Drake... what? Magpie can't deny the things he saw in there.]

Well, I still don't like him. Even if I understand him a little better.

[gorobo]

I couldn't agree more. Drake's situation clearly pushed him, but that doesn't mean I think he's any less of an asshole.

[His Amamiya wouldn't- fuck. It doesn't matter. Once he's out of here, he's not going to bother with him anymore. There's no point.]

The longer I'm here, the more suffocating I find this prison to be. Seeing those who are luckier shoved in my face certainly doesn't help.

[pancakeboy]

You must have plans for when you return.

[As for him? He has libraries of them. Some days he thinks all he ever does now is catalogue his plans, all far beyond reach.]

[gorobo]

Oh, I certainly know what to do when I get back. There is only one logical course of action left to me, honestly, and no amount of preaching about bonds is going to change that.

It's pointless to keep me here, yet they insist.

[He's sure he doesn't need to spell it out for Magpie. Despite the other's... complicated feelings for Shido that Falcon has a hard time understanding, there could be no other course of action.

Shido and his conspiracy must die, and if Falcon has to go down to make it happen, so be it.]

I'm sure you have your own plans, when you get back.

[pancakeboy]

You would think. If, by the time I get back, I haven't lost my edge.

[It's one of the things that haunts him. What if, when he next sees Ren, he's so different that their fight is stillborn?

Not that Ren isn't already on to him. He learned that much at Hallowe'en. Perhaps he'll just seem like less of a moron.]

As for Shido... I support you in whatever you need to do, for what that's worth. But I'm in a position where taking him on alone is no longer feasible.

[gorobo]

[...]

I've seen what you can do. Even without the Palace, that one time in Mementos was... illuminating, to say the least.

[In an almost aggravating way. Despite it all, Magpie seems to have an edge over him in the Persona department. It's not like Falcon isn't proud of his ally for being so powerful, but there's an itch inside him that wants the world to know he's better. The best of all. Not just a machine. Not just a thing.]

Since you're one of the few tolerable people here, I've decided to put my faith in you. Regardless of what you must do, I'd like to think you're capable of it.

[pancakeboy]

[He'd like to think so too. Maybe after the Palace, he really will take back his Evoker and tear down Shido's office and the Diet building around it. Die screaming in the rubble.

Except there's Raven. And Hawk, who already stands to lose so much. Crow doesn't need him, but the kids are another matter....]

We'll see, won't we? If what future-Amamiya told me holds up, it should be enough.

[It may not be clear which future-Amamiya he means.]