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"And leave you without a persona here? Nah." One more kiss, then he lowers the helmet over his boyfriend's head again. You could probably make some sort of metaphor about letting people close with that. "Besides. I think the whole helmet deal is pretty cool, actually. Is the entire thing your mask, or just the top half?"

"Just the top part." He grabs the front of it and tears it off for emphasis, albeit without calling for a Persona. "Seems it attaches and detaches fairly easily."

He looks down at the rest of this ridiculous outfit. "Honestly, this whole getup seems so cumbersome. Certainly impractical."

"Yeah..." Ren can't deny it's the most restraining outfit he's seen. "Almost like you're being restrained by it, more than it freeing you."

Hmm...a hand goes to one of the belts, and Ren's smile crooks up into a smirk. "Or maybe it frees you in a different way, hmm?"

"I wouldn't exactly call belts liberating." Though Goro stares at Ren's hand, and damn it, that smirk. He's way too good at this.

Goro needs to up his flirting game.

"You'd have quite a time getting me out of this."

"It doesn't look so impenetrable to me," Ren chuckles. With a shhing, his dagger materializes in his off hand.

"My... already eager to tear it apart, are we?" He sets a hand on his hip, shaking his head. "I suppose I'll need to address the other elephant in the room..."

Loki, that is. God, that's a whole other can of worms.

"Oh, yeah. Loki." Ren steps back a bit, giving his boyfriend room to summon. "Can't wait to meet him."

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"Right here, right now?" No Shadows in sight to occupy him. Just the top level? Hmm... "I could. I just want to be sure."

"Yeah," Ren reaches out, rubbing Goro's non-spiky arm in comfort. "You can show me everything. I'll love you, still. I promise."

"All right." Okay. Fine. This is fine. Perfectly fine. He trusts Ren, obviously. Ren wouldn't lie. It's just...

So many painful memories. Rage burning, bubbling with in him. Anguished screams of murderous intent. His friends, his family seeing him, and...

He reaches for his mask again, trying to steady his breathing, trying to keep a cool head.

It's okay. It's gonna be okay. He just needs to rip off the bandage. Get it over with.

And so he rips the mask off. "Persona!"

There's a flash of red. A howl of laughter. The often overlooked Persona descends, striped and grinning with razor sharp teeth and slivers of gold eyes and braids swishing, and those sure are gold hooves, and that sure is a huge sword.

Oh.

Ooooh.

Ren whistles.

So this is Loki.

The mask is gone, and there's laughter from an eyeless grin. And delicious bloodlust radiating from them both. The braids and golden hooves and razor-sharp teeth and...ooh.

Ren can't help himself -- he's looking Crow and Loki both up and down, very respectfully, eyes going to some very interesting places while his brain reboots. "Hey there, handsome," he says, to both Loki and his boyfriend, very intelligently. "Come here often?"

Wait. Is Ren... flirting with Loki? What?

Goro stares, trying to process this while the Persona behind him once again howls with laughter. That already toothy grin only grows.

This one's much too afraid to unchain himself... One of Loki's hands rests on Goro's shoulder. He tries so hard to be a good little boy. A pristine prince, a righteous hero, but you've seen what it's done to him...

Suddenly, this is all rather uncomfortable. Goro tries to pull himself free, but Loki does not let go.

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Ren can only grin. "You're telling me," he says to Loki, walking up to his boyfriend with a little sway in his hips. "We'll just have to change that, won't we?" Ren's left hand goes to Goro's free shoulder, ring glinting in the light. "His chains are safe with me."

Loki snickers at the prospect. He's had too much safety. Chains are meant to be broken. He tries much too hard to be Mr. Perfect, even when there's nothing to prove...

Goro grumbles at his Persona, because having it all laid out like that in front of Ren is embarrassing. Very, very embarrassing.

"He's having too much fun with this."

Ren takes his grumpy boyfriend's cheeks between his hands. "Loki has a point," he says, squishing his puffed-out cheeks and putting a kiss on his forehead. "You've kept yourself caged for too long. I'm here to take off your chains and coax you out of the safe little hole you've kept yourself in. No matter what you show me. I'll be here. I promised."

Oh dear. More snickers. Someone saying he has a point! Oh, Loki is going to savor this moment, tipping his chin up like a kid who just got a gold star in school.

Goro at least relaxes at his boyfriend's touch. "Of course. I suppose the question is... what now?" They're in Mementos. He's shown the outfit and his often repressed Persona... but what comes after?

"What now?" Ren mimics him. He shares a glance with Loki. "Well...it's showtime."

Hup, up goes the boyfriend for Ren to carry him...and if he takes a moment to feel Goro's ass, well, that's between them. "It's about time you showed me what you're capable of when you don't hold yourself back." Time to head deeper into Mementos to find some Shadows to wreck!

Well, okay. This might as well be happening. Ren might as well be carrying him bridal style while he wears this tight, belt-coated, spiky mess of an outfit. "I suppose it is."

Loki, however, keeps cackling. Just as loyal as Sigyn. You care not what 'poison' has burned his very being.

Yes. This seems like a good start, so Loki takes a bow and then vanishes for now. The pointy mask returns to Goro.

"No poison strong enough to keep me away," Ren chirps to the air, kicking in the turnstiles to Mementos proper. Patpat. "Wanna tell me when we're close to some Shadows?"

"How deep would you like to go? The uppermost floors are always full of such low-level Shadows..." But perhaps that's all they need. If they're just here to blow off steam, the specifics may not matter.

"Just a level or two. Don't wanna risk the angry Sparrow down here, right? Besides..." he slows down with an oof. Boyfriend heavy... "I'm probably out of practice."

"You don't have to carry me the entire way, you know." Goro sees that straining, Ren. He knows. "If it's easier for you, we can continue on foot."

Ren is already on foot, but still!

"Well...if you're gonna be a prince, it's only right that I carry you like one, right?" It's a challenge. C'mon, be a little feral for your boyfriend. "I can make it -- we're almost there already."

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"Oh, all right. But I do expect to fight on my own two feet..." Well, while he's being carried, he might as well try and navigate. Beneath his helmet Goro's eyes narrow, and... "I'm sensing incoming Shadow activity, but they're all weaklings. Easy prey for us."

"You'll have to show me just how easy," Ren smirks, using a free hand to rip off his mask. "Persona!" Arsene comes to life.

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