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[IC inbox for Ren Amamiya (unfoggedlotus) in personavelvetroomdr. Open to texting and phone calls and assorted silly meme and macros that may or may not amuse him.]

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[fogbornphantom]

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

[unfoggedlotus]

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

[fogbornphantom]

"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.

[unfoggedlotus]

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?"

[fogbornphantom]

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.

[unfoggedlotus]

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."

[fogbornphantom]

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."

[unfoggedlotus]

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."

[fogbornphantom]

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?

[unfoggedlotus]

"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!

[fogbornphantom]

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.

[unfoggedlotus]

"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?"

[fogbornphantom]

"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.

[unfoggedlotus]

"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."

[fogbornphantom]

"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!

[unfoggedlotus]

"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."

[fogbornphantom]

"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."

[unfoggedlotus]

"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.

[fogbornphantom]

Just in time, it seems. As they draw close, the nearby Shadows immediately flee. It's a stampede of Slimes, Obariyons, Kodama, and Sudama high tailing it down the tunnel.

Still in his boyfriend's arms, Goro rips off his mask and screams for, "Loki!"

Loki descends with a ruthless laugh, smothering the weaklings with an explosive Megidolaon. Overkill, most certainly, given that Goro's regained his lost strength.

[unfoggedlotus]

The Megidolaon whips past Ren's face and the exhilaration from the spell so close to him cracks a wild laugh through his own lungs. "Hell yeah!! Arsene, Megidolaon!"

Joker's own Megidolaon, less impressive than his boyfriend's, follows the path of Loki's spell down the tunnel, ruining the days of whatever Shadows were unfortunate enough to survive Crow's initial cast.

[fogbornphantom]

"Rather overkill, but I suppose that's the point of the exercise, isn't it?" He'd kiss Ren's cheek if this helmet wasn't in the way. Ren will just have to settle for an awkward lil' pat with the underside of his gauntlet.

[unfoggedlotus]

"Absolutely," Ren's grin is wild, a little feral, setting boyfriend down. "Wanna go see what they dropped?"

[fogbornphantom]

"Very well." As they head down the tunnel, they'll find some loose yen, which ultimately doesn't hold much value here, some misc Shadow drops that would normally be worth selling to Iwai, but again, not much value here, and maybe a low level skill card or two.

[unfoggedlotus]

Ren gathers up the skill cards -- you never know! -- and passes up the rest of the stuff on the ground. "Wanna go a little deeper?"

[fogbornphantom]

"Well, it'll be a pain without Mona, but I'm sure we'll manage." He does a little stretch before following along.