Important Plot Points

[soul_mods]

Hello Death City!

As you may have noticed, strange things are happening on this new day.

The following three days will be packed with much to do, so they will all be lasting a week, each.

As it says there, sensitive people (those able to sense souls or something akin) will be deeply effected by the fog now, especially if they go outside, but EVERYONE will feel it somehow.

The tremors are quake level but they will still knock some things down and make it a little difficult to move about without incident.

If your character has gotten glasses from Teddie, they will be able to see clearly through the fog, and its effects will be lessened.

Now onto the very important part. If your character goes out in the fog, they will see their own Shadow.

For those of your unfamiliar with Persona 4, a Shadow is an essence, a personification of that which a person keeps hidden or tries to deny about themselves. Shadows will be very open about all their feelings regarding other people, themselves, how they view the world. All sense of discretion will be thrown out the window. Shadows are creatures of pure impulse the work only on their own desires, and will no longer accept being held back. Basically they shows your innermost fears and desires and hidden motivations or ambitions you normally keep locked away.

Shadows will remain on the periphery and if your character attempts to follow after them without glasses. Well. Things will not go so well for them.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here.

For examples of Shadows: Rise
Naoto (starts at 0:54)
Kanji

Important edit: For clarification, the first week/in-game day, Shadows are lurking in the fog. Confrontations will not occur yet, unless your character actively seeks out the shapes moving in their peripheral.

Comments

[seaoflames.livejournal.com]

kick ass.

Can other characters see them?

[soul_mods]

Yes they can!

[brosukee.livejournal.com]

For the P4 characters who have already dealt with their Shadow, how will that work? :D?

(Also omg kick ass plot guys! Love how you're doing this~)

[aircrash.livejournal.com]

/SCRE

i was wondering about this too

/imagines a whole mess of NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN D:

[notthebutch.livejournal.com]

CHO WAS TAUNTING RISE ABOUT MATT SEEING HER SHADOW.

So I think it's a GO AHEAD for us? She may have just been BEING HER CRUEL MEAN SELF as usual.

[encontraran.livejournal.com]

/sensitive bawwww



SUCH A COOL PLOT. \o/

[brosukee.livejournal.com]

have fun watanuki 8|

[seaoflames.livejournal.com]

SO MY QUESTION IS:

Lavi is outwardly appeasing and generally good to get along with, but inwardly he's deceptive, supposedly cold and indifferent to human tragedies, without bonds to other humans/people, and.... so many other things. He's torn between his duty being a recorder (cold and cut off from emotions) and his duties to his friends.

In Road's dream world he met with a personified version of his "real" duties as a Bookman and brought him face to face with his denial towards his accepting human emotions and the growth of his 'heart'.

How... would that appear as a Shadow? Would it be similar to how his personified duties looked in road's dream land (which some changes obvious to its appearance) or...what?

[soul_mods]

It depends on how you yourself interpret Lavi. If you truly believe he is like his Bookman self, than yes, it would be like that.

If not, his Shadow would probably speak more about the frustration he has between his two duties, talk about his deception to others, and if you see it as a possibility his want to break away from being a Bookman.

As far as appearance goes he would like as he does now, with yellow eyes, and perhaps different clothing that is somehow in theme with what his Shadow wants to get out.

[socials]

They see their Shadows regardless. If they don't have glasses, it would probably be the only clear thing they see why while they're out.

[pure-lineage.livejournal.com]

A quick question~ I know those who are inside the apartment buildings are fine, but Sephiroth spends all of his non tormenting moments free time on the Casualty Communal roof. Would that still be considered within the safety of being 'inside' or would he end up seeing his own shadow?

[soul_mods]

The roof would not be safe since it is in the open.

[digtastic.livejournal.com]

Um, quick question. Can Rock get kidnapped by his own shadow if he goes out deep enough into the fog? And accidentally voice-record it? I'm kinda looking for something to do with him since I've been totally inactive, and this is kinda perfect, since I'm a horrible person to my muse and all that.

[socials]

If he goes out into the fog, and ends up in the denser areas, there's a chance that his Shadow could very well lead him deeper in. Whether it's by provoking him or appearing to be someone lost out in the fog that he can get all Retarded Shounen Hero over is up to you.

[fridgeburnt.livejournal.com]

crap, of all the times to negotiate in death robbins .... awesome plot, tho! 8DDD

[mock-me-vermin.livejournal.com]

Rae has fears of abdandonment and self-esteem issues in canon but they are not as bad post-canon as they were in the begining. As for desires and motivations, those have also been more or less sorted with his becoming 'whole' again. But, this plot sounds so awesome. <3

[crackingcases.livejournal.com]

Can the Shadow access the D.E.M.I.S.E. network if they get a hold of a PDA?

[soul_mods]

If a Shadow manages to get ahold of a PDA from their person, or otherwise yes! Just keep in mind that the Shadows are still apart from their person so they will not automatically have one.

[its-a-hobby.livejournal.com]

Because Al is weird and makes things complicated: would his Shadow look like his human self or does it need to be armor as well?

[socials]

I like how I'm too lazy to go to the mod journal every time I reply to this post.

Human self, I'd say. Whether it's the one that waits at the Gate, or himself from his childhood, or even both! (flickering between the two or sommat idk), is up to you.

[wutaian-rose.livejournal.com]

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Did I mention I love you guys?

[soul_mods]

We could stand to hear it more. 8)

welugaiz2. ♥

[seventh-key.livejournal.com]

QUESTION - are the tremors happening at certain intervals? i.e., WHEN ARE THE EARTHQUAKES HAPPENING ahhh ;_;

[pkmn-hero.livejournal.com]

JUST SO I HAVE THIS IN WRITING (to look back at if (when) i forget!)

What would happen to a person if s/he accepted what the shadow was saying? Or can we just assume sunshine and flowers with a bit of angsty drizzle?

[notexcalibur.livejournal.com]

The shadows aren't... solid, are they? Also, I think you already covered this but is it possible to see someone else's shadow? Like, what if two people went out together? Would they be able to see both shadows? >_>

[smokeeasy]

So I've had this idea for Badou's shadow, but it's kind of weird so I'm not sure if it would be possible given what shadows are/do.

Hence question: can a shadow be like some kind of horrifying emptiness, like the absence of interior desires and ambitions, not in the sense of inner and outer selves being already squared with each other, but in the sense of revealing that on the inside there's really no there there? Or maybe to put it another way, revealing that on the inside everything is just deadened and empty?

Since this would mean that the pure impulse of the shadow is actually no impulse at all, I'm not sure if it would work for this. (It would also, of course, mean that the shadow doesn't ever talk because as soon as it named itself it would cease to be the kind of absence that I'm imagining it as.) So, erm, what say ye, mods?

[socials]

To be honest, this actually reminds me of another Shadow later on in the game. Would you like a link to the video, to see if it helps answer your question any?