Persona 4 - What If :MC Shadow

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nor do I seek monetary profit from the writing
and presentation of this story.
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Persona 4 Fan Fiction
Title: Persona 4 – What If: MC/Souji Shadow?

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It was dark. It always was.
Maybe because he wanted things to be in the dark.

An escape. A reprieve. Another life.

And then he woke.
Souji Seta was lying face down on a floor.
He felt it’s cool surface.

How did he get here?
He racked his brains until a voice said.

“Awake are we my little deceiver?”

Souji stared at the dark figure who was wearing a school uniform.
With uncanny silver hair and a face full of malice and chagrin.
And it’s eyes. They were the brightest yellow almost gold that he had ever seen.

His heart stopped for a long moment.

Was that himself he was looking at?

“Why so surprised?” the figure spoke.

“Haven’t you seen yourself in a mirror before,” the figure laughed at his
little joke.

He wondered. When or how did he get here?
And who was that …….  Thing?

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Yosuke Hanamura was afraid. With thoughts going through his head.

“Where’s that idiot dammit?! Where’s Souji?” he shouted angrily.

His face was creased with worry.

Worry about the new kid from out of town.

Worried about his friend that understood his worries.

Behind him was Chie Satonaka. Heaving and panting from
the earlier fight with the ghastly beings called Shadows.

“Yosuke…I can’t take it anymore. This is tough.” She panted.

Yosuke stopped and looked and almost glared at her.

“I know it’s tough but the fog will set in tonight. We HAVE  to save him.”

Teddie came from behind and patted Chie on the back.

“Just a bit further Chie-chan. I can sense him on this floor.”

Chie nodded and the party pushed on into the darkness.
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“So. Was the last school fun? I thought Minami-san was a tad bit annoying.” the dark figure said.

Souji stared. Shocked by what the figure had said.
He told nobody. Nobody about what he thought about the people from school.

“But hey. We only had to last one year with that loser didn’t we? Thank God, our parents travel around. Anymore of her whining and we might have hit her ourself, eh?”

The door opened.

Souji stared at his new friends.
Yosuke Hanamura and Chie Satonaka.

Why did they have a weird …. bear with them?

At that point the figure laughed.

“So. Welcome Hanamura and Satonaka. My dear friends. Or do we plan to be that for this semester Souji?” the figure sneered.

“They ARE my friends!” Souji shouted angrily.

“Are they? Every year we go to a different school. Stepping over people in order to get through problems in class. The plan was always the same. Make friends but don’t get attached.” the figure continued,
“Leaving was always such a hard thing. Remember Aramaki-chan in the first grade? How he cried as we moved away to a different town. From then on you decided you didn’t need friends. You just want them. It’s all a game isn’t it?”

“In your head there’s this little bar called “Social Links” whereby maxing them you get a wonderful feeling. After a year we break them. And it’s all going to New Game+ isn’t it?”

“That’s not true!” Souji shouted.

It smiled. He smiled at Souji.

“Not true? Why of course it’s true. I am you…and you are me. I know you. I know the things you deny. Oh how you craved for the Love of your parents. Always on the move.
You think things will change in this stinking shithole called Inaba?
Let me just tell it to you. It won’t and you know it. Even a FOOL knows the Truth!”

“You’re not me….”Souji whispered.

“Don’t say it you idiot!!” Yosuke shouted.

“YOU’RE NOT ME!! You’re NOTHING like me!!”

“Oh shoot…” Chie sighed.

The figure laughed. He laughed.

“YOU deny ME?! Deny YOURSELF?! So be it.”

Souji felt his eyes droop. Droop into an abyss of darkness…

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He woke. And stared at Yosuke and Chie standing over him.

“What that thing said it’s not true ,none of it…” he started.

“Hey man. I don’t care what it said. Chie and I are pretty messed up too” Yosuke said with a laugh.

“Hanamura…”

“It’s true Seta-kun. Life is tough that way. But we accept the facts and move on…” and Chie trailed on.

He stared at the figure. Stared at himself.

“Go on say it.” The forgotten bear-thing said.

“Haha…I guess you’re right. Never sticking to people. Never feeling love from my parents. It was safer that way. No sad goodbyes or anything..” he took a deep breath…

“I am you….and you are me..”

He nodded in approval. Watching the blue aura burst into a blue flame…a tarot card floated in front of him.

The card of himself.

Of his persona, Izanagi.

The card of the Fool.

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