[IT'S MEME TIME AGAIN]

[antreegonist]

I NEED...A DISTRACTION!

Questions meme, you know how it goes! I play Mithos and Firebird, and you can ask about Lark if you want.

I probably won't pick up full steam on answering questions until tonight after class, Persona answers may be vague, etc.

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[doesnothappen]

Mau sees Mithos as somebody very kind and and reliable. He has the impression that Mithos is invested in learning and enabling others to learn; also that Mithos has a much broader range of experience and knowledge than Mau has. This isn't intimidating or really something he pays as much attention to as he would in someone else, though, because Mithos acts so casual and... normal... most of the time, and it's so easy to just be comfortable and quiet around him. Mithos isn't someone he'd come to with his personal problems or feelings, but he's definitely someone he'd go to in a crisis.

What does a day in the life look like for Mithos?

[antreegonist]

He tends to wake up very early in the morning if he's not recovering from overexertion/crappy memories! He used to wake up predawn but that's shifted since regular monster patrols are so much more hazardous in this realm. Usually grabs breakfast with Lloyd before they head out separately. Does some limbering up and morning drills (knifework, then swordwork.) After that it is UP TO HIS WHIMS: often he wanders around Aather, pesters people as he sees them, and likes to check on his important folks semiregularly, but he has the occasional quieter day when he just wants to do some gardening on the cliff tiers or sit and sew or otherwise practice skills he's developing in Aather. Usually he will stay outdoors though, in case someone is looking for him/wants a quest. If he stays indoors it means he is feeling particularly down and needs to not feel too many people around for whatever reason.

He will make time for whatever Persona quests he's on as needed, will check in at the clinic every few days, and is getting back into the swing of climbing the cliffs after unlocks to see what's changed in Aather! He writes a story for Mother Goose every three days for food baskets, and makes sure to refill the feeder in the birdhouse hung on the nail tree. And once they kick off, he'll be setting aside part of each day for lessons: being taught acrobatics by Yuri, and teaching Pascal how to swordfight. He used to teach Emil reading and writing, but that stopped when Emil got that skill back.

He also takes care of Admiral the giant frogdog and Arthur, Suzaku's cat, but he's not the sole caretaker of both so things like feeding/walks are a little irregular.

Dusk fighting happens if he has someone to go with. He tends to aim for hydras because they are easier to shank and taste delicious. If he and Lloyd run low on wolf ethers one or both of them will eventually go out deliberately looking for lightning wolves as well, since the ethers were super useful during plot and even outside plot both of them have occasion to powercap themselves often. Mithos in particular gets apprehensive when he doesn't have a ready chargeboost available, since if his reserve runs too low his body will stop existing until he recovers.

He gets back to Sterling fairly late at night, has dinner with Lloyd. They'll chat about their days, clean up, and do some more craftwork, either for quests or for themselves. Memorytaking happens if both of them feel up to it that night. Mithos has just started doing an IC log where he writes down the Persona info he and Lloyd know/discuss, and that happens in this time period too; he's not in the habit of it yet, though, so it's not yet worked on nightly, is sort of scattered, and is not super comprehensible to anyone not them yet.

Tell me about Mau's canon :3

[doesnothappen]

Mau's canon is a YA Terry Pratchett book, but not set in Discworld. One might assume that it's set in the South Pacific, but as the Author's Note makes clear, "Nothing could be further from the truth!!!!!"

Which is to say, it's set in AU!South Pacific in what... should... be the Victorian Era, but isn't, and it is all about SCIENCE and RELIGION and JOURNEYS OF PERSONAL DISCOVERY and THE IMPORTANCE AND SUBJECTIVITY OF TRUTH and HUMANISM and it just gets me very excited about critical thinking... I am not sure what else to say without spoilers...

I don't know, it's just one of my favorite books, even though it apparently had a very poor copy editor who didn't notice inconsistencies such as a club that mysteriously is an axe on one page. I like the philosophy it presents and think it manages to wander through some dicey topics in tasteful ways, and do you want me to vague it up a little more?

Also it has a footnote about at tree climbing octopus.

How did the giant frogdog come into being?

[antreegonist]

CHESHIRE RAN THIS DELIGHTFUL KNIGHT GAME! Edmund Zack and Mithos somehow fumbled their way into making a creature that was actually super friendly and they did a joint quest for Cheshire to let them keep him. Otherwise he would have eaten it.

So I heard Sapphire is getting a puppy :3 Any plans for names?

[doesnothappen]

Mau and Van discussed naming it Whistle or Puff (as it is meant to be big and fluffy), but so far no solid plans! idk, I'm sure it will adorable.

What are Mithos's favorite and least favorite things about Aather?

(look I have a kitty too)

[antreegonist]

oh noooo kitty

He has huge amounts of dere for 95% of the people he meets in Aather. He has a pretty deep appreciation for the magic that goes into everything and what it can create. He is also intensely glad to get a second shot at life and people and friends and doing it right in general -- as awful as the slog through bad games and bad memories can be, Aather is legit the best thing that has every happened to him in some ways.

On the other hand, he has some huge frustrations. The unfairness of the knight/team divide wears on him; the game system upsets him, particularly when it messes people up and kills them; the storybound nature of Persona and their subsequent inability to change themselves and work to fix their own world sucks. Mithos is a worldchanger and a system-flipper and he chafes hard when he feels like he's not doing enough towards that, especially when the world is so broken and the system is so flawed. He keeps trucking, though, and he does get enough scraps and puzzles and hints on a regular enough basis that he feels like he's still working towards making the difference he wants.

Reverse.

[doesnothappen]

Mau is constantly amazed by the variety of skills, magical and otherwise, that people have in Aather. He loves being able to learn about different worlds and the different ways that things can work -- alternate universe theories are a big thing for him in canon, and being able to make contact is very exciting. It's also a great experience for him to have real peers, but that's not something he consciously appreciates.

He has similar frustrations to the ones you described with the world system, though, for similar reasons. But I'd say the hardest thing about Aather for Mau is just that it isn't home. His identity and sense of purpose are interwoven with his Nation. It's a struggle for him to maintain a clear sense of self when he's separated from that.

Have you been surprised by how Mithos reacted to any particular memories?