[open] I am me

[feale]

Who: Kasumi Yoshizawa + you?
What: catch-all for January!
Where: various places around the Void
When: during January
Content Warnings: Persona 5 Royal spoilers in the thread with Parsee, and any other marked threads!

1. resolution
(after the New Year's Party)

[ Despite having helped out with the party, it's still a little strange to Yoshizawa that they're celebrating a "new year" at all. Time has been largely stable since her arrival in the Void, so she knows that for her part, she's only been here a few months... and when she was taken from home, it was March. So it's weird, a little.

Still, it's probably good for them to have some kind of system to track dates, right? And starting with January 1st makes more sense than starting anywhere else, especially given the fact that everyone seems to remember different days as being their last back at home.

It's her first new year since her life changed so drastically, and so something about the tradition of making resolutions speaks to her more than ever, this time around. Fresh starts, or something like that.

So as the party winds down, Yoshizawa can be found sitting at one of the tables in Heavenly Blanc, neatly-written kanji and kana lining the napkin in front of her, the girl adding more to it with each careful stroke of her pen, her brows furrowed in focus.

If she's approached, she'll look up in surprise, offering a shy smile to whomever is joining her. ]

U-Um, are you planning on making any resolutions too?

2. kichijoji

[ It's not just that Senpai and Akechi-san have already made the move to living somewhere in the newly-appeared place that's kind of Kichijoji. Like a few other places around the Void, the place feels something like home, much more than the apartments do. Plus, something about having two entire floors to herself speaks to her. She loves helping Ren out in the Heavenly Blanc, but for someone who loves cooking as much as she does, she can't help but daydream of a small stall where she can "sell" food for the other people who are living here.

It's not like they don't already have a lot of restaurants and the like, but...

Habit has her standing, arms at her sides, considering one of the shopfronts in front of her with a tilted head, as if goods line the outside just like they would back home. She's lost so deeply in her own thoughts that passersby won't even be greeted as they normally would, and any efforts to get her attention will result in her jumping, startled, before she bows. ]

I— I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there.

3. gym

[ In the Aoba Shibumenosaki Underground Academy gym, Yoshizawa is a completely different person - not unfamiliar to anyone who met her within the depths of the Mementos nightmare, but certainly unlike the girl who usually walks around the Void. Dressed in the academy's sports uniform (of course in a striking red), she can usually be found completing routines on the floor, practicing kickboxing or fencing (always versus nothing but the air in front of her), or occasionally using one of the machines to work up a proper sweat. A look of serious focus can always be seen on her face, and people who join her will be met with little more than a brief nod - at least until she's finished what she's currently doing.

Maybe this is how you find her, focused on the workout, or maybe you come across her when she's finished, sitting down against one of the walls and perhaps watching anyone still working out, hair wet from the showers and falling over her shoulders, a container full of food in her lap and chopsticks in one hand.

And it's not just you: that container of food really does seem to be far too big for someone as small as her... ]

4. wildcard

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Comments

[symbolofstrength]

"I'm alright. I have Dragonite, anyway." So he's not quite 'alone', he was just thinking of humans when she asked earlier. "And I've made some friends among the native wildlife here."

He doesn't offer a hand to shake, but he does nod much deeper than usual, the gesture carrying with it the attitude of a bow.

"Professor Samuel Oak. I study Pokemon."

((I was reading through some old threads, and she saw him at the first Kaiba/Iwaizumi fight if you want to have her recognize him?))

[feale]

[ nice catch! ]

It's not until he introduces himself that Yoshizawa realizes that there's actually something familiar about him, and even as she responds to his nod with a respectful bow of her own, a frown creases her brows. Actually, now that she thinks about it, there's something familiar about him, isn't there? And more so than if she'd just seen him around and about the Void.

"U-Um. Professor? It's nice to meet you! Although, I... I feel like maybe I've met you before?"

[symbolofstrength]

His eyes search her face for a moment, looking for any sign of familiarity, before he shakes his head.

"I don't doubt that we may have seen each other before, but I don't remember it, I'm sorry." She was just one of many girls her age around when that fight happened, and he was more concerned with trying to de-escalate things between the two boys -- he didn't pay much attention to any of them except Ann, who got physically involved in the fight.

On the other hand, even without throwing himself between the fighters with a dragon at his side, there aren't many middle-aged men in the Void. (There's him, and what, maybe Damien?) So it would make sense that he would stand out a bit more, be a bit more memorable, wouldn't it?