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Character(s): Minato Arisato, Hope Estheim
Location: Dorm A115, then onward to Balamb
Rating: PG
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed while in the dorm, then open for anyone who wants to bump into them
Summary: Minato wants to get to know his roommate. He also needs an alarm clock. The weekend gives him an opportunity for both.

When Igor had told Minato that he could still access the Velvet Room, even while in Garden, he wasn't expecting that to mean that the Velvet Door was going to be right in the common area of his very dorm. It didn't bother him much at first, since he was planning on just winging it through the first week before settling on a line up.

By Saturday, he had taken a good enough feel for the general student body to know which Arcana to favor on which days. So he decided to start the day by visiting his favorite hook-nosed man and flighty attendant to decide on a proper Persona roster for school life, something that were functional and that covered a wide range of personalities.

Of course, while he was doing this, any outside observer - like say, his roommate, would be left wondering what he was finding so interesting about that wall.

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All right then. Minus the constant stroking of that phallic nose that Hope thankfully doesn't know about, this 'Persona' sounds a lot like his summon regardless. Perhaps they were just similar things, with different names, from different worlds. "Oh," he said slowly, still staring at Minato warily. Pretending to shoot yourself in the head was a strange sort of summoning ritual as far as he knew, but he supposed it was just...a difficult culture. Right. Be open-minded.

"I guess that's a little like Alexander." He brightens a little, regaining his wits. "It was strong, though!"

"Alexander's the name of your... eidolon, then?" Minato asked, attempting to steer the conversation away from the fact that he shoots himself in the head to summon - he should have known from that that the people behind the Persona/Shadow studies were suicidally insane.

"Well, there's also the fact that those things were weak, but yeah, Take-mikazuchi is pretty strong for one of his level."

"Take-mikazuchi," Hope repeated slowly. It was a foreign name, and a little awkward on his tongue, but that wasn't to say that they didn't have odd names for their summons either (of the few, Alexander was actually one of the easier-to-pronounce ones).

He nodded in confirmation. "Yeah. Alexander's mine. Though he..." Trailing off, Hope slowed to a stop. Alexander hadn't been there since he arrived, and he figured it was just some sort of after-effect of the Time Compression, but it was still a little disorienting. "Well, I'll show you him sometime, if we get the chance. Let's just continue to the town for now."

"Yeah, I guess it's hard to pronounce if English is your first language. The others are less of a mouthful, at least..." Minato trailed off, but then Hope reminded him of exactly why theye were outside Garden today.

"Right. Let's move on, while it's still morning." With that said, he set the pace and continued walking.

The rest of the path was relatively similar. Occasionally, a few bugs or overgrown fauna would snap at their ankles, but between Hope's magic and Minato's persona, they went down in a matter of minutes. Of course, a well-traveled road couldn't be expected to be dangerous - not with all these cadets being trained in combat around.

Hope skipped ahead at the first sign of buildings on the horizon. He hadn't been out of the campus yet. While the town was certainly no Cocoon metropolis, it still held a sort of quaint charm about it, and quite simply, it would be nice to stop walking. "That it?" he asked, turning to Minato and pointing a thumb over his shoulder. "Everything we need is in there?"

Sure enough, there was Balamb Town, looking like a small town as designed by a big city architect.

"Yeah, that's it. Most of the stores are closer to the harbor, though there's a cafe near the train station if you're hungry." Minato replied, remembering what he had read on that brochure.

Hope hid a smile behind his hand at the tour guide-ish line, and nodded. "Are we going together, or should we meet up later?"

He didn't want people to think that chaperoning was needed, after all, even if he was a little younger. The town seemed friendly and harmless enough.

"As you'd prefer. You look like you could make your way around town without trouble." Yes, thought Minato, it was best not to treat Hope like a kid, especially when he was only three years younger. "Let's meet up at the cafe in 90 minutes. That all right with you?"

"That's perfect. I'll see you then." Hope nodded in confirmation, and, after a quick look around, choose a street and headed down it. The place was small enough that a little exploration wouldn't hurt. Besides, Boomerang stores were probably uncommon enough that a little search would be necessary.

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Hope you don't mind a little fast-forward?

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Can probably wrap up soon and assume the rest?