THE RESULTS OF ONE (1) ALL-NIGHTER
Name: Renee
LJ: bossfight
E-Mail: blablahelpme[at]gmail.com
IM: AIM: a sick sight
Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Series: Persona 4
Timeline: After 12/03 (the day the Fool Social Link is maxed)
Canon Resource Link: BITCHES AND WHORES
Character Background: Once upon a time, Tohru Adachi was at the top of his class. He studied his ass off and worked hard to make sure he would one day be able to do something with his life. Effort now would pay off later--that's what he told himself.
He graduated from college and thought, hey, if he was going to have to stick with one job for the rest of his life? It should be something he liked, something fun. And that's how Tohru Adachi became a detective on the police force. And, hey, the fact that he was one of the only people that could legally carry a firearm in the whole of Japan, where gun laws banned the possession thereof from everyone but the police? That was definitely an added bonus. Adachi thought it was going to be rad as hell, catching criminals, solving cases... All that junk.
But Adachi made a mistake. Something happened on the job--no one else knows what, and he won't talk about it himself--and the guy was in deep shit. It could've cost him his job, but, no, he wasn't fired. He was transferred. From the big city, to a rural town in the middle of nowhere that probably got about as much action as Linda, who is too young to know what sex is. Adachi liked to "affectionately" refer to it as "the boonies". Most other people simply referred to it as "Inaba".
The transfer tore Adachi to pieces. What happened to the life he worked so hard for? Where was the payoff for all that goddamn effort? His entire worldview was shattered. Clearly, the good life is something that you're granted based purely on luck. Working hard certainly didn't lead Adachi anywhere but straight down. He may never have been an optimistic guy, but pessimism was really all he could find in himself at that point.
And that's when he ran into Izanami. All-powerful deity in the form of a gas station attendant, mentioned some rumor about something called the "Midnight Channel", Adachi didn't give a shit. What he didn't know, though, was that Izanami gave him the power to find a little fun out in the boring ol' countryside. She recognized his emptiness and gave him something to fill it.
Good thing, too, because Adachi would've probably been bored into suicide if it weren't for this little power he discovered. He discovered an entire other world, and all he had to do to reach it was stick his hand into the screen of a TV. Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to just jump in and see what happened. Who knew if he could ever get back out? But he messed around and experimented with it a little bit, maybe stuck his head in to look around once or twice. He didn't actually get any use out of it, at first.
And, hey, maybe Inaba wouldn't be all that bad, after all. There was this girl he'd gotten to know--Mayumi Yamano, a news anchor on television--and she was actually pretty cute. He was interested in her, definitely. It was pretty easy to ogle her, too: all he had to do was turn on his nightly news, and there she was.
Until, one day, she wasn't there behind that desk. No, instead, a portrait of her was hovering behind a substitute anchor, who was reading off something about a political scandal. It just so happened to be about Miss Yamano herself, and some city council secretary named Namatame, and the fact that they had apparently been going at it behind his wife's back.
Adachi went to meet Mayumi at the inn he knew she was staying at to lay low, thanks to rumors around the station. He needed to know if all of it was true. When he confronted her, she became agitated and got defensive. It wasn't any of his business, so just go away. Well, that wouldn't do. Adachi was ready to force himself on that bitch right there in that hotel lobby, when, suddenly, she wasn't there anymore. He heard a scream, the kind that slowly faded away as one fell down, down, down...
It was the TV. He'd pushed her through it. It was almost too hysterical to be true. Adachi couldn't help himself, he just started laughing. He never would've guessed that he could put other people into that world.
For a while, Mayumi was known only to the world as "missing". Adachi knew he wasn't going to try to get her out of that TV world himself, and, hell, she kinda deserved whatever she got, anyway, so she may as well rot in there. Eventually, she was found.
Or, more accurately, her corpse was--tangled up in telephone wires and hung high above the streets of Inaba. Adachi wasn't sure if it was the corpse itself or the fact that it was someone he knew that forced him to run off the crime scene and puke.
He didn't stop there. The high school girl that discovered the body, Saki Konishi, was brought to the station for further questioning. Adachi made sure to catch her in a back room, alone. He'd seen her talking with Namatame before--a girl her age! She was probably a whore. So she wouldn't mind if he got a little close, right? But once Saki slapped him, Adachi just tossed her into the itty-bitty TV screen in the corner. Fuck girls like her, anyway, man. She was probably just interested in Mr. City Council Secretary's money, anyway.
It should've stopped there, really. But, fortunately for Adachi, the fun was only getting started. He just so happened to be the one to pick up a phone call to the station: Taro Namatame himself. He was worried. Every victim that had turned up so far had showed up on that "Midnight Channel" beforehand. Adachi quickly realized that Namatame also happened to have the same power to enter the world behind the TV. So he told Namatame that, really, there was no way the police were going to take a fantasy story like that, really. But if Namatame wanted to take matters into his own hands? If he could hide any future potential victims somewhere safe, a place where no one could find them, there wouldn't be any murder, would there?
Adachi's plan worked. Barely any time passed at all until some girl from the family who ran that inn went missing. Namatame's work, he was sure. But no body turned up. She was rescued. Yet another person with the ability to enter that world had gone in and pulled her out before she could get killed by the monsters called "Shadows" that lived within. That just made things even more interesting. If a game of "cat and mouse" was played with both sides having the only best of intentions, would it really ever end? Adachi simply sat on the sideline with a bowl of popcorn and watched it all play out. He hoped it wouldn't.
Eventually, a third dead body did turn up. But this one was different than the others. It was glaringly obvious to Adachi (and no one else on the entire police force; funny, that) that it was the work of a mere copycat killer. Adachi himself couldn't care less, until a high school student named Mitsuo Kubo showed up on the station's doorstep, claiming that he was the one that killed all of the victims. Adachi's superiors couldn't care less about what looked to them like a prank, and gave the kid to Adachi to deal with.
But there was a problem. This Kubo kid did kill one of the victims: the third one. And if he was arrested for all three murders, in this case that police were, at that point, desperate to solve, what then? Would Namatame stop "saving" people by throwing them in the TV if a murderer was found guilty? Would Adachi's game all come to an end?
Adachi shut off the lights in the same back room he had Saki Konishi in, once upon a time, and pushed Kubo into the television.
Kubo was also saved by the same third party. He was arrested soon after. Adachi was sure that his game had finally come to an end, and he would have to go back to his boring, useless life in Inaba.
Until another person disappeared. The game was still on.
Meanwhile, on the station's end, the case had been pretty much closed. The police didn't care if not all the information fit with Kubo as the murderer for all three deaths, but by that point they didn't care. As long as someone got locked up for this case, and the murders stopped? Job well done. Well, none of the police cared except for one: Detective Ryotaro Dojima, Adachi's partner.
Dojima was getting closer and closer to being able to accuse Namatame. And all without knowledge of the TV world! Adachi was impressed, really. But, thanks to his nephew, who had been staying with him (and just so happened to be the one responsible for rescuing all of the people Namatame kidnapped), Dojima learned of the next possible victim: his own daughter, Nanako.
Dojima panicked and drove out into the rainy, foggy night. He caught Namatame in the act of driving away from the Dojima household and gave chase. They crashed. Dojima ended up in the hospital. As for Namatame and Nanako? They were both in the TV world.
Well. That didn't feel so great, did it. But it didn't matter, anyway: Dojima would eventually recover, and the same group of teenagers would save Nanako. Right? The game would probably be over after that.
And save Nanako they did. Namatame was arrested, but hospitalized. As for Adachi? No one ever thought to suspect him. As if the rookie that vomited at the sight of a dead body and could barely get Dojima's coffee right could be a double-murderer.
Abilites/Special Powers: Adachi has the power to enter the TV world. While in the other world, he can summon the Persona given to him by that mysterious gas station attendant: Magatsu Izanagi, a form of Izanagi corrupted by the emptiness inside of Adachi. Both powers would prove to be useless in Entranceway, as there is no world to be found behind the screen of a television in the mansion. And aside from that? He's got nothin'.
Personal Ref:
I'm sure you're surprised to get this letter out of the blue. I'm writing this because there's something I need to tell you. Ever since I made it out alive, there are some things I understand now.
It's true that my game's over. As you all insisted at the time, I'll abide by the rules of this world. But as long as I'm in stir here, I can't clean up after myself. So I hope this will give you something to think about, regarding this case.
There's still this feeling I can't shake... It's about how it all started... about that Midnight Channel. Now I remember... Someone told me about it when I first came to town... before I heard the rumors at the station. And I was intrigued when I noticed that something similar was written on Namatame's reports as well. But... I can't remember who it was that told me.
Since Namatame and I both gained our power after coming to Inaba... I have a feeling that has something to do with it. I don't know if any of this will be useful or not... but I hope it can help somehow.
LJ: bossfight
E-Mail: blablahelpme[at]gmail.com
IM: AIM: a sick sight
Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Series: Persona 4
Timeline: After 12/03 (the day the Fool Social Link is maxed)
Canon Resource Link: BITCHES AND WHORES
Character Background: Once upon a time, Tohru Adachi was at the top of his class. He studied his ass off and worked hard to make sure he would one day be able to do something with his life. Effort now would pay off later--that's what he told himself.
He graduated from college and thought, hey, if he was going to have to stick with one job for the rest of his life? It should be something he liked, something fun. And that's how Tohru Adachi became a detective on the police force. And, hey, the fact that he was one of the only people that could legally carry a firearm in the whole of Japan, where gun laws banned the possession thereof from everyone but the police? That was definitely an added bonus. Adachi thought it was going to be rad as hell, catching criminals, solving cases... All that junk.
But Adachi made a mistake. Something happened on the job--no one else knows what, and he won't talk about it himself--and the guy was in deep shit. It could've cost him his job, but, no, he wasn't fired. He was transferred. From the big city, to a rural town in the middle of nowhere that probably got about as much action as Linda, who is too young to know what sex is. Adachi liked to "affectionately" refer to it as "the boonies". Most other people simply referred to it as "Inaba".
The transfer tore Adachi to pieces. What happened to the life he worked so hard for? Where was the payoff for all that goddamn effort? His entire worldview was shattered. Clearly, the good life is something that you're granted based purely on luck. Working hard certainly didn't lead Adachi anywhere but straight down. He may never have been an optimistic guy, but pessimism was really all he could find in himself at that point.
And that's when he ran into Izanami. All-powerful deity in the form of a gas station attendant, mentioned some rumor about something called the "Midnight Channel", Adachi didn't give a shit. What he didn't know, though, was that Izanami gave him the power to find a little fun out in the boring ol' countryside. She recognized his emptiness and gave him something to fill it.
Good thing, too, because Adachi would've probably been bored into suicide if it weren't for this little power he discovered. He discovered an entire other world, and all he had to do to reach it was stick his hand into the screen of a TV. Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to just jump in and see what happened. Who knew if he could ever get back out? But he messed around and experimented with it a little bit, maybe stuck his head in to look around once or twice. He didn't actually get any use out of it, at first.
And, hey, maybe Inaba wouldn't be all that bad, after all. There was this girl he'd gotten to know--Mayumi Yamano, a news anchor on television--and she was actually pretty cute. He was interested in her, definitely. It was pretty easy to ogle her, too: all he had to do was turn on his nightly news, and there she was.
Until, one day, she wasn't there behind that desk. No, instead, a portrait of her was hovering behind a substitute anchor, who was reading off something about a political scandal. It just so happened to be about Miss Yamano herself, and some city council secretary named Namatame, and the fact that they had apparently been going at it behind his wife's back.
Adachi went to meet Mayumi at the inn he knew she was staying at to lay low, thanks to rumors around the station. He needed to know if all of it was true. When he confronted her, she became agitated and got defensive. It wasn't any of his business, so just go away. Well, that wouldn't do. Adachi was ready to force himself on that bitch right there in that hotel lobby, when, suddenly, she wasn't there anymore. He heard a scream, the kind that slowly faded away as one fell down, down, down...
It was the TV. He'd pushed her through it. It was almost too hysterical to be true. Adachi couldn't help himself, he just started laughing. He never would've guessed that he could put other people into that world.
For a while, Mayumi was known only to the world as "missing". Adachi knew he wasn't going to try to get her out of that TV world himself, and, hell, she kinda deserved whatever she got, anyway, so she may as well rot in there. Eventually, she was found.
Or, more accurately, her corpse was--tangled up in telephone wires and hung high above the streets of Inaba. Adachi wasn't sure if it was the corpse itself or the fact that it was someone he knew that forced him to run off the crime scene and puke.
He didn't stop there. The high school girl that discovered the body, Saki Konishi, was brought to the station for further questioning. Adachi made sure to catch her in a back room, alone. He'd seen her talking with Namatame before--a girl her age! She was probably a whore. So she wouldn't mind if he got a little close, right? But once Saki slapped him, Adachi just tossed her into the itty-bitty TV screen in the corner. Fuck girls like her, anyway, man. She was probably just interested in Mr. City Council Secretary's money, anyway.
It should've stopped there, really. But, fortunately for Adachi, the fun was only getting started. He just so happened to be the one to pick up a phone call to the station: Taro Namatame himself. He was worried. Every victim that had turned up so far had showed up on that "Midnight Channel" beforehand. Adachi quickly realized that Namatame also happened to have the same power to enter the world behind the TV. So he told Namatame that, really, there was no way the police were going to take a fantasy story like that, really. But if Namatame wanted to take matters into his own hands? If he could hide any future potential victims somewhere safe, a place where no one could find them, there wouldn't be any murder, would there?
Adachi's plan worked. Barely any time passed at all until some girl from the family who ran that inn went missing. Namatame's work, he was sure. But no body turned up. She was rescued. Yet another person with the ability to enter that world had gone in and pulled her out before she could get killed by the monsters called "Shadows" that lived within. That just made things even more interesting. If a game of "cat and mouse" was played with both sides having the only best of intentions, would it really ever end? Adachi simply sat on the sideline with a bowl of popcorn and watched it all play out. He hoped it wouldn't.
Eventually, a third dead body did turn up. But this one was different than the others. It was glaringly obvious to Adachi (and no one else on the entire police force; funny, that) that it was the work of a mere copycat killer. Adachi himself couldn't care less, until a high school student named Mitsuo Kubo showed up on the station's doorstep, claiming that he was the one that killed all of the victims. Adachi's superiors couldn't care less about what looked to them like a prank, and gave the kid to Adachi to deal with.
But there was a problem. This Kubo kid did kill one of the victims: the third one. And if he was arrested for all three murders, in this case that police were, at that point, desperate to solve, what then? Would Namatame stop "saving" people by throwing them in the TV if a murderer was found guilty? Would Adachi's game all come to an end?
Adachi shut off the lights in the same back room he had Saki Konishi in, once upon a time, and pushed Kubo into the television.
Kubo was also saved by the same third party. He was arrested soon after. Adachi was sure that his game had finally come to an end, and he would have to go back to his boring, useless life in Inaba.
Until another person disappeared. The game was still on.
Meanwhile, on the station's end, the case had been pretty much closed. The police didn't care if not all the information fit with Kubo as the murderer for all three deaths, but by that point they didn't care. As long as someone got locked up for this case, and the murders stopped? Job well done. Well, none of the police cared except for one: Detective Ryotaro Dojima, Adachi's partner.
Dojima was getting closer and closer to being able to accuse Namatame. And all without knowledge of the TV world! Adachi was impressed, really. But, thanks to his nephew, who had been staying with him (and just so happened to be the one responsible for rescuing all of the people Namatame kidnapped), Dojima learned of the next possible victim: his own daughter, Nanako.
Dojima panicked and drove out into the rainy, foggy night. He caught Namatame in the act of driving away from the Dojima household and gave chase. They crashed. Dojima ended up in the hospital. As for Namatame and Nanako? They were both in the TV world.
Well. That didn't feel so great, did it. But it didn't matter, anyway: Dojima would eventually recover, and the same group of teenagers would save Nanako. Right? The game would probably be over after that.
And save Nanako they did. Namatame was arrested, but hospitalized. As for Adachi? No one ever thought to suspect him. As if the rookie that vomited at the sight of a dead body and could barely get Dojima's coffee right could be a double-murderer.
Abilites/Special Powers: Adachi has the power to enter the TV world. While in the other world, he can summon the Persona given to him by that mysterious gas station attendant: Magatsu Izanagi, a form of Izanagi corrupted by the emptiness inside of Adachi. Both powers would prove to be useless in Entranceway, as there is no world to be found behind the screen of a television in the mansion. And aside from that? He's got nothin'.
Personal Ref:
I'm sure you're surprised to get this letter out of the blue. I'm writing this because there's something I need to tell you. Ever since I made it out alive, there are some things I understand now.
It's true that my game's over. As you all insisted at the time, I'll abide by the rules of this world. But as long as I'm in stir here, I can't clean up after myself. So I hope this will give you something to think about, regarding this case.
There's still this feeling I can't shake... It's about how it all started... about that Midnight Channel. Now I remember... Someone told me about it when I first came to town... before I heard the rumors at the station. And I was intrigued when I noticed that something similar was written on Namatame's reports as well. But... I can't remember who it was that told me.
Since Namatame and I both gained our power after coming to Inaba... I have a feeling that has something to do with it. I don't know if any of this will be useful or not... but I hope it can help somehow.