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[drugsnotclubs]

[Sup, Aldrip! Shinjiro looks just as surly as ever, but now he's looking surly wearing one of the communal aprons from Kotone's cooking club. He even has his hair pulled back so it doesn't fall into what he's doing, how cute! His arms are folded, looking just past the camera for whatever signal that recording has started, and then begins, flat and even toned as usual.]

...So I'm finding out basically no one here knows how to cook for themselves. And I mean actual day-to-day meal food. Not just tea cakes and not crazy thousand dollar sushi or whatever. So we're gonna fix that.

Kotone wants everyone to come to cooking club, make friends, whatever. [he waves a hand as he says it. It's basically like a YouTuber telling you about their sponsorship because they have to.] So that's something you can do for hands on practice, especially if you don't got a big kitchen at home.

But before any idiots show up and ruin all the pans we got, I figured I'd start off by fielding any basic questions anyone's got. Lemme know how you're screwing up, and I'll see if I can't tell you what to do instead. If I can figure out how to attach a recipe to this thing, I'll do that, too.

...and if you can make something... I dunno, shoot us a recipe or something. Could always use more ideas to teach the beginners.


[And, he glances over and nods to Kotone, advertisement done!! True to his word, people can find a basic recipe for a stir fry in text, complete with notes about possible ingredient options and cook times (the cook time for certain vegetables is different, after all,) as well as two different sauce recipes for it, one more sweet, and one more umami. Sub in whatever leftover veg or meat you have on hand and it's an easy dinner.]

Comments

[drugsnotclubs]

Probably not. People who love burning their mouths out are half the time in it for the sensation, not the flavour. Then when they figure out they can balance those, they can't be stopped.

How 'bout you? Ever cook for him?

[murderingjustice]

ah. figures. he is a masochist after all.

we have agreement that i stay out of the kitchen.

[drugsnotclubs]

That bad, huh?

There's gotta be something you can put together.

[murderingjustice]

he is that embarrassing, yes.

I am perfectly capable of feeding myself. akira is,hä however, much skilled in that area insist on being the one responsible for food.

[he might be lying about something here]

[drugsnotclubs]

Not what I meant. But you are right.

[Akira is embarrassing, yeah. But then again, Akechi's always gonna dodge what he wants to. So he'll keep from pressing on that one.]

He seems like the kind of guy who'd wanna be a provider, if that makes sense. You know: reliable. Maybe not as much as Narukami, though.

[murderingjustice]

well, they do have a lot in common. i suppose it comes with their positions as leaders.
although, narukami-san does seem more capable than akira.

[drugsnotclubs]

I guess... They both lead kinda different from Kotone and Minato, though. But maybe that's 'cause we had different field and operations leaders.

[after all, sure they led in Tartarus and in battle but anywhere else? It was basically Ikutsuki and Mitsuru's call.]

you think so? I ain't fought with either of them. What makes Narukami more capable?

[murderingjustice]

from my understanding the operations weren't too different from each other. your group traversed a tower correct? akira led phantom thieves through different mazes and dungeons that took forms of various palaces. of course, in those operations the stealth of infiltration was essential for the success... or should have been.

narukami-san is far more levelheaded, skilled and capable of analytical and critical thinking. meanwhile akira and kotone are more carefree and tend to approach the situation through with less caution and more with what they deem to be hilarious.

[drugsnotclubs]

...I don't think I ever asked what the other teams were doing. I just assumed trying to eliminate Shadows. Yeah we went up a tower but it was to find info on why the Shadows and their nest were ripping into our world every night.

Unless that was still going on?

[this is what he gets for noping out on the plot.]

I dunno if i'd say their personality tells what they're capable of when it comes to the actual leadership. I didn't know Kotone back home, but here she takes battles seriously. Minato comes off as carefree or lazy, but he's way more perceptive than you'd think.

Then again, Mitsuru basically took the lead on major plans and the direction of the team outside of combat. Minato made the calls in battle for us. I guess Kotone, too.

[murderingjustice]

yes, eliminating shadows was the goal in Phantom Thieves' case as well. however, for them it was more like a byproduct of a bigger objective, which was to take back the world and reform the society from the rotten adults and criminals.

but aside from one incident the shadows stayed in their own world and we didn't experience what your group called Midnight Hour or Apathy Syndrome.

outside of our encounter with miasma i have not seen arisato-kun's abilities as a persona user [AND TO BE HONEST? He is not impressed so far....], but his mentality is similar to kotone's. meaning, he'll unnecessarily place himself in danger. that, unfortunately, does not inspire much trust.

ah yes. kirijo-san does seem like a type who has strong and smart head on her shoulders.

[drugsnotclubs]

reform society? How the hell does fighting shadows play into that?

[the fuck are all you youngin's DOING out there in your TVs and your Meta verses???]

I'm wondering if it's cause they died back home already. Cause when we're fighting, they couldn't go down, 'cause then we'd be without a field leader-- they were never like taking hits for us or being too reckless. Even if we went down, the team's stay together.

[also it's a game over if they lose all their HP]

She does but then she gets too stuck in her head sometimes. Separating them out worked best for us.

I'm surprised you joined a team to be honest. I guess Akira's that convincing?