Also, Amu ripping the Bureaucracy a new asshole about forcibly recruiting child soldiers. Possibly literally.
That's a concern, isn't it. The whole thing is a complete mess of people working at cross purposes, with Mato and Yui at the sharp end of the stick. They don't have any clue -- Mato's a normal twelve-year-old in most respects, remember -- but you can guess most of this anyway. People aren't all desperate, or antyhing, but they're... stressed. So, a few of the factions involved...
- The mayor of their city wants to be seen as Getting Something Done. This is Something. Originally he just wanted to arrest Yui, which is also Something, and she'd have been quietly moved to house arrest at home once things calmed down a little.
- The police chief wants to uphold the law, which right now is completely impossible. Well, he'd have no trouble seeing the summoning app as a weapon and what Yui did as accidental discharge (by a child!), but Mato can't be disarmed, as she so inconveniently demonstrated. Seriously, she's the perfect assassin.
...Mato can also kill parts of your personality from inside your dreams, BRS-style... and shades of Persona 5 there, huh?
That she'd never do either of those things is besides the point. The only way for Mato to legally exist is for her to have a job where she's allowed to carry firearms, and those are in short supply. Do that, and
her having such a job is itself illegal, but no longer her fault. He'll be going gray in a hurry if this keeps up.
They're both an accidental sort of roadkill, and both Yui and Mato are likely to get sidelined once they have better options and/or a legal framework for this. Is what I would say, but there'll likely be a JPs interrupt in the middle. Yui has a much better chance of getting out than Mato does, assuming Mato doesn't start ignoring what people tell her.
- Yagami, the elder. He's just a normal detective, as is his 'assistant'. Really, would I lie to you?
K-syndrome could be either Kagutsuchi syndrome or Krantzberg syndrome. Or, actually, both. Either way it's an occupational hazard.
The teacher and the one who decided to switch places with her Otherself because living in the eternal fighting ring of otherworld was less painful than the real world. Also basically the two best experts that exist in concerns to the Otherworld.
Of a sorts. Really, that'd be Saya and Strength, but they're the two best
living experts certainly.
Well, shit, I can't remember any plans for what we want Mato to do.
There weren't any.
Black Impulse's protagonist(s) deliberately do not have quite as much agency as Amu. In Mato's case, that's mainly because she's still largely acting like a child.
[X] Follow Yui home.
[X] Experiment with her powers. Find somewhere quiet and play around.
Well, Yui's phone is locked up.
I'm half expecting her to be attacked right around when she can't USE her powers thanks to helpful adults.
That would suck... but won't happen.
The vortex world, thanks to Amu's actions, is
nowhere near as dangerous as DeSu2 canon would have been. That doesn't make it "safe", but it's more "Bad neighbourhood of Detroit" than "warzone". Most people don't feel unsafe
enough to risk using the summoning app -- even without working news services, rumors spread quickly about that -- which, in turn, makes the place safer.
Things can go upwards or downwards from here. That's up to Amu and Hotsuin, mainly.
Note that, even in DeSu2, you weren't likely to get attacked on the streets on Tuesday.
I missed this the first time through! They're talking about Ami, right?
Careful, you'll give the kid a swelled head like this.
@Baughn
may want to re-order the threadmarks there m8e
Nah, I've got them exactly how I want 'em.
So long as there isn't interaction, it makes more sense to keep the stories in order. (And I'll probably get back to Tammy's story in a while, even if I'll need to rewrite parts of it.)
