This is what being a wild card is. Fracturing and fracturing and fracturing, taking others as your own -- and if you ask me, we were only made a wild card in the first place because we were fracturing already!
[Is Akira like this because he's a wild card, or is he a wild card because he's like this? Being able to house so many Personas requires a certain flexibility of the mind that many others are not capable of. He can take any power, and through collaboration and psychological connection, make it his.]
[So it's no wonder that the concept of "Akira", as opposed to Joker (anger, defensiveness, trauma) or Sandalphon (selflessness, virtuousness, love) or Lucifer (rebellion, conviction, courage) or Mara (greed, lust, gluttony) or any of the hundreds of others who have borrowed his mind over the past two years, gets lost in the shuffle.]
I've been here for years and years -- since we were a kid -- well before we ever came anywhere near a Velvet Room! Arsène appeared as a name and a face, different from Lucifer's, so I took it! Akira knew this as soon as Lucifer came back, because there shouldn't be two of us, but he accepted me anyway -- because he knew that we were connected too!
[The real Arsène, the one he met in Kamoshida's Palace years ago, stands as Lucifer now. This Arsène is a duplicate. A fake. Its power is different, disconnected from the mythology and the meaning of the original. So instead of the will of rebellion like Lucifer, this one is the will of destruction.]
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[Is Akira like this because he's a wild card, or is he a wild card because he's like this? Being able to house so many Personas requires a certain flexibility of the mind that many others are not capable of. He can take any power, and through collaboration and psychological connection, make it his.]
[So it's no wonder that the concept of "Akira", as opposed to Joker (anger, defensiveness, trauma) or Sandalphon (selflessness, virtuousness, love) or Lucifer (rebellion, conviction, courage) or Mara (greed, lust, gluttony) or any of the hundreds of others who have borrowed his mind over the past two years, gets lost in the shuffle.]
I've been here for years and years -- since we were a kid -- well before we ever came anywhere near a Velvet Room! Arsène appeared as a name and a face, different from Lucifer's, so I took it! Akira knew this as soon as Lucifer came back, because there shouldn't be two of us, but he accepted me anyway -- because he knew that we were connected too!
[The real Arsène, the one he met in Kamoshida's Palace years ago, stands as Lucifer now. This Arsène is a duplicate. A fake. Its power is different, disconnected from the mythology and the meaning of the original. So instead of the will of rebellion like Lucifer, this one is the will of destruction.]