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Akihiko Kayaba, Cognitive Psientist by ForTheRNG
Fandoms: Persona 5, Sword Art Online (Anime & Manga)
21 Oct 2024
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Akihiko dreams of a castle. He throws himself into creating its image. It consumes him. He can't fix the imperfections.
He then throws himself into research. Finds old, forgotten papers from seven years ago, written by a woman long dead, about dreams becoming real. That's all he wants. That's all he needs. It takes him two more years to bring his vision alive. The beta testers receive the old, imperfect version; he must see every mistake it has, so the new one can be perfect.
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Futaba doesn't see the access to her mom's research immediately. In her defense, she's in her second year at university when it happens; it has been a stressful time. When she does notice, around November of 2021, she calls in a meeting.
The former Thieves eventually trickle back into Tokyo to investigate. They check everything they can learn about Akihiko Kayaba. Ren notices a NerveGear from an advert shines in his Third Eye. The Thieves buy one, Futaba disassembles it, and they find nothing suspicious at all. They can only continue their investigation with Sword Art Online.
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When Ann realizes their math teacher has spotted Akira nodding off in the desk behind hers, she braces herself for what's about to follow. Sure enough, the chalk flies past her and hits Akira smack in the forehead, knocks him awake, and sends a flurry of horrible nightmare syllables tumbling out of his mouth from the sheer surprise.
The language of Shadows sounds sharp and strange in the mundane banality of the classroom. Ann schools her expression, and does her best to project an air of nope, nothing's wrong, nothing to see here, there's definitely no one speaking in horrible eldritch tongues, why would you even say that?
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-//-In which Shadows have a language of their own, and the power of the Wild Card lets Akira speak it too.
It's too bad it makes him sound like he's speaking in some kind of cursed, inhuman, monster tongue, but the rest of the Phantom Thieves get used to it.
Eventually.