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The Power of Friendship (And This Gun I Found) by symbioticSimplicity
Fandoms: Persona 5
13 May 2024
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Akira Kurusu has been through this shit before and he's not going to let it end like it did last time. He's learned from his mistakes and he's ready to try again. If the strength of his bonds are the power that allows him to stand up to Fate's cruel hand, then he knows just what he needs to do.
Goro Akechi is not interested in friendship, but there's power in numbers. When Fate fucks up and levels the playing field, he takes advantage of it without hesitation. If he can't be lucky, he *can* be stubborn.
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11 Aug 2025
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Akechi Goro is alive – one of his biggest regrets is alive and standing in front of him looking like he’s ready for some highbrow sports photo shoot when what he really needs is five years intensive therapy and at least five more steps away from Akira.
No, no, no – the universe is not allowed to shove this on him so soon after it just flung him three fucking years into the past.
(Sometimes the only way to save someone is to let them save you first.)
(Huge canon divergence. Akira's past and future affect him big time.)Translation in Chinese now available on privatter and AO3 courtesy of coakira2!
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11 Aug 2025
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"what if a thief and a detective were boyfriends without knowing each other's true identity"
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11 Aug 2025
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"It was a fluke, probably," he explained to Lavenza.
He couldn't see her expression through the sunglasses and big floppy hat she had donned. She looked like an actress avoiding paparazzi.
"And it's better if I don't over-prioritize one bond, right?"
"...yes, multiple bonds are needed to empower a wildcard. But it's best not to deny one's bonds, either."
"I'm not. I still care, I'm just not… obsessing, or anything."
"Okay," she said.
"I'm over him."
"Okay."---
All Ren needs to do to stop the loop is defeat Yaldaboath.
And get over Goro Akechi.
Any time now.Series
- Part 1 of over and over
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11 Aug 2025
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There’s a thrumming coming from somewhere — loud, deafeningly loud, but Ren is the only one who can hear it. It takes him a moment to realize that it’s him: his pulse, his heart, his own rising understanding that something is wrong. “Akechi,” he says, strangled and smiling, “this really doesn’t matter.”
But Akechi is already reeling back, already buttoning his shirt, already gone — again.
“Ren,” he mimics, eyes flashing, “it really does.”
Ren lets details of his first time slip. Akechi doesn't think it's as harmless as he does.
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11 Aug 2025
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Goro swallows, remembering how to speak. “Who are you?”
He swears he can feel the darkness smile. Your saviour. Or your doom. I wonder, pretty human, if you’re willing to make a bargain with me?
A bargain with a demon. For that is what this presence must be, there’s no doubt about it. Goro’s spent his whole life being warned against conversing too much with the beings that grant protection and favour, their whims so changing.
But he has little choice now.
“Name your terms,” he says.
Be my bride. Or die here.
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11 Aug 2025
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Help - I haven't slept in days because my best friend keeps invading my bed and cuddling me by CrinklePuff
Fandoms: Persona 5
17 Jun 2022
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He wakes up sometime later, more alert, and slightly panicked.Shit, he thinks, resisting the urge to curse out loud as he stares at Akira’s unfairly beautiful sleeping face that is way too close to his right now.
Akira is asleep in his bed…
Akira is asleep… in his bed…He tries to ignore his pounding heart and process the situation.
How did they get like this?
Should he wake Akira up?
Should he move himself?
Can he get out of the bed without disturbing Akira?...Would it be okay to just… stay like this?
It’s not weird, right?
They’ve gotten quite close during their time at university, and are comfortable around each other, enough that personal space has become virtually non-existent....And it’s just sleeping… nothing wrong with that.
Goro closes his eyes again, and tries to relax. It almost works…
Until Akira moves closer and snuggles up to him.
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- Part 1 of Goro's Sleepless Nights
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11 Aug 2025
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“Okay then,” Makoto’s voice interrupted the two boys staring at each other hungrily before they ended up doing something that would scar the rest of them for life, “We’re almost at the end of the meeting here, just one more announcement. The security cameras are finally being fixed! They’re going to be installing new cameras this Sunday.”
Oh, right. Akira had forgotten that the school was getting new security cameras. The current ones had been broken for a few months now, though the rest of the student body didn’t know that, keeping the broken cameras in place hoping that their presence would be enough to prevent trouble. It was good that new security cameras would catch any serious dangers on campus in the future, but Akira couldn’t help feeling slightly… disappointed.
It was a stupid reason. A very very stupid reason. A reason so stupid that he made a mental note to let his disappointment show on his face later so Goro would ask him what’s wrong and he could hear his boyfriend call him stupid with his pretty mouth after he voiced his thoughts.
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11 Aug 2025
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Ren's been looking for Akechi ever since they defeated Maruki, and finally finds him in a psychiatric hospital.
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11 Aug 2025
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Akira knows that his boyfriend isn’t particularly fond of the summer season, but Goro’s been even more irritable than usual these last few days.
He figures it’s just the hot weather. Or unease from being so close to all the Thieves as they travel in the small RV.
But he really should have known it wouldn’t be so obvious. Not that he isn’t more than happy to help though.
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11 Aug 2025
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“Can you two stop flirting and answer our damn questions?” Akechi, the younger, cuts in, and Akira is grateful for the interruption. He feels like he’s listening to his parents argue. “Who are you? And where the hell did you come from?”
“Was I always this uptight?” the older Akechi mutters to his husband.
“Still are, sweetheart.”
“Fuck you.”
“See what I mean?” Met by two glares from both Akechis and a blank stare from his younger self, Akira decides to explain himself. “I know it’s hard to believe, but uh… we’re you. Just about twelve, thirteen years older.”
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Or, thanks to some velvet room shenanigans, Akira and Akechi end up reuniting far before they're ready. They also end up meeting their older selves in the process. And then having sex with their older selves.
written for day seven of bottom goro week 2024: selfcest
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- Part 4 of bottom goro week 2024
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11 Aug 2025
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Akechi and Akira end up far too cramped for comfort in the Morgana bus. And then they're left alone in Mementos.
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11 Aug 2025
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Five years had dragged him further away from being a Phantom Thief, and the transition hadn’t been easy.
Ren agrees to help investigate Akechi's missing memories when he reappears five years after the Phantom Thieves' disbandment. Their search for the Velvet Room leads him back to Inaba, where he must confront both his difficult relationship with his hometown and his rapidly developing feelings for his former rival. Adulthood is hard.
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11 Aug 2025
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“Soooo,” Ryuji began, voice ominously beginning to increase in volume. “Is anyone going to tell me how the hell you two know each other?”
Seeking to prevent any eardrum damages, Akira answered quickly. “Goro and I went to college together.”
“That’s correct,” Goro said, enigmatic smile back on.
Akira waited to see if Goro would continue, but when it seemed no addition was forthcoming, he decided to drop the bomb himself. “In fact," he began carefully, "we used to, ah... date.”
“Wait,” Ryuji said. “WHAT?”
At an old friend's wedding in Venice, Akira Kurusu runs into the last person he expected to see, which would all be well and good– if he could just work out how he felt about it. And if the person in question wasn't his ex-boyfriend.
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- Part 2 of TNTA-verse
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11 Aug 2025
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Several thousand years ago, King Yaldaboath purged the Unseelie from the Summer Kingdom and sealed the Barrier, permanently separating the two realms and sparing the Seelie from the Darkening, a wasting disease spread by the Unseelie. The Seelie lived in peace under the King's rule until, mysteriously, the Darkening began to return, ravaging outlying towns and stirring panic everywhere.
Tucked away in the Summer Court, Goro has more immediate concerns: pleasing his cold and duplicitous father, maintaining his toothless and friendly facade, and hiding his own treasonous aspirations. The arrival of an enigmatic new page certainly doesn't help things. Akira is magnetic and unusually interested in him and Goro finds himself increasingly distracted. When the Darkening comes to their front door, Goro and Akira set out to discover the cause of the outbreak, but the answers they find throw everything about the world as they know it into question.
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11 Aug 2025
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"Did you know that tomorrow's full moon is a blood moon?" Goro says, apropos of nothing.
"Nope." Ren glances back up at the moon again. Its familiar cratered face gazes back at him patiently, but all of a sudden he feels like he's seeing it in all its loveliness for the first time. "...Are you looking at it right now?"
"Do you want me to be?" Goro shoots back, the playful dip of his voice sending Ren's stomach swooping. Do you want me to be? God, he's such an asshole.
Ren wishes Goro could hear him roll his eyes over the phone. "It's a yes or no question."
He hears rustling, and then footsteps. "Yes, I'm looking at it, too," Goro says softly.
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in which Goro quits his job, cuts his hair, and gets a dog (not necessarily in that order)
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- Part 1 of bonnet of pins
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11 Aug 2025
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Akira takes a step back. His lungs expand, and the back of his throat aches as he gathers the strength to say the biggest lie of his life:
“See ya.”
And they all go their separate ways.
---Akira's been searching for a way out of an impending doom for months. Akechi offers him just that, by asking him to switch sides.
If only things were that simple.- Language:
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11 Aug 2025
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Ren has never been so relieved to see a disgruntled expression in his life. His features are all the same as Ren remembers, nothing monstrous or out of place, just pure Akechi Goro—part annoyed and part irate.
Akechi’s eyes widen. They glow almost red in the sunlight. For a second, he looks genuinely, unobstructedly surprised.
“Amamiya,” Akechi says, and his voice is the best thing Ren has heard in months. “What are you doing here?”
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One year after the collapse of Maruki’s reality, Ren starts meeting a dead boy in his dreams.
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11 Aug 2025