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When Goro Akechi turns nineteen, the world as he knows it begins to shift.
Train rides and birthday parties alike are plagued by visions of the city he calls home crumbling under a blood-red sky. A strange girl in a blue dress warns him that time is running out, and that he must remember before it's too late. He dreams of a stranger with messy hair and gray eyes who knows him better than anyone ever has, and even though he doesn't know his name, Goro feels like he knows him, too.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that when Goro Akechi turns nineteen, the world as he knows it falls apart.
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He sighs. "I thought you might come. I hoped you wouldn't."
"Well, sorry to interrupt," Goro hisses out, injecting as much malice as he can muster.
Maruki's expression doesn't change from its sickening mask of pity. "…You don't have to throw your life away like this." -
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The day his mark appears, Ren wakes up screaming in pain.
It circles his throat like a scarred collar. Anemones, asphodels, and roses curling across his skin, maroon.
He’s 9 and his parents are horrified.
Everyone's born with flowers on their skin, leading them to their other halves. Ren and Akechi find each other when they're children first, their bond running deeper than most.
.This fic is being translated into Russian, thanks to Kasu! You can read it here!
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"Don't," says Akechi. His voice shakes. He wraps his arms around his middle like he's bleeding out from his core. "Go away. Don't bother with me, there's no point, I'm dead, I... fuck." He laughs, but even Ren, the curator of all things Goro Akechi, has never heard him make such a sound; despair has always taken him differently, wild and keening, barely leashed.
For a moment, Ren is back in the engine room, with Akechi crumpled on the cold floor before him, defeated and alone. Instinct screams a warning in the back of his head.
Under the effects of despair, Akechi lets slip a secret he would have preferred to take back to the grave. It's a kick in the teeth—no, it's worse, it's so much worse—but Ren can deal with it. He can deal with anything. He has to.
He wishes his friends would stop asking if he's okay.
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Bookmarked by Soleless_Sam
12 Jan 2024
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absolutely amazing fic I was gifted for a shuake secret santa!
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"I wonder," Akechi says, conversationally, "if I'm even capable of saying no to you, now."
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“You want me to arrange my own death.” It’s pathetic, that this is how his life works. So pathetic that the only thing left to do is laugh about it, about the way that he must die and never be happy, no matter what.
Igor laces his fingers together and leans forward. He’s every talk show host Akechi has ever spoken to, every interviewer who has smiled and told him how impressive they find him. “I want you to make the right choice.”
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Or: Ren makes the wrong choice. Akechi tries to set it right.
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- Part 1 of cracked into verse
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Akira has spent so long trying to rationalise Akechi’s plans - analysing his comments in combat, studying his profile at the Jazz Jin, watching him placidly sip coffee in Leblanc - that he’s almost forgotten what it’s like to be afraid of him. He’d felt a flicker of horror when Futaba played him the recording of Akechi arranging his murder, sure. But there was always a sense that they were missing a piece of the puzzle… That Akechi couldn’t be doing this of his own free will.
Akira had forgotten how it felt to fear him. He remembers now. Staring up at the blank, deadened expression on Akechi’s face, he feels terror slice through him like a knife, flaying him down to the bone. “Akechi.” He whispers, voice scratchy and faint.
Akechi raises his gun, dragging it across Akira’s cheek in a sick parody of a caress. “Akira.” He murmurs, eyes glinting with undisguised anticipation.
On November 20th, the cops inject Akira with a stronger sedative. Things spiral from there.
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Dr. Maruki is exploring other means to reach an elevated state of mind. Akira thinks taking drugs from a university dropout is a good idea.
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It's remarkably dull, knowing you aren't real.
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The centerpiece of the room is a massive fortune wheel. It sits on a black pedestal, the colorful segments each marked with different symbols of some kind. Akira moves closer to get a better look at them.
Out from behind the wheel walks a figure.
(There’s one last obstacle in Sae’s Palace, and when a world based on the principle of unwinnable games gets desperate, things get a little rough.)
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Bookmarked by Soleless_Sam
27 Dec 2023
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I've read this like 5 times and it gets me every time
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One of the greatest regrets Akira had about the plan, in the end, wasn’t even how fragile it was—he trusted his team to carry it out. It was that he’d never know what went down that day.
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i'll give you my best side, tell you all my best lies by blue_jean, Goumaden
Fandoms: Persona 5
04 Jan 2022
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Today is Friday, November 13, 2026, state the search results.
2026. This can't be happening.He opens the phone camera with shaking fingers. His face is reflected on the screen, but it's not his face, it's older and more angular and his bedhead's a completely different sort of mess than what he's used to. Which means—which means—
Akira Kurusu wakes up ten years in the future, blissfully married to his would-be murderer.
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And Goro thinks: This isn’t Kurusu. Kurusu is gone. This doll you created isn’t him—and if you think I’ll be won over by you dangling it in front of me, you truly know nothing about me.
It's January, and Maruki's given everyone what he thinks he wants. But Goro never wanted Akira Kurusu like this.
Written for Antithesis: A Joker/Crow Role Swap Zine (2022)
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“I understand that you think you’re doing the right thing,” Akira says. “But what makes someone happy isn’t necessarily what’s best for them. Sometimes a person getting what they want will only end up hurting them.”
Maruki squeezes Akira’s shoulder. “Well,” he says, smiling. “Sometimes it’s okay to get what you want. Sometimes what you want is what you need, too.”
(This is a horror story.)
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Shortly after the Vera Misham trial had wrapped up Klaver had taken leave – or as he had called it – a creative sabbatical. Ema is appalled when the precinct chief asks her to go and check up on him when he hadn’t been heard from in a couple of weeks and that's how she ends up at his apartment door with cold beer and Korean fried chicken in hand.
A fic about finding some closure and starting over.
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Every kid who turns Fourteen will find a soulmate duck with a red string around its neck, mirroring their soulmate's personality and eventually leading them together.
Goro doesn't believe there's a soulmate duck for him, until it knocks on his door, refusing to be ignored.
Akira desperately wants to believe there's a soulmate duck for him, until he meets a rather aggressive goose chasing his mother around a pond.
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Bookmarked by Soleless_Sam
06 Dec 2023
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bookmark: finished ch12
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Status Condition Week 2022 Day 1: Rage /
HungerPanther leans into the group and whispers as quietly as she can, “Do we have any tape for Crow’s mouth?”
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- Part 1 of status condition week 2022
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Ren comes home to find Akechi wearing his shirt. When he tries to find out what else Akechi stole things escalate.
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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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THUNDERMAN703: bro can we PLEASE find a new target already??? i know we're bffs and all but im sick of you blowing me off at the gym so you can write artsy-fartsy porn of some douchebag you shook hands with once
A particularly diseased AU where Akira won't stop uploading his Phantom Thieves of Hearts RPF to AO3.
Bookmarked by Soleless_Sam
29 Nov 2023
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The meta here is really something special.