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It’s worse when Mementos reflects the changing of the seasons and he has to think about cypress he’ll never see again, or the way the heat cuts across vision like a knife in summer.
It’s the worst when even Shadows held at gunpoint dissolve into tripled, full-bellied laughter, when slicing them down the middle reveals a heap of shopping vouchers with the expiry date set for a December in the next year.
(Akechi Goro receives his first Christmas surprise in the depths of Mementos.)
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When he finally got up to follow the blue butterfly out the room and down the corridor, one of them found him and steered him round again. To wait, they said, in case people came to visit, uncles or aunties or neighbors and so on.
“But no one’s come,” he said, but they put him back anyway.
No one had dropped by to see his mother, except the butterfly which had been realer than the quiet that went on, and on, and on.
(On fate, friendship, and an epilogue deserved. What if Akechi was the original Trickster and guest of the Velvet Room?)
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The voice hisses, “You really are attic trash.” A voice his mind sees, his skin knows, before his gaze does, a voice shaped darkly around this cold metal on his skin like a —
“Kiss,” Akira tries to deadpan, though it comes out as a rasp. “No kiss to wake me? Real charming, Prince.”
(Maruki bad-end AU. Years later, Akechi breaks Akira out of one dream and right into Day #1 of another.)
Series
- Part 2 of Eden