19 Bookmarks by zenafiros
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Futaba sighs, walking farther to collapse on a nearby bench. “… it’s called Hanahaki. It’s actually a super popular trope in stories online—that’s how I recognized it. People who have it… well, you saw how Akira was. They grow flowers in their lungs and puke it up when it gets too bad.”
“And do you know its origins?" Goro asks. "Anything that could link back to Maruki? He must have added it for a reason.”
“... Yeah, I think so. That’s kinda why I wanted to talk to you about this alone.” Futaba brings her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them. “People only get Hanahaki if they love someone who doesn’t love them back.”
or; a strange status effect fills Akira's lungs with flowers. Goro is left to care for him—and to grapple with what the disease means.
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06 Jul 2024
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both thieves and heroes wear masks (some are more ridiculous than the others) by Yukari
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
02 Jun 2019
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After Goro let out another irritated sigh, the barista of his favorite cafe finally couldn’t stop himself from breaking the silence.
“So, what was it this time, detective? Because something happened, right?” Ren asked. He couldn’t hide the hint of curiosity in his voice.
“Are you trying to tell me you haven’t seen the news today?” He hoped he didn’t sound as tired as he felt.
“Uh, no. I was actually waiting for you to tell me in person. It’s more interesting than these clickbait articles, you know?”
Goro Akechi is a young detective investigating a group of thieves who commit their crimes while dressed as fictional characters.
He accidentally gets a little more out of it than he bargained for.- Language:
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12 May 2024
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“You–” Akira begins, chokes on the word, tries again, “you’re here again. How are you here?”
“Hm?” At this, Akechi gently pulls him away, eyebrows knitted in concern as his hand moves to Akira’s cheek. “What do you mean? I told you yesterday that I had plans to go shopping with Mother here, didn’t I?”
Akira’s blood runs cold in his veins.
or; Goro's greatest wishes become reality, and Akira must break him out of it - that is, if he can find the heart to.
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27 Mar 2024
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The smile on Ren’s face grew as he watched the new gardener hiss and scowl at a dying strawberry plant. The new gardener had only been there for two weeks, but that was long enough for Ren to be sure that he had no idea what he was doing.
He watched as the new gardener picked up the hose and sprayed the stream right into a group of strawberry plants. Strawberries that were very clearly dying from overwatering.
The new gardener was pretty though. And very entertaining to watch.
Well, maybe today was the day for him to make introductions. He wanted to at the very least learn the name of the strawberry drowner before he was inevitably fired.- Language:
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25 Feb 2024
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Akechi wants a dog. Specifically, a puppy from the latest Amada litter: the seventh generation of Koromaru descendants. And Ren wants to give one to him.
All Akechi has to do is ask.
[Set holy shit TWENTY years post-canon and two years post-the end of blink.]
Series
- Part 9 of Tricksters
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21 Feb 2024
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“Nobody seems to know what to do with you. When I received the call, the warden seemed bewildered that you were even here at all.” It was a phone call that Naoto would not soon forget—the chilling way that the warden seemed to continually forget what he was asking mid-sentence, unable to latch onto Akechi’s name as if his existence was something contingent on his direct and immediate presence.
Akechi bared his teeth, eyes in shadow. “Nobody has ever known what to do with me,” he said, voice dripping acid.
“Then, this should be refreshing for you,” he said, delighting in the way that Akechi’s gaze sharpened as Naoto plucked a nonexistent piece of lint from his coat. “You’re coming with me. To Inaba.”
At the end of P5R, the world forgets Akechi.
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22 Jan 2024
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When Joker manages to divert disaster in the engine room, he and Akechi find themselves in a waiting game that requires no lies, no fighting, and no murder attempts for the first time since they met.
What an odd idea.
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04 Jan 2024
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As if Ren could walk through Shibuya without thinking about the not-so coincidental meetings at the train platform each morning, or stop himself from looking over at the entrance of Penguin Sniper each time he was in Kichijoji, searching for a figure that would no longer be there. That melancholy lingers in every jazz record that Ren played on his phone, in every cup of coffee that he brewed for an empty, unfulfilled audience.
Tokyo is a city marked by the ghost of Akechi Goro on every corner, and it was both Ren’s happiness and regret to bear.
(or: boy with cat runs around Tokyo on a treasure hunt because a mystery number told him to do so)
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Written for the spookiss 2023 minibang!
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02 Dec 2023
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“I suppose I can escort you there,” they say, closer than they’d ever been before, the sound of their voice right against his ear involuntarily sending a shiver up his spine. “Given your status as an esteemed guest and all.”
Akira scowls. Instinctively drawn to resist, he begins the motion to wrangle his arm free from them, but finds himself freezing as he finally looks at the stranger’s face.
His face.
Because despite the fact that his hair is now shock white and his eyes are glowing a pale yellow, there is no world where Akira Kurusu would not immediately recognize Goro Akechi.
(or: two years after Akechi's disappearance, Akira finds a familiar face in the Velvet Room.)
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18 Nov 2023
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Akira couldn’t feel his hands anymore, a blessing, probably, considering his frostbitten toes ached with every step he took. He didn’t try to warm himself anymore, entirely focused on the figure marching forward ahead of him, of their escape just a little ways ahead.
How was Akechi still moving? How was he moving even faster? Every step Akira took sent freezing snow into his boots, seeping into his legs and forcing him to slow as they crystallized. The wind lashed them like a whip, each hit beating them back little by little.
Akira only fell behind by a step at first.
Or: Years after the Phantom Thieves destroyed their last god, Akira and Goro are invited to a remote cabin for Haru's yearly holiday get-together. Trapped and isolated by an unexpected snowstorm, they're forced to face the many issues that come with repeatedly dying and coming back to life.- Language:
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13 Oct 2023
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“Find someone else.”
It takes a second for Akira to understand, but once he does, his answer is immediate. “There is no one else.”
The laughter that chokes its way out of Goro’s throat is pained, almost maniacal. “Are you blind? You’re surrounded by people who will drop everything if it means having a chance with you. You could be happy with anyone else in your life, Joker.”
“I don’t want any of them. I’ve made my choice a long time ago. You know this.”
or; Goro and Akira spend two years in a nebulous, undefined relationship. (Don't worry, they get there eventually.)
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04 Oct 2023
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(tore my shirt to stop you bleeding) but nothing ever stops you leaving by arukana
Fandoms: Persona 5
05 Sep 2020
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February 13th 9:05 PM:
everyone threw me a coming home party
it's weird it doesn't really feel like coming home
and it's weird texting you so casually but i know you'll neverFebruary 13th 9:46 PM:
sorryor the fic in which Akira texts a dead man
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07 Sep 2023
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Maybe this is it. He’s seen parts of Akira’s home before in photos. Maybe this was all his subconscious regurgitating fragments of images and tying them up with his insecurities and deepest fears.
That has to be it. Because otherwise, Goro would have an interdimensional creature with powers to highjack his dreams trying to manipulate him into giving up his new life.
And also because...
That other Akira.
That Akira didn’t seem to care Goro was dead.
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As Akira and Goro spend their first Christmas together, someone decides to show Goro how Akira mourns him in parallel universes: not at all.
Shuake Week 2021: Grief – Dreams - Coffee
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06 Sep 2023
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Which means that the reason he is alive now, is because the perfect, angelic saviour Ren Amamiya has decided to let his mercy reign and bring his murderer of a rival back from the dead. And for what? To arrest Akechi himself? Finally rub it all in his face and laugh at him in the end.
No.
That is not your choice to make.
“You motherfucker!”
Or: The shuake time travel AU with a twist.
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- Part 1 of Tales of Chaos
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22 Aug 2023
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When Akira sees Akechi again in Shibuya, a whole year after the collapse of the false reality, it is a surprise to literally no one when he immediately chases him down. It's still not a surprise when it happens again, and again, and again. It's even less of a surprise when the two decide to make a game out of it.
It's round three; the game is on. And as if Akira would let his rival slip away from him again this time.
[or, the inherent romanticism in playing cat and mouse with your rival who thought you were dead, except from the pov of said rival, with the addition of his merry band of friends.]
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24 Jul 2023
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It seems strange that the universe would curse people with the possibility of meeting a soulmate through nightmares. For most, it’s by way of dreams or some kind of connection during slumber, but fate has always liked to make a mockery of Akira, and thus gives him the reverse.
His mind recognises his soulmate through shared bad dreams. And they’re not just bad, they’re terrifying.
Written for ShuAke week prompts: soulmates + nightmares
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- Part 3 of ShuAke week 2020
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31 Mar 2023
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Akechi meets a mysterious being chained to a door after death and gains a second chance.
Translation to Chinese:
Chapter 1-29 by Cloudd: http://cloud-yunchangde.lofter.com/post/1e2d1c46_1cd01d3b0
Chapter 53 onwards by 乐乌: https://www.lofter.com/front/blog/collection/share?collectionId=23790157
(Visit 乐乌's lofter profile for news on where the middle chapters are!)Translation to Spanish:
1st Translation by LoveAllTheShips853: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43105491/chapters/108326403
2nd Translation by buyobuyoyo:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76968921Podfic by psiodynes
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64522453/chapters/165699772Series
- Part 1 of of marigolds and carnations
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08 Dec 2022
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Yesterday Upon The Stair by PitViperOfDoom
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
12 Oct 2019
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Midoriya Izuku has always been written off as weird. As if it's not bad enough to be the quirkless weakling, he has to be the weird quirkless weakling on top of it.
But truthfully, the "weird" part is the only part that's accurate. He's determined not to be a weakling, and in spite of what it says on paper, he's not actually quirkless. Even before meeting All-Might and taking on the power of One For All, Izuku isn't quirkless.
Not that anyone would believe it if he told them.
(This story now has a TV Tropes page!)
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- Part 1 of Deku Sees Dead People
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13 Mar 2018
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"What's so great about America?" "Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, Super-sized meals, I don't know Simon." "Then why can't we just go home?" "Because we can't, now would you please stop whining?"
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27 Jul 2016