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goro "intrusive thoughts" akechi ([personal profile] enteloki) wrote2024-03-06 07:47 pm

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placation: rosebursts (it won't get any better)

[personal profile] placation 2025-06-20 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
No, I haven't.

[ The thought has never occurred to him in either reality. Not until now, with Akechi bringing it forth as something he might consider doing.

Maruki's eyes flutter open, blinking up at the stars for a moment before he tips his head to look at Akechi next to him.
]

Do you think I should? I don't know where to start, honestly...

[ It can't be surprising to Akechi, can it? He's horrible at wanting anything for himself, even now. ]
diedeliberately: (forsythia 39)

crying...it's special...

[personal profile] diedeliberately 2025-06-20 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He definitely doesn't feel like owning up to the booze and smokes. As much as Neil hates to admit it, Akechi is a bit of a Cameron. He doesn't feel like being lectured. As for the cave, that...will have to remain a secret at least for now.]

Just a couple of minor things like you said. Books, a radio. I finally wished for my prescription reading glasses back.
belheir: (046)

[personal profile] belheir 2025-06-21 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Joy is what he smells as Akechi's blade digs deep i to the monsters and rips them apart. Unrestrained, feral glee is what Kazuya sees and scents as Akechi takes stock of the damage he'd caused.

His left eye flicks red, and he grins, sharp and a little wild. Egged on by the apparent praise he's recieved. Every last speck of demonic energy inside him buzzes, all too pleased.

He takes a bow, like hes the best showman in the world, and looks up at Akechi from his spot.
]

I can do so much more than that, you know. Would you like to see a real show?
placation: placation (art: pixiv 11317886) - dns (and that is how it ends)

hdghog

[personal profile] placation 2025-06-22 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Any other day, Maruki might write that off as flippant, sarcastic...

But this does seem like genuine advice. He nods slowly, considers it. Akechi biking around Tokyo, eavesdropping on conversations – they've talked about that once before, haven't they? It's a blessing and a curse that they've had so many conversations over such a long year of knowing one another that some things have begun to blend and fade.

He doesn't want that. He wants it all to remain clear and sharp as crystalline glass in his mind. He wants–

More time.

More experiences.

More.

If he had a bucket list, that might be all it said, really. More. He really can be such a selfish man when he lets himself go.
]

You're right. People certainly talk enough here, whether they realize someone's listening or not.

[ It's idle conversation, acknowledging Akechi's words, but what he really wants to say cuts in quick. ]

I got the idea for bouldering from listening to you, after all. [ His voice is quiet, low. Just in case another resident happens to be outside tonight, this conversation shouldn't carry. It's only for them. ] Perhaps I could think of more things for us to do together. A list like that doesn't really appeal to me if it's done alone.
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june intense event!

[personal profile] petsthedog 2025-06-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[All at once, everything is chaos. That's how it seems to go every couple months.

Last time, he'd been caught flatfooted, with nothing to defend himself from the danger but his fists. It wasn't enough. Qifrey had died. This time ... he still hadn't meant to be caught up in the thick of it all, certainly not to fight. Everything had changed in the space of a wish. A mistake Shinjiro needed to undo before his oldest friend ended up just like him, a shell hosting a broken spirit.

Nothing for it, now. The idea of scrubbing the tattoo clean hasn't occurred to him, and so the mark of shackles remain on his wrists, poorly covered even by long sleeves, and if he has no choice but to bear with his Persona's return to his soul, well -- he won't shrink from it. So when he sees a familiar young man seemingly cornered by one of the corrupted crystal beasts lunging at his throat, too far to reach, Shinjiro doesn't hesitate. He removes the evoker from his coat and fires it at his head in a smooth motion, as though it hasn't been six months since he's done such a thing.]


Castor!

[The Persona bursts forth, charging into the corrupted individual with the force of a tank. Shinjiro runs over afterward, offers Akechi his hand.]

C'mon, let's get outta here.

[He makes no comment on his Persona's presence, or that he had met Akechi's desire to see it with refusal and suspicion. There's larger concerns now, as far as he's concerned.]
belheir: (022)

[personal profile] belheir 2025-06-23 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
You want a bloodbath, huh? I'll have to change up my tactics a little, then.

[After all, most of his preferred method of magic leave nothing left of whoever it is who happens to be on the receiving end. Though if it's a bloody show that Akechi wants, perhaps a more physical method of attack is the best.]

Though I'd like to see you keep up with me.

[A wink, and Kazuya is off towards the next gleam of moving crystalline monsters, and he's fast. Akechi will have a hard time keeping up, though not impossible either. Kazuya wants him to bear witness, after all]
mastery: (pic♯17860047)

[personal profile] mastery 2025-06-24 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... If you want people to listen, sometimes you have to make them. Even if they believe it, the truth isn't doing them much good if they don't care.

[ He says it in the same tone that a parent might use when describing a child's bad habit - casual and flippant, and just a little bit irritated by the entire thing - and shakes his head as he finishes. Then he lifts his cup off the table, stares down at it, then sets it back on the table without drinking from it. ]

I'm sure it's not easy.
placation: placation (art: unifybullseye) - dns (of a panoramic scene)

1. stop that, 2. should we wrap... howls miserably

[personal profile] placation 2025-06-25 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's as much outright acquiescence as Maruki expects, and the true depth of it hardly needs to be spoken for it to be known. Of course Akechi will join him. He didn't ask, because he already knew the answer.

It's a rare gift, to have time given so freely by someone who never wants to be seen giving at all. Rarer still when all that time is borrowed if fate can't be defied.

He doesn't give voice to any of it. Just grins up at unfamiliar stars, their joint misery searing hot through his memories like the curry that nearly killed them, and then fishes his phone out of his pocket to start looking for the most horrible pictures he can find.
]

I seem to recall you enjoying yourself. [ No, Akechi didn't. ] Let me see if I can jog your memory about how much fun you had...
diedeliberately: (forsythia 19)

[personal profile] diedeliberately 2025-06-25 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Truthfully, I didn't really wear them as much as I was supposed to back home, either. I found a similar pair at one of the shops in Stellari, but they give me a headache after too long.

I suppose I just had other priorities.
Edited 2025-06-25 23:15 (UTC)
petsthedog: (pic#12716683)

[personal profile] petsthedog 2025-06-25 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Indeed, Shinjiro looks far more interested in escaping than hanging back to fight. He doesn't dismiss Castor right away if only to provide them cover as they start to go. His Persona may not have many versatile abilities, but it is just as good at dishing out damage as it is absorbing it, ultimately.]

Two of us, huh? And here I thought you were just some detective.

[Phrased perhaps just a little pointedly, but he's not unhappy the other teen isn't defenseless here, honestly. Less responsibility, that way.]
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[personal profile] petsthedog 2025-06-26 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[That's -- a Persona.

Shinjiro does freeze for a moment to stare at it, at the way the creature just appears with no need for an Evoker. He's not sure what he assumed Akechi could do, a moment ago, but somehow -- it wasn't this. He finds himself thinking -- of course. He knew there was something being held back in that last conversation, knew Persona wasn't the kind of thing a person just stumbled on out of the blue, without being involved somehow. Maybe it really did involve his cases, though somehow, the same way Yamagishi had awakened to her power after being locked in Tartarus for a night, or maybe this guy was just messing with him. It doesn't really matter now, he supposes. What's important is getting somewhere safe.

...Except then Akechi stops, turns, and attacks, and Shinjiro can't help but find himself thinking of Akihiko, lingering in Tartarus to finish fights with Shadows even after Yamagishi sensed a Reaper coming.]


This is reckless.

[He has to offer the warning, even though they've lost the element of surprise that would've given them an edge for running now.]

...But if we're gonna fight, we oughta at least lure it toward the crystal. Chances are this is one of us.

[Even with their lives in danger -- with these creatures no longer recognizable as the people they were, Shinjiro's...reluctant to actually kill them.]
belheir: (007)

cw: violence and guro..... and unfortunately ig npc based specisim/racism

[personal profile] belheir 2025-06-26 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
[A few make it past his massacre. Only because instead of using magic, instead of immolating or vaporizing the crystalline monsters where they stand, he opts for physical violence. A Piercing Strike as he slams his fist into one beasts chest hard enough to not only shatter the crystal, but puncture through its body entirely, leaving a gaping, bloody wound and coating his arm in viscera.

And then he pulls his arm back, shoving the stumbling creature into another before he strikes again, just as brutal, just as fast. They're all weaker than him, there's no contest as he strikes them all without mercy, the force of his Deathbound enough to sever limbs just from the sheer impact, leaving shattered crystal and scattered limbs around him from the onslaught. And-

He's enjoying it.

The scent of blood is strong in his nose. The feelings of elation rising higher and higher as the savagery of Bel is sated. Nowhere else could he let loose like this. No other targets would be appropriate.

But these are monsters. They're not people. They're not human. These ones aren't even former dreamers to worry about.

They're gelflings and goblins and dragonkin all caught up in the rapidly spreading ailment, and the cure is death. There's no reason for him to bring those he doesn't care for, doesn't know to the crystal to cleanse them. He doesn't care except to flaunt his power, his superiority and brutality on those that are clearly underneath him.

It's a fun game.
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