My piece for the @goroakechizine! Thank you so much for having me! 💕 Please check out their social media for leftover sales! The book itself looks fantastic, but there’s also lots of amazing merch you can buy as well!
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Fandom: Persona 5
Title: Tempest
Rating: T
Characters: Akechi
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Everything washes out in a rainstorm: color, sound, tears. Akechi would rather die than let anybody see him like this—an ugly mess of snot, spit, and hiccuping sobs. There’s nothing cute, nothing pitiable, about a tantrum at his age.
It’s just gross. He’s gross.
The people on the train must think he’s crazy when he gets off at Inokashira Park in the middle of a storm. He is crazy—crazier than they’ll ever know. If any of them recognized him, they’ll have realized by now that they were mistaken because their bright-eyed and immaculate Detective Prince would never make a fool of himself like this.
Goro Akechi belongs to the public, and thus, Goro Akechi mustn’t throw tantrums. But his wilting heart isn’t for them to see, so let him encase it in concrete and watch it struggle up through the cracks. The Phantom Thieves can play up their coy little vigilante act, can break all the rules in the name of their justice , but Akechi has always been made to wear his righteousness like shackles.
He doesn’t need to see the deepest pits of Mementos to know where those trains go.
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