As much as I think Akechi hates romantic movies and stories (because he's cynical and he thinks that love like that isn't real or possible irl), I do think that he'd be a bit seduced by Joker the great Metaverse Phantom Thief...
Like you know what? Maybe it WOULD be nice to be targeted by this charming, dashing, mysterious Phantom Thief of Hearts, one who's a gentleman and who would bow down to kiss Akechi's hand and sweep him off his feet and into the night, away from all the awful shit going on in his life... Wouldn't that be nice?
And ofc Akechi hates that fantasy with a burning passion, he sees that desire as a temporary moment of weakness, but it keeps coming back to him when he's overhelmed and tired and it's lowkey easier to just let it play out in his mind rather than to fight it.
It makes Akechi feel like his own mind and heart are betraying him, he's embarassed that something so cheesy and naive has such a hold over him, but he can't really do anything about it... (Or doesn't want to, deep in his heart)
(No matter how much he'd like to deny it, at the end of the day he's just a highschool guy going through a teenage crush lmao).
