"I've been wondering how to answer such questions…"
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"I've been wondering how to answer such questions…"
Shuake fic where Ren and Akechi independently decide that they need to seduce the other for the sake of their missions. It takes place after rank 4 of Akechi's social link. Sae happened to see Ren and Akechi together when they left the Jazz Jin, and she had questions. Akechi went off to answer them on his own and Ren met up with Mona and explained what happened. While chatting with their respective guides, Mona and Sae said something to the effect of "idk man, it sounds like this guy really wants to date you". And that gave Ren and Akechi a stupid idea at the exact same time.
Akechi believes he can use seduction to put Ren in a vulnerable state, making it easier to extract information from him. Hell, he may even be able to manipulate Ren into becoming his accomplice, if he plays his cards right. Ren believes he can seduce Akechi over to the side of good with his lovable charm. Hell, Ren may get top secret information on the Phantom Thieves case to boot, if he plays his cards right.
The kicker is they're both wrong.
They'e both TERRIBLE at seducing each other, for completely different reasons.
Akechi's naturally anti-social, has zero dating experience, and can barely hold a real conversation with someone his age. He has no idea what being a boyfriend is like. The best he can do is guess how the detective prince should date someone (based on how 'good' romances play out in books/movies + whatever fantasies his fans post about him online); he should be sweet, polite, and adorably shy. Solid plan. But then that plan is ripped to shreds when he realizes that Ren doesn't actually LIKE that version of Akechi. Ren likes the 'real' him, the one that's mean, angry, and breaks things. Because Ren is a weird freak and this is the first time Akechi actually puts that together. So in practice, he and Ren don't do anything traditionally romantic, they just play their competitive games and have homoerotic trash talk. Then they make out. Is it working? Who knows, Akechi sure doesn't. He's a lot more comfortable with the manipulation part, but that doesn't yield the results he wants either, since Ren's so stubborn. It's annoying (it's also hot but Goro would never admit that out loud).
Ren has dating experience and is naturally charming (unlike Goro), so he's got the normal dating part down. The problem is that Ren is too distracted by his massive crush on Akechi to get any useful information out of him. He's just having so much fun actually getting to date him and kiss him and cuddle him, he can't help himself. They play 20 questions a lot, but every time Ren has the opportunity to ask about the case, he just asks about Akechi's hobbies/interests/passions instead. It's the REAL Akechi he's seducing, too, which makes it even harder to focus. Ren doesn't have the detective prince in his arms, he has the competitive, angry, PASSIONATE man behind that plastic smile! How could anyone focus, really? How could anyone keep their head on straight with something so tempting? Outside of that, Ren struggles to bring Akechi over to the good side, too. He doesn't like manipulating people (unless it's for something silly that doesn't matter, like goading Akechi into playing another game by bruising his ego), but even if he did, he still couldn't change Akechi's mind. He's dead set on capturing the Phantom Thieves. He's just too stubborn to change without a lot of work. Ren thinks it's hot (which he would admit out loud to almost anyone).
They both suck at it. But they still think the other is doing worse (because Ren is a love sick idiot and Akechi bit his own tongue the first time they kissed). Which means eventually, one of them will win. So they both just keep going forward with this stupid plan, internally freaking out yet somehow convinced that they have the other in the palm of their hand
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Accomplice AU
Throughout the game, you can see that Ren has quite a few nervous habits. For example, twirling a lock of hair around his finger or tapping his foot on the floor. And I think in the postcanon, Goro observes Ren's body reactions more often than he'd like to admit, as he still has a habit of bottling up his emotions and all that. So, the next time Akechi sees Ren nervously twirling a lock of hair around his finger, Goro grabs his hand and asks him outright what's bothering him, then touches Ren's hair himself, this time in a calming gesture.
happy 28th birthday to akechi goro 🎉🎉🎉 looks like his fiance has something special planned this year 👀
silly p5x event i got today that i had to doodle
Akechi's Birthday means it's been exactly a year since I released my first solo zine, all about Akechi's birthday! And so it shall be 50% off until 6/6! Get the discount through this link <3
wanted to draw something more elaborate for Akechi's birthday, but take this stupid shuake instead 😭😭😭
Happy birthday akechi <3 youre so loved
Happy birthday Akechi, hope you eat lots of yummy pancakes ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Anyway enjoy this Shuake art I did a few months back :3
I recently saw fan art of an AU where Ren awakens Raoul early and saves Akechi..
Ya boi is now fueled with ideas.. W.I.P list is becoming longer 😩😩
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I SAW THAT ONE TOO!!! I think it has an existing fic attached too iirc on ao3... i forget what its called though.
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Fallen Ancients AU [Glass Half Empty, page 11-12]
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When I say "shuake are soulmates" I'm not talking about Yaldobaoth choosing to pit them against each other. What I actually mean is that even before Joker and Akechi met, their souls (personas) already chose each other.
Robin Hood and Loki predate any of the phantom thieves' personas. What is Robin Hood? An honorable thief. Basically a counterpart to Arsene's gentleman thief.
Even more interesting is Loki. The rest of the Thieves only get their persona upgraded to a 'mythological trickster' upon their second awakening. From a purely gameplay perspective, you spend time with Joker's friends in order to give them stronger personas (grind and reward).
But Loki is known as a trickster god in Norse mythos. He is already a mythological trickster. From the beginning, Akechi was already what Joker needed him to be.
And then there's Arsene, who is so blatant that he's the reason I clocked shuake's soulmatism from the moment Joker awoke him (literally in kamoshida's palace I figured Joker would meet a detective rival in the story). Basic Arsene Lupin lore is that the character was written by author Maurice Leblanc as the 'French response' to Sherlock Holmes (for copyright reasons it's herlock sholmes).
Arsene exists because of Sherlock. So of course Joker is so obsessed with Akechi in-canon. That's literally what his soul is built for.
There's another layer to this.
The name "Goro Akechi" is inspired by the Japanese detective character "Kogoro Akechi" written by Japanese author Edogawa Ranpo (this is also the reason I clocked akechi as the rival the moment he introduced himself, I did my time in the BSD fandom). Kogoro Akechi is a detective character heavily inspired from Sherlock Holmes.
Edit: Forgot to mention that Kogoro Akechi's most infamous rival in the novels is named Kaijin or 'fiend/strange person' (originally Kaito Niju Menso, or Phantom Thief with Twenty Faces). Ranpo based that character on Arsene Lupin.
So Joker's soul is a thief character written to rival Sherlock Holmes, while Akechi's name comes from a detective character written to emulate Sherlock Holmes. Alone, they are incomplete. They've been searching for each other from the very beginning.
Joker and Akechi are fully soulmates, regardless of evil gods using them as pawns. No one else matches to the degree that they do, no one is as entwined as they are. Nothing had to trigger or evolve for this to happen either. They were just made for each other.
"I've got you."
they say the man I love is lost to me on ao3
The engine room, but Joker refuses to leave his rival and awakens to Raoul ten levels too early to get through that damn door.
Bonus +
A conversation with a Wish?
(Full Ghost and Wish AU on AO3)