hey look a persona whump dream
may have forgotten a few ideas/events, but im doing my best to remember it all 👀 may also write this down into an actual story? maybe
Takes place during the time Akiren has been arrested and put into juvenile hall, roughly a few days into his sentence.
He was getting ready to go into a conference room to talk with someone, he doesn’t know if its Sojiro, or Sae, or anyone he knows so he just assumes at best its just an officer or another interrogator who wants to keep pressing him for information about the other Thieves.
But after getting into the room, he’s immediately stabbed by the person who wanted to meet him, the interrogator from his November interrogation. It’s a small switchblade, and it catches him off guard.
Akiren reasonably tries to escape. Stumbling, crawling, reaching, the entryway to escape or call another officer to help him out (though he knew too well that the latter wouldn’t happen)
His mind races with a ton of things, but mostly set on pressing hard on his stab wound and getting to a medical office to treat himself. Bad mindset to have, considering the guy was still in the room (or he had already fled, he didn’t really notice)—he’s just focused on surviving.
But he gets light headed and bleeds out, going unconscious before he could get himself out of the room.
The next day he wakes up in the infirmary, patched up and bandaged. But, what makes him confused was the feeling of a healing spell on him; he recognizes Diarama from anywhere, but as far as he knew, the Metaverse was gone.
Then a riot happens in the hall, and taking the chance, he sets out to find the interrogator using whatever means and items he could get, which included a few needles and drugs, and a switchblade of his own.
A part of him didn’t want to acknowledge that he was set on torturing the man, to inflict every ounce of pain he received last November, but the desire was becoming hard to control as the riot turned into a distraction for most of the officers.
At some point, he overhears a few people talking about him, like wondering where he went when he’s supposed to only be in the infirmary, and he was about to ignore them until he heard Sojiro’s and Futaba’s names being mentioned.
It turns out that after “visiting” Akiren, the interrogator went to the Sakura household to tell them about what he did, trying to claim some stuff to put himself in a better light (and Akiren into a worse one).
But Futaba argued back, told the interrogator he was a liar, and threatened to hurt her like he had done so to Akiren.
Akiren sees red, and finds the interrogator, going onto torture and “interrogate” him; the roles of the November interrogation being reversed, so to speak.
Although Akiren found it hard to put on his Joker personality, it increasingly became a natural, outward representation, of his bloodlust and anger. And he found himself liking the feeling, like hurting the interrogator made him feel better in a way stealing a heart could never achieve.
The recreation of the interrogation became a game to Akiren; there was no telling if the next thing he did was inject more drugs, made more cuts, or the like, and even more so regarding if the sequence was going to end.
It a constant guess if Akiren would let the interrogator die, or let him hang on the edge of his life.
Though it does end in the latter once the riot has been resolved. Yet that doesn’t stop Akiren from clearly establishing that he could do the entire process again if word about their interaction would spread.
The rest of Akiren’s days in juvenile hall was uneventful, but he did have fun toying with the interrogator whenever they saw each other; he’d flash a smile, and it would make the interrogator unsettled, increasing his paranoia.
