mybrainproblems replied to your post “I just want Akira to trip in an extremely public place and for...”
crime??? nah i don't do crime— [trips] [hundreds of thousands of lock picks spill out of jacket] w-what the fuck these arent mine im just [gathering them up frantically sweating] listen i just listen fuck [thousands of phantom thieves calling cards scatter across the floor] shit fuck im holding them for a friend just listen
DAMN IT NOW I WANT IT SO MUCH MORE...! I immediately imagined this and wrote it down so now you have to suffer through this dumb fantasy too:
It happens in a school hallway. Ryuji is looking on in a panic, his expression suggesting he might be about to bodily cover the mess. Morgana has run off, shouting something like good luck, and Akira's time to explain ticks away second by second. He can’t get all these lockpicks back into his pockets. They’re everywhere. People have already seen. Eventually he stands with the mess still around him, hands shaking. A crowd has gathered.
“Is he really one of the phantom thieves?” an onlooker asks, their whisper carrying. The crowd goes utterly still, waiting for Akira to answer---to confirm or deny. This is life or death; the police are looking for them. A terrible solution presents itself.
“I roleplay,” he says. His voice is too small even in the silence.
“What did he say?” several onlookers ask their friends. He’s used to the whispering by now, but some part of him mourns the mild popularity he’s gained since arriving---the popularity he’s about to lose.
“Ryuji and I. We... we roleplay being phantom thieves.” His shoulders slump. “We were going to go somewhere after school and pretend to steal someone’s heart.”
There’s a chuckle, quickly stifled---then more, until it’s a tide of noise, no longer held at bay. Everyone is laughing, and Akira stands still as a statue in the centre of it all---but it works. The spectacle is over and the crowd dissipates, pairs and threesomes walking away in shared amusement.
He tilts his head back in quiet surrender, because not even debonair charm will save him now; he closes his eyes and waits for Ryuji to murder him.