#relationshipcrimes

[phanficlovep5]

the machinery

Author Name: relationshipcrimes

Rating: G

Words: 1,107

CW/TW (Remember to Read the Tags Before Reading!): Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Rating: 13/10

Two Sentence Summary: The Phantom Thieves prepare to steal Akechi’s heart. Then they realize it will most likely kill him.

Despite how short this work is, it left a strong impression on me! It has an interesting and wonderfully symbolic palace concept and explores how the palace can affect the shadow instead of vice versa. Akechi’s hopelessness contrasting with Akira’s unshaken determination to save him made me very emotional. Definitely one of my favorite fics!

Submitted by: @nardaviel

Approved by: Sirin

[motsuki]

chocolate bastard

[sector-z-knd]

An audio fanfiction by @aryashi and @lost-kinn. All voices done by me.

Link to fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17400464/chapters/48122134

Artwork taken from the official Hollow Knight video game

[honeydots]

#GOD goro in q2 literally has made me so emo#theres been a thing ive wanted to write about it for a while.......one day 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

LISTEN q2 ruined me........... his mini character arc................. his limited yet meaningful interactions................... ken and koromaru reaching out to him................ and also THIS:

(from his wiki)

So I am a BIT. emotional. and inspired. stay tuned.

[futuresoon]

hello.......... what about... "59. Trapped in a labyrinth"

...seeing as i’m about 40k into one of those already, minus the trapped aspect, here is a non-spoilery paragraph from chapter four.

“You know, when I saw you again on Christmas Eve, I kinda…” Really wanted to hug you and maybe kiss you, but Sae was there and also I was like processing so many different things at once, but I did want to. That whole night I kept wishing I’d done it. God, that’s the story of us, a succession of me wishing I’d done something while I had the chance, over and over. He does not say any of that. “…I was just really happy,” he finishes lamely.

[kiramessa]

relationshipcrimes mentioned you on a post “in incredibly broad strokes, insfoar as i can see, P5R is a story...”

@softspokensansa​ and also thank u again for all your hard work on the translations!!!!! your translations have been brightening my days for the past week!!!!

sdjfdsafhskadfjdsl thank you so much ;___; it’s been a while since i really sat down and applied myself to putting my japanese skills to use, so to know (1) i still retained enough knowledge to do something with it, and (2) i can share that knowledge with others makes me! really happy!!

i’ll get paid closer to the end of the month so i’ll be importing the game myself and going through it to add any new bits or just expand on stuff that is scattered throughout the main game. i know that on top of the theme of rebelling against society, they also put in a new theme about wanting to achieve happiness by taking away the thing that caused pain. i think this is a deliberate comparison to the way the PT force a change of heart on someone, instead of that person coming to contrition/redemption naturally. it’s almost like the devs are acknowledging the PT’s methods are fucked up--and they double down on that by making the PT responsible for maruki’s powers.

[mollypaup]

relationshipcrimes replied to your post: Hey actually what if Akechi literally couldn't...

like literally even if akechi knew about treasures as a concept or even a thing to steal, why would he think to send a calling card in the real world to make it manifest? you could know everything there is to know about palaces and how cognitions work, and nothing about that would even *hint* at the idea that a “treasure” mechanic exists, let alone how to use it

Oh yeah! I definitely think that expecting him to figure out how Treasures work all on his own in canon is pretty unreasonable. Igor straight up had to create Clippy-the-Cat to help Akira and the PT’s, but I also love the concept of Yaldabaoth manipulating Akechi to the point that he couldn’t have stolen the treasure even if he wanted to. 

Maybe he made them invisible to his ward, or directly prevented them from manifesting in the palace, or somehow influenced their location? It’s wholly possible that he never even saw the weird oil-spill-on-reality form of a treasure because he doesn’t go looking for it, and the Thieves always encounter the palace ruler long before they lay eyes on their treasure.

Akechi seeing the Phantom Thieves in Okumura’s palace stealing something invisible to him? Standing in Niijima’s palace and not being able to see whatever it is that the others are planning to steal?

Or Akechi seeing a treasure for the first time in Okumura’s palace and realizing things could have been different had he known back then, or maybe would have known if he had only looked a little harder. But they weren’t, and what’s done is done. There’s only the one path left for him to take.

[aryashi]

🌻

hey

hey guess what

what i wanna say is that you’re the best. the BEST you hear me.