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So when he’s told that, in the end, it’s going to be something as mundane as illness that will finally kill Akira—well. It’s the most ridiculous thing that Goro’s ever heard.
It should matter that Akira is far bigger than life and death.
(Akira Kurusu is dead, Akira Kurusu is dying. Goro loved, loves, will always love him.)
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06 Apr 2026
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Now in their late twenties, on-again-off-again boyfriends Goro and Akira are finally off for good. For real this time. Really. And Akira is handling it fine, thank you very much.
Written for You Are Coming Down With Me: A Shuake Divorce Zine.
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Akechi's had a good day, and Ren has had a bad one. He’s going to show up to their final meeting smiling and well-rested. He’s looking forward to it. This is going to be easy. It’s going to be fun.
The phone call comes just as he reaches Shibuya station. Akechi leans against the wall, shadowed by a pillar at the Ginza gate, as he takes it. “There’s been a change of plan,” says the man he loathes more than anyone else alive. “Stand by.”
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06 Apr 2026
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“I’d hoped you'd come find me, too,” says Amamiya.
Perhaps he would have. It's only that in Akechi's version of events, there's nothing fuzzy at all about pulling the trigger and watching Amamiya's brains drip down the back wall.-
on november 20th, akechi goro kills the leader of the phantom thieves. on january 1st, dr maruki takuto brings him back.
(or: au where akechi's plan goes off without a hitch, and 2/2 goes a little differently.)
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15 Feb 2026
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They’d spent the remainder of the evening like that, the shrill whine of cicadas outside lulling them both to sleep. Akira’s fingers had been partially entangled in Akechi’s hair when he woke up, and if they’d had a revelation about the trajectory of their relationship the following morning, neither of them acknowledged it.
“God fucking—fuck!”
Akira upended the stack of photos and watched them scatter across the floor, suppressing the urge to grind them beneath his heel.
By this time the following evening, Goro Akechi would be dead.
By this time the following evening, Akira Kurusu’s heart would be buried with him.
Written for Antithesis last year.
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Akira Kurusu has seen Goro Akechi die twice and somehow still manages to go on with his life after the fact. So, when what by all accounts appears to be a dream figuration of the Akechi he remembers appears into the Velvet Room, Akira knows better than to fall for the same old trick.
Until Dream Akechi starts quoting Descartes. Then it's chaos.
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Written for the Akeshuake Tanabata Big Bang 2025!
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27 Dec 2025
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Five years later, Ren is a moderately popular streamer and Akechi is a well-known author/model/talk show guest with a rabid fanbase. They haven't spoken— at least, not until Ren calls Akechi his celebrity crush on stream.
im da joker baby @jokeren2
@AkechiGoro can't believe I didn't get a mention in your book. I thought we had something special ;-;Akechi Goro @AkechiGoro
How would you know? You clearly haven't read it.Series
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04 Dec 2025
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The Happiness Game! by engraved (Ludicrously_Idiotic), shouldbeworking
Fandoms: Persona 5
15 Nov 2025
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The Phantom Thieves have nearly secured their route through Maruki's Palace. There’s only one section left: The Twilight Corridor. A paradise where everything is perfect, and everyone is always smiling.
In order to enter that place, the Thieves must first prove they've "completed orientation" and can be "happy." There are points, there is a scoreboard, and they’re locked together in an experimental space where wishes can be granted by simply saying them aloud. Everyone has to individually earn 100 happiness points, or no one is leaving.
So what is “happiness,” really? How does Maruki define happiness? What the hell is a quantifiable happiness point? Is there any way around this? Don’t these stupid kids realize this is a trick to get them to fall back into the thrall of Maruki’s reality? And why can’t Goro earn any fucking points?
(Or: I've been watching too much Dropout Game Changer and I’ve built an Akechi torture chamber.)
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16 Nov 2025
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akeshu instant classic this will go down in the books for me what the fuck
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On the first of January, Kurusu Akira wakes up in Akechi Goro's bed.
In the time they had spent together, he had known the beast that hid behind the Detective Prince's charm, but there was something magnetic about his spite that Akira found electric, so he flirted ever-closer to the storm that was Akechi Goro with eyes open and hand outstretched. Maybe, in the earlier days, he thought that he could endear himself to Akechi and avoid the murder plot, but the more he got to know him, the more impossible it seemed.
Now, things are different. They're in a world after Shido, and Akechi still breathes within Akira's reach.
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12 Nov 2025
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Ren visits Goro at his greenhouse, intent on asking him about the recent disappearance of several of his admirers.
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11 Nov 2025
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His heart is still pounding. He leans against the wall of a nearby store and waits for his nerves to settle. Though actually, who the hell knows. Maybe there's a vein embedded in it, and he's really leaning on one of Maruki's tendrils again. It was days ago that happened, and he still has nightmares about it.
He breathes. He's okay. Everything's fine. How could it be otherwise?
Alone in Maruki's reality, surrounded by ghosts and the twisted veins of Mementos, Ren fights a hopeless battle against despair. A wounded blue butterfly flutters at the edge of his vision.
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17 Oct 2025
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Sex worker Angel Devil; frequent patron and full-time devil hunter Aki Hayakawa. Angel “I do not dream of labor” Devil makes money for "easy" work by entertaining human desires for cash. Aki finds solace in Angel’s embrace.
aka: an AU where Aki’s coping mechanisms are slightly more maladaptive, and Angel isn’t a devil hunter.