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i'll give you my best side, tell you all my best lies by blue_jean, Goumaden
Fandoms: Persona 5
07 Feb 2026
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Today is Friday, November 13, 2026, state the search results.
2026. This can't be happening.He opens the phone camera with shaking fingers. His face is reflected on the screen, but it's not his face, it's older and more angular and his bedhead's a completely different sort of mess than what he's used to. Which means—which means—
Akira Kurusu wakes up ten years in the future, blissfully married to his would-be murderer.
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12 Dec 2024
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A not-insignificant part of his heart yearns to shake Akira awake, perhaps to encourage an encore of last night’s events or perhaps just to see if the light catches in his eyes the same way it illuminates the dust motes floating in the air between them. The stronger, more persistent fear of rejection that he can’t quite ignore—even after Akira finally admitted just how badly Goro is wanted—tells him not to bother. Most strangely, a part of him that still feels unfamiliar, and which is even more rarely listened to, focuses on just how relaxed Akira looks and says let him rest. It’s easiest to lean into those impulses, and so he pulls himself from Akira’s bed and into his bathroom to take a well-needed shower.
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23 Sep 2024
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The Phantom Thieves' plan has failed, and with little recourse, Akira is forced to think of a new plan on his own. But as tension mounts in the interrogation room, he lets his desires get the better of him.
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18 Sep 2024
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Ren intends to finally confess his love to his longtime crush, Goro Akechi. Will he be able to, or will tragedy strike the building just as he gains the courage?
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12 Sep 2024
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He fishes an Alert Capsule out of his endlessly deep pockets, inspecting it between two fingers before deciding it’s sufficient. It’s a small oblong object, not dissimilar to an ammonia inhalant. He crushes the middle of the capsule with his thumb and forefinger, color flooding the previously white surface, quickly maneuvering his hand between the pointed beaks of Crow’s helmet and placing it under his nose.
Crow jerks back as if he’d been shot, flinching away from the offending ethanol-alcoholic scent, but has no other reaction.
Okaaay…
That… usually works.
The return to the Laboratory on January 9th in search of rescuing Sumire goes a bit awry after an encounter with a Fafnir guarding the auditorium forces Akira and Goro to utilize their team attack.
The team attack in which Goro casts his special mental-shutdown-inducing spell on himself.
Akira's not sure what he expected with that one, in all honesty.
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05 Sep 2024
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Akechi sat in a quiet cafe across from a dark haired, determined boy. The warmth of LeBlanc eased into him, trying to goad him into taking down the protective walls he'd built around himself. He wouldn't, though.
Not while those silver eyes watched him like they wanted to open him up, expecting him to dump his life story onto the table between them.
In that cafe, Akechi could only know one thing for certain: There was no point letting Akira worm his way under his skin.The path that he was walking would end up with one of them dead.
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The story of Persona 5 Royal, but told from Akechi’s perspective.
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03 Sep 2024
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Akira knows that his boyfriend isn’t particularly fond of the summer season, but Goro’s been even more irritable than usual these last few days.
He figures it’s just the hot weather. Or unease from being so close to all the Thieves as they travel in the small RV.
But he really should have known it wouldn’t be so obvious. Not that he isn’t more than happy to help though.
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02 Sep 2024
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For one of the first times in his life, Akechi’s speechless. He knows what his old self would say—You couldn’t possibly understand how I feel, attic trash—but Akechi is tired. Tired of his old self swirling in his heart, full of rage. Tired of his “new” self poised in his mind, which is so stuffed with rationality and psychoanalysis that he’s nothing more than a cast off shell. He’s just fucking tired.
“Listen,” Akira continues. “Why don’t we just…start over? I know that might be difficult given what we’ve been through, but you came back here for a reason, right?”
Akechi almost barks out a laugh. Typical Kurusu, with the keen ability to read him so well. With the quiet charisma he begrudgingly admired. It tugs and pulls at his chest like a puppet on strings.
“You haven’t changed,” Akechi says.
Akira grins sheepishly, placing a hand on his neck. “Play me at chess, and you’ll figure out what has.”
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Seven years later, Akira and Akechi begin again.
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31 Aug 2024
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The aftermath of the events of Persona 5 Royal.
(This is a direct sequel to "Your concern is misplaced," get caught up here: archiveofourown.org/works/23810008/chapters/57206254)
[literally ALL the P5R spoilers, you've been warned] [seriously, stop reading this summary if u don't want to see hints abt the context of third semester]
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“Are you sure about this?” Morgana hisses, in what’s probably intended to be a whisper. Akira rolls his eyes.
“Yes,” he says, with grim resolve. “In my entire life, I have never been as sure about anything as I am about this.”
Morgana gives him a dubious stare, flicks at one ear with his paw.
“I know you guys had… some kind of an understanding,” he whispers, in what may be the *literal* understatement of the century. “Back in that other reality. But things were different there, Akira. This is the real world, and that’s a real murderer sitting across from you! You can’t just bring people home like stray dogs!”
“Why not?” Akira asks stubbornly. “It worked out fine with you.”
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- Part 4 of The Lies We Tell
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30 Aug 2024
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On days like these, when they are a little too comfortable, when Ren shows a little too much, asks a little too much, Goro tries to remember balance. He’s found harmony and stability in the quiet apartment they share. They align too well. Of course, he says none of that. Only rolls his eyes and scoffs as he goes into Ren’s bedroom.
Goro’s not prepared for what Ren has waiting for him.
Goro isn’t sure he's ready to change the balance of his life until Ren makes it really clear what he wants.
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- Part 1 of Counterbalance
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02 Aug 2024
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Akechi’s lips left Akira’s as soon as he felt that all-too-familiar cheeky grin against his mouth, a slick line of spit still connecting them by the mouths. “What do you want?”
Akira’s grin widened. “What do you mean?” He asked, very much playing dumb.
“We’ve had this arrangement for long enough that I know exactly what that grin means. You want me to do something.”
Akira’s hands reached for Akechi’s, brushing his thumb against his knuckles. “And we’ve had this arrangement for long enough that you know exactly what I want.”
“Use your words, Kurusu.”
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Akechi invites Akira to the TV studio. Akira isn't dumb; he knows exactly what Akechi is planning.
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23 Jun 2024
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Daredevil, You've Hit the Wall by ez_cookie
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series, Persona 5 Strikers
28 Feb 2023
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A Post-Royal rewrite of Persona 5 Strikers with Sumire and Goro present.
Akira thought his career was over as a Phantom Thief, and he was happy enough to keep it that way. After all, he couldn't stand the thought of losing someone close to him again. But shortly after arriving in Tokyo, his worst fears are confirmed. The Metaverse is back, and the world is counting on him to fix it, by putting himself and his loved ones at risk all over again. It's not up to him anymore. The show must go on.
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- Part 1 of Daredevil, You've Hit the Wall
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15 Jun 2024
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if things had been different, i would have never met you by apeppermint
Fandoms: Persona 5
01 May 2024
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He and Maruki were never very different. It was something they both knew, deep down. Maruki just let it all go to his head, and it spun out beyond his control. But, unlike Maruki, Ren wasn't selfless.
He'd do anything for the people he loved. For Akechi.
By the time he'd realized that, it'd been too late.
Jose offers Ren a wishing star. Ren uses it to bring Akechi back to life.
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17 May 2024
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Ren's been looking for Akechi ever since they defeated Maruki, and finally finds him in a psychiatric hospital.
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17 May 2024
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The boys embark on a six day road trip to California before separating for college. Cartman is a pain in the ass, Kenny has no future, Butters is in crisis, and Kyle doesn't know how he'll say goodbye to Stan.
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04 Apr 2022