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[maskreant]

WHO: the infamous nasty crimeboy, Akira Kurusu, and you!
WHERE: Places in Recolle
WHEN: Spooky Month of October
WHAT: EVENT STUFF and mundane stuff if it comes up. if you would like to plan anything, hit me up via halloway or hei#2323 on discord.
WARNINGS: Persona 5 spoilers for last boss battle and late-game conspiracy unveiling. Will update when necessary!

NOTE!! You can leave an empty comment with the subject header of your choice or even RANDOM for something unlisted/miscellaneous (lighthearted) and I'll write the prompt. For nightmares, it may skip around and make no sense very much like how actual dreams are.

nightmares

[ When you enter the dream, you're engulfed by darkness until you hear a deep and unfamiliar voice. It speaks in a language you are most comfortable with. ]

The contract has been sealed...

You have agreed to provide the Trickster support
in his journey to oppose fate and seek change.

CASINO
It's filled with a variety of gamblers from talking fish to actual people. Shadows are also gambling? But they're aggressive due to their mass losses. There are several elevators and it seems like the treasure is on the VIP level.

If you choose to enter the CASINO, you may appear outside of the structure or on the first floor in costume and mask. Akira will accompany you in his Joker outfit.

VELVET ROOM
Are you a prisoner? Or a keeper? You can stand behind the bars with Akira, withstand the abuse and rebel alongside him, or on the opposite side—ushered by two wardens and a man with an elongated nose to carry out discipline. Rehabilitation is important.

If you choose to enter the VELVET ROOM, you may appear inside or outside the cell. Your attire will change into prisoner wear or officer uniform respectively.

MEMENTOS (SPOILER)
In the city of Recolle, you notice there's something strange. People walk past the blood red rain and the towering skeleton pieces. The irrelevant become forgotten. The forgotten vanish. Is it your hand that's disappearing? Or is it Akira's?

If you choose MEMENTOS, you'll be in your normal attire or in your underwear. Whichever your character feels less attractive in if you want. Once again, Akira is beside you.

CODE CREDIT

fog

[ Akira has been having a hard time with his nightmares. Some of them he remembers bits and pieces (all useless), but he's thinking a jog in the ungodly time where the thick fog rolls in is a good idea? Unfortunately not... He ends up running away from one of these three tormentors in his pajamas. What's with his luck?

As he looks behind him, he crashes into someone. Sorry. ]

TWIN WARDENS (SPOILER)
Their names are unknown to you, but they're two girls with silver hair with a single golden eye (an eyepatch covers the other). As attendants of the Velvet Room, they have this ethereal aura to them, even menacing as they shoot various skills into the fog.

"Come back here, inmate! You can't hide forever!"

"You're only delaying the inevitable."

IMPERIOUS ANGEL (SPOILER)
An angel appears with an abstract body shape. Wings scaling wide and halo spinning over its head, it spreads its several hands that hold instruments. With the rise of the triangle, the angel rings it with a clear ding. In a matter of seconds, a flash of light magic strikes near.

"I am what humanity desires. Why oppose me?"

You can hear the sneer in its voice.

GOLD PIGGER
This silver piggy bank may seem cute, but it's also massively large and rolls without end. What does stop it from rolling are valuable items. Throw something expensive and it'll take a break to appraise it with a series of oinks. The one in control is a half-fly guy throwing out some mad rhymes.

"Yo yo yo! You think you can just walk into my neighborhood and disrespect me like that, dawg?"

CODE CREDIT

wildcard

[ THROW ME WHATEVER! Baby haunts from the new ghosts or even the Retrospec Maze! Even anything normal. ]

Comments

[fiddlestick]

[Elliot's silent for a moment, the only sound coming from the sizzling pancakes, as he thinks over Akira's words. They seem to resonate with him a little, at least. Small steps, huh?]

...Yeah, maybe you have a point.

[He sighs]

It's too bad I can't just tell them about having magic. They might stop worrying about me doing something "important" if they knew I can heal people. [He gives a weak laugh] B-but they'd probably think I've gone nuts if I even tried telling them, huh?

[maskreant]

[ Akira doesn't say more, but he's glad that Elliot agrees. Even then, they could also agree to disagree. The pancakes get stacked, three each—might as well make some for the other three people in his house. ]

People outside of Retrospec wouldn't find it too weird... Some even brush it off. I think sometimes they notice changes, though. It's weird.

[ Though he doesn't tell his parents or anything. They wouldn't care anyway. ]

You can keep it your little secret.

[fiddlestick]

[The stacking pancakes is cue for Elliot to move from his spot and dig out the toppings: Syrup, butter, blueberries and a banana to slice up. He likes fruit ok.....]

What do you put on your pancakes?

[Putting that stuff on the dining table though, he gets back to the conversation at hands]

Yeah, sounds weird...maybe I'll try tackling telling them I'm gay before the whole "I'm a wizard" thing, aha... [But enough about him, he'll glance back at Akira] What about you? Have you told your family anything?

[maskreant]

[ It's okay, Elliot... Akira is more of the strawberry, banana, and nutella kind of guy, so he's after that rather than maple syrup. When they're ready, he turns off the stove and sets out for the table. ]

Nah. My parents are busy people, so I wouldn't want to bother them. [ They really are. ] I'm sure they wouldn't be that interested, anyway.

[ So the usual. It doesn't seem like he's bothered since he's digging in. He isn't smiling and he isn't crying this time, but he's visibly brighter. ]

It's delicious.

[fiddlestick]

Oh...

[They wouldn't be interested in their son gaining powers? That's...such a weird concept for Elliot to grasp, and for a moment there's clear confusion his face as he tries to wrap his brain around it. Sure, his relationship with his aunt and uncle was strained and distant, but what he remembered of his own parents was completely different. They took a full-hearted interest in everything Elliot did, just like his brother. Part of him just figured that's simply what parents are like. You know, crazy levels of doting.

But he won't press. Not when there's pancakes to eat. Which he'll start doing the same- dang they are]

Haha, yeah they are! And really cute! You did a great job.