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persona 5: goro akechi

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WHO: Goro Akechi & Izumi Sena
WHERE: wherever they can get sushi
WHEN: 02/15
WHAT: THEY CAME BACK FROM HELL. THEY'RE HAVING SUSHI. and playing twenty questions, eventually
WARNINGS: will add as needed, if needed

[While the first thing he'd done when he'd gotten back in the afternoon was make chocolates for his friends and Akira, there's still a great deal of time between then and the night, when he and Akira plan to meet up for a nice date...

...so he texts Sena and asks him out for sushi, because sushi is a good in this world and fuck if they do not need something expensively tasty to wipe off the past week and a half. His treat.

Sure, the best sushi place in town closed down with the rest of the joint shit getting pushed together, but this place isn't that bad. It's just sort of standard. And off a conveyor belt, so it's not as high class as Goro'd like it to be for the most beautiful boys in the world (them) but it's fine, it's fine, anything tastes like heaven after hell.]

Ah... I don't think I've ever been so happy for the cold before. I'm sure the novelty will wear off, but it certainly was nice walking in it after being close to the mantle. Were you alright, Secchan? Such a drastic change in temperatures would give anyone a headache, but I was worried about you in particular.

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I've never loved anything or anyone in my entire life.

[ ... ]

Not yet, anyway. I have yet to truly experience it, though.

[... Huh.]

How cruel, Secchan, and here I thought you and I had something special? [just a joke, they've got Nothing of that sort.] You don't even love the camera? Or music? No animals in your life that've made you smile just at the sight of them? That's love, you know, when you look at someone or the thing you love is even mention and you begin to smile.

[Or maybe he's just overly romantic.]

I mean if you put it that way I guess I'd feel the same way towards cats.

[ can't believe that's the first thing that came to his mind but anyway, ]

I thought you meant a deep, passionate love for certain things? Modeling's practically my life now but nowadays it just feels so draining... But maybe because it's routine; that I haven't changed things up ever since I took the job up.

[ hold on fam let him grab some of that tamagoyaki ]

What I truly need is a change of scenery. And the app provided that and more, though I wish they didn't have to make us remember the savory bits. I could do without any of that.

A cat is fine too, Secchan, don't worry.

[God, but does Goro agree with the rest; the changes in scenery is nice, the memories not so much.]

Why don't you join me on the celebrity scene? We can try for some productions together... and I'd feel better if there was someone I knew trying out as well; I'd ask Miss Liz, but as she's a professional I'm a little intimidated.

Elizabeth does seem to have the flair for theatrics... [ like the oddball that she is ] But I'm still not sure about that, Akechin. The modeling world is already taxing enough; the entertainment industry will just eat me alive. It's almost the same as becoming an idol, and I still don't know how to deal with my memories as it is.

[ some of his friends have pointed out how good he is in acting, but... :\ ]

And besides, if I do become a celebrity, I might just have steal the spotlight from you because that's just how it works. Do you really want that, Akechin? ☆

[ he chides because let's be real here my dude ]

You confidence is a sunny spot of inspiration, Secchan, but I'd like it if you didn't underestimate me so much. We can stand on the same theoretical stage if we act together, you know. I'd just hate to see the face you'd make when I got more awards for it.

[cmon secchan please]

[ them's fighting words my dude ]

I told you that it's too similar with idol business, all right? I'm still not sure if I can be like that in this world again. [ sigh ] You should be satisfied that we can both shine in our own respective fields, got it?

[throw him your hands buddy

But also, is it so wrong to want to share something with him..? Goro wants to ask that, but satisfies himself with taking a plate of salmon and playing with the thin sashimi.]

Of course. I'm not so much a hypocrite that I would direct you in such a way whilst running from my own past's passion in solving cases.

[... Faux-passion, but he's get that memo later; for now it seemed to be just sort of a hobby that he used to his own advantage.]

How do you and Nii... ah, Nazuna know one another? He said you two worked together in high school, but not much besides that.

[pleeeeaaaaase do not call him out on almost calling nazuna niichan.]

[ ... ]

You were about to call him "niichan", weren't you?

[ someone's got to say it ]

This is your AMA, not mine.

[But the way his cheeks pinken says all. Yes.]

[ gross...... have some dignity, akechi ]

He used to be a child star, do you know? He did a bit of modeling back in the day too, so that's how we've met. Obviously you couldn't tell since he's just too puny for that at this point.

[He is... so happy to call people by nicknames...............]

Ah, I see... I'd like to see some shots, if you still have access to them. Nazuna's very cute.

[Look he didn't even slip this time..!!!]

Nah, I don't have them with me. He, uh. He doesn't want to talk about that part of his life so I think I shouldn't either.

[ he may bully him a lot, but even sena knows his limits. ]

[... Ah.]

Disappointing, but that's alright; we all have times in our lives we wouldn't like to speak of, I'm sure, even outside of Retrospec's whole business. Your boring childhood and mine, Nazuna's former work... Anyway, this is a poor twenty questions, because I honestly can't think of twenty to ask you.

[goro you

you don't ACTUALLY need to ask twenty questions

it's just....... a title............]

You don't need to ask exactly twenty questions, though. We can just ask each other shit, and it doesn't have to be too deep or anything.

[ hold on, just gonna grab the tempura and bite into it ]

Like... Do you have any brothers or sisters?

[ that's simple enough ]

[isn't it woefully obvious that goro doesn't tend to make friends like a normal teenage boy.]

Only child. My mother thinks I'm enough, but I wouldn't mind having siblings... You're one too, right?

[ i mean

mood ]

Yeah. My parents thought I was enough. [ ... ] Someone from my memories called me "niichan", though.

...I didn't take it too well.

[thanks secchan]

Really..? Do you have an aversion to it, unlike Nazuna?

I mean normally I wouldn't be too bothered, but...

[ he gulps even if he's not chewing on anything right look, looking a little smaller than before. ]

It triggered a memory in me. It's when I realized that I was... not that good of a person. You saw me at that cafe last time, didn't you?

[ connecting the dots can do that to you. ]

[Memories swing back easily of October; amidst everything, the nightmares and fog, Sena's dilemma with Keito and the things he'd remembered, a junior he loved to the point of obsession and being a stalker. He nods, taking a plate of tempura shrimp to share between them.]

I see. So are you afraid of becoming similar towards the person who called you "niichan" here? Even if the junior from your memories you mentioned is around, I trust you haven't done anything untoward him; you're a good person, Secchan, I say so to everyone.

Not at all, but did you know how I was really out of it these past few weeks, Akechin? I haven't... stopped thinking about him since the beginning of the month--

[ the heartstone in his bag shines on as he winces at the constant thought of makoto that can never go away from his mind. it's been affecting him nowadays, almost projecting on daisuke that one time until he remembered a baffling memory of makoto again. ]

Which is you shouldn't keep saying that to everyone. They should see what kind of person I am by themselves, without any bias whatsoever.

[ he does appreciate goro's help as always, but... b o y. ]

But--

[You are, though the words falter spectacularly at the sight of Sena still small. Goro puffs his cheeks out and eats some more, knowing that the Sena he's come to know isn't going to be the person that others might see. There's something else to address anyway.]

... I haven't been able to stop thinking about how lucky I am to have the friends I do, which I thought was odd but didn't think much else about it. And it only started recently? No sooner?

Recently?

[ headtilt ]

Don't you have any other friends before the app?

... There was Haru, but other than that, not really.

[friendless loser.]

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