Akira "chaotic extra" Kurusu [Jᴏᴋᴇʀ] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
purrtagonist) wrote2018-04-08 09:47 pm
purrtagonist) wrote2018-04-08 09:47 pm
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[Week 4, Sunday: Makoto]
[like others, Makoto won't be able to find Akira for a few hours after the execution. that is by purposeful design. but eventually? he'll emerge from whatever hiding spot he had curled up in to deal, mostly composed and back to normal]
[keyword "mostly."]
[Makoto will find Akira at the bookstore, draped over one of the couches with an open book propped over his face. he's holding a bottle of chocolate milk. fancy that!]
[time to bother leader, y/n?]
[keyword "mostly."]
[Makoto will find Akira at the bookstore, draped over one of the couches with an open book propped over his face. he's holding a bottle of chocolate milk. fancy that!]
[time to bother leader, y/n?]
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[that takes him off guard, although one second after it does, he realizes it probably shouldn't. of course she's going to feel that way. of course all of the thieves aren't going to feel that way. they're the ones who followed him into the depths of the Metaverse and back, aren't they?]
[. . . he's lucky]
[he huffs out a laugh, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand]
Truthfully, I'm always worried about your lives.
[that's a fact. but as much as he worries about them, he trusts in their capabilities, too]
But you're right. I don't have a right to ask that of you. And I do believe in your strength.
[he'd never doubt it]
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[she pauses, and then finally turns to face him]
You will never stop me from being reckless. Ever. [she made herself a customer of Kaneshiro's bank for them. And she still would have done absolutely nothing differently.
Just, she wishes the feelings were as strong as she remembered. But, if they can make it to the end... she'll get that back.]
Will you continue being a reaper after this?
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If that's the case, then the least we can do is be reckless together, right?
[which is how things should've been, from the very beginning. at her question, his hands dip into his pockets, gaze flickering up]
Yeah. I will. Not in Games like this one, though.
[but this Game, as cruel and horrible as it was, as different as it was from the Games he was used to back home, didn't change the reasons he became a Reaper in the first place]
I took this job because I wanted to help people. I still think that I can. Though-- [and back to her, head tilted] Being a Reaper doesn't mean you guys are going to be rid of me.
[HE HAS A SWEET DEAL. live his best life in the RG, phantom thieves at his side, while only occasionally being called away to work in the UG. it's good]
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... Hmm.
[but it's likely he won't get her explicit approval. she moves to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.]
Then... the others... Ann, Haru, Ryuji, Morgana...
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[but he does rock back on one heel, kicking at the ground idly]
They'll be okay. [he reassures her, just as he did Yusuke] When we return home, they'll all be there, waiting for us.
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[she exhales, and then sums up what the totality of her feelings were]
I wish you'd tried to tell us before, but... We're close to the end, and it may somehow work out for the best.
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I think it will. We'll all fight to make sure that it does.
[he hesitates]
[. . . and then he reaches out towards her, fingers extended]
I'm sorry. For everything.
[since he hasn't actually apologized yet]
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... I'm not the only one you'll need to apologize to.
[she doesn't even realize that she'll be getting another apology from him in a few days, for something entirely different.]
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[HE OWES SO MANY. SO MANY. . . so. . . many. . . and after the weekend, he will never feel like he can apologize enough]
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[don't use the oblique hints, basically. She isn't sure if... anyone besides the girls would figure them out, bless the boys.]
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Extremely directly, without room for doubt or uncertainties.
[which he does, but then fails to really clear up what the expectations of him as a Reaper are, which leads to awkwardness?? THIS WHOLE THING IS AWKWARD]
Don't worry, though. I'm not going to leave him in the dark any longer, either.
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Please make sure that you don't. We agreed to follow you, trust has... always been important.
[now it's her turn to lean back into the couch, not sure where to start]
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[he tilts his head, because he senses she is going somewhere with this. and he'll let her, wherever it ends up, because he wants to know how his deception has made her feel]
It has been.
[a thoughtful pause]
And still is.
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She's second guessing her feelings, just like she has ever since the first trial. So, after a brief pause, long enough to let the current topic feel dropped:]
... So, we defeat the grail.
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[. . .]
[he doesn't like that she drops the topic, but he knows better than to push. he's always been the type who preferred people come to him on their own accord, after all]
Mmm. We do.
[he'll answer that instead]
Turns out, we're pretty unstoppable when you put all of us together.
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It explains why you seemed so calm at the beginning. I thought that was just you're natural disposition, but now...
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Mmm. Bit of both?
[but it's true he had the benefit of remembering what happened after the grail]
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we will never know]
Mm... I'd agree. A bit of both feels right.
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. . .
I meant everything I said back then, too.
[ah]
I lied about who I was-- [a Reaper] -- but not about that.
[not about his encouragement, or his feelings. he was careful not to lie about those]
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I like to think I would've been able to tell if you had been for something that important.
[she doesn't mind revealing that ultimately, no matter what horrors are visited on them here... her thoughts are still that the battle waiting on them back home is the more important one.]