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Goro Akechi ([personal profile] foolishjustice) wrote in [community profile] phonetasmal2018-05-07 06:36 pm

Calling the Old Man Out

[Goro has barely been seen since getting back from the Fissure, only leaving his room briefly to eat a couple times a day, coffee in hand and looking half asleep. Now, though, he seems to finally be properly awake...at approximately 8PM.]

Good...erm, evening, I suppose. I’m sorry I’ve been so absent lately, that Fissure must have taken more out of me than I thought.

But, now that I’m recovered, there’s something important I need to tell everyone. The last batch of new arrivals included a man named Masayoshi Shido. He’s my father, and a truly despicable man, who has had numerous people killed for his own convenience or benefit. He even had my mother killed to cover up the scandal of my birth.


[Here he holds up a phone, showing a picture of Shido...with what looks like avocado and cheese smeared on his face and a shrimp up his nose, wearing the most tiredly Done expression as he reaches for the offending crustacean.]

I injured him in the forest in retaliation for the things he’s done to me, one of my boyfriends, and countless others, but don’t mistake him for someone who deserves your pity. He’s physically not much of a threat, but he is a skilled schemer and manipulator, and-

[ Which is the moment that the video will shake, and a very brief flash of a familiar face (spoiler: Akira’s) can be seen. Off-screen, he’s gently pressing a kiss to Goro’s cheek, whispering that he loves him. Don’t mind the view of a ceiling for a moment, guys - it’s a nice ceiling, at least?

… He’ll properly make it up to Goro, later, if he can? For now, though, he gently brushes the fingers of one hand through his boyfriend’s hair. Akira’s face can properly be seen, after he takes a quiet breath. He looks… well, how most would remember? Only with a bit more of a tiredness to it, maybe.

Though, that’s not taking away from how serious he looks as he speaks. ]


... and, while Goro is right about all of that, there is one more detail I feel should be taken into account. Shido isn’t a good person, but he’s well-aware of that now. He’s done unforgivable things, but his eyes were opened to all of it after his ass was kicked.

[ JUST SAYING… ]

Anyway, nobody has to worry about him. Besides, he knows if he tried anything, he’d have to answer to all of us from his world, and then some.

[ JUST SAYING... ]

[This is the point where Goro takes his tablet back, looking a bit huffy.]


It’s true, he isn’t likely to be a threat now. But he absolutely doesn’t deserve anyone’s kindness or sympathy.
cyclicalconcept: (♐ forgiveness is awesome!)

video: Kana

[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-08 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Kana is quiet for a moment before she speaks.]

This may come as a surprise, but...I'm well aware myself of everything you did to your son, to many people. I was aware even before anything was said here.

...

May I ask you? When you woke up the very first time with a changed heart. How did you feel? What did you feel?
Edited 2018-05-08 00:30 (UTC)
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[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-08 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[...? The... little girl knows? And has known? It's the most perplexing thing in the world to hear— yet he's not entirely disinclined to believe her. And those questions...

Only one word comes to mind.]


Horror. [His voice is slightly quieter, a little rough.]
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[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-08 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
The horror of knowing you've wronged people, and the despair that you can't take what you've done back.

[She quietly nods.]

I know about the worst of you, Shido-san. You might not be able to earn everyone's forgiveness because of what you caused. But because your heart's changed, I know you're also no longer that person who lost their way. So now, I'd like to eventually meet the best of you - the person you'll become on the path you're on now.

[She gives what she hopes is a reassuring smile.]

It's a lot harder than before. But, I've seen others go through what you're going through before. So I'll have confidence in you as well, if you're all right with that.

In fact, I just want to give you a small piece of advice.
cyclicalconcept: (this is just awkwardly awesome)

[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-08 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
...if you go into the library and you find books by someone named Travis Tea, you might want to avoid them. The one I found isn't very good...
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[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-08 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He hardly knows what to make of this. Such kind words... he hardly deserves them. For a long time he just stares at the words, reading them over and over. The best of him? The person he'll become? They're such foreign concepts to him they feel like fantasies. Yet she sounds so certain.

... wait, what? Books by Travis Tea? What... what does this have to do with anything. He shakes his head, clearly thoroughly rattled by what he was just told.]


I... who... are you?
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[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Think of it as a small example of good faith. It's a bad book. You do not need to suffer.]

I'm called Kana.
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[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-09 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[... an interesting way to introduce oneself. Kind of archaic.]

And how is it that you know these things?