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[the_flower_karasu]

 I'll try not to be too verbose, but I cannot guarantee this...

To be blunt; while I find myself curious at the fact that I'm not the only Akechi here, apparently, I still find it hard to trust you all here. Sure, some of you look like people I know, sound like people I know, and most likely even know people I'm familiar with. But that just makes it all the more difficult. You are not the people I know, and I suffer no delusions otherwise. 

But, I'm also persona absens in...my home world, as it were, and have no place that I could theoretically return to, even if I desired as such. So, while my trust in you is lacking, I'm willing to interact. For now...

And I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Gogo Akechi, 3rd Year, Amateur Detective and former hitwoman for one Masayoshi Shido. I'm not sure if any of the various Jokers and/or Phantom Thieves that end up here don't already know this, but honesty is better in these situations. So, I'm sorry if this is your first time knowing I was the 'One in the Dark Armor'~

One thing I would appreciate it someone explaining exactly what this place is. Igor was frustratingly vague on the matter, and I think it better to hear from someone my age...

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[wipingallout]

I have no idea who that is but you're in HIGH SCHOOL - why are you killing people??

[the_flower_karasu]

Because sometimes, you're a girl in the foster system with a father who's prominent politician who doesn't know you exist, and trying to get him to face any kind of karma was an uphill battle.

You have to play the cards you have, and mine happened to be the ability to master the art of manipulating Cognitive Psience~

[wipingallout]

I was a girl in the foster system and my whole family got blown up and I didn't decide to kill people over that fact!

[the_flower_karasu]

Oh, I'm sorry, was I supposed to just LET my father get away with being one of the reasons my mama...locked herself away in the bathroom? Especially when the police didn't give a shit that a 'hostess' was the one who did so?

You sound like you had a charmed life...

[wipingallout]

CHARMED?

You listen to me: every single good thing in my life was something I worked my ASS off to get. Every friend, every success, every life skill I learned before I even hit double digits every moment of happiness I could find.

The tragedies in my life never convinced me that becoming an attack dog for a murderous deadbeat was the right thing to do!

[the_flower_karasu]

[You could practically hear the eyeroll from across the screen. Despite this, and the fact that she'd heard about this all before, but something about the details the other girl had blurted out made it sting. The seemingly meaningless platitudes were now coming from someone who'd apparently went through it like she did...]

You're right. It was my choice, and only mine, to sell my soul and my dignity for a man who abandoned both me and my mama, because I am a horrible person. That is all. I don't expect you to like it, nor do I expect forgiveness.

Word of Advice, though; don't think your situation was like mine...

[wipingallout]

You're probably right about that. I don't know how your mama treated you, but I assume it was with love. I do know how loveless or even scary foster homes can be.

But I do know that no matter what ended up taking your mama from you, there's no one to blame but yourself for the choice to go to that man and kill for him.

It's not too late to change for the better. It's never too late.


Just. Don't you dare call my life charmed. There was absolutely never luck on my side for anything that happened around me. I know that even in the most hopeless, terrifying and drastic situations possible, you CAN choose to be better. So you should.

[the_flower_karasu]

...

I apologise, for making assumptions about your life, at the very least. I personally disagree with you on my ability to 'start over', but I should know better, after I made the very same mistake with my Joker, in my world...

It was hypocritical of me.

[This vulnerability made her ITCH, though, so she desperately tried to change the subject]

Appreciation for your concern aside, I like your clips. I'm a little too masc to wear them myself, my I can appreciate anyone who can pull them off.

[wipingallout]

This place is a good place to start off on a better note than before. I know you can.

And-- thanks. Me yelling at you over text aside it IS nice that it's slowly becoming less of a sausagefest around here.

[the_flower_karasu]

Trust me, I know what that's like, especially working as the Idol of the Police Force in my world.

Despite everything, we have to stick together, you know?

[wipingallout]

The police force has an idol??

[the_flower_karasu]

People started calling me that, as an objectively pretty high school girl who worked with police force. Believe me, I hated it so much, but at the time, that attention was useful, even if it give some of the older male officers some conniptions about a young girl having such influence, if that's at all surprising...

So, while I didn't dance or sing, I was a pretty face who did interviews, brand endorsements in conjunction with my work as a detective.

[wipingallout]

UGH... and people are already so gross to girls. I would hate that.

locked to hamuko LMAO

[willowandoak]

if she didnt start killing until hs shes a late bloomer

Locked to Drake

[wipingallout]

That's not a funny joke

[willowandoak]

im not joking
well kind of
but i also really am surprised

[wipingallout]

Surprised about what?? What are you talking about??

[willowandoak]

wait hasnt anyone told u abt this

[wipingallout]

Told me WHAT?

[willowandoak]

uhh
well
theres no good way to say it rly
a lot of us here have killed a lot of ppl bc of shido
just on the fatalis team i can count seven off the top of my head

[wipingallout]

[Because this is a private text conversation, Ren will miss out on a long, intense rainbow of emotional reaction to this information.

Shock? Anger - especially 'because of Shido', being forced to kill, just-- and then sorrow, for them and for the victims, and...!

Needless to say, it takes a few minutes before Hamuko actually responds.]

Why is she so blithe about it? Who WAS this Shido guy?

[willowandoak]

i dont know her but prob to cope
like
u have to do smth to learn to live w it, u know? maybe get addicted to smth, maybe go hehehe im fine actually tilde tilde smile
im def not in a position to judge her lol
+ shido is like the most twisted fucked up politician u can imagine
whatever ur thinking hes way worse
he knows abt cogpsi and
across all worlds apparently
he likes to have a teenager under his thumb doing all kinds of untraceable metaverse shit
they get us under control in various ways but the result is p much the same

[wipingallout]

Disgusting... I'm sorry you were forced into it.

[There's a lot more she could say, but her thoughts are still scrambling...]

[willowandoak]

it is what it is
sorry i said that out of nowhere tho
i really thought everyone knew

[wipingallout]

[He can't see or hear it, but she sighs.]

I guess I would've found out eventually.
People hold their cards pretty close to the chest here
And assume some things are obvious?

But whatever the case, it's better to find out than be completely oblivious.

I'm sorry you were stuck manipulated under someone. I understand that feeling, too, even if it's a bit different.