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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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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.

[willowandoak]

really?
huh
usually its only other assholes who say shit like "ive been there"

[wipingallout]

We didn't go out on assassinations - Ikutsuki was a LOT fucking sneakier than that.

He sent us to fight Shadows telling us that it would end the Dark Hour, but in reality, we were hastening The Fall and we nearly doomed all of humankind to death.

[willowandoak]

.....tf
that sucks dude
like. thats rough
who the motherfuck is ikutsuki & did he survive whatever shit went down

[ Ren is definitely not asking because he might need to shoot the guy at home, if he's still around. Nope! Just innocent curiosity. ]

[wipingallout]

Despite attempting to crucify myself and everyone on my team except Koromaru
Probably because he didn't bother figuring out how to hang a dog on a cross
He got shot in the stomach and then walked himself backwards off of one of the highest roofs of Tartarus

So we could safely switch our focus into figuring out how to stop The Fall

[willowandoak]

[ Ren has to... pause for a second... to take all of that in. ]

u love to see it
get fucked psycho. in ur next life do smth normal ppl do instead of fucking
supervillain behavior
are u ok tho, that sounds like a lot and u prob didnt expect to talk abt it

[wipingallout]

That was only the start of things getting more fucked up I'm going to be honest
I'll tell you about it sometime

Whenever you're willing to stomach just how close we got to the apocalypse at least

[willowandoak]

tbh thats p easy to deal with, it didnt happen
wish i could say thanks to my you. or maybe he was a makoto idk
what i hate is the apocalypse i have to help stop
bc that ones still like a month away when i go home and if it goes thru itll be bc we failed lol

[ There's never been a more obviously performative "lol" typed in any message, anywhere. ]

[wipingallout]

[For all that she doesn't really know any of these people, it's at least... nice, in a way, to know that they get it when it comes to the pressures of having to save the world. Even if the ideal is that there wouldn't NEED to be that - but fate's unkind, sometimes.]

I'll give you advice as your senpai then.

[willowandoak]

hamuko-senpai
pls give us advice（ ᴗ ᴗ)⁾⁾

[wipingallout]

This advice is one that makes everyone here cringe and groan and even sometimes angry at me

But I PROMISE you it is what literally saved the world




Make friends. Cherish the loved ones in your life. Because their trust and belief in you is going to be what gives you the power to fight for them and save them.

1/2

[willowandoak]

wow
u rite
i did cringe and groan

2/2

[willowandoak]

cant tell u how much i hate that i cant argue
it pisses me off. tbh. that i got a new persona from being close to goro
like am i in a magical girl anime or smth wtf is going on

[wipingallout]

I'm not some bookish scientist even if I was top of my grade at school, so I'm not about to break out some dense theory.

But that's just how it is. Your life has meaning not because of you in isolation... but because of who you are to the people in your life.

Learned that from one of my best friends. Figures a terminal patient has a good insight into something deep like that, right?

So we just have to adopt the mantra: I am cringe and I am free