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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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[lakebrat]

[Actually, he chose it because if he didn't, Ren and his adopted sister, the Futaba known as Glitch, would have stuck it on him anyway. By now he's quite fond of it. Frogs are awesome.]

You know, you're right. That's exactly why I chose it. I can only congratulate you again on your perceptiveness.

[Kidding, though he doesn't doubt that she's perceptive. She's an Akechi.]

You're not the only one here to have died, if in fact you have. That must be quite a lot. Do you really find my situation so interesting, though?

[Or is she trying to learn things from him? Things her own Amamiya or Kurusu, presumably, wouldn't share.]

[the_flower_karasu]

Nice sarcasm, by the way~

[Like she couldn't sense that, even beyond the screen]

So, I'm not the only dead person around here, I suppose. Is this just what happens to all us Akechis who happen to die?

And yes, I do find your situation interesting, but only in the way that any Akechi who lived a life different then mine would be interesting to me. Hell, even your gender identity alone elicits this. And I have nothing but time. So I would appreciate it...

locked to gogo

[lakebrat]

Believe it or not, I was sincere.

[Frog's not... well, he's just not quite like the others. And he still debates into the night about whether the stroke of luck that saved him was as simple as it appears.]

You'll excuse me if I observe that your curiosity is a little perturbing? It comes across as if you're less sanguine than you appear. A common trait of our kind, of course—but something tells me you aren't truly so interested in my life.

[Desperate, Ren would have said. Or he'd have told Akechi-san to fuck off out of his business. But Ren is again different from the other Rens and Akiras; he got the mouth.]

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[the_flower_karasu]

I don't believe you, but alright.

[She couldn't believe though, that Frog had managed to call her out like that. At least he had the good grace to do it over a private message]

Fine, I'll come clean; I hate that a version of me, any version of me, got a better life than I did. Why is it you!? Or them!? I did everything I could, but it was apparently not enough, and is frankly unfair. I know the world is unfair in general, but it still sickens me! And now, I'll never have another chance!

[The privacy of the communication method allowed all her emotions to spill, unafraid of scepticism or judgement, even as her fingers shook in sadness and rage.]

[lakebrat]

I wonder that too. I'm sorry, though. I didn't mean to upset you.

[No, for he's spent far too long learning to walk on eggshells for that, from his earliest days.]

Is that really what you think, that you'll never have another chance? You're here, after all. Your story has't ended yet.

[Or is she speaking of something else? He's seen firsthand how deep it runs, that need to make someone bleed. He's felt its beginnings in himself.]

[the_flower_karasu]

"I didn't mean to upset you," my ass. Are you like this with everyone, or are you treating me like a fragile doll because I'm me!?

[Bad enough, she gets this treatment from the police higher-ups, but there's no way she's going to take it from another version of her.]

And really, why should I tell you anything else in light of this?

[lakebrat]

[He opens his mouth, then closes it again, with the slightly offguard manner that got him his name here. Ace, you're doing it AGAIN, he hears Ann clucking in his ear. Even Haru had started looking at him over her tea in the end.

This is going really badly, though. She's as defensive as Goro's Ren can be, and why the hell shouldn't she be.]

You're right. You don't need to tell me anything at all. Your business is your own.

[In the light of everything, he thinks another apology would go down like a bucket of cold sick, so he doesn't try.]

[the_flower_karasu]

[Gogo groaned in frustration, replete with the urge to smash something, kill something, and she didn't want her smart device to bear the brunt of her ire.]

Just...don't talk to me for a while, alright!? And think about how you treated me in the meantime...

[She closed the Network and got up. She wondered where that empty building was...]

[lakebrat]

[Hm, he thinks, shutting off his phone. That could have gone better.]