astromancer
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What is it about that face that is almost making his own facade crumble? Goro looks away to reply, building up the barrier again. "You want me to forgive you? For what? I'd need to know the truth of what happened, first."
Ren closes the gap between them to lean in close. Goro pulls away just enough to catch Ren's eyes as he speaks in ciphers. "Isn't finding the truth something you're good at, detective?"
Goro Akechi works for the Shadow Operatives investigating a series of strange and increasingly unsubtle changes in reality. Through his work he learns of Ren Amamiya, a man he no longer remembers. Something about him is suspicious and Goro just can't keep himself away.
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Akechi's face is framed by the light perfectly, chin tilted just enough to catch the angles of his jaw, his nose, the slope of his neck to his shoulder… The jellyfish in the glass surround him—larger than life.
Five photos Akira takes of Goro Akechi. And, one he doesn't.
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- Part 1 of candid camera
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A grin appears on his face, viewable from behind the bulky plastic of the camera. Between the warm streetlights seeping into the room from the window and the orange tones of the ring light set up behind him, Akira might be able to catch the flecks of freckles across Goro's face.
Click.
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- Part 2 of candid camera
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Akira pauses at this, replacing confusion with flatness. "You're right. Whatever suits you. We can get right to it: Why have you been dodging all of my communication?"
"Frankly, Akira, let me ask you a question instead. Why do you feel that I owe you communication?"
Goro keeps ghosting Akira throughout January. It's better this way. It has to be.
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"You've placed all your bets on being gone, haven't you." Akira matches Goro's intensity, though his voice falls like a weighted blanket and not a knife.
Goro and Akira talk the morning of 2/3.
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So when he’s told that, in the end, it’s going to be something as mundane as illness that will finally kill Akira—well. It’s the most ridiculous thing that Goro’s ever heard.
It should matter that Akira is far bigger than life and death.
(Akira Kurusu is dead, Akira Kurusu is dying. Goro loved, loves, will always love him.)
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06 Apr 2026
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Now in their late twenties, on-again-off-again boyfriends Goro and Akira are finally off for good. For real this time. Really. And Akira is handling it fine, thank you very much.
Written for You Are Coming Down With Me: A Shuake Divorce Zine.
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Akechi's had a good day, and Ren has had a bad one. He’s going to show up to their final meeting smiling and well-rested. He’s looking forward to it. This is going to be easy. It’s going to be fun.
The phone call comes just as he reaches Shibuya station. Akechi leans against the wall, shadowed by a pillar at the Ginza gate, as he takes it. “There’s been a change of plan,” says the man he loathes more than anyone else alive. “Stand by.”
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06 Apr 2026
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“I’d hoped you'd come find me, too,” says Amamiya.
Perhaps he would have. It's only that in Akechi's version of events, there's nothing fuzzy at all about pulling the trigger and watching Amamiya's brains drip down the back wall.-
on november 20th, akechi goro kills the leader of the phantom thieves. on january 1st, dr maruki takuto brings him back.
(or: au where akechi's plan goes off without a hitch, and 2/2 goes a little differently.)
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15 Feb 2026
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They’d spent the remainder of the evening like that, the shrill whine of cicadas outside lulling them both to sleep. Akira’s fingers had been partially entangled in Akechi’s hair when he woke up, and if they’d had a revelation about the trajectory of their relationship the following morning, neither of them acknowledged it.
“God fucking—fuck!”
Akira upended the stack of photos and watched them scatter across the floor, suppressing the urge to grind them beneath his heel.
By this time the following evening, Goro Akechi would be dead.
By this time the following evening, Akira Kurusu’s heart would be buried with him.
Written for Antithesis last year.