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Futaba closes the door again for some thinking time. That was Goro Akechi on her doorstep. Well, on Sojiro’s doorstep, but Sojiro’s not here. Only Futaba is here.
Open door. Peep round it. Akechi is a sort of heap on the step. Asleep? Or… possibly dead? Dead mom-killing ex-detective on Futaba’s doorstep? Didn’t he die four years ago? How is he here? Futaba hasn’t slept. Or eaten. She shouldn’t have to deal with this. What do you even do with a murder-detective possibly-corpse? She closes the door.
Okay, no, she can’t just ignore him and hope he goes away.
Well, she could though. It’s super super tempting.
No, come on. What would Ren do? What would Sojiro do?
What would Mom do?
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15 Jun 2026
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On the morning of February 4th, most of a decade ago, Akechi wakes with a start, stares blindly up at the tiles of the ceiling without registering what he’s looking at, and says out loud, “Well, that’s embarrassing.”
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14 Jun 2026
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"Don't," says Akechi. His voice shakes. He wraps his arms around his middle like he's bleeding out from his core. "Go away. Don't bother with me, there's no point, I'm dead, I... fuck." He laughs, but even Ren, the curator of all things Goro Akechi, has never heard him make such a sound; despair has always taken him differently, wild and keening, barely leashed.
For a moment, Ren is back in the engine room, with Akechi crumpled on the cold floor before him, defeated and alone. Instinct screams a warning in the back of his head.
Under the effects of despair, Akechi lets slip a secret he would have preferred to take back to the grave. It's a kick in the teeth—no, it's worse, it's so much worse—but Ren can deal with it. He can deal with anything. He has to.
He wishes his friends would stop asking if he's okay.
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14 Jun 2026
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"Then what brought you out here?" asks Lala. "To pay a premium for sparkling water?"
"Oh, you know," says the uptight boy, lip curling. "Life. Love. The sort of thing you hear a lot, I imagine."
There's something wrong with Goro. He doesn't care if Ren wears a dress, yet every time Ren puts one on, it feels like the world is ending all over again. For his boyfriend's sake, Goro needs to fix what's broken inside him, even if that requires drastic measures; even if it forces him to talk about his issues with a stranger. Or, worse, talk about them with Ren.
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14 Jun 2026
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September-ish Goro/Akira bodyswap where it takes Goro far far too long to realize what has transpired
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13 Jun 2026