inspired HEAVILY by Solaris (1972)
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When I close my eyes, I can't recall my face. And you? by lastlament
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
25 Jul 2023
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If Goro is to get used to this Akira, then he wants to drop the pretense.
He wants to accuse Akira of being a hallucination arising from some latent moral nerve that has finally sprung up, to torture him in the interregnum following the final underwhelming downfall of his father - something a self destructive firing in his basal ganglia came up with to occupy him due to some fatalistic instinct to always be gnashing his teeth against life. He wants to tell Akira he knows he is only a malevolent ghost trying to haunt him, a literal phantom at last, prepared to steal the rest of his life from him by trying to drive him to suicide - but Akira will inevitably grow bored because that is never going to happen, so he might as well quit now. He wants to ask him, nicely, if he is some other supernatural cognitive manifestation arising from the Metaverse or whatever, and whether there is a permanent way to get rid of him.
But he does not want to kill him again.
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A deliberation on what if Joker had died in Shido's Palace instead, and what Goro Akechi would do if he found his head full of false memories about growing up with the facsimile of Akira.