undyingcrow: (distant)
Goro Akechi ([personal profile] undyingcrow) wrote in [community profile] route666radio2025-02-20 08:38 pm

[Voice]

[In the middle of a restless night, Akechi addresses the radio.]

One thing has become abundantly clear since my arrival: the vast majority of us hail from different times, if not different worlds.

[He pauses, letting that sink in.]

For instance, I'm from Japan in the year 2017. However, it is specifically the same version of Japan shared by Akihiko Sanada and Naoto Shirogane... in the future. That places the three of us in a shared reality, but not the same point in time.

However, our version of Japan has endured a number of odd, even supernatural occurrences, such as a "Dark Hour" and, more recently, the vigilante work of a group of "Phantom Thieves" who quite literally changed the hearts of wicked adults through the use of a parallel, cognitive world.

[His voice remains calm, if tinged with a subtle weariness.]

But that is far from universal. In my time here, I have encountered a talking turtle from a world where yokai and mutants are real. I've spoken with someone who had been sent into a digital world, like an isekai protagonist. I even had to explain the concept of religion to Serph-san, as well what a horse is.

[...]

All this to say, it may be worthwhile to cross reference the worlds and time periods we hail from. If nothing else, it may help us discern patterns that could in turn heighten our understanding of our present circumstances.
faceguy: (i dont give a damn)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-02-26 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, they actually live under New York. And probably other places too? I think they're kinda everywhere.

[So the answer is, pretty separate.]
faceguy: (i got a household name)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-02-28 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, something like that!

There may be some shapeshifters... but most of the ones I know use a cloaking brooch. It lets you look like pretty much anything, but most yokai use it to look human.

[From what he knows, they aren't super common, but they aren't rare, either.]
faceguy: (cause baby i'm gifted)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-01 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they're pretty cool. I never got to play with one, though - our only one went to the guy who made us, mostly so he could dodge the Hidden City police.

[Though in the end he got arrested anyway.]
faceguy: (got nothin to learn)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-04 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he did, like, ignore direct orders from the Heads, and broke a bunch of laws, and helped put together a suit of demon armor that almost destroyed the world, soooo... Yeah!

But also the Hidden City Police are just arrest-happy.

[Leo has also be arrested by them...]
faceguy: (can't let this go)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-06 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you were a cop?

[This is some unexpected lore.]
faceguy: (breakin out of your small town)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-06 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow, he doesn't sound happy to have been famous. That's pretty different from Leo's experience.]

Well, what's wrong with that?
faceguy: (living with a laissez-faire)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-09 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, knowing how to be charming isn't a bad thing!

[Leo is the faceman, he knows all about it!]

Serving a corrupt conspiracy... not so much.
faceguy: (i dont give a damn)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well, fifteen-year-olds can be pretty dumb.

[He says from his lofty sixteen years.]

What did you want revenge for?

[Leo can tell this is probably something serious, so he's not sure if asking the question is a good idea... so he tags on:]

No pressure, though.
faceguy: (i guess payback is)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-11 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Whoa, okay. That's pretty heavy.

And it takes Leo a second, but it does click in his brain soon enough:]


Wait... are you talking about your dad!?

[Or at least someone who was involved with his mom.]
faceguy: (so you got a cross to bear)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-13 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Leo doesn't quite know what to say to that. He knows sometimes his dad wasn't the best, but he was never like that.]

Uh... sorry. That sucks.
faceguy: (i guess this just)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-17 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope it was a heaping helping.

[“Some measure” is not encouraging, after all.]

faceguy: (can't let this go)

[personal profile] faceguy 2025-03-20 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he didn't know what most of that meant, but confessing on live TV is good!]

I'm guessing the heart stealing was metaphorical? [Amazing that he even knows that word.] Or otherwise he couldn't confess to much of anything.

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