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The garbage fire is a work in progress.

Girlkira appreciates Goro a lot. He's been nothing but kind to her and even helped her settle in!! Even if she's learned some... alarming things that apply to his counterpart back home.

She wants to learn more about him, though--especially all the ways he's different from his counterpart!

As of right now, she's just... not entirely sure how to approach the topic of the flirting, because while the attention is... nice? On some level? (She's still dwelling a little on the fact that he called her cute! People don't just do that with her!) She sees it as awkward and uncomfortable, especially considering 1: Goro's relationship includes the other Akira and 2: she doesn't see herself as in the right place for a relationship either mentally or emotionally.

... She still likes Goro a lot and if things were less complicated, she'd go for him in a heartbeat.

Thanks to him, Aiden was able to feel what it's like to want to believe in someone else to such a strong degree.

As ironic as it might seem, Goro Akechi helped give hope to this guy. He doesn't have the slightest clue what he did to deserve people like this in his life, but he's experienced so much more patience than he's ever known. Akechi is someone who reminds Aiden of himself to such a painful degree, and yet he's surrounded by loving people.

Yeah, there's some jealousy... lots of it... but somehow? It's becoming motivation for him to keep going and to try harder. That, and the guilt that will probably not ever be leaving anytime soon.

Like how Akana is similar to a candle in a dark room, Goro Akechi is like a splash of color to a fresh canvas.

Edited 2018-07-03 03:16 (UTC)

You're Confusing, Goro. Morgana still feels kind of guilty towards you over The Plan, even though The Plan was never executed on you, and he's never actually met the you that is this specific you before this? Thinking about timelines gives him a headache, but it's damn hard to separate feelings out between Akechis, and he wants to do right by you, both because of The Plan and because Akira loves you. He's doing his best to be a good frand, though!11

Maybe someday he'll understand everything you and the other two went through together, but he's not holding his breath. At any rate, you can be kind of dumb sometimes, even if you're not as bad as Akira is. Please take care of yourself properly and let other people take care of you too??

So is whatever their talking is, that's not a bad thing at all.

She definitely appreciates Goro's... awareness of missing pieces for his plan going forward? And also that he has definitely been through Some Pain courtesy of the mall, she's not going to pry about it.

~~At some point I want her to find out Dio was there, there is so much she knows about That Whole Thing that he never would.~~

Saying it's complicated is putting it mildly.

For a long while, Shido was outright frightened by him. His guilt of what he did to Goro absolutely consumed him. Guilt, shame, horror, regret... that's all he could feel for the son who's life he ruined. In the beginning, Akechi was Shido's greatest sin.

Now? He's something so much more tangible and concrete than that. Shido has actually, genuinely gotten attached to him, despite all his efforts at keeping a distance, knowing that by trying to be too familiar he was likely to get hurt even more— as he did on the Trivesta.

In fact, at this point, it's... really become something akin to fatherly love. For everything he's learned about him, he's become endeared and so proud of him. For all the shit Akechi has gone through, he's still here— maybe shattered and put back together, but here, and still trying so damn hard. Akechi is absolutely incredible to him, and... he's certain he's gotten all his good traits from his mother, really.

But there's a pretty heavy roadblock in the way of a genuine relationship. Shido has forgiven what Akechi has done in his anger and upset, and even completely trusts him not to do anything and to hold to his promise. And I mean completely. However, he does know that trying for familiarity has gotten him burned, unfortunately, and even if he isn't going to get physically hurt the next time? He still doesn't want to make Akechi that degree of uncomfortable.

Granted, he doesn't fully realize that degree of uncomfortable is because Akechi wants it. He is aware that while to some degree Akechi wants attention, he has no idea how familiar he really wants them to be, and for now he's going to play it on the safe side.

... and that's going to be killing him a bit on the inside, but Akechi's comfort and happiness are far more important.

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He is a work in progress and Kurama is incredibly proud of him for continuing to progress. He loves Goro with the same scary levels of devotion he has for Akira and his mother.

He was genuinely very worried when Shido first showed up and Goro turned into a ball of poorly restrained rage and resentment. The danger of Goro backsliding uncomfortably close to the person Kurama saw at his trial felt very real. And while he would love Goro regardless, he was kind of afraid of how much damage that would do to Goro himself. So it's a relief to Kurama to see him slowly overcoming it all.

Pidonus trusts Goro more than she thinks she should; he's been relatively honest and good at clarifying things for her.

More than that, though Pidonus doesn't know this yet - he's probably the best hope she has of being saved from what she perceives as her inevitable fate. If he can do good by her... Maybe she can actually start thinking of her actions as actually trying to be moral, rather than trying and succeeding too well at faking it enough to get by.

She is definitely glad the situation with Shido didn't go to the worst places, as well...

(If he weren't a work in progress, where would they even be at this point?)

He's is perpetually grateful to still have Goro even in his life, at all. He lost a version of Goro Akechi... not once, but twice, as far as his memories go. So it's safe to say that his attachment to this fiance is pretty damn extreme, as well. He would be willing to argue with/fight with anyone for either boyfriend's sake, and it goes without saying that this includes Goro's sake even against the Phantom Thieves.

Yes, he no doubt loves his friends a hell of a lot, but Goro is part of his entire world.

There's no doubt he loves Goro at the same intense level he loves Kurama, especially after all they've been through and fought through at this point. And while there are still a lot of issues at hand, regarding a lot of individual traits that still need to be dealt with, they do still work well together!

Even if... he did kind of heck up in a way that drew out Detective Prince all over again. He's regretting that more than he's regretted a lot of things, and yet (as I said in another comment) he doesn't entirely regret it. He will stand by the belief that he did what he thought was right, even if he can't begin to argue against the silence being very wrong. So, yeah, there are a lot of apologies and apologetic gestures in their future.

Akira might honestly continue believing he doesn't deserve to be forgiven for being distant anytime soon, given who he was being distant towards, and knowing their issues and insecurities? But he can't even begin to deny that he... genuinely fucking hates disappointing and upsetting his fiances.......

Edited 2018-07-03 08:47 (UTC)

Astolfo will die for you, but that's old news.

He cares a whole lot about Goro, clearly. He's pretty much his closest friend, alongside Izunia. He doesn't care about what he's done in the past- the only thing that matters to him is who Goro is now. He feels empathy towards his situation more than anything else, besides.

Goro's fun to be around, and he loves enabling his sillier and more dramatic side, but Astolfo's...not just his friend for that. He's also there for when he needs support, or when he's in a darker place. Being around Goro really makes Astolfo feel like a hero, for how much he wants to support and help him. He's got kind of an inspiring aura about him.

In a lot of ways, Goro is one of the people here whose behavior and responses make intuitive sense to Jetshard - he's a smart kid, and his caution around people he doesn't know well and protective focus on himself and his loved ones is pretty unremarkable by troll standards. It was a bit of a difficult realization for her that he's that way as the result of what is, by human standards, a severely damaging early life. She still tends to kind of approach him the way she would a young troll navigating the transition between the standard borderline-feral childhood and competitive adult socialization - carefully avoids talking down to him, but makes her disapproval very plain when she feels he's crossing a line.

...Ironically enough, that's probably the best way to approach him. He's been on his own long enough that he'd be very insulted to be treated like he's just an ordinary kid.

/gently puts out garbage fire

But no, basically the biggest impression here is that grandpa sees you trying and he's so proud of you, Goro. He's so proud.

I cannot believe these two bonded over having a similar execution. Mai respects Goro a lot, although she did come in when he was obviously trying to ruin his archnemesis's life even after the guy had visibly changed and was trying to repent and that was kind of um -- well, actually, it was kind of Church, and Mai certainly likes him well enough, so it's all good. Mai likes talking to Goro and will actually be pretty open around him about the things that messed both of them up.

CAH prince, dethroned.

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