Fon Master Ion (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fragileprophet) wrote2018-06-16 07:33 pm
fragileprophet) wrote2018-06-16 07:33 pm
Week 1, Saturday Post-Trial - Akechi
[Ion takes a deep breath. He doesn't know why, but he feels...unsure. He wants to talk to Akechi, but a part of him doesn't want to face what he thinks he might already know. He's afraid...afraid of that reality, where he may have misjudged someone so greatly.
No. That's not the right way to think.
He's a human being. He's a person. He has to have his own...his own...
Ion knows he just has to talk with him. He closes his eyes, counts to five, and then he strides from his room to Akechi's. It's fortunate that they're in the same dorm. He knocks with a feather-light touch.]
...I hate to bother you, but could I come in for just a few moments? I promise not to take up too much of your time.
[For once, even he isn't smiling.]
No. That's not the right way to think.
He's a human being. He's a person. He has to have his own...his own...
Ion knows he just has to talk with him. He closes his eyes, counts to five, and then he strides from his room to Akechi's. It's fortunate that they're in the same dorm. He knocks with a feather-light touch.]
...I hate to bother you, but could I come in for just a few moments? I promise not to take up too much of your time.
[For once, even he isn't smiling.]
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[Akechi already admitted to what he'd done, so why not just admit to something that would help him save face, even a little? Why doesn't he want Ion to support him when he's offering it so freely?]
If it isn't too much to ask, I'd like it if you just spoke with me plainly.
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[Akechi gives a frustrated growl, grabbing at his bangs with one gloved hand]
Then what do you want me to say?
[he knows what Ion wants. he's just putting it off]
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[He closes his eyes, frowning, and shakes his head. No, he won't turn this into an argument.]
I just want to know what you were thinking--I want to know how you really feel. I know how much it can...I know how lonely it is, when you spend so much time pretending you feel one way when the reality is so much different. If I'm off base, you can tell me that, too, but if I'm not...I want you to know that you can talk to me, no matter how harshly.
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I don't know what I was thinking.
[he says that with raw, almost painful, honesty]
My job is to make sure everyone completes their objectives, regardless of what they are. I know your objective. I know your objective is to die in this place.
[. . .]
It should be easy. I should know what I have to do next. Right?
[like Kurusu had been easy. like killing Kurusu had been a victory. so why is Ion different?]
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[Ion smiles to himself. He doesn't feel happy but he feels...something hard to explain at the knowledge that Akechi had actually asked him all those questions about his title. And that in knowing that, whether or not he was prepared to kill, he still spared his life.]
I think...it's a mistake to follow a script as it's laid out, just because it's the easier thing to do.
[It's a subject he's intimately familiar with.]
What might be the better option for yourself, personally, is to take the guidelines you've been given and find your own way to use them...even if it takes time to figure out just how you'd like to do that.
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My guidelines don't leave much leeway for creative interpretation.
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Well...maybe you could just use more help. It’s hard to do these things alone, right?
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I suppose that's. . . [. . . hrrrgh] I suppose that's true.
[that was painful to admit]
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Then let’s start with what we can. My actual title is Humpty Dumpty.
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Humpty Dumpty?
[it's. it's so damn suitable that it almost makes him bark out a humorless laugh]
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Unfortunately appropriate, isn't it? I only just found that out before coming to speak with you, myself. I wasn't familiar with the story.