dorking | Open Post - Persona 4 AU!Akechi

A. A Boy Jumps Out of a TV, When...

[For reasons you're not too sure about, you are in the Junes Department Store's electronics department.

Maybe you live in Inaba. Maybe you just walked through a door and ended up there. Regardless, there is a twelve year old boy climbing out of one of the TVs, with the screen rippling black and white, and it's probably all very unsettling.

He did not expect to have company, and so when he drops to the floor, he stops and stares.

He wanted recognition, but not like this.

He straightens his stance, removing his thin, brown-framed glasses, and blurts out a snappy-]

Don't mind what you just saw! It's all an elaborate magic trick.

[...That's a terrible excuse. More likely, he's going to have to explain.

Lovely.]

B. Damn it, Teddie! Where the hell are we?!

[Akechi meant to go into the TV to try and bribe Teddie with more snacks and perhaps, maybe, finally get a better feel for the TV world.

One problem: He did not end up in the TV world. He ended up where your character is, and now there's a very puzzled tween glancing around with thin, brown-framed glasses and a middle school uniform.

But he lifts the glasses. There's no fog. Everything's clear.]

What the hell is going on here?!

[Did he go in the wrong screen? But that makes no sense. He knows which screen to use!]

C. Wildcard

[Got another idea? Have at it!]

[ooc: This Akechi is from my currently ongoing fic. More info on his profile!]

Threaded | Flat

[Where Akechi lands is... Tokyo, surprisingly. Next to the Roppongi Hills building, a place that's been clearly police tapped and cordoned off, and it's not hard to see why:

It's a mess. Cars have been over turned, buildings have been crushed and crumpled and there's debris everywhere. Further inspection reveals long, jagged claw marks in the ground, across cars, along walls. Like a terrible beast came through. There's more though, unfortunately: A few bodies, strewn haphazardly around and...

Being eaten. Chewed on by various kinds of monsters. All of which look up from their respective meals at him.

None of them move, though there's a sound of shuffling off to the side, and a turn of the head will reveal he's being watched on all sides apparently, though this time it's by a boy in a cape, who's eyebrows are lifted in surprise as he watches from his seat on the hood of one of the few cars not overturned or on its side.]

You're not supposed to be here. [And of course, there's the how he had gotten so close to the Hills building without being ushered away by someone else or another demon.]

[ Of all the tiny hole-in-the-wall places Saitou could have picked out for her, Ai could have ended up somewhere worse than Inaba... probably. The hospital had been a dour sort of place, but it'd been quiet and she'd been left alone and on the nights she managed to sneak up to the roof, the stars had been more lovely and vivid than anything she'd seen in Tokyo. And the little apartment she, Aqua and Ruby had been squirrelled away into until they could return to Tokyo for real... well, she's lived in worse places. So long as there's a roof over her head and everything works as it should, Ai's learned not to be picky.

Not being picky doesn't mean she can entirely forego standards, though. She has Saitou's credit card and a very strict warning not to go too wild with it, but she's found herself drifting over to the electronics even so. She might be on hiatus right now, but it's only right that an idol should keep up with what's going on in the entertainment world, right?

Which means she's just in time for Akechi's grand entrance and his not-so-grand excuse. Ai blinks at him, then casually pops off her shades just so the total lack of conviction on her face is nice and visible.

Casually: ] If you're going to lie to me, have something better prepared in advance. 'Magic trick' isn't going to stand up to follow up questions at all.