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So this is like a post to basically say I'm changing accounts Tbh. That's it. Like, I know none of you care but this was inevitable, because my phone is actually unsaveable and I just want to get this over with. The only reason I'm not using this one anymore is because I made it 2-3 and a half years ago and my memory is absolute garbage.

IndigoDovahSune

So l love you all lmao, even though you don't know me i love you so much ❤.

(If my spelling or wording is incorrect please don't yell at me I don't know why I said that thing that way either, I'm really not good with words.)

~Harmless

A Princess Tutu style AU where Akira and Akechi were both birds given human form for Yabaldoth’s Game, and grew up thinking they were human. Akira was the Magpie, the trickster, the thief. Akechi was the Crow, the blessed, the ill-omen.

And Akira is the first to realise that something is chaining him down, holding him back, pulling his strings. He remembers, on accident, after a dream about free falling, of flight and freedom. Of curiosity of a life humans would experience, and a puppeteer, beckoning him and his friend forward with a deal: Play his Game, and they both could experience life as humans did.

It is a cursed deal, Akira would realise now, and he has no idea where the Crow is, until he finds him in the form of Akechi, without his true memories, and a touch more jaded than Akira in terms of their outlook about humanity than that hopeful view they both originally had.

Akira realises that once the Game ends, so does their time as humans.

He doesn’t wish for it to end.

Akechi remembers, not long after he ‘kills’ Akira. He remembers the Magpie he once flew with and Akechi ends up realising how rigged the Game is against them both. He grows even more bitter and angry and wishes for his life to end, as long as he gets to be with the Magpie again.

And when Shido makes that fated call, and Akechi enters the Ship, the Crow makes his decision and throws his lot in with his Magpie.

He then has to convince the Magpie that this had to end, when Yabaldoth offers Akira a chance to live life as a human for the rest of his life. He has to convince Akira that whatever reality that would be shaped, it would all be a lie.

Akira looks upon Arsene’s wings with jealousy a lot. Even before he got his memories back and it was frustrating trying to figure out why he was jealous of his true self. So does Akechi when he joins the PT. Akira knows why. Akechi doesn’t until after he ‘kills’ Akira.

One of Akira’s drug addled ramblings to Sae included calling Akechi “pretty bird” multiple times and Sae had to figure out that Akira was talking about Akechi.

Akira also mentions he’s a Magpie several times. Sae thinks he’s talking about the fact that he’s a thief.

None of the thieves react well to Akira and Akechi being birds in human form. Rather, they freak, mentally panic, and Akira and Akechi have to explain that they were born as and grew up as humans still.

Akira’s Magpie tendencies multiply ten-fold once he has his memories back: he’s very easily distracted by shiny, joins Mona in going “oooh treasure!”, filches stuff from shadows more easily, accidentally pickpockets his friends on more than one occasion.

Akechi’s Crow tendencies are a bit more down low thanks to him already squandering most of the good faith he had with the PT by selling them out. He is, however, very very protective of Akira and the rest of the PT. He also begins to demonstrate an ability none of them expected him to have, voice mimicry. Occasionally, this ability comes in handy in the form of summoning the more pack oriented Shadows to help him in a fight.

Post Game: Akira and Akechi both transform back into their base forms. They end up hanging around outside of Sojiro’s shop quite often, if only to keep him and Futaba company. Everyone who met Akira and Akechi and got to know them both on a deeper level still remembers who they were. Everyone else has their cognition Erased, the Detective Prince and the Phantom Thief Leader both vanishing from the minds of the public. Akira bitterly realises that this included his parents, when he’s told by Sojiro after a few months that neither remember even having a son.