#goro

akechi with a s/o who works at a maid cafe

i have strong opinions on goro akechi here are a few of them. robin hood is actually more important than people give him credit for; i was writing a whole analysis on this the other week before work got busy third semester akechi isn't "real akechi"; it's another mask. his detective prince mask certainly isn't going to work on the phantom thieves anymore after they saw his engine room breakdown but he still needs to keep them all emotionally at an arms length. so what does he do? he makes himself purposefully all sadistic and unhinged and scary so the thieves look at him and go "something is *definitely* wrong with him" and are unnerved by him and don't try to get close to him. he's a good actor, as shown by the detective prince charade akechi never hated the detective prince persona as much as he acts like he does. sure he also couldn't quite adore it 100% unburdened as he probably wished to but i personally believe that, for the most part, he enjoyed it; however he's deeply uncomfortable with the fact that the memory is tainted with his utter lowest (the engine room) and the mask shattered apart in such an ugly way. so after the fact he lies to himself to be all revisionist. "actually the detective prince was a stupid mask, lmfao. i never rly gave a single shit about it other than needing it for my plan. i had to bend myself out of shape and make myself all palatable to people, which fucking sucked, and what's worse, those fools all bought it. whatever, i couldn't give a singular shit." because it would hurt more to admit that he enjoyed it and lost something he genuinely kind of cared about. i imagine he quite liked playing up the prince charming role because it allowed him to turn off the bitter angry hurt part of his brain that he wished wasn't there and just be pretty and successful and adored. escapism

MAD DOG