#maskuerade

It would've been a horrible, even foolish idea to his teammates. But stepping into danger's claws was not a first for him. As much as he wished to save Panther, however, in his own recklessness, the ice attack froze him more than he would've liked.

He couldn't move.

But thanks to her once again, he shivered and let out a quiet groan of displeasure, yet not defeat as soon as his body began warming up. "Panther..." He mumbled, shaking his head and getting back into his fighting stance, dagger gripped tightly into his gloved hand.

"I don't know... I don't feel like I was imagining it, but-"

Ann cuts herself short, caught somewhere between frustration and hesitation as her expression suddenly becomes clouded over. She's not looking away from Akira on purpose - and in fact, as soon as she realizes she's doing it, she stubbornly makes herself turn back to him again, meeting his eyes with her own burning gaze. It's just strangely difficult to get the words out... to say what she wants to say.

It's stupid, because after everything they've been through together, this should really be nothing. It's not nothing, but it's certainly not something impossible either. So, with that in mind-

"Do you really think it was... you know, real? I don't want to overthink what I saw, but..."

Olruggio is stunned for a moment. In all this time --- all those years; he had never received such high praise from someone who matters to him. As a child he was praised - almost worshipped - by many. Olruggio 'the torch'. But that was a meaningless title when he's failed to save everyone like he was supposed to.

THE MAGIC WORDS summon the nurse straight to his side. Fingers flutter and wrists flap; an attempt to abate the static pooling in her extremities. Her vision swims around a the seated figure speckled with crimson. It magnetizes to the source actively gushing from his arm once a rogue spurt hits the air. In one fell swoop, she snags the sterile gauze and secures the site with her gloved hands. A more potent ritual would have to wait. For now, she knows the bleeding needs to stop before he loses too much. How much has he lost, anyway? Eyes dance over the haphazard spattering. The corners of her mouth lurch back toward her ears. Yikes. It appears as if he already lost a considerable amount.

Ryuji had spent much of the day sitting on the edge of his bed, his knee bouncing restlessly. He'd known this day was coming for a long time now - had practically been hovering over his head like a ticking time bomb - x amount of months, weeks, days, now just minutes left. Only a few minutes...and his friend would be gone. Gone from Tokyo...away from him.

Funny, it hadn't felt real until this very moment and now...his stomach was lurching and uncomfortable.

The moment had passed by so quickly he wasn't even sure he'd felt it at first - Akira's lips against his cheek. His legs wobbled now even more shakily and there was a pounding in his ears and a rising feeling in his body like he needed to let something out right here, right now - he had stood up before he could stop himself - the words slipping out of him and escaping him.

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@maskuerade​​

Definitely a Joker blog that I hold a lot of respect for - it’s always really fun getting a lot at Joker’s innermost thoughts and vulnerability and I think they portray that part of him wonderfully.  Really just a Joker blog that I really enjoy and one I really hope to interact with more! Great Joker blog.

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@detectivcprince​​

I think they’re a great Akechi - it’s definitely been interesting exploring a sort of dynamic that’s friends with benefits but they’re not even really friends? Like it’s very tense and yet there’s this sort of romantic tension between them and it’s just fun seeing all of the different elements and conflicting thoughts and feelings there and I attribute that entirely to just how wonderfully they write Akechi - I really like how they’re able to write out his conflicting thoughts and emotions and make him feel very true to form.  They’re a pleasure to write with.

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