emotional support shuakes
in no particular order. I've read all of these at least three times. this is really just for me
let them eat (cup)cake (13115 words) by MisterEames Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Kurusu Akira (Persona Series), Takamaki Ann, Okumura Haru, Sakamoto Ryuji Additional Tags: Food as a Metaphor for Love, Fluff, Idiots in Love, Misunderstandings, Goro Akechi is a hot mess, spoiler alert he is a jealous man, but has no reason to be, Happy Ending Summary: Goro Akechi is a great many things. An ace detective, a prodigy, a connoisseur of quality coffee. An expert marksman. Some might even call him an adequate friend, if the occasion calls for it. What Goro Akechi is not, is a jealous man. No, really.
So Stick Him in a Dress (16648 words) by redx3 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5, Persona Series Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Kurusu Akira, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Tatsumi Kanji, Shirogane Naoto Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Feminization, Rough Sex, Face-Fucking, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Top Persona 5 Protagonist, Bottom Akechi Goro, punishment cop joker, just. an obscene amount of lipstick honestly, Begging, Mutual Pining, akira uses she/her for part of the fic but not all of it, Mirror Sex Summary: “You brought a friend,” is what she says. Her face is carefully blank as she watches Goro’s coworkers send each other glances that Goro pretends he doesn’t see. “Pleased to meet you,” Goro says and lays on the charm because fuck, he wants to make a good impression. She makes a complicated expression, eyebrows pinching together and pursing her lips. Only for a moment, though, before her expression hardens into something determined and understanding. She ends up smirking, dark red lips parting to reveal a flash of dangerous sharp teeth. Goro’s head is reeling. “Nice to meet you,” She says, extending a single gloved hand toward him to shake.
All Those Pesky What Ifs (4286 words) by Lycor Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Akechi Goro & Kurusu Akira Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira Additional Tags: Post-Canon, with some flashbacks, Getting Together, 2/2, Persona 5 Protagonist Needs a Hug, and therapy, but this is close enough, probably, Akechi Goro Needs a Hug, Reenactment as exposure therapy, Hurt/Comfort, because god knows they need it Summary: Akira had prepared himself for whatever ridiculous line Goro was prepared to recite. Perhaps another declaration of hatred? A cold remark on Akira’s sentimentality? Or, maybe Goro would go for the throat and announce he’s dead for all the world to hear. Akira wasn’t prepared for the calm, simple, “hey,” Goro offered in return. The words were jarring, coming from the body of the man Akira once believed hated him. So they were really doing this. No caricatures, no deceit, no pretending to be their old selves. Just…them, alone together.
777 (7510 words) by arukana Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Akechi Goro, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist, Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Sakura Futaba, Kitagawa Yusuke, Niijima Makoto, Okumura Haru Additional Tags: Gambling, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Wedding, Drinking, Fluff, Love Confessions Series: Part 1 of put your money where your mouth is Summary: Goro and Ren spend a drunken night in Las Vegas. Ren wants to do something stupid, and what else is there to do in Vegas besides get married?
Flight through fall (16341 words) by Tayani Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Akechi Goro & Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira Characters: Kurusu Akira, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Akechi Goro Additional Tags: Post-Game(s), Depression, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Dissociation, Akira Is Not Doing Great, Hurt No Comfort, in prologue at least, Hurt/Comfort in the rest of the fic, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Feelings, Getting Together, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Medical Procedures, Hospitals Summary: “One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.” ― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
no other shade of blue (6875 words) by nikkiRA Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Akechi Goro, Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Persona 5 Protagonist Additional Tags: Getting Together, First Kiss, Future Fic, Fluff and Humor Summary: “By ‘I did something,’ you meant you got a dog.” “I didn’t get a dog,” Goro says, even though Ren is physically holding an actual dog. “I found a dog by the garbage, looking pathetic and smelly, and so I brought him up to bathe him.” The thing inside Ren’s chest thuds harder, and he bites back a grin. “You saw a sad, scared little puppy and so you took him home,” he confirms, relishing in the way Goro’s ears turn pink.
on the nature of possession (22646 words) by HoneyCorvid Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Caroline (Persona Series), Justine (Persona Series) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Turned Into a Ghost, Temporary Character Death, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Velvet Room Contrivances, persona awakenings but no new personas, Haunting, Angst with a Happy Ending, Akechi Goro Needs a Hug, Canon-Typical Violence, Grief/Mourning, Akechi Goro Lives, Possessive And Unnerving Thoughts but it's akechi so it's really kind of the healthiest option, raising the dead with the power of love, Sleepovers Summary: Akira Kurusu is dead. Goro knows this because he can see him. He’s standing beside the bar, miserable and translucent, his posture tight and eyes faded dull. He flinches every time someone suggests going back to the ship to get him, presumably because, like Goro, he knows what they’ll find. He wonders if he’s real— he assumes he can’t be. Ghosts aren’t an actual thing that exist, and it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for his own mind to finally have fucking cracked after a day like today. It doesn’t matter. Either he’s finally snapped, because Akira is dead and it’s his fault, or he’s being haunted because Akira is dead and it’s his fault. The difference, in the moment, feels semantic. (It's not like it's bad having him around. And if he's right and Goro can bring him back? Well. He's not going to get his hopes up.)
you and I are nothing special (25753 words) by SomewhereFlying Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Persona 5 Protagonist, Takamaki Ann Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Mutual Pining, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fluff Summary: Goro Akechi, youngest detective in Shibuya, model university student, and generally all-around beloved public figure, has been quietly nursing a spiteful grudge against the man who has meticulously controlled his image for his entire life. Now he has the opportunity to use his modest fame to hit his father where it hurts the most – his reputation – and roping a hapless barista into being his pretend lover is just the way to do it.
A Study in Distress (12017 words) by Xov Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Kurusu Akira, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro, Morgana (Persona 5), Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Niijima Makoto, Okumura Haru, Kitagawa Yusuke, Sakura Futaba, Sakura Sojiro Additional Tags: Humor, Case Fic, Mutual Pining, oblivious protag, oblivious akechi, non metaverse au, College Age AU, Friendship, protag went to akechi's high school instead of shujin, Light-Hearted, Pre-Relationship Summary: In an attempt to get rid of a long standing crush, Akira avoids his best friend for a month to no avail. Akechi Goro does not take to the idea very well and resorts to petty methods to force Akira to hang out with him - like insisting he needs help on a boring case involving a string of thefts he never had any intention of looking into.
love's a fool's dance (8653 words) by shouldbeworking Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro, Morgana (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist's Parents Additional Tags: Making Out, being a teenager is pretty fucked up, yearning pining etc, ren gets his kisses in, goro has one hundred thousand crises, you should know me by now Summary: The booth in the corner, shrouded deep in shadow, is living up to its name again. Here at the Jazz Jin one can find a delightful atmosphere, delightful drinks, delightful music—a delight all-around, barring one exception for anyone unfortunate enough to notice it: the kissing booth. “Teenagers,” Goro says derisively. “And how old are you?” Fuck off, Goro grumbles to himself. To Ren, he says: “Old enough at least to be above that sort of disgraceful display, thank you very much.” “Mm,” Ren hums, absently swirling his straw around his finger. “So have you ever kissed anyone?” Goro chokes on his drink.
Hunger For A Life (57764 words) by Leonawriter Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Kurusu Akira & Sakura Futaba, Akechi Goro & Sakura Futaba Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Sakura Futaba, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Niijima Sae, Okumura Haru Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Vampire Akechi, Human Akira, Vampire Futaba, Trauma, so many of these kids are traumatised, canon-typical non-con references, Human/Vampire Relationship, Misunderstandings, Akechi Goro is Bad at Feelings, which feels like an understatement here, technically more of an urban fantasy au, but we're focusing on the vampires, Unreliable Narrator, all of them - Freeform, Akechi Goro and Sakura Futaba Are Half-Siblings, Mind Manipulation, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Implied/Referenced Suicide, it's the usual suspects Series: Part 1 of Persona Urban Fantasy AU Summary: Featuring Goro Akechi, who has to learn to tell the difference between a crush and his predator instincts while balancing being a detective and a Metaverse hitman for his leech of a father, and Akira, who's dealing with trauma and pretending he's fine. Really, he's fine. There's no way this could possibly go wrong. (There is. There are several ways. All of them are bad.)
Pleasant Boy (38452 words) by ez_cookie Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Persona 5, Persona Series Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Maruki Takuto, Yoshizawa Sumire | Yoshizawa Kasumi, Phantom Thieves of Hearts Additional Tags: goro gets actualized during the maruki infiltration au, Psychological Horror, akira is pining, goro akechi is just very confused, the phantom thieves dont like sasskechi then he starts being nice, and then they go 'fuck go back', Angst Summary: During what should have been a routine day of infiltration, Crow gets snatched away by Maruki and returns as a shell of his former self. He's all polite smiles, wit, and charm, and Akira wants it undone as soon as possible.
the gray-eyed monster (12319 words) by unsungillumination Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro & Takamaki Ann, Amamiya Ren & Takamaki Ann, the phantom thieves & each other you get it Characters: Akechi Goro, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Kurusu Akira, Takamaki Ann, Phantom Thieves of Hearts Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fluff Summary: Ren grins. “You want me to date Goro?” “Pretend-date Goro,” Ann corrects. “And make his crush jealous.” “This is not going to work,” Goro says. “Sure, I’ll do it,” says Ren, still grinning. He does his own rendition of Ann’s eyelash bat. “Go out with me, Goro-kun?” “I’m older than you, so show me a little respect,” Goro says crossly. “Our relationship is off to a bad start, Ren-kun.” (or: what not to do when you're fake-dating your real crush.)
