akihiko catchall

[florescences]

one day i'll play more than 2 hours of persona 3

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week 0, sunday

[florescences]

[ trial and execution would take a toll on anyone, much less a teenage boy like akihiko.

she calls out to him when she sees him. ]

Akihiko? Are you doing okay?

[ziosar]

...I'm not sure. Yesterday I was satisfied with that guy getting caught, but right now--it's complicated now.

[It's not that he feels awful about Jing Yuan, but at the same time that execution left such a sour taste in his mouth he's not sure how to deal with. He hadn't expected Jing Yuan to be killed, much less by someone else here, and clearly it wasn't a choice Jiaoqiu consciously made. Felt like some was pulling the strings in all this, and he hates so much]

I thought the whole problem was that it is wrong for us to kill? Why the hell was what happened today needed?

[It just makes no sense to him]

[florescences]

Hmm... in a twisted way, some people could consider it part of justice. Someone committed a crime, and he was punished for it. If you're the one made to carry out the punishment, would that be considered wrong?

[ she smiles a little. ]

For some, it's a duty. Here.... it's something else.

[ziosar]

It felt very personal, too. Making everything take the form of a place familiar to them, bring people they know...

[Although, yeah...guess eye-for-eye is a bit of a biblical command, now that he thinks about it, from what little he has heard about western religion. Maybe this heaven believes in that, for all he knows]

[florescences]

Yeah, it did look quite personal. We should be careful about how we witness it.

[ziosar]

[Akihiko has to stop to try to let the complicated mess of emotions settle down a little, taking a deep breath, clenching his fists and unclenching, until his head clears up a little. Elysia having checked on him helped, that's for sure]

...by the way... [Something Zhongli commented had gotten Akihiko's attention, and given how Elysia is like, maybe...] Did you talk to Jing Yuan while he was in the tower?

[florescences]

[ she gives him a small smile. ]

I did. I heard he was very popular that night.

[ziosar]

What do you think about him? Be honest. I'm not interested in any kind of downplaying when it's about that guy.

[How messed up is Jing Yuan, is what he's trying to find out, mostly so Akihiko can have a feel of just how badly he had misjudged Jing Yuan in the conversations they had]

[florescences]

In what way? He was behaving a bit differently than I expected, even if he did do it all on his own.

[ziosar]

That part. The part about him behaving differently.

[Akihiko is unsure if he should add this, but decides he might as well do it:]

Back at home, someone I trusted turned out to be a complete scumbag with plans that'd end up causing widespread chaos. [Understatement, really] I didn't trust Jing Yuan nearly as much, but I'm having some...some trouble trying to come to terms that I might have encountered someone twisted like that and never suspected a thing again.

[He'd rather not have to look at people with suspicion and thinking they might be bad people at heart, but yeah, this is gnawing at him]

[florescences]

People can easily be two-faced or have very many sides to them. Some people are very good at deceiving, too.

I don't know if Jing Yuan was any of those things, but what do you want to believe?

[ziosar]

I want to believe there was a good reason behind everything that happened. That we didn't lose someone like Charlie because Jing Yuan fekt like taking a life for no reason. That's not much to ask, is it?