akihiko catchall

[florescences]

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

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[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?