#petty??? definitely lmao but he's a cocky 16 year old he WILL be petty

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hey just wanna say that i love your talks on akira but esp the velvet room one about akira absolutely hating it?? also while the anime sucks i remember a scene where the twins are talking to him and are showing *emotions* and akira was just. sitting by the cell on the floor with this smug ass smirk on his face?? like YES THAT IS THE AKIRA THAT I KNOW!!!! i dont remember which ep but i loved it so much bc he was just quietly judging and taunting at them even in his place!!!

thank you!! and yes omg thank you for reminding me of that scene djfgbhfb i really enjoyed that too because even from where akira finds himself, we see in game that he still easily has the capacity to be pretty obstinate to the velvet room guides. i showed some of the examples you have with reacting to igor, but the twins’ confidant shows that akira can still be played as pretty smug and quite teasing even given the circumstances. his velvet room is a hostile place for him, but eventually i think he starts to play the game with them, if that makes sense. i don’t think he truly gets used to it in the traditional sense, but he also doesn’t want to take everything they throw at him quietly and with his head down. because ok. looking at the dynamics here, akira is a naturally rebellious person, a literal trickster character, who’s also sixteen years old - how is he NOT going to react to what this velvet room dishes out to him with his own form of bullshit in some way or another?? again, i don’t believe akira is ever truly confident in his position here, there’s too many unknowns and he’s far too powerless to be, he may even have a sense of anxiety/dread about his velvet room, but i think he absolutely would react to all of this by masking those fears and trying to impress his own confidence on the attendants and igor himself. there’s a lot of power plays here by igor (i don’t think akira views it as a struggle with the twins as well - his issues are with igor ultimately) and akira wants to do whatever he can to rise to meet them, to show that no matter the circumstances, he can never be truly controlled. he can be put in a cell, in a prisoner’s uniform, he can be forced to execute his personas, and the wardens can treat him however they want, he still stays in control of his reactions at the end of the day. it’s something igor doesn’t have the power to change and even if all akira can do is show his disinterest, disrespect, and flash some smug smiles, then that’s what he’ll do. no he can’t change his situation, but he doesn’t have to give them the satisfaction of his fear or his complete compliance.

#akira: hey hey igor look at me. bitch. #petty??? definitely lmao but he's a cocky 16 year old he WILL be petty #and the fact that yaldabaoth reacts sometimes shows they're BOTH petty so it works #and you know akira loves that #bc there's the dialogue i screengrabbed #but also if you flip through the menus to fast igor can get pissy like the twins #i've only heard it like ONCE so i can't remember what he says #but it honestly caught me off guard a little when i heard it jdfgbdfhg #akira lives for those snide comments #p5 #akira kurusu #akira thots #p5 spoilers #Anonymous

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Alright buckle up we got a lot of questions: 13, 14, 16, 25, 26, 33, 37, 38, 42, 63, 68, all for my wonderful friend The Head of Coin! 👁👁 show me the forbidden information

ALRIGHT LONG LIST HERE WE GO (love that you’re asking Coin, who is supposed to be good at keeping Secrets, all of these questions, and so soon after That Chat with Von Kri, too)

13. What do they dislike about themself? Why?

I'm honestly not sure. Coin's been running around my head for a good number of months now, and I don't know if I've ever heard him say anything about something he doesn't like about himself. He's a cocky cheerful bastard, and I'm *still* trying to figure out if that's honest to god Him or if that's a façade he puts on. I'm not sure Coin completely realizes this - though he's definitely noticed after That Chat - but he's somewhat careless when not sworn to secrecy, is a way to put it, I suppose. If he's made a deal or an agreement then by the gods he will follow it, but if not? He can be unfortunately loose-lipped, as we discovered in that chat with Von Kri. If it involves his Own, then he is... better at being tight-lipped when not sworn to, but he can be careless when it comes to others he doesn't have any formal Deals with (like the main party...). He knows this isn't necessarily favorable, but he's also not sure how, or even if, he wants to really change that

14. What is something they love about themself?

Coin loves his surefire confidence. He’s a cheerful bastard, and a cocksure one at that. Until That Chat, I don’t think Coin’s been really shaken or felt out of control of a situation in a good long while. I still need to really sort out his backstory, and his early early life, but I don’t think that this cocksure attitude was always the case for him. It’s something he developed and worked for and... well, you heard it here first, he was *so awkward and shy* as a kid, a total wallflower. He's able to slip into the unnoticed wallflower easy enough, but it's not something he tends to do much these days. He was always watching, listening to others growing up, and he managed to basically turn that into his job?

16. What are their feelings on the people who raised them?

Alright, going to be copy/pasting this Q&A for Coin into one of my hidden DM channels so I’ve got this on record there lmao. The people who raised Coin. . . Hm. Coin was born to eladrin parents on the Material Plane, and he was not born with the “name” of Coin. I have that name written down in my notes, but that is not information I will lightly give where other players might see. The Name/Title of “Coin” he took on after he made his way to the Shadowfell, but that was later in life. His parents were kind folk, and they raised him best they could, but there was only so much they could do for the shy wallflower of a child he was. He doesn’t think badly of his parents, when he remembers them, but it’s been so long since he’s seen them that he rarely thinks about them. He knows his parents have passed away, but he doesn’t know where they’re buried or else he would visit their graves while he’s on the Material Plane right now

25. What stories do they like to tell? What stories do they like to hear?

Coin *loves* to hear stories of all sorts. He trades in information, among other things, and stories can tell you so much about an event and about the people telling you the story. He especially likes the “stories” that are basically someone catching the new person up on all the office gossip & drama. That’s always fun to listen to when they bring someone new into the offices and he gets to overhear the latest rendition of the complaints about Ayen’s Code that no one can understand. Stories that Coin likes to tell? Hm. Whatever kind of story he thinks his audience would like, something to keep them engaged and continuing to trade stories with him. I’m not sure I could get more specific than that, since what sort of story he’d tell depends on who his audience is and if he’s looking for information

26. Who do they miss?

Really digging at the backstory here, I see. *Any* information I’m giving here that pertains to before Coin joined the Shadow Court is new information we’re spinning up to answer these questions lmao. I don’t think Coin misses anyone, not seriously. There might be some old warlocks of his that have passed away that he misses, but there’s always someone new to meet. Perhaps his parents? When he remembers them, of course. It’s been *centuries* since he last saw them, and he has less and less reason to remember them as the years pass by

33. What makes them cry?

As much as I wanted to try and find a possible backstory scenario or something on something that makes Coin cry, I couldn’t think of anything, so we get a funny answer here. What makes Coin cry? Get him drunk enough and he’ll cry over the funniest things, like snakes not being able to walk because they don’t have legs. S&C have both seen this from him on numerous different occasions, I believe, and C will *gladly* offer up facts and info like that if he’s gotten over snakes but needs something continue to cry about. And also drops information like that around Coin when he's sober to add to the list of topics to cry over when drunk. Simply stating “The point is dolphins” around a drunk enough Coin will send him crying about dolphins bc 1) “so long and thanks for all the fish” (Coin: why would they abandon us!?!) and 2) dolphins attacking pufferfish to get high (Coin: they’re so meeeeannnnn why would they do that 😭)

37. What is their favorite thing to hold?

A pen or a coin. When he’s not running around watching the party in their chaos, he’s often found with a notebook or at a desk working on notes or ledgers. He keeps records, and so he’s often found with a pen in hand. He’s also almost always fidgeting with like a silver or copper piece. I think the cool metal of the coins helps ground him, and, as some other characters have seen, he will occasionally hand them out, so he’s always got a coin on hand. 

38. What do they smell like?

Musty, like inks and papers of a records room full of books. There’s also a sharp metallic edge to him, as well, that smells like copper pennies or blood

42. What are three words they would use to describe themself?

Sure-footed, Watching, and Energetic (and, of course, Cheerful, but I call him a cheerful bastard enough that that one’s a given at this point lol)

63. What fight has scared them the most?

A fight with the Baron, back in the early days of this Shadow Court. Things were rough going until everyone settled into their places and got used to each other. Fighting the sorcerer wasn’t that much of a problem, the magic he could handle, but the *blankness* of the Baron was incredibly unnerving. Coin is normally good at reading people, in both combat and conversation, but he’s never been able to read the Baron in either. There was a disagreement between Coin and the Baron about something or other, probably something pretty petty and insignificant looking back, but the fight scared Coin. He’s fought mages before, and can hold his own against them, but he wasn’t able to read the Baron’s movements or his casting, and that was the first fight he nearly lost in a long while

68. What was the best moment of their life?

Watching the party kill the Sage? Hearing that the Sage, Father, and Templar were all three dead? I think that second one, since that signaled him becoming the head of the Court. If there’s another moment, I haven’t mapped out his backstory too seriously, so I couldn’t tell you

[If you want to ask me questions about my characters, the post can be found here!]

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