#⬖⟩⟩ isn't that what happens to a phantom thief when they're caught? ( phantom thief )

[cirilla-fiona-riannon]

I Will Take You Tonight (Part 1)

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The glaring rays of the sun cast long shadows on the skyscrapers.

The seventeen warlords and I slipped through time and found ourselves in the parking lot of a TV station building.

Mai: "Sasuke, are you sure this is okay?"

Sasuke: "Not only did they promise to pay for our performance, but they also promised to arrange a hotel for all of us while we're here. Also, everyone is excited, so I think we'll be fine."

(I never thought this would happen.)

A few hours ago.

We were having a tea party when we suddenly got caught in a wormhole and transported back to the present day.

Just when we were wondering what to do, a TV station staff passed by and spotted all the warlords.

(It's incredible to think that we'll be appearing on TV. And to top it off, the concept of the show is一)

Ranmaru: "Phantom Thief, huh? I'm looking forward to it, Lady Mai!"

Mai: "Yeah, I wonder what it will be like."

The show's concept was for everyone to split into three groups and engage in a treasure hunt, dressed up as phantom thieves.

(I think it's a typical variety show, but I wonder if everyone will be okay.)

Despite my concern, everyone was in high spirits.

Keiji: "I'm just grateful that they're willing to give us a place to stay just so we can have a fun treasure hunt."

Kanetsugu: "I'm just thankful we didn't end up on the street."

Yoshimoto: "I guess it's gonna be different competing with the tools of this era."

Kenshin: "If it's a game, I won't lose."

Kanetsugu: “I’ll be happy to help you, Lord Kenshin.”

Nobunaga: “We still don’t know what will happen to the groupings, though.”

Staff 1: “Everyone, please follow me to the waiting room!”

With the call from the staff, everyone stepped into the TV station, one by one.

(This is nice!)

(Hm?)

At that moment, I suddenly felt someone’s gaze and looked behind me, but there was no one there.

Staff 1: “Miss, please come with me.”

Mai: “Ah, okay.”

(I’m sure they’re looking because it’s weird to see everyone in kimonos.)

(Even I would be surprised if I walked by knowing nothing about it.)

I drew that conclusion and walked into the building as well.

Nobunaga: “How do you like it, Mai?”

Mai: “Wow! You all look fantastic!”

(They’re just like the phantom thieves I see in movies and dramas!)

I met up with everyone after they had changed their outfits and was surprised to see their dazzling appearance.

Kicho: “It looks elaborate, but it’s pretty easy to move in.”

Kennyo: "It seems that each of us has been assigned a specific gemstone, indicating our respective teams."

Motonari: "The costumes also have a distinct design to avoid confusion."

Team "Sapphire" consists of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, Mitsunari, Shingen, and Yoshimoto.

Team "Ruby" consists of Masamune, Kanetsugu, Yukimura, Sasuke, Keiji and Ranmaru.

While Team "Diamond" consists of Mitsuhide, Kenshin, Motonari, Kennyo, and Kicho.

Mai: "You all look really cool!"

(If everyone appeared on TV dressed like this, someone might start a fan club.)

Masamune: "Are you willing to be stolen by me?"

Mai: "Masamune?"

Masamune suddenly hugged me by the shoulder, surprising me.

Ieyasu: "Hey, Masamune. Stop pestering Mai."

Mai: "Ieyasu."

Ieyasu pulled me away from Masamune and hugged me, making me tense.

Yoshimoto: "Fufu, perhaps competing to win over Mai isn't a bad idea after all."

Yukimura: "Don't hold her hands, Yoshimoto."

Mai: "Please compete for the treasure, not me."

Just as it seemed the competition was about to begin, the staff returned.

Staff 1: "Here are some of the props. Feel free to use whatever is inside this box. I have preparations to make for the set, so if you'll excuse me."

Ranmaru: "Lord Sasuke, what's this?"

Sasuke: "That's a wire gun. It's a gun, but a wire pops out of it, and you can use it in different ways."

Motonari: "What is this kite-looking thing?"

Kicho: "That's a hang glider. It's like a kite, but you can use it to move through the air."

(There are warning cards, paint guns, smoke screens, and all kinds of things.)

I stared at everyone as they got excited, and the door to the waiting room suddenly opened.

Staff 2: "I have a favor to ask of your female friend."

A different guy approached and beckoned me over.

Mai: "Okay."

(How far will we go?)

I followed him, and he led me down to a deserted hallway.

Mai: "Um..."

Mai: "----!"

At that moment, someone suddenly covered my mouth from behind, and I desperately tried to resist.

(I'm losing strength.)

Then, I lost consciousness.

At that time, in the dressing room一

Yoshimoto: "Mai sure is late."

Kanetsugu: "Didn't the staff call her?"

Ranmaru: "I'm worried. I'll go check on her."

Just as Ranmaru placed his hand on the doorknob, the door opened.

Staff 1: "Is something wrong?"

Mitsunari: "One of the staff called our friend to leave. Do you know anything about it?"

Staff 1: "What? I don't think we have a staff like that."

Everyone: "!"

As if triggered by the staff's words, everyone dashed into the hallway.

Kennyo: "Is this Mai's earring?"

Yukimura: "She was wearing that. It's strange that it fell here."

Shingen: "Did someone take her away?"

Mitsuhide: "The phone the staff gave her is not working either."

Kicho: "This is not part of your plan, is it?"

Staff 1: "O-Of course not! I'll contact the police immediately."

Nobunaga: "We won't leave it to someone else."

Kenshin: "Obviously."

Hideyoshi: "We'll rescue her ourselves."

Ieyasu: "I will never forgive him for kidnapping that girl."

Masamune: "She's our treasure. We will do whatever it takes to get her back."

➟ Part 2

[espopstar]

Tell me about your Enstars OCs even tho I don't go there

OKAYYYY I'll go unit by unit yayy (ft notion screenshots for names and chunking things off)

So these three are the soon-to-be-rennamed SSugar♡SSweet. It's being renamed cuz that heart fucking sucks to type in the name. But all of them have a candy they're themed on.

Toshiaki is Bubblegum; Ryou is Licorice; Kouki is Jellybeans. There used to be a 4th member, Yosuke, who was Taffy, but until I can figure out anything for him he's being shelved and might not even come back to the unit.

Their producer is Yua!! She wanted hot idol boys and instead got 3 idiots she's trying hard to project Hot Idol Boy onto but it isn't working. She canonically designed their uniforms!

This is CELESTI☆, also gonna be renamed (Maybe to CELESTI* ?). They're based on in-canon lore of Chess/Knights. Chess broke into groups named after Chess pieces and they became "BLACK QUEEN" with 2 other people. They later rebranded but lost 2 people in the process, one quitting idol work and the other leaving to support a struggling friend.

Masaharu's a people pleaser and the leader. Hiroto was HEAVILY against rebranding, but Yasu was in favor of it because the members were getting hurt by the pressure the unit was under. One day Hiroto and Masaharu got into an argument, mostly caused by the stress, and Masaharu nearly fell down a flight of stairs and that was the click of "OH we are NOT doing good" and they finally rebranded.

This is their BLACK QUEEN uniform, inspired by something from Aikatsu cuz a friend showed me something I liked

This one is f1refli3s!! Kyo used to be in BLACK QUEEN, but joined Tomomi after his whole unit left him when they realized the group wouldn't be successful enough. The unit's largely based on the idea of "What if we have really cool lights" because. I'm a lights tech in theater and I say so.

I don't have much about them TBH but this is meant to be the tech that f1refli3s works with. Tomomi can't be in the booth while performing on stage, and isn't a technician himself, so he needs someone there who helped discuss the actual lights.

This group is the least developed, since they're made to be somewhere for Hakuren to go and also just cuz phantom thief theme cool. Hakuren used to be a member of RYUSEITAI and was one of the slacker/delinquent members who were causing the unit to look bad. Although he joined with good intentions, he just got swept along with everyone else.

Hakuren happened to catch Masaharu when he fell actually and now Masaharu's his number one fan and is a little in love with him. Hakuren doesn't remember though since he just kinda caught him and moved on instead of being in danger and saved like Masaharu saw it as.

Hanzo's the last member of BLACK QUEEN, and quit the idol industry altogether when they had to rebrand because the state of everything was way more than he was willing to put up with. He might come back as either a solo unit or a producer, but I'm not sure yet.

[atticinthecafe]

Phantom Thief Leader Akechi au rambling beneath the cut

In the velvet room, Akira gets told he can't trust the people around him, especially those with access to the metaverse. He is also told there are people trying to avoid the chaos and entropy of fate and that will drive the world to ruin quicker than it's supposed to happen naturally. The twins aren't sure how to take any of this. To them it doesn't seem right, but who are they to argue?

Akira figures out who the phantom thieves are pretty quickly (or at least, initially that Ryuji is one then goes from there through a little bit of ★being the quiet guy in the background no one notices★) and just kinda ends up staring at them sometimes like "I know what you are."

When Akira and Akechi meet in the TV station, Akira still stands up for the phantom thieves, he wants to believe they're doing something good, but that they should be careful with their actions. Akechi thinks it's interesting that "Hey this random boy who is not a phantom thief is actually standing up to *me* when most others don't trust the phantom thieves".

Akira, when interacting with the thieves really just ends up being This Cryptic Guy who knows a bit too much but we can't say why at all

He makes regular claims that maybe people need to handle their own problems and that this will just make people rely on the thieves and not fix things themselves (like Sumi's opinion in that one hangout). but also just? Random cryptic comments?

This is because he keeps getting told in the velvet room Phantom Thieves Bad. Do Not Let Them Continue On Their Path. Aka he has become a puppet to work against them without realizing it

The twins sure know something is up though, somehow Akechi while asleep accidentally stumbles his way into interacting with them and gets chosen as their backup plan or something

I've scrapped Akira having a secret persona and outfit bc he. Doesn't really have much to hide for any reason. For the most part he isn't really actively hiding as big of an identity as Akechi was. He does hide the fact that he is a wildcard when being brought on the team though, acting like he only has Arsene

Towards the end of the Sae's palace 'Igor' reveals a lot to Akira and that the Thieves are basically opposing god and will only bring destruction, Akira Does Not Want This so he asks if he can stop them if they'll be left alone and if ruin will be put off into the future. He gets told essentially yeah sure, and so when the palace is collapsing (they do actually steal the treasure) he makes a bolt for it and leaves the group, making it seem like he got caught in the crumbling palace. He knows their next target will be Shido (thanks to Akechi deciding that with the group before having to take a detour with Sae) and plans to stop them there :)

[fooliery]

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[achairwithapandaonit]

For the ask game: an au where Kid was raised by Lupin and his whole polycule.

1) maybe the mk org caught on that chikage had been the phantom lady after they killed toichi and went after her. she ended up on the run from them and took kaito with her and sadly died

2) chikage met the lupin gang maybe a few months before she died. i imagine she took up her place as the phantom lady again and maybe she and the lupin gang clashed a few times. they happened to stumble across her the day that the org finally caught up to her and decided to take kaito in out of respect for her

3) kaito's never respected any of them except fujiko. he's always been a little shit to all of them. it was hard for goemon and jigen especially to get used to i feel because while i haven't seen much of the earlier seasons goemon seems like he gets up to things accidentally because of placing a lot of serious trust in people, and jigen just doesn't seem that parental (despite the whole conan jigen daddy thing from the crossover movies). lupin, however, from what i've seen just KEEPS adopting for like an episode. sadly for him there's no way kaito would behave for him

4) kaito finds out the truth behind toichi's death around the same age he is in canon. maybe the gang go to japan and poke around in his/chikage's old home and discover the KID hideout. kaito decides to take up the mantel, but him being KID isn't really a secret since the entire world is aware that kuroba kaito is part of the lupin gang. the only new thing the world is learning is that apparently kuroba toichi was the original KID

5) i don't imagine the mk org lasts long with kaito AND the lupin gang on the case, especially when kaito doesn't have any reasons to hide the fact that he's KID. they possibly get zenigata involved? and kaito being obvious about it leads to nakamori's involvement. and somehow this leads to aoko and kaito meeting again and that's probably pretty emotional. i think in this au kaito continues his life as a thief, but aoko decides to chase him around the world. and they're both having a lot of fun with it even tho she's meant to be catching him

bonus 6) hakuba saguru is SO annoyed about the fact that his old classmate and new co-worker aoko nakamori seems to have something going on with KID. he's even more annoyed (and flustered!) when they both start flirting with him

[fooliery]

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