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@akirenweek Day 01 : Worst Enemies 

I prefer the term rivals for them even if the idea of an angry cat hissing from across the road was very tempting.

Sketch by @aryalina Lines and Colors by me.

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Akiren Week Day 4: Free Day

free day, aka an excuse to draw them™

[akirenweek]

The week of April 7th-April 13th!

Sunday April 7: Best friends/Worst enemies Monday April 8: Working Hard/Slacking Off Tuesday April 9: First Day/Last Day Wednesday April 10: Free Day Thursday April 11: At the Top/At the Bottom Friday April 12: Past/Future Saturday April 13: Best Day/Worst Day

Best friends: Akira/Ren has lots of friends. From a cat to a former politician, and everything in between, he’s proven to be a popular guy! But who is his best friend? Or maybe he has more than one!

Worst Enemies: Not everyone can be on the same page. Whether it's someone as poignant as a rival, or as minor as an angry cat hissing at you from across the road, everyone has enemies, even someone as charming as Akira/Ren. Use today to focus on those intense relationships, whether they're playful or an all out war.

Working Hard: Between part time jobs, schoolwork, relationships, and his work as the leader of the Phantom Thieves, Akira/Ren is a busy guy! Let’s see him get down to work and dirty! Put those hands to good use!

Slacking Off: Everyone needs a break once in a while! Akira/Ren works really hard at school, work, and especially as a Phantom Thief! What does he do in his free time, or maybe even while he's on the clock and needs a break?

First Day: Is it his first day of school? Work? Or maybe his first day as the leader of the greatest team in the world! How is he coping with it? Is he getting along fine or is it a disaster? The possibilities are endless!

Last Day: All things come to an end eventually, whether it's a job, time at school, or an outing with friends! Deciding if it's a good thing or a bad thing is all up to you. What last days does Akira/Ren experience, and is it a happy ending, or a tear filled goodbye?

Free Day: Use today to create anything you like about our dear leader!

At the Top: He’s at the top of his game! Fighting powerful enemies! Maybe he’s standing at the top of Mementos with the weakest shadows. Maybe he’s getting that promotion at work. Did he get the top grades for the midterms? Or maybe we’re talking about his... ahem. But he’s the best of the best! How does it show?

At the Bottom: Not everything in life goes smoothly, and hardly anyone knows that better than Akira/Ren. Sometimes the greater you're held up, the harder you fall... or, maybe sometimes being on the bottom is a good thing?  Whatever the case, what's got Akira/Ren down, whether it's the Phantom Thieves experiencing their stresses, or something else...?

Past: Maybe he’s had it rough during his childhood, or maybe he’s had it well! What are some memories that Akira/Ren has? Are they great? Are they sad? Maybe it’s in the distant future and he’s reminiscing about his good old Phantom Thief days. This is about memories and history!

Future: Beyond where the game ends, no one knows what Akira/Ren's future looks like. Does he ever come back to Tokyo? Does he visit his friends often? Does he have a family? Does he continue being a vigilante thief? Where do you think he'll end up in the future?

Best Day: He could be spending time with his friends! He could be shooting a self-proclaimed god in the face! Did he finally beat Star Forneus? Or maybe he’s just having a day doing whatever he wants, however he wants, and he’s having a great time! Let’s end the week with his best day!

Worst Day: We all have bad days, some worse than others. From being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, to getting beat down in a dark interrogation room, Akira/Ren is no stranger to having rough days, and there's sure to be many others as well. What do you think is the worst day he's ever had? Will his friends be there to help him, or is he suffering all alone?

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Akiren Week!!!

Day 3: First day/Last day (of a palace).

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[auncyen]

Salty

Ren's been working too hard. Ann's determined to find out why. Time management is never easy, but it's especially hard when you're trying to keep secrets from your friends, too.

Technically, both Ren and Morgana had been idiots. Morgana hadn't had any reservations about buying the so-called "Holy Stone" either, after all. But Morgana was currently stuck as a cat and had amnesia; he couldn't really be expected to have money sense. (He arguably had more than Yusuke, and that just made Ren worry about the artist.) That left Ren solely responsible for wasting 100,000 yen, which was probably just as well, since Morgana couldn't exactly help out with earning it back. Sure,the smallest Phantom Thief made a habit of picking up coins and bills that people dropped around Yongen-Jaya, but he reserved actual thievery for shadows only, so all he had gathered between April and July was about 3,000, an amount Ren could earn in a single shift at any of his jobs. No, it wasn't fair in any sense to try to put the responsibility for this on Morgana. Ren still kind of wished he could blame the other thief, though, if only to avoid some of Ann's disappointment. The blonde was currently eyeing him, tweaking the straw of her milkshake cup. There was a vase of flowers carefully settled on the booth seat besides her; she'd come back to the mall around 6:30 and asked him for "the best bouquet he could make", adding in "I want to give it to Shiho at the hospital tomorrow!" If she'd meant to put him under too much pressure to be thinking of excuses, she'd succeeded. This being Ann, though, he was pretty sure she'd just impulsively decided that she should get flowers for someone if she was going to a flower shop anyway. The purple vase held pink lilies, yellow carnations, roses of both colors, and lavender chrysanthemums. He hadn't been able to get to know Shiho in that first week of school, but he remembered the colorful hair ties and clips she'd worn the few times he'd seen her, and Ann had confirmed that her best friend loved bright colors. Hopefully she'd like the arrangement, and it would keep her spirits up. "So." Ann's voice drew Ren's attention away from the nagging worry of if the best friend of one of his closest friends would be unimpressed by his choice in flowers and back to the worry of said close friend being absolutely disappointed and/or infuriated by his lack of common sense. "Morgana had to stretch his legs, huh? I wouldn't have minded him tagging along." Yeah, she wouldn't have minded him coming along so she could try pumping him for answers. "He gets antsy in the bag after a few hours," Ren said, which was completely true, and Ann gave a little hum as she accepted that. It was also true that Ren had suggested Morgana take a walk around Shibuya before Ann came back. The not-cat had taken the hint, even if he'd grumbled at Ren that he really should come clean to "Lady Ann" if she was getting suspicious. ...He'd barely saved 40,000 so far, after what he had to spend on his and Morgana's personal care... If he'd already made up most of the money, maybe it'd be easier to confess, but he wasn't even halfway. "Okay, Ren. You have five jobs. What's going on?" Ren took a bite out of his burger and chewed slowly, biding his time. Om nom nom. "Like I said earlier, I'm saving up." "Yeah, sure, perfectly reasonable." Ann nodded. Her milkshake cup plunked down on the table. "Except you're juggling three paying jobs with two that don't pay. Plus whatever you do for our first aid. Plus our 'club activities'. ...Also, you've been helping out a politician?" She sounded genuinely confused on that last part. "He's teaching me how to negotiate." "Okay, guess that makes sense." Her tone implied that she considered it to make about as much sense as anything related to their phantom thievery ever did. "You haven't been able to hang out with me or Ryuji or Yusuke for nearly a month now." "It--" Ren stumbled, casting his mind over the past few weeks and several apologies he'd had to make. "It hasn't been a month." When had he last hung out with one of them? "Maybe--three weeks?" "Ren, what's three weeks?" "...Nearly a month." "Uh-huh." Ann eyed him with disbelief. "And you score higher than me on exams." He didn't have a good comeback for that, a little appalled with himself. He needed to make good on the yen he'd wasted, and it seemed risky to neglect his deals with Iwai, Takemi or Boss. Yoshida's coaching seemed like it would come in really handy in the future, and Ohya's articles and insight into the news and media would likely be important if they were going to keep increasing their reputation to both encourage more people and delve deeper into Mementos. He even had a deal with the fortune teller who had scammed him, Chihaya Mifune, and he had to keep that up for her useful fortune-telling abilities. (Plus, he wanted to convince her to stop scamming people.) "Somehow you didn't think any of us would realize you were suddenly never available?" He shook his head quickly. "It's not that I thought you wouldn't realize," he said. "I just didn't think it'd be a big deal." Not compared to the matter of 100,000 yen. He was only one of their friends. Ann hung out with every other Phantom Thief too, even Makoto, which Ren was grateful for. Ann also had Shiho to visit, now with a bouquet. But if she felt like he'd been ignoring her--and Ryuji and Yusuke probably felt the same, maybe even worse--he'd been so worried about not neglecting the deals he'd made with adults while he earned back the yen that he'd neglected friendships instead. Great. "Sorry. I didn't mean it's not important--sorry. I'll make more time for everyone." Even if that begged the question of what he'd need to neglect in turn. ...Yoshida didn't seem the impatient type. Maybe it'd be safe to turn down his invitations for a time? He was getting a lot of unimpressed looks from Ann today, and Ren remembered that even if she was a lousy liar herself, Ann could also pick up on other's lies quickly, had probably caught the uncertainty in his voice. "No. We're not mad, we're--okay,let me tell you about a conversation Ryuji and I had the other day." She tweaked the straw in her hand, bending its head under her finger, and picked up the paper wrapper the straw had come in with her other hand, positioning it similarly. Straw and wrapper faced each other. "'Aw, man,'" Ann said in a bad mimicry of Ryuji as she crinkled the wrapper. Ren took another bite of his burger, bemused by the sudden show. "'Ren's too busy to hang out again--that beef bowl manager's an effin' slave driver.'" Now she put on something close to her normal voice, bending the straw as she answered wrapper-Ryuji. "'What? He doesn't work at a restaurant, Ryuji, he works at 777. He rang my stuff up when they were having that make-up sale.'" The wrapper started moving again, energetically this time. "'Forreal? But I know he's working at the beef bowl place on the same street, I've seen him running around in there when the place was packed!'" Ann-straw. "'That can't be right. He's got a job at the flower shop in the mall too, and three part-time jobs is just too much..." Wrapper-Ryuji. "'Wait, it ain't just three, 'cause he works at the airsoft shop too, he told me. And I saw him at beef bowl just last week, so it ain't like he got fired...'" "'Four jobs? No, five, if you count him helping Boss...'" Straw and wrapper went quiet for a moment, and Ren opened his mouth to ask if the little performance was done--he guessed that did answer how Ann knew about all his jobs--but Ann silenced him with a hard look as wrapper-Ryuji's head slowly turned to Ren. He shut his mouth around the straw for his soda instead, taking a long sip as wrapper-Ryuji spoke. "'Hey, Ann. Like, the Phantom Thieves just took care of that Kaneshiro guy, but he's not the only crappy adult out there. You don't think Ren's in trouble, do you...?'" The soda he'd been sipping on went down wrong, and Ren hastily turned his head away as he coughed. "That," he said between coughs, "is not how Ryuji said it," because he needed to stall a few seconds to reevaulate this conversation. And to get the soda out of his throat. Ann gave him a light kick under the table. "Duh. I'm not going to repeat how Ryuji actually said it in public." Okay. Okay. He'd stopped coughing. "You two thought I was being extorted?" "Let's see," Ann said. "Shujin students getting blackmailed has been a pretty big deal lately. You suddenly act like you're hard-up for cash, and you still won't tell me what that's about. Can you blame us for thinking something's fishy?" His burger sat heavy in his stomach. They'd been seriously worried about him. Were worried about him. Morgana was right. Time to face the music. "You're going to be mad." "Try me." He sighed, casting his eyes up to the ceiling of Big Bang Burger, as though it might open to a burger-shaped UFO that would carry him away from this world. "I'm not being extorted. I did fall for a stupid scam. Wasted a hundred thousand yen. I was trying to earn it back." "Oh my god." He winced and braced himself. "We had a hundred thousand yen? How much do we have now?" ...Ann sounded more astounded than angry, and he wondered if she and Ryuji had ever kept track of how much yen passed through the Phantom Thieves' hands. Then again, they didn't really need to, since he was the one who handled all the supplies. "Not quite sixty-thousand? It was most of our money, and I've only earned about forty-thousand back so far." "'Only'. 'Only' forty-thousand." Ann shook her head and took a long sip of her milkshake, eventually sucking up all the liquid along the bottom. "Okay, so...did you ever learn the name of the person who scammed you? Because if not, we should have started investigating yesterday. This sounds like a Mementos target waiting to happen." Ren shook his head and flipped his phone on the table, tapping the red and black icon in a familiar movement. "Chihaya Mifune, Mementos." "Candidate not found." Just as he'd known it would say. Finding Chihaya's shadow in Mementos had occurred to both him and Morgana the same night they'd realized the Holy Stone was phony, but it wasn't that easy. Ann frowned at the negative result. "A fake name...?" "I don't think so. People only turn up in the app if they have distorted desires, but she seems to honestly believe she's helping people somehow." He explained the scam in more detail from there. Chihaya's uncannily accurate and specific predictions of the future, with the unexpected allowance from Boss as the example that had initially convinced Morgana and him, and the Holy Stones she hawked to people with potential misfortune on the horizon. "So, what did she say to you, that you thought you needed one of those?" "...It's been a few weeks, so I don't remember all the details--" "Ren. No. Do not bullshit me on this." Ann leaned forward on the table, resting her weight on her elbows. "She convinced you and Morgana that spending a hundred thousand yen on a rock was a good idea. Don't tell me you forgot what she said. I'm not angry that you fell for a scam. I will be angry if you keep lying to me. And then I'll get the truth from Mona anyway." ...Yeah, fair enough. He'd been treading on thin ice this whole time. He just really wasn't sure how she would react to the prediction Chihaya had made. "She predicted that I'm going to die." "WHAAAAAT?" Ren immediately became aware of every single set of eyes in the restaurant, currently resting on their table. On the blonde who'd shot to her feet and was staring down at him. "Ann," he said, trying best for a level voice. "It's okay. Some of the fates she's read have already changed. Mine will too." It had to. Ann stared at him for a few seconds longer before scoffing. "Oh, yeah. It's okay. She just told you you'd die. No big deal, right?" She pushed away from the table, stepping away from the booth. Paused for a second and turned back around to pick up the vase and set it in front of Ren. "Hold my bouquet for me. I'll get it from you tomorrow." He settled his hands on it uncertainly. "Tomorrow? Where are you going now?" "Shinjuku. She's a real fortune teller? Then I hope the cards warned her about me, because I am going to wreck her--" If they were in the Metaverse, she would be radiating heat waves right now. Her hands were gripped tight as if itching for her whip. "Wait, Ann--" He'd thought she'd maybe be shocked or afraid at the morbid fortune, or maybe just be skeptical and disbelieving. Instant rage had not been one of the expected reactions. "--threatening people so she can scam them--" "--that's not how it is, I told you--" He could see why she was thinking of it that way, but Chihaya honestly believed in the Holy Stones, that was part of the problem. And Ann was no longer listening to him, already stalking out of the restaurant while being given a wide berth by other patrons. He took Shiho's intended bouquet into his arms, cradling it as carefully as possible while also hurrying after his friend to catch her before the Phantom Thieves ended up having two members with assault records. "Ann!"

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AkiRen Week Day 3 Part 2: Last Day

I have feelings okay

for @akirenweek~

So much had happened. The arrest, the Phantom Thieves, Mementos… It didn’t really feel like it had been a whole year, and yet it felt like it had been so much longer. Everything had changed, hadn’t it? Ren certainly had. He wasn’t the quiet, reserved kid who had left Kansai last April anymore. And as he watched the road stretch out ahead of him and his friends in their battered old van, he couldn’t help but smile.

It had been years since he had actually smiled like this and meant it. It felt nice. He had told them all he was going home, and at the time, that had been the plan. But talking to them all, listening to Sojiro…he had come up with another way. He just-…hadn’t said anything yet. Perhaps it was simply his flair for the dramatic, but he wanted to see the looks on the other’s faces when he faced down his parents.

The drive was long but so worth it. The look on Ryuji’s face when Ren started directing them through Kobe was priceless. He looked so thrilled to be out with so much open space. Ann suggested they let Ryuji out to run beside the car, and it was only by Ren grabbing his collar that they prevented him from actually trying it. Though it did make Ren laugh, so there was that at least.

The van pulled into the familiar streets of Ren’s hometown and Ren finally started to feel those nerves starting to chew at his certainty. He hadn’t even mentioned this to Sojiro before he had left. Would there still be a place for him back at LeBlanc when he got back? Would there be any point to actually leaving this place once he set foot outside the van? Honestly, what was he thinking, trying to pull this stunt?

No. No. It didn’t matter whether or not there was a place for him at LeBlanc. It didn’t matter if there wasn’t a place for him anywhere. Wherever he belonged, he was certain it wasn’t here. This place was just like his Velvet Room had been. And he was sick of prison walls.

He guided them all the way to his parent’s house, had Makoto park outside, and he reached for Ryuji’s arm before he could open the door. “I’m-…going to need your help one last time, guys.” He could feel every pair of eyes in the car turn to him with varying degrees of confusion and hope(in one case, at least). He took a deep breath and continued. “I should have told you all earlier, but… I’m not staying here.”

Ryuji spoke up first with his usual exclamation. “For real?!”

Ren chuckled softly, nodding. “I’ll need your help packing. Is that alright?” Ann grinned. “C’mon, Ren! Do you really have to ask?”

Another laugh from the raven and he shrugged. “I guess not. Thanks, guys.” He got out of the car, followed closely by his friends. The tension in his shoulders must have been visible because Makoto placed her hand on one of them to steady him.

“No matter what they say to you in there, We’ll back you up Ren.” She flashed a smile, though her eyes betrayed her severity. It did make Ren smile back at her, the reassurance being what he needed to take those dozen or so steps to his front door.

He knocked twice, then opened it with a call of “I’m back!” There was no answer for a few long heartbeats, and Ren simply motioned for his friends to follow him. It wasn’t until they had gotten to the stairs that Ren heard footsteps coming from the living room. Great. So there was going to be a confrontation after all.

“You’re la-” The words caught in his mother’s throat as she looked into the hallway to see a small horde of teenagers standing there, led by none other than her own son. “…You neglected to mention that we would be having company.”

Ren rolled his eyes, his hands finding his pockets. “I neglected to mention a lot of things, mother. If you’ll excuse me.”

He turned to continue up the stairs, but his father seemed to have joined his mother in the doorway. “And just what were you thinking, making all these plans without informing us?”

Ren grit his teeth and said nothing to them. “Come on, guys.” He ignored the calls from his parents and the worried looks from his friends as he finished climbing the stairs and headed for his room. Makoto, Haru, and Ryuji stood watch just outside the door, while Ann, Futaba, and Yusuke helped Ren grab a few backpacks and started loading clothes and his books. Mostly his books. Ren didn’t care about anything else in the room, really.

He heard Haru knock on the wall and stood up, turning to face his parents down. “What do you think you’re doing, Ren?”

“Leaving.” The word seemed to stun both his mother and father into silence for a long moment, so Ren kept talking. “I am well aware of how burdensome you find my presence. You don’t have any of my old things up on the walls anymore. Did you wait even five minutes after I left to take them down and start pretending like I never existed?” His hands balled into fists as he kept talking. Everything was coming to the surface now. Everything he had held in for years. “I made plans without informing you because I didn’t think you would care. Now I’m leaving, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.”

He grabbed the backpack he had been packing, slung it over a shoulder, and pushed past his parents and out of the room without another word.

Today would be the last day he set foot in a prison.

[tangirlisfangirl]

Flower Crown for Akira 🎭❤️

-Red Roses

-Black Calla Lillies

-White Foxgloves

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Free Day for Akiren Week~!

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by purplefox

Akirenweek day 4 Free day (Pole Vault High jump)

Akira is used to being watched but having Yusuke watch is something else entirely. His body is burning from his gaze

Words: 3416, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Akiren Week After Dark NSFW 2019

Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kitagawa Yusuke, Kurusu Akira, Persona 5 Protagonist

Relationships: Kitagawa Yusuke/Kurusu Akira, Kitagawa Yusuke/Persona 5 Protagonist

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Oneshot, Established Relationship, Blow Jobs, Scenting

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@akirenweek Day 04 : Free Day

For free day I bring you some suspenders-themed Akira doodles~ UvU🌼👌✨

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@akirenweek Day 02 : Working Hard My two fav jobs, though the second one is how I wish it was. 💜🌼✨ Sketches from @aryalina lines and colors by me.

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Akiren Week Day 1: Best friends/Worst enemies

“This is fun right?! FUN?!” “I see... I can’t lose to you.”

their dance together in dsn was fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Akiren Week Day 2: Working Hard/Slacking Off

i’ve got nothing for the description i just like the thought of ren being an earthbound fan

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Akiren Week Day 3: First Day/Last Day

first day at a new school is always great, right

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Welcome to AkiRen Week, a week dedicated to Persona 5's protagonist Akira Kurusu/Ren Amamiya! This is a week for creating wonderful content for our favorite leader, running from April 7th-13th, and we'd love for you to join us! Feel free to follow us for info and updates!

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