#but also if you flip through the menus to fast igor can get pissy like the twins

[cherubchoirs]

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.