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persona 6: stealing your phone number

Chapter 10: bonding at the gay bar

Summary:

reveals your true form: ok so what does that mean.

pushes up glasses: it means hes attracted to lobsters

makochan: No.

Notes:

walks in. kicks pebble. heyyyy guys haha... im baack...

i started writing this chapter in (checks notes) november. so happy thanksgiving christmas new years valentines day mothers day and most recently fathers day! have this gay ass chapter for pride month congratulations
in these past months ive started writing (checks notes again) 6 fics and have finished none of them! congrats to me as well

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phantom hearts of thieves?

4:49 PM

 

pushes up glasses: hey guys it’s been a while

 

reveals your true form: we literally just talked in here earlier

 

pushes up glasses: yeah but They don’t know that

 

reveals your true form: WHO THE HELL IS THEY????

 

pushes up glasses: anyways!

pushes up glasses: you guys are not gonna BELIEVE the shit i just found out

 

makochan: I am already so terrified.

 

m'lady: Aw, it can’t be that bad!

 

reveals your true form: have you met futaba

 

kouhai: I’ll prepare myself!

 

pushes up glasses: no everyone needs to prepare

pushes up glasses: @everyone

 

bromance: uadgjh

 

eat crepes fight creeps: uh ohhhh

 

stand back heathen: ?

 

smthng smthng pancakes: I’m busy.

 

pushes up glasses: i do NOT care

pushes up glasses: it involves u anyway so u cant leave

 

reveals your true form: PLEEEEEEEASE DONT TELL ME HES NOT SINGLE ANYMORE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

eat crepes fight creeps: oh my fucking god???

 

pushes up glasses: girl calm yourself

 

smthng smthng pancakes: Jesus Christ.

 

bromance: somebody needs to sedate him

bromance: sedate?

 

makochan: Correct.

 

bromance: as in the way i spelled it or the actual thing

 

makochan: Both.

 

bromance: ok sick

 

reveals your true form: youre right ryuji this is sick and twisted

 

stand back heathen: Futaba hasn’t even said anything yet.

 

pushes up glasses: THANK YOU

 

stand back heathen: Your chance to leave is now, Akira. Save yourself the heartache.

 

reveals your true form: thanks for the psychological support

reveals your true form: do i even need a therapist if yusuke exists ❤️

 

m'lady: You still haven’t found one?

 

reveals your true form: im having a little trouble trusting therapists when my old one fistfought me because i traumatized him with my trauma

 

eat crepes fight creeps: tbf wasnt he already traumatized

 

kouhai: I don’t think the rest of us made it much better, though.

 

smthng smthng pancakes: He should’ve died a suffering death by uppercut.

 

pushes up glasses: OH MY FUCKING GOD

pushes up glasses: LET ME SPEKA

 

bromance: well get on w it bro

 

pushes up glasses: die???

pushes up glasses: OKAY SO

pushes up glasses: i was doing my annual stalking of everyones phones

 

reveals your true form: okay who wants to confess before futaba embarrasses you for life

 

pushes up glasses: NO

 

m'lady: She already said it involves Akechi.

 

eat crepes fight creeps: whatd u do girl :(

 

smthng smthng pancakes: Nothing?

 

pushes up glasses: LET ME DO IT

pushes up glasses: ok annual stalking blah blah blah

pushes up glasses: get to goros texts.

pushes up glasses: hes been talking to KEN

pushes up glasses: AND GET THIS

pushes up glasses: THEYRE LIKE. ACTUAL FRIENDS

 

bromance: YOU HAVE MORE FRIENDS?????/

bromance: WHERE R U GETTING THEM MY GUY

 

smthng smthng pancakes: Walmart. Where else are you supposed to get them?

 

bromance: hahahaha dude ur so fuckin hilarious SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

 

reveals your true form: KENSTER????? AND GORO??????

reveals your true form: AND NOBODY TOLD ME???????????????????

 

eat crepes fight creeps: it’s okay akira we’re going to get u some help

 

smthng smthng pancakes: I don’t understand why this is such a big deal. We quite literally have a whole other group chat with him in it.

 

pushes up glasses: THATS DIFGERENT

pushes up glasses: U GUYS BARELY TALK TO EACHOTHER THERE

pushes up glasses: UR LIKE FUCKING BESTIES IN DMS???

 

kouhai: I, for one, am very happy you’re getting out of your shell more, Akechi-senpai! It’s so nice to see. ❤️

 

makochan: I fear for Ken.

 

stand back heathen: I agree with Sumire, I believe this is a positive step forward.

 

reveals your true form: WHY DOES NOBODY TELL ME ANYTHING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 WHY DO YOU ALL HATE ME

 

m'lady: Akira, you’re getting a little too worked up over this.

 

reveals your true form: tell that to my hand blocking kens number

 

eat crepes fight creeps: girl.

 

kenster

4:52 PM

 

jokester: KEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

kenster: Hi Akira! What’s wrong?

 

jokester: i HATE that you’re so nice it makes it impossible to be mad at you

 

kenster: Why would you be mad at me? D:

 

jokester: UR FRIENDS WITH GORO

jokester: AND U NEVER TOLD ME 😭😭😭😭😭

 

kenster: I’m friends with all of you! We have a group chat! I don’t know what you’re upset over :(

 

jokester: NO BUT LIKE

jokester: ur like

jokester: Friends

jokester: with goro

jokester: HE DOESNT HAVE A LOT OF THOSE

 

kenster: I’m sorry, I don’t think I’m really following.

 

jokester: it’s okay ken i’m just insane

 

kenster: Would you rather me… not? Talk to Akechi?

 

jokester: NO

jokester: I MEAN NO AS IN DONT

jokester: I MEAN DONT AS IN

jokester: SHIT

 

kenster: Take your time!

 

jokester: DONTSTOP BEING FRIENDS WITH HIM???? i’m just messing with u ken i’m secretly so glad he actually speaks to other humans besides me and ann

jokester: well. and rise and naoto but i’m still not over that

 

kenster: Oh yeah, from the celebrity group chat! Yukari’s in that :)

 

jokester:

jokester: HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW HER 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

kenster: It’ll be okay ❤️

 

phantom hearts of thieves?

4:55 PM

 

reveals your true form: ok i thought ab it some more and now im just realizing its kinda sad that we arent all friends with all the other persona users

 

eat crepes fight creeps: speak for yourself!! rise, naoto, and yukari are all super fun ppl

 

reveals your true form: what??? WHAT??????

 

eat crepes fight creeps: akira i’ve BEEN friends with rise

 

reveals your true form: I KNOW THAT WHAT ABOUT NAOTO AND YUKARI????!?!??!?!?!??!?!

 

m'lady: You all are going to give him an aneurysm!

 

smthng smthng pancakes: That is what I hope for.

 

reveals your true form: WAIT. SO ARE YOU GUYS IN THE SAME GC????

 

eat crepes fight creeps: i fear i’ve said too much

 

makochan: What would you want us to even do about making friends with the other persona users? I feel that a large group chat would be too chaotic.

 

reveals your true form: HOLD ON MAKOTO IM HAVING A MOMENT

 

makochan: 😐

 

pushes up glasses: EW WHY ARE U USING EMOJIS???

 

reveals your true form: TOO MUCH IS GOING WRONG

 

m'lady: I taught her! :-)

 

pushes up glasses: ugh i hate gay people

 

bromance: DUDE????

 

makochan: Ah, yes, because emojis are obviously gay.

 

stand back heathen: On the contrary, I’ve found that the more emojis you use, the more likely you are to be straight.

stand back heathen: Discounting Ann.

 

eat crepes fight creeps: GIRL

eat crepes fight creeps: yea u right

 

reveals your true form: do u use emojis yusuke

 

pushes up glasses: omg its the new “do u listen to girl in red”

 

eat crepes fight creeps: HAHAHHA

 

stand back heathen: Only the lobster one. And the paintbrush, on occasion.

stand back heathen: 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

 

reveals your true form: ok so what does that mean.

 

pushes up glasses: it means hes attracted to lobsters

 

makochan: No.

 

bromance: oh hell nah

 

stand back heathen: I suppose one could say I am attracted to their aesthetic appeal.

 

eat crepes fight creeps: yusuke dont say that or anything similar in public okay my love????

 

stand back heathen: Why not?

 

reveals your true form: SO ANYWAYS

reveals your true form: hey wait goro never uses emojis

reveals your true form: He Must Be Gay!

 

pushes up glasses: FORK FOUND IN KITCHEN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

 

smthng smthng pancakes: I hate you all.

 

reveals your true form: ONE CHANCW PELASE

 

kouhai: He went offline, Akira.

 

reveals your true form: GODDAMMT

 

wildcards

5:29 PM

 

fool: hey guys

fool: we should bond more

 

universe (better): okay!

universe (better): how

 

fool: great question that’s why i’m here

 

world: Cat cafe

 

universe (better): i’m down

universe (better): will u bring ur cat

 

world: Hana goes everywhere with me

 

universe: wasn’t she supposed to go to a shelter

universe: what are yosuke’s feelings on the matter

 

world: Bold of you to assume he has a say

 

fool: so we’re just gonna bring everyone to a cat cafe

fool: how big are cat cafes usually

 

world: Aigis find us the biggest cat cafe

 

aeon: The biggest cat cafe in the world is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Would you like me to purchase plane tickets for everyone?

 

world: Yes

 

universe: don’t do that aigis

 

universe (better): DO IT AIGIS

 

universe: i’m begging you mitsuru would kill us all

 

aeon: A likely scenario. I will not purchase plane tickets.

 

world: Damn

 

fool: what about in japan

 

aeon: The biggest cat cafe in Japan is Cat Cafe MOCHA in Shinjuku.

 

fool: WHAT

fool: HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN IT

 

world: Akira.

 

fool: yeah

 

world: What in the hell were you doing in Shinjuku.

 

universe (better): uh oh yu’s gone dad mode

 

universe: i’m actually also a little concerned about that

 

universe (better): oh fuck that we went to the nightclub regularly when we were his age

 

universe: valid point

 

world: What??????

 

universe (better): don’t act so surprised yu didnt you guys go to the same club on ur field trip or wtv

 

world: Oh yeah. Shit

 

fool: lmfaoo???

fool: what were you doing at the club on a FIELD TRIP

 

world: I honestly don’t know I just went along with everyone else

world: I don’t remember much of the club except for when I tried to get Yosuke to sit on my lap

 

universe (better): WHAT???????????

 

world: We all got drunk and decided to play King’s Game

world: Spoiler alert he was still going through his homophobic phase and wouldn’t do it I ended up giving him a piggyback ride

 

universe: what the fuck

 

@Alibaba has added @Alibaba to the chat.

 

Alibaba: i’m sorry his WHAT phase

 

fool: DUDE

 

world: Hey Futaba

world: Long story

 

aeon: How strange. This group chat has state-of-the-art encryption. Fuuka and I designed it ourselves.

 

universe: what the fuck x2

 

universe (better): omg what hello

 

fool: ignore that its just my sister

 

Alibaba: yeah encryption is top tier icl but also L i’m better

 

universe: yeah this is definitely your sister akira

 

Alibaba: can we go back to yosukes homophobic phase

Alibaba: the other day when you two were over i watched him feed you curry it was disgusting

 

world: That means nothing he did that when he was homophobic too

 

universe (better): nono hold on how did you get past Fuuka and Aigis’s Gnarly encryption

universe (better): or as i like to call it …

 

universe: do not

 

Alibaba: like i said i’m better

 

fool: she’s medjed

 

Alibaba: BITCH??

 

universe (better): ARE YOU SHITTING MEEEEE

universe (better): IM UR BIGGEST FAN

universe (better): IVE ALWAYS WONDERED HOW U DO ALL THAT SHIT

 

Alibaba: oh

Alibaba: practice >:33333

 

fool: years of isolation

 

Alibaba: okay.

 

aeon: I’d like to get you in touch with Fuuka. If you are okay with it, we’d be amenable to meeting with you to discuss where our encryption fails.

 

Alibaba: oh what

 

fool: damn get that collab

 

world: I still wanna know what you were doing in Shinjuku

world: Actually

world: You know what

world: This calls for a family discussion

 

fool: what

fool: WHAT

fool: NO

 

yasoinaba crew!!!

5:45 PM

 

yuu: Hey guys

 

cheese: wow we haven’t used this chat since The Incident

 

yuki: The Incident. 😂

 

yuu: There’s a new incident in town

yuu: You could call this the revival

yuu: A rerun of sorts, perhaps

yuu: A remake

 

yolk: partner what are u saying

 

yuu: Better graphics

yuu: Anyways

yuu: Akira went to Shinjuku once

 

ted: And he didn’t take me???? :(

 

kira: i actually went multiple times

kira: regularly

 

nao: Excuse me?

 

rice: HELLO????

 

nao: Akira, you should not have been visiting the Red-Light District as a minor.

nao: Why?????

 

kira: i worked at a gay bar

 

nao: What

 

kira: dressed up in drag a few times

kira: very freeing

 

kandi: You know what hell yeah

 

rice: omg slay!!!

 

ted: It is very freeing I agree!!

 

yolk: i still have nightmares about that day sometimes

 

cheese: wait so

cheese: you worked at a bar as a minor???

 

kira: yeah i’m technically not supposed to talk about it my boss could get in a lot of trouble

 

nao: Yes. Because it’s illegal.

 

kira: i didn’t drink any of the alcohol don’t worry

kira: i’ve heard from yu that that’s more than some of you can say

 

nao: .

 

yuki: Oh my!

 

rice: STAWPPP ITTTT

 

yuu: Hey now

 

kira: oh i also helped a fortune teller scam people

 

yolk: DUDE

 

kira: i forget about her until she texts me randomly asking if im in danger

 

yuu: Sometimes Marie does that to me

yuu: She’s not a fortune teller scammer she’s just cryptic

 

kira: same thing

 

ted: Next time I go to Tokyo you have to take me to your work!!!

 

cheese: do not take teddie to a gay bar where people do drag he’ll be crowned

cheese: his ego is big enough as is

 

kira: you can’t tell me what to do

kira: we can be kings together teddie

kira: queens?

kira: lala will love you

 

ted: YAYYYYY

 

kira: i don’t work there anymore now that i don’t need money for metaverse shenanigans

kira: i do visit sometimes though

 

nao: Please stop telling me and Chie about your various illegal activities.

 

cheese: woah now don’t speak for me

cheese: i ain’t no snitch

 

kira: im not a minor anymore it’s fineeeee

 

yuu: This entire conversation backfired now I just want to do drag again

 

kandi: Okay I have to ask

kandi: Is Yosuke into that since he’s homophobic and all

 

yolk: WHAT

yolk: WHAT

yolk: NO

yolk: NO

yolk: NO

yolk: NO

 

yuu: Yeah how’d you know

 

yolk: NO

 

@Alibaba has added @Alibaba to the chat.

 

Alibaba: okay i have to know what’s up with that

 

kira: STOP

kira: FUTABA GET OUT OF MY CHATS

 

Alibaba: i’m gonna open akechi’s dms next i really hope there aren’t nudes in there

 

kira: WHATT?)2$2$2$2:;’mcdm

 

rice: IM DEEEAADDD

 

annihilation!!!!! (+ ryoji)

5:50 PM

 

koko: hi guys

koko: akira got taken away from me by dad narukami and now im bored

koko: what’s everyone up to

 

mina: are aigis and i not enough for you

 

koko: aigis is next to me and you’re upstairs idgaf

koko: we shared a womb i can stand not spending every second with you 🙄🙄🙄 getting annoying

 

mina: ???????

 

fuuk: Well, you probably already know this then but I wanted to share anyway!

fuuk: Aigis and I are setting up a time to video call with Futaba Sakura and talk about our group chat encryptions!

 

Mitsuru: I thought our encryptions were exceptional.

 

Aigis: We did as well, until she hacked into the Wildcards group chat to bother her older brother.

 

stupei: wait who’s futaba again

 

koko: she’s akira’s little sister she’s cool as hell i love her

 

Mitsuru: That’s… unsettling. How did she get in?

 

fuuk: We’re unsure, that’s why we’re gonna talk about it.

fuuk: I don’t think we have anything to worry about in terms of other people doing it, though. Apparently she’s Medjed!

 

Ryoji: Wow! How’d you take that, Kotone?

 

koko: IM SO EXCUTED

koko: I NEED TO TALK TO HER BUT I DONT WANNA BE WEIRD

 

mina: a little late for that

 

koko: DIEDIEDIEDIE

 

yukatan: awwww sibling love! 🫶🫶🫶 hashtag family

 

do you even lift bro: Why did you type out hashtag.

 

yukatan: comedic effect ??? duh

yukatan: futaba actually just infiltrated the celebrity gc through akechi earlier

yukatan: do we just add her to every chat now atp

 

stupei: that’s so funny that she just. does that

stupei: i wish i had that ability

 

babyman child: Oh, that reminds me.

babyman child: Akihiko, Shinjiro, is it alright if Akechi comes over sometime this weekend?

 

welcome to chilis: You are 19 years old I think we’re past the point of you asking permission for friends to come over

 

babyman child: But it’s your guys’ house!

 

do you even lift bro: It’s our house, Ken. As in, all of ours.

 

koko: yeah it’s our house ken!

 

do you even lift bro: Not what I meant.

 

koko: it is now.

koko: let me in.

 

yukatan: wait can we go back to the fact that akechi is going over to ken’s house

 

babyman child: Well I haven’t actually asked yet. It’s extremely possible that he says no.

babyman child: But we talked about hanging out in real life soon and he’s said that he doesn’t like going in public a lot.

 

koko: god what’s up with him is he like a wanted criminal or something

koko: wait shit i guess he is

 

stupei: WHAT

 

Mitsuru: How do you know that?

 

koko: akira tells us Everything he’s a gossip

 

welcome to chilis: Ken why are you friends with a wanted criminal

 

babyman child: He’s not actually a wanted criminal!!!!!!

babyman child: Anymore

babyman child: He did go to jail that one time

 

welcome to chilis: What the fuck

 

koko: dadjiro back at it again

koko: dadgaki

koko: shinjiro aradaddy

 

stupei: OJ MY GOD

 

welcome to chilis: No

 

do you even lift bro: No.

 

Mitsuru: Please stop.

 

koko: why are you all so intent on taking away my creative liberties

 

welcome to chilis: So far your only creative liberties have been fucking with me

welcome to chilis: First it’s the scrapbook and now this shit

 

koko: EXCUSE ME for having a MUSE

 

yukatan: LMAOOOO

 

do you even lift bro: Why is my husband your muse?

 

koko: it’s okay akihiko you’re my muse too

 

do you even lift bro: ?

 

koko: when polyamorous marriages become legal i’m getting in there

 

do you even lift bro: What????????

 

yukatan: girl 😭😭😭😭

 

stupei: UMMMMM

 

welcome to chilis: Excuse me

 

babyman child: Will that make you my mom?

 

koko: honey i’ve BEEN your mom

 

babyman child: You’re right.

 

do you even lift bro: Don’t encourage this.

 

sherlock

6:38 PM

 

sherlock: You’re wrong. In addition to Feather Black repeatedly saying before that he thinks of White Swan as a nuisance, he also lets her fall in episode seven of season two.

 

watson: that’s not fair he only did that because he didn’t see her since the vulture was luring him with that hologram of his mom

 

sherlock: But isn’t that selfish of him? It was very clearly a hologram, he just wasn’t willing to put his wishes aside for White Swan.

 

watson: but the whole point of that episode is that he ISNT selfish he’s just misguided

 

@Alibaba has added @Alibaba to the chat.

 

Alibaba: okay this is infinitely worse than your nudes

 

sherlock: What????

 

watson: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

 

Alibaba: you’re BOTH wrong

 

sherlock: Enlighten us.

 

watson: yes futaba please do.

 

Alibaba: feather black isn’t selfish and doesn’t hate white swan BUT he’s dense as hell and definitely should’ve realized the vulture was luring him at the start

Alibaba: he also should’ve realized feather red was in love with him but alas

 

watson: oh yeah you’re not wrong there

 

sherlock: Agreed.

 

Alibaba: .

Alibaba: yeah feather red should’ve realized feather black was in love with him too

 

watson: totally

 

sherlock: A good point.

 

Alibaba: yeah

Alibaba: maybe they’re both dense

 

watson: oh yeah definitely

 

sherlock: That would make sense.

 

watson: HA YOU RHYMED

 

Alibaba: holy fuck

Alibaba: atp i WISH you guys were sending each other nudes

 

watson: WHAT

 

Notes:

question: does the work count as slow burn if its only because the author updates once a year? thats a joke ill be coming back this year. hopefully

anyways im gonna talk more in this note bc i had a lot of thoughts in the past 7 months (IVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS CHAPTER FOR HALF A YEAR WHAT THE FUCK) surprisingly. i usually only have about four thoughts per year
i hope everyones excited for p4re..... still mad they didnt call it rerun
you can tell which parts of this chapter i wrote on mobile and which parts i wrote on pc depending on the amount of emojis i use
i accidentally learned way more about featherman than i meant to writing the last part? imagine my shock and surprise and devolving into tears when i realized there were even MORE parallels between shuake and tatsujun. insane. i was gonna make them talk about philosophy instead but i looked up what sort of philosophy discussions they could have and then immediately said "yeah no let's go for power rangers"
sorry if the ken akechi section seems weird im setting up for akechi and shinjiro to meet because i have Plans. and also just because i think ken and goro should be besties <3
IF for some reason i do discontinue this fic (which i highly doubt. updates will just be when my special interest in persona revives itself and isn't overshadowed by genshin, honkai star rail, ace attorney, or final fantasy) i will be putting up the low amount of doc notes this fic had and also tell you guys any plans i may have had going forward. or i might let somebody else take over? idk anybody thats super into persona like i am tho so we'll see. not really something to worry about atm tho

thank you all for the support as always. i love and appreciate you guys and i read all the comments and think about them afterwards even if i dont reply <333 we're almost at 500 kudos!!!!!!! insane work. im glad you guys love my headcanons as much as i do
as always pls tell me what ur fav chats/characters are to see!!! it gives me an idea on what to write <3

edit: the morning after i posted this we got to 510 kudos. you all are crazy i love you