“This card speaks towards our own truth and honoring what is true in our lives both for ourselves personally, and what can be assessed as a universal truth. Upright, its key indicates speaking this truth, and bringing your voice to the truth so that it can be known and shared by all. In reverse, this card indicates being silent with the truth, and holding and resonating it internally - for it may not be the best time to speak the truth yet, but allow it to be fully known inside before bringing a voice to it.”
It truly is a shame they didn’t meet years ago. Not only could Ren have made a difference in Akechi’s life, but they also could have forged a bond with each other sooner, even without any otherworldly interference.
Ren slips his hands in his pockets and shakes his head. “Sorry. You’re stuck with me now. I’ll never stop believing in you.”
It’s a promise - a vow he’s decided to make, not only to Akechi, but to himself as well. Something stirs in his heart, and it feels like the breaking of a chain he didn’t know was there.
There’s a swelling of his heart when Akechi takes his hand, another freeing sensation like a heavy chain breaking in two. Ren hasn’t experienced the same kind of loss as Akechi, but he understands what it feels like to be abandoned. By his parents, when they sent him away to Tokyo for a year, over a crime he didn’t commit. By the rest of the Phantom Thieves, at the start of January, when none of them included Ren as a fixture in their ideal realities. He forgives them all, but forgiving is different than forgetting, and he can never forget how it felt to be so easily discarded.
Time slows to a crawl as Akechi slips his arm around Ren’s waist and leans in, and all Ren can hear is his own heartbeat hammering in his ears as he waits. And waits. And waits.
Then the wait is over. Ren’s eyes close as Akechi’s mouth meets his in a kiss - a real kiss, and Ren softly accepts it. He doesn’t push, doesn’t demand more than Akechi is willing to give, only welcomes Akechi’s lips to make a home on his own with a pleased smile and a quiet, encouraging hum.
Ren steadies himself with the palm of his hand cupped around the curve of Akechi’s jaw, lightly brushing his thumb along his cheekbone. A chain around his heart pulls loose, and a thousand butterflies swarm inside his ribcage, fragile wings beating fiercely between muscle and bone.
“When drawn in a reading, The All describes that in essence, anything can happen. There is an infinite amount of subjects to learn; there is an infinite number of pathways to explore. While we may be limited, our souls are eternal. Thus, this card represents an opportunity to compassionately embrace a lesson we are learning, or let go and let flow, depending on the orientation of the card when drawn.
The nature of this card indicates that it is possible to connect with the higher forces of creation, and connect with pure Spirit, and we do this by elevating our consciousness higher and higher, challenging and overcoming our fears, letting go of our earthly selves, and unifying our consciousness with the higher mind that brought everything into being.
All roads lead up the same mountain, it matters not which road you take; though some roads may be quicker in this way, or slower that way - the fundamental truth remains the same: Life is about Learning.”
She’s a Wild Card too, just like him, and that resonates for Ren, somewhere deep in his soul. He can already feel a connection forming, a chain linked around his heart snapping in two.
He’s never met anyone else with his same powers. Akechi was similar but different, a Wild Card but unfulfilled, intentionally disadvantaged by the God of Control, held back from developing his potential. But if Ren and Akechi are two sides of the same coin, Kotone feels more like Ren looking in a mirror and finding a reflection of himself as he is, rather than who he could have been under different circumstances.
For all the ways he’s felt seen and understood by the Confidants he bonded with over the past year, Ren can’t help feeling like Kotone already can see and understand him better than any of them ever could.
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goro akechi } the truth.
“This card speaks towards our own truth and honoring what is true in our lives both for ourselves personally, and what can be assessed as a universal truth. Upright, its key indicates speaking this truth, and bringing your voice to the truth so that it can be known and shared by all. In reverse, this card indicates being silent with the truth, and holding and resonating it internally - for it may not be the best time to speak the truth yet, but allow it to be fully known inside before bringing a voice to it.”
rank 1.
Ren slips his hands in his pockets and shakes his head. “Sorry. You’re stuck with me now. I’ll never stop believing in you.”
It’s a promise - a vow he’s decided to make, not only to Akechi, but to himself as well. Something stirs in his heart, and it feels like the breaking of a chain he didn’t know was there.
rank 2.
rank 3.
Then the wait is over. Ren’s eyes close as Akechi’s mouth meets his in a kiss - a real kiss, and Ren softly accepts it. He doesn’t push, doesn’t demand more than Akechi is willing to give, only welcomes Akechi’s lips to make a home on his own with a pleased smile and a quiet, encouraging hum.
Ren steadies himself with the palm of his hand cupped around the curve of Akechi’s jaw, lightly brushing his thumb along his cheekbone. A chain around his heart pulls loose, and a thousand butterflies swarm inside his ribcage, fragile wings beating fiercely between muscle and bone.
kotone shiomi } the all.
“When drawn in a reading, The All describes that in essence, anything can happen. There is an infinite amount of subjects to learn; there is an infinite number of pathways to explore. While we may be limited, our souls are eternal. Thus, this card represents an opportunity to compassionately embrace a lesson we are learning, or let go and let flow, depending on the orientation of the card when drawn.
The nature of this card indicates that it is possible to connect with the higher forces of creation, and connect with pure Spirit, and we do this by elevating our consciousness higher and higher, challenging and overcoming our fears, letting go of our earthly selves, and unifying our consciousness with the higher mind that brought everything into being.
All roads lead up the same mountain, it matters not which road you take; though some roads may be quicker in this way, or slower that way - the fundamental truth remains the same: Life is about Learning.”
rank 1.
He’s never met anyone else with his same powers. Akechi was similar but different, a Wild Card but unfulfilled, intentionally disadvantaged by the God of Control, held back from developing his potential. But if Ren and Akechi are two sides of the same coin, Kotone feels more like Ren looking in a mirror and finding a reflection of himself as he is, rather than who he could have been under different circumstances.
For all the ways he’s felt seen and understood by the Confidants he bonded with over the past year, Ren can’t help feeling like Kotone already can see and understand him better than any of them ever could.