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Whumptober Day 8: Sleep Deprivation

5 Times The Phantom Thieves Didn't Sleep + 1 Time They Did

I

Hey, let’s meet up at Mementos today.

Yusuke’s ashamed of the tension that goes through his back at that text. The literature professor had decided to give them all a surprise take-home paper to write and turn in by tomorrow, and he really needs to work on it.

But, he can’t let his grades come before making sure his friends are ok, can he? Or the people who made those requests. It’s not a problem, he can just work late tonight. And take some time to work on that piece for class.

He’ll be fine with only a couple of hours of sleep.

II

“Makoto?” Sae asks. “You’re back late.”

“Sorry, busy with some work after school,” Makoto replies, yawning. If it’s resolving a Mementos request for another student, then technically it’s Student Council work. It’s her responsibility as Student Council President to resolve it at least.

“Are you prepared for your exam at cram school tomorrow?”

Makoto blinks. “Huh?”

“Makoto! I’m paying for you to go and–”

“No, I meant, erm why would you even bother to ask that?” Makoto chuckles. “Obviously I’m ready for it!”

“Good, even if it’s a practice exam, it’s important to be confident now so you’re even more prepared for your entrance exams.”

Makoto goes to the kitchen and makes herself a pot of coffee. She shouldn’t be up too late.

III

“Does this shit make any sense to you?” Ryuji asks.

“Nope,” Ann sighs. Putting the math textbook down. Two heads are supposed to be better than one, but maybe math homework is just too powerful for that.

“God,” Ryuji says, “I feel like you’re gonna call me a shithead for this.”

“I call you a shithead for a lot of things, what is it?”

“It fucking sucks that Ren asked us to go to Mementos today.”

“Honestly? Hard agree.” They’d invited Ren to their homework session today, but he’d never gotten back to them. Not that he needed it, but you know, it was always nice to hang out.

Except they wanted to do this in the afternoon, when they’d have more time and could meet at a cafe.

Instead, Ren decided today was the best day for requests.

“What if we blocked off Mementos for like, Wednesdays?” Ryuji suggests. “Then we can schedule around it better?”

“But what if a request is urgent. Plus Palace stuff.”

“Ugh, you’re right.”

Ann flops back and lets the textbook cover her face.

“Ann?”

“Yeah.”

“I kinda hate that I can’t tell him no.”

“Yeah, I know but like, it’s whatever?” Ann says. “That’s just part of being a student and a Phantom Thief, I guess.”

IV

Haru practically dives for the phone when she hears it ring. “Futaba-chan?”

“Hey, I got the info you wanted,” Futaba says. “This investor seems pretty clean.”

“Oh my gosh, thank you so much,” Haru says. “I’m supposed to get this report in to the investors tomorrow and I can’t ask for a delay and I wasn’t sure who to trust and–”

“Hey, no problem!” Futaba says. “Just don’t tell them you heard it from me.”

“Thank you, I owe you so much, Futaba-chan.”

“No prob, I’m probably gonna pass out, how about you?”

“I can’t, there are still things I need to arrange with my father’s will and then I’m meeting with lawyers in the morning, goodness I need more coffee!”

“How much have you had?” Futaba asks.

“Oh, four or five–”

“Cups?”

“Pots.”

“Holy shit, Haru!”

“I know, I know,” Haru says. “I was going to do all of this after school but then we had that Mementos run and now I have to do it all before morning.”

“You should have just told Ren you couldn’t make it! He gets we have lives, it’s not like he hangs out with us every time we ask.”

“Mementos is different Futaba, you know that. I’ll talk to you later.” Haru hangs up and gets back to work.

V

It’s not wrong to hack her friends’ phones if she’s genuinely concerned for their well-being, Futaba tells herself.

Besides, taking a quick peak at their calendars is like, barely snooping. She could text and ask them but she’s really hoping they’re asleep.

She’s not, but she doesn’t have school in the morning. She can go to bed at 7am and still get the proper eight hours of sleep a growing girl needs.

She and Morgana are the only ones who aren't students and Phantom Thieves though, and oh boy is being a high school student busy.

Let’s see, Makoto has an exam at cram school tomorrow, Haru had that meeting they were just talking about, Ryuji and Ann were texting (ok texts were a bit more snooping than calendars, but like, it’s important!) about meeting up to do a bunch of homework they’d put off while they were clearing Sae’s Palace, and Yusuke had an email reminder from a teacher about an essay.

And none of them had brought any of this up when Ren asked them all to go to Mementos today.

Damn, looks like Futaba has to be the responsible one.

+1

Ren doesn’t know why Futaba suddenly suggested group movie night, but hey, it’s always good when she wants to be social, and his schedule’s free now that they’ve finished up the requests.

They all gather around the attic, and Ren’s a little worried about them all watching the tiny TV, but it’s not really a problem, because pretty much everyone else falls asleep by the fifteen-minute mark.

“Wow, they’re tired,” Ren says. “Guess they don’t have Mona to tell them to get to bed early.”

“Uh, Ren about that?” Futaba asks. “Do you ask if anyone has stuff going on before saying to meet up for Phantom Thief stuff?”

Ren blinks. “I mean, I guess not but I figure they’ll tell me if it’s super urgent.”

“Ok, but see, I think they don’t,” Futaba says. “I actually asked all of them about it, and they feel really bad about canceling Mementos plans, so they push all their stuff back and do it at night. Like none of them got any sleep the last couple of days.”

Ren furrows his brows. He kinda, hasn’t thought about how his friends are always willing to show up when he calls for a meeting, even on days they’re not normally free to hang out. He just, you know, figured they did the same things he did. He doesn’t have a problem getting everything done before going to Mementos.

Then again, he’s the one picking Mementos days because he has nothing else going on.

“I’m a shit leader,” Ren says head hanging back.

“No, I don’t think you’re shit!” Morgana says. “We just gotta tell them they don’t have to come to Mementos if they’re busy, it’s not a problem to push it back.”

“We could like, make a group calendar?” Futaba suggests. “Plan ahead a little bit? I mean Palaces and emergencies are one thing, but I dunno, maybe everyone can plan better and say if they super duper can’t?”

“Yeah,” Ren says. “But uh, let’s do that later. They look like they need their sleep right now.”

Whumptober Day 3: Set Up For Failure

they say that in the end, the value of music is subjective

Akito’s throat is burning. He snag his heart out at Crawl Green, the culmination of nonstop practice and training. 

And they’d been bored. People were so unimpressed with him they went outside to check their phones or to use the bathroom.

Would it have been better if he’d lost his voice on stage? Or just passed out, or given a bad performance?

But no it wasn’t bad, it was simply unexceptional, at least compared to the normal crowd at Crawl Green.

What has he done? Tears are starting to prick the corner of his face. 

“There you are!” 

Akito wipes his face. In front of him is a severe-looking older man it takes him a beat too long to recognize.

“Do you know who I am?” 

Akito nods. This is Shigeru Midori. The owner of Crawl Green.

“Then you should be apologizing, boy!” Midori snaps. “Who do you think you are? You really think you can stroll in there and stink up my venue?”

Akito flinches back like he’d been hit. “S-some guys invited me to perform and–”

“And you thought you were God’s gift to the city, huh? You had the ego to think you could just stroll in and–”

“No!” Akito says. “I didn’t want to run away! I want to surpass RAD WEEKEND, and that means–”

“Of course you did,” Midori crosses his arms. “Hungry dogs like you yapping and yapping for a carcass.”

“I’m serious!” Akito says, and he knows he’s in the wrong here, that he shouldn’t argue at the man rightfully chewing him out for disgracing a place like Crawl Green, but it’s not in his nature to take something like this lying down, is it? “I’m serious about RAD WEEKEND, so when those guys asked if I was going to run away, I decided I wouldn’t. I know… I know I overstepped today, and I’m sorry, but I was there, I know how important RAD WEEKEND is, and I know the kind of sacrifices I’ll have to make to surpass it one day so that’s why I didn’t want to step down, and I tried. I tried so hard to practice so I could do justice to your–.”

“Boy,” Midori says. “Listen to me. You are never surpassing RAD WEEKEND.” “I–”

“LISTEN!”

Akito’s mouth slams shut and Midori continues on.

“Those people back there? The ones I chose, who I had perform, they don’t practice like you do, because they have talent. Real talent, the kind you can’t find just singing in the back alleys. Oh sure, if some of them were cocky, lazy, and didn’t try, then maybe you could out perform them with brute force, but no one who I allow to perform at my venue is like that. You’re miles behind the starting line, and they’re sprinting ahead of you. You’ll never close that gap.”

Midori spits at him. “Go home before you hurt yourself.” Then he stomps off.

Akito can’t breathe. The world is spinning and the lights are starting to blur. He doesn’t know when his feet start moving or when he gets home, until he opens the door and his dad is in the living room.

“Akito?” Shinei asks. “Is something wrong?”

Everything.

Everything is wrong. 

But he can’t explain it to his dad, can he? He doesn’t know anything about music, he’d simply be confused.

Or worse, his dad would understand intimately. Because at the end of the day, what was it he’d told Ena?

“You’re not capable of becoming the artist you want to be… though you might’ve been if you had enough talent beforehand.”

Ha, just like Midori said to him. 

Are they right? About Ena? About him? 

Akito can’t take it. He runs into his room and locks the door.

ACTUALLY this is my blog I can do what I want anyway here are songs/roles all the ProSeka theater kids would love because I’m a massive theater kid. Obviously not a comprehensive list but I do have playlists for some of these guys.

Tsukasa: ROXIE FUCKING HART. Roxie is his dream role straight up and I will not hear criticism he’s ABSOLUTELY going to kill it as Roxie and he definitely has a whole routine to the song Roxie that Toya and all of L/n know how to help with. Aside from that, he could also absolutely pull off Jack from Into The Woods because Giants In The Sky is such a good Tenor song, and absolutely Extraordinary from Pippin. He should just be Pippin in general.

Emu: Okay this is where things start to go a little off the rails, but ever since I saw that scene on that event in JP where she uses that deep voice for acting, I’ve thought that she would KILL it in roles that Grace McLean performed. So like Marya Dmitrievna from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 or The Queen of Hearts from Alice by Heart. I’d pay money to hear an Emu cover of In My House or Isn’t It A Trial?

Nene: She’s a Disney bitch through and through. The easiest answer is obviously Ariel from The Little Mermaid Broadway, she’d kill Beyond My Wildest Dreams and it’s fitting due to the everything. Aside from that though, her sharp tongue means that I directly associate her with roles like Janis Ian from Mean Girls and Veronica Sawyer from Heathers.

Rui: God. Rui’s so much fun. The biggest role I desperately want him to do is the Leading Player from Pippin. Magic to Do is just his song through and through. A close second place though is Billy Flynn from Chicago, because honestly he just would. Razzle Dazzle is such a good song for him. Also Anatole Kuragin from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 because I KNOW he’d kill the “For PETERSBURG!” In Pierre & Anatole.

Sakurako: Sakurako could do anything she put her mind to, but honestly I think she deserves some villain songs. She’d kill them SO HARD. Stuff like Helené Bezukhov from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 because Charming is brilliant. Also not a villain song, but Lily Malevsky from Anastasia is also a great role choice for her because I can see her doing Land of Yesterday like it’s nobody’s business.

Asahi: Asahi is kind of hard in my opinion because I can see him doing literally anything but also he feels like a more classical role character. Like Jean Valjean from Les Miserables or Raoul from Phantom of the Opera. My funnier option is Vlad from Anastasia because Sakurako and Asahi doing The Countess and the Common Man is very funny to me.

Saki: Saki Tenma, love of my life. She’s a theater kid because I said so she’s literally Tsukasa’s little sister if she isn’t one I’d be more surprised. But anyway, Saki has that youthful ingenue feel that a lot of female leads have, like Natasha Rostova from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Cady Heron from Mean Girls, and Anya from Anastasia. I think she’d kill No One Else, In My Dreams, and Stupid With Love especially.

Toya: See Saki, he’s a theater kid. He’s so funny because he’s got a vibe that’s so different from the others, so I think roles like Pierre Bezukhov from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, pulling off a kickass Dust and Ashes. Other stuff he can definitely pull off are Christian from Moulin Rouge! And Dr. Jim Pomatter from Waitress.

Arata: I don’t know what it is but I feel like he’s bitchy enough to be a theater kid there’s something about him. But he’s definitely got a lot of roles down. He’d be such a good Aaron Burr from Hamilton. Wait For It is just him about Akito. He’d also make a brilliant Orin Scrivello from Little Shop of Horrors. I think he could kick ass at Dentist!

Please someone ask me about my thoughts on the ProSeka theater kids and what their best songs would be. I have whole playlists dedicated to this question. Please.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Fire Emblem Heroes Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akagi Touma & Tsurugi Yashiro Characters: Akagi Touma, Tsurugi Yashiro, Aoi Itsuki, Oribe Tsubasa, Kurono Kiria, Minamoto Mamori, Yumizuru Eleonora Additional Tags: Vote for the boys... please... Summary:

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5, Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
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Characters: Amagi Yukiko, Takamaki Ann, Arisato Minato, Arisato Minako, Iori Junpei, Akagi Touma
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Summary: Six sparks can finally ignite …So, um… I love the Agi users and this fic is for them :)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Persona 5, Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, The Caligula Effect (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aoi Itsuki & Persona 5 Protagonist, Aoi Itsuki & The Caligula Effect Protagonist, Persona 5 Protagonist & The Caligula Effect Protagonist, Aoi Itsuki & Sakura Futaba, The Caligula Effect Protagonist & Sakura Futaba, Persona 5 Protagonist & Sakura Futaba Characters: Aoi Itsuki, Persona 5 Protagonist, The Caligula Effect Protagonist, Sakura Futaba Additional Tags: Everyone else is there but I’m too lazy to tag, Spoilers for all the games Summary:

“We should steal something!”

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