Hi! I’m Masky, My Main Blog Is @maskyartist, And This Is My Blog Specifically For Posting About My

Hi! I’m Masky, my main blog is @maskyartist, and this is my blog specifically for posting about my AU, Traitor!Ryuji.

For a bit of a rundown of what Traitor!Ryuji actually is, it’s sort of the idea of “what if Ryuji decided enough was enough”, realized the Thieves weren’t exactly the best friends, Akechi grew attached to him, and convinced him to become their traitor/his inside man.

The longer explanation is all this!

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Now Ryuji, he’s known for awhile that the thieves have been…bad to him, but the day he’s left behind in the Red Light District by the boy who’s supposed to be his leader. His best friend. Someone he can rely on. He’s gone past the point of no return.

He and Akechi have already been talking since meeting at the TV Station, with Akechi giving Ryuji his number and telling him to “call if he needs someone who truly hears him”, and they became…I wouldnt say friends? Acquaintances is more accurate. They were friendly, but never truly hung out.

Until the night Ryuji got left behind in the Red Light District, and Akechi was there. He was fucking there, got the guys arrested, and brought Ryuji to his apartment. He let Ryuji tell his tale of woe, and in return, told him his plan to take down Shido starting with the Phantom Thieves. Now Akechi didn’t make him choose to join him or stay with the Thieves then and there. He simply…gave the blonde the option to either stay, or go.

And Ryuji knew he was attempting to manipulate him. Akechi said things like “you could always join me, Ryuji. I know your worth. Your efforts would never be invalidated.”, trying to butter him up, and he would never admit that they worked but fuck after looking so hard for compliments and acknowledgement Ryuji’s ashamed to admit that he was about to give in then and there.

But he told himself to wait. To talk to Akira about it. Maybe there was a big misunderstanding he wasn’t seeing. Maybe he didn’t just abandon him out right.

Then those words, two words, hit him like a truck, and he felt like he lost his leg once more. “You’re overreacting.”

Akira told him that. Straight to his face. Alone. In private. Without anyone around. No Morgana to egg him on, no Ann to tell him he’s wrong she would. he knows she would. she’s been sexually harassed. she’d stand up for him…wouldn’t she?, no Yusuke to just sit there and be all…weird.

It was him, and Akira, and the emptiness of space, and the crushing, bone breaking pressure of realizing that yes. This is his leader. This is his best friend.

A coward is all he truly was.

That afternoon, after school, Ryuji let himself to Akechi’s apartment. One his fans don’t know about. One where he can be in peace. He knocked on the door, and there stood the detective with a quirked brow.

“You were right.” Ryuji says as he walks inside, taking off his shoes, and dropping his bag on the couch. He needed to get something. “He’s a coward. He’s a coward and he’s our leader and he told me I was overreacting. He’s a coward and I hate him.” It was so immediate, too. The hatred that bubbled away at the idea of Akira as he realized what other cowardly deeds he’d done.

Letting Ryuji take hits for him, letting Ryuji take jabs at his emotions, teasings that hit too close to home, insults and sticks and stones that were only supposed to break his bones but god those words truly hurt more then anything.

There it is. Ryuji pulls out his phone, slides it open, and hands it to Akechi. The Phantom Thieves group chat.

Oh. He’s crying. He didn’t even notice.

“I’ll be your traitor.”

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So if any of this interests you, or if you have any questions, maybe stick around for this current obsession! (Also yes this is Ryugoro I love evil bfs)