Because oh my god he's got so much and some of it by rights should manifest as injuries that would very much kill him.

Strangulation marks from social silencing and his family refusing to believe what he said anyway. Backstabs for trust issues. Chest partly ripped open over the heart, thanks Goro Akechis, plural. Friction burns on the inside of his hands because of his canon point where Everyone Was Gone. He couldn't hold on to anyone or anything.

Strangulation - tentatively planned for talk therapy with Jamil

Trade one with Cloud. Keep each other alive

It'll be kinda hard not to notice Cloud's, so!

Cry, Akira's will be hard to miss, too, since he'll just bleed through anything he tries to cover that chest wound with.

Sounds good to me. Akira needs to bond more with adults and apparent adults until they stop being guilty until proven innocent.

Yeah Cloud's chest wound too

But Cloud's been around in places Akira's been hanging out in so they have a decent bit of established CR now

Ye
And we said tdm established so Akira knows Cloud is from fascist dictatorship land.

Nita would volunteer (and also offer privacy), depending on how soon they cross paths?

heyyyyy, same issues! [in tone of same hat]

Azul probably not even a little surprised after their contract negotiations.

:'>

yeah............ when you've been hurt enough, you take extra precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again

they should share stories about that

Nita is a maybe that I would very much like to make a yes. Akira is complicated math balancing the closeness of the CR and the severity of the wounds and the severity of the wounds. Yes, severity of wounds twice, because life-threatening means he needs to talk but it also means the things he least wants to talk about.

Yeah that's my big Cry

Playing types that wouldn't open up to someone that doesn't match

And Jamil wanting to drift towards Azul for all of it will be my big struggle

Difficult Secretive People

slams hands down

confirm on backstab story-sharing y/n

Oh my God

Yes, drama queen

"Make it an analogy if you gotta; the point is to get it out there and... own it? If that's the right phrase. It's something you're stuck bearing regardless of how it got there."

/adds things up
The last major one is the hands, it looks like. Lol, that one is making an analogy of itself.

poetics!

It occurs that a fun/terrible thing is that Akira can't even really try to just bandage himself up, because the burns on his hands are going to wreck his ability to do anything with any dexterity at all.

Cloud would bandage him up and that could be how they start talking?

I want you both to know that I originally read that as "bondage"

winkwonk

I mean they're around the same age if you don't count the years in the tube.

pffft

Granted

Also I'm coming to the slow horrible realization that the more Akira builds CR with Cloud, the more likely Sephiroth will become involved at some point.

hahaha probably

Eh, it's fine, he's maxed out social links with people just as bad.

Aw this Seph isn't all that bad, honestly

He's better than some of Akira's Confidants tbh

I'd trust Seph before I'd trust Goro for instance

Or [redacted]

Sephiroth: I am a god.
Akira, tiredly: As long as you don't turn into a giant gold cup, we're good.

Nah just a weird biblical angel looking thing

He has weirder looking things living in his head.

Oh, Sam'll try his hardest to look out for him.

Shit, I have to add one. The damn interrogation room. He is so traumatized by that shit.

gestures at similar hat

Jamil is dealing with poison/drug effects too so lmao. More bonding

Worst brofist