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AKANE SHINJO VOICE TEST

A voicetest/cmo/WHATEVER for Akane Shinjo from SSSS.GRIDMAN because i got impatient and couldn't wait til we finished the show lol. Please do not post anything pertaining to spoilers past episode 8! IF YOU DO I WILL BE VERY CROSS WITH U NVM WE FINISHED THE WHOLE SHOW AND I CRIED A LOT

this is a super informal voice test bc i'm still working out who the fuck akane even is so pwease help me out.

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[ Akane freezes.

She'd been zipping all around the street as fast as she could, trying to find some trace of that glasses woman – she couldn't just be gone, not so fast. Maybe she'd been crushed by the giant or disappeared into the store, but even as those possibilities came to mind, Akane dismissed them. Too good to be true.

But when she hears that knock on her door and realizes, against any and all odds who must me out there – she freezes in place so completely that she forgets to even breathe. Doesn't even dare, just in case she's overheard.

What the hell is going on?! ]

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[There's a pause, and then, a soft:]

Would you please open the door? This isn't your Amano-Iwato.

[However, that's all there is. She's not opening the door. If Akane peeks outside somehow, Kotoha is just... standing there, politely, like this is just a normal, cordial visit.]

And it would make for a poor story if we couldn't talk face-to-face.

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[ No, no, no, no, no.

She can't be right outside the door. Because if she was right outside the door then that means she's made her way into Akane's house and no one can come into Akane's house. It's not a matter of permission or lack thereof, it's a rule of the world coded in as firmly as she could make it that no one enters this space without her permission.

And yet, here she is. This strange woman who sells books to children and conjures giants out of thin air and she's just outside of Akane's door.

The silence from inside the room is deafening.

But just when it seems like it's about to stretch out indefinitely, Akane's voice, carefully cold and dead, speaks up from inside. ]

What... are you?

[ Not who. What. ]

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[... Kotoha laughs. It's... not a laugh of mirth. It's sheepish, embarrassed... Regretful.

She deserves it, doesn't she? After all... She is no longer a person.]

Ah... You're very sharp, aren't you? No wonder you hide away. The world is never kind to a girl who knows too much.

I am your ally. I know it may not seem that way, but... Please believe it.

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[ She scoffs quietly to herself, softly enough that it doesn't carry beyond the door, especially not under the chaos still playing out across Akane's computer screen.

An ally. Sure. Right. You'll forgive her if she doesn't believe that for a second. ]

Some ally. Breaking in when you're not invited. [ And not wanted, she thinks, but doesn't need to say. ] You don't even belong in this world, do you?

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Sometimes, to best help someone, you cannot simply give them what they want.

[Does she belong in this world? Well. That's a very complicated answer. So instead...]

I could say the same to you, couldn't I?

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Like you'd know anything about that.

[ There's nothing but a door between her and this strange woman but to Akane, right now, it's like a fortress wall. Nothing can get through it, over it, or under it. So maybe it's fine to let her tongue a little more loose than usual. ]

If this is my world, don't I have every right to be here?

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To be here? Certainly. But that's not what you do here, is it?

[The giant and the kaiju struggle, but they're locked in place. Somehow, the two of them seem evenly matched in their wrestling contest... So evenly matched that neither of them can move.

Without moving, nothing is being destroyed.]

You do not have the right to use those monsters... To take this world away from those who belong here.

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I belong here!

[ The door between them rattles almost off its hinges – jittering with the force of Akane's feelings more than the force of her raised voice. ]

What makes you think you can just walk in here and start talking like you understand anything?!

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Do you?

[She doesn't seem to react to the door rattling. It's just another child, upset at the world. It's something Kotoha knows well.]

... If I don't understand, then why don't you talk to me? I'm sure we'll be able to understand each other that way.

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[ Akane lets out a hard breath. She's... losing control of her temper, she can feel it happening but she can't do anything about it. Is she doing it on purpose, this woman? Is she feeling Akane out, working out which buttons to press to make her weak and easier to unravel?

Her hands are balled into fists so tight her nails dig into her palms. ]

I don't want to understand you.

And I don't want you to understand me.

What I want is for you to get out. Right now.

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[This... isn't going well. Well, it never goes well, but this is going poorly, even for her standards.

Unfortunately, she has no choice. She couldn't leave, even if she wanted to. And, well...]

I'm afraid while you use monsters like this, I cannot. If I left now, everyone you kill from now on would be my fault as well.

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[ Akane scoffs. ]

So you're going to butt in like this every single time?

[ There's a pause, with an abruptness that implies she's fallen silent with a realization and when she speaks up again, her voice is edge with a special tinge of disgust. ]

Don't tell me... you're working with Gridman, right?

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Mm...

["What's a Gridman", is what she really wants to say. But, unfortunately, that's not how this works, is it?]

That may be what I have been brought here to do, yes. I haven't met any 'Gridman' yet, though.

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[ What a weedy denial. Akane scoffs – she's not convinced.

(Of course, she'd be unconvinced by literally any answer Kotoha have her. Akane's already made up her mind about this woman and that's all she needs to know.) ]

Sure. Right. You just happened to turn up here out of nowhere too, but you've got nooooooothing to do with Gridman.

[ Her voice turns sickly sweet and a little singsong, mocking. ]

Does that mean you're all by yourself, then? Nobody to miss you if you just disappear one day?

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Wouldn't you think it more likely that it has to do with you, than Gridman? If your actions have already caused one other person to interfere...

[THE COMMON FACTOR HERE IS YOU, AKANE]

... All by myself, hm? No, not exactly. Though Wolf isn't here right now, my loved one will show up sooner or later.

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Sooner or later? Is that so?

[ There's a moment of quiet and then all of a sudden

Akane's voice is coming from much closer behind the door. ]

If they love you so much, then why aren't they already here with you? You haven't been left behind, have you? How sad...

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[Poor Akane. Of all the tracks you could try...]

That's not how it works, sadly. If we could stay together, we would, but it's my abilities that drag me around, leaving her to catch up.

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Wow, so high maintenance! I know some people love it when girls play hard to get, but that's a little much.

[ Not that Akane has literally any place whatsoever to talk. ]

Why don't you do us all a favour and drag yourself someplace else, then?

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Have you ever heard of a story where this mysterious newcomer just left?

[She folds her arms.]

Now, please open the door.

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[ Akane folds hers in turn, with some pretty good dramatic timing. ]

Give me one good reason why I should.

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Because it's rude to talk to someone through a door like this.

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And aren't you the one who started hanging around outside my door when you weren't invited? I'd say that's even ruder.

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Very well. ... I'm sorry it had to come to this.

Open Sesame.

[With a 'click', the lock unlocks, and the door begins to push itself open with a slow, but inexorable force.]

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[ A white hot jolt of panic and shock fires up Akane's spine and for a moment, she's glued to the spot. Her whole body tingles with alarm and she doesn't know what to do. She's blocked in, nowhere to go but–

...

She doesn't even bother trying to pull the door shut. Instead, Akane charges forward and slams into the door with her full weight, shoving it out into Kotoha's face and then immediately charging down the hallway to put as much distance between them as she can. ]