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Saw Penn & Teller tonight and am now vaguely contemplating some sort of shuake stage magician au only I don’t know who’s Penn and who’s Teller.

There’s a line in the show where Penn says “I am a juggler and he is a liar,” meaning that Teller’s background is in sleight-of-hand but imagine Goro delivering that line onstage about Akira after a misunderstanding; he’s said that line a hundred times before in front of thousands of people, but now it hurts because it sounds like Goro means it.

Magic is all about misdirection – look at my hands, nothing up my sleeve -and Goro is a master, deflecting Akira’s attempts to talk about it until Akira is tying himself into knots over it. Their performances are suffering. Something has to be done.

Come a little further with me down this road: part of this business is not just the tricks but the chemistry, and they certainly have that in spades. Goro and Akira push each other to be better, onstage and off, and they drive their manager a little bit crazy in the pursuit of the next act, the next audience thrill. There’s nothing quite like the collective gasp of an audience who’s hanging off your every word and action; especially when the real action is up Goro’s sleeve while the crowd is dazzled by Akira’s smile.

Goro’s worked hard to get where he is, and sometimes Akira’s easy chemistry with the crowd gets under his skin. They love him, where they’ve only ever liked Goro; but they’re drawing three times the crowds they had separately so he guesses he can learn to live with it. And anyway the way that Akira smiles for the crowd is on thing; the way he turns to Goro and grins, after the final curtain call, flushed and breathless and high off applause, is something else altogether.

Did you just say magician AU because I am ALL IN ON THIS-