A colorful AU!

[crab_rangoon]

The world is gray. Always gray. He had thought once, as a little boy, that the emergence of color would be a wonderful thing. He used to dream that finding that person, that getting to see everything in brilliant Wizard Of Oz technicolor would be something he would always cover until it happened.

But after Ishwari, after the betrayal and the loss, after Ajay and Lakshmana left to America after Mohan's failed assassination attempt, Pagan just gave up on that dream. Love, he decided, was just for those who have given up on themselves. Not worth the trouble.

Yuma became the face of Kyrat after that and Pagan stepped back, letting her handle the death threats and the rebels and all of the bullshit that he just didn't want to deal with. Pagan ruled from the back, tempering Yuma's impulsive bullshit with a cooler head, though no less ruthless. However, the arrangement left him free to roam the world, taking care of his business in Hong Kong and the mainland unmolested. His father might not have had the desire to rule the Triads, but Pagan sure as fuck does. Even if it means he has to go and do things himself.

It's this reason, chasing spineless Hong Kong assholes, that lands him in Japan. He has a small security detail that walks the crowd, but otherwise Pagan is by himself as he walks the streets, checking his phone for his victim's last location.

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[lone_horse]

...how does he keep ending up in this goddamn city?

He's not even supposed to be here, or he'd prefer not to be, given the possibility of being discovered or identified. It's been years since the Tojo clan held Kamurocho at this point (a fact that is frankly still jarring, even now) and just about everyone thinks he's dead. He'd probably be assumed to be some sort of poser or fan boy of himself if anyone did identify the look.

He's hoping to get the business he has done quickly and quietly; it's just a jaunt down a few streets and into the alley to get to Kamiyama Works so he can get his weapons repaired (and maybe see if he has a few more interesting things to pick up, he has the money) when he notices the group heading his way.

He's not saying they're Triad. But they sure as shit look like Triad, judging by the weapons he can spot and, well, the general proximity to Little Asia certainly doesn't hurt. He tries to get a look at the man in them middle of the configuration, the leader (obviously) and he just happens to find a 'hole' in the ranks as the man looks up from his phone.

Which is when it happens. Which is when the world changes, rolling from the man out to cover the whole rest of the world, the whole rest of everything, and if he thought Kamurocho was visually loud and bright and overwhelming before, it's an entirely different thing, an entirely greater thing, once the whole thing is served up in glaring, blaring, neon color.

Starting with a certain someone's bright pink suit.

He can't help but stumble.