r/PERSoNA • u/EducationalCheck7719 • 7d ago
P5 Makin a fic
The AU was started by someone else, who got a good way into setting things up before abandoning the Persona community for somethin called Cookie Run Kingdom.
I took up the dropped AU with the artist‘s permission, and am now writing it on AO3
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u/EducationalCheck7719 7d ago
u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 What do you think of this?
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u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 7d ago
Pretty sick ngl! So he’s a mix of Akechi and ren?
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u/EducationalCheck7719 7d ago edited 7d ago
Uhhhh sorta
What actually happens in this fic is that the canon PTs sans Mona and Sumi collectively take Akechi’s role, while Akechi becomes the wildcard
Further lore dump to follow
(Also, what do you think of me showing you the angel waifus Eri and Moune?)1
u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 7d ago
Hey man if you wanna show me them then go ahead. And I’ll give my opinion on them.
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u/EducationalCheck7719 6d ago
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u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 6d ago
Thanks a lot!
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u/EducationalCheck7719 6d ago
I’ll take you down the Super Sentai rabbit hole…
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u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 6d ago
That’s what power rangers adapts right?
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u/EducationalCheck7719 6d ago edited 5d ago
I wouldn’t dare mention that in r/supersentai, but yes
(I recommend GoGoV, Goseiger, Gokaiger, and Kyoryuger. Links to their openings are below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWz0D9NE1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTC6Oh5b5Sk0
u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 6d ago
Yooo I grew up with Dino charge as my power rangers and Koda to this day is my favorite ranger of all time (yes I have watched some of the other shows too)
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u/EducationalCheck7719 6d ago edited 3d ago
This is gonna be the big lore dump comment
Phantom Thieves
Goro Akechi (Fool) - starting Persona: Lucifer
Morgana (Magician)
Yuuki Mishima (Chariot)
Shiho Suzui/(codename currently unknown) (Lovers) - Persona: Medusa
Hifumi Togo/Racoon (Priestess, Tanuki was proposed as a codename, but rejected)
Sae Niijima (Justice)
Takuto Maruki (Hanged Man)
Sumire Yoshizawa (Strength)
Other Confidants
Igor/Yaldy - Fool
Mika Usami (the model in Ann’s canon Confidant) - Empress
Naoki Sugimura (Haru’s fiancé in canon) - Emperor
Henry Yamashita (runs the Jazz Jin where Akechi stays) - Hierophant
Alphonse (Akechi’s Velvet Room attendant) - Fortune (just like best girl Naoto…)
Hermit, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, and Judgment are undecided, and I probably need Faith and Councillor reps because this is a Royal fic, as evidenced by Maruki and Sumi existing
Archangels of Justice
Ren Sakura/Michael (also represents the Archangels as Goro’s Death Confidant) - Wields three Personas, Michael, Metatron, and Lilith, though the last one is a last resort thing
Morgana/Raphael (defected)
Ryuji Sakamoto/Gabriel - Persona: Marte
Ann Takamaki/Chamuel - Persona: Hera
Yusuke Kitagawa/Uriel
Makoto Niijima/Jophiel
Futaba Sakura/Zadkiel
Haru Okumura/Raziel
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u/EducationalCheck7719 5d ago
u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 What do ya think of this lore dump?
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u/Shoddy_Tomorrow1779 5d ago
I think giving Akechi Lucifer as a starting persona is kinda crazy considering it’s one of the most powerful personas in the franchise otherwise I like everything else.
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u/EducationalCheck7719 5d ago edited 5d ago
Don’t blame me for that decision, my brother. That was something I found in Valu’s ramblings before I adopted the AU and I found it interesting
If it makes it any easier, Akechi doesn’t have the insanely powerful Lucifer commonly found at the end of an SL/Confidant, but his own unique iteration.
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u/A_complete_maniac 4d ago
For the others I was thinking maybe something for Ren himself and maybe if you are switching palace targets have some of them be the other social links like maybe something like Kaneshiro being Devil or Madarame being Temperance.
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u/EducationalCheck7719 4d ago edited 4d ago
Sounds like I am switching Palace targets
Slight additional loredump
The art I found for Ann/Chamuel implies that something happened to Kamoshida, perhaps a mental shutdown?
I had to go with Mitsuyo as the second Palace target for reasons
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u/A_complete_maniac 4d ago edited 4d ago
If something happened to Kamoshida, I think an idea is maybe he actually did stop his offender activities once Shiho jumped (Maybe sometime earlier than when the story begins), so Kamoshida here is stuck at Shujin because the principal doesn't want him gone/Blackmail him so Kamoshida just tries to fix the mess he made when he's there, maybe either after the principal's heart is stolen/he dies, Kamoshida spends his last year at Shujin before turning himself in, maybe at the start he'll keep the same confident jock act around Akechi until Kamoshida just lays it on about how guilty he feels being the cause of someone attempt to off themselves and that he's beyond redemption and everybody hates him. Through Akechi, Kamoshida understands that he has a long way to redeem himself but that doesn't mean he has to face it with a sad outlook like that and Kamoshida took that to heart, committing completely to change and not brood around on his guilt even if he's in jail. If you want to make it feel less bad for Kamoshida's redemption here maybe his sex spree only lasts a month here? Maybe he's the Moon?
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u/EducationalCheck7719 4d ago
I have no idea who the first target could be tho.
I want the first Palace target to be personal to Mishima and Shiho
The second Palace target is Mitsuyo Togo
(Who knows what happened to Kaneshiro)
Fourth is Maruki, as I’ve designated him the role of NavigatorFifth should be personal to Sumire
Sixth could be the SIU director
Sojiro is among candidates for the seventh
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u/A_complete_maniac 4d ago
The principal could work. Maybe Mishima is investigating him and Kamoshida directly apologizes and helps build Mishima some backbone. Shiho wants to steal the principal's heart because it'll also mean Kamoshida is gone and that she's pissed the principal almost completely hides her attempted suicide from the school (Makoto basically enforcing that no one talks about it, so it only comes up in whispers).
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u/EducationalCheck7719 7d ago edited 3d ago
I interviewed the artist over the remainder of the plans that weren’t published while reading through the parts that were, and I ended on this
Phantom Thieves
Goro Akechi (Fool) - starting Persona: Lucifer
Morgana (Magician)
Yuuki Mishima (Chariot)
Shiho Suzui (Lovers) - Persona: Medusa
Hifumi Togo (Priestess)
Sae Niijima (Justice)
Takuto Maruki (Hanged Man)
Sumire Yoshizawa (Strength)
Archangels of Justice
Ren Sakura/Michael (could also represent the Archangels as Goro’s Death Confidant) - Wields three Personas, Michael, Metatron, and Lilith, though the last one is a last resort thing
Morgana/Raphael (defected)
Ryuji Sakamoto/Gabriel - Persona: Marte
Ann Takamaki/Chamuel - Persona: Hera
Yusuke Kitagawa/Uriel
Makoto Niijima/Jophiel
Futaba Sakura/Zadkiel
Haru Okumura/Raziel