History FanFic / WantedItToBeAGame

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Yosuke's final phone call has him claim to Saki that he knows who killed Chie. When he naturally turns up dead, the police assume he was silenced permanently.

** Saki Konishi, Sayoho Uehara, [[spoiler:Kou Ichijo]], and [[spoiler:Ryotaro Dojima]] go from random shmucks to Persona wielders in this game.

** The protagonist, named Seito Souzen in this fic, is this as he takes Adachi's canon role. He's even worse than Adachi was in canon, as while Adachi was content to let events play out after his second murder and let his UnwittingPawn Namatame do all the heavy lifting, Seito goes out of his way to increase the body count as time goes on.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Izanami has one when she realizes that ''Adachi'' of all people is about to defeat her.]]

** Saki Konishi, Sayoho Uehara, and [[spoiler:Kou Ichijo]] go from random shmucks to Persona wielders in this game.

* TokenAdult: Adachi serves as this to the Investigation Team, being the only adult party member until Sayoko joins.

* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight at first with Adachi being dragged along by Saki to save the kidnapping victims, but subverted later after he gets CharacterDevelopment and Sayako [[spoiler:and Dojima]] get Persona.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: How Adachi ended in Inaba in this fic's backstory. He accidentally killed a perp whose girlfriend has political influences, and the girl complained about Adachi's TriggerHappy tendencies. Because the guy really was guilty of the crime, the Police couldn't fire Adachi because he technically did the right thing, but because they were pressured into "taking action" they just drastically cut down his salary and transferred him to the most rural town they had under their jurisdiction.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The protagonist, named Seito Souzen in this fic, is this as he takes Adachi's canon role. [[spoiler: Kou is Seito's accomplice]].

** The unnamed Nimono Lady, who originally appeared as a side character in Adachi's P4G social link, becomes his Temperance S.Link as he grows to understand her loneliness and grows to reluctantly love her.

* TheLoad: Adachi lags behind the rest of the Investigation Team due to not having time to train inside TV World, and that he didn't unlock his Wild Card ability until halfway into the story.
* PoliceAreUseless: Adachi often thinks this about his coworkers, with the exception of Dojima, of course.
** Also pointed out by multiple others, as with the exception of Adachi, no one else in the police department can properly investigate the murders happening.
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: Adachi's investigation team, consisting of himself the ButtMonkey new detective, a Junes employee, an inn heiress, a bitty private detective, a bruiser, a retired idol, a bear, and a nurse.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: How Adachi ended in Inaba in this fic's backstory. He aciddentally killed a perp whose girlfriend has political influences, and the girl complained about Adachi's TriggerHappy tendencies. Because the guy really was guilty of the crime, the Police couldn't fire Adachi because he tecnically did the right thing, but because they were pressured into "taking action" they just drastically cut down his salary and transferred him to the most rural town they had under their jurisdiction.
* RoleSwapAU: Adachi becomes TheHero while Seito becomes the Killer.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Adachi's reaction after seeing Naoto's and Kanji's dungeon. He had to be dragged inside by Saki and Yukiko.

* SparedByAdaptation: Saki survives and went on to be an AscendedExtra.
* TriggerHappy: Adachi likes to use his gun a bit too much, and a some point he claims that it was the reason he joined the police force in first place. He is hung up on how he cannot use it as much as he would like because he is too broke to buy his own ammo and cannot use the one he gets assigned after being reprimanded by "wasting" it.

** Kanji's Mother, while still only a side character, becomes Adachi's Chariot Link
** Yuu Minami bonds with Adachi [[spoiler: after his mother's death]], becoming his Hanged Man social link

** Sayoko, in the original game, is the Devil Arcana social link. Here, she also becomes the navigator of the investigation team .

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Seito is still hung up over the death of his twin sister when he was a child, and it's implied that it is one if not the main cause of dissatisfaction with the world. [[spoiler:When he discovers that the ghost of his sister visited Adachi and became his Death social link, he doesn't take it well]]

The roles reversed: the hero plays the villain, while the villain plays the hero. What makes one the other, and how easily can fate be manipulated to serve one’s own ends? Originally written for UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2012 and was continued and finished as the author's 2013 and 2014 projects; started before Golden was released.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The protagonist, named Seito Souzen in this fic, is this as he takes Adachi's canon role. [[spoiler: And Kou is Seito's accomplice]].

* AscendedExtra:

** Kashiwagi, who originally was a [[Christmas Cake]] with no prominent story role, receives much-needed character development during the Iwatodai school trip and becomes Adachi's Moon social link.
** Due to DeathByAdaptation, several of the social links in the original game are changed to connect with Adachi. Such as Namatame becoming one of Adachi's social links.

* SwappedRoleAU: Adachi becomes TheHero while Seito becomes the Killer.

** Sayoko, in the original game, is the Devil Arcana social link. Here, she's part of the investigation team and gains a persona of her own. Saki, who was formerly a victim, also survived and becomes a part of the investigation team.

* AlternateUniverse: explicitly stated. [[spoiler:Izanami tells Adachi in no few words that there ''are'' dozens of timelines repeating the Inaba scenario and the one where the fic events take place is the ''only one'' where Adachi did the Right Thing.]]

* ReassignedToAntarctica: how Adachi ended in Inaba in this fic's backstory. He aciddentally killed a perp whose girlfriend has political influences, and the girl complained about Adachi's TriggerHappy tendencies. Because the guy really was guilty of the crime, the Police couldn't fire Adachi because he tecnically did the right thing, but because they were pressured into "taking action" they just drastically cut down his salary and transferred him to the most rural town they had under their jurisdiction.

The roles reversed: the hero plays the villain, while the villain plays the hero. What makes one the other, and how easily can fate be manipulated to serve one’s own ends? Written for UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2012; started before Golden was released.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Due to the role-reversal, Adachi's characterization in this fic is this.

* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight at first with Adachi being dragged along by Saki to save the kidnapping victims but subverted later after he gets CharacterDevelopment and Sayako and Dojima get Persona.
* AlternateUniverse. explicitly stated. Izanami tells Adachi in no few words that there ''are'' dozens of timelines repeating the Inaba scenario and the one where the fic events take place is the ''only one'' where Adachi did the Right Thing.

** Sayoko, in the original game, is the Devil Arcana social link. Here, she's part of the investigation team and gains a persona of her own. Saki, who is formerly a victim, also survived and becomes a part of the investigation team.

* ByronicHero: While Adachi fills the role of protagonist in this story, it doesn't change his propensity for narcissism, nor his misanthropic view of the world. He gets more optimistic and less misanthropic after CharacterDevelopement, but it never goes totally away.

* ForWantOfANail: According to Izanami, the nail here is Adachi not having killed Saki.

* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: Adachi's investigation team, consisting of himself the ButtMoneky new detective, a Junes employee, an inn heiress, a bitty private detective, a bruiser, a retired idol, a bear, and a nurse.

* VillainousBreakdown: Izanami has one when she realizes that ''Adachi'' of all people is about to defeat her.

* ByronicHero: While Adachi fills the role of protagonist in this story, it doesn't change his propensity for narcissism, nor his misanthropic view of the world.

* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: Adachi's investigation team, consisting of a Junes employee, an inn heiress, a bitty private detective, a bruiser, a retired idol, a bear, and now a nurse.
* SmallTownBoredom: Both Adachi and Seito make this comment in the beginning, with Adachi continuing to do so for awhile afterwards.

* SparedByAdaptation: Saki survives and went on to be an AscendedExtra.

* AscendedExtra: Sayoko, in the original game, is the Devil Arcana social link. Here, she's part of the investigation team and gains a persona of her own. Saki, who is formerly a victim, also survived and becomes a part of the investigation team.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The protagonist, named Seito Souzen in this fic, is this as he takes Adachi's canon role.

* DeathByAdaptation: Yosuke and Chie both die early and are Seito's victims. Naoki, Ai, and Eri, who were part of the game's original social links, also die as victims.

* DeathByAdaptation: Yosuke and Chie both die early and are Seito's victims.

* AscendedExtra: Sayoko, in the original game, is the Devil Arcana social link. Here, she's part of the investigation team and gains a persona of her own.

* SmallTownBoredom: Both Adachi and Seito make this comment in the beginning, with Adachi continuing to do so for awhile afterwards.

* ParanoiaFuel: Basically any time Seito shows up.

An alternate universe role-swap fic set during the events of Persona4, written by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/SkylaDoragono/pseuds/SkylaDoragono SkylaDoragono]].

The roles reversed: the hero plays the villain, while the villain plays the hero. What makes one the other, and how easily can fate be manipulated to serve one’s own ends? Written for NaNoWriMo 2012; started before Golden was released.