History FanFic / WantedItToBeAGame

** Kashiwagi, who originally was a ChristmasCake with no prominent story role, receives much-needed character development during the Iwatodai school trip and becomes Adachi's Moon social link.

* TheLoad: Adachi lags behind the rest of the Investigation Team due to not having time to train inside TV World, and not unlocking his Wild Card ability until halfway into the story. Once he ''does'' get his Wild Card ability, though, he quickly grows out of this.

* EvilNephew: Seito is one to Dojima, being the perpetrator of the serial murder case he's trying to solve.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Dojima goes through mountains of this, given his daughter is kidnapped and temporarily killed, and the killer turns out to be the nephew who he took into his home for nearly a year. He dreads having to explain everything to his sister when the dust settles.

* AdultFear: Dojima goes through mountains of this, given his daughter is kidnapped and temporarily killed, and the killer turns out to be the nephew who he took into his home for nearly a year. He dreads having to explain everything to his sister when the dust settles.

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: During his battle with Shadow Saki, Adachi outright punches the real Saki in the face to get her to admit her flaws and accept her shadow.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: During his battle with Shadow Saki, Adachi outright punches the real Saki in the face to get her to admit her flaws and accept her shadow.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the game, Adachi's only interactions with Saki involved him flirting with her, only to then murder her when she disgustedly turned down his advances. In the fic, Adachi's lust for her is completely absent, and they have a tenacious, but ultimately much healthier platonic friendship.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the game, Adachi's only interaction with Saki involved him flirting with her, only to then murder her when she disgustedly turned down his advances. In the fic, Adachi's lust for her is completely absent, and they have a tenacious, but ultimately much healthier platonic friendship.

* TriggerHappy: Adachi likes to use his gun a bit too much, and at 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.

** Saki, instead of being the murderer's first victim, becomes a founding member of the Investigation Team and Adachi's Empress social link, replacing Margaret
** Kanji's Mother, while still only a side character, becomes Adachi's Chariot Link.

* MythologyGag: In addition to the canon references to ''Videogame/Persona3'' during the Iwatodai trip, the inn the students stay at is mentioned to have had several mirrors broken with no discernible cause, leading to its temporary closure; those mirrors were broken by the Persona 3 protagonists in order to defeat the Lovers shadow.

* ChekovsGun: Yosuke leaves a call to Saki saying he has evidence proving who killed Chie. Eventually, Adachi realizes the evidence might still be out there and finds a Junes security tape showing Seito pushing Chie into the TV.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: If you pay attention to Seito's actions during the story, [[spoiler:you'll notice he hangs out with Kou a lot. Kou is the accomplice of this story.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Seito takes perverse pleasure when his seven-year-old cousin Nanako comes up on the Midnight Channel, and fourteen-year-old Shu Nakajima is the last of his victims. This notably makes him ''even worse'' than the canon Adachi, who at the very least showed some regret for her death in the ending where Yu throws Namatame in the TV.

* WouldHurtAChild: Seito takes perverse pleasure when his seven-year-old cousin Nanako comes up on the Midnight Channel, and fourteen-year-old Shu Nakajima is the last of his victims.

* TheLoad: Adachi lags behind the rest of the Investigation Team due to not having time to train inside TV World, and not unlocking his Wild Card ability until halfway into the story.

* AdaptationalWimp: Adachi, when compared to both his canon self and Yu Narukami (whose role he takes). He lacks the insane natural talent his canon self possessed with Personas, and his inability to form bonds throughout the first half of the story stunts his growth as a Wild Card.

* 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 Personas.

-->'''Adachi:''' You really think that's all there is to being alive, hunh? You're pathetic. Y-you... you think the world owes you everything just because you lost someone important? You're nothing but a little brat throwing a tantrum! Yes, I am sorry what happened to you; no one deserves to lose someone close to them. I seriously hate how this world is; where you give and give and suddenly everything is ripped out from under you and you're left in the dust. Sometimes it's your own fault, sometimes it's because of circumstances beyond your control, and it feels like the world at large just doesn't give a shit! But... in the end, we're only responsible for ourselves. If I learned anything this year, it's that only we can reach out and grasp that bright spot that's there just for us, whether it's in a person or a place. You said before I changed only as a bid for power; maybe that's true, but in the end I found so much more than just power. I found a place I belonged, with people that I can actually say I care about and would do anything for. But you didn't even try. You wallowed in your own misery and let the despair eat you alive until there was nothing left but a hollow shell. You know why all those people you killed kept coming to you? Do you know why Nanako wanted to reach out to you? Why me and Rise and all of us did?! Because we could see the emptiness in you, and were trying to find a way to fill it, but it's you who wouldn't let us do that!