History Fanfic / Persona4SilverBlue

The story can be read on [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40289019/chapters/100916991 Archive of Our Own]] or [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14108238/1/Persona-4-SILVER-BLUE Fanfiction.net]].

* MentalWorld: The Velvet Room, of course. It’s a place whose shape reflects the heart of its guests. Unlike Yu, whose Velvet Room took the shape of a limousine, Labrys’s version of the Velvet Rook takes the form of a classroom.

* BloodKnight: Labrys admits a few times that she enjoys hunting and fighting shadows, and that it feels like second nature to her, probably because that’s literally what she was made for. It also helps that it’s not like fighting humans or actual sapient beings, so she doesn’t have to feel bad for slaughtering them either.

* BigEater: [[spoiler: Aika. When she visited the Big Bang Burger restaurant in Okina City, She somehow managed to complete the Big Bang challenge and eat the Cosmic Tower Burger ''on her first try''. And even after that, she’s somehow still hungry and she asks Labrys if she can have her burger and fries]].

At first, the story more-or-less follows the same beats as the original Persona 4 until the end of Yukiko’s castle. Then, the changes to the timeline become apparent, and things slowly start spinning out of control.

** The hidden issues and problems of the Investigation Team members are expended upon, and their shadow selves use them to mercilessly tormenr their counterparts.

* AdaptationExpansion: Some aspects of locations that already existed in canon are expanded upon in this story, especially due to Labrys being more somewhat more curious and adventurous than Yu, not to mention somewhat more willing to ask questions about the world around herself. For example, during one of her visits to the Velvet Room, Labrys asks about the music and singing that’s always in the background. Igor and Margaret then reveal that Nameless and Belladonna are the ones responsible for it, which reveals that they both exist in this story.

* WhatIf: The whole premise of this story is basically: “What-if Labrys was the main character of Persona 4 instead of Yu Narukami?

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. In one chapter, it’s revealed that Izanami’s status as a deity grants her some kind of cosmic awareness, and she seems to have some degree of MediumAwareness. [[BreakingTheFourthWall She decides to directly address the reader]], but she doesn’t try to attack them or anything like that. Instead, she warns the reader that they too can fall into their own fog of lies in real-life and deceive themselves if they aren’t careful. She also explains that she’s been aware of the reader ''since they first started reading the prologue''. And lastly, she ominously foreshadows some future things to come in the story before departing to pay Labrys a visit]].

* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] a few times in the story by people who talk about how Labrys sees the world. From her point of view, she’s spend most of her life in a lab or sealed away, so even a small town as boring or dull as Inaba looks like heaven from her point of view, especially compared to how crappy her life was like before she cam to Inaba. From Labrys’s point of view, everything in Inaba is fresh and exciting, because she doesn’t really know anything better than that.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: During the fight against Shadow Yosuke and Shadow Labrys, both Yosuke and Teddie learn the truth about Labrys’s past and they both swear to keep it a secret. At the time of this writing, they’re the only members of the Investigation Team who know about Labrys’s true nature]].

* MindRape: [[spoiler: Shadow Labrys did this to Shadow Yosuke by trapping him in an illusion where his perception of time was immensely accelerated, turning seconds into minutes, then minutes into hours, then hours into days, then days into weeks, then weeks into months, then months into years, an so on. It drove him insane with rage and almost destroyed his mind too. When he escaped the illusion due to Labrys accepting her shadow, he was ''not'' happy]].

* HeadTurningBeauty: Like their canon counterparts, both Labrys and Yukiko are this. It’s somewhat less visible for Yukiko since she’s been around longer, but when Labrys first shows up at school in her “Yura Narukami” guise, it’s heavily implied that about 90% of the boys (and even some girls) can’t help but stare at her when they first see her, to which Labrys is of course [[ObliviousToLove completely oblivious about]]. Chie even jokes that she wouldn’t be surprised to see a “Narukami” challenge pop up in a similar vein to Yukiko’s “Amagi challenge” in the future.