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Phantom Thieves
In General
- Elemental Powers: While this is a given due to how Persona works, each member of the team has elements of their elemental powers effect everyday life.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: We have an energetic but unconfident gymnast, an Eccentric Artist, a popular eSports gamer, a young, cat-themed hall monitor with big dreams, an honors student turned depressed shut-in, the child of two socialites, and a mysterious track star all being lead by the former heiress of a massive food company and her jerkass crow pet.
Haru Okurmura/Lucky
Arcana: 0. Le Mat (The Fool)
Personas: Eurydice, Tyche, Atropos
Lucky strike
The former heiress of the Okurmura Foods legacy, her life ends up getting turned upside down after a faithful encounter with a man in the street, forcing her to relocate schools to Shujin and to carve a new path for herself.- Born Lucky: She's noted to have great luck, hence her code name.
- Caring Gardener: She still has an interest in gardening, just like in canon, and is just as sweet. In fact, her version of the Velvet Room is a garden.
- Groin Attack: The plot starts with her kicking Kamoshida in the groin.
- I Have No Son!: After getting put on probation, she ended up getting more or less disowned from the Okurmura Foods legacy.
- Unishment: The creators have described how Haru views her probation as this as shown in this Retrospring
, as her dad is more or less out of her life, as is her abusive spouse, and she instead is under the care of Sojiro.Jazzy: i def think she finds her new life way warmer and more meaningful than her previous one!
Sumire Yoshizawa/Spark
Arcana: VII. Le Chariot (The Chariot)
Weapons: Electric Parasols and Bricks.
Personas: Raijū, Cerberus, Anubis
Danger! High voltage!
- Adaptational Early Appearance: While Sumire was technically part of the story of Persona 5 Royal for a long while as Kasumi, she appears as her true self far earlier than in canon
- Affectionate Nickname: She often gives people she likes the nickname of "Senpai" or "(X)-senpai", much to Akechi's annoyance.Sumire: We've tried all of our plans of attack, Crow-senpai!
Akechi: It's just Crow! - Always Someone Better: How she feels about Kasumi, with the latter being far more successful.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Sumire is often depicted as doing rather weird things, like calling Akechi senpai even outside of the Metaverse (much to her sister's confusion) and believing that Dead Lobster could carry on the team's legacy should they all die in a Palace.
- In-Series Nickname: She is often referred to as "Sumi" by other characters.
- Shock and Awe: Due to being in Ryuji's place, she uses Electric skills instead of Bless ones.
Goro Akechi/Crow
Arcana: I. Le Bateleur (The Magician)
Weapons: Scythes and Crossbows.
Personas: Morrigan, Crowley, Hereward
Any way the wind blows
A mysterious crow-like human who Haru and Sumire save from Madarame's Palace. In the real world, he's an actual crow, who is allowed residence in LeBlanc after a bit of convincing, provided he stays out of sight of the customers.- Adaptational Jerkass: In base Persona 5, while Akechi was a villain, he at least hid under a polite facade. Here, he's far ruder thanks to him exploiting the fact that no one other than the Phantom Thieves can hear him.
- Berserk Button: While he's an all-around jerk, Word of God says he's especially a jerk to Maruki.
- Body Horror: His Velvet Room design has him become a bloody corpse, symbolizing how he doesn't feel like he should be alive anymore.
- Blow You Away: He uses Wind skills due to being in Morgana's place.
- Clever Crows: Takes on a crow form while in the real world, with his metaverse form having a distinct crow Animal Motif, and he serves as the guide to the Metaverse just like Morgana in canon.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He has a primarily black color scheme and uses scythes in combat, but he's firmly one of the good guys.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Zig-zagged. He takes the form of a crow in the real world, and his code name in the Metaverse (where he's a human) is also Crow.
- Flying Saucer: The form he takes in the Mementos is a UFO, instead of Morgana turning into a van.
- Head Pet: Is often depicted as being in Haru's hair while in the real world.
- New Game Plus: Both Akira and Crow are from the canonical Persona 5 timeline who had been shifted into a new timeline where things are different and swapped around.
- Not So Above It All: The concept art of Haru's LeBlanc attic room shows one where Crow is easily bribed to helping Haru via Featherman merch.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes just like in canon, with his crow form's eyes being pure red, and he's a massive jerk.
- Trauma Button: He doesn't take the fact that his mom being alive and well in this timeline, one where he was never born, that greatly.
Yusuke Kitagawa/Plume
Arcana: VI. L'Amoureux (The Lovers)
Personas: Oshichi, Kikuri-Hime, Suzaku
Après Moi, Le Déluge
A famous artist underneath Madarame's tutelage, and attends Shujin in this AU.- Adaptational Nice Guy: The entire situation involving him wanting to paint Ann nude is Adapted Out, with the creators of the fic detesting the scene.
- Birds of a Feather: With Sumire, with both of them bonding over being outcasts in middle school.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the changes in the AU, Yusuke is more or less the same, albeit attending Shujin instead of Kosei.
- Irony: In canon, Shadow Madarame had a peacock Animal Motif. Here, Yusuke's the one with the peacock Animal Motif.
- Meaningful Name: His codename, Plume, has three different meanings:
- A plume is another name for a bird's feather, referencing his peacock Animal Motif.
- A plume is also a type of fire, referencing his Playing with Fire powers he has in this universe.
- Finally, a nom de plume is another term for a pen name, referencing that Madarame took credit for his work.
- Starving Artist: Subverted. He used to be this, but he ended up making money thanks to commissions from Futaba and money from Metaverse trips.
Futaba Isshiki/Idle
Arcana: IV. L'Empereur (The Emperor)
Weapons: Mallets and Rocket Launchers
Personas: MYDOOM, Sputnik1, ELIZA
GG NO RE
A particularly famous eSports gamer who plays for a team known as AFK. Unlike in canon, she is far more energetic and outspoken from the get-go thanks to her mom being Spared by the Adaptation, and she is a front line fighter instead of being in a supporting role.
Unlike a large majority of the other Persona users, hers are much more modern in origin. Her first Persona is Mydoom, a Computer Virus first seen in 2004, and became the fastest-spreading one in history, a record that it still holds to this day.
Her second Persona is Sputnik 1, the first man made object in space, created by the USSR and launched in 1957.
Her final Persona is ELIZA, an early computer program meant to test communication between humans and machines first created in 1964.
- Adaptational Badass: In canon, she's a Support Party Member. Here, she's an active combatant, using a massive hammer and a rocket launcher.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Due to her Adaptational Angst Downgrade, and thus lacking her hikikomori phase, she is far more socially active from the start.
- An Ice Person: She uses Ice skills instead of Yusuke.
- Small Girl, Big Gun: One of the smallest and youngest members of the Phantom Thieves whose weapons are a hammer just as big as her and a rocket launcher.
- Shout-Out: Her outfit as Idle inexplicably has a red Crewmate as a chest insignia.
Morgana Amamiya/Twist
Arcana: II. La Papesse (The Priestess)
Personas: Babel, Seraph, Adam
I said no running
A thirteen-year old 1st year at Shujin who skipped grades due to his intelligence and primarily works as a hall monitor.- Animal Motif: Cats, similar to canon.
- Badass Adorable: He's only a 13-year old hall monitor in this AU, but he managed to skip grades to his first year of high school due to his intelligence, and he eventually becomes a Persona user.
- Baby Of The Bunch: He's by far the youngest of the Phantom Thieves at only 13 years old.
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: He glows in the dark according to
Word of God. - Conveniently an Orphan: His parents died in a van crash when he was a baby.
- Shorter Means Smarter: He's the shortest member of the group (discounting Akechi's crow form), and he's smart enough to skip to high school despite being 13.
Makoto Nijima/Queen
Arcana: IX. L'Hermite (The Hermit)
Weapons: N/A
Personas: Ophelia, Rapunzel, Vivian
Lifeguard on duty
The younger sister of the prosecutor Sae Nijima and a former honors student who fell into a deep depression after the latter's death due to the fact that she believes it to be all her fault.- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: As she takes the role of Futaba, she starts the story extremely depressed due to the death of a close family member (in this case, her sister Sae).
- Adaptational Personality Change: Due to Adaptational Angst Upgrade, Makoto is far more despondent than her canonical self.
- Perpetual Frowner: Has been shown frowning in every drawing of her so far. Not surprising, considering what she's gone through.
- Wild Hair: Due to her self-neglect, her hair has become far longer and unkempt. Subverted after the events of her palace, as Haru convinces her to cut it.
Akira Kurusu/Rook
Arcana: III. L'Imperatrice (The Empress)
Weapons: Sword Canes and Playing Cards
Personas: Le Horla, D'Artagnan, Raoul
Checkmate
The son of Fumiko and Atsuto Kurusu, two socialites who own a modeling company who forcibly engage him to Mika against his will in spite of him not being romantically interested in woman. He secretly works at LeBlanc in his spare time to get away from his family, teaches Haru about infiltration tools and seemingly knows more than he lets on…- Adaptational Sexuality: In Persona 5, Akira could date any of the female confidants. Here, he's explicitly gay, with his Arranged Marriage with Mika resulting in an Incompatible Orientation.
- New Game Plus: Both Akira and Crow are from the canonical Persona 5 timeline who had been shifted into a new timeline where things are different and swapped around.
Ann Takamaki/Vixen (Unmarked Spoilers)
Arcana: VIII. La Justice (Justice)
Personas: Daphne, Medusa, Persephone
That's all, folks
A famous TV star and model and a student at Kosei, she is secretly a murderer, going after Kamoshida's associates and killing them using the Metaverse as revenge for him driving Mishima and Shiho to suicide.- Adaptational Sexuality: In Persona 5, she was one of the possible romance options for Joker. Here, she had a mutual crush on Shiho that she couldn't act on.
- Broken Ace: She's a TV Star, a model and a star student at Kosei, but she's deeply hurting due to her friends getting Driven to Suicide.
- Evil vs. Evil: Unlike who she replaces, she doesn't work for Shido's replacement Kamoshida. Instead, she wants to kill him and everyone he's associated with.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Believes that causing a mental shutdown to everyone who wrongs her or those she cares about is the best case of action, and believes that the Phantom Thieves' ideas of justice is stupid.
- Tragic Keepsake: The author's third semester design for Ann shows her to be wearing Shiho's Varsity jacket. Her real Phantom thief outfit and regular outfit before the third semester also has some accessories that are reminiscent of what Shiho wears as well such as Shiho's hair scrunchie.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She wants to avenge the deaths of Mishima and Shiho, but goes way too far to do so.
Ryuji Sakamoto/Citrine
Arcana: La Foi (The Faith)
- Walking Spoiler: Due to taking Sumire's role in the story, who was already this in canon, next to nothing has been revealed about him beyond his code name and Arcana.
Palace Rulers
In General
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: There are four male Palace Rulers (Madarame, Kobawakawa, Atsuto and Kamoshida) and four female ones (Nanami, Makoto, Fumiko and Wakaba).
Ichiryuusai Madarame
Sin: Greed
The first major target, Madarame is an art teacher at Shujin Academy as "charity work" who forces his students to work past their breaking points without any regard to their health or self-esteem.His palace, just like in canon, is a massive, gaudy art museum, albeit themed more around wax sculptures rather than just paintings that's based on his run down atelier. Also just like in canon, his treasure is a painting, revealed to be the original, unaltered Sayuri piece.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He is the first palace ruler instead of the second, and thus appears earlier than in canon.
- Adaptational Job Change: He works as an art teacher at Shujin instead of working by himself.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite being the first target instead of the second, as well as working at Shujin, there isn't much that changes about Madarame's crimes or palace.
- Villain Has a Point: As shown by this post, even Haru admits that he has a point when his shadow insults her father.Shadow Madarame: Okumura? As in, the slimy, snivelling, conniving, sour-faced, unscrupulous, bootlicking Okumura?
Haru: I see you're well acquainted.
Shadow Madarame: (Laughs) I like this one!
Shun Nanami
Sin: Wrath
The second major target and the first one original to the fic. Akiko is the manager of AFK, the eSports team that Futaba Sakura is a part of. She views her team as nothing but sources of income, and is always ready to stage scandals to get rid of anyone on the team if they do something wrong. ——
- Original Character: The first palace ruler who's original to the story.
- Shout-Out: She shares her last name with Chaiki Nanami.
Principal Kobayakawa
Shadow Makoto (Makoto Nijima)
Sin: Sloth
Boss: Leviathan
The fourth major target. Similar to Shadow Futaba in canon, she's a manifestation of the Survivor's Guilt and self-hatred due to the death of her sister Sae Nijima. She has fallen into a deep depression to the point where she can't bring herself to take care of herself, letting herself slowly die. Boss: Leviathan
Her palace takes the form of an abandoned lighthouse that has its water level slowly rising. Her treasure in the real world is a Buchimaru doll that Sae gave her, while the Metaverse equivalent is currently unknown.
- Kraken and Leviathan: Cognitive Sae, similar to Cognitive Wakaba in canon, takes the form of a Beast with a Human Face, in this case a leviathan.
- Rise to the Challenge: Her palace is flooding with water as time passes, representing Makoto's declining health.
Fumiko and Atsuto Kurusu
Sin: Pride
The fifth (and technically sixth) targets. The owners of a massive fashion company and Akira's parents, they see their models as nothing more than dolls they can mold into perfect people, especially their son. Their palace takes the form of a dollhouse filled with wind-up toys, while their treasure is currently unknown.
- Abusive Parents: Both of them force Akira into an Arranged Marriage with Mika despite Akira being gay, and they force him into various modeling jobs just for the sake of money. To emphasize this, Cognitive Akira is an unnaturally perfect doll in a box.
- Cosmic Motifs: They, along with their palace, have a heavy sun and moon motif, best shown in cognitive Ann's design.
- Dual Boss: Uniquely, they share a palace due to the fact they have the same distorted desires that can be traced back to the same object.
- For Want Of A Nail: From the author and artists' words on twitter, the Kurusu's aren't too different from their original timeline selves that Akira knew and is familiar with. In this story, Akira's fame as a model and their modelling agency gaining fame and prestige caused them to be greedier than their original selves and turn them into Palace rulers in this story.
- O.C. Stand-in: Almost nothing is known about Akira's parents in canon, and Word of God says that how the Kurusu's are depicted here are more or less how the author and artist interpret them in canon, albeit eviler.
- Original Character: Like Shun Nanami, they're both original to the story.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Kunikazu Okumura in canon. They share the role of the 5th palace ruler, are the abusive bosses of a big company, want to marry their child off for the sake of money, and they don't see their employees as human in the palace itself.
- Toy Time: Their palace takes the form of a dollhouse, with the models of their agency being the dolls inside.
Wakaba Isshiki
Sin: Envy
The sixth major target, Wakaba is Futaba's mother and take the place of Sae Nijima as the interrogator of Haru. She requests that Haru should take her heart to prevent her research of cognitive pscience from consuming her life. Her palace takes the form of a maze-like dungeon, with her research being the loot and her being the protector. Her real treasure is more specifically her thesis statement about the matter.
- Anti-Villain: Even more so than Sae in canon, as she's more or less forced into interrogating Haru, and is far more upbeat than who she replaces.
- Black Knight: Shadow Wakaba takes the form of one, equipped with a massive shield as her main weapon.
- Composite Character: Is still Futaba's mother and is a cognitive pscience researcher, but also takes Sae's role as the prosecutor of the protagonist as well as the sixth palace rulers.
- For Science!: Wants Haru to explore her palace for the sake of expanding her knowledge on cognitive science.
- Token Good Teammate: The second nicest palace ruler after Makoto. She requests that Haru explores her palace For Science!, and she's far more upbeat than Sae, the person she replaces.
Suguru Kamoshida
Sin: Lust
Confidants
XV - The Devil
Jin Akechi
A mysterious but friendly waitress of Crossroads who always seems to know what's going on.
- Ascended Extra: In canon, she was already dead as a part of Akechi's Dark and Troubled Past. Here, she replaces Ohya as the Devil confidant.
- O.C. Stand-in: Because of the lack of info about her an canon, most of the details about her were made up by the fic.
- What If?: Word of God has said that she has a role in this story as a What If scenario. In this case, it's answering the question of "What if Akechi's mother never had Akechi with Shido and what would happen to her?"
XVI - The Tower
Nozomi Akechi
A quiet and unusual child who doesn't hesitate to speak her mind. Enjoys drawing and birds
Jin Akechi's daughter.
- Original Character: She's entirely original to the plot, with no real equivelent in the original story.
XVII - The Moon
Kasumi Yoshizawa
Sumire's sister, who's also a gymnast like her.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She's alive and well in this AU.
