Fanfic / Arc Phantoms

Arc Phantoms is a Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V and Persona 5 crossover fanfic written by Green_Phantom_Queen. Taking place after Yuto's duel with Sylvio in the warehouse, Yuya and his friends obtain the ability to use Personas which they use to change the fate of the Four Dimensions.

This Work Contains Examples of

• Accomplice by Inaction: Yoko pushes Masumi into a corner for this. While she never insulted Yuya like her friends have, she never actually stopped it either.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: SMT Agni is essentially a mass of blue flames that vaguely looks humanoid. Arc Phantoms Agni looks more like his real-life counterpart.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Alexis immediately appears in the prologue whereas she doesn't arrive till Season 3. Same with Yusho.
  • Zarc appears in Chapter 4, which takes place during the aftermath of Episode 13. In the anime, Zarc appears in the endgame. Ray also makes her appearance in Chapter 16 whereas she only appears near the end of Season 3.
  • Ruri and Rin appear in Chapter 12 but they physically don't debut till, again, Season 3.
• Adaptational Karma: Not only does Leo Corp. get hit with lawsuits over their poor handling of Sylvio stealing Yuya's cards, Sylvio and his goons are expelled from Leo Duel School for the false accusation stunt.
• Adaptational Wealth: You Show gains additional funds thanks to Reiji paying them off as "apologies" for everything he did to them for the past three years.
• At the Opera Tonight: The prologue opens at an opera in Academia where Yuya attempts to kidnap Alexis.
• Bait-and-Switch: With the focus on Yuya being the Joker of the group, readers assume he'll be the first to get his Persona. Instead, it's Yuzu who gets it before him, and Yuto gets his even earlier.
• Cassandra Truth: Even after Yuto helped to create a message with Reiji over Academia invading the dimensions, not a lot of people believe them.
• Crossover: One of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V and Persona 5, but the addition of Taweret and Khonshu adds Moon Knight (2022) to the mix.^note The author notes reveal that Taweret has been in SMT games though and Khonshu recently appeared in Shin Megami Tensei V.
• Cue the Flying Pigs: When Sylvio makes a good point that Sora didn't bother to help You Show Duel School defend themselves against Reiji, Yuya and Yuzu are momentarily stunned that they agree with him and are waiting for a flying pig to pass by.
• Dirty Coward: Masumi, Hokuto, and Yaiba love talking smack about how Yuya is a piece of shit. When Yoko dares them to do it in front of her face, they can only stammer and whimper in fear.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Reiji can't do anything to stop Sylvio from pressing a lawsuit since Yuto's duel with Sylvio wasn't under LDS jurisdiction and he's currently swamped with lawsuits over his mishandling of him stealing Yuya's cards.
• The Dreaded: Yoko Sakaki is this to Masumi, Hokuto, and Yaiba, who end up looking in utter fear when Yoko reveals to have recorded Himika's ranting over buying out You Show.
• Exact Words:
  • Yuya begins the story about how he got his Persona, but Alexis points out that Yuzu got hers first. Yuya then explains to learn how he got his Persona, one has to hear about Yuzu getting hers.
  • Sylvio demands some Pendulums from You Show and a written apology for him to drop the lawsuit, specifically he wants Yuzu's new Pendulums. He also says that he can file a lawsuit for the trauma You Show gave him...the emotional trauma of being assaulted by Yuto in their duel.
• Everyone Has Standards: Reiji has little esteem for Yuya Sakaki, but even he starts worrying for Yuya's mental health when Yuya has a complete melt-down and rips off his face (aka removing his Persona mask) enough to draw blood in their duel. Masumi, Yaiba, Hokuto, and even Himika also look horrified at having pushed Yuya to his limit.
• Faints in Shock: Shuzo faints twice upon seeing Taweret.
• Females Are More Innocent: Not Masumi. Even though she didn't take part in bullying Yuya, she still looks down on You Show and never told her friends to stop being assholes.
• Foregone Conclusion: Up until Yuya is interrogated by Alexis, the reader can be assured that Yuto (who was killed and then absorbed into Yuya in canon) is safe. The same can be said for the other Phantom Thieves who are most likely the other Dimensional Counterparts (sans Yuri).
• Framing Device: Just like in Persona 5, the story takes place with Yuya being interrogated by Alexis over how he and his crew changed the hearts of people.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: Dionysus is shown drinking grape juice instead of wine, but Yuya is mentioned stumbling around as if drunk when he drinks it.
• How We Got Here: The story starts with a heist in progress taking place at an opera performance in Academia before Yuya is captured and tells his tale to Alexis.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter, outside the Prologue, is titled "Shadows in [X]" with the X being based on the focus of the chapter.
• Last-Second Word Swap: Dionysus calls Yoko a "Mother I'd Like to...Fight".
• Let's Dance: Ame-no-uzume's final words before Yuzu awakens her.
  "Let us bring the sun out of hiding. Let us not wait for a knight to save us. Say my name...and let's dance!"
• Lighter and Softer: Than Persona 5 at the very least since there are fewer corrupt jerks to deal with.
• My Little Phony: Yuya's Xyz monster, Performapal Pop Unicorn, is depicted as a unicorn with a popcorn bucket cutie mark.
• Pass the Popcorn: As Yuya explains the effects of his new monster, Performapal Pop Unicorn, the narration lampshades how Sora and Futoshi would want a bucket of popcorn to watch the chaos about to unfold.
• Point of Divergence: The Persona drastically changes the story to a great degree.
  • The summoning of Persona means that Yuya confronts his mental issues much, much sooner.
  • Yoko meets with Yuto and Shun at a soup kitchen she works in, meaning Yuto gets to see Yuzu and Yuya earlier than in canon. She also arrives in time to learn how Himika was threatening to buy out her husband's school, preparing to file a lawsuit in retaliation. Sylvio and his goons were also kicked out of Leo Duel School for their false accusation stunt.
  • Sora gets his Heel–Face Turn earlier due to Yuzu, Yuya, and Yuto beating up his shadow.
  • In the anime, Reiji vs Yuya ended in a draw because of Shun carding Professor Marco causing Reiji to cut the duel short. Because of Yoko threatening with legal action, Reiji has no choice but to let Yuya win the duel or else face Mama Yoko's wrath.
  • Instead of learning Fusion from Sora, Yuzu decides to first learn Xyz from Yuto and later gets Pendulums from Ame-no-uzume.
  • Yuzu asks her Persona to let Ruri use the teleportation powers to escape Academia. This leads to Ruri and Rin escaping Fusion and hiding out in Synchro, meaning they won't be infected with parasites and Yugo won't jump to Standard, also preventing Yuto’s death.
• Precision F-Strike: Upon learning about Reiji asking Sylvio to cause the stunt by stealing his Pendulum monsters, Yuya shouts that Reiji is going to pay with his "F***ING LIFE!"
• Rage Breaking Point: Obtaining these are usually the catalysts of getting a Persona.
  • Yuzu: Yuya being mocked by Sylvio, pushed to the side by Gongenzaka, and then seeing her father pushed to the ground by Sylvio and his goons has her tired of being a Neutral Female.
  • Yuya: Completely snaps when he hears Hokuto and Yaiba bad-mouthing his dad and Reiji's reprimanding of them is just to tell them to be quiet as it's a reminder of everything he has suffered for three years.
  • Yuto: Being hounded by three Obelisk Force goons and wanting revenge against them. On a non-Persona note, he snaps when Shadow Sora talks about all of the ways he wishes to torture him.
  • Ruri: Snapping as she finds herself surrounded by Obelisk Force soldiers and is about to be squeezed to death by an Ancient Gear Golem.
  • Shuzo: Motivated by his daughter to finally stand up against Sylvio and his stupid lawsuits and to eschew Yusho's smiling philosophy.
• Shout-Out:
  • The author admits that the code-name role call was based on the opening of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
  • Yuya/Arelquin is surrounded by soldiers with spears and escapes by imitating how Esmerelda got out of her situation.
  • Ame-no-uzume was based on Baal Zebul, even introducing herself with the same phrase Baal does.
  • When Yuya finally lets loose at Reiji, he screams "I'M A HUMAN!!!" from the climatic scene of The Elephant Man. Dionysus demands Yuya to break through his facade by shouting "Let me in. LET ME IN!!!"
  • Yoko's dressing down of all of the laws Himika broke, ending it with the phrase "And the term, big fat lawsuit" was based on the Daria episode, "Arts N' Crass".
  • Shadow Sora's palace is a walking Five Nights at Freddy's reference. During the heist, Yuzu even sings the opening lines of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Musical. Shadow Sora's punishment for Yuto is based on the story "Count the Ways".
  • Yuzu lights her bat on fire and shouts, "Break out the butter, I'm gonna make toast!"
• Title Drop: Chapter 10 has Yuya, Yuzu, and Yuto officially name themselves "Arc Phantoms".
• Waxing Lyrical: Some of the lines during the awakening of Dionysus are taken from the songs "Cult of Dionysus" from The Orion Experience and Dionysus

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