History FanFic / DearOldDad

Except Akechi only learns this right before the confrontation in Shido's Palace. HilarityEnsues.

* PlayedForLaughs in regards to Joker; his sleeping with all the Phantom Thieves plus Akechi (except Morgana) gets him in hot water with Makoto in light of the revelation that most of them are half-siblings via Shido. While he genuinely didn't know and did some research to be sure that he ''isn't'' related to them, Joker's attempts to explain himself still [[DiggingYourselfDeeper get him into more trouble]].

* AdaptationalJerkass: Whereas canonically the Phantom Thieves are firmly [[ThouShaltNotKill against murder]] no matter how vile their targets are, here the Phantom Thieves are fully on board with killing Shido, Makoto outright acknowledging that what they're doing is murder, they just don't care at this point, and if anything thinks killing one person is offset by the countless people they've saved. {{Justified|Trope}} via the fact that, with the exceptions of Joker and Morgana, ''all'' of the Phantom Thieves are his bastard children, leaving them with heavy emotional baggage as a result of both his being their father and the crap he put their mothers through, giving them more than enough reason to make an exception to their no killing rule.

* BeyondRedemption: Shido is viewed this way by every Phantom Thief, and will be killed by them as a result.

* GoodStepmother: Or more specifically step-''father'' in the cases of characters with canonical fathers replaced by Shido, such as Ann and Makoto. This does ''not'' include Haru, who rightly believes that regardless of her biological ties to him or Shido, Kunikazu Okumura still would have abused her either way.
* HateSink: While Shido was a sociopathic bastard in canon, but here, he's responsible for pimping out, raping, and ruining the lives of many women, siring most of the Phantom Thieves out of wedlock. He was also an [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]] to Ryuji's mother, the one woman he was married to, and regularly cheated on her when he wasn't treating her like a political prop. By the end of the story, all of the Phantom Thieves decide to just kill him instead of [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood changing his heart]], and even Akechi chose to side with the Phantom Thieves and go along with their [[TakingTheHeat proposed plan]] out of sheer disgust towards Shido's atrocities.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Akechi seems to be genuinely horrified when he [[HeelRealization realizes]] his murder of Wakaba Isshiki inflicted the exact same circumstances of his awful upbringing upon Futaba.

* YouKilledMyFather: Unlike the other Phantom Thieves, who sympathize with Akechi to a degree, Futaba hates Akechi's guts for murdering her mother, Wakaba Isshiki, to vent his own misery over losing his mother (and thus being directly responsible for Futaba becoming a {{Hikikomori}} in-game). She outright tells Akechi he's lucky the other Phantom Thieves convinced her not to kill him herself or, worse, tell [[PapaWolf Sojiro]], who would have no qualms over poisoning him.

* AdaptationalKarma: Akechi in ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'' offers to [[TakingTheHeat be arrested in place of Joker]] in penance for his own sins, [[KarmaHoudini only to be mysteriously let out of prison later]] with no explanation given, with the entire thing being revealed to be part of a LotusEaterMachine Joker was put in. Here, Akechi still lets himself be arrested (though this time it's part of a plan the Phantom Thieves came up for him), except this time it ''sticks'', and in addition, he has to stay far away from [=LeBlanc=] to avoid facing retribution from an angry Futaba (or her father [[PapaWolf Sojiro]]) for murdering Wakaba out of spite.

* AdaptationalSexuality:
** Joker in canon only liked girls, with the option of being very conscientious about the girls he dates should the player go that route. Here, save for Morgana, he slept with ''all'' of the Phantom Thieves, male and female alike. However, this lands him in hot water with Makoto in light of the revelation that [[RelatedInTheAdaptation most of the Phanthom Thieves are half-siblings through Shido]], causing Makoto to believe he committed BrotherSisterIncest with them.
** Shido here had sex with multiple women via coercion, pimping, and other means, siring most of the Phanthom Thieves, whereas in the game, his only sexual escapade was with a prostitute who birthed Akechi.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Whereas canonically the Phantom Thieves are firmly [[ThouShaltNotKill against murder]] no matter how vile their targets are, here the Phantom Thieves are fully on board with kill Shido, Makoto outright acknowledging that what they're doing is murder, they just don't care at this point, and if anything thinks killing one person is offset by the countless people they've saved. {{Justified|Trope}} via the fact that, with the exceptions of Joker and Morgana, ''all'' of the Phantom Thieves are his bastard children, leaving them with heavy emotional baggage as a result of both his being their father and the crap he put their mothers through, giving them more than enough reason to make an exception to their no killing rule.

* DramaticIrony: The fic ends with the agreement that Akechi will {{tak|ingTheHeat}}e the heat for murdering Shido, and that in exchange he gets to join his half-siblings and Joker in their revenge killing of Shido, thinking it will be over with that. As anyone who played the game will know however, ''it's not'', as [[spoiler:Yaldabaoth is still a problem, and if anything is even ''more'' dangerous since they're ''actually'' killing Shido, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom making his job of turning the public against him all the easier]].]]

* AdaptationalKarma: Akechi in ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'' offers to [[TakingTheHeat be arrested in place of Joker]] in penance for his own sins, [[KarmaHoudini only to be mysteriously let out of prison later]] with no explanation given, with the entire thing being revealed to be part of a LotusEaterMachine Joker was put in. Here, Akechi still lets himself be arrested (though this time it's part of a plan the Phantom Thieves came up for him), except this time it ''sticks'', and in addition he has to stay far away from [=LeBlanc=] to avoid facing retribution from an angry Futaba (or her father [[PapaWolf Sojiro]]) for murdering Wakaba out of spite.

* BrotherSisterIncest: What horrifies both Akechi and Makoto is the possibility of Joker being related to the Phantom Thieves through Shido, since that would mean he slept with ''all'' of his half-siblings (including Yusuke and Ryuji). Thankfully, Joker makes it explicitly clear that he isn't related to Shido because the man wasn't in the same continent when he was born, and that he double-checked just to make sure.

--> '''Ryuji:''' Alright, then. ''([[DramaticGunCock grabs his shotgun and cocks it)'' Who's ready for a family reunion?

* ASharedSuffering: What got Akechi to pull a HeelFaceTurn and drop his poorly-thought-out revenge scheme was discovering most of the Phantom Thieves were Shido's children, and that they suffered at his hands both directly and indirectly. Ryuji in particular is Shido's only legitimate child, with his situation being the most similar to Akechi's.

--> '''Akechi:''' ''(bowing his head in shame)'' I deserved that.\\

** Shido is Ryuji's biological father [[RelatedInTheAdaptation here]], and was emotionally abusive to the latter during the time he was married. Ryuji recalls trying to [[WellDoneSonGuy gain Shido's approval]] as a child, only to move on it once he realized Shido would never love him due to his [[{{Narcissist}} inflated ego]]. He even notes that things "looked up" after Shido divorced his mother.

* AbusiveParents: In addition to his canonical horrific treatment of Akechi, Shido is also Ryuji's abusive DisappearedDad, drove his daughter Futaba into becoming a suicidally-depressed {{Hikikomori}} to cover his own ass, and has planned to (and tried to) kill all his bastard children. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Ryuji]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Zigzagged - the Phantom Thieves have issues, but are all unambiguously decent people. Akechi and Shido are both parts of said family, however, and the latter in particular provides all of the "screwed up" part that is needed.

** Ann was conceived via DateRape - her mother had just started her model career and she took "skeevy" jobs like burlesque dancing just to make extra money. Shido offered her a drugged drink, and she doesn't remember anything other than waking up in a hotel room and finding out she was pregnant. Seeing Shido's face all over the TV is what triggered her memory and caused her to realize that Shido raped her. Fortunately, her husband - Ann's stepfather - was supportive and helped raise their illegitimate child.

* EvilCounterpart: Shido is this to Joker/Akira. Both are charismatic individuals, except Shido is a sociopathic BadBoss with a ginormous ego outside of his generous public persona, while Joker is friends with the Phantom Thieves and is a criminal with a good heart. Shido had sex with numerous women and wasn't above ruining their lives without a shred of remorse, and was also an abusive husband to the one woman he ''was'' married to once upon a time. Joker is a ChivalrousPervert who slept with all of the Phantom Thieves, but was a very considerate partner and never pressured them into sex.

* SerialRapist: Shido, simply by virtue of having explicitly raped or sexually extorted at least six different women. See ChildByRape above.

* TheSociopath: As in canon, Shido is this. While projecting a generous front towards the public, he actually sees himself as the only person worthy of leading Japan, looks down on everyone else (including his subordinates), uses and disposes of people like tissue paper, and refuses to accept responsibility for anything that might hold him back from his goal. Here, he was a DomesticAbuser to his ex-wife, Ryuji's mother, and ruined the lives of many other women - siring most of the Phantom Thieves through them - without a shred of remorse. Ryuji even compares [[WellDoneSonGuy trying to get Shido's approval]] to "trying to fill a barrel without a bottom", as Shido is so self-absorbed that he considers anything that ''wasn't'' done by him to be trash.

** Shido is Ryuji's biological father [[RelatedInTheAdaptation here]], and was emotionally abusive to the latter during the time he was married. Ryuji recalls trying to [[WellDoneSoneGuy gain Shido's approval]] as a child, only to move on it once he realized Shido would never love him due to his [[{{Narcissist}} inflated ego]]. He even notes that things "looked up" after Shido divorced his mother.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Save for Morgana and Joker, all of the Phantom Thieves are Shido's children, whether by rape or by marriage. In particular, Ryuji's name was originally "Shido Ryuji", but changed his name to "Sakamoto Ryuji" since Shido agreed to divorce his mother on the condition that his son change his name and keep his heritage a secret.

* EveryoneHasStandards: And they all collectively decided [[BeyondRedemption Shido]]'s [[HatedByAll crossed the line]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: Futaba angrily rips Akechi a new one for killing her mother just because he felt like a "cursed child" and decided he should make others miserable for it. She even tells Akechi she's still in favor of killing him, and that he should be glad no one told [[PapaWolf Sojiro]] about what happened. Akechi admits he deserved that, and the otherwise sympathetic Ryuji agrees with him.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The fanfic makes Shido the father of most of the Phantom Thieves, whether through [[ChildByRape rape]] or marriage, in turn making them half-siblings.

** As vile as Shido was in canon, he was never shown to have attempted rape or sexual assault beyond the incident that got the Protagonist put on probation. Here he's an out-and-out SerialRapist. He also was an [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]] during the time he was married to Ryuji's mother.

* BrotherSisterIncest: What horrifies Akechi is the possibility of Joker being related to the Phantom Thieves through Shido, since that would mean he slept with ''all'' of his half-siblings (including Yusuke and Ryuji). Thankfully, Joker makes it explicitly clear that he isn't related to Shido because the man wasn't in the same continent when he was born, and that he double-checked just to make sure.
* CartoonishSupervillainy: Shido is upgraded to this. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Akechi]] [[EveryoneHasStandards outright feels faint when he learns how much he screwed everyone over]] and does a HeelFaceTurn and EnemyMine with his former teammates to kill him.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Futaba angrily rips Akechi a new one for killing her mother just because he felt like a "cursed child" and decided he should make others miserable for it. She even tells Akechi she's still in favor of killing him, and that he should be glad no one told [[PapaWolf Sojiro]] about what happened. Akechi admits he deserved that, and Ryuji agrees with him.

'''Ryuji:''' Yeah you kinda do.

* SexualExtortion: Shido forced Futaba's mother Wakaba Isshiki to sleep with him under threat of sabotaging her research, or making her leave the cognitive psience division of research.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Akechi survives as the Thieves plan for him to [[TakingTheHeat take the fall]] for killing Shido.

* WhatTheHellHero: Makoto is ''furious'' with Joker because of the possibility of him being related to the Phantom Thieves (he isn't) in light of most of them being half-siblings, which in hindsight would have made their flings with him BrotherSisterIncest. Not to mention, Joker also slept with Akechi, who murdered a lot of people and screwed over the Phantom Thieves severely.

* {{Corpsing}}: When Akechi tells the Thieves that he's (also) Shido's son, Joker is left struggling not to laugh. Yusuke explains that it's Joker's way of reacting to shock, but nonetheless [[DudeNotFunny everyone is not amused]].

* ArchnemesisDad: As in canon, Shido is [[BigBad the last enemy]] the Phantom Thieves must face. Except this time around, the reasons behind it are ''much'' more personal, since almost all of the Phantom Thieves are Shido's biological children and have suffered through hell thanks to the absolutely horrendous things the man had done to their mothers.