History Fanfic / PersonaTheSougawaFiles

Rina Oshiro, the daughter of a wealthy family, moves to the big city of Sougawa to start a new life while living with her sister. While things seem like they're looking up, all is not well in the city, as a strange plague around the city is leaving people in happy, lackadaisical stupors. After a close call with her Shadow, Rina acquires the power of the Wild Card and forms a team called the Freedom Fighters, bent on saving those afflicted with the Shadow disease and defeating the machinations of crime lord [[BigBad Noboyuki Itou]], the old man who controls the Shadow Syndicate and seems to rule Sougawa.

Rina Oshiro, the daughter of a wealthy family, moves to the big city of Sougawa to start a new life while living with her sister. While things seem like they're looking up, all is not well in the city, as a strange plague around the city is leaving people in happy, lackadaisical stupors. After a close call with her Shadow, Rina acquires the power of the Wild Card and forms a team called the Freedom Fighters, bent on saving those afflicted with the Shadow disease and defeating the machinations of crime lord [[BigBad Noboyuki Itou]], the old man who controls the shadows and seems to rule Sougawa.

Rina Oshiro, the daughter of a wealthy family, moves to the big city of Sougawa to start a new life while living with her sister. While things seem like they're looking up, all is not well in the city, as a strange plague around the city is leaving people in happy, lackadaisical stupors. After a close call with her Shadow, Rina acquires the power of the Wild Card and forms a team called the Freedom Fighters, bent on saving those afflicted with the Shadow disease.

** Despite their orientations being unclear, Rina and Wilma have fairly intimate gestures that can come off as a little more than just friendly touching. WordOfGod is even that Wilma has a crush on Rina - even if Rina sees her as more of a big sister.

** Rina and Kazuki is teased right out of the gate and picks up steam with each chapter they're both present in. In their first chapter, Rina outright admits that she finds him attractive in the looks department, and she's forced to play the part of "Lovestruck Admirer" in their improv session. In Chapter 42, when she meets up with him again, Kazuki says that something about Rina is special, and the two even act somewhat flustered towards each other at the end. Arsene even ''mocks'' this in the April Fools chapter, with her stating to Rina that there are plenty of other romance options... only for Rina to point out she made it incredibly obvious the two will hook up eventually. They hold hands several times, and Rina even asks her sister how to tell if she "likes" someone, obviously referring to Kazuki.

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Inverted. The female party members' issues have included [[spoiler:]]. The worst male one is [[spoiler:Kazuki feeling trapped by criminals.]]

* BeneathTheMask: Shadows show the true feelings people hide when they feel trapped, like Shadow Rina’s desire to have true friends and Hikaru’s depression over being unable to be a hero.

* SwitchingPOV: In Chapter 51, at the amusement park, the perspective briefly shifts to Wilma and then Izumi. Each of them get a brief segment to themselves before it switches back to Rina.

* AnAesop: If you feel like you’re trapped, there is always a way out. You just have to find it. And you may not be able to find it on your own.

* BigBad: A man named "Nobuyuki Itou".

* PrecisionFStrike: F-bombs are rather rare in this fic, which makes it much more impactful when Shadow Izumi starts dropping them. Shadow Ryouichi drops one as well.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most of the adults here fall under this, with some good examples being Rina’s sister Furuta and Principal Kaii.

** Rina and Kazuki is teased right out of the gate and picks up steam with each chapter they're both present in. In their first chapter, Rina outright admits that she finds him attractive in the looks department, and she's forced to play the part of "Lovestruck Admirer" in their improv session. In Chapter 42, when she meets up with him again, Kazuki says that something about Rina is special, and the two even act somewhat flustered towards each other at the end. Arsene even ''mocks'' this in the April Fools chapter, with her stating to Rina that there are plenty of other romance options... only for Rina to point out she made it incredibly obvious the two will hook up eventually.

* VillainEpisode: Downplayed. Chapters 20 and 34 have brief glimpses of the main villain, whose identity is confirmed in the latter chapter.

** Rina and Kazuki is teased right out of the gate and picks up steam with each chapter they're both present in. In their first chapter, Rina outright admits that she finds him attractive in the looks department, and she's forced to play the part of "Lovestruck Admirer" in their improv session. In Chapter 42, when she meets up with him again, Kazuki says that something about Rina is special, and the two even act somewhat flustered towards each other at the end.

* ShoutOut: In Chapter 3, there’s a passing joke meant to invoke [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting Bob Ross.]]

* PublicDomainCharacter: The Personas are all this, taken from epic hero stories, such as Gilgamesh or Odysseus.

* PrecisionFStrike: F-bombs are rather rare in this fic, which makes it much more impactful when Shadow Izumi starts dropping them. Shadow Ryouichi drops some as well.

* PrecisionFStrike: F-bombs are rather rare in this fic, which makes it much more impactful when Shadow Izumi starts dropping them.

* ItCantBeHelped: How the Freedom Fighters not helping innocents are justified. They’re not exactly heroes; they can’t go butting into other people’s business, and they’re just high school students. Far too many people are infected by Shadows for them to stop while also maintaining normal lives. None of the team is really happy with it, but they do what they can.