History Fanfic / TheAFRUniverse

** When Mitsuru pulls out a photo showing the Phantom Thieves of Heart during their televised calling card to Shido when asking Futaba if there isn't anybody she'd go to any extreme to protect, Futaba lets out a BigWhat and after stammering a "That's not...I don't" (which Mitsuru clearly doesn't believe), Futaba points at Makoto's silhoutte and says "I guess I see the resemblance a little, but that's not me". Mitsuru responds with "Of course not. That is." while pointing at Futaba's silhouette and tells her "Before you claim otherwise, I will remind you that I saw you wearing this outfit when you summoned your Persona." prompting Futaba to respond with "Oh...right."

* TimeStandsStill: The Shadow Operatives have a special box that allows them to recreate the Dark Zone in a given area so they can use it to grab Futaba. The fact that it has the properties of the actual Metaverse allows Futaba to go into her Phantom Thief outfit and summon Prometheus to make her getaway. Her hitting the edge of the Dark Zone necessitates Aegis having to save her.

* TheCameo: A member of [[VideoGame/Persona4 the Investigation Team]] appears towards the end of "The New Adventures of Buchimaru-Kun".

* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: After getting to know Yusuke, Tae does her best to try to point the boy away from his art obsession and towards more healthy life practices.

** Makoto gets one in "Like a Buchi" when she realizes that [[spoiler: the trailer for the Buchimaru/Yakuza crossover movie is a fake created by Futaba]], and she storms out of Leblanc in such a TranquilFury that an unnerved Sojiro comes back in asking Ren what the hell he did.

-->'''Ryuji''': You mean “wouldn’t” wish it on your worst enemy, right?\\

* FreudianExcuse: "Distant Friends" gives a reason why Ryuji never says the word "fuck". It was his [[AbusiveParents dad's]] [[SirSwearsALot favorite word]]. "Everything was ‘effin’ this’ and ‘effin’ that’ and ‘you’re an effin’ waste of space’ and ‘don’t you effin’ talk back to me'." Ryuji wants nothing of his father in his life, so he censors himself on that word.

** Before their daughter is born, Ren and Makoto take in an infant girl who was recently orphaned, named Ryoko by her late mother.

** Ryuji becomes fast friends with Hifumi [[spoiler:which evolves into romantic feelings, and eventually marriage/a family]].

* OfficialCouple: [[FanPreferredCouple Ren and Makoto]] are romantically involved in this series. As of "Boys and Queens", Ryuji and Hifumi are dating as well. [[spoiler:Seven years later, the two are married with a child]].

** In ''Okamura Power Lifting'', rattling chains are heard, prompting Joker and Queen to share concerned looks and declare the mission over [[spoiler: remembering when they had to flee from the Reaper in an earlier story.]]

* RageBreakingPoint: Makoto has a hard time adjusting to living with Morgana in "Untenable" since they're both rather controlling people. The final push that makes Makoto address Ren directly about Morgana's behavior is when [[MemeticMutation Morgana orders them both to go to bed]].

* {{Squee}}: In "Like a Buchi", Makoto lets out a massive one when she first sees the trailer for the Buchimaru/{{Yakuza}} {{Crossover}}. She spends most of the rest of the story talking Ren's ear off about it.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Makoto delivers one of these to Futaba in "Like a Buchi" for pranking the former with a fake crossover trailer between Buchimaru and Yakuza]].
* WineIsClassy: In "Alleycat", Igor celebrates Morgana's victory by drinking red wine [[spoiler:from the Holy Grail that had once been Yaldaobath]].

* GoodCopBadCop: Sadao Niijima teaches his toddler daughter Makoto this trick while she's playing pretend as a police officer. He plays the good cop to her bad cop to interrogate her Buchimaru toy.

* MoodWhiplash: Most of the stories are slice of life stories but some such as "The Shadows Linger" can be quite serious.