History Fanfic / TheAFRUniverse

** At the end of "Spirit of Rebellion", Futaba sends Makoto an online link to an anime she thinks Makoto would like, ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''.

** Makoto takes it very personally when [[VideoGame/Persona4 someone in an online chatroom accuses all police of being [[CorruptCop Corrupt Cops]] due to his bad experiences with police profiling]].

** Makoto takes it very personally when someone in an online chatroom accuses all police of being [[CorruptCop Corrupt Cops]] due to his bad experiences with police profiling.

** 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 {{Big What}} 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 silhoutte 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."

* BigEater: An offhand thought reveals that Haru has completed all three levels of the [[MegaMealChallenge Big Bang Burger challenge]], meaning she's been able to eat burgers nearly as large as she is.

---> Prometheus vanished. The sunlight was back. The world below had electricity again, and Futaba’s Phantom Thief outfit was gone. And also she was a hundred feet in the air, unsupported by anything, about to fall to her death, the last bit of upward momentum from Prometheus’s flight quickly draining.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: [[spoiler:Jean Takamaki, Ann's son through artificial insemination, has dark skin from his Nigerian father and blonde hair from Ann]].

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: [[spoiler:After becoming human at last, Haru took him in as a ward with the cover story that he's her late father's [[LiteralBastard illegitimate son]].]]

You can find the AFR Universe on vivvav's page in ''Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn'' [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/vivvav/pseuds/vivvav here]]. '''WARNING! The AFR Universe is set as a sequel series to ''VideoGame/Persona5'', so there will be late-game spoilers unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

To see one of vivvav's original works, see ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfAllRealms''.

* {{Fanboy}}: Serious and straight-laced Makoto Niijima is completely obsessed with the mascot character Buchimaru. When she learns the character is getting a ContinuityReboot, her personality does a 180 as she suffers "Buchifever".

* BadassBeard:
** Ryuji experimented with various styles of facial hair growing up until he settled on a soul patch he dyes blond like his hair.
** "The Shadows Linger" reveals that both [[VideoGame/Persona4 Kanji and Yosuke]] grew facial hair as well. Kanji has a short but full beard after spending weeks in the nearby mountain gathering raw materials for dyes. Yosuke currently has a goatee, though Futaba believes that it doesn't look good on him, a sentiment Labrys shares.

* ExactlyWhatIMeantToSay: While texting, Haru recounts a time when she took one of Queen's punches while she was [[StandardStatusEffects under Marin Karin]], noting how painful and scary it was and saying she would wish that on her worst enemy.

* CheatersNeverProsper: While playing the King's Game in "King of Theives", [[spoiler:Morgana realizes Ren is cheating by using his [[SixthSense Third Eye]] to pick the King stick several times in a row and exposes him. As punishment, he's locked out of their hotel room to sleep on the balcony for the rest of the night]].

* BadLiar: Ann still has a terrible time hiding her lies. When Ryuji gets suspicious about what she ate for breakfasst when they were supposed to be running together, she starts sweating and looks away from Ryuji when he (rightfully) accuses her of binging on pancakes.

* CollectiveGroan: "Dude" ends on the Phantom Thieves all groaning together [[spoiler:when Makoto doesn't answer back with "dude", failing the impromptu game they were all playing.]]

** [[spoiler:Now that Morgana is a human, a thirteen year old at that, he has officially become Haru's ward.]]

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Yoshio has taken after his father in "Rainy Day Visit", being a very loud child and aggressive to people he doesn't like. He's mellowed out as he's gotten older [[spoiler:with his little sister being far more aggresive than he ever was]].

* WigDressAccent: In the fourth short story of "The Top 5 Times Ryuji Sakamoto Fell Into a Lake", Ryuji tracks down Ren and Ann at the fishing pond dressed in heavy coats with long fake beards to try and pass themselves off as elderly men while they pig out on sweets and junk food when they shouldn't be.

* AccidentalPervert: In the fourth story of "The Top 5 Times Ryuji Sakamoto Fell Into a Lake", Ryuji realizes that Ann lied about what she ate for breakfast. When pointing out the fact that she ate pancakes when she shouldn't have, he points to a syrup stain on her chest as proof. Ann takes offense to Ryuji poking her boob and punches him, causing him to fall into the nearby pond.

** Ryuji doesn't know much about shoji, so he gets eaten alive in all ten matches against Hifumi in "Confidant Roulette".

** While playing shoji against [[spoiler:Hifumi's father]], Ryuji loses in seven turns, said to be the fastest anyone can ever lose in a game of shoji.

* DeathGlare: Iwai gives one to a shady customer [[spoiler:who tried to sell off Ryuji's present for his mother]] that has him white as a sheet and getting the hell out of Untouchable.

* FreudianExcuse: "Distant Friends" gives a reason why Ryuji never says the word "fuck". It was his [[AbusiveParents dad's]] 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.

* ReallyGetsAround: According to Haru, Yusuke has a sexual partner in every country he's visited, male and female. During his 40th birthday party, he's seen dancing with nineteen people with at least two of the dancers and two others at the bar being confirmed to be lovers.

** Makoto volunteers for such training alongside Chie Satonaka and a few others in "Police Department Intesntive Martial Arts Boot Camp" taught by none other than Akihiko.
* TranquilFury: In "The Old Man", when Ryuji sees the name of [[spoiler:his father for the first time since he left]], his usual surface-level reactions don't appear; he's dissonantly calm, even ''numb'' to an extent, but the anger is clearly still there. Even when he confronts said old man, their conversation is level, and the raw feelings Ryuji has only surface a couple of times (briefly). In the end, Ryuji gets his answers (or re-confirms what he already knew), yet despite admitting that he's dreamed of hurting this guy, of yelling at him, and more... he doesn't. There's no last parting shot, no beating his ass, no explosion of anger; [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Ryuji just straight-up leaves in disgust]] because [[NotWorthKilling he wasn't worth any of that.]]

* WigDressAccent: In the fourth short story of "The Top 5 Times Ryui Sakamoto Fell Into a Lake", Ryuji tracks down Ren and Ann at the fishing pond dressed in heavy coats with long fake beards to try and pass themselves off as elderly men while they pig out on sweets and junk food when they shouldn't be.

* HopelessSuitor: A belated bonus chapter casts [[spoiler: Lavenza]] was one to Ren. [[spoiler: Despite being ageless [[Really9000YearsOld her physical appearance]] still offers far too large of a social gap for her to be able to pursue Ren. This is something [[{{Jerkass}} Akechi]] mocks her about.]]