History Fanfic / VanishingAct

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Remember how Akira is TheBeard to Makoto during her Confidant route? Shizuka, who has a crush on Makoto, ends up seeing them together and gets the wrong idea. Fortunately, Akira is quick to clear it up.

* DungeonBypass: When dealing with Kaneshiro's Palace, the Arditi enlist Sergio and Breakthru's help to catapult them all the way up to the floating bank, instead of going through the whole rigamarole of them getting blackmailed and using that to their advantage.

--->"With great power, comes great responsibility. [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man]] [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure isn't obscure in Japan]], right?"[[note]]Well there's [[Series/SpiderManJapan this...]][[/note]]
** In Chapter 14, Shizuka's reacton to the H.R Giger-esque appearance of Mementos is "[[LampshadeHanging a brief wave of movie nostalgia]]":

* InstantExpert: In Interlude 3 Akira takes the Velvet Room twins on a tour through Tokyo, including the arcade and batting cages. Despite not knowing what crane games and batting cages are, the twins are ''terrifyingly'' good at them. But what do you expect from the [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]]?

* AdaptedOut: The Piggytron mech battle. Shadow Kaneshiro tries to summon it, but Sergio has none of that and breaks the vault it... is. [[GrievousHarmWithABody By repeatedly smacking Shadow Kaneshiro into it]].

After several years, a semi-sequel/expansion [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/vanishing-act-the-royal-chapters-jojo-persona-5.920996/reader/ Vanishing Act - The Royal Chapters]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29766102/chapters/73221879 AO3 link]] focusing on the Royal content was posted.

* YourSoulIsMine: Bloody Sunday, an assassin in Mr. A's employ who can suck out the soul of a person when their eyes meet and their shadows intersect.

* BlatantLies: In Chapter 54, Akira asks Shizuka if she edits her own [[{{Wiki/Wikipedia}} wiki]] page. Shizuka answers with a drawn out no, while her eyes shift behind her sunglasses.

* {{Crossover}}: Besides being a Jojo/''Persona 5'' crossover, characters from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' are also popping up in the background.

** [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Nero's]] appearance in Omake 6 is a reference to his uncle's [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne guest appearance]] in the SMT series.

** This also applies to [[spoiler: all of the ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' characters (with the exceptions of Rohan and Giorno) that are still alive in Part 6, as Jotaro and Jolyne are able defeat Pucci and stop his plan to reset the world.]]

* NaginatasAreFeminine: Shiho's WeaponOfChoice for the Metaverse is a naginata. It goes well with her {{Ninja}} motif.

** This is also implied to be the full extent of Houdini's power, with visibility/invisibility hinging on the refraction of light. Shizuka uses this principle to temporarily blind Paradise City by keeping the light from entering his eyes. [[spoiler: Its evolved form, Houdini Eclipse, takes it UpToEleven; it can not only alter light and color to create [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]], but can absorb light and blast it out as [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].]]

** Rohan's Heaven's Door becomes pivotal in [[spoiler:helping to prove that Akechi is Black Mask and that he works for Shido by reading Okumura's mind]].

* FixFic: While the author does not go out of his way to make everything be perfect, he does respond to most things that the fandom have found lacking story wise with things like presenting Haru to the group earlier that in canon, removing the subplot of Morgana leaving the Thieves, or [[spoiler: Goro being directly confronted while possessing a very real threat to the Arditi during Sae's palace]].

* FriendlyFireproof: The Chemical Brothers' main tactic applies, [[spoiler: with one generating vertigo-inducing sound to keep their targets disoriented, leaving them easy pickings for the other's swarm of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial flying]] {{Piranha|Problem}}, who has to wear earplugs to ward off his brother's sound. Once Shizuka and Makoto figure that out and manage to remove the earplugs, things go south quickly for the Brothers]].

** Akira is one, as befitting the Trickster, but he's also a variation. Whereas Shizuka fights with her wits, Akira commands with them. In battle, he manages his teammates actions and prepares overall strategy.

* KickingMyOwnAss: Implied; when Shizuka hears that Sae called Makoto useless, she thinks that if her adoptive brother Josuke said anything half as insensitive to her, Crazy Diamond a.k.a. Josuke's own soul, would kick his ass on principle.

* ConvenientComa: In Chapter 53 [[spoiler: Haru's father is put into a coma after being attacked by a Stand-user, preventing him from revealing the Conspiracy to anyone]].

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler: During the mission to get the Phantom Thieves out of [[LotusEaterMachine Dies Irae]], the group encounter a cognition of Ryuji's abusive, alcoholic father, mutated into a giant.]] With Ryuji stricken with fear, Akira gives him a slap to snap him out of it.

* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: If one has a Stand or a Persona, they can't have a Shadow or a Palace. [[spoiler: This is why Shizuka's Plan B for Sae Nijima's Shadow going berserk is to stab her with the Stand Arrow, giving her a Stand and thus removing her Shadow.]]

* NaginatasAreFeminine: Shiho's WeaponOfChoice for the Metaverse is a Naginata. It goes well with her {{Ninja}} motif.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Shizuka Joestar is a major factor in the major diverting points of the story. Recruiting more members (Shiho and Sergio), as well as meeting Haru early, allowed the Phantom Thieves to scout out two Palaces at the same time. Her knowledge on Stands allows her to find other users to help the Phantom Thieves (some unofficially like Lifeson, others officially like Sergio and [[spoiler: Hifumi]]). She also makes back-up plans like the idea to [[spoiler: use a Stand Arrow to counteract a mental shutdown if things went south]]. But sometimes things happen beyond her control, like [[InSpiteOfANail Yusuke still being offended enough to force Ann to model nude for them to come back to Madarame's shack]].

* RealityEnsues: A minor example. When Shizuka and Makoto have TheBigDamnKiss, it's noted to be less than glamorous with how tired they both are, and with Makoto's complete inexperience. Shizuka still notes that she loved it utterly.

After several years, a semi-sequel/expansion [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/vanishing-act-the-royal-chapters-jojo-persona-5.920996/reader/ Vanishing Act - The Royal Chapters]] focusing on the Royal content was posted.

* CantFightFate: Implied with regards to Jotaro, given the nature of fate in JJBA. Boingo's Stand foretold that Jotaro would die by getting his face split in half. And while he managed to barely avoid this fate on at least three occasions (Oingo's initial attempt at killing him, being attacked by Kira's Bites the Dust in Part 4, and just barely beating Pucci in this story), he can't shake the feeling that he's only living on borrowed time.