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1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6565611/1/Death_and_Ker Death and Ker]]'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' fanfiction by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/965758/Rayless_Night Rayless Night]]. Taking place during January of 2012 following both the events of the [=P3P=] female PC's version of The Journey and an adapted version of The Answer, it tells the story of a new Shadow threat in Port Island, one which requires the heroine, Minako, to temporarily return from the Great Seal in order to protect the world. At the same time, the rest of SEES re-form to investigate the new Shadow activity, and Minako struggles to keep them from discovering her presence while she deals not only with the new threat but also with accepting just how much the rest of the world has moved on.
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3	The fic is particularly noteworthy for how much its plot is grounded in existing Greek mythology, which is also used to link it to the mythos of the original game; although the author admits to having taken some liberties, she also has ShownTheirWork. It also includes references to ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' and cameos from that game's main cast, although they do not play major roles in the story.
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5	!!This work contains examples of:
6	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Minako receives some nasty wounds during [[spoiler:her fight with Ker, including having a chunk bitten out of her face]], and although they're subsequently healed, they leave substantial scars.
7	* BreakThemByTalking: Almost all of the keres try this when they're confronted, except for Apate and Oneiroi, who don't speak and instead rely on illusions.
8	* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After the keres are defeated, Minako leaves SEES to take her place as the Great Seal again.]]
9	* TheCameo: SEES have several brushes with the main cast of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' during their trip to Inaba. Former Gekkoukan student Kenji also makes a brief appearance.
10	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Harris]], one of the first people Minako has any direct interaction with after her return to Port Island, turns out to be [[spoiler:Charon, one of the greater keres]].
11	* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:The caverns underneath the stadium where Minako and SEES fight Ker.]]
12	* CoolCar: Mitsuru provides a series of them, culminating in a fifteen-seater van which Akihiko describes as "field trip commando."
13	* ContinuityNod: Several to the events of ''Persona 4''.
14	* DreamWeaver: Oneiroi, the ker of Dreams.
15	* EvilDetectingDog: Lampshaded and subverted; Minako looks to Koromaru for some kind of confirmation that the old man Thanatos is bristling at might be a ker or some other sort of evil, but Koromaru doesn't show any unusual reaction to him [[spoiler:until after he's attacked Minako]].
16	* HeroStoleMyBike: Minako commandeers a bystander's car in order to pursue Eris.
17	* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Yep.
18	* KillItWithFire: Thanatos's frequent idea for how to deal with the keres, usually vetoed by Minako for fear of collateral damage. [[spoiler: When she realizes during their battle with Harris/Charon that they're on a raft in the middle of the ocean, she lets him cut loose.]]
19	* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: Shinjiro finds a way to vanish every time Akihiko and Mitsuru seem to be on the verge of having a Moment. It's almost on the level of a RunningGag.
20	* LoveHurts: Minako and Shinjiro. Aigis catches a good bit of it as well.
21	* LoveMakesYouCrazy[=/=]LoveMakesYouDumb: Themes of Philotes, the ker of Love.
22	* MasterOfIllusion: Apate, the ker of Deceit.
23	* MysticalWhiteHair: [[spoiler:Ker is white-haired, including in her disguise as idol singer Toshiko Miura]].
24	* MythologyGag:
25	** The male protagonist appears briefly during a vision that Minako experiences [[spoiler:while fighting Ker]]; she admires his headphones and observes that Yukari seems attracted to him.
26	** Akihiko plans to join the police after graduating from university, a nod to the non-canon anime spinoff ''Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul''.
27	* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Defied. As the cast realize that it's time for Minako to return [[spoiler:to the Great Seal]], Junpei shakes off the knee-jerk resistance by pointing out that this has happened before and he's not going to miss the chance to say goodbye this time.
28	* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Minako quizzes Koromaru about how the other members of SEES are doing using a "one bark for yes" method.
29	* {{Psychopomp}}: The role played by Achlys, the ker of mist.
30	* RefugeInAudacity: Minako and SEES get themselves into [[spoiler:backstage at Toshiko's concert]] this way, first by exploiting Mitsuru's status and then by having Minako, Aigis, and Akihiko - only one of whom can even pass for twenty - pose as private security personnel to distract the ''actual'' security guards. By interrogating them as to the status of the current security measures.
31	* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Minako, returning to Port Island two years after the end of the original game.
32	* TemptingApple: The fic is full with apple symbolism, including allusions to Eris's apple of discord, Literature/SnowWhite's poisoned apple, and the golden apples of immortality tended by the Hesperides. During one confrontation, Minako is even tempted with an apple.
33	* TakesOneToKillOne: Only a ker can kill a ker. Fortunately for the heroes, Thanatos and Nemesis (and, by extension, Kala-Nemi) are also keres.
34	* TalkToTheFist: Akihiko and Shinjiro's method of deterring some overly persistent reporters who start pestering Mitsuru: punch out a camera or two. Shinjiro does it again shortly afterwards, this time as [[UseYourHead Talk To The Headbutt]].
35	* TalkingInYourDreams: Minako has dream-conversations with several people whose Personas are also keres. The dreams about Jin and Takaya may or may not be this trope, but the one with Souji definitely is.
36	* TemptingApple: Apple symbolism recurs throughout the story, including allusions to Eris's AppleOfDiscord, Literature/SnowWhite's poisoned apple, and the golden apples of immortality tended by the Hesperides.
37	* TragicKeepsake: Shinjiro kept, and wears, the wristwatch he'd previously given to Minako.
38	%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: Akihiko and Mitsuru.
39	* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Minako has a series of wounds all the way down her back where she was pulled off the seal. They don't hurt, and seal over from time to time, only to reopen and bleed again at plot-significant moments.

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