Fake Me
is a Persona 4 fanfiction that takes place a week after the events of Persona 4: Arena. Written by Reaching Out FES
This work contains examples of:
- After-Action Patch-Up: Girls, Minako or Inaba girls, tend to tend to Yu's wounds a lot after a battle.
- Aloof Big Brother: Played with, Makoto is technically Minako's big brother, but he's not only aloof to her but Yu and the rest of the gang.
- Angst: Yu has a bit of this at the end, but he gets better.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: Makoto, the survivor, and Minako, the stillborn.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Minako says this to Yu, with one of her last breaths.
- Attempted Rape: Played with, the forceful kiss the Entity gives Minako can be considered it.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Minako and Yu when they fight together.
- Battle Couple: Yu's and Minako's feelings for each other are implied, and later confirmed, so that along with their fighting together invokes this trope.
- Big Brother Instinct: Makoto to Minako.
- Yu's to Nanako is lampshaded.
- Yu has a small variation to this as well with Minako because she reminds him of Nanako.
- Big Eater: Lampshaded about Teddie.
- Bittersweet Ending: Though more on the sweet side as of the last few lines of the fic.
- Break the Cutie: Minako...a lot...
- The Casanova: Yu, kinda lampshaded by himself.
- "His smile makes the girls swoon!"
- Did Not Get The Girl/Guy: Sadly for Yu, Minako faded into nothingness. Also, same goes for Aigis with Makoto, as the same fate with Minako happened to Makoto.
- Directionless Driver: Rise. That is all.
- Everyone Can See It: Everyone can see Yu and Minako care for each other that's beyond friendship....
- First Kiss: Implied, Entity and Minako.
- Forceful Kiss: Implied, and not the good kind either. Entity does this to Minako.
- From Dress to Dressing: Minako's ribbon to Yu's wound on head.
- He's Back: Yu recovers from his Heroic BSoD at the very end of the fic.
- Heartbroken Badass: Yu and Aigis at the end. Yu gets better.
- Heroic BSoD: Minako, twice. Once when her shadow friends died. Second when she starts to have an internal fight with the Entity.
- Aigis and Yu have this at the end of the fic too, or at least is implied.
- Yu at least was shown to have gotten better.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Mavolent Entity does this with an out-of-it Minako.
- I Let Minako/Makoto Dissapear: Yu feels this, and it's implied Aigis feels this too.
- Irony: Lampshaded by narration.
- The irony was Yosuke, a guy, wanted to ask for directions.
- Just Friends: Yu and Minako.....yeahhh riiiight...
- Lady Killer In Love: Yu with Minako
- Last Request: "Don't... despair."
- Like an Old Married Couple: Chie and Yosuke as per usual, lampshaded by characters.
- Makoto Can See It: Makoto keeps saying Minako is Yu's girlfriend.
- Mind Rape: Minako gets this bad...note
- My Greatest Failure: Yu being unable to protect Minako.
- Nice Girl: Minako.
- No Sense of Direction: Apparently Rise.
- Oblivious to Love: Lampshaded by Rise about Yu.
- Sequel Hook: Author even lampshades it at the end.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Yu says this each time someone note says Minako is his girlfriend.
- Ship Tease: Yu and Minako...BIG TIME! And then for those with
Shipping Goggles, below examples are as followed:- Kanji being Kanji around Naoto, and Naoto ignoring him.
- a small one with Yukiko and Kanji
- Chie and Yosuke, lampshaded by other characters.
- Teddie flirting with Minako
- Aigis and Makoto
- Yukiko crushing on Yu
- Yosuke seems to have a little bit of Shipping Goggles himself as he sees Chie and Yu.
- Naoto blushes around Yu
- Really any girl with Yu since he's a lady killer.
- Shout-Out: In-game, the Penguine
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- The chapters are references to songs, Strength by Abingdon Boys School, Guilty Crown's opening song "The Everlasting Guilty Crown", and Persona 3 Portable's Opening Soul Phase.
- Even the fics Title is a reference to the song Fake Me by Itou Kanako.
- Cowardly Mayas, your first enemies in the game in P3, come back! As allies no less!
- These Hands Have Killed: Minako's and Yu's reactions about how they've killed shadows, after Minako lost her shadow friends.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Minako, she's Makoto's Shadow, and she has the Entity hiding inside her.
- Tragic Keepsake: Yu has Minako's ribbon.
- Will They or Won't They?: Yu and Minako, seems to be like this for awhile.
- You Never Asked: Aigis replies with this after being question why she didn't says so sooner that she had a GPS built in.
