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* PeggySue: The premise of the story is that Akechi time-travels eight years back into his ten-year-old self.
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* PeggySue: The premise of the story is that Akechi time-travels eight years back into his ten-year-old self. Unlike most examples, as he never joined S.E.E.S. and the Investigation Team in the original timeline, he knows as much as the other characters and can be caught off-guard. For example, he does not know Ikutsuki’s true motives nor does he know who the killer is.
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* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three]]. Later, when Akechi goes missing in the Midnight Channel, Minato says that Ryoji has been "stress folding cranes".
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* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three]]. Later, when Akechi goes missing in the Midnight Channel, Minato says that Ryoji has been "stress folding cranes".
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* BeachEpisode: SEES' trip to Yakushima, complete with beach volleyball, Operation [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Friend]] Hunt, sandcastles, and an [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon]].
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* BeachEpisode: SEES' trip to Yakushima, complete with beach volleyball, Operation [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Friend]] Hunt, sandcastles, and an [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking [[BreadsEggsMilkSquick Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon]].
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* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three]]. Later, when Akechi goes missing in the Midnight Channel, Minato says that Ryoji has been "stress folding cranes".
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: As of this writing, it is all but said that the entity claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi is actually [[VideoGame/Persona2 Nyarlathotep]] disguised as Akira’s actual uncle.
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: As of this writing, it is all but said that the entity claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi is actually [[VideoGame/Persona2 Nyarlathotep]] disguised as Akira’s actual uncle.uncle, if his yellow eyes and his penchant of being disguised as someone else in ''VideoGame/Persona2'' is any indication.
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* OriginalGeneration: Yamamoto Emiko, a GenkiGirl who sits next to Akechi in elementary school. She serves as his Strength arcana.
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: As of this writing, it is all but said that the entity claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi is actually [[VideoGame/Persona2 Nyarlathotep]] disguised as Akira’s actual uncle.
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It’s not outright confirmed, buddy. Elizabeth simply said that he’s a god of chaos. That is all.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Kurusu Tsuyoshi is Nyarlathothep in disguise.]]
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After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more [[VideoGame/Persona2 mysterious being]] claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
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After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more [[VideoGame/Persona2 mysterious being]] being claiming to be [[BlatantLies Akira’s uncle]], Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The author says the full story is around 560,000 words total. As of chapter 40, the story is over 230,000 words.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The author says the full story is around 560,000 words total. As of chapter 40, 50, the story is over 230,000 300,000 words.
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* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Yukari shushes Junpei while he's talking about the love hotels, since the allegedly-eleven-year-old Akechi is part of the conversation.
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* NotInFrontOfTheKid: NotInFrontOfTheKid:
** Yukari shushes Junpei while he's talking about the love hotels, since the allegedly-eleven-year-old Akechi is part of theconversation. conversation.
** Akechi and Shinjiro aren't great at not swearing in front of Nanako; at one point, Akechi wonders whether Dojima or Yu would kill him first for accidentally teaching her swear words.
---> '''Akechi:''' Oh, [[CurseCutShort fuc]]–shut up.\\
'''Shinjiro:''' Great job, dumbass. You were really made to be around children.\\
'''Akechi:''' You’re doing a fantastic job of it yourself.
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** Akechi and Shinjiro aren't great at not swearing in front of Nanako; at one point, Akechi wonders whether Dojima or Yu would kill him first for accidentally teaching her swear words.
---> '''Akechi:''' Oh, [[CurseCutShort fuc]]–shut up.\\
'''Shinjiro:''' Great job, dumbass. You were really made to be around children.\\
'''Akechi:''' You’re doing a fantastic job of it yourself.
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* TheStakeout: The Investigation Team ineffectually stakeout Marukyu Tofu after Rise appears on the Midnight Channel: they're joined by Adachi stuck on babysitting/[[SureLetsGoWithThat cilantro-buying]] duty, they pace back and forth in front of the shop until Akechi gets them an alibi in the form of sitting and eating ice-cream, they get massively distracted by the first suspicious passerby looking into the store, and by the time Akechi convinces everyone (sans [[PoliceAreUseless Adachi]]) that the stalker is just a stalker, Rise has disappeared.
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Justified is if there is an in-universe reason for such things. I don’t think a meta reason counts as such.
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* DeusExitMachina: After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and (incorrectly) theorize that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. This is [[ContinuitySnarl despite]] the Shadow Operatives having no issue using their Personas in the TV World during ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', although this is justified as [[StoryBreakerPower they could have found and finished the case too quickly]] if they could.
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* DeusExitMachina: After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and (incorrectly) theorize that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. This is [[ContinuitySnarl despite]] the Shadow Operatives having no issue using their Personas in the TV World during ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', although this is justified as ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''. [[StoryBreakerPower they They could have found and finished the case too quickly]] if they could.could, after all.
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* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three.]]
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* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three.]]three]]. Later, when Akechi goes missing in the Midnight Channel, Minato says that Ryoji has been "stress folding cranes".
* AbsurdlyLongLimousine: A ''very'' downplayed example compared to her limo in canon, but Mitsuru travels to Inaba in a limousine the length of "at least two ordinary cars" to the bafflement of the Investigation Team and teasing from SEES.
* AbusiveParents: Yu assumes Akechi's parents are abusive for having seemingly dumped him in Inaba, and Akechi's dungeon does very little to assuage that (given that it's mostly true, albeit not for non-parent Mitsuru who Yu is initally suspicious of). Yu's own parents are also this mixed with ParentalAbandonment, making Akechi's dungeon stressful enough to provoke Yu's shadow.
* AbsurdlyLongLimousine: A ''very'' downplayed example compared to her limo in canon, but Mitsuru travels to Inaba in a limousine the length of "at least two ordinary cars" to the bafflement of the Investigation Team and teasing from SEES.
* AbusiveParents: Yu assumes Akechi's parents are abusive for having seemingly dumped him in Inaba, and Akechi's dungeon does very little to assuage that (given that it's mostly true, albeit not for non-parent Mitsuru who Yu is initally suspicious of). Yu's own parents are also this mixed with ParentalAbandonment, making Akechi's dungeon stressful enough to provoke Yu's shadow.
* ButterflyOfTransformation: A black butterfly sometimes watches the Persona-users; there's one on the window sill on Akechi's first day of class in Iwatodai, and much later there's one watching Yukiko and Yosuke discuss whether Yu could be the killer. An AllThereInTheManual case of DramaticIrony is in play here: a savvy reader knows that [[BigBad Nyarlathotep]] is often represented by black butterflies.
* ChildishPillowFight: Akechi chucks a pillow at Shijiro for teasing him about being physically thirteen, which devolves into a full pillow fight between them and Akihiko after [[WomenAreWiser Mitsuru]] leaves.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The fox.
--> '''Akechi:''' Why is there a fox?\\
'''Yosuke:''' Don’t question it too much.\\
Goro wanted to question it. He wanted to question it so badly.\\
'''Yu:''' I do ema requests for him. He gives us magical leaves if we pay him a small fortune.\\
'''Akechi:''' What does the fox do with the money?\\
'''Yukiko:''' We don’t really know.\\
Goro stopped questioning it. The fox seemed to nod in approval at Goro’s resignation.
--> '''Akechi:''' Why is there a fox?\\
'''Yosuke:''' Don’t question it too much.\\
Goro wanted to question it. He wanted to question it so badly.\\
'''Yu:''' I do ema requests for him. He gives us magical leaves if we pay him a small fortune.\\
'''Akechi:''' What does the fox do with the money?\\
'''Yukiko:''' We don’t really know.\\
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonists of ''Persona 3'' and ''5'' are given their names from their respective mangas: Arisato Minato and Kurusu Akira. The character tags imply the ''Persona 4'' protagonist has been given his anime name, Narukami Yu.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonists of ''Persona 3'' and ''5'' are given their names from their respective mangas: Arisato Minato and Kurusu Akira. The character tags imply the ''Persona 4'' protagonist has been is given his name from the anime name, and ''Arena'', Narukami Yu.Yu.
* NoHeroDiscount: Yu happily accepts Mitsuru's gift of supplies in favor of saving his wallet, and Akechi quips that all that money could just as easily disappear to compendium summons.
* NoHeroDiscount: Yu happily accepts Mitsuru's gift of supplies in favor of saving his wallet, and Akechi quips that all that money could just as easily disappear to compendium summons.
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: Akechi doesn't mince words about the fact that [[AdaptationalSexuality he's gay]], very bluntly coming out when the situation calls for it. In the mean time though, he's more concerned with the fact that he's eight years behind his mental age, justifying HaveIMentionedIAmGay.
--> '''Akechi:''' First of all, I am eleven and have no interest in romance at the moment. Second of all, even if I were interested in romance, I have [[MistakenForRomance no romantic feelings toward Amada-kun]]. Third of all, yes, I like boys. Don’t be weird about it, Iori.
* RecklessPacifist: The Investigation Team only realize the level of danger they were putting their rescuees in after Akechi explains his backstory and tells them that killing a person's shadow kills them in real life.
--> '''Akechi:''' First of all, I am eleven and have no interest in romance at the moment. Second of all, even if I were interested in romance, I have [[MistakenForRomance no romantic feelings toward Amada-kun]]. Third of all, yes, I like boys. Don’t be weird about it, Iori.
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** Akechi's Midnight Channel dungeon and the Investigation Team's assumptions about him trigger Yu's abandonment issues enough to manifest his shadow while they're trying to rescue Akechi.
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it's been A While since i've read anything p4 that wasn't fanfic, but can't not even the investigation team enter the tv world without yu? the reason goro can is bc gas station izanami talked to him on his first(?) day in inaba. also i wanted to fix the Continuity Snarl Persona 4 Arena potholes being next to each other but it's kinda clunky now ^^;
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* BagOfSpilling: Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World. JustifiedTrope as it's been 1-2 years since he last summoned his Persona which would give a sufficient amount of time for his Persona's to turn to Shadows during that period of dormancy.
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* BagOfSpilling: Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow Shadows upon being thrown inside the TV World. JustifiedTrope Potentially {{justified|Trope}} as it's been 1-2 years more than a year since he last summoned his Persona Persona, which would give a sufficient amount of time for his Persona's Personas to turn revert to Shadows during that period of dormancy.
* DeusExitMachina: After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and (incorrectly) theorize that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. This is [[ContinuitySnarl despite]] the Shadow Operatives having no issue using their Personas in the TV World during ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', although this is justified as [[StoryBreakerPower they could have found and finished the case too quickly]] if they could.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorize that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. This is [[ContinuitySnarl despite]] ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' establishing that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue in those games, though this can be justified in this story as [[StoryBreakerPower the Shadow Operatives would have found and finished the case too quickly]] if they could do so, [[spoiler:and its implied the true mastermind of ''Persona 4'' would not have wanted that to happen and hence tried to keep them out]].
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The Shadow Operatives discover that they are ultimately unable to enter the TV World after traveling to Inaba following Akechi's abduction, and being informed of the true circumstances by Akechi following his rescue by the Investigation Team.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The Shadow Operatives discover that they are ultimately unable to enter the TV World after traveling to Inaba following Akechi's abduction, abduction and being informed of the true circumstances by Akechi following his subsequent rescue by the Investigation Team.
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since the author also plans to write for the arena duology, this is changed to a more accurate trope
* BagOfSpilling: Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World. JustifiedTrope as it's been 1-2 years since he last summoned his Persona which would give a sufficient amount of time for his Persona's to turn to Shadows during that period of dormancy.
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* ContinuitySnarl:
** Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World.
** After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorise that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' established that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue.
** Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World.
** After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorise that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' established that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorize that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. This is [[ContinuitySnarl despite]] ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' establishing that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue in those games, though this can be justified in this story as [[StoryBreakerPower the Shadow Operatives would have found and finished the case too quickly]] if they could do so, [[spoiler:and its implied the true mastermind of ''Persona 4'' would not have wanted that to happen and hence tried to keep them out]].
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* ContinuitySnarl:
** Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World.
** After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorise that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' established that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue.
** Despite having already awoken to his Persona, Akechi is still confronted by his Shadow upon being thrown inside the TV World.
** After being told of the killer's methods by Akechi, the Shadow Operatives discover they can't enter the TV World and theorise that it's because they haven't faced their Shadows. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' established that Persona-users who awoke to their power in other situations have no issue entering the TV World, as Mitsuru, Akihiko and Aigis all enter the TV World without any issue.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi was the person who kidnapped Akechi]] and threw him into the Midnight Channel shortly after Kanji was rescued, because [[spoiler: Akechi correctly guessed that Adachi is the culprit and hoped to get rid of him.]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's It's implied that Adachi was the person who kidnapped Akechi]] Akechi and threw him into the Midnight Channel shortly after Kanji was rescued, because [[spoiler: Akechi correctly guessed that Adachi is the culprit and hoped to get rid of him.]]
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* TimeSkip: Chapter 43 skips ahead a year, from June 2010 to June 2011 and the events of ''VideoGame/Persona4''.
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* SarcasticConfession: After a conversation with Akechi where he correctly guessed (albeit as an attempt at trolling) both Adachi's identity as the murderer and his motive, Adachi sarcastically notes that "It’s not my fault that nothing happens in this town. Except for the occasional murder, obviously."
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* SarcasticConfession: After a conversation with Akechi where he correctly guessed (albeit as an attempt at trolling) both Adachi's identity as the murderer and his motive, Adachi sarcastically notes that "It’s "It's not my fault that nothing happens in this town. Except for the occasional murder, obviously."
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* ScarilySpecificStory: Akechi adds some thinly veiled threats to the ghost story he tells Junpei, saying the boy didn't like the teenager because she "kept telling terrible ghost stories to people who didn’t want to hear them".
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* ScarilySpecificStory: Akechi adds some thinly veiled threats to the ghost story he tells Junpei, saying the boy didn't like the teenager because she "kept telling terrible ghost stories to people who didn’t didn't want to hear them".
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'''Akechi:''' Are you ''playing'' with me?”me?
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* SarcasticConfesion: After a conversation with Akechi, wherein he correctly guessed (Albeit as an attempt at trolling) that Adachi was behind the murders and his motive, Adachi sarcastically notes that "It's not my fault that nothing happens nothing happens in this town. Except for the occasional murder, obviously."
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* SarcasticConfesion: SarcasticConfession: After a conversation with Akechi, wherein Akechi where he correctly guessed (Albeit (albeit as an attempt at trolling) that Adachi was behind both Adachi's identity as the murders murderer and his motive, Adachi sarcastically notes that "It's "It’s not my fault that nothing happens nothing happens in this town. Except for the occasional murder, obviously." "
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* AccidentallyAccurate: Why asked by Adachi if he has any idea of who could be behind the murders, Akechi - mostly to screw with Adachi - suggests that it could be a member of the police force, maybe even Adachi himself as no-one would suspect the killer of actually being someone investigating the crimes, and the motive could be as simple as being bored with life in Inaba; unbeknownst to Akechi, he just correctly guessed the killer and the motive.
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* JokeAndReceive: Why asked by Adachi if he has any idea of who could be behind the murders, Akechi - mostly to screw with Adachi - suggests that it could be a member of the police force, maybe even Adachi himself as no-one would suspect the killer of actually being someone investigating the crimes, and the motive could be as simple as being bored with life in Inaba; unbeknownst to Akechi, he just correctly guessed the killer and the motive.
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* AccidentallyAccurate: Why asked by Adachi if he has any idea of who could be behind the murders, Akechi - mostly to screw with Adachi - suggests that it could be a member of the police force, maybe even Adachi himself as no-one would suspect the killer of actually being someone investigating the crimes, and the motive could be as simple as being bored with life in Inaba; unbeknownst to Akechi, he just correctly guessed the killer and the motive.
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* SarcasticConfesion: After a conversation with Akechi, wherein he correctly guessed (Albeit as an attempt at trolling) that Adachi was behind the murders and his motive, Adachi sarcastically notes that "It's not my fault that nothing happens nothing happens in this town. Except for the occasional murder, obviously."
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** Elizabeth, Akechi, Akihiko, Shinjiro, and the rest of SEES burn as much of Strega's stuff as they can find, after [[spoiler: Elizabeth and Akihiko figure out their base was in the orphanage that he and Shinjiro lived in as kids from what Akechi mentioned about the place he was kidnapped in.]]
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** Elizabeth, Akechi, Akihiko, Shinjiro, and the rest of SEES burn as much of Strega's stuff as they can find, find after [[spoiler: Elizabeth and Akihiko figure out their base was in the orphanage that he and Shinjiro lived in as kids from [[spoiler: what Akechi mentioned about the place he was kidnapped in.]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechi into the Midnight Channel shortly after Kanji was rescued, because Akechi correctly guessed that Adachi is the culprit and hoped to get rid of him.]]
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Akechi gets a scar on his cheek from [[spoiler: Jin throwing a knife at him in an attempt to stop his escape]]. Good guy scar or not, it doesn't stop the RuggedScar rumor mill at school, and Akechi hardly wants to tell the true story.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi was the person who kidnapped Akechi]] and threwAkechi him into the Midnight Channel shortly after Kanji was rescued, because [[spoiler: Akechi correctly guessed that Adachi is the culprit and hoped to get rid of him.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi was the person who kidnapped Akechi]] and threw
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler: Akechi meets his Shadow after being thrown into the TV world by Adachi, who takes the form of his 18-year-old self wearing a suit and orange sunglasses reminiscent of Shido's style.]]
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Akechi [[spoiler: Akechi meets his Shadow after being thrown into the TV world by Adachi, world, who takes the form of his 18-year-old self self]] wearing a suit and orange sunglasses reminiscent of Shido's style.]]
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* OffscreenRomance: Minato/Ryoji are this mixed with ImpliedLoveInterest. They're never explicitly shown to have a romantic relationship, but the tags include "Implied Mochizuki Ryoji/Persona 3 Protagonist".
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* OffscreenRomance: Minato/Ryoji Minato and Ryoji are this mixed with a downplayed case of ImpliedLoveInterest. They're never explicitly shown to have a romantic relationship, but the tags include "Implied Mochizuki Ryoji/Persona 3 Protagonist".Protagonist", they spend a long time upstairs on the day Ryoji comes to hear SEES' answer about fighting Nyx, and Minato returns wearing [[TragicKeepsake Ryoji's ring]].
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* RuggedScar: The knife wound on [[GoodScarsEvilScars his cheek]] that Akechi gets [[spoiler: from Jin while kidnapped]] scars, to much gossip from his school peers.
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* RuggedScar: The knife wound on [[GoodScarsEvilScars his cheek]] that Akechi gets [[spoiler: An InUniverse example from Jin while kidnapped]] scars, to much gossip from Akechi's classmates, who see his school peers.cheek scar and assume he's some sort of delinquent who lost a gang fight.
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* SecretlyDying: Played with in the aftermath of [[spoiler: Minato and Ryoji casting the Great Seal. While it's ultimately subverted, they spend most of the month before the rest of SEES remember [[SoapOperaDisease exhausted all the time]] from the strain, and Aigis and Akechi are understandably frustrated when Ryoji explains this on March 5th, since them dying with no explanation would have been worse.]]
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* SecretlyDying: Played with in the aftermath of the Great Seal being cast. [[spoiler: Minato and Ryoji casting the Great Seal. While it's ultimately subverted, they Minato and Ryoji spend most of the month before the rest of SEES remember [[SoapOperaDisease exhausted all the time]] from the strain, and Aigis and Akechi are understandably frustrated when Ryoji explains this on March 5th, 5th,]] since them dying with no explanation an unexplained death would have been worse.]]
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: RareMaleExample; both times [[spoiler: Akechi is kidnapped, he's initially grabbed by the shoulder.]] Downplayed by [[spoiler: Akechi]] still struggling (if ineffectually) after being grabbed, and {{justified|Trope}} by [[spoiler: Tsuyoshi being supernaturally strong]] and [[spoiler: the Midnight Channel kidnapper immediately drugging him]].
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: RareMaleExample; both times [[spoiler: Akechi is kidnapped, he's initially grabbed by the shoulder.]] shoulder]]. Downplayed by [[spoiler: Akechi]] him still struggling (if ineffectually) after being grabbed, and {{justified|Trope}} by [[spoiler: Tsuyoshi being supernaturally strong]] strong and [[spoiler: the Midnight Channel kidnapper immediately drugging him]].
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** Akechi's TraumaCongaLine gives him several: having a gun pointed at him reminds him of his death, and [[spoiler: water reminds him of the Lovers shadow's brainwashing; not to mention that the bathtub incident in itself reminded him of [[CloseToHome finding his mother's body in the bathtub]]]]. Shido also causes him to freak out, with Akechi running off from SEES' celebration dinner when he first establishes his (very unwanted) social link with him, throwing his book at the TV hard enough to break it when Shido appears on it, or hitting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Elizabeth]] with Theodore's clipboard for saying Shido is important to him.
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** Akechi's TraumaCongaLine gives him several: having a gun pointed at him reminds him of his death, and [[spoiler: water reminds him of [[spoiler: the Lovers shadow's brainwashing; not to mention that the bathtub incident in itself reminded him of [[CloseToHome finding his mother's body in the bathtub]]]]. Shido also causes him to freak out, with Akechi running off from SEES' celebration dinner when he first establishes his (very unwanted) social link with him, throwing his book at the TV hard enough to break it when Shido appears on it, or hitting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Elizabeth]] with Theodore's clipboard for saying Shido is important to him.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler: While the six-year-old Mitsuru was [[DownplayedTrope somewhat aware]] of what was happening, she didn't understand what her grandfather was researching or what she was needed for.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shinjiro's [[spoiler: use of persona supressants greatly shortens his lifespan; when he reveals that he's dying in late 2009, he estimates he has maybe two years left, and by mid-2011 he's noticeably weaker.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shinjiro's [[spoiler: use of persona supressants greatly shortens his lifespan; when he reveals that he's dying in late 2009, he estimates he has maybe two years left, and by mid-2011 he's noticeably weaker.]]
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* UnwittingTestSubject: While [[spoiler: While the six-year-old Mitsuru Mitsuru]] was [[DownplayedTrope somewhat aware]] of what was happening, she only knew she had "potential" and didn't understand what [[spoiler: her grandfather grandfather]] was researching or what she was needed for.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shinjiro's[[spoiler: use of persona supressants greatly shortens his lifespan; [[spoiler: when he reveals that he's dying in late 2009, he estimates he has maybe two years left, and by mid-2011 he's noticeably weaker.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shinjiro's
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tweaked based on the crosswicks i made, theyre less vague now
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** Ken becomes one of Akechi's social links earlier than his canonical first appearance, and much earlier than his rise to plot importance.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenza well before they appear. [[EarlyBirdCameo Lavenza]] later joins him, Elizabeth, and Akechi on a trip to the aquarium.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenza well before they appear. [[EarlyBirdCameo Lavenza]] later joins him, Elizabeth, and Akechi on a trip to the aquarium.
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** Ken becomes one of Akechi's social links in May 2009; around a month earlier than his canonical first appearance, cameo in canon, and much earlier than his rise to plot importance.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenzawell before they appear. [[EarlyBirdCameo Lavenza]] to Akechi while he's living in Iwatodai. Lavenza later joins him, Elizabeth, and Akechi on a trip to the aquarium.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenza
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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Akechi regains his wiped memories of the Dark Hour very quickly due to him still remembering his time-travel.
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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Akechi regains his wiped memories of the Dark Hour very quickly due to him how laser-guided the LaserGuidedAmnesia was: he still remembering remembered his time-travel.time-travel, and it's not hard to figure out something is amiss from there.
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is goro's shadow Played For Laughs? i don't disagree there's some dark irony in his shadow's appearance, but i didn't read humor as the intention of that scene, since goro throws up after shadokechi does the whole "i am you" thing
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* BlackComedy: [[spoiler: Akechi meets his Shadow after being thrown into the TV world by Adachi. This would usually be horrifying... If it weren't for the fact that Akechi's Shadow took the form of his 18 year old self wearing a suit and orange sunglasses reminiscent of Shido's style.]]
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler: Akechi meets his Shadow after being thrown into the TV world by Adachi, who takes the form of his 18-year-old self wearing a suit and orange sunglasses reminiscent of Shido's style.]]
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* BlackComedy: [[spoiler: Akechi meets his Shadow after being thrown into the TV world by Adachi. This would usually be horrifying... If it weren't for the fact that Akechi's Shadow took the form of his 18 year old self wearing a suit and orange sunglasses reminiscent of Shido's style.]]
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added examples, fixed some grammar. i took out the part in eviluncle about akechi's suspicions being correct, since it's not related to eviluncle and we already have "tsuyoshi is nyaru" in thereveal
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After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more mysterious being claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this ^
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this ^
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After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more [[VideoGame/Persona2 mysterious being being]] claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this^
^ also it needs a mention of the new p4 stuff
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this
* ThousandOrigamiCranes: Ryoji gives Akechi some origami paper from Kyoto and the suggestion that if they and Minato work together, they'll only need to fold 333 cranes each and then they can share the wish. Akechi folds three from the paper he's given; [[spoiler: after Nyx is sealed, Ryoji tells Akechi that between him and Minato they folded 997 cranes, including the one Ryoji gave to Akechi. Although Akechi doesn't say anything, Ryoji assumes that Akechi folded the last three.]]
** Akira lives in Inaba, and he and Akechi meet when the latter moves to investigate the serial murder case there.
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Akechi regains his wiped memories of the Dark Hour very quickly due to him still remembering his time-travel.
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Akechi regains his wiped memories of the Dark Hour very quickly due to him still remembering his time-travel.
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* BurnBabyBurn: Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of marshmellows.
--> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOne Mitsuru]].
--> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOne Mitsuru]].
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* BurnBabyBurn: BornAsAnAdult: Ryoji, who – other than his time as Pharos – started his human life as a teenager. During Akechi's 12th birthday party, he stops to wonder if he ReallyWasBornYesterday or if he's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, much to [[ImpliedLoveInterest Minato's]] concern.
* BurnBabyBurn:
** Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag ofmarshmellows.
-->marshmallows.
---> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOneMitsuru]].Mitsuru]].
** Elizabeth, Akechi, Akihiko, Shinjiro, and the rest of SEES burn as much of Strega's stuff as they can find, after [[spoiler: Elizabeth and Akihiko figure out their base was in the orphanage that he and Shinjiro lived in as kids from what Akechi mentioned about the place he was kidnapped in.]]
* BurnBabyBurn:
** Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of
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---> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOne
** Elizabeth, Akechi, Akihiko, Shinjiro, and the rest of SEES burn as much of Strega's stuff as they can find, after [[spoiler: Elizabeth and Akihiko figure out their base was in the orphanage that he and Shinjiro lived in as kids from what Akechi mentioned about the place he was kidnapped in.]]
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* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]]. [[spoiler:Akechi's suspicion proved to be justified when Elizabeth later reveals that Tsuyoshi is Nyarlatothep in disguise.]]
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about other people calling him Goro as well.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechi to the midnight channel shortly after Kanji was rescued because Akechi got too close to the truth that Adachi is the culprit in his deduction of him and hoped to off Akechi by sending him to the Midnight Channel.]]
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about other people calling him Goro as well.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechi to the midnight channel shortly after Kanji was rescued because Akechi got too close to the truth that Adachi is the culprit in his deduction of him and hoped to off Akechi by sending him to the Midnight Channel.]]
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* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]]. [[spoiler:Akechi's suspicion proved to be justified when Elizabeth later reveals that Tsuyoshi is Nyarlatothep in disguise.]]
second]].
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about it for other peoplecalling as well; by mid-2010, all of SEES call him Goro as well.
Goro.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechito into the midnight channel Midnight Channel shortly after Kanji was rescued rescued, because Akechi got too close to the truth correctly guessed that Adachi is the culprit in his deduction of him and hoped to off Akechi by sending him to the Midnight Channel.get rid of him.]]
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about it for other people
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechi
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* InterfaceSpoiler: A few of the tags reference events that haven't yet occurred, such as "Shadow Akechi Goro".
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* InterfaceSpoiler: A few of the tags reference can be used to guess about events that haven't yet occurred, before they occur, such as "Shadow Akechi Goro".
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** The narration in Akechi's POV also near-exclusively calls Akechi by his last name, with WordOfGod hinting that it has to do with "how Goro sees himself".
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** The narration in Akechi's POV during Part 1 also near-exclusively calls Akechi by his last name, with WordOfGod hinting that it has to do with "how Goro sees himself".himself". By Part 2, Goro is called by his first name in narration, and [[spoiler: his shadow is called by his last.]]
** Akechi and Minato explicitly refer to "[[RelationshipValues ranking up]]" social links.
* RuggedScar: The knife wound on [[GoodScarsEvilScars his cheek]] that Akechi gets [[spoiler: from Jin while kidnapped]] scars, to much gossip from his school peers.
* SecretlyDying: Played with in the aftermath of [[spoiler: Minato and Ryoji casting the Great Seal. While it's ultimately subverted, they spend most of the month before the rest of SEES remember [[SoapOperaDisease exhausted all the time]] from the strain, and Aigis and Akechi are understandably frustrated when Ryoji explains this on March 5th, since them dying with no explanation would have been worse.]]
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** Potentially downplayed with [[spoiler: Shinjiro, who doesn't die on October 4th but says he has at most two years left thanks to his use of persona suppressants.]]
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}} with [[spoiler: Chidori, who still dies in a skirmish with Strega despite the altered circumstances.]]
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}} with [[spoiler: Chidori, who still dies in a skirmish with Strega despite the altered circumstances.]]
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** Potentially downplayed with by [[spoiler: Shinjiro, who doesn't die on October 4th but says he has at most two years left thanks to his use of persona suppressants.]]
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}}with by [[spoiler: Chidori, who still dies in a skirmish with Strega despite the altered circumstances.]]]]
** Played straight by [[spoiler: Minato and Ryoji, with the latter getting spat out by the Nyx Avatar then helping with the Great Seal to save the former.]]
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: RareMaleExample; both times [[spoiler: Akechi is kidnapped, he's initially grabbed by the shoulder.]] Downplayed by [[spoiler: Akechi]] still struggling (if ineffectually) after being grabbed, and {{justified|Trope}} by [[spoiler: Tsuyoshi being supernaturally strong]] and [[spoiler: the Midnight Channel kidnapper immediately drugging him]].
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}}
** Played straight by [[spoiler: Minato and Ryoji, with the latter getting spat out by the Nyx Avatar then helping with the Great Seal to save the former.]]
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: RareMaleExample; both times [[spoiler: Akechi is kidnapped, he's initially grabbed by the shoulder.]] Downplayed by [[spoiler: Akechi]] still struggling (if ineffectually) after being grabbed, and {{justified|Trope}} by [[spoiler: Tsuyoshi being supernaturally strong]] and [[spoiler: the Midnight Channel kidnapper immediately drugging him]].
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Emiko reacts to Akechi telling her about the Dark Hour [[spoiler: after Strega tries to kill her]] by deciding to go to bed.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shinjiro's [[spoiler: use of persona supressants greatly shortens his lifespan; when he reveals that he's dying in late 2009, he estimates he has maybe two years left, and by mid-2011 he's noticeably weaker.]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:It's implied that Adachi threw Akechi to the midnight channel shortly after Kanji was rescued because Akechi got too close to the truth that Adachi is the culprit in his deduction of him and hoped to off Akechi by sending him to the Midnight Channel.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Kurusu Tsuyoshi is Nyarlathothep in disguise who took after Kurusu Akira's guise.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Kurusu Tsuyoshi is Nyarlathothep in disguise who took after Kurusu Akira's guise.disguise.]]
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* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]].
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* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]]. [[spoiler:Akechi's suspicion proved to be justified when Elizabeth later reveals that Tsuyoshi is Nyarlatothep in disguise.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Kurusu Tsuyoshi is Nyarlathothep in disguise who took after Kurusu Akira's guise.]]
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* TheLethalConnotationOfGunsAndOthers: {{Downplayed|Trope}} compared to ''Persona 3'' canon: Takaya's revolver shoots multiple people and only one of them manages to eventually die about it.
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* TheLethalConnotationOfGunsAndOthers: {{Downplayed|Trope}} compared to ''Persona 3'' canon: Takaya's revolver shoots multiple people and although only one of them manages to eventually die about person dies from it.
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Not an example of Dramatic Irony.
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* DramaticIrony: Akechi doesn't tell SEES about Maruki's false reality. The fic is named after the song that plays while fighting Maruki.
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* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of Akechi's time-traveling, SEES' adventure still hits most of TheStationsOfTheCanon to broadly the same outcomes. Even so, Akechi worries that he had an adverse effect on the timeline, not helped by [[spoiler: Ikutsuki telling him his help was invaluable]] as everything turns for the worse in the months following.
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* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of Akechi's time-traveling, SEES' adventure still hits most of TheStationsOfTheCanon to broadly the same outcomes. Even so, Akechi worries that he had an adverse effect on the timeline, not helped by [[spoiler: Ikutsuki [[spoiler:Ikutsuki telling him his help was invaluable]] as everything turns for the worse in the months following.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The fic is named after the song that plays while fighting Maruki in ''Persona 5 Royal''.
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* BurnBabyBurn: Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn [[spoiler: everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers]]. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of marshmellows.
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* BurnBabyBurn: Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn [[spoiler: everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers]].evokers. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of marshmellows.
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-> Instead of dying, Akechi finds himself eight years in the past. With his persona abilities still intact, he has to find a way to stop the end of the world.\\
And work with a bunch of teenagers who thinks he's a child.\\
Akechi would've preferred to stay dead.
%%-->-- ''Throw Away Your Mask'' summary
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50040106 Throw Away Your Mask]]'' is a ''VideoGame/Persona5'' {{Crossover}} FixFic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MollyPollyKinz/pseuds/MollyPollyKinz MollyPollyKinz]].
After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more mysterious being claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this ^
The first chapter was published in September 2023, and currently updates bi-weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
'''Spoilers for the canon events of ''VideoGame/Persona3'', ''VideoGame/Persona4'' and ''[[VideoGame/Persona5 Persona 5 Royal]]'' will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''
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!! ''Throw Away Your Mask'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Ken becomes one of Akechi's social links earlier than his canonical first appearance, and much earlier than his rise to plot importance.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenza well before they appear. [[EarlyBirdCameo Lavenza]] later joins him, Elizabeth, and Akechi on a trip to the aquarium.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Implied to be the case with Minato. He [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense had]] a sister (although he doesn't specify twin), and Theodore says the guest he was supposed to attend died when she was young, suggesting that [=FeMC=] existed but died in the Moonlight Bridge accident.
* BeachEpisode: SEES' trip to Yakushima, complete with beach volleyball, Operation [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Friend]] Hunt, sandcastles, and an [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon]].
* BurnBabyBurn: Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn [[spoiler: everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers]]. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of marshmellows.
--> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOne Mitsuru]].
* CallForward:
** Akechi recounts a ghost story to Junpei seemingly about the Midnight Channel, having heard it from Akira.
** Ken calls the new TV replacing the one Akechi broke [[VideoGame/Persona4 so big he could fall into it]].
** When Junpei says that he should've shoved Shido harder, Yukari tells him off because [[VideoGame/Persona5 Shido could've pressed charges]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The healing items Akechi gives Shinjiro for his birthday later [[spoiler: save him from succumbing to his wounds on October 4th.]]
**A literal example in Akechi stealing Takaya's revolver. It's fired [[spoiler: during Chidori and Akechi's scuffle the night after she learns he has it, non-lethally injuring her shoulder]], and again later [[spoiler: by Akihiko, accidentally killing Chidori while trying to shoot Takaya.]]
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Akechi does his absolute best to avoid being embarrassed by Elizabeth and Theodore on their trips outside the room, to mixed success. %is there a better trope for this%
--> '''Elizabeth:''' I wonder if the door requires any offering as a request for its service. That’s what you humans do for those who serve you, is it not?\\
'''Akechi, instantly:''' That won’t be necessary. The best thing to do is to walk through the doors as silently as possible.
* ContinuityNod: Lavenza asks if the Velvet Room could become [[VideoGame/Persona5ThePhantomX an aquarium]].
* {{Doorstopper}}: The author says the full story is around 560,000 words total. As of chapter 40, the story is over 230,000 words.
* DramaticIrony: Akechi doesn't tell SEES about Maruki's false reality. The fic is named after the song that plays while fighting Maruki.
* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]].
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about other people calling him Goro as well.
* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: Akechi asks a lot of questions about the "[[LiesToChildren fun hotels]]" to embarrass Junpei and Yukari. Of course, Akechi knows full well what love hotels are, and is only asking to mess with them.
* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of Akechi's time-traveling, SEES' adventure still hits most of TheStationsOfTheCanon to broadly the same outcomes. Even so, Akechi worries that he had an adverse effect on the timeline, not helped by [[spoiler: Ikutsuki telling him his help was invaluable]] as everything turns for the worse in the months following.
* InterfaceSpoiler: A few of the tags reference events that haven't yet occurred, such as "Shadow Akechi Goro".
* InternalReveal: Akechi reveals his murders, death, and subsequent time-travel [[spoiler: to Shinjiro and Ken during the October full moon, and inadvertently to SEES the next day.]]
* LastNameBasis:
** Akechi calls the other members of SEES by their last names in both dialogue and narration; gradually he moves to FirstNameBasis as he grows closer to them, with the occasional switch back when frustrated or betrayed. Similarly, Akechi insists on being called by his last name for most people, to the point of snapping at people who call him Goro without permission.
** The narration in Akechi's POV also near-exclusively calls Akechi by his last name, with WordOfGod hinting that it has to do with "how Goro sees himself".
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Minato says that Chagall Cafe's coffee "makes you more charming", and visiting the nurse's office gives him courage.
** Junpei compares Akechi's time-traveling to a NewGamePlus. (Akechi admits that there's quite a few similarities.)
* TheLethalConnotationOfGunsAndOthers: {{Downplayed|Trope}} compared to ''Persona 3'' canon: Takaya's revolver shoots multiple people and only one of them manages to eventually die about it.
* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Junpei and Akechi; when Junpei complains that hiding Takaya's gun under Akechi's bed was too obvious, Akechi retorts that "[[ThisIsReality this isn't a novel]]" and that he "doesn't have loose floorboards".
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonists of ''Persona 3'' and ''5'' are given their names from their respective mangas: Arisato Minato and Kurusu Akira. The character tags imply the ''Persona 4'' protagonist has been given his anime name, Narukami Yu.
* NoodleIncident: A curious consequence of the fic being mostly Akechi's POV: several moments from canon become noodle incidents by Akechi's lack of presence and unwillingness to ask, such as Minato and Yukari's encounter with the Lovers Arcana shadow, or the "whole mess" at the Kyoto hot springs that Ryoji glosses over.
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Yukari shushes Junpei while he's talking about the love hotels, since the allegedly-eleven-year-old Akechi is part of the conversation.
* OffscreenRomance: Minato/Ryoji are this mixed with ImpliedLoveInterest. They're never explicitly shown to have a romantic relationship, but the tags include "Implied Mochizuki Ryoji/Persona 3 Protagonist".
* PeggySue: The premise of the story is that Akechi time-travels eight years back into his ten-year-old self.
* RelationshipValues: After certain scenes where Akechi spends time with his social links, the numerical value of the rank is shown. Minato and Akechi [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this:
--> '''Akechi:''' But, while we're being honest with each other, I have to ask: you only wanted to hang out with me to rank up my social link, correct?\\
'''Minato:''' [''shamelessly nods''] I was bored.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Akechi doesn't trust anyone (or says he doesn't, anyway), but he's still building rapport with SEES enough to be upset when betrayed. Shinjiro, Mitsuru, and Takeharu try to remind him [[PowerOfTrust life without trusting anyone is a miserable thing]].
* SayingTooMuch: Akechi does this when stressed, like when he describes himself as having more combat experience than most of SEES, or when he blurts out [[spoiler: the truth about his time-travel to the rest of SEES having assumed they had already heard from Shinjiro and Ken]]. It usually gets caught by Mitsuru or another member of SEES.
* ScarilySpecificStory: Akechi adds some thinly veiled threats to the ghost story he tells Junpei, saying the boy didn't like the teenager because she "kept telling terrible ghost stories to people who didn’t want to hear them".
--> '''Junpei:''' Akechi is kind of scary. He just told me a really creepy ghost story, and I think he was implying that people like me get killed and turn into ghosts that haunt televisions.
* SeenItAll: After Junpei learns Chidori was going to kill him, he considers that he'd previously also learned that Akechi is a time-traveling former hitman and that Ken was planning on killing Shinjiro, and decides that it isn't all that surprising.
* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: Downplayed with Minato. The story primarily follows Akechi and the people and social links he interacts with, but Minato is still doing all of his own protagonist things in the background and off-screen.
* SleepParalysisCreature: Minato calls Pharos his sleep paralysis demon in explanation to a slightly baffled Akechi.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Minato may be SEES' Wildcard-having field leader, but he'll phone-call Akechi to ask if he wants to go to the movies because knocking on his door is "awkward", or [[spoiler: feel the need to "fill the silence" with his [[PityTheKidnapper kidnapper]]]], or run away from Ryoji flirting with him.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Potentially downplayed with [[spoiler: Shinjiro, who doesn't die on October 4th but says he has at most two years left thanks to his use of persona suppressants.]]
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}} with [[spoiler: Chidori, who still dies in a skirmish with Strega despite the altered circumstances.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Tsuyoshi immediately sets off Akechi's suspicion because of his yellow eyes, similar to those of shadows or the Velvet attendants.
* TarotMotifs: Very common for a ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' work. {{Invoked|Trope}} by Akechi, who takes to the library to research the major Arcana and what they mean about the people he's met following the establishment of his first few social links.
* TragicKeepsake:
** Chidori gives Junpei the necklace she bought for him as she dies.
** Ryoji brings [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall max social link]] presents for Akechi and Minato; the scarf he planned to give Minato for the former, and the ring he wore for the latter.
* TraumaButton:
** Akechi's TraumaCongaLine gives him several: having a gun pointed at him reminds him of his death, and [[spoiler: water reminds him of the Lovers shadow's brainwashing; not to mention that the bathtub incident in itself reminded him of [[CloseToHome finding his mother's body in the bathtub]]]]. Shido also causes him to freak out, with Akechi running off from SEES' celebration dinner when he first establishes his (very unwanted) social link with him, throwing his book at the TV hard enough to break it when Shido appears on it, or hitting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Elizabeth]] with Theodore's clipboard for saying Shido is important to him.
** Akihiko says that [[spoiler: Akechi being held at gunpoint]] reminded him of being unable to help his sister, which was one of the reasons why he was angry at [[spoiler: Akechi keeping his knowledge of Strega a secret.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] by Akechi. Various characters read him as being worryingly mature, but he doesn't act like the eleven-year-old he appears as because he ''isn't'' one.
** Ken, as usual, but he and Akechi seem all the more worse off when contrasted with [[ChildrenAreInnocent Emiko]].
* TrustPassword: PlayedForLaughs; when Akechi tries to figure whether Shinjiro is a real person or a cognition, he asks him to tell him something he's never told anyone:
--> '''Akechi:''' Tell me something only you would know. Something you’ve never told anyone.\\
'''Shinjiro:''' Fine, fine. I really like cooking.\\
'''Akechi:''' Are you ''playing'' with me?”
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler: While the six-year-old Mitsuru was [[DownplayedTrope somewhat aware]] of what was happening, she didn't understand what her grandfather was researching or what she was needed for.]]
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Used by Tsuyoshi when Akechi [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu brushes off his taunts]] in January.
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And work with a bunch of teenagers who thinks he's a child.\\
Akechi would've preferred to stay dead.
%%-->-- ''Throw Away Your Mask'' summary
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50040106 Throw Away Your Mask]]'' is a ''VideoGame/Persona5'' {{Crossover}} FixFic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MollyPollyKinz/pseuds/MollyPollyKinz MollyPollyKinz]].
After Akechi Goro dies, he wakes up in the body of his 10-year-old self living in a foster home in Iwatodai. With no clue how he time-traveled or how to get back, he winds up involved with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad]] and the strange case of the Dark Hour. Between the mysterious denizens of the [[Franchise/{{Persona}} Velvet Room]] and the even more mysterious being claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi, Akechi will need to learn to trust his allies if he wants to make it out of this unscathed.
%%i'm so bad at summaries Please feel free to change this ^
The first chapter was published in September 2023, and currently updates bi-weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
'''Spoilers for the canon events of ''VideoGame/Persona3'', ''VideoGame/Persona4'' and ''[[VideoGame/Persona5 Persona 5 Royal]]'' will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''
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!! ''Throw Away Your Mask'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Ken becomes one of Akechi's social links earlier than his canonical first appearance, and much earlier than his rise to plot importance.
** Theodore mentions Margaret and Lavenza well before they appear. [[EarlyBirdCameo Lavenza]] later joins him, Elizabeth, and Akechi on a trip to the aquarium.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Implied to be the case with Minato. He [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense had]] a sister (although he doesn't specify twin), and Theodore says the guest he was supposed to attend died when she was young, suggesting that [=FeMC=] existed but died in the Moonlight Bridge accident.
* BeachEpisode: SEES' trip to Yakushima, complete with beach volleyball, Operation [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Friend]] Hunt, sandcastles, and an [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon]].
* BurnBabyBurn: Shinjiro and Akechi set up a bonfire on the dorm roof to burn [[spoiler: everything Ikutsuki gave them, only stopping short at their evokers]]. Akihiko is exasperated, but joins them with a bag of marshmellows.
--> '''Akihiko:''' I miss [[TheReliableOne Mitsuru]].
* CallForward:
** Akechi recounts a ghost story to Junpei seemingly about the Midnight Channel, having heard it from Akira.
** Ken calls the new TV replacing the one Akechi broke [[VideoGame/Persona4 so big he could fall into it]].
** When Junpei says that he should've shoved Shido harder, Yukari tells him off because [[VideoGame/Persona5 Shido could've pressed charges]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The healing items Akechi gives Shinjiro for his birthday later [[spoiler: save him from succumbing to his wounds on October 4th.]]
**A literal example in Akechi stealing Takaya's revolver. It's fired [[spoiler: during Chidori and Akechi's scuffle the night after she learns he has it, non-lethally injuring her shoulder]], and again later [[spoiler: by Akihiko, accidentally killing Chidori while trying to shoot Takaya.]]
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Akechi does his absolute best to avoid being embarrassed by Elizabeth and Theodore on their trips outside the room, to mixed success. %is there a better trope for this%
--> '''Elizabeth:''' I wonder if the door requires any offering as a request for its service. That’s what you humans do for those who serve you, is it not?\\
'''Akechi, instantly:''' That won’t be necessary. The best thing to do is to walk through the doors as silently as possible.
* ContinuityNod: Lavenza asks if the Velvet Room could become [[VideoGame/Persona5ThePhantomX an aquarium]].
* {{Doorstopper}}: The author says the full story is around 560,000 words total. As of chapter 40, the story is over 230,000 words.
* DramaticIrony: Akechi doesn't tell SEES about Maruki's false reality. The fic is named after the song that plays while fighting Maruki.
* EvilUncle: Tsuyoshi, despite his [[EyeDentityGiveaway gold eyes]] and knowledge of various metaverse concepts, [[ZigZaggingTrope claims]] to be Akira's uncle. Akechi doesn't believe him [[BlatantLies for even a second]].
* FirstNameBasis: After Takaya takes to calling Akechi by his first name to frustrate him, Akechi tells Ken and Shinjiro that they can call him Goro so that Takaya isn't the only person who does. Over time, he softens about other people calling him Goro as well.
* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: Akechi asks a lot of questions about the "[[LiesToChildren fun hotels]]" to embarrass Junpei and Yukari. Of course, Akechi knows full well what love hotels are, and is only asking to mess with them.
* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of Akechi's time-traveling, SEES' adventure still hits most of TheStationsOfTheCanon to broadly the same outcomes. Even so, Akechi worries that he had an adverse effect on the timeline, not helped by [[spoiler: Ikutsuki telling him his help was invaluable]] as everything turns for the worse in the months following.
* InterfaceSpoiler: A few of the tags reference events that haven't yet occurred, such as "Shadow Akechi Goro".
* InternalReveal: Akechi reveals his murders, death, and subsequent time-travel [[spoiler: to Shinjiro and Ken during the October full moon, and inadvertently to SEES the next day.]]
* LastNameBasis:
** Akechi calls the other members of SEES by their last names in both dialogue and narration; gradually he moves to FirstNameBasis as he grows closer to them, with the occasional switch back when frustrated or betrayed. Similarly, Akechi insists on being called by his last name for most people, to the point of snapping at people who call him Goro without permission.
** The narration in Akechi's POV also near-exclusively calls Akechi by his last name, with WordOfGod hinting that it has to do with "how Goro sees himself".
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Minato says that Chagall Cafe's coffee "makes you more charming", and visiting the nurse's office gives him courage.
** Junpei compares Akechi's time-traveling to a NewGamePlus. (Akechi admits that there's quite a few similarities.)
* TheLethalConnotationOfGunsAndOthers: {{Downplayed|Trope}} compared to ''Persona 3'' canon: Takaya's revolver shoots multiple people and only one of them manages to eventually die about it.
* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Junpei and Akechi; when Junpei complains that hiding Takaya's gun under Akechi's bed was too obvious, Akechi retorts that "[[ThisIsReality this isn't a novel]]" and that he "doesn't have loose floorboards".
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonists of ''Persona 3'' and ''5'' are given their names from their respective mangas: Arisato Minato and Kurusu Akira. The character tags imply the ''Persona 4'' protagonist has been given his anime name, Narukami Yu.
* NoodleIncident: A curious consequence of the fic being mostly Akechi's POV: several moments from canon become noodle incidents by Akechi's lack of presence and unwillingness to ask, such as Minato and Yukari's encounter with the Lovers Arcana shadow, or the "whole mess" at the Kyoto hot springs that Ryoji glosses over.
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Yukari shushes Junpei while he's talking about the love hotels, since the allegedly-eleven-year-old Akechi is part of the conversation.
* OffscreenRomance: Minato/Ryoji are this mixed with ImpliedLoveInterest. They're never explicitly shown to have a romantic relationship, but the tags include "Implied Mochizuki Ryoji/Persona 3 Protagonist".
* PeggySue: The premise of the story is that Akechi time-travels eight years back into his ten-year-old self.
* RelationshipValues: After certain scenes where Akechi spends time with his social links, the numerical value of the rank is shown. Minato and Akechi [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this:
--> '''Akechi:''' But, while we're being honest with each other, I have to ask: you only wanted to hang out with me to rank up my social link, correct?\\
'''Minato:''' [''shamelessly nods''] I was bored.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Akechi doesn't trust anyone (or says he doesn't, anyway), but he's still building rapport with SEES enough to be upset when betrayed. Shinjiro, Mitsuru, and Takeharu try to remind him [[PowerOfTrust life without trusting anyone is a miserable thing]].
* SayingTooMuch: Akechi does this when stressed, like when he describes himself as having more combat experience than most of SEES, or when he blurts out [[spoiler: the truth about his time-travel to the rest of SEES having assumed they had already heard from Shinjiro and Ken]]. It usually gets caught by Mitsuru or another member of SEES.
* ScarilySpecificStory: Akechi adds some thinly veiled threats to the ghost story he tells Junpei, saying the boy didn't like the teenager because she "kept telling terrible ghost stories to people who didn’t want to hear them".
--> '''Junpei:''' Akechi is kind of scary. He just told me a really creepy ghost story, and I think he was implying that people like me get killed and turn into ghosts that haunt televisions.
* SeenItAll: After Junpei learns Chidori was going to kill him, he considers that he'd previously also learned that Akechi is a time-traveling former hitman and that Ken was planning on killing Shinjiro, and decides that it isn't all that surprising.
* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: Downplayed with Minato. The story primarily follows Akechi and the people and social links he interacts with, but Minato is still doing all of his own protagonist things in the background and off-screen.
* SleepParalysisCreature: Minato calls Pharos his sleep paralysis demon in explanation to a slightly baffled Akechi.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Minato may be SEES' Wildcard-having field leader, but he'll phone-call Akechi to ask if he wants to go to the movies because knocking on his door is "awkward", or [[spoiler: feel the need to "fill the silence" with his [[PityTheKidnapper kidnapper]]]], or run away from Ryoji flirting with him.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Potentially downplayed with [[spoiler: Shinjiro, who doesn't die on October 4th but says he has at most two years left thanks to his use of persona suppressants.]]
** Ultimately {{averted|Trope}} with [[spoiler: Chidori, who still dies in a skirmish with Strega despite the altered circumstances.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Tsuyoshi immediately sets off Akechi's suspicion because of his yellow eyes, similar to those of shadows or the Velvet attendants.
* TarotMotifs: Very common for a ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' work. {{Invoked|Trope}} by Akechi, who takes to the library to research the major Arcana and what they mean about the people he's met following the establishment of his first few social links.
* TragicKeepsake:
** Chidori gives Junpei the necklace she bought for him as she dies.
** Ryoji brings [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall max social link]] presents for Akechi and Minato; the scarf he planned to give Minato for the former, and the ring he wore for the latter.
* TraumaButton:
** Akechi's TraumaCongaLine gives him several: having a gun pointed at him reminds him of his death, and [[spoiler: water reminds him of the Lovers shadow's brainwashing; not to mention that the bathtub incident in itself reminded him of [[CloseToHome finding his mother's body in the bathtub]]]]. Shido also causes him to freak out, with Akechi running off from SEES' celebration dinner when he first establishes his (very unwanted) social link with him, throwing his book at the TV hard enough to break it when Shido appears on it, or hitting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Elizabeth]] with Theodore's clipboard for saying Shido is important to him.
** Akihiko says that [[spoiler: Akechi being held at gunpoint]] reminded him of being unable to help his sister, which was one of the reasons why he was angry at [[spoiler: Akechi keeping his knowledge of Strega a secret.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] by Akechi. Various characters read him as being worryingly mature, but he doesn't act like the eleven-year-old he appears as because he ''isn't'' one.
** Ken, as usual, but he and Akechi seem all the more worse off when contrasted with [[ChildrenAreInnocent Emiko]].
* TrustPassword: PlayedForLaughs; when Akechi tries to figure whether Shinjiro is a real person or a cognition, he asks him to tell him something he's never told anyone:
--> '''Akechi:''' Tell me something only you would know. Something you’ve never told anyone.\\
'''Shinjiro:''' Fine, fine. I really like cooking.\\
'''Akechi:''' Are you ''playing'' with me?”
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler: While the six-year-old Mitsuru was [[DownplayedTrope somewhat aware]] of what was happening, she didn't understand what her grandfather was researching or what she was needed for.]]
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Used by Tsuyoshi when Akechi [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu brushes off his taunts]] in January.
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