History Fanfic / LogicAndTrickster

* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler:The Orb of Heart strengthens Akira's powers]].

* Interquel: This story takes place in 2019, which makes it a [[sequel]] to Persona 5 and its spin offs, as well as a sequel to most of the Ace Attorney games. However, it is several years prior to the Apollo Justice trilogy of Ace Attorney games, making it a [[prequel]] to those.

** Act 10, Chapter 1: [[spoiler:Yorimitsu / Raikou reveals that the Director knows that physical objects can be taken from the Collective Unconscious. They intend to capitalize on that to use resources that would be too expensive or otherwise unfeasible in the physical world like impossible WeaponsOfMassDestruction]].

Akira Kurusu and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts find themselves learning about these murders through discovering a dark and dangerous conspiracy that seems to have worked its way into global politics. They pursue an elusive foe who goes by the title of "The Director," who has the ability to force mental "Contracts" onto "Actors" in order to forcibly create distortions in the Metaverse for their own purposes. These new Metaverse locations, now known as "Facades," prove to be possibly the greatest challenge yet for the Phantom Thieves, as they have to learn entirely new methods to combat these Facades and break the Contracts.

[[caption-width-right:350:You've been given a backstage pass to the show of the century. The Logical Lawyer and the Rebellious Trickster would like to welcome you to the Velvet Theater.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The show has just begun!]]

* FlatWhat: When the [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigation Team]], Sojiro, and Sae show signs of understanding Morgana, Akira can only think this:

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1612450 Logic and Trickster]]'' is a crossover fanfic between ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5''. Started in late 2017 and originally hosted on Deviantart, the series has since moved to Archive of Our Own and can be read in full [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1612450 here]].

* PunnyName: Many OCs are named in the tradition of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games. Several are nods or references to other media, such as ''Franchise/MetalGear''.

* ShoutOut: After Phoenix [[spoiler: is taken hostage]] in the prologue, Payne's reaction is to [[Franchise/MetalGear hide under a cardboard box and crawl to safety.]] Then the Judge lets out this glorious line:

* FellAsleepStandingUp: The story's first Metaverse dive leaves almost everybody who ventured inside comically falling unconscious or asleep where they're standing from exhaustion and / or adrenaline crash.

---> Akira: What?\\

* beat*\\

* MagicallyBindingContract: The Director uses these to brainwash people for their goals. The Contracts use aspects of {{Geas}}, as they magically enforce compulsions in the victims about how to act, but thankfully without the lethal backlash.
** At least two kinds of Contracts exist: One to forcefully recruit and enforce general compliance, as seen with some individual Shadows. Another to alter personalities by distorting the victims' minds and creating artifical Palaces, called "Facades". The Phantom Thieves call the latter group of victims "Actors".

---> Kay: I think I've got all the elements memorized! With all of these strengths and weaknesses, I'll just think of things as if we were in an RPG!\\
Yusuke: How charming; imagine that. Us, inside of an RPG. I can picture it now.\\
Phoenix: Hmm. Personally, I just can't imagine myself being in a video game.
* OhCrap: The Lieutnant's appearance in Mizusawa's Facade evokes this reaction because of how strong he is. He follows after Morgana in Bus Form at full speed and can keep up with several of the Persona users!
** [[spoiler:Mizusawa orders the soldiers to attack the Lieutnant / Raikou and]] Maya and Phoenix on sight, having seen through his deception of still being loyal to him.

---> Joker: Are all of you related? You certainly are four of a kind.\\
Theodore: That we are. And now that you're here, we have a full house, in fact.\\
Igor: Four aces and a Joker--how delightful. I certainly know which hand I'll be betting on. But, pleasantries aside, we have much to discuss.
* PunBasedTitle: ''Logic and Trickster'' works for both franchises. ''Logic and Trick'' is a recurring musical theme in Ace Attorney used in the court segments. ''Trickster'' is the title Akira is granted with as a rebel in Persona 5. The characters of both games have been involved in court trials and are investigating a conspiracy.
** Act 12 Chapter 2's title ''Fashionably Late'' refers to two characters arriving later than the others at a location. Later, several people go on a shopping trip to buy a new outfit for one of their own. It turns into a inpromptu fashion show that becomes sillier and sillier.
* PunnyName: Many OCs are named in the tradition of [[Franchise/AceAttorney Ace Attorney games]]. Several are nods or references to other media, such as [[Franchise/MetalGear Metal Gear]].
---> Ritsu Chitsujo -- law and order\\

Governor Geetu D. Choppa -- "Get to the chopper," a famous line spoken by [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger]], who she is a parody of.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miles Edgeworth and Ritsu Chitsujo are this to the rest of the protagonists. Both of them are completely open minded to working together with the Phantom Thieves despite the group being vigilantes. Edgeworth's stance on understanding the limitations of the law is just one way that this story shows his change and growth from the events of his spin off games.
** Phoenix recognizes this as almost the opposite reaction to his own, considering he had a serious morality crisis of ToBeLawfulOrGood before finally working with the Thieves.

* WhamEpisode: Act 4: The Magatama and the object the Phantom Thieves try to secure during their first heist, [[spoiler:interact during the interrogation scene between Akira and Phoenix. They're both are drawn into a pocket of the Collective Unconscious where Arsène manifests to challenge Phoenix, as does Mia to calm the situation down. Phoenix feels Arsène trying to force him to Awaken. No time has passed in the physical world once the effect fades]]. These scenes establish several things. First, how powerful the object is. Second, how people still can enter the Collective Unconscious without the Metaverse. Third, and more subtly, [[spoiler:something is going on with Phoenix. Maya was unaware of said confrontation and she has actual spiritual powers]].

---> [[spoiler:Phoenix -- Knight\\

That same Christmas Eve, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts saved the world from opression, even knowing their heroics would go unsung and they would continue to be judged as vigilantes. Their leader, Akira Kurusu, took the fall for the group's actions and sacrificed his reputation to ensure justice would be served and his friends' involvement would never be discovered.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1612450 Logic and Trickster]]'' is a crossover fanfic between ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' and ''Videogame/Persona5''. Started in late 2017 and originally hosted on Devianatart, the series has since moved to Archive of Our Own and can be read in full [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1612450 here]].

Governor Geetu D. Choppa -- "Get to the chopper," a famous line from the movie [[Franchise/Predator Predator]]. She is a parody and homage to [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger]]

Vi Aipi -- VIP

That same Christmas Eve, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts saved the world from opression, even knowing their heroics would go unsung and they would continue to be judged as vigilantes. Their leader, Joker, took the fall for the group's actions and sacrificed his reputation to ensure justice would be served and his friends' involvement would never be discovered.

It's the Spring of 2019, a little over two years since Persona 5's True Ending. Akira Kurusu, formerly Joker, has been trying his best to live a normal life... without much success. When bizarre murders, betrayals, and uprisings begin to happen around the world, Akira and his friends realize something must be done.

Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey, two tourists traveling to Japan, realize their vacation isn't going to be as relaxing as they thought. Soon they too are wrapped into this dark mystery and dangerous conspiracy--along with a certain prosecutor's team, who all wish to help.

That same Christmas Eve, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts saved the world from opression, even knowing their heroics would go unsung and they would continue to be judged as vigilantes. Their leader, Akira Kurusu, took the fall for the group's actions and sacrificed his reputation to ensure justice would be served and his friends' involvement would never be discovered.

It's the Spring of 2019, a little over two years since the extraordinary events that changed Akira forever. Since then, he's has been trying his best to live a normal life... without much success. Meanwhile, Phoenix and Maya have just arrived in Japan as tourists on a quest to learn more about Maya's clan.

When bizarre murders begin to happen, not just in Japan but around the world, Akira and his friends realize something must be done. It's not long before Phoenix and Maya's vacation is interrupted and they too are pulled into a dark and dangerous conspiracy.

The unknown adversaries and the threats to the world are so dire, even the Velvet Room itself has been twisted with wicked intent. Akira is called upon by Igor as a very special alumni of the Velvet Room, and he is once again tasked with being the Trickster who will rebel against fate and save the world. But when things go wrong for even the fated Trickster, it may take a lawful man like Phoenix to help the former thief--if their two groups can even see eye to eye, that is.

---> Phoenix -- Knight\\

[[OriginalCharacter Ritsu]] -- Hawkshaw.

* MagicallyBindingContract: The Director uses these to brainwash people for their goals. The Contracts combine with aspects of {{Geas}}, as they magically enforce compulsions in the victims about how to act, but thankfully without the lethal backlash.
** At least two kinds of Contracts exist: One to forcefully recruit and enforce general compliance, as seen with some individual Shadows. Another to alter personalities by distorting the victims' minds and creating artifical Palaces, called "Facades". The Phantom Thieves call these victims "Actors".

* OutsideContextProblem: Part of the reason that the heist at the museum goes wrong and complicates following events is [[spoiler:that ''another'' thief got to the Phantom Thieves' target first]] .

* PlayingCardMotifs: Deliberately evoked in conversation between Joker, Igor, and the four Velvet Room Attendants (Elizabeth, Theodore, Margaret, and Lavenza).
---> Joker: Are all of you related? You certainly are four of a kind.\\
Theodore: That we are. And now that you're here, we have a full house, in fact.\\
Igor: Four aces and a Joker--how delightful. I certainly know which hand I'll be betting on. But, pleasantries aside, we have much to discuss.

** As with the actual Ace Attorney games, the legendary debate between "ladder" or "stepladder" comes up at in context at least twice. [[spoiler:The second time, the otherwise humorous distinction actually would matter for the practical purpose of trying to reach Mask☆[=DeMasque=] as the masked thief is flying around a courtroom at the time.]]
** Ryuji's excitement still gets the better of him and he tends to shout out secrets he shouldn't. So does Morgana.
* SequelGoesForeign: On the side of [[Franchise/AceAttorney Ace Attorney games]], since the English localization has shifted the [[ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange setting from Japan to the U.S.A.]]. The various members of the Ace Attorney cast all end up Japan--either deliberately for a vacation, for criminal investigations work, or by complete coincidence.

** Act 10, Chapter 1: [[spoiler:Yorimitsu / Raikou reveals that the Director knows that physical objects can be taken from the Collective Unconscious. They intend to capitalize on that to use resources that would be too expensive or otherwise unfeasible in the physical world. The contract Mizusawa was forced under is that he creates in his Facade a working WeaponOfMassDestruction never seen before and deliver it to the Director]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Hebi's serpentine hair strands lash out every which way in a frenzy as the curator shakes, holding his hands up in complete defeat. He then freezes as his skin and clothes turn gray like a statue before collapsing.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Akira has trouble finding employment in Japan because even though the (very public) charges against him were dropped, the stigma follows him.
** Even in the Collective Unconscious, making armor out of random kitchen objects just doesn't work.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Several people over the last weeks have shown unexplainable personality changes in-story when they killed their friends or trusted colleagues, always seemingly without motive. [[spoiler:It's discovered that the new BigBad, the ''Director'', is forcing personality changes through an incomplete Metaverse and imposing 'contracts' on the targeted. Part of said contract for some victims seems to be that they kill influential people -often their friends- to steer Japan's politics into a specific direction]].

* MagicallyBindingContract: The Director uses these to brainwash people for their goals. The Contracts combine with aspects of {{Geass}}, as they enforce compulsions in the victims about how to act, but thankfully without the lethal backlash.