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Goro Akechi is from a Persona 5 Royal AU. This is what's known about the AU's basic groundwork so far. It is in the process of being developed, and things may or may not be subject to change:
SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 5 ROYAL'S THIRD SEMESTER!!!
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-It takes place post-Persona 5 Royal, during the timeframe when Persona 5 Strikers would have originally happened. As a result, Strikers and Tactica are not canon to this version of Goro Akechi (At least not at this point in time).
-Ren and the Phantom Thieves failed to complete Maruki's Palace in time for 2/3. As a result, Ren was put into an eternal sleep, and the world has forgotten about him.
-Now this would normally leave questions, so Maruki placed the newly actualized Akechi into Ren's slot in everyone's memories. Everyone believes that Akechi was the leader of the Phantom Thieves, that he led them to stop Shido, etc.
-Akechi himself also believes this, and has an entirely different background now thanks to Maruki's tampering. His mother is alive. He became a detective thanks to a childhood love of detective media. He was raised as a happy, loved child with no signs of misery to be seen. Everything is happy, or so he believes. His personality as a result is starkly different. Much more friendly, supportive, heroic, and something of an all-loving hero... though there are still flashes of his old, more cynical personality and memories that emerge at times. He also remains focused and curious, focused on solving mysteries and stomping out injustice.
-Memories in this world are kind of odd, particularly Akechi's. There are many, many holes, particularly surrounding the Phantom Thieves and their targets true crimes, but due to the fact that Maruki has easy ability to manipulate their thoughts and memories, it never causes any problems when people actually hit these mental snags. Akechi has the worst of it since he's central to so many alterations, including his own past.
-None of the Phantom Thieves have access to their Personas anymore. They don't question it, either, since they are convinced they already finished everything they needed to do, and now they can just rely on things being OK from now on. The world is great and fine and everyone's happy so nothing's wrong. Everything's fine. :)
-Akechi started noticing something was missing around graduation day, when he was trying to take the picture of the rest of the Phantom Thieves. He could sense someone was missing, but before he could really tell who it was, Maruki appeared and offered to take the picture for him. Ever since this moment, he started feeling strangely uneasy at random, increasing intervals.
-Akechi began to frequent Leblanc, feeling a strange draw there. At first it was just a couple random visits, but then he started visiting every single day he could, trying to figure out why. Why he was feeling uneasy, why there was the sense there was something missing, why he couldn't let go of whatever this was.
-Suddenly, one day, Lavenza appears in butterfly form to him, and this leads to him finding and remembering Ren in Leblanc's attic.
-He takes it upon himself to wake Ren up, and figure out the mystery of why he's stuck in this condition. This leads him down the path of realizing that the world has been altered, and that he needs to try to remind the rest of the Phantom Thieves of the truth.
-He does this, and this eventually leads to them eventually realizing that Ren is suffering from a cognitive distortion caused by Maruki.
-Now it's up to them to try to get him back and truly stop Maruki this time!
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I don't have much else established yet, but Akechi is meant to go through this whole arc about his identity and past being a lie, being horrified by his original self, and eventually having his Persona regress into a Shadow because of his own inability to accept himself.
He eventually does accept himself and gets a new Metaverse form, but almost all of my roleplaying with this version of Akechi is going to be either unaware of his past or he's in denial. I can use him after he remembers everything though, and that's the version of him I'll use in the event of any romantic scenarios.
He also gets haunted by dreams and flashes of his past, and most of his memories are locked away, unlike his friends'.
He is also a Wild Card, but his level is low thanks to Maruki's influence.
SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 5 ROYAL'S THIRD SEMESTER!!!
-------
-It takes place post-Persona 5 Royal, during the timeframe when Persona 5 Strikers would have originally happened. As a result, Strikers and Tactica are not canon to this version of Goro Akechi (At least not at this point in time).
-Ren and the Phantom Thieves failed to complete Maruki's Palace in time for 2/3. As a result, Ren was put into an eternal sleep, and the world has forgotten about him.
-Now this would normally leave questions, so Maruki placed the newly actualized Akechi into Ren's slot in everyone's memories. Everyone believes that Akechi was the leader of the Phantom Thieves, that he led them to stop Shido, etc.
-Akechi himself also believes this, and has an entirely different background now thanks to Maruki's tampering. His mother is alive. He became a detective thanks to a childhood love of detective media. He was raised as a happy, loved child with no signs of misery to be seen. Everything is happy, or so he believes. His personality as a result is starkly different. Much more friendly, supportive, heroic, and something of an all-loving hero... though there are still flashes of his old, more cynical personality and memories that emerge at times. He also remains focused and curious, focused on solving mysteries and stomping out injustice.
-Memories in this world are kind of odd, particularly Akechi's. There are many, many holes, particularly surrounding the Phantom Thieves and their targets true crimes, but due to the fact that Maruki has easy ability to manipulate their thoughts and memories, it never causes any problems when people actually hit these mental snags. Akechi has the worst of it since he's central to so many alterations, including his own past.
-None of the Phantom Thieves have access to their Personas anymore. They don't question it, either, since they are convinced they already finished everything they needed to do, and now they can just rely on things being OK from now on. The world is great and fine and everyone's happy so nothing's wrong. Everything's fine. :)
-Akechi started noticing something was missing around graduation day, when he was trying to take the picture of the rest of the Phantom Thieves. He could sense someone was missing, but before he could really tell who it was, Maruki appeared and offered to take the picture for him. Ever since this moment, he started feeling strangely uneasy at random, increasing intervals.
-Akechi began to frequent Leblanc, feeling a strange draw there. At first it was just a couple random visits, but then he started visiting every single day he could, trying to figure out why. Why he was feeling uneasy, why there was the sense there was something missing, why he couldn't let go of whatever this was.
-Suddenly, one day, Lavenza appears in butterfly form to him, and this leads to him finding and remembering Ren in Leblanc's attic.
-He takes it upon himself to wake Ren up, and figure out the mystery of why he's stuck in this condition. This leads him down the path of realizing that the world has been altered, and that he needs to try to remind the rest of the Phantom Thieves of the truth.
-He does this, and this eventually leads to them eventually realizing that Ren is suffering from a cognitive distortion caused by Maruki.
-Now it's up to them to try to get him back and truly stop Maruki this time!
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I don't have much else established yet, but Akechi is meant to go through this whole arc about his identity and past being a lie, being horrified by his original self, and eventually having his Persona regress into a Shadow because of his own inability to accept himself.
He eventually does accept himself and gets a new Metaverse form, but almost all of my roleplaying with this version of Akechi is going to be either unaware of his past or he's in denial. I can use him after he remembers everything though, and that's the version of him I'll use in the event of any romantic scenarios.
He also gets haunted by dreams and flashes of his past, and most of his memories are locked away, unlike his friends'.
He is also a Wild Card, but his level is low thanks to Maruki's influence.
