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Yusuke Kitagawa has pledged his apprenticeship, his craft, his life to his sensei. He has given everything just for the chance to stand in his shadow. Even as the other apprentices flake and fade away, even as the world around him crumbles and their knives are turned against his back, he knows that this must be the only path forward for him. Right?
But when he is plagued by visions of a golden museum, of a samurai woman nestled in his soul, and of a mysterious Paintress dwelling somewhere in the space beyond understanding, he must soon discover that there is more to life than sitting alone in the darkness.
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The cast of Persona 3 in the setting of Persona 5.
Kotone Shiomi has been alone for a very long time.
The death of her mother, her separation from her brother, and the lonely years spent shuffled to and fro through the foster system haven’t been kind to her. Cap it all off with an assault charge on her record for trying to protect an innocent woman, and Kotone’s life could never be called easy.
Still, being transferred to a new school in Tokyo was a fresh start. A new beginning. All she had to do was keep her head down, and hope for a quiet year without much fuss. Hopefully one that wouldn’t involve strange Palaces looming in the dark, the ghost of a pirate woman dwelling in her soul, and a group of mysterious Moonlit Thieves rifting through the spaces between.
Because that would be crazy, right?
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- Part 1 of Mixtape AU
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Kasumi Yoshizawa lives a life of regrets.
She regrets not spending more time with her sister when she could.
She regrets that day that led to Sumire being strung up in the telephone wires.
She regrets running away.And yet, when a mysterious letter invites her back to the home she fled with promises of granting the ultimate wish Kasumi holds in her heart... this time, she'll make sure she doesn't regret a thing.
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- Part 5 of Mixtape AU
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you and i, we have the same disguise by inaris (lemonbombz)
Fandoms: Persona 3, Persona 5
21 Nov 2025
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A shadow falls over his shoulder. “The fourth one should be observed,” A flat voice says, English pronunciation almost impeccable. Ito-sensei would be crying tears of joy. “You missed an e.”
Goro frowns, rechecking his work, before realising that, much to his displeasure, the stranger is correct. He changes his answer and looks up. A bored-looking boy with blue hair and wired headphones around his neck stares back at him, one eye covered by his shaggy bangs. “Thank you,” Goro hedges. “Nii-san.”
The boy shrugs. “Sure.”
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OR: What if Minato's Hanged Man social link wasn't Oohashi Maiko, but Akechi Goro instead?
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- Part 1 of ANTI-HERO
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What if the Investigation Team switched places with the Phantom Thieves and had to change the hearts of corrupt adults while unraveling the Conspiracy?
Framed and arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Yuri Narukami has been sent to Tokyo to live with her uncle. Attending Shujin Academy as a student and spending a year on probation, Yuri vows to stay away from anything that could land her into any more trouble.
Sadly, this was a promise that couldn't be kept. Fate, you see, has other plans...
Or: I wondered what the Mixtape AU would look like if it was the other way around, like swapping the casts around in the opposite direction, with a few Strikers characters and OCS threw in. Basically, this is the result of that wondering.
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A Breakdown of Responsibilities by croisvoix
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona 3, Persona Series, Wind Breaker (Anime)
17 Nov 2025
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Mitsuru Kirijo has learned that you cannot show weakness. If you do, you will not have your position or self respected. Her ability to do that has been pushed to the brink. Her father dead from a seizure. Her inheritance given to people she has never heard of, all the while her gender disrepected in the same breath. And no answers forthcoming.
Stuck in Tokyo, living with an emotionless artist and her overly enthusiastic daughter, Mitsuru begins to find out how strange the world might truly be when her new school is replaced by a perverted jungle gym. From there, maybe she'll begin to figure out how to live her life and scream out her pain.
An alternate take on Persona 5 with Mitsuru Kirijo as the Wildcard, with characters picked in a draft.
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"This is truly an unjust game… Your chances of winning are almost none. But if my voice is reaching you… There may yet be a possibility open to you…”
Finding himself in Tokyo with nothing but the clothes on his back and a probation for a falsely accused crime, Yusuke Kitagawa expected his year in Tokyo to be uneventful -- keep your head down and ignore the fact that you're there because of a horrible injustice.
However, as strange dreams haunt him, and he finds himself unlocking a world that exists in the minds of corrupt people, it seems like an 'uneventful' probation was not in the cards from the start.
A Persona 5 Arcanaswap AU with a very different team layout. Rewrite of Break In To Break Out.
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Bright lights adorned the vanities that lined the walls, reflecting in the mirrors in a way that Ann needed to adjust to. Pushing herself to sit up, she recognized her place of rest not as the bed, but a cot pushed up against the wall of the curious room. The walls were a cushioned blue, which was already odd, but stranger still was Ann's new attire—a shimmery velvet dress that she most certainly did not own.
"Good evening," greeted a voice, deep and gruff, drawing Ann's attention toward the figure sitting at a desk in the middle of the room.
His desk appeared to be a vanity of sorts as well, but where a mirror should be there was only an open space, functioning more as a frame than as a proper dressing table. Beside him stood a young girl—perhaps some years younger than Ann—who simply stood at attention, silent. The strange man regarded Ann with an off-putting grin, propping his chin up on the backs of his hands. "Welcome to the Velvet Room."
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While investigating a murder case in Inaba, one half of the teenage detective Kirijo sibling duo disappears. Now with time running out to find his sister, Akihiko Kirijo's one lead is the last one he'd ever want to follow: his estranged brother's boyfriend's band of misfit idiots.
It's not a very good day for him.
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- Part 7 of Mixtape AU B-Side
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Yukari Takeba, the Arisato cousins, and a wheel allegory that gets really out of hand.
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- Part 5 of Mixtape AU B-Side
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It's summer, and Ryuji wants a break from the Metaverse.
But everything takes a turn for the worse when Ryuji and co. discover a new threat who proves to be more dangerous than anyone before.
Someone has to do something about Natsume's Jail, and it might as well be them.
Looks like the Phantom Thieves of Hearts are back in action!
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Skull does his best, and to some extent, he does what he needed to.
The lifeboat makes it to the other Thieves, but he doesn't make it out of that palace.Instead of waking up in the bushes outside the diet building, Ryuji wakes up on a train headed to Yongen Jaya, where he will be living for the next year due to his probation.
Thrust into a role of leadership he doesn't think he can handle, Ryuji has to navigate what it is like to be in Akira Kurusu's pointy shoes, at least he has the memories of the last timeline to help him, right?Ryuji Sakamoto Protagonist AU with a little new game plus spice - updates when the updates are ready
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- Part 1 of Ryuji takes the lead
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In The Embrace of Madness by inviernainvicta
Fandoms: Persona 1 | Revelations Persona, Persona 2, Persona Series
08 Oct 2025
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Eriko Kirishima meets her in the fall. A few months later the world ends.
Eriko Kirishima meets her in the spring. And it might just happen again.
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- Part 2 of Mixtape AU
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One: he's alive.
Two: he's in a school uniform, and it's the wrong color.
Three: he doesn't actually know where he is.
"Would you cut it out, please," Goro hisses at whoever's sitting next to him.
"Sorry, Goro," Morgana responds.
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Goro Akechi wakes up at the start of a year he swears he already completed with a completely different set of starting conditions. Things get out of hand.
(Updates Fridays.)Series
- Part 2 of Phantom Shuffle AU
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The Chosen One, the Wild Card by Lady_Moira_Reyes
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Persona 5, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Persona 2, Dragon Quest XI, Lupin III
30 Sep 2025
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Anakin runs away with his daughter, after Padme breaks up with him and the Council banishes him for having a child. He finds the uncharted planet, where he's to recover, and save the world from the ruin alongside the Galaxy from the Sith...
Or Anakin is the second Wild Card instead of Akira in the Force Trickster 'Verse.
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- Part 2 of The Force Trickster 'verse
- Part 36 of Star Wars Crossover AUs
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She had expected to simply go back in time, but unfortunately for her, she and Konoe get a lot more than they bargained for. They're now in an alternate universe where many of the major players in the game got juggled around, and there are far greater changes than on the surface.
Oops.
But even with Konoe's help, thanks to the differences in this new timeline, things are not going to be easy.
In fact, Ichinose will need to learn to play her cards right if she wants to make it out of this mess unscathed.
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- Part 1 of A Doll's Wish AU
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Akinari Kamiki was dying, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.
Knowing that his chronic illness would likely kill him before he graduated high school, Akinari vows to make the most of it, making friends and fighting with S.E.E.S. during the Dark Hour.
Akinari knew he was going to die, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from living. -
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Kanji hadn’t been staying in Inaba for all of a week and already things were wilder than they’d ever been in Tokyo.
An Arcana Swap AU of Persona 4 Golden.
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- Part 1 of Roll The Dice, Play The Cards
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A small mistake is all that's needed to send your life spiralling out of control. Faced with an impossible decision with no right answers, Niijima Sae makes a choice that sharply diverts the course of not just her life, but her sister's. Separated by the cold hammer of justice, the siblings are faced with demons they never even dreamed they would have to grapple with.
With the loss of all that she once held dear, will Sae be able to climb out of the dark pit she now finds herself in? And will Makoto, after the foundations of everything she once believed in fell to pieces, be able to find justice in this cruel, irrational world?
(My entry for the Women of Persona Big Bang 2025.)
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Haru breaks a plate and promptly melts down.
Her guardian has thoughts about it.8/31/2025: Never!
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- Part 243 of YoP 2025!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 457
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 11
- Hits:
- 82