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Using the power of science and personal experience, Basil, Kel, And Aubrey discover something groundbreaking about their lives.
Meanwhile, Hero and Mari try to figure out how they became parents to four thirteen-year-olds.
They are very confused
(One shot was commissioned by Bossco15 on Discord. A true patron of the arts.)
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The roles reversed: the hero plays the villain, while the villain plays the hero. What makes one the other, and how easily can fate be manipulated to serve one’s own ends? Written for NaNoWriMo 2012; started before Golden was released.
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03 Oct 2024
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First Persona 4 story I picked up after a few months of going through Persona 5, and I absolutely picked a winner with this one. "Wanted it to be a Game" handled everything with its role reversal plot in an immaculate way that respected who the characters were in the games, giving very real depth and expansion to characters we barely saw in doing so too. The canon Investigation Team members for how different they behave and act in the circumstances of the story, all feel like they're true to who they were in the series itself. Adachi himself I feel like was handled the best here. Even in the role reversal, he feels like himself, like he's truly Adachi. There's times you sympathize with him, times you want to see him get clotheslined by Dojima followed by a sick ass chair shot from Kanji. But throughout all of this, I never once felt it wasn't Adachi, or he was out of character, or an OC with Adachi's name, even as his fate changes, as he navigates his life in exile to Inaba while dealing with supernatural nonsense about TVs. The changes of the Investigation Team's interactions with Adachi as a leader also felt natural given Adachi's own nature and behaviors. To avoid spoilers I won't say more, but I was overall pleased with how it developed and grew throughout the story.
The Velvet Room changes were more than interesting, I quite liked them significantly more than Golden's rendition with Marie. Overall? Give it a read! I'm pretty sure you'll like it. The author ran with the concept they had and made sweeping changes that caught me off guard more than once, felt natural, and offered an interesting take on the canon story.
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Delving into the hearts of criminals and fighting heart demons is all well and good, but there's no way the people that do it are normal. Let's see what they get up to, eh?
(Pretty much just a bunch of cool ideas for shorts I have over the course of a play through. Don't expect anything long and complex, this is just for fun. I'll write these as they come to me, so it should be chronological.)
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19 Aug 2024
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A Pre-Royal story of immaculately high quality. The author does a more than commendable job of truly understanding the characters and who they are while giving their own twists and changes to them that feel entirely fitting and true to their original selves. The silent protagonist himself, Akira, is perhaps one of the best renditions I've ever seen. He's energetic, snarky, a total ass, defiant and yet still shows the side that makes him a good leader. He respects and loves the people in his life and shows through actions and through words that they are his greatest source of strength and truly means it. The sides of him that we see beneath this feel on-point and propel him into being a more fleshed out, human character with real depth to him. Entire plot-points are changed drastically in ways that are compelling, refreshing and had me thrilled to see where it would go next.
The humor is on-point, leaning into the better parts of Persona's humor without the trappings that make such things at times uncomfortable or irritating. Even Ryuji, who is the target of many jokes, ISN'T treated as a butt monkey or punished unfairly. He takes much of it in stride, laughing with everyone or playing along and knowing its sincerely good fun. Addressing a problem I had with canon on that front.
Look it's like, the big dog's biscuit. Go read it. Seriously. I would gush from every orifice about this story if I could. Because it deserves its praises sung with each hole of my lowly and mortal body.
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With a week to go until Maruki’s deadline, Akechi spends some time, one-on-one, with each of the Phantom Thieves.
Featuring Gorbs, pancakes, dance battles, showtimes, nail painting, nightmares, anger management, philosophical musing and more than a few difficult conversations.
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17 Jun 2024
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A superb take on the idea of Akechi going out of his way to spend time with everyone before the events of the final Palace Royal's part of the game. I feel that the characters are very well handled, each of them give different responses and takes to the elephant in the room. All of them feel in-tune with who they were in the games and even people who otherwise didn't get time to shine as much or had parts of their characters sidelined in canon were allowed to shine and show the parts of themselves we saw during their pivotal moments. I like character interactions and fluffy moments. I LIKE moments of emotionally charged discussions and communication about problems, down time and stuff. This story provided that in spades, and did a damn fine job of doing so.
The ending... I will not spoil anything, but I feel it really made this story all the better. It ended at a perfect point and to me was satisfactory all around. Do give it a read, it certainly deserves it.
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