#[But yes! Full proper P5 verse!]

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To elaborate on Chii’s post here, Eirika’s been given a ‘proper‘ P5 AU!

The Renais household is a well-to-do French family of three: Fado and his twin son and daughter Ephraim and Eirika. In order to stay well-to-do, Fado explores business options outside of Europe and finds potential in a project in Japan, but pursuing it would mean moving there for a prolonged period of time. Unwilling to leave his children behind, he takes them with him, and the family moves to Japan.

Aged down to 16-17 to better fit with the P5 cast, Eirika makes it into Kosei High School on a dance scholarship, practicing classic ballet and reading literature on the side with a local book club. This means she can easily run into the likes of Araceli, Pearl’s Innes, and possibly Yusuke on the school grounds and hit it off with them.

Ephraim, on the other hand, is a troublemaker who solves problems with his fists, so Kosei doesn’t want him. Instead, he gets stuck in Shujin where he meets Biki- it’s most likely through Ephraim that Eirika meets Hibiki and, by proxy, most of the Phantom Thieves.

There is one more member of the family who moves with Fado and the twins: their chauffeur, Seth. A former marine who was honourably discharged when injured in the line of duty, he double-serves as a bodyguard when in the twins’ presences and is more than capable of fending off any ruffian who comes near them. He provides the Phantom Thieves with a quick and cheap way to travel without having to use the subway. Whether or not he knows about the metaverse thing is anyone’s guess, because he never acknowledges any weirdness that is accidentally mentioned in his presence.

Lyon’s exact place int he world isn’t really set in stone, but he is still a dear friend of the twins. Eirika soon notices that her friend acts more and more strangely, and having a mild interest in the Phantom Thieves, eventually puts a post on the Phan-site: “I don’t know how real this is, but if there is a one in a million chance that it is, I have to try: Please help my friend.” She helps the party throughout the preparations to get into Lyon’s palace and accidentally gets dragged in when they go into the Metaverse.

In Lyon’s Palace, during a battle that quickly goes south, Eirika hears a voice asking her if she’s just going to watch and do nothing, or if she wants to protect them and take her responsibility for bringing them into here in the first place. Deciding to protect not only the party, but also Lyon from his own darkness, she awakens to her Persona then and there, and formally joins the Phantom Thieves at that moment.

Her starting Persona is still Gleipnir, a demonic hound bound by an unbreakable chain, and her ultimate persona is still Cerberus, the three-headed guard hound of the underworld. Her codename is still Duchess, her melee weapon is still the rapier, and her gun is probably just a simple pistol. I may have to look at her Arcana again, but for the moment it’s still Death.