#persona 5 arcanaswap

[amourcherie606]

Last Deck! Goro Akechi - The Lovers, Codename: Raven Vice President of Kosei Academy, greets Ann on her first day due to the student council President being in a "passionate art spree". One wouldn't think much about him beyond being him being the perfect student, yet exploring Kamoshida's palace leads Heart, Sumi, and Rudis to find a cognitive version of Kosei's Vice Prez in one of Shido's cells. Upon questioning in the real world, Goro reluctantly reveals their current job - A "cross dresser" at Crossroads. Kamoshida caught him in the red light district and even managed to take pictures of him, leading to Goro being blackmailed.

Upon realizing Ann and Shiho clearly have a plan in regards to Kamoshida, Goro follows them secretly. You can gather what happens next, Kamoshidas Palace. Upon unlocking his persona, he's confronting more than just Kamoshida's shadow, but his own thoughts. Goro is breaking free from society's shackles and POV of who he is. He'll decide that. He's unsure of his gender but he sure as hell ain't a man. Goro's confidant follows him on a path of self-discovery and confidence. Goro's orderly life has fallen into chaos as he faces all sorts of challenges, but thankfully Ann Takamaki is here to be his rock! Along with Shiho and Sumire. During his confidant, Ann gets introduced to Irene Akechi and his two little sisters. Along with potentially even working at crossroads with him (under SWORN secrecy). Goro may try to put up thorny, scary walls but Ann, over time, makes those walls go down, along with the rest of the phantom thieves.

Raven is a curse user who specials in insta-kill moves and increasing attack. She typically uses her gauntlet-talons to cause intense physical damage, often favoring lunging at her opponents. Her base persona is Odlie. She's a powerhouse alright, but you need to keep an eye on her health since she's prone to self-destructive tendencies. As a perk from a mysterious benefactor - unknown to the phantom thieves -, Raven has the ability of flight, being able to have wings on/off. Allows for better mobility, scouting, mapping, sneak attacks, and increased physical attacks via her literally diving at foes.

[suncrat]

Meet the Phantom Thieves from my Arcanaswap AU!

[wildcard-futaba]

Poe's Masquerade

[rollthedice-playthecards]

Futaba: I’m gonna need a human skull and I can't have you ask any questions why. Goro: Only if you also don't ask why. Goro, pulling out 7 pristine human skulls from Makoto's desk drawer: Take your pick. Futaba: ... Goro: ... Futaba: ... this one is fine- Akira, walking up the stairs: Hey, this one looks sorta like Kamoshida. Can I- Goro, grinning immediately and wing-batting the skull into Akira's hands: Hide the pieces and it's yours.

[brokenhardies]

FOOLSUKE WIP

to make up for me dropping bitbo/foolsuke;

so basically the story starts the same as the canon persona 5 - instead of akiren being arrested its yusuke

yusuke moves to shibuya in with a family friend (ohya) and goes to shujin academy where he meets his teacher takuto maruki and principal shido

first day of school ends up meeting popular streamer futaba isshiki and burnout goro akechi - ends up in shido’s palace inspired by the roman empire and awakens to his persona nezumi (or goemon depending on the draft)

they meet magician sumire (who’s a bunny rabbit) in the dungeons and free her in exchange for her helping them find an exit - her persona is giselle from the ballet of the same name

once they get back to the real world yusuke discovers that his record has been leaked - later when meeting goro on the roof goro confirms its because shido leaked it due to him viewing yusuke as a threat to his perfect school

shido’s basically a control freak who wants shujin to be perfect and rules the school with an iron fist - he brings students for ‘private study sessions’ that mostly consist of berating and occasionally physically abusing them - his sin is wrath instead of lust for that reason

so they end up in the palace a second time thanks to goro wanting to get more information on shido’s victims so he can officially report him to the police

instead what happens is that yusuke finds out that goro is shido’s bastard son with goro trying desperately to punish him for leaving him (and failing miserably) - goro awakens to his persona black bart

two days pass and yusuke finds out that futaba was the one who leaked his record, with her doing it so shido would stop harassing her friend kana - kana attempts suicide the next day and yusuke, goro and hifumi (who replaces mishima) are threatened with expulsion by shido

futaba wants to join yusuke and goro in the palace and they reluctantly let her come along - she gets captured by shido and awakens to her persona charlotte

that’s basically the first half of the story down so ill give the next palace rulers;

we have envy kaneshiro who takes the role of madarame with emperor akira and ren as his students - akira is the one who ends up in the palace and awakens to shūang bian (based on huyan zhuo from water margin)

then greed okumura who tbh is basically just the same but he’s a mafia don and is trying to make haru take over his position - priestess haru awakens to la pucelle (joan of arc’s nickname) in his palace

hermit ryuji who’s palace is a shipwreck slowly overflowing with water, who’s an amputee who blames himself for his mother’s death and his father’s abuse and his father is the boss of his palace in the form of a giant sea monster that attacks the ship - his persona is orwell

empress ann who’s mother basically is selling her models into sex slavery - her palace takes the form of a ochaya and ann joins the team in order to save her friend shiho - her persona is adler

after ann’s mom dies, detective princess makoto joins wanting to change the heart of her sister sae - november 11th happens and we discover that makoto is the traitor after she attempts to murder yusuke

palace 8 is madarame - who is actually yusuke’s biological dad and the man who got yusuke arrested that fateful night - his palace takes the form of a train with the engine room fight instead happening in the coal room - makoto’s true persona is alecto

they defeat madarame but oops! god of control! i dont have much of a plot for this but yusuke’s second tier is mephistopheles bc that’s fun

then the third semester features antag councillor takemi and her ‘guinea pig’ satoru yoshizawa - actually masaru yoshizawa aka morgana - his persona is don quixote

and that’s it! i also had a plan for strikers with the jail monarch’s switching and zenkichi & akane switching places with ichinose & sophia as well as a brief tactica concept with eri and yoshiro switching places but that’s basically it lol

i also altered the plot at some point having emperor makoto, empress morgana and faith akiren but that was before i dropped it lol

[valdrinors-writing]

inspired by @beezonia here are some of the foolsuke personas (in random order)

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black bart (named after the western outlaw)

gentileschi (artemisia gentileschi - baroque painter tortured for answers at her rapist's trial)

giselle (titular ballet character)

charlotte (charlotte corday - the woman who assassinated jean paul marat)

orwell (george orwell - the author of 1984 and animal farm, best known for his political commentary)

dantés (edomund dantés - titular count of monte christo, taking revenge on his friends who framed him for a crime)

vasilisa (named after the russian fairy tale protag vasalisa the beautiful)

elena (aka olga of kiev, who was so angered by her husband's execution, she violently retaliated)

karnstein (carmilla karnstein - named after and based on the iconic lesbian vampire carmilla)

don quixote (named after the somewhat delusional main character of don quixote, who geniunely wishes to be a hero)

kuranosuke (ōishi kuranosuke - the leader of the 47 ronin, a classic tale of revenge and loyalty)

[moyangi]

persona 5 (royal) but mishima yuuki is the wild card.

extra: everyone else is swapped around too and the phantom thieves consist of confidants, side characters, and one off characters that have zero canon personality.

[monochromaticblue]

I love hermit Akira sm. However I have to rewrite THE ENTIRE PALACE.

His shadow has much less of a role than Futabas, the three wardens the thieves encounter constantly eluding to the “deadly prisoner” being kept on the top floor of the prison.

Cognitive Ren, Kenji and Aya (YES THEIR PARENTS HAVE NAMES NOW.) act as unhelpful tour guides throughout the palace, leaving the thieves to handle enemies and puzzles on their own.

The final door to the solitary confinement cell is the equivalent to Akiras bedroom door. Up until Akiras awakening his shadow doesn’t really do much aside from begging the thieves to let him rot in his cell like he deserves and rambling about how he killed his family.

One day I’ll sit down and work out the mechanics and actual plotline. That day is not today.

[thebigpapilio]

so everyone knows my ASAU of Persona 5 Royal, A Righteous Rebellion. right? And we're all also aware of @scruffyturtles' Adult Confidant AU?

well I sorta fused them? tldr: i made a (mostly) Adult Confidant AU for ARR! Details below, if you're interested - and if you have any questions about it, please ask @rollthedice-playthecards or this blog here!

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ARR! CANON-STANDARD TRIGGER WARNINGS!

The Fool and Strength (i.e. Igor & Caroline/Justine/Lavenza) are the same. Otherwise, everyone's changed.

The World (i.e. Protagonist) is Tae Takemi!

Her parents were abusive shitheads to her, and she got into a program that helped her escape for Tokyo.

Her first Persona is Merit-Ptah, a fictitious woman purported to be a chief physician of an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh and thus one of the oldest known women in medicine and science.

The Magician is Sadamu Niijima (transmasc!Sae)!

The home invasion that killed Mr. Niijima also led to his death, but Igor came upon his soul and reincarnated him into a hound (because of Shadow Sae's tattoos) for The Yaldabaoth Game™.

His first Persona is Turiddu, a Sicilian bandit whose gang was "legally held responsible" for a massacre, although the entirely of their role in it is disputed.

The Priestess is Sadayo Kawakami!

She was a member of Student Council, but when she brought up Kamoshida's abuse to Principal Omon "Bael" Kobayakawa, she lost her seat. Kobayakawa actually replaces Kaneshiro as the third major target.

Her first Persona is Elissa, legendary founder and queen of Carthage... oh, and I will be shipping her with Tae for my Kawakemi agenda. :)

The Empress is Chihaya Fukurai (Mifune)!

Yuichi "Mammon" Fukurai, her adoptive father, runs Fukurai Foods (Big Bang Burger's owner and more). Chihaya was setting up to inherit the business when Yuichi "changed his mind" and prepared to sell her off in an arranged marriage to Rikio Sugimura.

Her first Persona is Lakshmibai, an Indian rani who rebelled against the Bri'ish.

The Emperor is Sojiro Sakura!

He's a culinary prodigy studying under his adoptive parent (I haven't decided who yet, but they're Azazel) - a TV chef who runs a kids' competition a la Chopped Junior. They definitely abuse some of those kids.

His Initial Persona is Hamlet, the famous Shakespearean Prince of Denmark.

The Hierophant is Makoto Niijima, owner of Cafe Bianca.

She's been looking for her estranged younger "sister" for years now.

The Lovers is Munehisa Iwai!

Munehisa is Shujin’s star athlete. Excels in every sport in Shujin except volleyball, from which he was banned after standing up to Suguru "Asmodeus" Kamoshida.

Kaoru, his younger brother here, takes the role of Shiho, and Akimitsu Tsuda and Masa replace Nakaoka and Takeishi.

His Initial Persona is Barrow, a Great Depression-era criminal who robbed small stores, funeral homes and banks with his partner Ms. Parker.

The Chariot is Ichiko Ohya!

Leader of the photography club. She caught photos of Kamoshida’s dirty deeds in the past and is trying to find a way to expose them anonymously. Oh, and she has a long-distance girlfriend named Kayo.

Her Initial Persona is O'Malley, an Irish pirate queen so violent Elizabeth I considered sending the Royal Fleet after.

Justice is Toranosuke Yoshida!

I sort of split Goro's two roles in this AU. Toranosuke plays the Detective Prince trying to solve the case of mental shutdowns (+ the Phantom Thief case), but his brother-by-choice Benzo Kuramoto plays assassin and mental-shutdown-inducer for Masao Kuramoto, his grandfather. Tora joins the team in Oda's Palace, and they fight Benzo in Kuramoto's Palace - that's where Toranosuke achieves his Second Persona.

Speaking of Personas, his Initial one is Greenlefe, Robin Hood's second-in-command and the only one present at his death.

The Hermit is Takuto Niijima (Maruki)!

Makoto had a brief stint as a police officer, but after a influential asshole (Kuramoto) drove drunk and killed one Tomoyo Rumi, she attempted to dig into the situation and was dishonorably discharged. Soon after, she met Rumi's boyfriend, Takuto (an orphan with one shitty relative), and took him in.

He would be a third-year if he was still in school. He’s wasting away as he grieves Rumi's death. He can’t bring himself to kill himself, but he also doesn't want to be alive anymore.

His Initial Persona is Popol Vuh, a religious text of the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ Guatemalans.

The Fortune is Hifumi Hibino (Togo)!

After Mitsuyo disowned Hifumi for coming out as lesbian, Hifumi moved in with her wife Haru (they both end up with Makoto later). Hifumi took up busking/street shogi, not wanting to be reliant on Haru.

The Hanged Man is Akira Kurusu!

Not much for this guy right now - like Canon!Munehisa, he's an ex-yakuza who runs Indomptable, an airsoft store. Ren is his adoptive son.

Death is Sumire Yoshizawa!

A medical misdiagnosis (by her biological mother Yui, not that she knows it) left Sumire's sister in a coma. Ever since, Sumire can't see anyone unconscious without thinking of Kasumi.

Temperance is Ryuji Sakamoto!

An orphaned man who teaches PE at Shujin and moonlights in an escort service to take care of himself and his son Morgana.

Just after his college years, his mom's ex-husband killed her and then killed himself to escape the police, so he has no support system. Thus, he got himself into trouble with a duo of loan sharks so he could look presentable enough to replace Kamoshida.

He, Ann and Shiho were friends in high-school, but he never saw them again after graduating.

The Devil is Ann Takamaki!

An up-and-coming actress working hard to make it big. She's keeping her sexuality (and her girlfriends Shiho Suzui and Mika Abe) under wraps from everyone, including her manager.

At the end of the Confidant, she moves in with her old friend (and future boyfriend) Ryuji after Tae mentions him.

The Tower is Goro Shido (Akechi)!

Goro is a very temperamental young man with no methods of healthily and safely letting out his anger at the world and his shitty, abusive father.

After Shido's heart is changed, Ryuji (and Ann and Shiho) take Goro in.

The Star is Zenkichi Hasegawa!

Even if Zen doesn't know it, he's the best player in the shogi club at Kosei. It's discovered their "team" has been fixing matches, and Zenkichi is determined to find out who's cheating.

Jyun Owada, his senpai and club president, is jealous, and is trying to cause strife between him and his girlfriend Aoi to weaken him.

The Moon is Sophia Ichinose!

Sophia is a Greek immigrant who moved to Japan for work opportunities. She's Tae's science teacher, so Tae really likes her. Her daughter Kuon, however, has fallen in with a HORRIBLY nasty crowd - a bigoted group who hates (among other groups of people) Kuon's adoptive mother. Kuon, naturally, is conflicted, and this leads to conflict between her and Sophia.

The Sun is Haru Hibino!

A young politician whose bold eat-the-wealthy mentality does not sit well with older generations - for example, her father Kunikazu, who disowned her and silently smeared her campaigns so she'd waste her inheritance and never expose his criminality.

In the end of the whole story, Haru legalizes polyamorous marriage!

Judgement is Shinya Oda!

Uses they/them pronouns here.

After Shinya's mother Hanae was killed in cold blood, they joined the SIU to find the killer. She did something to piss off Kuramoto, though, so he and the director do everything they can to keep Shinya away from that.

The Faith is Wakaba Isshiki!

Daughter of Shujin's new counselor. A science prodigy.

I don't have much ideas for her yet, never mind her Personas.

The Councillor is Futaba Isshiki!

Shujin's aforementioned new counselor in the wake of Kamoshida's arrest. Believing the world to be "without life" without her deceased fiancee Kana, her Palace becomes a Graveyard, where she "raises the dead" by fixing their problems.

She only has one Persona - Chac Chel, an important Maya goddess of many things, most prominently both creation and destruction.

The Hope is Yuuki (Mishima)!

His ranged weapon is eye lasers. They use both he/him and they/them.

An A.I. made by Katsuo Akiyama, a regretful high-school bully who caused one of his victims to commit suicide.

Their first Persona is Thyrsus - a giant fennel staff that Yuuki uses like a weapon alongside the Persona aspect of it.

The Apostle is Yusuke Kitagawa!

The only original Phantom Thief to keep the power of Persona.

Ordered by Madarame Ichitaro (the killer of his mother and Police Commissioner) to investigate the Phantom Thieves after a series of mass heart-changings occur again.

Akane has a brother, Natsuhiko, and they share the Jail. Their mother, Takayo (Yusuke's beard) is still dead.

His Persona is Enjolras, and he later gets with Akira.

Lastly, a unique Arcana - The Actor, Morgana Sakamoto!

A theater prodigy at his school (not Shujin or Kosei) and Ryuji's son. He has no clues to his past before Ryuji, and he wants to know, but he also wants his dad to be happy. At the end of the Strikers arc, Lavenza becomes human, and he and Goro get the Sakamotos to adopt her as well.

Reminder once again to post any questions about this AU to @rollthedice-playthecards!

[rindomness]

outfit dump for my p5 arcanaswap ng+ au that @englishbreakfastandquills has been helping me with (read: listening to me ramble madly about for hours and occasionally providing input. thank you bestie <3)

[president-homewrecker-arts]

My piece for Empress Reversed chapter 5!!! It's been a while but I finally managed a piece i'm really happy with

[amourcherie606]

My P5 Arcana Swap Au!! Last Deck! The Arcana has been shuffled so many times, the last stand against Yaldabaoth. I've rehashed this arcana swap so many times 😭 I need to do a comparison post...

Anywayz! Fool!Ann Takamaki as been sent to Kosei Academy for...reasons she had enough of kamoshida. During her time she meets a talking Weasel Sumire and a Lovers!Goro Akechi, along with a few others oddballs... to be seen!

Metaverse Sumire and Ann! Or as they say in the metaverse, Sumi and Heart! :3 I'm super happy with how these pookis turned out,, I'm gonna have a separate post filled with scrapped concepts n stuff!!

[suncrat]

Concept art sketches for my Arcanaswap au!

[diamondverse-swapann]

for the founding members of the phantom thieves (ann, futaba, morgana and akira), how did you create the team and why? was there any specific reason? and who are your specific personas?

Ann: Me and Kiki got caught wandering into Kamoshida's Palace on my first day in Tokyo. Thank god for Adler... you saved my life, you know.

Adler, from within Ann's heart: I was simply standing up for myself, milé dítě.

Akira: After we got out of our hole, we found Gerbil Girl in one of that scumbag's jailcells.

Futaba: Would you stop calling me that? I'm not a gerbil!

Akira: Sorry, sorry... we do owe you for guiding us through the Metaverse and how it works and all.

Futaba: And don't you forget it!

Futaba, puffing her chest out proudly: Anyways, me and Upland helped them get out. The day after, of course, these two dumbasses came back...

Morgana: At least Kiki awakened to Antiochus!

Ann, giggling: You were pretty badass, Kiki.

Ann's smile falls.

Ann: Then, Kamoshida raped Scimia Lavenza, Morgana's older sister-by-choice. He didn't like how Morgana wasn't doing as he told him to...

Akira, scowling: Or that Morgana wouldn't let him do the same to him. Bastard had her attempting suicide.

Morgana, slightly teary-eyed: She and I are orphans, so we have no legal protections. Wasn't that enough trouble?

Morgana: In any case, when I heard that Big Bro, Ann and even Oda-senpai stood up to Kamoshida, I demanded they let me help avenge Lavenza. One thing led to another, and me and El Çid filled out the founding Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

Ann: And now we're always looking for people in need of help, so we can give them hope.

She pulls her friends into a group hug.

Ann: Hehe... moving to Tokyo is one of the best things that ever happened to me!

Even if it only happened because of the worst thing to ever happen to me...

[rollthedice-playthecards]

Goro, joining the rest of the gang for the next Palace trip: Hello, fellow idiots. Akira: Hi, Goro! Goro: No, no, not you, you're not an idiot. Futaba: You underestimate him.

[brokenhardies]

Foolsuke Kaneshiro Arc meme

bc im in an awful mood this morning; here's a funny about foolsuke

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