#two ideas rn. the one I’m favoring involves Minato on a solo mission to save his sister from the great seal

[persona-minty]

All of the Phantom Thieves have their own kind of thief archetype that they fit into or were styled after. Like Ann is a cat burglar, an archetype commonly seen in western cartoons and comics. Ryuji is a pirate, Futaba is a hacker, etc. And then of course Joker is styled after the quintessential phantom thief, and Akechi is styled after the detective characters that usually go hand in hand with that archetype.

My point is, when trying to add on an additional Phantom Thief it’s cool to try to think of a sort of archetype to style them into. So anyway, I was thinking about an AU where Minato Arisato (P3 male protagonist) is a Phantom Thief.

Orpheus is Minato’s initial persona, which I think fits remarkably well with the Phantom Thieves already. While Orpheus is a figure in Greek Mythology, he’s also a figure in a folk tale like the rest of the P5 initial personas are. And in that story, Orpheus ventures down into the underworld to retrieve his dead wife’s soul and return her to the land of the living. Now, this might be a bit of a stretch, but it could be interpreted as him stealing his wife back from the underworld.

You see where I’m going with this.

I think that’s a cool idea; a thief specifically geared towards stealing the souls of the dead, or essentially stealing from death itself. I also think this melds remarkably with both Persona 3 and Persona 5’s themes, in differing ways. (Also it’s worth noting that the Reaper in persona is weighed down by chains, and Persona 5 has a thing of breaking chains.)