any prns - SPOILERS - legally obligated to disclose my goro akechi bias - I got to like page 80 on the sort by kudos p5 tag. theres something wrong with me
A Team of Rivals (2183 words) by vivalisse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro & Persona 5 Protagonist
Characters: The Phantom Thieves
Additional Tags: Everyone Gets A Nemesis, Akechi Gets A Dog, New Game Plus, Comedy, Ficlet
Summary:
Things aren’t quite the same this time round. The big things don’t seem to change—the Palaces. The bad guys. The reports on TV, another psychotic breakdown, another mental shutdown. But the small stuff varies a lot. Ren can check his old probation diary to compare: he meets different people on different days, he does different stuff, he starts working for Iwai way sooner, he doesn’t eat at Big Bang Burger so much. The biggest difference in this timeline that he’s been able to find is that both Yoshizawa sisters are alive. They’re the honor students, the two of them always together, whispered about by the rest of Shujin Academy. Sumire seems—not happy, exactly, but she does seem like herself. She doesn’t end up as Ren’s friend this time, and she doesn’t call him senpai. He misses her, but he’s glad for her as well.
So that’s different.
Also, Akechi has a dog now.
A very prolific author with many popular fics :) Often Shuake focused but a decent amount of attention elsewhere as well.
TOP THREE:
New Game + sans Akira (32,662)
This is a series, very accessible and light imo. Akechi POV focused.
Daredevil, You've Hit the Wall (321480 words)
Humongous Strikers rewrite with Sumi and Akechi in it also. I never played Strikers and now I never have to (JOKING... probably...). Some really excellent Joker meta as well!! If you're a fan of Joker palace fics you'll like this.
Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away (49274 words)
PERSONAL FAVORITE, Misato Akechi you will always be famous. Akechi's mother escapes Shido to find that her son is presumed dead. Gets pretty dark, special TW for SA.
This is a really popular subject so there are roughly ten million but here are some pretty good ones. I generally tend toward happy endings or I get too sad but hopefully this is a good starting point for you even if that's not what you're looking for.
All Those Pesky What Ifs (4286 words) by Lycor
Akechi and Joker re-enact 2/2 as a therapeutic exercise. It doesn't go as planned. Happy ending.
Dear Honey/Love Akira (22746 words) by Elsey8
Joker makes video diaries to cope with his grief. Happy ending.
now i lay me down to sleep (3411 words) by futuresoon
Deadline bad end AU. Joker sleeps. Akechi visits.
Shattering my heart (4833 words) by InkForest
Joker runs away from his grief into a perfect fantasy.
i'll give you all my life (my seasons) (25855 words) by astrocosmos
Still in progress, probably happy ending. Joker copes with grief in his hometown by texting a number that is no longer in service.
He Grows a Garden (2888 words) by Chromophilic_Daydream
Joker gets a tattoo.
FOR NO REASON AT ALL (2081 words) by zouzouqq
Joker wakes up with a ghost in his bed. Happy ending.
push it under, lift up the rug (6033 words) by silasalix
Joker has an existential crisis induced by 2/2 trauma. Happy ending.
in no particular order. I've read all of these at least three times. this is really just for me
let them eat (cup)cake (13115 words) by MisterEames
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Kurusu Akira (Persona Series), Takamaki Ann, Okumura Haru, Sakamoto Ryuji
Additional Tags: Food as a Metaphor for Love, Fluff, Idiots in Love, Misunderstandings, Goro Akechi is a hot mess, spoiler alert he is a jealous man, but has no reason to be, Happy Ending
Summary:
Goro Akechi is a great many things. An ace detective, a prodigy, a connoisseur of quality coffee. An expert marksman. Some might even call him an adequate friend, if the occasion calls for it.
What Goro Akechi is not, is a jealous man.
No, really.
So Stick Him in a Dress (16648 words) by redx3
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5, Persona Series
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Kurusu Akira, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Tatsumi Kanji, Shirogane Naoto
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Feminization, Rough Sex, Face-Fucking, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Top Persona 5 Protagonist, Bottom Akechi Goro, punishment cop joker, just. an obscene amount of lipstick honestly, Begging, Mutual Pining, akira uses she/her for part of the fic but not all of it, Mirror Sex
Summary:
“You brought a friend,” is what she says. Her face is carefully blank as she watches Goro’s coworkers send each other glances that Goro pretends he doesn’t see.
“Pleased to meet you,” Goro says and lays on the charm because fuck, he wants to make a good impression.
She makes a complicated expression, eyebrows pinching together and pursing her lips. Only for a moment, though, before her expression hardens into something determined and understanding. She ends up smirking, dark red lips parting to reveal a flash of dangerous sharp teeth. Goro’s head is reeling. “Nice to meet you,” She says, extending a single gloved hand toward him to shake.
All Those Pesky What Ifs (4286 words) by Lycor
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Akechi Goro & Kurusu Akira
Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, with some flashbacks, Getting Together, 2/2, Persona 5 Protagonist Needs a Hug, and therapy, but this is close enough, probably, Akechi Goro Needs a Hug, Reenactment as exposure therapy, Hurt/Comfort, because god knows they need it
Summary:
Akira had prepared himself for whatever ridiculous line Goro was prepared to recite. Perhaps another declaration of hatred? A cold remark on Akira’s sentimentality? Or, maybe Goro would go for the throat and announce he’s dead for all the world to hear.
Akira wasn’t prepared for the calm, simple, “hey,” Goro offered in return. The words were jarring, coming from the body of the man Akira once believed hated him.
So they were really doing this. No caricatures, no deceit, no pretending to be their old selves.
Just…them, alone together.
777 (7510 words) by arukana
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Akechi Goro, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist, Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Sakura Futaba, Kitagawa Yusuke, Niijima Makoto, Okumura Haru
Additional Tags: Gambling, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Wedding, Drinking, Fluff, Love Confessions
Series: Part 1 of put your money where your mouth is
Summary:
Goro and Ren spend a drunken night in Las Vegas. Ren wants to do something stupid, and what else is there to do in Vegas besides get married?
Flight through fall (16341 words) by Tayani
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Akechi Goro & Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira
Characters: Kurusu Akira, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Akechi Goro
Additional Tags: Post-Game(s), Depression, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Dissociation, Akira Is Not Doing Great, Hurt No Comfort, in prologue at least, Hurt/Comfort in the rest of the fic, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Feelings, Getting Together, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Medical Procedures, Hospitals
Summary:
“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
no other shade of blue (6875 words) by nikkiRA
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Akechi Goro, Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Persona 5 Protagonist
Additional Tags: Getting Together, First Kiss, Future Fic, Fluff and Humor
Summary:
“By ‘I did something,’ you meant you got a dog.”
“I didn’t get a dog,” Goro says, even though Ren is physically holding an actual dog. “I found a dog by the garbage, looking pathetic and smelly, and so I brought him up to bathe him.”
The thing inside Ren’s chest thuds harder, and he bites back a grin. “You saw a sad, scared little puppy and so you took him home,” he confirms, relishing in the way Goro’s ears turn pink.
on the nature of possession (22646 words) by HoneyCorvid
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira
Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Caroline (Persona Series), Justine (Persona Series)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Turned Into a Ghost, Temporary Character Death, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Velvet Room Contrivances, persona awakenings but no new personas, Haunting, Angst with a Happy Ending, Akechi Goro Needs a Hug, Canon-Typical Violence, Grief/Mourning, Akechi Goro Lives, Possessive And Unnerving Thoughts but it's akechi so it's really kind of the healthiest option, raising the dead with the power of love, Sleepovers
Summary:
Akira Kurusu is dead.
Goro knows this because he can see him. He’s standing beside the bar, miserable and translucent, his posture tight and eyes faded dull. He flinches every time someone suggests going back to the ship to get him, presumably because, like Goro, he knows what they’ll find. He wonders if he’s real— he assumes he can’t be. Ghosts aren’t an actual thing that exist, and it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for his own mind to finally have fucking cracked after a day like today.
It doesn’t matter. Either he’s finally snapped, because Akira is dead and it’s his fault, or he’s being haunted because Akira is dead and it’s his fault. The difference, in the moment, feels semantic.
(It's not like it's bad having him around. And if he's right and Goro can bring him back? Well. He's not going to get his hopes up.)
you and I are nothing special (25753 words) by SomewhereFlying
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist
Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Persona 5 Protagonist, Takamaki Ann
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Mutual Pining, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fluff
Summary:
Goro Akechi, youngest detective in Shibuya, model university student, and generally all-around beloved public figure, has been quietly nursing a spiteful grudge against the man who has meticulously controlled his image for his entire life. Now he has the opportunity to use his modest fame to hit his father where it hurts the most – his reputation – and roping a hapless barista into being his pretend lover is just the way to do it.
A Study in Distress (12017 words) by Xov
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Kurusu Akira, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro, Morgana (Persona 5), Takamaki Ann, Sakamoto Ryuji, Niijima Makoto, Okumura Haru, Kitagawa Yusuke, Sakura Futaba, Sakura Sojiro
Additional Tags: Humor, Case Fic, Mutual Pining, oblivious protag, oblivious akechi, non metaverse au, College Age AU, Friendship, protag went to akechi's high school instead of shujin, Light-Hearted, Pre-Relationship
Summary:
In an attempt to get rid of a long standing crush, Akira avoids his best friend for a month to no avail. Akechi Goro does not take to the idea very well and resorts to petty methods to force Akira to hang out with him -
like insisting he needs help on a boring case involving a string of thefts he never had any intention of looking into.
love's a fool's dance (8653 words) by shouldbeworking
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro, Morgana (Persona Series), Persona 5 Protagonist's Parents
Additional Tags: Making Out, being a teenager is pretty fucked up, yearning pining etc, ren gets his kisses in, goro has one hundred thousand crises, you should know me by now
Summary:
The booth in the corner, shrouded deep in shadow, is living up to its name again.
Here at the Jazz Jin one can find a delightful atmosphere, delightful drinks, delightful music—a delight all-around, barring one exception for anyone unfortunate enough to notice it: the kissing booth.
“Teenagers,” Goro says derisively.
“And how old are you?”
Fuck off, Goro grumbles to himself. To Ren, he says: “Old enough at least to be above that sort of disgraceful display, thank you very much.”
“Mm,” Ren hums, absently swirling his straw around his finger. “So have you ever kissed anyone?”
Goro chokes on his drink.
Hunger For A Life (57764 words) by Leonawriter
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Kurusu Akira & Sakura Futaba, Akechi Goro & Sakura Futaba
Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Sakura Futaba, Phantom Thieves of Hearts, Niijima Sae, Okumura Haru
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Vampire Akechi, Human Akira, Vampire Futaba, Trauma, so many of these kids are traumatised, canon-typical non-con references, Human/Vampire Relationship, Misunderstandings, Akechi Goro is Bad at Feelings, which feels like an understatement here, technically more of an urban fantasy au, but we're focusing on the vampires, Unreliable Narrator, all of them - Freeform, Akechi Goro and Sakura Futaba Are Half-Siblings, Mind Manipulation, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Implied/Referenced Suicide, it's the usual suspects
Series: Part 1 of Persona Urban Fantasy AU
Summary:
Featuring Goro Akechi, who has to learn to tell the difference between a crush and his predator instincts while balancing being a detective and a Metaverse hitman for his leech of a father, and Akira, who's dealing with trauma and pretending he's fine. Really, he's fine.
There's no way this could possibly go wrong.
(There is. There are several ways. All of them are bad.)
Pleasant Boy (38452 words) by ez_cookie
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Persona 5, Persona Series
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren
Characters: Akechi Goro, Kurusu Akira, Maruki Takuto, Yoshizawa Sumire | Yoshizawa Kasumi, Phantom Thieves of Hearts
Additional Tags: goro gets actualized during the maruki infiltration au, Psychological Horror, akira is pining, goro akechi is just very confused, the phantom thieves dont like sasskechi then he starts being nice, and then they go 'fuck go back', Angst
Summary:
During what should have been a routine day of infiltration, Crow gets snatched away by Maruki and returns as a shell of his former self. He's all polite smiles, wit, and charm, and Akira wants it undone as soon as possible.
the gray-eyed monster (12319 words) by unsungillumination
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Akechi Goro/Persona 5 Protagonist, Akechi Goro/Amamiya Ren, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro & Takamaki Ann, Amamiya Ren & Takamaki Ann, the phantom thieves & each other you get it
Characters: Akechi Goro, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Kurusu Akira, Takamaki Ann, Phantom Thieves of Hearts
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fluff
Summary:
Ren grins. “You want me to date Goro?”
“Pretend-date Goro,” Ann corrects. “And make his crush jealous.”
“This is not going to work,” Goro says.
“Sure, I’ll do it,” says Ren, still grinning. He does his own rendition of Ann’s eyelash bat. “Go out with me, Goro-kun?”
“I’m older than you, so show me a little respect,” Goro says crossly. “Our relationship is off to a bad start, Ren-kun.”
(or: what not to do when you're fake-dating your real crush.)
Spoilers for persona 5 royal! So many!! All the spoilers you can imagine!!
For context, new game plus is a mode you unlock after completing the game, where you can start a new save while keeping your items/personas/money/etc. It's not really meant to be taken literally but. it's free real estate
Warning: there's a lot of shuake in here so watch out
Oh Alice, There's no Reflection in the Looking Glass. (496095 words) by intothefrisson
Additional Tags: New Game Plus, Time Loop, Angst, Persona 5 Protagonist Has A Palace, Alice in Wonderland References, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Suicide Attempt, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, it's shiho, Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sort Of, idk how to explain, Shuake is later on lmao., NG+, Dissociation, Persona 4 Elements, Persona 5 Protagonist is from Inaba, Midnight Channel, The Midnight Channel (Persona 4), Art, Royal Details but no Third Semester)
The top completed fic by kudos. Has a lot of fun playing with how the game mechanics affect narrative, but the ending is really what makes it for me. If you only read one I'd recommend this one. Spoilers for base game, royal akechi confidant, and some significant persona 4. Contains semi-significant Shuakes.
it takes a village (137489 words) by shouldbeworking
(Chapters: 14/14
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Akechi Goro/p5r protagonaist
Characters: Akechi Goro, Persona 5 Protagonist, Amamiya Ren (Persona Series), Phantom Thieves of Hearts
Additional Tags: Unreliable Narrator, New Game Plus, kind of, You’ll see, oops! all headcanons, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Canon-Typical Violence, Underage Drinking, Mutual Pining, Sexual Content)
One of my favorites. NG+ from akechi's perspective, without the context. Such good character writing I'm clawing at the walls. There's sex scenes but they are pretty vague, so if you don't like it you can just skip it. Also pretty Shuake-centric but not the entire point.
marigolds (671105 words) by colbub
Chapters: 68/?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Second Chances, Friendship, No Beta, Slow Burn, a tonne of introspection, even if akechi is still not a great person, he does the right thing this time, spoilers p3-p5r
Series: Part 1 of of marigolds and carnations
Akechi NG+. Massive and still not complete. Full of fully developed original characters, and starts from the beginning of Akechi's contract with Shido, so you get the jist. Everybody knows this one. It took me a long time to get around to reading it but yeah its exactly what I would have wanted. Vague spoilers for p4 and massive spoilers for p3, including portable. If you like persona 3, you'll probably be happy with their inclusion. Heavy focus on character relationships and introspection. Shuakes included.
L’appel du vide (154039 words) by Xov
Chapters: 21/?
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Friendship, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Romance, New Game Plus, that Akira didn't ask for, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Akira has problems, Mystery, probably all the tropes, Unreliable Narrator, Humor, Angst, "not-triangle" triangle, Residual Feelings
The top fic by kudos. Shuake-centric. Akira's having a bad time. A lot of people really like this one. I remember the writing being good but nothing sticks out to me.
Keep What You Steal (27228 words) by KivaEmber
Chapters: 8/?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Persona 5: The Royal Spoilers, New Game Plus, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Bodyswap, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Identity Issues, Time Travel, Complicated Relationships, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Identity Swap, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Kamoshida basically (he should be his own tag in p5 goddamn)
Summary:
This didn’t make sense. They were supposed to return to their reality with the collapse of Maruki’s Palace, not- not travel back in time and land in the wrong bodies.
or;
Both Akira and Akechi begin a New Game Plus, except whoever booted them back had very poor aim.
This au is so fun but Kiva seems to have switched focus, so I wouldn't expect an update any time soon. I recommend most of their stuff actually.
The Count of Monte Cristo (15894 words) by Scedasticity
Chapters: 4/4
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Okumura Haru, Niijima Makoto, Akechi Goro
Additional Tags: New Game Plus, Sort Of, some things are hard to fix but you can keep them from breaking to start with
Series: Part 1 of Start Again
Summary:
After losing to the Holy Grail and fading away in Shibuya, Haru wakes up at the beginning of the school year -- of her first year of high school. It's not ideal, but she'll do what she has to. As soon as she figures out what that is.
Cannot recommend this series enough. Gen fic with love and attention for all the thieves. AND it starts with beloved Haru. We are diverging from canon at an unheard of rate. Only one on this list that doesn't have shuake hahaha
Additional Tags: goro is not sure why hes alive and regrets being alive for 4k words, Akechi Goro Leads the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, but only because they know he doesnt want to, pre-redemption goro, the thieves are here for the long con, New Game +
Series: Part 1 of New Game + sans Akira
Summary:
Goro shouldn't be alive, but he is. The Phantom Thieves shouldn't remember the past timeline, but they do. But if that's the case… why isn't Akira with them?
NEW GAME + SANS AKIRA AU
What it says on the tin. NG+ but Akira doesn't remember. Light, akechi centric w shuakes. It's got good character writing and it's fun!! Most importantly!!
Faith for the second run (344172 words) by senblades
Chapters: 56/?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Time Travel, Sumi doesn't know what's going on, And Neither Does Anyone Else, Royal Trio centric, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Akechi Goro Has Social Links | Confidants, Miscommunication, in the sense that the Royal Trio have decided to dig their graves and lie in them, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
Sumire feels the weight of a year forgotten crash onto her shoulders.
Wasn’t their deadline February third?
And -oh no- It’s April, how had she not noticed entire months passing in Maruki’s false reality? She checks her phone, and does a double take.
April 4, 2016
2016? But- wasn’t it?
No. Oh no.
“Shoot.” She hisses under her breath.
Well, Sumire thinks somewhat hysterically, it's at least an improvement over being trapped in Maruki’s reality.
---
After Ren makes the wrong decision at the end of the world, Sumire Yoshizawa is thrown a year into the past, with the vague goal of making things right.
This would, of course, be a significantly easier task if she had any idea what she’s supposed to do.
OUGH faith for the second run... Being written at a crazy fast pace. Sumire NG+. Queen of my heart light of my life, finds herself in an odd relationship to the phantom thieves. And akechi's there too or something. Senblades if you see this I owe you my life
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - New Game Plus, Reunions, The very specific grief only time travel can give you, Implied/Referenced Suicide, attempts. anyway. it's shiho she'll be fine, Pining, akechi goro is startlingly competent at feelings for once, Pre-Relationship, is there a word for making yourself complicit in murder, so the guy that shot you one time will join your gay little terrorist organization, if there is: that., Akechi joins the Phantom Thieves during the Kamoshida arc
Series: Part 1 of Playing Hero (third time's the charm),
Shuake NG hijinks. I'm gonna be honest I'm obsessed with this one. I recommend the series. That's it really.
Punching in a Dream (6740 words) by OpheliaDusk
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persona 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Okumura Haru/Sakamoto Ryuji
Characters: Okumura Haru, Sakamoto Ryuji
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship
Summary:
Ryuji isn't sure whether Haru's looking for a companion, a date, or a bodyguard, but whichever it is, no way he's turning her down.
fics not written this week, but fitting the prompt: amnesia/hobbies/roleswap
AMNESIA:
To Grate Against the World (21036 words) by pretentiousashell
Post-canon amnesia on Joker's part, but also ignore that because this one has NAOTO SHIROGANE. hit like for NAOTO SHIROGANE and his weird older brother/mentor/parent relationship with Akechi.
Can't remember to forget you (3797 words) by Ren_Saxon
Post-canon Joker amnesia x2. Pretty short and sweet, really good mental image of Joker meeting a talking cat post-amnesia and going "yeah sure".
Sleeping Mountains (62770 words) by Dots (incomplete)
Akechi amnesia this time. Ohya of all people finds the ex-detective prince and has to figure out what the fuck to do from there.
HOBBIES:
Damage over Time (18465 words) by rabbitprint
P5 retelling about playing an mmo with your friends. You WILL read damage over time. Calling it shuake is maybe a stretch, closer to pre-slash if anything. However you WILL read Damage over Time. You don't need to understand mmo's, but if you do I think it will be especially rewarding.
Plantslaughter (82138 words) by Ariaofthewinds
this one is about taking care of plants so I think it counts. It's also about disability and also about being in love. phoenix wright is there (briefly) i dunno read it
roll for initiative (5734 words) by HoneyCorvid, malevolentmango
They play DnD together :)
ROLESWAP:
Whatever You Recommend (3199 words) by end_alls
REALLY good concept, different from usual
ex machina (110338 words) by haejjoon (incomplete)
ex machinaaaaaaa. this fic has everything. akechi being a bitch. akechi making friends. fake dating. yusuke kitagawa. author also draws really really good art u WILL look at it.
False Pretenses (2754 words) by Lycor
slightly different roleswap, round robin situation w/ the royal trio, meaning akechi is in sumire's place and sumire is the leader of the phantom thieves ITS good
