Persona Rearrange - The Fools and Aeon
So, I don’t want this arcanaswap/fateswap/whatever you would like to call it to go nowhere in my mind. So headcanon posts for the characters! Going through the arcana in order, almost completely!
This post will include headcanons for Fool!Ryoji Mochizuki, Fool/Aeon Slink!Metis, Fool!Naoto Shirogane, Aeon!Kanami Mashita, and Fool!Haru Okumura. 8 for playable characters (in their game of origin), 4 for slinks/others.
It’ll be under the cut!
Ryoji Mochizuki:
Very flirty like in canon, but doesn’t act on the flirting himself. He has a hard time rejecting someone if they confess first, though.
Pansexual. Can date anyone around his age.
He’s afraid of Hierophant!Mitsuru and Emperor!Shinjiro. He often vents to Lovers!Akihiko and Magician!Ken about that fact.
Doesn’t understand why Metis is so keen on protecting him, he doesn’t see himself as someone worth protecting.
Minato or Hamuko can take the role of canon Ryoji, depending on what weapon he chose in the context. It also affects a few of his Social Links (i.e. Star is Empress!Yukari and Moon is Hierophant!Mitsuru when Hamuko is in the role of canon Ryoji, while Star!Maiko and Moon!Mamoru take the role in Minato’s).
He catches onto the fact he’s going to die pretty quickly when shit hits the fan in December. He’s scared of that fact, but doesn’t tell anyone about it.
Elizabeth and Theo would both have the potential to be his attendants. Either way he finds their real-world antics to be hilarious.
Passes away right before everyone sans Metis makes it to the roof.
Metis:
More emotional than canon Aigis, she tries to hide the fact she loses her emotions in The Answer portion of this AU.
More violent, doesn’t realize she is being violent. The “switch” that’s supposed to keep her from attacking humans was broken in her first fight with death.
Curious about the world and attaches herself to other SEES members to try and learn. Lovers!Akihiko and Empress!Yukari are the ones she attaches to the most if you leave Ryoji out.
Way too intense when it comes to saving her “brother” in Persona 4 Arena. Emperor!Shinjiro and Empress!Yukari have to try and tell her to calm down.
Despite her more emotional state, she doesn’t understand death and how it can affect human beings past them being “sad”.
Has a penchant for getting herself hurt in battle. Priestess!Chidori basically has a mini-repair station at the dorms.
Dislikes bridges, it takes her a while to put a finger on where the dislike came from.
More likely to come to conflict with the other members of SEES during The Answer portion of this AU. She understands that fighting has to happen sometimes.
Naoto Shirogane:
Her family is still one known for detective work, but she doesn’t seem to have the same interest in that line of work. She just wants to focus on her studies.
Bisexual - Can date anyone around her age.
Wears shorts under any and everything to make herself more comfortable. Skirts, dresses, pants, even shorts? More shorts are underneath.
Tries to keep herself calm in stressful situations, but sweats a lot when it gets bad. This is often pointed out to her.
Despite having no interest in detective work, she has amazing deducing skills and figures out a lot about what’s going on in the spin offs fairly quickly.
Margaret is her attendant, Naoto can’t say she fully likes Margaret. Something about her makes Naoto uncomfortable, even though she knows there’s nothing wrong with her.
Doesn’t like Hierophant!Sayoko’s drinking buddy, Adachi, at all. She knows there’s a good reason for it from early on.
Still uses a gun, it was a keepsake from her grandfather. She always lies that it’s just a model gun.
Agatha (Kanami Mashita):
She takes on a role similar to canon Marie, an amnesiac who has a larger link to the plot than one might originally think.
Comes across as shy and nervous at first, but when she warms up she gets very cheery and energetic. Seems to especially like hanging out with Naoto.
Looks up to Margaret as an older-sister figure. Igor’s weird, but she likes him too.
The fog makes her a lot grumpier than usual. She always apologizes, but she just doesn’t get why it makes her feel so off.
Haru Okumura:
Didn’t end up in Tokyo because of being convicted of a crime. Still got in Shido’s way, but her father sent her away due to that being a risk to his future political career.
Lives with Hierophant!Sae and Hermit!Makoto in Sae’s actual home. She tries to stay out of the way when she first moves in.
Tried to garden when she was younger, but everything she touched seemed to die. Gave up on it, despite her love for it.
Pansexual - Can date anyone around her age.
Speaks a little French, picks her own code name based off her knowledge of the language. Suggests the french word for “Owl” for Empress!Hifumi. Everyone else thinks just going with Owl is better.
Kind to a flaw, she can’t keep her nose out of other’s business because she wants to help them. This has ended in her being burned more than a few times.
Suffers a lot of slips of the tongue when presented with someone even a little cute. Tries to cover it up but it never works.
Nervous about being the leader – She’s never seen herself as someone who can lead.