I'm really curious why you like naogis so much, give me propaganda!
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I have to preface this with a big disclaimer of: The version of Naogis I REALLY love so much is Super self indulgent, with my P6 AU Naoto. BUT I do think they also have a lot of potential without that too.
I he/him Naoto here but it's whatever I don't care
On Aigis' side:
A lot of my thoughts on her here hinge on the fact that this is her second ever relationship, after P3MC
This can apply to any ship w/ her after P3, but since her love for P3MC was pretty much programmed into her, I really like exploring the idea of her developing those feelings naturally for the first time. It ties into her her struggle with finding her own autonomy pretty well.
With Naoto specifically, assuming this isn't FeMC universe (sorry Kotone I love you)*, his resemblance to P3MC both in appearance and, on a very surface-level, behaviorally could catch Aigis' attention. Depending on how angsty you want to get with it, she could keep unhealthily comparing the two of them.
* You could do the same with Kotone technically but the comparisons are much weaker. Though when you dig under the bare surface level for either, the comparisons don't hold that well anyway - they are intentionally shallow - so this could still work.
Aigis in P3 has a lot of trouble coping with the fact she is not a human, and that makes her feel like she doesn't qualify as a real girl. This is in a weird way kindof an inverse of Naoto's gender struggles, with all of his shadow's robotic themes.
On Naoto's side:
I generally perceive Naoto to very rarely experience romantic feelings (or maybe, rarely *let* himself experience them), and generally being pretty uninterested in the idea, not wanting to be that distracted from his work. I think he's enough of a tech nut that hearing Aigis is an android immediately piques his interest and establishes a base connection he doesn't really feel with other humans. (This one is actually backed up by canon it's so cute thank you PQ)
Outside of my AU stuff that's really my biggest draw on Naoto's part. Mutual interest, both for very surface-level reasons, but hopefully they get to know each other better :3
Welcome to my Crazy Zone. I'll go into a bit more depth on my AU Naoto and talk about P6!Naoto x Aigis just in case anyone is interested in that. I'll try to keep it brief:
P6!Naoto Summary
P6!Naoto stems off of my Detective Princes narrative, wherein Naoto goes to Tokyo during P5 to investigate the Phantom Thieves and ends up getting tangled up with Akechi in the process. Akechi catches his fascination, and he begins wondering what exactly the general public sees in Akechi to grant him Naoto's title of Detective Prince.
It really doesn't work out for Naoto though. Akechi is Naoto's only real link to the case, and you can imagine he isn't exactly open & honest with information. Naoto has his suspicions and I can definitely see him finding the Phantom Thieves on his own and beginning to dabble in the metaverse, but too late. He ultimately doesn't act in time, and P5 plays out exactly like it does in canon. Naoto feels like he never truly understood Akechi and sees this as a personal failing as a detective.
Do keep in mind that Naoto, being a prodigy detective from a young age, is a bit privileged and stakes a lot of his personal worth on his work. This on top of the grief of having invested emotionally in Akechi makes this a very deep cut for him that he has absolutely no clue how to cope with.
The premise of this AU is the idea of Naoto taking into account the facts of:
- He has experience with both the TV World and the Metaverse. How many other people know this much about Shadow worlds? Likely very, very little.
- In these Shadow worlds, he saw the world get scarily close to ending. Twice. The situation is alarmingly precarious.
- If Akechi, his successor, turned out like he did, what does that mean for Naoto?
"Persona 6" here simply refers to Naoto's new case, investigating the cause of the Shadow worlds and his attempts at finding a definitive way to stop them. Partially for the sake of the world itself, mostly to help him feel better about himself for fucking up the Phantom Thieves case so bad. And out of grief for Akechi.
P6!Naoto x Aigis
To properly investigate the Shadow Worlds, Naoto must account for any he didn't have experience with. He learns of the Kirijo Group and gets in touch, meeting Aigis in the process.
She is literally everything he could ever hope for.
Aigis has deep experience with a Shadow world Naoto doesn't know about. She's a wild card. She was literally built to fight Shadows. Aigis is a deep well of knowledge that Naoto absolutely wants to take advantage of.
On Aigis' side, I think she still struggles with finding a purpose after P3. To my understanding she resolves to live for her friends in P3, which is very noble but not exactly the healthiest way of thinking. Maybe unluckily for her, Naoto makes her feel very VERY useful. On top of drawing comparisons to P3MC, this compels her to stick around.
Good thing they definitely do not catch feelings, that would distract Naoto from his big new case :)
