#Goro Yamaoka

[mayaisuu]

Two big boys

[paper-scrap]

SALT PLATINUM!!

[chishnfips87]

Brave Danganronpa: Coward's Paradise Tier List

[voidtheater]

Brave Danganronpa: Coward’s Paradise Userboxes (1/2)

[meadowmines]

OC-Tober Day 26: Temptation

[In which Yamaoka catches Aoyagi at the most opportune possible time]

"I'm tired of arguin' about this," Majima-san says, feet on Aoyagi's desk, cigarette in hand, oblivious to the dirty look Aoyagi gives him as he throws the window open. "Answer's still no. It was no the first time ya asked. It was no the last time ya asked. It's gonna be no next time ya ask." He doesn't touch his food, even though that's what he's always here for on a Wednesday night. "Is there anything left I can say that'll get all these stupid-ass ideas about swearin' up outta yer head?"

"No sir," Aoyagi says.

Majima-san's eye narrows. "Do I need to beat 'em out of ya, then?"

Aoyagi's eyes narrow right back. "You can try."

"Fuckin'--" Majima-san shakes his head. "Ya know what? It's a good thing ya ain't got balls. You'd need a wheelbarrow to haul them shits around." Majima-san stabs his cigarette out, considers his food, and instead lights another goddamn cigarette. "Ain't ya got enough? Ya got yer restaurant. Ya got a roof over yer head. Ya got fuckin' Nishida for a best buddy."

"This ain't about what I've got or not got, this is about me bein' alive to have it because of you!"

"Not this shit again. You don't owe me for--"

"Ya think I can't read my own goddamn ledger!?" That comes out a whole hell of a lot louder than Aoyagi means it to and for just a fraction of a second, he's sure he's crossed a line there's no coming back from. Goro Goddamn Majima is not someone you yell at. Well, fuck it. Penny, pound, et cetera. "If this is about what's in my pants then man the fuck up and say it!"

"It's got nothin' to do with that and ya fuckin' well know it!" Majima-san roars back, and if Aoyagi were even one iota less of a stubborn bastard he'd be running for his life right now. He'd definitely be running for his life when Majima-san drops the Mad Dog entirely and looks him dead in the eyes. "I told ya. Yakuza ain't exactly known for dyin' of old age."

"And I told you." He doesn't run. "Trans people ain't either."

It's true, here in the year of our Lord two thousand and one, and they both know it. It's the one argument Majima-san hasn't yet devised a snappy comeback to. So this is usually the point where he ditches the argument with some half-ass warning not to ever bring it up again or he'll ...do something, he's never been real clear on what exactly the consequences would be and up to this point, there have never actually been any aside from the usual screaming match. But this time, he doesn't get the chance, because there's a knock on the office door.

"Chief?" It's the dining room manager. Which usually means someone has asked to speak to his manager. Great. "Yamaoka-san's here and he's asking for you. He brought someone, and, uh... Chief, you probably oughta get out here because I don't think he's gonna take no for an answer."

Something strange crosses Majima-san's face then. "Take care of yer business," is all he says out loud.

"We're not done," Aoyagi says, glaring daggers at him "Eat your fuckin' dinner before it gets cold." He stomps out the door and does not quite slam it behind him. Really, after all of the drama in the office, Yamaoka showing up to bust his phantom balls again would just be the shit icing on the shit cake tonight, right?

Except this time, Yamaoka's not alone. Okay, he's rarely alone, he's usually got a girl or two on his arm and Aoyagi doesn't think he's ever brought the same girl twice, but he usually doesn't have male company.

Aoyagi has never met the other guy sitting at Yamaoka's table, but he knows exactly who he's looking at before Yamaoka even introduces him. He's never met the man but you bet your ass he's heard enough about Akira Nishikiyama that his blood runs cold at the sight of the man himself right here in his dining room. Shit. Shit. This is a new one. Aoyagi doesn't know what the fuck to do other than bow. "Welcome, sir," he says and hopes neither of them picks up on the blood in the water.

"Hey, Aoyagi-kun." There's never any malice in Yamaoka's greeting, though it always shows up somewhere in the conversation. "Pull up a chair. I want you to meet someone."

Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Look. Aoyagi doesn't scare easy. Anyone will tell you that. But he is not the least bit ashamed to tell you that right now he is about two seconds away from laying masonry in his pants. He can't say no to this, can he? Shit.

"So you're Majima's meal ticket," Nishikiyama says. Cordial enough on the surface. Aoyagi does not want to peel back the surface to see what's underneath. "Yamaoka's told me all about you. You know, before you took over, this place got maybe two customers a day?"

"I've heard, sir," Aoyagi says.

"And now look at it. Line out the door at dinner time," Nishikiyama says. "it must be rough for someone with your kind of talent to be stuck on the sidelines watching him put his pin on men who'd get laughed out of every other family office in town."

Aoyagi wants to dispute that. To say something, anything to the contrary. But he can't, because it's fucking true and everyone at this table knows it. He sure doesn't hold it against the guys swearing up, because every single one is a man at the end of his rope with nowhere left to turn, but it sure does sting.

"Are you really happy with one little theme cafe?" Nishikiyama takes a sip of his coffee. Yamaoka just watches all of this like he's watching a really good TV drama. "You could do so much better than this. Too bad Majima won't let you. That's the kind of thing that might just come back to bite him, though." He reaches into his pocket, draws out a business card, and slides it right into Aoyagi's personal space. "Of course I'm not asking you to make a decision right now. Call me when you're ready."

"He's smart, boss." Ah. Yep. There's the malice. "Genius like him wouldn't let a chance like this pass him by."

"I'll--" Aoyagi picks up the card, because that's what it seems like they're waiting for him to do. "I'll... think about it, sir. If... if you'll excuse me..."

"Sure," Nishikiyama says and hoo boy yep there's where Yamaoka gets the malice from. "You're a busy man, we shouldn't keep you."

Aoyagi doesn't quite know how he keeps from running away from that table as fast as he can.

Majima-san doesn't say anything when he comes back into the office. He still hasn't touched his dinner. He just watches in silence as Aoyagi strides right past him with Nishikiyama's fucking card in his hand, but he seems to unclench a little when Aoyagi feeds that card straight to the shredder.

"Anyone but him," Majima-san says in a weird, flat tone Aoyagi's never heard come out of his mouth. "If you're dead set on swearin' up, do it with anyone but Nishikiyama. He's got a way of turnin' good men into..." He shakes his head. "Well. Ya know Yamaoka-han."

"I know." He sits down in the chair on the other side of his own desk, sure that Majima-san can see the truth on his face.

He wouldn't. Never. Not with that one. Just the thought of it makes his skin crawl.

But God help him, even if only for a moment, he thought about it.

[ruiination]

MUSES

Canon Muses

Sections include: Featured muse, primary, test, secondary, tertiary, and request/private.

Featured Muse(s) (most active): Natsuki Subaru

Other high activity muses: Aigis, Kurusu Akira, Ram

Primary, regular activity! Open to all!

Thorfinn Karlsefni (Vinland Saga)

Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero)

Emilia (Re:Zero)

Ram (Re:Zero)

G'raha Tia (Final Fantasy XIV)

Y'shtola Rhul (Final Fantasy XIV)

Thancred Waters (Final Fantasy XIV)

Aigis - Persona 3

Takeba Yukari ( Persona 3)

Akechi Goro (Persona 5)

Kurusu Akira (Persona 5)

Sakura Futaba (Persona 5)

Saihara Shuichi (Danganronpa V3)

Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite)

Jack Ryan ( Bioshock.)

Nathan Prescott (Life Is Strange.)

Rachel Amber (Life Is Strange.)

Alan Wake (Alan Wake)

Yun-Jin Lee (Dead By Daylight)

David King ( Dead By Daylight)

Vittorio Toscano (Dead By Daylight)

Philip Ojomo / The Wraith (Dead By Daylight)

HABIT (Everymanhybrid)

Current Test Muses:

Talbot Grimes / The Blight (Dead By Daylight)

Rin Yamaoka / The Spirit (Dead By Daylight)

Iori Junpei (Persona 3)

Mochizuki Ryoji (Persona 3)

Secondary! Lower-activity. Open to all!

Gudrid Karlsefni (Vinland Saga)

Julius Euclius(Re:Zero)

Shaula (Re:Zero)

Ryne Waters (Final Fantasy XIV)

Elidibus (Final Fantasy XIV)

Takamaki Ann (Persona 5)

Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

Maya Fey (Ace Attorney)

Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Shiina Mayuri (Steins;Gate)

Makise Kurisu (Steins;Gate)

Victoria Chase (Life Is Strange.)

Barry Wheeler (Alan Wake)

Scratch (Alan Wake)

Evan Macmillan / The Trapper (Dead By Daylight)

Julie Kostenko / The Legion. (Dead By Daylight)

Kate Denson (Dead By Daylight)

Susie Lavoie / The Legion (Dead By Daylight)

Max Thompson Jr. / The Hillbilly (Dead By Daylight)

Evan (Everymanhybrid)

Tertiary! Low activity. Open to all!

Satella (Re:Zero)

Capella Emerada Lugunica (Re:Zero)

Fandaniel (Final Fantasy XIV)

Yotsuyu goe Brutus (Final Fantasy XIV)

Sidrugu Orl (Final Fantasy XIV)

Ysayle Dangoulain (Final Fantasy XIV)

Hythlodaeus (Final Fantasy XIV)

Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)

Okabe Rintarou (Steins;Gate)

Booker Dewitt (Bioshock Infinite)

Kris (Deltarune)

Jacket (Hotline Miami)

Brian Thomas (Marble Hornets)

Saga Anderson (Alan Wake)

Request/Private! (Only for certain partners or plotted threads)

Echidna (Re:Zero)

Rem (Re:Zero)

Roswaal L Mathers (Re:Zero)

Zero (Final Fantasy XIV)

Zenos viator Galvus (Final Fantasy XIV)

Emet-Selch (Final Fantasy XIV)

Jill Warrick (Final Fantasy XVI)

Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI.)

Joshua Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI)

Anabella Lesage / Rosfield. (Final Fantasy XVI)

Barnabas Tharmr (Final Fantasy XVI)

Deryk (Final Fantasy XIV)

Okumura Haru (Persona 5)

Enoshima Junko (Danganronpa)

Maizono Sayaka (Danganronpa)

Ouma Kokichi (Daganronpa V3)

Hinata Hajime (Danganronpa 2)

Komaeda Nagito ( Daganronpa 2)

Kamukura Izuru (Danganronpa 2)

Nanami Chiaki (Danganronpa 2)

Subject Delta (Bioshock 2)

The Girl / Hooker (Hotline Miami)

Corey (Hotline Miami)

Ash (Hotline Miami)

Alex (Hotline Miami)

Miles Upshur (Outlast)

Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass)

Shirley Fenette (Code Geass)

Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass)

[melodiaemfrp]

This is Luke. I'm going to be dropping all my muses, my best contact is this tumblr, and the date is 8/11/22.

Goro Akechi is in Flat 4; defining song is Bitter Chocolate Decoration by Syudou

Angel Devil is in Co-Op 5; defining song is Lullaby by the Cure

Oberon / Vortigern is in Bungalow 5; defining song is Black Fairy by Akira Yamaoka from the Silent Hill 2 OST. Thanks.

hey luke!

all three have been dropped for you!

--scribe lyre

[bravedanganronpa]

strong bois

[prettysweetocean]

[bitofkoo]

“How can a worthless piece of trash be more special than ME!?”

[kationella]

Great List of Persona Users

Sorry, there aren't 95 users. There are 96. Here are all of them.

I didn't count the attendants, the victims of the Joker Curse, Reverse Personas or those beings who posed as Personas.

Man-made Personas were included, since they still belong to the users and can fight with them

1. Naoya Toudou (Seimen Kongou/Amen Ra/Vishnu)

2. Maki Sonomura (Maso/Verdandi)

3. Masao Inaba (Ogun/Susano-o)

4. Kei Nanjo (Aizen Myouou/Yamaoka)

5. Yukino Mayuzumi (Vesta/Durga)

6. Hidehiko Uesugi (Nemhain/Tyr)

7. Eriko Kirishima (Nike/Michael/Gabriel)

8. Yuka Ayase (Houri/Frey)

9. Reiji Kido (Bres/Mot)

10. Kenta Yokouchi (Akuma/Mara)

11. Takeda (?)

12. Bernie (?)

13. Tatsuya Suou (Vulcanus/Apollo)

14. Maya Amano (Maia/Artemis)

15. Lisa Silverman (Eros/Venus)

16. Eikichi Mishina (Rhadamanthus/Hades)

17. Jun Kurosu (Hermes/Chronos)

18. Randolph Carter (?)

19. Katsuya Suou (Helios/Hyperion)

20. Ulala Serizawa (Callisto/Astria)

21. Baofu (Odysseus/Prometheus)

22. Kazumi Kiba (Yama)

23. Rihito Shimizu (Archangel)

24. Keito (Indra)

25. Narui Kusaka (Bishamonte)

26. Rinne (Varuna)

27. Ujiya (Melchizedek)

28. Yurii (?)

29. BB (?)

30. Kain (?)

31. Rea (?)

32. Yakumo Kusaka (?)

33. Tamaizu Nirasawa (Kushiel)

34. Musubu Torikiri (Persephone)

35. Minato/Minako Arisato (Orpheus/Messiah)

36. Yukari Takeba (Io/Isis)

37. Junpei Iori (Hermes/Trismegistus)

38. Mitsuru Kirijo (Penthesilea/Artemisia)

39. Akihiko Sanada (Polydeuces/Caesar)

40. Fuuka Yamagishi (Lucia/Juno)

41. Aigis (Palladion/Athena)

42. Koromaru (Cerberus)

43. Ken Amada (Nemesis/Kala-Nemi)

44. Shinjiro Aragaki (Castor)

45. Takaya Sakaki (Hypnos)

46. Jin Shirato (Moros)

47. Chidori Yoshino (Medea)

48. Metis (Psyche)

49. Izumi (?)

50. Tarou Atlus (?)

51. Eita Sanada (Oberon)

52. Eris (?)

53. Saburou Yoshita (?)

54. Shin Kanzato (Abel)

55. Ryo Kanzato (Cain)

56. Jun Kanzato (Seth)

57. Takuro Sakakiba (Sportacus)

58. Megumi Kayano (Diana)

59. Yumi Tasaka (?)

60. Touma Shikura (Nebuzaradan)

61. Yuji Kimoto (Utnapishtim)

62. Soutarou Senou (Guukyou)

63. Saki Tachibana (Nebuchadnezzar)

64. Taiichi Udo (Hermod)

65. Wakasa Kusu (Qin Shubao)

66. Shiiba Kusu (Yuchi Jingde)

67. Kanaru Morimoto (Astarte/Ashtoreth)

68. Keisuke Komatsubara (Gozanze)

69. Ayane Komatsubara (Aditi/Devi)

70. Yu Narukami (Izanagi/Izanagi-no-Okami)

71. Yosuke Hanamura (Jiraiya/Susano-o)

72. Chie Satonaka (Tomoe/Suzuka Gongen)

73. Yukiko Amagi (Konohana Sakuya/Amaterasu)

74. Kanji Tatsumi (Take-Mikazuchi/Rokuten Maou)

75. Rise Kujikawa (Himiko/Kanzeon)

76. Teddie (Kintoki-Douji/Kamui)

77. Naoto Shirogane (Sukuna-Hikona/Yamato-Takeru)

78. Tohru Adachi (Magatsu-Izanagi)

79. Taro Namatame (?)

80. Labrys (Ariadne)

81. Sho Minazuki (Tsukiyomi)

82. Marie (Kaguya)

83. Touko Aoi (Kushinada-Hime)

84. Sousei Kurogami (Tsukuyomi)

85. Akira Kurusu (Arsène/Satanael)

86. Morgana (Zorro/Mercurius)

87. Ryuji Sakamoto (Captain Kidd/Seiten Taisei)

88. Ann Takamaki (Carmen/Hecate)

89. Yusuke Kitagawa (Goemon/Kamu Susano-o)

90. Makoto Niijima (Johanna/Anat)

91. Futaba Sakura (Necronomicon/Prometheus)

92. Haru Okumura (Milady/Astarte)

93. Goro Akechi (Robin Hood/Loki)

94. Sumire Yoshizawa (Cendrillon/Vanadis)

95. Sophia (Pithos/Pandora)

96. Zenkichi Hasegawa (Valjean)

[ocean-stuck]

this isn't actually what i think happened, more of a fanfic premise, but consider

it's known that people's loved ones, instead of returning to the collective sea of souls when they die, can instead potentially come to live in the other person's individual sea of souls and become a persona, as is the case with yamaoka in 1 and is implied to happen with real kasumi when sumire awakens for real

imagine this happening with goro and joker, but because both of them have personas and the wild card at that, it interacts weirdly and so rather than becoming a potential mask goro is effectively living rent free in joker's head like a sort of brain ghost. and at first joker doesn't sense much different, just weird feelings and sightings in his peripheral vision, but after a while it progresses to full on conversations and running edgelord commentary in joker's brain on a recurring basis

and joker quietly keeps this to himself because it's awkward to explain that you're having not quite hallucinations of that dead rival you had a complicated relationship with, esp to your friends who didn't have the best time with him themselves, until one day in a tight spot joker summons hereward through goro and the whole gang is collectively going wtf except sumire who is like 'oh, same lol'

[echoeblo]

Justices, randomly chosen Dare to Write prompts, Kei/Brown, Katsuya/Maya, Nanako and Teddie, Goro and Sae

37 - Keiue, “kiss like a punch”

“They started it,” Kei states simply, as if he hadn’t just broken a few bones of delinquent students. He rubs his nose and sneers, blood draining from it steadily.

“That doesn’t mean you...” Brown tries, but pauses. He knows Kei thinks things through, but he never starts physical fights. Getting on people’s bad sides was a habit of his, though. “Look, let’s just put this behind us, okay?”

Kei’s sneer grows and Brown watches, unsure of how to proceed. Pretending he hadn’t watched Kei’s nose get smashed in by an angry classmate was hard enough, but seeing Kei retaliate was something Brown hadn’t expected. “Look, we need to get your nose treated...”

“Those louts are probably in the nurse’s office,” Kei adds pointedly.

“Then we’ll get help elsewhere. Do any of your, uh, ‘servants’...? Can they help you?”

Kei turns away and doesn’t reply for a short time, and Brown wonders if he had said something offensive to the other.

“... my parents will be mad if I come home like this,” he answers lamely, “and the doctors around town wouldn’t hide this from them.”

“Eyes everywhere, huh?” Brown asks, laughing nervously. Kei doesn’t answer.

“... Yamaoka used to clean me up after fights.”

Brown freezes, unnerved. “Oh...” is all he can muster. Kei keeps looking to the side, refusing to meet Brown’s eyes. Brown hesitates before sitting next to Kei and putting a hand on his back, leaning forward to properly look at Kei’s face. “Hey, I’ll go buy a first aid kit. Maybe Reiji can help...? He probably knows a lot more about first aid than I do.”

Kei snorts. “He gets in fights daily! I’d be more concerned if he didn’t know anything about first aid! Though the buffoon probably doesn’t know anything else.”

Brown laughs again, feeling more at ease at Reiji’s expense. Kei turns to look at him and quirks his eyebrow.

Thoughtlessly, Brown pulls Kei into a kiss, startling him. They pull away soon and before Kei can complain, Brown pulls him into a hug and rubs his back.

“I know it’s rough with Yamaoka gone. I love you too, though, so please, let me take care of you.” He rubs circles into Kei’s back and nearly jumps when he feels fists ball at his back. Kei starts shaking and Brown holds him closer, closing his eyes and listening to Kei’s broken sobs.

A wet liquid touches his shoulder and he accepts it as tears before it starts pooling and dripping, and he becomes acutely aware of how wrong his guess was. Panic sets in quickly but Brown tries to force it down as he pulls out his phone.

“I’ll ask Reiji to pick up a first aid kit,” he says, and Kei tries to pull away. “I’ll tell him we’re in class 3-4.”

Kei scoffs. “Even though we’re in 3-1?”

“It’ll give us some time to put ourselves together,” he answers honestly, and Kei nods, leaning back against Brown.

150 - Katsumaya (sell my soul)

“She will never wake up again.”

The voice comes from behind him and Katsuya turns swiftly, putting himself between the two on the floor and the intruder. He gasps as he sees a mirage of the woman behind him, a perfect copy except for her confident stance and startling red eyes.

She smiles, much less candid than any of Maya’s smiles.

“Who are you?!” Katsuya demands, putting his hand on his gun and drawing it.

“I’m a shadow, the true self.”

“That’s not big sis!” comes a cry behind him, and Katsuya turns to meet the crazed eyes of his brother. His hand is holding Maya’s lifeless one and he’s kneeling beside her. “That’s Nyarlathotep, the god that tormented us on The Other Side!”

A laugh draws his attention back to the clone. She holds her hand to him, crystallized light dancing on her palm.

“This is her ideal energy,” she says. As if sensing the man’s confusion, she continues, “The part of her that drives her forward, her dreams and ambitions and energy.”

“Ideal energy...? Is it related to kegare?”

“It is the opposite of kegare. This is her persona and all of her willpower. She needs it in order to keep living.”

Katsuya tenses. “Give it back,” he says, unsure how she even would.

The mirage smiles at him, a mocking smile that sends a chill through Katsuya, and before he can react, she crushes the crystal in her hand. Tatsuya yells something behind him, but his distress is muted by the laughter of the monster in front of him and the dust falling from its palm.

He regains his senses and reaches for her, tries to grab her tie, but the world shifts around him and he finds himself standing in a floating room instead, surrounded by a sea of flickering lights.

“This is...” he starts, before jolting and turning around. “Tatsuya!” he yells, but the boy had already gone quiet, staring behind Katsuya and gripping Maya’s hand tighter.

Tatsuya’s shaking and pale.

“It seems she has lost her sense of self,” comes a voice to their side, and Katsuya turns to the calm being.

“Philemon, what’s the meaning of this?!” he yells, grabbing Philemon’s shirt and lifting him off the ground.

“She has lost her sense of self,” he repeats. “And without a self, one cannot exist. She will pass away soon.”

Katsuya’s hands grip into the fabric. “Isn’t there anything you can do about it?!”

The being watches him. “I am unable to do anything,” he repeats. “You, however...”

Philemon looks between the brothers and the unconscious woman. “Every person has a self. Without this self, their identity and motivation will crumble until they fade away into shadows.”

“What can I do?” Katsuya asks, and Philemon continues watching him.

“Every person has a self.”

Katsuya grips harder, knuckles becoming white, and he opens his mouth to yell before Tatsuya cuts him off with a quiet, “He means we can give up our own personas to her.”

“Our own...? Won’t we die?” he asks, lessening his grip.

Philemon nods and Katsuya feels another chill run through him.

He puts Philemon down and takes a step back, looking at the two on the floor.

“I’ll do it,” Tatsuya says, hand to his heart.

“No, you won’t!” Katsuya answers, and Tatsuya opens his mouth to protest before Katsuya puts a hand over his mouth. “I won’t let you get hurt. Not on my watch. Never again.”

Tatsuya’s eyes go wide for a moment before Katsuya removes his hand and turns back to Philemon. “Take mine,” he says simply, and Philemon nods. He puts a hand to Katsuya’s chest and a light forms under it, crystallizing and shining bright. His body becomes heavy and his mind foggy, but he continues to watch.

The light shatters and moves into the woman’s body, and her hand twitches. Tatsuya’s snapped out of his stupor by the action and he grips her hand tighter, unsure whether to look at Maya or Katsuya.

“Big sis...?” he asks tentatively, and Maya groans, bringing her hand to her forehead dramatically.

“Five more minutes,” she grumbles, and Katsuya lets out a breathy laugh as he walks over and kneels beside her, refusing to look at his brother.

135 - Teddie & Nanako (vantage point)

“I don’t know where I belong...”

The voice is uncharacteristically small, and Nanako pauses her piano practice to turn around.

“What’s wrong?” Nanako asks, and Teddie looks at her with vulnerable eyes.

“Ever since I moved in here, I’ve been living in his old room. It was comforting at first, but now the room is filled with my stuff.”

Nanako tilts her head. “Is that bad?”

“I feel like I’m just taking his place. If I make this place ‘mine’, then where will be ‘his’? I don’t want to take his place.”

Nanako hums, watching the boy thoughtfully. She turns back to her piano, playing a few chords in the silent room - a lullaby her mother used to sing, and one she had never forgotten.

“I can show you your place,” she offers, covering the piano and turning back around. He looks up at her with sparkling eyes.

“Really?” he asks, and she smiles and nods.

“Let’s get our shoes on,” she says, and Teddie hops off the couch.

It’s hot outside, a pleasant breeze in the air. Cicadas chirp from the trees as Nanako grabs Teddie’s sleeve and drags him across town.

“There’s only one place I can think of for you,” she says.

“Where’s that?” he asks, and she smiles at him before pulling to a run up a hill.

At the top and out of breath, Nanako pulls Teddie to the railing. She turns around and leans against the rail, gesturing for Teddie to follow her.

“This is my place?” he asks, clearly confused, and she giggles.

“No, silly!” she says and gestures to the town below. His eyes show confusion for a moment before understanding clicks, and tears well up in his eyes.

He hugs her close and she hugs back. “This town is your home,” she says, and he cries louder.

349 - Sae and Goro (petrifying)

“The ship’s collapsing!” comes the voice within his headphones, and Goro grits his teeth, biting back his sarcastic response.

She really doesn’t need to tell them, considering the dust and cracking all around.

“This way!” he yells instead, directing his attention to his partner. The rest of the team is waiting at the dock, safe, and Goro feels a short wave of relief at having his closest friend at his side.

“Got it!” she yells back, following close behind him. He jumps a table and pushes shadows and masked guests aside, refusing to let them slow him.

His mind starts to itch and the scenery around him blurs, as if his third eye is activating on his own, and he forces down images flooding his brain.

Focus on the now, he thinks, gritting his teeth. They approach a door and the fogginess tells him that it’s locked, that they need someone to go to the security room below.

He slows in front of the door enough to push its handle down and throw himself against it.

The metal doesn’t budge and he bites his tongue, trying to force down the buzzing and images. They’re memories, a distant part of him says, but what memories exist from the future?

Goro closes his eyes as tens of echoes pass through his mind, and he doesn’t even need to hear his fortune telling ally to know that the door’s locked, that—

“Someone needs to go to the security room!”

The room stills and Goro opens his eyes to the pitch black around him. He looks up and meets his own gaze.

“Are you going to let her die again?” he asks himself, and Goro stares as he remembers, remembers all those past lives and failures.

“She always dies because of you, you know. In every world she meets you, she dies far too early, leaving her sister to fend for herself.”

“I...”

“You know how this mission ends,” he says, and Goro takes a deep breath as he recalls the iron wall dripping in deep red blood, a broken body pinned against it by a sword as the water rises.

He takes a shallow breath. “I know,” he answers, his voice heavy. He closes his eyes as his reflection turns into a purple butterfly, and when he opens them again, he’s back at the door, unable to proceed.

“Let’s go,” Sae yells, grabbing his arm, but he brushes it off.

“I can run faster,” he says, and she looks at him incredulously. He gives her a reassuring smile, unsure for the first time in his life if it is fake or candid.

She seems just as confused as he is, but she nods. “I’ll wait for you,” she says, drawing her sword and preparing to guard the area.

He shakes his head. “Wait for me with the others,” he orders, then takes off to the security room, running as fast as his legs can go. His limbs protest the strain - climbing was always his forte, not running - but he ignores them, knowing full well that they wouldn’t have much more work to do after this.

He skids to a halt in front of the control panel, already knowing which buttons he needs to press. The doors unlock and water starts pooling around his feet.

He looks at the screen with Sae on it, quietly praying that she won’t wait for him. He grabs his mask and closes his eyes, focusing instead on the presence behind him.

[bravedanganronpa]

Goro Scrum!

[kationella]

Timeline for SMT: if... and P1

Here for the Timeline of events prior to the Persona games

Here for the P2 Timeline

Here for the P3 Timeline

Here for the P4 Timeline

Here for the P5 Timeline

## 1996

### ? ?

- Kei meets Kandori for the first time

- Eriko, Yuka and Brown play the Persona game but nothing happens

### January 19

- Kanji Tatsumi is born

### April ?

- Tamaki starts attending Karukozaka

### Between April and May

- Maki is hospitalized

- The old gymnasium of St. Hermelin is demolished

### Between April and September

- Hazama is bullied and betrayed by his first love

- Hazama tries to summon a demon but is sucked into the Expanse and crowns himself Deity Emperor

- Hazama transports Karukozaka to the Expanse

- Katsuhiko and Tamaki discover the Demon Summoning Program

- Tamaki and Reiko defeat Hazama and bring Karukozaka back to Earth

- Hazama and Reiko disappear

- Tamaki meets Stephen

- Stephen develops the GUMP

### Between May and September

- Tamaki transfers to St. Hermelin

- Tamaki meets Tadashi

### Between August and September

- Chisato and Yosuke Naito are transported to the DEVA System

### October 28

- The DEVA System wreaks havoc in Mikage-cho and sends most of Class 4 to Maki's alternate Mikage-cho

- Class 4 meet Philemon and awaken to their Personas

- Yamaoka dies

- In the middle of the crisis, Philemon grants Personas to Kenta Yokouchi and Reiji Kido

- Yuka rejects Toro, which causes him to awaken to his Persona

- Class 4 rescue Naito and Chisato

- Students at St. Hermelin discover the Snow Queen mask and it possesses Saeko

- The victims of the Snow Queen curse freeze the original St. Hermelin and take over

- Class 4 save Saeko and end the Snow Queen curse

- Class 4 defeat Kandori and Nyarlathotep

- With Pandora's defeat, Maki's psyche becomes one once again

- Maki wakes up

- Tamaki and Tadashi start dating

### ? ?

- Toranosuke Yoshida starts his political career. He loses his first elections

## Between November 1996 and February 1998

- Maki is cured of her illness

## 1997

### April ?

- Tatsuya, Anna and Jun start attending Seven Sisters High School

### ? ?

- Zephyrman begins airing

- Owada begins his sixth legislative term

- Konoe kills his father but hides this as a robbery gone wrong

## Between 1997 and 1998

- Jun transfers to Kasugayama High due to hurting bullies with his Persona

## 1998

### March ?

- Miyamoto graduates from Karukozaka to become a boxer

- Class 4 graduate from St. Hermelin

### April ?

- Lisa starts attending Seven Sisters

- Eikichi starts attending Kasugayama

### April 23

- Makoto Niijima is born

### June 24

- Ken Amada is born

### July 2

- Goro Akechi is born an illegitimate child and abandoned by Shido

### December 5

- Haru Okumura is born

### ? ?

- Naoya leaves Mikage-cho

- Maki studies to be a therapist and moves to Sumaru to work at Hiiragi Therapy

- Mark moves to New York to become an artist

- Kei takes executive training in England

- Yukki moves to Sumaru for photography school

- Eriko becomes a model

- Early in her career, Eriko fends off a stalker with her Persona

- Reiji gets a girlfriend

- Hidehiko becomes a talk show host

- Yuka begins working as a secretary

- Reiji and Kenta begin working as salarymen

- Eikichi discovers he can use a Persona

- Eikichi creates the band Gas Chamber

- Sudou is released from Morimoto Sanitarium

## Between 1998 and 1999

- Ms. Saeko transfers from St. Hermelin to Seven Sisters and becomes a homeroom teacher

- The Vice-Principal of St. Hermelin, Takashi Hanya, transfers to Seven Sisters as a principal

- Anna, the track star of Seven Sisters, gets in a hit and run accident by Daisuke Kaneda and gets injured, falling into depression

## Between 1998 and 2000

- Hifumi Togo is born

[PERSONA 2: INNOCENT SIN BEGINS]

[kationella]

Timeline of the Persona franchise (2/5)

Here for Part 1

Here for Part 3

Here for Part 4

Here for Part 5

1992

March ?

- Katsuya graduates from Seven Sisters to become a sergeant in the Kounan Police Department

October 19

- Yukari Takeba is born

December 22

- Fuuka Yamagishi is born

?

- Minato Arisato (P3 MC) is born

- Kenji Tomochika is born

- Andre Laurent Jean Geraux is born

- Ulala fails a grade and has to repeat a year

- Ulala meets Maya and they become friends

- Maya teaches Ulala the Persona game

1993

January 16

- Junpei Iori is born

Between April and December

- Chihiro Fushimi is born

May 24

- Mitsuo Kubo is born

?

- Saki Konishi is born

1994

June 22

- Yosuke Hanamura is born

July 30

- Chie Satonaka is born

December 8

- Yukiko Amagi is born

?

- Souji Seta (P4 MC) is born

- Kou Ichijo is born. He is adopted into the House of Ichijo

- Hanako Ohtani is born

- Eikichi humiliates Hiroki by pulling his pants down. Hiroki's girlfriend leaves him shortly after this

- Kaoru and Miki Asai are targeted by Tatsuzou Sudou for investigating his crimes. Kaoru survives by awakening his Persona, but Miki dies

- Kaoru fakes his death and becomes an extortionist, changing his name to Baofu

Between 1995 and 1998

- Maya starts working for the Coolest magazine

- Ulala has her savings taking away by con-artist "Youichi Makimura"

1995

April ?

- The Naoya Crew start attending St. Hermelin

April 27

- Naoto Shirogane is born

June 1

- Rise Kujikawa is born

?

- Naoki Konishi is born

- Sachiko Ichijo is born

- Sae Niijima is born

- Eriko returns from studying in America

- Kei meets Kandori and immediatly dislikes him

- Yukino reforms from her delinquent ways thanks to her teacher, Saeko Takami

- Eriko plays the Persona Game by herself

- Yuka and Hidehiko play the Persona Game by themselves

- Chisato starts going out with Maki's crush, Yosuke Naito, just to make her jealous

- Kouetso Kirijo comes across a Plume of Dusk, and initiates research for benevolent purposes, but the more he learned, the madder he became

- Kouetso and the Kirijo Group start their experimentation with shadows

- Kouetsu allies with Shuji Ikutsuki (Chief Director of Gekkoukan) to bring The Fall

1996

Between January and June

- Yoshida starts his political career

- Yoshida's mentor misappropriates funds and puts the blame on Yoshida

January 19

- Kanji Tatsumi is born

Between March and October

- Maki's psyche splits in three: The one who accepts Kandori and his evil plans (Aki), the one who rejects him (Mai) and the perfect one (Ideal Maki)

- Chisato and Yosuke Naito are transported to Maki's world in the DEVA System

April ?

- Tamaki Uchida starts attending Karukozaka High School

Between April and November

- Hazama does a demonic ritual in his school gym and opens a portal to the Other Dimension

- Ideo Hazama proclaims himself "Deity Emperor" of the Expanse (Sure, whatever you believe, kid)

- The next day, Hazama transports Karukozaka to the Expanse

- Tamaki allies with Reiko Akanezawa to save their school. Katsuhiko Sato gives her a copy of the Demon Summoning Program

- Tamaki defeats Hazama and brings her school back to the human dimension. Yay, another happy ending!

Between May and December

- Tamaki transfers from Karukozaka to St. Hermelin

- Tamaki meets her rival/love interest, Tadashi Satomi

- The Naoya Crew play the Persona Game and meet Philemon, getting Personas

- Maki is kidnapped by Kandori to take control over her parallel world

- Yamaoka is killed by zombies (shadows)

- In the middle of the crisis, Philemon grants Personas to Kenta Yokouchi and Reiji Kido

- The Naoya Crew are aided by Ideal Maki and Mai

- The Naoya Crew rescue Chisato and Yosuke Naito

- Naoya meets his Shadow, who takes the form of a grown-up Kazuya

- Kandori is possessed by Nyarlathotep but the Naoya Crew defeat him (coff and kill him coff)

- Naoya accepts his Shadow as part of himself

- Pandora, an empty version of Maki, devours Aki and steals the core of the DEVA System from Kandori

- The Naoya Crew defeat Pandora and set shit right, saving Maki

- The teacher Saeko Takemi is possessed by the Snow Queen mask

- The Naoya Crew free Ms. Saeko

- The Masked Boy and the Masked Girl fuse with Nyx (Night Queen) but the Naoya Crew defeats them. Yay, another happy ending!

?

- Yoshida loses the elections

Between June 1996 and February 1998

- Maki is cured of her illness

1997

April ?

- Tatsuya, Anna and Jun start attending Seven Sisters High School

Between 1997 and 1998

- Jun transfers to Kasugayama High due to hurting bullies with his Persona

1998

March ?

- After graduation, Naoya states he must go away. The reasons are unknown

- Masao moves to New York to study art. He eventually becomes famous

- Kei moves to England to continue his studies

- Yukino starts working as a photographer at Coolest magazine, as an apprentice to Shunsuke Fujii

- Hidehiko becomes a talk show host

- Eriko becomes a famous model (She also makes an habit of visiting Igor just to talk)

- Yuka becomes a secretary and marries a salaryman

- Reiji and Kenta work as salesmen

April ?

- Lisa starts attending Seven Sisters

- Eikichi starts attending Kasugayama

April 23

- Makoto Niijima is born

June 24

- Ken Amada is born

July 2

- Goro Akechi is born an illegitimate child and abandoned by Shido

December 5

- Haru Okumura is born

?

- Maki starts working as a psychiatrist's assistant in Hiiragi Therapy

- Eikichi discovers he can use a Persona

- Eikichi creates the band Gas Chamber

- Sudou is released from Morimoto Sanitarium (By the Masked Circle in IS; by Nyarlathotep in EP)

Between 1998 and 1999

- Ms. Saeko transfers from St. Hermelin to Seven Sisters and becomes a homeroom teacher

- The Vice-Principal of St. Hermelin, Takashi Hanya, transfers to Seven Sisters as a principal

- Anna, the track star of Seven Sisters, gets in a hit and run accident by Daisuke Kaneda and gets injured, falling into depression

Between 1998 and 2000

- Hifumi Togo is born

1999 (Innocent Sin Timeline)

Between January and April

- Junko makes a deal with Joker for eternal youth

- Anna drops out of school

- Principal Hanya makes a deal with Joker so everyone loves him

- Sasaki summons Joker

- Yasuo makes a deal with Joker to become student council president

- Makimura makes a deal with Joker to have charm irresistible to all females

- Reiji gets a woman pregnant and they are now dating

- Todoroki is possessed by Kyouji Kuzunoha and becomes a Devil Summoner

February ?

- Aigis is manufactured by the Kirijo Group

March ?

- Tamaki transfers to a women's college and starts working part-time at the Kuzunoha Detective Agency as an apprentice detective (and Devil Summoner) for Todoroki along with Tadashi

Between April and December

- Chika starts attending Seven Sisters

- Eikichi, Lisa and Tatsuya awaken their Personas and meet Philemon

- The Tatsuya Squad meet Joker and decide to discover why he wants to kill them and (hopefully) kill him first

- The Tatsuya Squad clashes with the Masked Circle

- The Tatsuya Squad fight and defeat Principal Hanya. He commits suicide instead of facing Joker

- Maya and Yukino investigate the Joker incidents as partners

- Maya and Yukino join the Tatsuya Squad

- Lisa and her friends get scouted by Sasaki to form part of an idol group called MUSES

- Tamaki and Tadashi are hired to investigate the Masked Circle by Okamura

- Tamaki and Tadashi attempt to rescue some children fron Sudou, but he defeats her. The Tatsuya Squad save the day

- Yasuo is killed by Sudou

- In Lak'ech is published. Okamura starts losing her mind as the predictions become real

- The rumors of Hitler and his Last Battalion become real

- Junko takes a fatal blow for Jun/Joker

- Yukino faces her Shadow

- After being defeated, Jun is abandoned by Nyarlathotep to die

- Yukino saves Jun's life by granting him her Persona powers

- Jun joins the Tatsuya Squad

- Jun faces Metal Junko

- Kei and Reiji go to Sumaru City when they hear rumors of Kandori hiding there (they are false)

- The Naoya Crew and Anna help fight against the Last Battalion

- The Tatsuya Squad faces their Shadows

- It turns out fake Hitler is actually Nyarlathotep

- Nyarlathotep convinces Okamura to stab Maya with the Spear of Longinus and kickstarts the apocalypse. Jeez, this isn't a happy ending

- Philemon asks for Tatsuya, Lisa, Eikichi and Jun's memories in exchange for creating a new reality

- Tatsuya is the only one who doesn't go through with the plan and keeps his memories, borrowing the body of the Tatsuya of the new reality. Oh! And he punches Philemon in the face!

1999

- In this timeline Jun's father never died

- Nyarlathotep creates the New World Order instead of the Masked Circle

Between January and April

- Sudou becomes JOKER

- Tamaki and Tadashi get engaged

- Reiji gets a woman pregnant and they are now dating

- Kandori is brought back to life by the New World Order and poses as Guy Shinjo

- Todoroki is possessed by Kyouji Kuzunoha and becomes a Devil Summoner

- Sasaki becomes part of the New World Order

February ?

- Aigis is manufactured by the Kirijo Group

March ?

- Tamaki transfers to a women's college and starts working part-time at the Kuzunoha Detective Agency as an apprentice detective (and Devil Summoner) for Todoroki along with Tadashi

- Yukino is separated from Maya by their boss

- Tadashi disappears due to mysterious assassination threats

Between April and December

- Noriko Katayama calls JOKER on Kaneda and Principal Hanya

- Ulala drunk dials JOKER on Maya

- Maya, Katsuya and Ulala meet JOKER and awaken their Personas

- Tatsuya joins the Maya Squad

- Lisa and her friends are scouted by Sasaki to form the idol group MUSES

- Those who called JOKER are affected by the Joker Curse

- Nyarlathotep summons Kandori to develop the Joker Separation Machine

- Kei, Reiji and Eriko go to Sumaru City to investigate the New World Order

- Tatsuya is attacked by Metal versions of Lisa, Eikichi and Jun

- Nyarlathotep kidnaps Eikichi, Jun and Lisa to awaken their memories and set the reality back to the apocalyptic one

- Eikichi, Jun and Lisa are rescued by the Maya Squad (and face their Shadows on the way)

- Tatsuya kills Sudou (who will probably become the Reaper from Persona 3 onwards)

- Kandori is defeated and decides to die (again!) with Chizuru

- The Naoya Crew helps to fight against the New World Order soldiers

- The Maya Squad manage to banish (not destroy) Nyarlathotep, and break the curse on Sumaru City. Yay, another happy ending!

- Tatsuya goes through with the original contract and leaves the borrowed body to go back to his own timeline

- Reiji proposes to his girlfriend and decides to name his future son Takashi

- Baofu becomes a man-searcher with Ulala's help. It is implied someone took over his old website

May ?

- Aigis' activation

- Aigis and Yuu Kimijima fall in love, but she dies by a shadow attack and Aigis' memories are erased

Between June and December

- Mitsuru learns the existence of Aigis

- Eiichiro Takeba, opposing The Fall, divides Death in thirteen parts. He is killed by Kouetsu

- Death escapes the Kirijo Group and, during Aigis confrontation with the shadow, they cause a car crash that kills Minato's parents. Death's escape caused the death of Kouetsu and many scientists lose their lives. This whole mess creates the Dark Hour as well as Tartarus

- Aigis seals a portion of Death inside Minato, who takes the form of Pharos

- The Kirijo Group starts to experiment on 100 street children to create Artificial Persona Users. Eventually, only Takaya Sakaki, Jin Shirato and Chidori Yoshino will survive, creating Strega

- To pay for the expensive Persona suppressants, Strega creates an assassination-for-hire website during the Dark Hour

July ?

- Yoshida loses the elections

July 3

- Ryuji Sakamoto is born

September 10

- Aigis' is reactivated

November 12

- Ann Takamaki is born

?

- Akira Kurusu (P5 MC) is born

- Yuuki Mishima is born