Player: Bayley Character: Goro Akechi Canon: Persona 5 — from 12/16 after his last appearance...you know what I mean. Age: 18 Bio Blurb: (Wiki.) Japanese high school student, orphan, and ace detective, Goro Akechi is a sharp-minded, likable young man who takes a keen interest in the case of the Phantom Thieves as they change the hearts of criminals through their mysterious means. Akechi is polite and well-spoken, praised by adults and the general public for his deductive reasoning skills and his charismatic energy. A vocal critic of the Phantom Thieves' vigilante justice, Akechi comes under heat as their popularity rises, facing ridicule as public opinion turns in their favor. However, after the Phantom Thieves become public enemy number one, Akechi ascertains their true identities and reveals to them that he possesses the same abilities to enter the Metaverse and use personas as they do. Akechi strikes a deal with the Phantom Thieves: in exchange for helping them clear their name, they will disband after one final heist.
...Except Akechi's true intentions were never to help the Phantom Thieves clear their name, but rather to pin the blame for a series of mental shutdown cases he caused on them and subsequently attempt to murder their leader. Akechi doesn't seek the altruistic justice he so often espouses on television, but rather his own ends, weaving a complex web of lies for his self-interested motives, deceiving literally everyone around him. Akechi has no accomplices, no real friends, and struggles to see the worth of attachments to other people. He is manipulative and scheming, and not above getting his hands dirty to achieve his ends. He has cultivated a perfect outward appearance and mannerisms so other people would want him around, but his emotional damage make him pretty damn terrible at assigning value to people beyond himself. Anyway, you get the idea! They call him the Trash Man for a reason...
Preferred Essence(s): My first choice for Akechi is Robin Hood! For the obvious persona-related reasons, and tying Akechi to a character known for their notoriously outside-the-law behavior and moral uprightness would be interesting to explore. Alternatively, I've also considered Mordred from Arthurian legend, but have less concrete ideas to go off of there. Looking For: Mostly help deciding on abilities! I'm also open to other ideas for essences if anyone has one that strikes some deliciously ironic parallels to Akechi.
Appearance: For the Robin Hood vibe, I'm torn between dressing Akechi up in the typical green garb so he looks like an awkward fairy child, or sticking closer to his usual Metaverse garb. Whatever happens, he'll definitely have a silly, jaunty hat with a feather in it and he'll hate it.
Abilities: Typically in battle, Akechi wields laser swords and ray guns, but for Robin Hood I'd rather him be tethered to the typical outlaw weapon: the bow and arrow. I debating weather or not his arrows will have special properties or not and if so, what kind of properties — will they be the typical zelda-esque elemental effects or something more helpful with stealth and infiltration? Also with continuing Robin Hood's thief motif, it'd be fun to give Akechi some next-level thievery abilities, like shadow clones or short-range illusions. Or maybe he'll just turn into a fox. Because.
Quirks: Going with the whole "take from the rich, give to the poor" motif, Akechi with feel compelled to share his "bounty" will people around him...regardless of what that means, whether it be money or food or information. He'll find it difficult to hold onto things for long! He's gonna be so charitable...
Extra: is Akechi's middle name.
Questions: what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
goro akechi | persona 5
Character: Goro Akechi
Canon: Persona 5 — from 12/16 after his last appearance...you know what I mean.
Age: 18
Bio Blurb: (Wiki.) Japanese high school student, orphan, and ace detective, Goro Akechi is a sharp-minded, likable young man who takes a keen interest in the case of the Phantom Thieves as they change the hearts of criminals through their mysterious means. Akechi is polite and well-spoken, praised by adults and the general public for his deductive reasoning skills and his charismatic energy. A vocal critic of the Phantom Thieves' vigilante justice, Akechi comes under heat as their popularity rises, facing ridicule as public opinion turns in their favor. However, after the Phantom Thieves become public enemy number one, Akechi ascertains their true identities and reveals to them that he possesses the same abilities to enter the Metaverse and use personas as they do. Akechi strikes a deal with the Phantom Thieves: in exchange for helping them clear their name, they will disband after one final heist.
...Except Akechi's true intentions were never to help the Phantom Thieves clear their name, but rather to pin the blame for a series of mental shutdown cases he caused on them and subsequently attempt to murder their leader. Akechi doesn't seek the altruistic justice he so often espouses on television, but rather his own ends, weaving a complex web of lies for his self-interested motives, deceiving literally everyone around him. Akechi has no accomplices, no real friends, and struggles to see the worth of attachments to other people. He is manipulative and scheming, and not above getting his hands dirty to achieve his ends. He has cultivated a perfect outward appearance and mannerisms so other people would want him around, but his emotional damage make him pretty damn terrible at assigning value to people beyond himself. Anyway, you get the idea! They call him the Trash Man for a reason...
Preferred Essence(s): My first choice for Akechi is Robin Hood! For the obvious persona-related reasons, and tying Akechi to a character known for their notoriously outside-the-law behavior and moral uprightness would be interesting to explore. Alternatively, I've also considered Mordred from Arthurian legend, but have less concrete ideas to go off of there.
Looking For: Mostly help deciding on abilities! I'm also open to other ideas for essences if anyone has one that strikes some deliciously ironic parallels to Akechi.
Appearance: For the Robin Hood vibe, I'm torn between dressing Akechi up in the typical green garb so he looks like an awkward fairy child, or sticking closer to his usual Metaverse garb. Whatever happens, he'll definitely have a silly, jaunty hat with a feather in it and he'll hate it.
Abilities: Typically in battle, Akechi wields laser swords and ray guns, but for Robin Hood I'd rather him be tethered to the typical outlaw weapon: the bow and arrow. I debating weather or not his arrows will have special properties or not and if so, what kind of properties — will they be the typical zelda-esque elemental effects or something more helpful with stealth and infiltration? Also with continuing Robin Hood's thief motif, it'd be fun to give Akechi some next-level thievery abilities, like shadow clones or short-range illusions. Or maybe he'll just turn into a fox. Because.
Quirks: Going with the whole "take from the rich, give to the poor" motif, Akechi with feel compelled to share his "bounty" will people around him...regardless of what that means, whether it be money or food or information. He'll find it difficult to hold onto things for long! He's gonna be so charitable...
Extra: is Akechi's middle name.
Questions: what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow