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Age: Thirtyish
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Current Characters: None!
Character: Goro Akechi
Canon: Persona 5 Royal, immediately after the Final Palace
Age: 18
Background Information:
For an in-depth character history, see his profile here.
In short, Akechi is the illegitimate son of a wealthy and villainous politician and a prostitute, forced to grow up in a society that labels and stigmatizes any deviation from societal norms. Driven by poverty and social isolation to suicide, his mother left him in the hands of an underfunded and uncaring childcare system, bouncing from foster home to foster home and, slowly but surely, coming to hate the world for its cruelty.
The exact time is unknown, but when he was at most fourteen or fifteen, a malevolent god granted him a gift- the awakening of his Persona, Loki, a dangerous and violent entity that held the power to induce psychotic rage in its victims, as well as access to the Metaverse, a world born of humanity's collective cognition. Not long after this, Akechi reached out to his father, hoping to prove himself useful by granting Shido access to the Metaverse through him, and thus earn a father's praise.
When it became clear that no such affection was forthcoming, Akechi fell into violent tendencies, reinforced by Shido's usage of his powers for assassination, and fed by this toxic feedback loop of abuse, Akechi resolved instead to kill his father- to do whatever it took to earn the man's trust, so that he could kill him at his moment of triumph, and bring Shido a sliver of the pain he'd been forced to deal with all his life.
Given that Shido was plotting to kill him as well, it probably wouldn't have gone nearly as well as he'd hoped. On top of that, a group of Metaverse vigilantes known as the Phantom Thieves got involved... and the rest, as they say, is history.
Personality: Goro Akechi is not what anyone would call 'easy to get along with'. While in the past he may have put on an affect of pleasant geniality, recent events have caused him to simply stop caring about a number of things, chief among them putting on a mask for the benefit of other people.
Akechi is defensive and closed-off to most, to a degree of near-complete unwillingness to be emotionally open with anyone, requiring a great degree of trust before he'll be willing to delve into personal topics. This is best exemplified by his relationship with Joker, whom he needed to spend significant amounts of time with before he was willing to talk about any details of his life that were not sanitized or outright fabricated to be part of the public persona of the 'Detective Prince'.
It wouldn't be accurate to say he has a temper; the image that comes to mind when describing someone with a temper is like a powder keg or, in extreme cases, an atom bomb, stable at first glance but prone to sudden explosion. Akechi is more like a reactor, a constant, reliable output of quietly-simmering rage at the state of the world that ramps up to meet the demands of the occasion. He delights in 'biting back', in any number of cruelties great and small, directed at people who've hurt him or the vanishingly small list of people he cares about.
This isn't to say that his personality is entirely made up of barely-repressed rage and defense mechanisms, though. He's intensely inquisitive, easily lured by puzzles or mysteries and occasionally showing rare moments of genuine delight when a personal hypothesis is confirmed, or when a completely unexpected detail is revealed. He excels at, and delights in, games that let him get inside an opponent's head, like chess or shogi or, even, strategic card games. He's got a competitive streak a mile wide, as well, and seems to truly relish the rare occasion of being challenged at something- though occasionally that competitive nature can get him in trouble. While he enjoys being challenged, he responds poorly to being beaten, and though he's better about that nowadays, he still can't repress the instinctive spike of anger that comes when someone is better than him at something.
If he has a defining positive trait, it is his honesty. Stripped of all his lies and masks, the 'reformed' Akechi shows an admirable dedication to embracing the truth, though sometimes to a degree that others find abrasive. Even so, with his newfound resolve he has shown determination to pursue the truth- even should it cost him dearly to do so, leaving him dead or imprisoned.
Abilities & Inventory: Akechi will have access to the Persona Hereward which includes the following abilities:
-Passively makes the cost of supportive and 'Almighty'-type abilities
-Eigaon, dark-type magic
-Immunity to the same but taking additional damage and being stunned by light or holy-type effects (although with a better chance to evade them outright), as well as a resistance to psychic effects and a minor passive resistance to debilitating magic
-Debilitate, a spell that reduces a single target's offensive, defensive, and evasion abilities
-Melee and long-range attacks with said Persona's sword and bow
-Megidolaon and Rebellion Blade, spells that deal 'Almighty' type damage, which ingame is noteworthy for piercing all resistances and defenses, but usually being slightly weaker in terms of raw numbers than elemental attacks. I recognize that this is probably the one that will need the most nerfing, which I'm totally fine with.
Included in his inventory is a silenced automatic pistol, a sword with a serrated edge, and a striped costume that springs into being when he taps into his Persona.
Suitability & Plans: Broadly, several of my friends are in the game already and I want to play with them again- as well as a couple of Akechi's castmates who I'd love to interact with. More specifically, Akechi in P5R canon does not have a great number of opportunities to 'switch off' or respond to anything that isn't an existential threat or something that happens to him while he's under his father's thumb. I'd like to see him actually bond with people willing to look past his... spiky personality, and maybe work on things like 'feeling a bit more like a human person' as opposed to a barely-functional bundle of rage and trauma, which is pretty much how he acts in the third semester.
Test Drive Sample: In which Akechi is bothered by a goblin he doesn't know
In which Akechi is bothered by a goblin he does know, which might be worse
Questions: He does also, technically, have the Wild Card, though without any bonds with others aside from his father and his rival, and without access to the Velvet Room, he doesn't have much capacity to do anything with that. A fun and interesting pipe dream would be potentially using dreamotion abilities to get access to a limited number of Personas based on people he's bonded with in the long term, but that's more 'an idea that would be fun to play with', rather than 'core to the character'. I've seen the limitations that Ren Amamiya has on his Persona usage and would happily use those, if that were allowed.
Age: Thirtyish
Contact:
Current Characters: None!
Character: Goro Akechi
Canon: Persona 5 Royal, immediately after the Final Palace
Age: 18
Background Information:
For an in-depth character history, see his profile here.
In short, Akechi is the illegitimate son of a wealthy and villainous politician and a prostitute, forced to grow up in a society that labels and stigmatizes any deviation from societal norms. Driven by poverty and social isolation to suicide, his mother left him in the hands of an underfunded and uncaring childcare system, bouncing from foster home to foster home and, slowly but surely, coming to hate the world for its cruelty.
The exact time is unknown, but when he was at most fourteen or fifteen, a malevolent god granted him a gift- the awakening of his Persona, Loki, a dangerous and violent entity that held the power to induce psychotic rage in its victims, as well as access to the Metaverse, a world born of humanity's collective cognition. Not long after this, Akechi reached out to his father, hoping to prove himself useful by granting Shido access to the Metaverse through him, and thus earn a father's praise.
When it became clear that no such affection was forthcoming, Akechi fell into violent tendencies, reinforced by Shido's usage of his powers for assassination, and fed by this toxic feedback loop of abuse, Akechi resolved instead to kill his father- to do whatever it took to earn the man's trust, so that he could kill him at his moment of triumph, and bring Shido a sliver of the pain he'd been forced to deal with all his life.
Given that Shido was plotting to kill him as well, it probably wouldn't have gone nearly as well as he'd hoped. On top of that, a group of Metaverse vigilantes known as the Phantom Thieves got involved... and the rest, as they say, is history.
Personality: Goro Akechi is not what anyone would call 'easy to get along with'. While in the past he may have put on an affect of pleasant geniality, recent events have caused him to simply stop caring about a number of things, chief among them putting on a mask for the benefit of other people.
Akechi is defensive and closed-off to most, to a degree of near-complete unwillingness to be emotionally open with anyone, requiring a great degree of trust before he'll be willing to delve into personal topics. This is best exemplified by his relationship with Joker, whom he needed to spend significant amounts of time with before he was willing to talk about any details of his life that were not sanitized or outright fabricated to be part of the public persona of the 'Detective Prince'.
It wouldn't be accurate to say he has a temper; the image that comes to mind when describing someone with a temper is like a powder keg or, in extreme cases, an atom bomb, stable at first glance but prone to sudden explosion. Akechi is more like a reactor, a constant, reliable output of quietly-simmering rage at the state of the world that ramps up to meet the demands of the occasion. He delights in 'biting back', in any number of cruelties great and small, directed at people who've hurt him or the vanishingly small list of people he cares about.
This isn't to say that his personality is entirely made up of barely-repressed rage and defense mechanisms, though. He's intensely inquisitive, easily lured by puzzles or mysteries and occasionally showing rare moments of genuine delight when a personal hypothesis is confirmed, or when a completely unexpected detail is revealed. He excels at, and delights in, games that let him get inside an opponent's head, like chess or shogi or, even, strategic card games. He's got a competitive streak a mile wide, as well, and seems to truly relish the rare occasion of being challenged at something- though occasionally that competitive nature can get him in trouble. While he enjoys being challenged, he responds poorly to being beaten, and though he's better about that nowadays, he still can't repress the instinctive spike of anger that comes when someone is better than him at something.
If he has a defining positive trait, it is his honesty. Stripped of all his lies and masks, the 'reformed' Akechi shows an admirable dedication to embracing the truth, though sometimes to a degree that others find abrasive. Even so, with his newfound resolve he has shown determination to pursue the truth- even should it cost him dearly to do so, leaving him dead or imprisoned.
Abilities & Inventory: Akechi will have access to the Persona Hereward which includes the following abilities:
-Passively makes the cost of supportive and 'Almighty'-type abilities
-Eigaon, dark-type magic
-Immunity to the same but taking additional damage and being stunned by light or holy-type effects (although with a better chance to evade them outright), as well as a resistance to psychic effects and a minor passive resistance to debilitating magic
-Debilitate, a spell that reduces a single target's offensive, defensive, and evasion abilities
-Melee and long-range attacks with said Persona's sword and bow
-Megidolaon and Rebellion Blade, spells that deal 'Almighty' type damage, which ingame is noteworthy for piercing all resistances and defenses, but usually being slightly weaker in terms of raw numbers than elemental attacks. I recognize that this is probably the one that will need the most nerfing, which I'm totally fine with.
Included in his inventory is a silenced automatic pistol, a sword with a serrated edge, and a striped costume that springs into being when he taps into his Persona.
Suitability & Plans: Broadly, several of my friends are in the game already and I want to play with them again- as well as a couple of Akechi's castmates who I'd love to interact with. More specifically, Akechi in P5R canon does not have a great number of opportunities to 'switch off' or respond to anything that isn't an existential threat or something that happens to him while he's under his father's thumb. I'd like to see him actually bond with people willing to look past his... spiky personality, and maybe work on things like 'feeling a bit more like a human person' as opposed to a barely-functional bundle of rage and trauma, which is pretty much how he acts in the third semester.
Test Drive Sample: In which Akechi is bothered by a goblin he doesn't know
In which Akechi is bothered by a goblin he does know, which might be worse
Questions: He does also, technically, have the Wild Card, though without any bonds with others aside from his father and his rival, and without access to the Velvet Room, he doesn't have much capacity to do anything with that. A fun and interesting pipe dream would be potentially using dreamotion abilities to get access to a limited number of Personas based on people he's bonded with in the long term, but that's more 'an idea that would be fun to play with', rather than 'core to the character'. I've seen the limitations that Ren Amamiya has on his Persona usage and would happily use those, if that were allowed.
