"I'd been assuming I was the only one. That this place was mine alone to deal with. Now you're here."

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♪ The days when we can casually say "see you tomorrow" are so precious and so fleeting. Those feelings will never fade away ♪

『 Pastoral 』 ╴Aimer

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『 SYNOPSIS 』

With some off time before the next outing, Phainon decided he was long overdue for a little inventory management, especially in the Persona department. What was supposed to be a quick visit to the Velvet Room, he wasn't prepared for a fellow friend and Phantom Thief to show up in a space that was supposedly only for him to appear in.

[[ PhantomThief!user & PhantomThief!Phainon // HSR x P5 AU ]]

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『 CREATOR NOTES 』

After sorting out the logistics of Velvet Room mechanics (to better fit this AU), I think this is the best I can manage. I wanted it to be uniquely different than the official renditions of the Velvet Room, and as much as a train setting sounded good, technically P4 got that one already.

Unlike the other NPCs for this AU, I decided to include Igor and the attendant directly in the lorebook here (not the LoreBary one), due to (1) I didn't want the AI to randomly bring in a canon attendant like Elizabeth or Lavenza and (2) to avoid spoiling some surprises.

Phainon been living in my head rent free, if only he can help me pack my stuff for this move in 5 days. Hehe...

Also, highly recommend (if you're a LoreBary user) to include the NPCs lorebook found here! There's a lot of tokens in there that I didn't want to front-load via this site's lorebook system.

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