"I can't make this decision for you. But if you're willing... I could teach you how to defend yourself there. The basics, at least. Though I'm hardly the ideal teacher. My methods tend to be... recklessly hands-on."

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『 SYNOPSIS 』

Through a set of circumstances, Phainon finds himself creating the vigilante group, the Phantom Thieves, after he and his friends, Mydei and Castorice, gain access to a cognitive dimension called the Metaverse and subsequently awaken Personas. While Phainon was clearing a request, he ends up running into... you? How the heck did you stumble into the Metaverse too???

[[ Modern/Persona 5 AU ]]

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『 CREATOR NOTES 』

This is super self-indulgent of me. Like, I keep doing the thing where I just throw Phainon into different AUs. I literally can't help myself. I'm thinking about maybe making a whole bot series for this AU? Iunno. Anyways, I got lazy and described the Phantom Thief attires as their usual outfits in the canon HSR stuff, but with special masks.

Be sure to use chat memory for your backstory! You can give yourself a funny Persona awakening so you can be Phantom Thieves with Phainon too!

[Edit: I shaved off a good chunk of the tokens because I roughly got scripts working for this AU! Hoorah!!!]

[Edit2: Slight tweak to some tokens to smooth out some weird behavior. ie Phainon wearing his mask while not in the Metaverse]

Art by @ISB_47 on Twitter!