INFO! Player Name: rae Contact: gothmoth @ plurk/gothestmoth @ discord
Character Name: Ren Amamiya aka Joker Canon: Persona 5 Royal Character Info: HOO BOY well. Ren here is the game’s protagonist, for starters. He’s a Japanese high school student with a (now overturned) criminal assault conviction, which is a crime for which he was falsely accused. Not cool! So Ren spent a year leading a vigilante group known as the Phantom Thieves in a series of supernatural heists aiming to fix their broken society by changing the hearts of ~rotten adults~ like corrupt politicians and abusive businessmen. Also they fought a god and won. Twice! With the power of friendship and Personas and guns. (And maybe a few delicious pancakes.)
Despite how … questionable … that all might sound, Ren is actually a very very good bean! He has an unflinching sense of justice and a near-bottomless heart. This kid literally ripped his own face off to save another kid he’d just met, and that’s how he got his first Persona.
Oh yeah! He’s also a Wild Card in the world of Persona-users, which means he normally has a somewhat unique ability to use a bunch of different Personas, which makes him a very adaptable fighter. (Won’t be applicable here though, eep.)
He’s also got a slight tendency toward trolling in casual conversation, just to be a funny little guy. His code name is Joker, after all.
PLOTTING! Monster Ideas: The three I’m planning to list on my app are celestial, demon, and vampire. I think all of those would make for interesting challenges for Ren to face with transformations! Celestial and demon are kinda thematically relevant for his character, and I’m perpetually weak for vampires, so I think any of those would be super fun to play with.
Game plans: Finding yourself in a weird otherworld is a “day that ends in Y” situation for Persona characters. HOWEVER, Ren’s whole Thing is fighting injustice, and getting yanked somewhere against your will and turned into some kind of monster kinda sounds a lot like injustice that needs to be fought! So he’ll be into investigating the mysteries and fighting off enemies for sure, all while looking for the big final boss behind it all.
I’m also really interested in exploring how a Persona protag handles a weird situation like this WITHOUT his usual arsenal of Personas and various other battle advantages to prop him up.
Also, Ren still owes Akechi a duel. Prepare for these boys to be really Extra about each other.
Desired CR: All of them! From his thread with Akechi on the last TDM, Ren’s already curious about his “”rival””’s friends and associates and totally wants to meet them! Outside of that, Ren is a super helpful guy and is used to juggling like 9 part-time jobs around school and thieving and his social life, so he can get involved basically anywhere doing almost anything. He’ll be looking for new Confidants to bond and/or make deals with, but also just, normal friends? Who enjoy each others’ company without needing some kind of exchange to make it happen? That’d be nice too.
I am very much down for negative CR as well, as long as it’s of some substance and not just seeing who can out-badass each other. Ren’s already Taken on the rival front kthx.
emp? idk i’m already very enabled c:
Player Name: rae
Contact: gothmoth @ plurk/gothestmoth @ discord
Character Name: Ren Amamiya aka Joker
Canon: Persona 5 Royal
Character Info: HOO BOY well. Ren here is the game’s protagonist, for starters. He’s a Japanese high school student with a (now overturned) criminal assault conviction, which is a crime for which he was falsely accused. Not cool! So Ren spent a year leading a vigilante group known as the Phantom Thieves in a series of supernatural heists aiming to fix their broken society by changing the hearts of ~rotten adults~ like corrupt politicians and abusive businessmen. Also they fought a god and won. Twice! With the power of friendship and Personas and guns. (And maybe a few delicious pancakes.)
Despite how … questionable … that all might sound, Ren is actually a very very good bean! He has an unflinching sense of justice and a near-bottomless heart. This kid literally ripped his own face off to save another kid he’d just met, and that’s how he got his first Persona.
Oh yeah! He’s also a Wild Card in the world of Persona-users, which means he normally has a somewhat unique ability to use a bunch of different Personas, which makes him a very adaptable fighter. (Won’t be applicable here though, eep.)
He’s also got a slight tendency toward trolling in casual conversation, just to be a funny little guy. His code name is Joker, after all.
PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: The three I’m planning to list on my app are celestial, demon, and vampire. I think all of those would make for interesting challenges for Ren to face with transformations! Celestial and demon are kinda thematically relevant for his character, and I’m perpetually weak for vampires, so I think any of those would be super fun to play with.
Vehicle Ideas: I’m eyeing a van much like the Monabus he drives around in Mementos, with a Spacious quality.
Game plans: Finding yourself in a weird otherworld is a “day that ends in Y” situation for Persona characters. HOWEVER, Ren’s whole Thing is fighting injustice, and getting yanked somewhere against your will and turned into some kind of monster kinda sounds a lot like injustice that needs to be fought! So he’ll be into investigating the mysteries and fighting off enemies for sure, all while looking for the big final boss behind it all.
I’m also really interested in exploring how a Persona protag handles a weird situation like this WITHOUT his usual arsenal of Personas and various other battle advantages to prop him up.
Also, Ren still owes Akechi a duel. Prepare for these boys to be really Extra about each other.
Desired CR: All of them! From his thread with Akechi on the last TDM, Ren’s already curious about his “”rival””’s friends and associates and totally wants to meet them! Outside of that, Ren is a super helpful guy and is used to juggling like 9 part-time jobs around school and thieving and his social life, so he can get involved basically anywhere doing almost anything. He’ll be looking for new Confidants to bond and/or make deals with, but also just, normal friends? Who enjoy each others’ company without needing some kind of exchange to make it happen? That’d be nice too.
I am very much down for negative CR as well, as long as it’s of some substance and not just seeing who can out-badass each other. Ren’s already Taken on the rival front kthx.
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