The Persona 6 Leaks Scared Me Into Thinking About Persona Crossroads Again, So Here's Some Tea About

The Persona 6 leaks scared me into thinking about Persona Crossroads again, so here's some tea about some characters in the AU:

It's as the title says. The leaks scared me into acting, so here's a few summaries about some of the characters are in the story! I changed quite a bit about the lore since I last talked about this au and since stuff...

ARILETTE

The protagonist of this story. Arilette is an amnesiac youth discovered by the research group stationed at Kousaten Academy, who displays an abnormal amount of Cognitive Excess found only in Persona Users. As a result, they have been placed under the care of the teacher handling Kousaten Academy's Persona Program in the meantime.

As the protagonist, Arilette is of the Fool Arcana, and the persona they awaken to is "Venti" (Yes, I changed the protags persona again, lol)

POLARIS

Arilette's senpai in both grade and seniority at Kousaten Academy's Persona Program. Polaris is a kind-hearted individual who helps Arilette settle into her new life at the school. Many people who spend time with Polaris easily find themselves at ease as they are what Takashi would call "Comfort-friend material". Polaris also seems to be close friends with the school's head cognitive researcher...

Polaris is Arilette's Star Social Link, and their persona is named "Ghost Nebula" (Not married to the name yet. Polaris was originally Ghostbur's user, but with all the drama that went down with Wilbur, I figured it'd be better if I changed it. Ghost Nebula is sort of a parallel to Ghostbur, but without being Wilbur lol)

TAKASHI MATSUMURA

Another one of Arilette's senpais in both grade and seniority at Kousaten. Takashi is a student with an unapproachable and intimidating demeanour. Most students are afraid to talk with him as he seems unwilling to spend excessive time around them, the only people he seems to tolerate is the program's teacher and Polaris. Arilette themself only met him once before becoming an official student of the program, though despite their demeanour, Arilette had the vague sense of something heavy weighing on Takashi's shoulders

Takashi is Arilette's Emperor Social Link (tho that's up for change), and his persona is named "Littlewood"

YUJIN VUONG

A youth that Arilette encounters on an assignment in Tatsumi Port Island. The nature of his existence is one that would have been a conundrum during the Martyr Makoto Yuuki's time, or perhaps not. When the group gets caught up in a fight, Yujin awakens to his persona and takes the reins as the team's navigator.

Yujin is of the Tower Arcana, and his persona is named "Antarcticite"

HOAI VUONG

The decision to bring him on the team was not one any of Kousaten Academy's Persona Program's members were happy about, but it was a necessary evil.

Hoai is Arilette's Devil Social Link, and his persona is named "Phosphophyllite"

HISAO KATAYAMA

The head researcher stationed at Kousaten in all things involved with Personas, Shadows, and the Cognitive World. Hisao is currently engaged to the teacher in charge of the Persona Program and possesses a unique sense of fashion and a joyful disposition. Although xe seems all too happy to talk about xyr research and the history of previous persona users and cognitive beings, xe also seems reluctant to divulge about xemself...

Hisao is Arilette's Magician Social Link.

CHIHIRO AKEMI

A mysterious girl who always seems to show up right when Arilette needs her the most. For someone as friendly and mindful as Chihiro, it's almost odd to see her look so dead on her feet all the time.

Chihiro is Arilette's Wheel of Fortune Social Link.

AODH FUJIHARA

A third-year from another school that Arilette works part-time with. A sass master with a big-sibling friend streak. Even though they don't realise it yet, there will come a time when they'll have to confront their past, and it all starts with the deep dark secret in their basement.

Aodh is Arilette's Moon Social Link.

AKATSUKI SHIRAHAMA

The owner of a popular cat gaming lounge. He's highly protective of his roommates, and often jokingly referred to as their mom. After a bad shadow attack hits the city, Akatsuki seems restless about something, as if he's expecting the shadows to jump out at him at any moment.

Akatsuki is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

MAGNOLIA SAKURAI

One of Arilette's classmates and Akatsuki's roommate/charge. A polite girl with an interest in robotics and athletics. She always seems to have something on her mind...

Magnolia is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

KICHOU SHIRAHAMA

A foreigner whom Akatsuki claims to be his younger sibling, Kichou lives in the apartment above the gaming lounge with Akatsuki, Magnolia, and their fourth roommate. Excitable and bubbly, Kichou has a knack for picking up small details others don't notice... impressively so...

Kichou is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

HIKARI AKITA

Akatsuki, Magnolia, and Kichou's fourth and final roommate. She has a stern disposition and a love for puzzles. If Akatsuki is the mom of the roommates, then Hikari is the dad.

Hikari is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

SYLVIE

A powerful witch said to live in the woods. Only desperate people plead with her and those who dare do so often walk away worse than they did before. Authority members have tried apprehending her, but none have managed to find her home, at least, none who weren't welcomed by her. While investigating a commission, Arilette manages to stumble and meet the witch and her servant, the former of whom doesn't seem thrilled at having her time wasted. Despite the numerous curses Arilette knows Sylvie could inflict on her, there's only one thing Sylvie requires from her: a wingwoman to help her get together with her servant.

Sylvie is one of Arilette's Lovers Social Links.

LEILANI

Sylvie's reluctant servant. An amnesiac who adorns herself in silver jewellery and who was cursed by Sylvie to forever serve her. Why Sylvie doesn't just order Leilani to date her, Arilette doesn't know. All he knows is that Sylvie is attracted to Leilani, and Leilani is weary of Sylvie. According to Sylvie, Arilette is the first human in a long time that Leilani's been overly protective of, enough to resist whatever curse Sylvie placed on her. Good grief, if Arilette's freedom didn't depend on wing manning for these two, this would be a bee's nest he wouldn't poke.

Leilani is one of Arilette's Lovers Social Links.

ASNEFIKO

The 'i' in their name is silent. Asnefiko is the eccentric owner of an antique store and a part-time novelist. When Arilette goes to see them, they often talk about stories and novel ideas, a few of which intrigue Arilette more than they'd thought. Asnefiko also seems to have a soft spot for Polaris, but Polaris doesn't seem to know them...

Asnefiko is Arilette's Aeon Social Link.

LUKE

Arilette's Velvet Room Attendant. Arilette wonders if they've met prior to her becoming a guest...

I... haven't decided on Luke's arcana yet lol XDD

Messiah

Genshin AU ideas that have been living in my head but currently don't have enough sustenance for me to consider writing stories for

Fatui Fledgling AU

This AU idea is based on a fic I read "Strings Attached" by VeePASTA (Viewer discretion to all who plan to read it, it's NSFW)

Similar to what happens in the story (minus all the sex cuz I ain't about that life), in this AU, instead of the Fledgling dying (Idk if I want to call him Tori or Hinadori yet), he survives when Kabukimono and Dottore cross paths and Kabuki decides to essentially sell himself to Dottore for the price of the Fledgling's survival.

To pull that feat off, Dottore replaces the Fledgling's infected organs with artificial innards made after studying Kabuki, essentially turning the Fledgling into a long-living cyborg puppet. As per his and Kabuki's agreement, Dottore lets the Fledgling go after a few experiments, but the Fledgling decides to remain as Dottore's assistant to stay close to Kabuki.

For the next 500 years, Kabuki remains Dottore's favourite experiment and prisoner and never becomes a harbinger, and while I don't think the Fledgling would ever become a harbinger himself, I do like to imagine that he grows up with a cold disposition that slightly resembles canon balladeer's if you take away the god-complex.

Although he's Dottore's assistant, if given the chance, he wouldn't hesitate to brutally murder the man (for reasonable reasons) and bust himself and Kabuki out of there. I like to imagine that this determination allows the Fledgling to receive a vision (probably an Electro based on an explanation interpretation I saw in a video) and that his skills would have something to do with dolls :))

I just think it would be super interesting to see the Fledgling in a similar role to canon Balladeer and how that would change the story :uu

I'm still contemplating if the Fledgling should be successful in his goal of saving Kabuki, or if I should kill Kabuki off for character development.

Collei runs away from the Fatui with Kunikuzushi's decapitated head AU

This AU's inspired by two fics: "I'll get you home" by jammincat and "Two Flowers to Trick the Children" by zephyrai

Long story short, in this AU, Scaramouche/Kunikuzushi/Whatever else he's named lol helps Collei escape the Fatui. I haven't decided yet if he's still a harbinger in the AU and just got close to Collei the same way he does in TFTTTC, or if he's just a fellow test subject who just knows more due to how long he's been with the Fatui.

Either way, he helps her escape but then Dottore effing shows up and effing d e c a p i t a t e s Scara to which Collei grabs his head due to "Not my best/closest/only friend!" emotions and runs away, somehow successfully escaping Dottore).

In this AU, I imagine Scara working a lot like the gems from Houseki no Kuni where he kind of goes unconscious when he loses too many pieces of himself (or, y'know, loses his head) but is perfectly fine after you put the pieces back together, but as far as anyone in Mondstadt was concerned, Collei is essentially carrying around a dead person's head lol

Tho I do also imagine that maybe Scara's head is still able to have thoughts and that somehow, Collei is able to telepathically read those thoughts. So not only was she the traumatized kid who carried around her dead friend's head, but she was the traumatized kid who was so traumatized that as far as the Mondstatders were aware, she would talk to her dead friend's head and treat it like it's not a decapitated limb.

Maybe whenever Scara's head is around electro crystals, he's able to communicate using an Ouiji board or something, so now people don't think she's crazy anymore when they see him "talk" but they do freak out because "IS THAT GHOSTLY ACTIVITY???"

I just think it would be interesting to see an AU where Collei has Scara's decapitated head around. I'd enjoy seeing a segment where the traveller needs info on Dottore and Cyno's like: "I know a guy, who knows a gal, who knows another guy who could help you out" and they just expect to see another forest ranger when SURPRISE MOTHERFUDGER- it's a decapitated head!

Either way, in this AU, I can imagine that one of the conditions Nahida makes in her deal with Dottore is for him to return Scara's body. Now, although his body is not conscious, Dottore can still use it for some experiments, so he's not to keen on accepting the deal until an audible crack can be heard from the gnosis' in Nahida's grasp lol.

Fatui Fledgling and CRAFTFWKDH mashup AU

I ended up having another thought: "What if I mashed up these two AU ideas together?"

The fledgling is Dottore's assistant who smuggles things from the outside for his big brother: books, treats, small toys, and supplies to make stuffed dolls, and Kabuki, who sympathizes with the young girl in the cell next to his, reads his books to her, gives her his treats and toys, makes her a doll, and eventually convinces the Fledgling to aid him to help Collei escape.

Just like in the CRAFTFWKDH AU, this doesn't go too well and Kabuki gets his head and arm decapitated, to which the Fledgling snags his head, Collei grabs his arm, and Dottore retrieves the rest of his body.

I don't know what the two's relationship in this AU should be like yet, but I imagine that initially, Collei hates the Fledgling and the Fledgling doesn't really care about her, but as the only members of the "Kabukimono's Younger Siblings" club, they probably learn to tolerate each other after his decapitation... kinda like real siblings lol.

After that ordeal tho, I'd imagine that the Fledgling probably just drops Collei off at Mondstadt and goes off to do other things I don't know yet (probably not go back to the Fatui, unless he plans on retrieving the rest of Kabuki's body on his own or smth). The two are still able to communicate thanks to the body parts they retrieved from Kabuki's dismemberment.

I don't really have much else for this AU, but the Fledgling would probably also show up in the Sumeru arc.

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

[ATWIAWL] Wisp name meaning - Part 1

Nye (Venti's secret identity)

The site I read said it meant "New Start"

This represents how this new identity is essentially a new start for Venti.

My bro and friend both chose Nye out of the long list of names I gave them because it reminded them of Bill Nye the Science Guy X))

Zhen (Zhongli's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "A Treasure" or "Precious"

This is a callback to how Zhen would leave Zhongli gifts before the two got close.

Sometimes, Zhen is affectionately nicknamed "Xiao Zhen", which means "Little Zhen" :))

Kaze no Seirei (Kabukimono's wisp)

Literally just translates to "Wind Spirit"

If the people of Tatarasuna named Kabukimono "Wandering Eccentric", the chances of them giving Kaze an actual name are severely slim.

When they still lived with Ei, Ei just called them Barbatos since she believed that Kaze was his ghost.

Ghostie (Nahida's wisp)

Nahida gave them that name because they looked like a little ghost in their wisp form :))

I might have mentioned this before, but Nahida originally gave me the vibes of someone who'd give proper names, until I remembered that she signed Wanderer up into the championship under the name "Hat Guy"

The name works especially well with the lore I have for Ghostie XDD

Duchesse Imène (Furina's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "She who has faith" or "Believer"

It's meant to reference how although they have no idea what's going on, they decided to support Furina no matter what.

I wanted Imène to have a full title that would match the Salon Solitaire but couldn't figure out what role they would have to Furina in the eyes of the Fontaine people. My pals and I were thinking of some kind of general, or a bodyguard, or an informant or something, and then we had the brilliant idea of making Imène some kind of advisor, like, a king's advisor, but because they don't have official titles, we just went with Duchess in French (Which is literally just Duchess with an 'e' at the end lol)

The Velikaia Knazhna of Snezhnaya, Karine (The Tsarista's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "Beloved Friend"

It is meant to represent how Karine is now the Tsaritsa's closest companion, and essentially her new younger sibling after Venti "died".

The title "Velikaia Knazhna" means "Grand Princess", but translates to "Grand Duchess" in English. It is a title given to the daughters and male-line granddaughters of the Emperor or Empress' of Russia... huh... I don't know why, but before I reread the site I got the info from, I originally thought it was the title given to the younger sibling of a Russian ruler... which... would probably just make them a Prince/Princess huh?

Should I change Karine's title to Knazhna' Krovi Imperatorskoy? It means "Princess of the Blood Imperial" and was a title that was implemented in Russia in the year 1885 to reduce the amount of Grand Princes and Grand Princess by giving the male-line descendants of the Emperor of Russia a title that would distinguish them from those of noble Russian families titled prince/princess.

Why does Karine present as more feminine and bear feminine titles? It's for the Tsaritsa's peace of mind, trust me.

I'm considering doing a stream where I do nothing but write fanfiction.