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Persona 5 Ishimaru Kiyotaka is the MC AU basis.
Saving the woman and getting sued by shido probably cost him, his place at hopes peak so when he’s transferred to Shujin not only does he have the reputation of a criminal (which don’t help thanks to his already low position in society thanks to his grandpa) but as a failed ultimate as well. While the latter definitely is as bad Kiyotaka definitely views it as worser of the 2.
Taka is moved to sojiro’s care as he and Takaaki are old friends (possibly old drinking buddies) and Takaaki wants Taka to start fresh again after the incident with the woman. Taka is still friends with his old class and understands that he will no longer be able to see them as often.
Once Taka got his persona powers it takes him literally everything to not tell sojiro everything that has happened. He also gets major anxiety and stress pukage every time the phantom thieves leave a place or steal a treasure as he still is (somewhat) the moral compass. This gets less with time.
After becoming friends with Ryuji, Taka has a hard time seeing him as his own person and not a lesser mondo clone. This gets easier especially when he actually gets to know him as well as a bit of manly bonding at Ryuji’s favourite ramen place. They are work out buddies and taka tutors ryuji whenever exams start to come up.
He has a love/hate relationship with morgana as while Taka isn’t really an animal person he does agree with most of what the cat says well about being careful as a phantom thief not what the cat says about ryuji as Taka deems those comments to be far too cruel.
Taka has a brother/sister relationship with Ann as he can help her organise her schedule better for her modelling as well as help her with her studies. In return Ann helps him with his sense of style (especially after she found out his only clothing were ten sets of the same uniform) and actually being able to get him to socialise better.
Two very passionate and poor bois have united! Taka definitely relates to Yusuke’s situation with Madarame as he relates to it with the situation with his grandfather as it was two older men destroying the trust of someone in their care. While Taka may not understand Yusuke’s passion but he wholeheartedly supports it and will try and remind Yusuke to eat or at least will give Yusuke money so he can eat.
More will be added once I have played more of persona 5.
Phantom thief Kiyotaka design is done! If you have any questions please send em to my inbox or to the chat section of this post and I’ll do my best to answer them.
Thirst trap Taka + bonus Yusuke