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Ok, I’ve had a Persona 5 X Shining Nikki AU rattling around in my head for a while now.
If you are interested In my ramblings continue onwards, otherwise I hope y’all have a good day/night!
The only reason this AU exists is because I think P5 and SN’s stories are surprisingly similar in theme. Just with the “let’s believe in humanity and save it while using powers that come from a place between reality and myth” thing going on. Also, I’m not super into angst or lore in this AU. I could conjure up some if people are interested, but most of this is fluff headcannonimg. Also Also this is a chaotic mess of a post, so apologies for very disjointed thoughts at times, but I couldn’t care more for organization right now.
In my own personal head cannon of SN, the way I describe how styling power works is that, stylists can use and or make their own Designer Reflections freely, however they cannot use other people’s. (Ex: Nikki can use her own, but she can’t use Momo DR). The only person who can use DR made by another stylist is the player. (My player is named Lily Kayla so that is what I will be referring to her as!). Nikki simply has more styling power than most people and Lily Kayla is the one who channels other DRs for Nikki to use.
Now, I don’t particularly care whether Nikki, Lily Kayla, and Momo go to the P5 universe, or if the Phantom Thieves go the SN universe. I have ideas for both which I will now ramble about. SN in P5 is here if you scroll down a bit.
Phantom Thieves in the Shining Nikki Universe
If the PTs go to the SN universe, I think they would be considered stylists and their Persona would transfer over into having a main style. Here’s a list that I will makeup on the spot now along with which nation style they would best fit into!
Joker: cool, north or apple
Mona: cool or cute, apple
Skull: fresh, apple
Panther: Sexy or cute, apple
Fox: elegant, cloud
Queen: cool or sexy, north
Oracle: cool, wasteland or ruin
Noir: cute, pigeon or Ninir
Crow: elegant and then cool, Ninir change to north
Violet: elegant or cute, Ninir or pigeon
There’s a lot of “cool” in there I know, but I just think it fits.
And now jumping into character interactions because that’s the main reason why I like crossover stuff in the first place.
I think Lily Kayla would totally show the ark off to the PTs. She would also show off a lot of DRs which she has acquired. Sorika (SN’s version of the gentlewoman thief) would definitely be on the list to show off. I think Lily would also show off or meet up with Ai, simply for Futaba’s sake. I could also see possibly something coming up the Justiciars and the PTs could go and meet Zoey’s crew. Maybe Zoey could show Ann more ways to use her whip along with general gun skills. I’d like to think that Nikki would surprise them with how good her gun skills are, or something of the sort.
Lily Kayla, Nikki, and Momo would definitely take the PTs on like, a small tour or something (I have no idea how big Miraland actually is). Yusuke would definitely get lost looking at something and I think he would just have a good time in general. I also want the cat not cats to talk to each other. See how that conversation would go or something. I think Futaba would also freak out at the prospect of Ruin Island until the Phantom Thieves come to find out what happened.
The entire Glow arc along side Modric having the ability the remove people memories with music could definitely be connected with Maruki’s entire thing. The PTs and the Shining Gang would have some interesting topics that they could convene on.
Oh! Nikki and Lily Kayla would definitely dress the PTs up with their extensive wardrobe. I actually have a picture I drew of the PTs in casual outfits, but I won’t add it here because I’m not even halfway through and I could still keep going. I also think Lily would like to show off their models guns and swords which they own for the purpose of ✨fashion✨. That’s mostly the gist of this half of the au. There’s definitely more that I’ve thought of, but I’ll cut this part short before it turns into a small fanfiction.
Shining Nikki in the Persona 5 Universe
I think that Nikki and Lily Kayla would be in the P5 universe thanks to one of Aeon’s experiments. They would initially end up in Momentos, and whether they met the PTs while they were in Momentos or after they escape from it, I don’t really care. I’m just kinda open to anything really.
Because Lily Kayla is the only one who has access to multiple DRs, I think she would be placed in the wildcard/velvet attendant spot. Specifically, I think she would be Nikki’s velvet attendant and Nikki would be considered the wild card. I think that upon first arrival that Justine and Caroline would throw her in a jail cell and Joker would have to bargain with them (maybe a plea deal or something) to get her out. From then on Lily doesn’t go near the Velvet Room anymore. (I also have a drawing of Lily in an attendant outfit, but as stated before, unless someone asks for it I’ll leave it for a different post). (I should also make Nikki a PT outfit!!).
DRs would change from having style elements to Metaverse Elements. Here are a few outfits I think would get used often and what element I think they would have. (Btw, I’m going off of my own personal collection, so if there’s a better DR which would fit an element that I don’t have, that’s why I didn’t mention it! :)) (also please keep in mind that I’ve never actually played P5 or P5R, I’ve just watched RTgame play it on twitch/youtube)
Zoey•Bloodthirsty Queen: Gun/Physical
Caprico•Cold Flame: Nuke/Electric
Yunikina•Song of Dawn: Ice
Erinka•Banquet of Passion: Fire
Qin Yi•Phoenix out of Palace: Fire
Yuntan•Fleeting Dream: Wind
Mercury•Elves’ Prayer: Bless/Light
Nikki•Guides of Star: Bless/Light
Sorika•Night Camouflage: Curse/Dark
Ai•Virtual Adventure: Electric
Aeon•Sea Mist: Psychic
Etc. I think you get the idea because I could list DR and what metaverse element I think they could be forever, but I’m going to stop myself here. I think Lily Kayla would often switch who she’s using just to get a feel for who’s good for what.
But, general overview, most of Zoey’s DR are gonna by gun/physical, Caprico’s or anyone from Ruin is gonna be Nuke or Electric, Lilith’s Curse/Dark, Nikki, Stars, and Light elves are Bless/Light, etc. etc. (if you want to know more then ask and I’ll respond!)
MOVING ON!!! —->
I think Lily Kayla in the real world (outside of Momentos) would be incorporeal. Kinda like Morgana where unless you’ve seen them in the Metaverse or know that they exist, they’ll be a ghost or Phantom (haha) otherwise.
Speaking of Lily Kayla!! Because she is basically my OC at this point I have some extra points I’d like to bring up. She’d probably make the connection from the Velvet Room to the Ark and talk to either Justine and Caroline or Joker about the Sea of Souls vs the Ocean of Memories. I think Lily Kayla would rope Nikki into telling the PTs about how they defeated the Goddess of Desire from their world sometime after the PTs explain how Momentos and Palaces work. Also, she’d be absolutely horrified by the fusions. Perhaps ever traumatized. Lily’s way of summoning DR in this world is through her mirror thing. As long as she has that, I kinda think it would work like a compendium of sorts.
When the DRs get summoned in Momentos, Lily and Nikki can control what elements from the outfit and the memory get summoned. Key word can. Most of the time I think they would just summon the whole outfit and memory to save the trouble, but I do think in certain times that specific parts of an outfit could be summoned at a time. (Ex: like only summoning Zoey’s Gun, Netga’s Mech or any other accessory to an outfit. With only summoning memories, it’d only be so that Lily or Nikki could talk to them or get advice from them).
Now for outside stuff that could happen!! Maybe once Lily Kayla becomes more physical (or maybe not I’m not picky) she and Nikki would probably just hang around the PTs and maybe crash at someone’s place. (Probably Haru’s). Joker (I’m calling P5 Protag Joker because I don’t have a preference on his name) would make them curry and I know that Nikki would fall in love with it. She’d probably want to cook with Joker sometime, but Lily Kayla would stop her before she could make something that even Yexiao couldn’t swallow.
Depending on how you interpret NG+, Nikki and Joker could get along with being tortured time travel buddies. Joker and Lily could get along we being the receptive “wildcard” of their group too. Lily would still probably introduce the thieves to a few of their friends from back home by summoning their memories.
Okay!! This post is long enough, I’m definitely cutting myself off here!! If even one person asks more about this insane crossover, then I’d be happy to write more about it, but for now this will satisfy me! If anyone gets to the bottom of this post, congrats! I’m glad you found me and my very niche demographic of P5 and SN fan who also happens to like fluffy crossover stuff! I hope to see you again soon!
Nikki from Memory + My own OC player character Lily Kayla!
Wait 500-800 diamonds isn’t the average amount??
SN loves to keep me poor
Hii! I did @miss-k-lovenikki’s DTIYS thing. Also, im bad at doing backgrounds, so just like, ignore it or something. This was a lot of fun though! I havent done digital art in like, a year lol.
LITERALLY WHAT IS MY LUCK?! First pull is the DR and like, the 5th is the reflection! That’s insane
AHHHH ITS DONE. I FINISHED GLITTERING DATE!!
Lore summaries about shining Nikki I like to drop on my friends to confuse them (Not in canonical order) :
(Don’t forget! This is a dress up game!)
Yeah, some girl burnt her sister alive and then made a deal with a demon to become queen.
Nikki got framed for murder that one time and then we had to take her mugshot.
Nikki fought a god…a few times, I’m pretty sure.
Yeah, one time this super smart ai trapped everyone in a virtual reality world and used their souls to power it.
Nikki and other people use guns because the blood curse doesn’t exist yet.
We watched our best friend bleed almost to death.
Nikki joins a gang. (Technically a militia maybe?)
A cat and a sheep enter into a horse race and win.
The cat also got drugged one time.
Nikki got thrown into a furnace.
The person who threw us into the furnace wants to give us a robotic cat to make up for throwing us into a furnace.
There was a god war at some point.
Some people tried to find the end of the world, succeeded, and then turned into a raging black sand/ash tornado. They were also fully aware as they were turning into sand, and they couldn’t do anything about it.
We freed the souls of the French Revolution that one time.
We are currently on the precipice of both the apocalypse and a war.
Nikki got stuck in a time loop.
This group called Savior, which was made to prevent the prophecy apocalypse from happening, debated on whether or not they should kill Nikki.
I’m pretty sure Ninir was selling illegal honey???
Also everything has gay subtext.
Except for Jax and Yuka. Even though they are roommates, they are also the same person.
hey! I made art of my shining Nikki OC! She’s also on artfight if you do that thing!
a handful of stylings I’ve uploaded to moments over the past few months. Personally handpicked the best ones!
Slight rant about Designers Concepts incoming. I’ve just been thinking about them a little too much. Also this post got very very long by accident. Oops.
I would like more sexy designers concepts. There’s like, literally the bare minimum for 1 good designers reflection (3 UR and 2 SSR, both have resonance), but other than that there’s nothing. Not even a SR set with resonance. It sucks.
To put it some perspective, if you’re trying to make a good formation for sexy, there’s only 12 sexy designers concepts. 9 which are technically “easily accessible” (not UR). To fill 3 DRs to the max, you need 15 concepts! Even more, there’s only 2 sets (the UR and SSR) which give resonance (extra bonus points for being set in a correct order).
Like, compare it to fresh (19) or elegant (17) or cute (19) categories and sexy is severely lacking. Cool also has the same problem in lacking SR (Only 3!) and SSR (2) concepts, but at least they pad it out with R concepts and 2 of the SR concepts have resonance with them.
Like, let me make you a list of statistics per category according to the designers concepts I currently have:
Elegant (17):
3 UR (with resonance) / 7 SSR (3 pairs of resonance) / 4 SR (3/4 have resonance) / 3 R
Fresh (19):
3 UR (with resonance) / 8 SSR (all pairs of resonance) / 5 SR (3/5 have resonance) / 3 R
Cute (19):
3 UR (with resonance) / 9 SSR (2 pairs of resonance) / 4 SR / 3 R
Sexy (12):
3 UR (with resonance) / 2 SSR (with resonance) / 4 SR / 3 R
Cool (13):
3 UR (with resonance) / 2 SSR (with resonance) / 3 SR (one pair of resonance) / 5 R
Like, even Cool, which is almost just as lacking as sexy makes up for it in some ways! Like the resonance between SR concepts and the 2 extra R concepts!! The sexy category in the designers concepts just sucks for some reason and I don’t know why.
It’s like the inverse problem of its designers reflections too! I’m currently sitting on SEVEN UR DRS for sexy meanwhile, I didn’t get my 3 cute UR DR until I finished Glow’s craftable set.
It’s so weird. Maybe that’s just the way Paper Games tries to even out the score. More DRs = Less designers concepts, but that seems kinda dumb to me. Why not just make them even? I feel like that would be much easier too.
Idk though. I’m not someone who knows how to balance game, so I can’t really say. I can only talk about how it feels as a player who cares about this sort of thing. I’m reaching for meaningless goals in a dress up game, so I’m not sure what I’m really asking for.
Anyway, end rant ig. I could go on about the DR imbalance when it comes to URs and such, but I think it’s actually more of a luck issue on my end. I’m gonna stop this now before I go writing on forever.
Is nobody going to mention how Yisu had to pick up Wenren Dian? Does this mean that he doesn’t know how to ride a horse or were they just Carpooling to save the end of the world together? Also the fact that it’s Tess’s horse? Tess and Yisu are totally gay for each other and there’s literally no disproving it at this point.
Fuck it. Another stupid headcannon poll!
AHHH THIS NEW EVENT IS SO GOOD!! I’m literally so excited to see what all the envoys’ fears are!! I want to know what makes them tick! Also, starting with Aloysius? I’m actually so excited for this.
Making Caprico’s the equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster is actually insane in a way that I can’t describe.
The god of styling has blessed me. Evidence? My pulls 140 and the free box that comes with it:
Thinking about leaving my guild and joining a new one. Anyone know one thats open and has a lot of active players?