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Persona 5: Commit sexy fucking crimes with your badass awesome sexy thief friends in the most magical city in the world (Tokyo)

This ended up being just a one-off mention in Talk to Me, but I made up a whole backstory and I’m sad I didn’t get to use it so here you go: 

Basically, one night while he was trying to distract himself from his crushing loneliness, Phenomaman went down a rabbit hole of those bird rehabilitation videos on social media. And there was one video about an elderly toucan with arthritis, mobility issues, and a damaged beak. The person in the video cleaned the beak very gently with a toothbrush and groomed its pin feathers and carefully sanded the areas of the beak that were damaged. And at the end of the video, the guy rubbed some coconut oil on the beak and fed the toucan some fruit. 

Phen watched that video and was reminded very strongly of his friend and dispatcher Robert Robertson. At first he associated him with the toucan—small, weak. Damaged and in need of care. But then he took note of the man caring for the toucan. During the entire video, the man spoke in this very deadpan, almost careless voice, but he very carefully and gently treated this sick creature in his charge. And the more he thought on it, the more certain Phen was that this nonchalantly caring man was a better comparison for Robert Robertson, who regularly cared for Phen and the Z-Team in small but impactful ways. And it gave Phen a feeling of comfort, to be so strongly reminded of his friend even when he was by himself. 

Still, it was only one video, and in the weeks after, he didn’t think much on it. 

And then one day he was wandering through an outdoor market when he came upon a set of brightly colored hand towels decorated with pleasing images of toucans, and the video came rushing back to him, and he purchased them right away.

Robert’s eyebrows raised when presented with them, but he smiled and thanked Phen when he told him they reminded Phen of him.