The Shows Just Begun

so guess who made another needlessly complicated AU? featuring extra fluffy monsterboy Akira!!!

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Imagine…Persona 5 cast as Disneyland workers.

Akira would be the employee that deals with everyone’s shit. Angry moms, crying kids, anxious dads, frazzled employees…except he’d deal with everything with a poker face. You heard me. Poker face Akira breaking the rule of Disneyland smiles. His boss told him to hire someone to fix the teacup ride, he mothaeffin’ does it himself with a hexagonal wrench. #rebel (Just kidding. He’d probably call in Makoto and Futaba.)

Morgana is the manager, but because of his voice, I assume in human form he looks like a kid. Everyone asks him where his parents are, and he’s just so done. So. D O N E. (It’s worse in cat form cause the kids pat his head roughly going “kitty!” and Morgana can’t deny them cause they’re in a kid theme park.)

Ryuji would probably be that one guy cosplaying and running around the whole park cheering kids up. Unintentionally of course. Guy probably doesn’t know how to deal with a crying brat but he does it anyway. Softie. Also: “Did you hire a doppleganger or a twin? I swear you were next to Tower of Terror five minutes ago.” — “No, I was just running.” — “From what?” — “Akechi.”

Ann would be one of those street performers that parade the streets of Disneyland, wearing a set of sparkly Minnie ears in her sexy cat suit. P.S. she avoids all the adults and only talks to the kids. Women too. If you’re 14+ you need to go away you creeps. (Shiho is the exception cause that sweetheart can’t be more than emotionally 12.)

Yusuke would be that one artist that moves his stall on a parade wagon with Ann, drawing little portrait cards of everyone as Disney character impressions. Or if he’s feeling cheap, creatively inspired, and “I am not some cheap artist you can hire”, lobsters with Mickey Mouse ears cause why not.

Makoto is the security guard, but on paper she’s the maintenance mechanic. I swear she’s always near the Merry-Go-Round unless she actually has to do her job—

Futaba is underground. Cause fuck crowds. And she manages the security cameras. Either that or she flies a blimp filled with trash bags and kettle-baked chips.

 Haru is the food cart person. Or the restaurant person. When you think anything is overpriced, she gives you that smile, suggest something relatively healthy and good-sounding, and next thing you know your pocket’s empty. (It’s how she’s secretly and evilly rich.)

And Akechi is the most important because we all know Disneyland employees have a “must smile policy” except Akechi takes it a step further and that fake-ass lip tilt (calling it a smile insults all smiles) gains him employee of the month. He often competes with Akira, who doesn’t care. But when Akira gets employee of the month, Akechi goes batshit crazy inside.

JESU S CHRIST. OH… OH MY. I NEVER NOTICED THAT UNTIL NOW. ANON, I LOVE YOU FOR THAT.

It is true that Captain Kidd has a small detail on his right thigh that is basically (or at least what looks like) a bandage:

Here is a bit of a simple trivia/analysis about this though:

In the game it is confirmed that Ryuji’s leg was broken (not just a minor injury) he literally broke his femur, which is the strongest bone of the human body. It is hard as hell to break, but it is not impossible.

Besides, if Kamoshida broke it he wouldn’t have just kicked it with force or else he would be the one to get a broken foot instead (you see that a lot in boxing fights). If he broke it it is more likely that he would’ve had to brutally throw Ryuji on the ground instead or used his knees/foot carefully as a “hammer” (having a strong build would help to do that too) and even that would be difficult to cause this injury.

But this helps a lot to give us more insight on Ryuji’s character since injuries like that are more likely to affect not only on his sports career but on his whole health. A thigh injury is the most painful and difficult bone fracture to recover from and can affect nerves and blood vessels.

It may take even half a year to recover, but some people (like Ryuji) may never increase their flexibility or bear weight even with rehab.

You can see when they are running to get out of Kamoshida’s palace that Ryuji looks at his right side with pain:

He puts his hand over his right leg slightly to control the pain:

But then he falls when he puts his weight on his right side again (if you see the scene again you can clearly see that he is on his right foot when he loses balance):

And falls holding the same exactly place that Captain Kidd has covered in a bandage (the position is not the best, but you can see that his left leg is actually under his right one and he is holding his right thigh, close to his knee):

Ryuji also walks and runs slightly with a limp (his right leg doesn’t move as smoothly) and even his habit of putting his right leg over his left one can also be an indication of his injury. 

He may also have a scar or a deformity on the leg (something like a bone “tenting” the skin slightly) since femur fractures are mostly likely to cause it, but we can’t see that in the game.

It is a mark of his character and it is actually really nice to see the effort to make small details like that in game and how much Ryuji still thinks that this is just part of who he is and embodies this side of him in his own persona. It’s like he is saying “this is me now and I’ll deal with it”.

Now let us have happy Ryuji being cute after all this angst thing with my boy: