I was talking with my friends something detective related would be fantastic for him. It was something I immediately wanted since his Persona instead of Robin Hood would be Mr. Altamont (an alias of Sherlock Holmes). I really wanted everything about him to contrast Joker in his Fake Phantom Thief look. From the colors to the Persona to the theme.

My rewrite of Akechi for my fic has a new design for him as a PT as well as different weapons. His melee weapons he dual wields switchblades.

My redesign of my PT!Akechi for my fic is one of my favorite things about this story.

New fanart, I got this commissioned from the wonderful @lilshironeko

I call it, “Three of a Kind”

In my fanfic, Akechi sports a new look. His PT name is called Ace. And Kasumi (originally it was a Female OC and not Kasumi when I came up with a female Protagonist) is called Royal, after Royal Flush. (I changed it to Kasumi and scrapped the OC when P5R was first announced and changed it to Kasumi because I loved her design, plus the name Royal fits her even more as a cute reference to Persona 5 Royal too.)

I wanted my three main characters to match Joker in the playing card motif for codenames.

Kasumi’s outfit had a color change so she can match with the other two. Akechi/Ace who is an antagonist has white and blue for his coat and gloves, Joker the hero has black with red, I wanted Kasumi/Royal who represents a neutral party throughout the story to be a merge of the colors, purple gloves and a gray jacket.

This image is also the header for my blog!

I love it to bits! Thank you @lilshironeko

Here is art of my revamped PT Akechi design. Codename: Ace

My friend @eiranerys commissioned an awesome artist to realize my design in beautiful color, that lovely artist is Cleo. You can find her deviantart here

I was never a fan of his original design. Found it extremely tacky. I based his design off a film noir detective. His name Ace is not only a reference to the playing card but also back to the detective theme. An ace detective. His mask is based on large sunglasses I saw with metal studs on them at a mall once. I thought a mask based on sunglasses would be fitting for a detective.