i feel like i've missed a lot of asks/replies so sry if this idea has already been brought up! but like yknow how in p4arena the setting is an alternate yasogami high school, so what if p5arena where the plot is akechi's jailbreak and the setting is his palaCE
This hasn’t been brought up! I rather like the idea personally–it matches with what I’ve been saying about Marie’s dungeon feeling like a blueprint to be used for any “Goro’s still alive” plot twists they’d wanna pull later.
(Incidentally, everyone should go back and play Persona 4 and/or 3. Damn good games, those. And the way they handle Shadows and dungeons would be interesting idea fodder for this Metaverse jailbreak AU.)
I know that P5 said some stuff like “Persona users can’t have Palaces,” but I can easily see them coming up with a non!Palace location that holds Akechi prisoner. It could be a sort of bubble-pocket universe that would disappear completely after a certain amount of time, thus necessitating the PT get to Akechi pronto and save him before it seals shut.
In fa~ct, they could be ultra meta and actually call it a dungeon instead of a Palace (because Palaces have dungeons and… well, fourth wall breaking stuff is totally within this game’s scope, and Futaba would absoLUTELY call it a dungeon crawl). Like a Palace, the dungeon could be born out of Akechi’s distorted desire, but those desires would be him torn between accepting death and wanting desperately to live instead of being power hungry/manipulative/eager for control/abusive, etc.
And Atlus would have to find some way to work Philemon into this shit because bring him the fuck back, he would totally strike up a deal with Akechi to bring him back to life at the cost of notoriety/all his hard work as an ace detective goddammit Atlus whyYYYY












