#thievesrambles

i think he would originally want to go with like. a doberman or a great dane for the "scare factor" but he would end up finding a golden retriever or labrador retriever who, upon seeing akechi, starting wagging their tail fast enough that it smacked over a glass on the table in the room and shattered it

akechi goro is not immune to the golden retriever puppy dog eyes and neither am i

i also think he would name the pup something norse mythos related, perhaps sigyn if the pup is a girl (sigyn is loki's wife) or lævatienn maybe (a sword loki crafted). he would also insist on the proper character being used and break a lot of veterinary computers if he went with that one lol ("laevatienn" is also a spell loki is able to cast)

i just think he deserves something to focus on and have a challenge that isn't just "survival" or "being akiren's rival" post canon. i know it's helped me a lot to have another living being to take care of and focus on thats not a partner or friend, and to have that motivation to work together with my service dog (his name is achilles and i love him so much). i also think that if he doesn't go to therapy right away, or even if he does, having a dog who can alert to his episodes (panic or lash out or otherwise, because we all know he isn't paying attention to or acknowledging those) would help him actually trust that he can get better. i don't know if i'm explaining it well tbh, but when someone else, even if its an animal, sees your "faults" or "flaws" and is able to nonjudgmentally help you calm down, it can help you realize that not everything is so bad.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78764411

the lore behind this is that with each performance of the stage play (each SHOW , not production) he had a new name . this also includes his nicknames from Ryuji - it's because at the time of the first stage play (2020) he wasn't known as Ren Amamiya , as that name was only made canon in 2022 with the release of P5R . Akira Kurusu is canonical in the manga release , where Ren Amamiya is canonical to Dancing in Starlight , The Anime , Royal , Tactica & Strikers ! the name Ren was used in Dancing in Starlight & Strikers before becoming canonical with the release of Royal .

a couple of my favourite stage play names are Mao Tomokawa , Kaito Shinno & Itsuki Kuroi .

i find it interesting that Joker is the only persona protagonist with so many names . the P3 male mc only has 2 (Makoto Yuki & Minato Arisato in the manga) , same with femc (Kotone Shiomi & Minako Arisato) . the P4 protag is almost exclusively known as Yu Narakami , though he has the name Souji Seta in the manga & Yuya Seta and Hayato Asakawa in the two stage adaptations , and the P1 protag has no confirmed names as far as my research goes . P2 male mc is Tatsuya Suou by default and the femc is named Maya Amano , though they're not mirrors of each other like Kotone and Makoto, but two sides of the same story in the same universe. this makes the P2 protags the only protags with canonical names on game release !