madimpossibledreamer

Main Points: Persona 4 Playthrough Unbreakable Ties, Second Person
Chapter Summary: Rise starts a conversation. That was possibly unwise.
Word Count: 335
Rating: T
warning: not in much more detail than this warning, but body fluids and public restrooms

( some conversations are dangerous )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: ZONE TIME - P4D OST

The idea here for the title is that Yosuke in this universe is a law nerd and has done a decent number of civil cases—so he’d know debt terms. The debt remains the same; i.e. he doesn’t think he’s paid it off or that the terms of the contract should change and no amount of ‘you’re not at fault’ judgments from others will make him believe it. I also considered some ‘representing yourself’ terms, since he’s essentially the one putting himself on trial, but.
I don’t know what it is about this specific song that makes me go ‘this is the Verdict reasoning/putting together the pieces/thinking song’, but. It is what it is.
he's not kidding about Kanji's fashion, btw, man's one of the most well-dressed yakuza around. Unlike his counterpart he doesn't have a full gold suit and switches it up, but if you see one of the most eye-catching shirts particularly if it's got some sort of metallic pattern on it it's probably Kanji. (Honestly, he might be making one-of-a-kind shirts himself because he's awesome.) Not over the top, not gaudy, but he absolutely would fit right in at a nightclub.

Main Points:
Persona 4 Verdict AU (P4/Judgment Fusion)
Chapter Summary: How everyone in Verdict ends up where they are.
Word Count: 2330
Rating: Teen
Naoto is nonbinary or trans, Yosuke is disaster bi, so basically canon.

( life is messy )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: No End in Sight – Midnight Fury

Why do I keep seeing ‘senpais’ as the plural for ‘senpai’; that’s an English suffix for pluralization, not a Japanese one…

this is fun

Main Points:
Persona 2/Persona 4 crossover (Broken Hero)
Chapter Summary: Yosuke apologizes.
Word Count: 1482
Rating: Teen
Warning: Mostly just Yosuke--he's working on not being homophobic anymore but he's just as flaily with that as with everything else. Swears a bit too. (as does kanji). and his anxiety is showing.

( secondary social links )

Current Mood: yare yare
Current Music: Reverie - Persona 4 OST

Main Points:
Persona 2/Persona 4 crossover (Broken Hero)
Chapter Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 190
Rating: Teen

         “Do you even own a guitar anymore, Tacchi?” Jun asks, and Hanamura-kun gasps and whips around hard enough he accidentally walks into one of the trees on the shrine ground. Seta-kun looks concerned, but other than the wince, the pain can’t overcome the brunet’s excitement.
         “You play guitar, Suou-san?” he gasps, and Tatsumi-kun whistles.
         “Not gonna lie, that’s pretty sweet, Suou-san.”
         Tatsuya, meanwhile, looks like he wants to melt into the ground at all the attention. He can be really shy, though it’s easy to overlook if you don’t know what you’re looking for. “…Yes,” he answers after a bit, flicking his lighter quickly.
         Jun merely raises an eyebrow, silently asking which question he’d been answering, and his dragon answers, “…Both.” He takes a deep breath and continues more normally. “Though it’s been a while. I think it’s at Katsuya and Maya-nee’s, and I haven’t touched it in years. The strings will probably snap the second I do.”
         “I really need to get back into it,” Hanamura-kun’s renewed enthusiasm is touching, and it’s nice seeing that while he no longer plays there’s one hobby where Tatsuya hasn’t lost all interest.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hero's Theme - Persona 2 PSP OST

I did not purposefully schedule two pun titled posts for the same week but wordplay happens I guess?
sadly my executive functioning today has been...a mess, so. (and what's worse, I thought I was feeling a little better so attempted to get stuff done. insert Mystery Men "Big. Mistake."
original a/n written at time of fic: yes this is a pun
also it’s exactly what you think and yet not at the same time
this yosuke is special that way

Main Points:
Persona 2/Persona 4 crossover (Broken Hero) (in second person! as just randomly happens sometimes with my persona 4 fics!)
Chapter Summary: The camping trip goes a bit differently.
Word Count: 580
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Yosuke isn't actually being homophobic, just clueless, but he's hasn't figured out how to do social interactions with this group yet.

( he's actually having an arc. )

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: Danger - Persona 2 Innocent Sin PSP OST (Toshiki Konishi)

Hmm. I should probably get a Tatsuya icon, seeing as he's my favorite Persona protag and all... (really tempted to just...do that. right now. despite the fact I don't have the time to be doing this. or room on my computer. If you see a tatsuya icon on this post it's showcasing I have made an unwise if respectable decision).
Update: I did it. Very tempted to make an EP Tatsuya icon too, but I only have 2 more slots...mannn decisions are hard.

Given that I'm writing this series all out of order, this calls for a masterpost. I mean, we've already gotten out of order in posting and it hasn't even been that long.
(Also I might join the crowd and do a P5 crossover, but I still haven't played the game and that niche already has a lot of people filling it, I saw. Diamond is Unbreakable is my favorite Jojo's part; what do you want from me? We'll see once I get through this, which might take a while.)

This isn't the full list, either. Just what I've gotten done so far. Some parts of the dungeon are hard, and other parts are half-finished.

Series summary: Just because the Persona 2 cast didn't lose their memories and the world didn't end doesn't ensure a happily ever after...

The Ache of Distance
Breakin' Through

Déjà Vu
Locked Inside Me
What's Gonna Happen Next
Good Old Days
For Once, Your Way
Strategy Meeting
For a Change
Culture Clash
This Missing Link
Velvet Controversies

Fragile World
Tell Me Please
Try To Be Me
Chained to What I Can't Reclaim
Edge of Exile
Down Through the Gates of Hell
What They Wept For
Fear in My Head
What's Holding Me Back
After the Promise
Alone in this World
Star of Stolen Dreams (incomplete)
Constantly Costuming
Always Just Behind
No One Can Answer
Blackened Bones
My Own Road (incomplete)
The Frozen Wastes (incomplete)
Thief of Time (incomplete)

Falling into Right Places
My Own Fate
Get What's Coming
Positive Shelter
To Breathe Easy
Say It to Michel
The Open Sun
Tear Down the Walls
Everything You've Ever Said
Flow with the Design
In Tents Conversations
Making No Compromise
I'll Start Walking

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Monado Mandala - Persona 2 Eternal Punishment OST

Shirogane is actually undercover as Shiro-kun, but Yosuke isn’t going to make him dress up in a skirt and make him uncomfortable. He was a bit confused when it turned out he’d made the perfect choice as to cabaret club to work for to look into the hostess murders though.
reminder for Chie's hostess name from the notes for A Better Day, also in this universe: Keiko
Also Yukiko is Yuki-chan because the idea of throwing another quirky Yuki-chan at Majima was too funny
kanji frequently fights with tables and chairs

Main Points:
Persona 4/Yakuza
Chapter Summary: Patriarch Narukami has a crush on Cabaret Club owner Hanamura. Majima calls 'em like he sees 'em (and is tempted to do the right thing despite himself).
Word Count: 1040
Rating: Teen
pre-Yu/Yosuke, though Yosuke only worked it out this fic also possibly pre-or-current yukiko/chie

( a glimmer of hope )

Current Mood: proud
Current Music: JeweL - Yakuza 4 OST

Mostly focuses on arguments about Persona 4, but I also mention a lot of different fandoms in the process since this kind of bad argumentation exists. The tl;dr is: an 'Objectively Correct Reading' doesn't exist, only subjective readings based on your own knowledge and life experiences, and if your English teachers said there was I'm sorry: they lied to you. There's a reason why different literary critics and literary criticism styles exist--and they can be applied to any kind of arts, from art to film to comic books to TV shows. So stop claiming you have the One Definitive Reading of the text (particularly when you're just trying to gatekeep minorities out of fandoms). It just makes MIB and English Majors laugh at you.
(and also write ridiculously long essays showing how silly you are, and possibly swear because dear lord nobody's learning anything in English classes these days giles help i need some tea i joke about the state of American education in Shadowed Suspicion but really)
I enjoyed watching X-Files Jose Chung's from Outer Space while writing this though. I recommend it. MIB Alex Trebek is great.
Warning: covers sexism, lgbtq+ phobic writing/defense, racism (briefly) and other phobic writing/defense.

( Readers, I committed one of the classic blunders. I read the youtube comments. )

Current Mood: determined

Main Points:
Persona 4 universe optional
Chapter Summary: continuing my music + character agenda; yosuke is possibly neurodivergent in this one. also possibly on the ace spectrum. and with a small dose of his usual anxiety/depression/self-hatred.
Word Count: 620
Rating: Teen

( Yosuke's pretty sure there's something wrong with him. )

Current Mood: yare yare
Current Music: Backside of the TV - Persona 4 OST

Main Points:
Doctor Who/Persona Crossover
Chapter Summary: Inaba's...a planet? I don't know. I wrote this ages ago and don't remember exactly where I was going with it.
This is part summary, part story.
Word Count: 1094
Rating: Teen

( Part 2 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: I Am The Doctor - Murray Gold

( Part 14 )

Current Mood: yare yare
Current Music: Stand Up Be Strong (Part I) - Bleach OST (Sagisu Shirou)

( Part 13 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Reconstructing More Science - Portal 2 OST

Main Points:
Persona 4 Sea of the Unconscious
Summary: Yosuke was not part of the original investigation team. In fact, he wasn't even part of their world. He was a huge fanboy. And then he fell into Inaba, and his life changed forever...
Really old, so not perfectly written, and it was during my FONTS EXIST phase. Slightly inspired by Chisotahn's Ten Steps fic. The entire concept is a little chuuni/Gary Stu. I don't think it would be bad with some tweaking, but that's tweaking i don't really want to do, so we've got this instead.
while yes, I could split this up, I don't see the point. this is all associated with the same thing. the thing that probably got me to lose any hope of finishing this thing well before I had qualms about its writing quality. i got a little too ambitious, and this unfinished thing was the result. the plan was to split up the entire party to go into their own game and play multiple levels. I didn't even get written one level per character and it's already this long.
I was planning on getting a little more into Takuma and making him less unlikeable in this one (I think). Like other Magicians he's supposed to be a little annoying, but the player's actually supposed to see that. And maybe end up liking him anyway, but him being obnoxious is actually supposed to be seen as a fault, rather than just a "oh that Takuma" sort of thing.
There's also the issue that this "chapter" really doesn't advance the fic along, either. It's a fun concept but, uh. yeah. It's not actually the end of this floor, but the actual plot-relevant stuff I separated out to the next part.
if you want a taste, but don't want to read the whole thing, just read the beginning as it has some fun portal-esque dialogue.
(...unrelated note but I don't remember using -kun for naoto in this fic. well done past!me)
(though also the past tense is a little weird)
Word Count: 5321
Rating: teen

( Part 12 )

Current Mood: embarrassed
Current Music: Reconstructing Science - Portal 2 OST

( part 11 )

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Strange - Tokio Hotel

oh yeah I forgot to mention this my thermometer was apparently off by enough degrees to make me panic because it was old (and also because I accidentally got water in places it shouldn't have been when I was cleaning it possibly)...so that's good.

Main Points:
Persona 4 Sea of the Unconscious
Summary: Yosuke was not part of the original investigation team. In fact, he wasn't even part of their world. He was a huge fanboy. And then he fell into Inaba, and his life changed forever...
Really old, so not perfectly written, and it was during my FONTS EXIST phase. Slightly inspired by Chisotahn's Ten Steps fic. The entire concept is a little chuuni/Gary Stu. I don't think it would be bad with some tweaking, but that's tweaking i don't really want to do, so we've got this instead.
Word Count: 2333
Rating: teen
Warning: This is, uh. It means well. It has better intentions than the ones writing the original Persona 4 (and the animation, and Golden), but it's still a little cringy and stereotypical. Arguably that could be because it's a Shadow, but even then. (Though some of the interactions between the different Shadows really do kind of show an internal struggle, so that part works.) It's got some of my favorite lines in the entire fic, but. (I guess it's a distillation of the best and worst parts of P4. Of which there are some really high highs and some kind of disgusting lows.) Thought I'd warn. Also some outright homophobia from the new Magician Takuma.

( Part 9 )

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: Crashed - Daughtry

I don't care what you say, past!me, that choice music for the floor is a little creepy given we've got kid yosuke in this one. I'm changing it.

Main Points:
Persona 4 Sea of the Unconscious
Summary: Yosuke was not part of the original investigation team. In fact, he wasn't even part of their world. He was a huge fanboy. And then he fell into Inaba, and his life changed forever...
Really old, so not perfectly written, and it was during my FONTS EXIST phase. Slightly inspired by Chisotahn's Ten Steps fic. The entire concept is a little chuuni/Gary Stu. I don't think it would be bad with some tweaking, but that's tweaking i don't really want to do, so we've got this instead.
Word Count: 574
Rating: teen

( Part 7 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: a requiem - Bleach OST (Sagisu Shirou)

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: It's My Life - Bon Jovi (TuneSquad Bootleg remix)

Well, that sucks.
So. A neighbor/friend of the family died (of cancer, not covid, and they weren't in pain probably). She was super nice, always willing to help out. One time when my cell phone died she drove me to meet my mom, since I couldn't call her and have her pick me up. Another time when us kids were on our own and stupidly locked ourselves out of the house she and her husband helped us get back inside rather than waiting out in freezing cold for a locksmith to come that we couldn't pay. Goodbye to a sweet old lady. We need more like her in times like these.

Main Points:
Persona 4 Sea of the Unconscious
Summary: Yosuke was not part of the original investigation team. In fact, he wasn't even part of their world. He was a huge fanboy. And then he fell into Inaba, and his life changed forever...
Really old, so not perfectly written, and it was during my FONTS EXIST phase. Slightly inspired by Chisotahn's Ten Steps fic. The entire concept is a little chuuni/Gary Stu. I don't think it would be bad with some tweaking, but that's tweaking i don't really want to do, so we've got this instead. This chapter has some decent dialogue and I think the imagery is really cool. If I was rewriting it today I think I'd just keep this floor (maybe with a bunch of different "mirror" stages if I was keeping the "yosuke is also fool" thing) and work in some of the lines from future parts because it has some of my favorite single by themselves lines.
(I cannot find the song I referred to so)
Word Count: 1416
Rating: teen
I use female pronouns for Naoto for this one. I like the more complex approach I use in the Average AU.

( part 4 )

Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Dream Palace (Love Hotel) - The Secret World Unreleased Soundtrack

( Part 3 )

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Ladies & Gentlemen Saliva Cover - Gemini

Did a little research on bullying in Japan. I didn’t think Misao was vaguely realistic.
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
Persona 4 Average AU
Chapter Summary: Chie gives the best story she can.
Word Count: 590
Rating: Teen
Not really yukiko friendly, but someone had to be a transphobe

( play upon the past )

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: SMILE - Persona 4 ost

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