'turn left' rambles

[volpish]

a collection of Thoughts on my current wip: 'turn left'; aka 'joker goes back in time for a ng+, now actually knowing the objective of The Game':

1. with regards to the main theme:
   
   1. to akira: "you have kind of a hero complex, don't you?" (probs harry potter?)
   2. people have to want to be saved before you can save them
   3. to akira: "the most dangerous thing about you is that you make people want to impress you" (doctor who-ish)
   4. one guy with supernatural powers can't save a population, but he can show a population that they can be saved
   5. give someone something to fight for
   6. PT: "the game this time... is to reach out to someone. make a friend today." anon: "wow that's sappy."
   7. incite rebellion by inspiring the masses to love themselves and each other
   8. thats true power of love
2. with regards to the plot:
   
   1. akira's singular goal is to shake up the political landscape of japan as much as possible—moooore with the intent to buy time than to actually accomplishing anything, but accomplishments happen anyway
   2. both ann and ryuji miss their canon windows to get in on the PTs and akira ends up soloing it, mostly because he skips over the requisite palaces or throws the timeline off so bad that his friends' troubles just don't pop up in persona-solved kinds of ways
   3. toppling the conspiracy takes... almost the top spot of akira's priority list, second only to fixing the fixable of his friends' problems
   4. futaba becomes involved early(ish) on so she can track down conspiracy members for akira, who was mostly just raiding every castle he can find and hoping for the best before that
   5. akira's calling cards start including calls to action before long—he ends up channeling yoshida a lot
      
      1. yoshida who squints at the latest calling card, then at his fluffy-haired assistant, then back, before—nah, couldn't be, right?
   6. akira ends up as a trio with shiho and ann in school/daily life because he sort of stepped into his old friend slot with ann and she latched onto him like a steel vise
   7. futaba learns about the time travel thing (first and only person to know?)
   8. kamoshida goes down on akira's 1st/2nd day of school, throwing off shiho's suicide attempt
   9. joker goes after kaneshiro soon after, then after the people who gave out letters of recommendation on shido's ship, then after whatever up-and-coming politicians register in the nav
   10. & he continues to grill the passengers on shido's ship until shido's so paranoid his palace morphs beyond repair
   11. that's where futaba comes in
   12. somethingsomething about yoshida making kind of a comeback in the political world because of the stir the phantom thieves are making?
   13. the PT calling cards start up a 'game' for their fans: sort of like a treasure hunt, but with deeds instead of treasures
   14. the real igor was the one who helped akira keep his ng+ carryovers, and akira is plotting to get him out of his prison as thanks (and also to ask him if he can make morgana human)
3. other assorted notes:
   
   1. shiho has a palace (depression/hopelessness - "shiho suzui, shujin academy, army barracks/boot camp [THANK U DORA]")
   2. akira keeps trying and failing to befriend ryuji, mostly because they only just keep missing each other
   3. sae and goro take up residence in leblanc to bitch stress over PT together in the booth behind akira's fav study nook
   4. akira threatens goro with a lightsaber at some point
   5. lowkey ann romance? (mentions of the little admiration-at-first-sight moment having morphed into a deep bond in the past and then swaying back into URT in the present)
      
      1. a lot of the PT 'games' come from things ann has inadvertently made akira think about
   6. mishima is still phanboy #1 but with less/more of a god complex (haven't decided yet); he doesn't know akira is PT at any rate
   7. morgana doesn't live with akira, instead meeting up with him whenever joker pops into the metaverse
   8. (morgana has no idea where this joker guy came from or how he knows so much, but morgana is willing to go along for the ride if it means getting his human body back)
   9. akira and yaldabaoth both remember the past, and they don't talk much. scenes with them mostly exist to give them time to smirk/scowl at each other. who's doing the smirking and who's doing the scowling changes by the day.

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