Goro Akechi (Persona)

Goro Akechi (b. June 2, 1998 - d. December 7 2016; presumed) was a fictional young Ace Detective and investigator, but later revealed to be a hitman. Orphaned at a young age, Akechi was considered a bastard child, being born to an initially unknown father, and a mother who was a prostitute, who had committed suicide when he was an infant. Akechi grew up with a personal hatred towards the man who was revealed to be his biological father, Masayoshi Shido, but decided to devise a plan to help him with his goals in exchange for praise from his father, and to eventually overthrow him, developing a dangerous ego about himself. He will serve as a hidden major antagonist of the upcoming Persona 5 Royal - The Royal Playthrough and The MinneEagle Playthrough.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
=== Mental Shutdown Cases ===
=== First Heist - Suguru Kamoshida ===
=== Second Heist - Ichiryusai Madarame ===
=== Third Heist - Junya Kamoshida ===
=== Fourth Heist - Futaba Sakura ===
Akechi had no involvement in the fourth heist with Futaba Sakura, but he did spend some time with Ren during his off-days.
=== Fifth Heist - Kunikazu Okumura ===
=== Sixth Heist - Sae Niijima ===
=== Attempted Assassination of Ren Amamiya ===
After Ren was officially arrested by the police within Sae's Palace, Akechi began to finalize his plan to infiltrate the police headquarters and assassinate Ren, as per his plan. He had confided in Shido about his plan to make Ren's death look like a suicide, saying that it could look like he stole the guard's gun and shot both himself and the guard. However, this plan was sure to backfire as Ren and Morgana had figured out that he was suspicious, even dating back to the TV station social studies trip when Morgana mentioned pancakes, and Akechi caught onto it and mentioned it, while no-one else mentioned pancakes but Morgana. Furthermore, Ren and Morgana had Futaba plant a bug into his phone to listen into his audio conversations and listen in as they wish. Once they intercepted the audio that Akechi was planning to kill Ren and make his death look like a suicide, the Thieves devised a plan to avert Ren's death, but still fake his death to throw Akechi off of their trail. Upon entering Sae's Palace, the Thieves realized that every other building within the area of her Palace still remained the same, aside from the courtroom, which also included the police station. Once they had managed to devise a plan by observing the same interrogation room Ren was destined to be put in, their plan was complete. All Ren had to do was show Akechi the phone somehow. As part of their plan, Ren faked taking the briefcase that contained Sae's Treasure when in reality, the Treasure was never taken, and the Palace remained intact, and then allowed himself to be arrested by the SAT.
Ren, although heavily drugged to the point where his memories were nearly faulty, managed to convince Sae to show Ren's phone to Akechi in order to trigger the MetaNav into Sae's cognitive world. As she left the building, sure enough, she encountered Akechi on his way to the interrogation room, and when she realized that Akechi was the traitor that Ren mentioned, she showed him the phone successfully, which triggered Akechi to enter the Metaverse without his knowledge. After Sae left him, he continued on to Ren's room, where he proceeded to steal the guard's gun, equip it with a silencer, and kill the guard in attendance, who was working alongside Akechi and Shido. Akechi then proceeded to aim his gun at Ren, who sat in silence. As he said "case closed, this is how your justice ends," he pulled the trigger and shot Ren in the head, killing him instantly. After doing so, he removed the silencer and slipped the handgun into Ren's lifeless hand to make it look like he shot himself. After leaving, unaware to Akechi, he had just killed the cognitive versions of Ren and the guard, having been established there by Sae's cognition of them being present in the room. The corpses of the two were reverted, with the guard still being posted outside before being sent away by Sae, who had came back under Futaba's instructions as Alibaba, and Ren still sitting in his chair alive and waiting.
Akechi contacted Shido of the supposed good news and detailed their plan to hold off until the news storm about Ren's apparent suicide brews down, and then have the rest of the Thieves "suffer unfortunate accidents."
=== Seventh Heist - Masayoshi Shido & Presumed Death ===
Within the couple of weeks after Ren's apparent death, Akechi was initially still certain that Ren was dead. However, upon thinking more about Shido's paranoia, and how the Phantom Thieves are not making any drastic moves, he began to doubt whether or not Ren was really dead. Around this time, the Thieves were secretly stealing Shido's Heart. However, Akechi managed to finally put two and two together and infiltrated Shido's Palace that took the form of a cruise ship, with the Diet Building being the origin, where he ambushed the Thieves in the engine room of the ship. He cursed the thieves, especially Joker, for being somehow more special than he is, still holding true to his ego. He then revealed that Shido was his father and his plan was to assist him until he became Prime Minister, and when that happens, he would whisper into his ear that he was his son, and that he could finally get his revenge, and then he would kill him. He swore to kill the Thieves right then and there, with the rest of them teaming up to take on Akechi. Akechi then showed a different Persona from Robin Hood while still maintaining his Prince attire.
However, after being defeated the first time, Akechi finally snapped and lost his mind, summoning his true attire as the one with the black mask that was causing the mental shutdowns, confirming his true identity. He then summoned his true Persona - Loki, the God of Mischief. He then went all-out one last time in an attempt to slaughter the Thieves, but thanks to their teamwork, Akechi was defeated.
He then finally surrendered, but still held bitterness about how Joker was special in his own way and he had teammates to rely on and be close to, while Akechi did not have anything of the sort in his past. The Thieves tried to convince him to join them once again to set things right, but he was hesitant and wished for the Thieves to kill him right then and there to permanently stop him from getting in their way. However, all of a sudden, a cognitive version of Akechi appeared to the real Akechi, instructing him that he failed and Shido could not accept failure. With the cognitive Akechi being Shido's perception of him, he revealed that he was going to kill for Shido, and that Akechi was just a puppet that Shido was going to get rid of anyways, considering that Akechi had killed too many people to be allowed to live, especially since he can be the one to put Shido away. Cognitive Akechi then gave the real Akechi one last chance to shoot and kill the Thieves, but when he took aim, he insulted his copy and shot him before shooting the lever to the bulkhead door to close it and stop the Thieves from trying to rescue him as they would all be slaughtered should they try to save him. He then ordered them to make a promise to him - change Shido's heart and end his crimes for him. Ren then announced that he will hold onto his glove for him, remembering their promise of a proper duel. Akechi was touched by this promise, and although surprised and somewhat shocked by Ren still maintaining his promise, he showed happiness for this before he took his aim at his injured copy, with both of them aiming their guns at one another. Akechi then lamented how his final enemy was a copy of himself, laughing at the irony. As the Thieves tried to save him by getting the door open, two gunshots rang out. Oracle revealed that there were no life signs behind the door, other than the Shadows that appeared, implying that both Akechi's shot each other. From then on, Akechi was presumed dead by the Thieves, but missing to the public eye, considering that he likely perished within the Metaverse, meaning that his body could not be recovered. If he did truly die, his body likely sank with the ship when Shido's heart was changed and the Palace was destroyed and erased.
=== Final Heist - Mementos ===
Akechi was not involved in the final heist in Mementos due to his presumed demise, but he was mentioned. In the Animation Playthrough, Akechi had no more involvement and was still considered dead.
However, his fate appeared to have been changed in the Royal Playthrough when in contrast to the Animation timeline, instead of Ren being considered to turn himself into the police on December 24th, after Yaldabaoth's defeat, Akechi suddenly appeared.
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