Goro Akechi

"Why? Why are you being so nice to me? I did nothing to deserve it." -Goro, Gallery 13F

## Goro Akechi

### Player

Will

Goro Akechi is a pc played by Will who was placed in the hotel on the 4th day. They are a character from the game *Persona 5 (Royal).*

## Submission Info

### Backstory

Goro Akechi is the bastard child to a wealthy politician who couldn't care less about the mother. Their mother, a young woman who was cast aside by her family, worked at a nightclub to support her and her new son. When she would bring men home from work, Goro would be sent to a bathhouse until it was safe to come back.

Eventually, Goro's mother quit that job and got a better part-time job, but the stress caught up to her. She killed herself, and Goro was without any parents.

Passed from foster home to foster home, Goro grew to resent the society that put them in this situation. Illegitimate children weren't treated well anywhere, and even as a child, Goro could tell they were unwanted.

More than anything, though, Goro hated their father. Masayoshi Shido was the source of all Goro's pain. Shido was the reason their mother was dead. The reason Goro existed in the first place.

At some point, in Goro's miserable life, they received a strange app that took them to another world. There, they awakened to their persona, a manifestation of the justice they longed for, and the rebellion against a society that cast them aside: Robin Hood.

Goro didn't particularly care what gave them this power. God, demon, it didn't matter. Whatever it was, it chose Goro. Maybe something finally appreciated them for once.

Of course, it wasn't that simple. Really, Goro was just a pawn chosen by the god of control to be pitted against another god's champion.

After awakening to their persona, Goro went to their father and offered themself to him. They wanted to gain his trust- bring Shido to his highest point before announcing their relation to him and ending his life.

Shido, having been interested in cognitive research before, gave Goro a task to carry out to prove their worth. Kill the shadow version of Wakaba Isshiki.

Goro succeeded in this, gaining Shido's trust and becoming his right hand man. Shido used Wakaba's (who was now dead)

research on "cognitive psience" to improve his understanding of Goro's abilities...and improve their power.

Through many traumatizing medical experiments, Goro eventually awakened to a second persona: Loki.

In order to continue killing and causing chaos for Shido, Goro needed the public to know them, so they were given a job as a detective. As their popularity picked up, they got more access to the metaverse. They used their powers on Shido's targets and 'solved' their own cases. Things were going great....until the Phantom Thieves started.

A group of people changing peoples hearts. They happened to be targeting people close to Shido, which could be problematic if the targets confessed their dark involvements with Shido.

The plan to stop this was simple. Gain the leader's trust, join his team, and arrest him. The thieves would disband and Shido could climb his way to Prime Minister of Japan.

Unfortunately...Goro may have gotten attached to this leader. Joker, as he was called in the metaverse, was very similar to goro. Multiple personas, fucked over by adults, people pleaser.....

Goro might have fallen in love with their narrative foil. Did they know that? No. That relying must have been hatred. Joker thought he was sooo much better than them. But when Goro walked into the interrogation room to shoot the man they helped arrest, well, they may have cried.

All that, only to find out that Joker has used the metaverse to fake his death. Naturally, Goro was pissed, so they followed the Phantom Thieves into the Metaverse. He had to stop them from changing Shido's heart.

Goro fought the thieves in an engine room, eventually using their berserk powers on themself (though not without monologuing first). Without clear thoughts, all they could focus on was destroying Joker. Naturally, Goro was eventually defeated.

Just as the thieves were about to help Goro, another version of Goro appeared. Shido's cognition of them, a puppet willing to do anything he asks. That's all Shido saw them as.

The cognition summoned more enemies, to keep the thieves away, and threatened to shoot Goro.

At the last minute, Goro pointed his gun at the emergency button on the wall and fired it, which sealed them and the enemies off from the Phantom Thieves. With a wall now behind them, Goro gave Joker their final wish: change Shido's heart.

*[taken straight from character submission]*

### Powers/Abilities/Notable Talents

He has an app that takes him to the Metaverse, Within the metaverse, he has a special outfit that grants him the power of not one, but two personas, which is very rare.

Outside of the metaverse...oh dear, he's just a teenager with emotional issues. Of course, acting as a detective for a few years did leave them with some deductive skills, but mostly just more trauma.

### Misc.

* they're afab and presented as male to the public while they were a detective :)
* Goro Akechi isn't their real name but they don't connect themself with the old one anymore. as far as their records are concerned, the old name never existed. they changed it so Shido wouldn't recognize it (and bc trans)
* Goro is 5'3", they just wore heels and shoe inserts to look tall

### Hell Questions

**Biggest Fear? What Leaves Them Totally Petrified, Frozen In Place With Fright?**

* being controlled or manipulated in any way. medical stuff (points at backstory) especially needles/anything that could make them lose consciousness(which kinda feeds into the lack of control thing)

**Greatest Regret? If They Could Change One Thing From Their Woebegone Past, What Would It Be?**

* That's a hard one. I want to say it's the moment they offered themself to Shido.. though tbh they feel like it would be better if they never existed at all.

**What Annoys Them? Pet Peeves? Anything Really Tick Them Off?**

* STUPID PEOPLE, pancake jokes, selfish adults, society in general

**Favourite Hobby? What Do They Do For Fun? What Activities Might They Partake In To Relax?**

* they love mystery novels and the featherman series (it's basically power rangers but they're bird themed)

**Who In Their Life Is Important To Them? Who Is Dear To Their Heart?**

* Joker (aka Akira Kurusu)

**Any Objects/Items They Hold Dear? Anything Material They Particularly Cherish?**

* left leather glove, the right of which they threw at Akira

**Absolute Favourite Memory?**

* Meeting Joker, who's first words to Goro (about the PT) were "They do more than the cops"

**Downright Worst Memory?**

* Definitely when they shot "Joker".

## RP Findings

### Library Books

#### June 28-30, 2020 Library

Goro found one book in the library, titled #7843627359-15-B.

Curious about the missing page, Goro set out to look for it and ended up looking up the book's contents on a library computer. They weren't able to put together a lot of the information due to their limited experience, but got to make the computer melt so :)!

### Akira Kurusu

Akira first appeared to Goro and Ryuji in the ground floor bar, stopping the two from a physical fight. He was, and still is, narrated by Lawbreaker.

## Trivia

* two of Goro's 4 shocks were from trying to destroy smiley faces; the other two were from touching paintings
* they're stupid ok