> CHARACTER

NAME: Goro Akechi
CANON: Persona 5
JOURNAL: impede
POWER: Mental inducement (berserking [5 minutes] and mind control [10 minutes])
JOB: Working for Katelin Jovavich for now, but he's looking to move on. See below!
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:

♠ I continued to tag a "politics and you" (sort of) post here, since that's where he's working! I have a plot available from this!

♠ Akechi went after and trolled Damian on his "superheroes should change the world" post here and here. I also showed a lot of Akechi's personal values here, so I'm fine with anyone having read these threads.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

♠ My primary goal is to have someone take up the plot to go after Jovavich and ask her about JPG, as well as her connection to him. Akechi has access to her building during her campaign, and he knows that time is running out as Jovavich continues to poll poorly. If someone has a power that's good for this, let me know! Akechi is too cautious to let someone in without that, and I'd personally like to wrap up this plot. This will lead to metaplot information!

♠ More politics! Tifa put together a Google document for politics, and I'd like to get more people on board with this! I uh, cheerleaded her while she did this, but we wanted other people to have a clearer view on what was going on here.

♠ I would like to expand his CR! Akechi is the type of person who would recognize and remember most of the Displaced once he sees them once, so it's easy to springboard CR on him being creepy (if anyone would like that). He is naturally unsettling and a passive aggressive dick.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

♠ Politics. This is my unhealthy, self-destructive path for Akechi in game, but I believe it can yield some good for him and for other characters. It's not a good idea for him to be taking it, but he's on it. He's beginning to own it stubbornly as time goes on ICly.

♠ Negative CR. Akechi is a negative CR machine. He's bad at people. He's a midboss villain who believes the means justify the ends. He's also very punchable. He's trying to do better because of Ren, but he's also told Ren he'd kill people so Ren could save his conscience. He's a dick and once he's taken an interest in being a dick, he won't relent. He sees people as tools. I'm fine with retaliation, people trying to beat the shit out of him, etc. He's fine with it, too.

♠ Conspiracies and investigations. Akechi is naturally inquisitive and good at this stuff, so he'll challenge what someone came up with and poke holes in their logic. He's a natural detective and quite good at it, though not always great at the empathy side of it. Or ever. He's never good at the empathy side of it.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:

♠ Akechi is a fake Food Snob, IE he'll go out to expensive restaurants and wait in line just to try it. He actually prefers junk food and sweets.

♠ Akechi keeps up a 2512 version of a Yelp account. He is That Annoying Yelper. You know what I mean.

♠ He rides a bike everywhere he can. Is your character a bike rider? Let's have them compare bike notes.

♠ He visits Ren's coffee shop and tries to pester him for free coffee, but he won't pay it forward to the other Displaced because he's a dickhead. It is known that the two of them are together, so anyone who works with Ren will know that Akechi is his boyfriend. Anyone can feel free to wonder how Ren puts up with this asshole.

OVERALL GOALS: Akechi doesn't have any personal goals, simply because he's learning how to live his life after spending the last two years gunning for revenge. He does have ambitions, but they're more unfocused than they were at home simply because he's not used to having a future. My goal is for him to cause some trouble and be a pain for people, as he doesn't know how to be genuine toward others and is mostly only able to accomplish it via being fake (and he isn't doing that so much anymore).