I know I stated that Minato's Semblance doesn't manifest in a singular pattern but it will more or less be 3 main abilities.
The first is Death Radiance. His soul is "Tainted" so to speak with the powers of Death and it's inherit ability over darkness and Shadows (element). The second one is the Summoning you seen him use way back, which basically allows him to summon defeated Shadows and Grimm.
I was thinking of making a little chapter or 2 with Minato and Weiss about this but i don't want to rip off Prince Ajurna's Yuuki and Schnee relations. Kind of on the fence on this one since he hasn't done anything with that relation yet or expanded past it.
If I do choose to use it expect some funny (Depends on your sense of humor.) scenes. Might just call it a Wildcard's generic Semblance though.
Messianic Rebirth despite my problems with the newest chapter is a fic that is of great quality and is written better than this one.
The third Semblance is Stat Allocation/Distribution.
He's a RPG Protagonist nuff said. Basically this ability allows him to increase his parameters. Magic, Agility, Strength, Endurance and luck can be stacked on top of his base stats.
Minato could just allocate the whole thing to one or 2 stats or just apply it evenly. He has a set amount of points that he could use and he'll make his "Character build" based on the situation. All that said that Stat Semblance for how OP it sounds can't compete with Volume 4 Ruby in terms of speed (nowhere close) or Yang and Nora in terms of speed and endurance. Their Semblance Specializes and his generalizes. A jack of all trades if you will.
Usually a person has One semblance but I wanted something to do with the number three seeing Persona 3 is the third (technically the 4th) installment of the franchise.
His Death Radiance isn't a Semblance based on his personality but him being a vessel to Death (though its very close to his true mindset prior to SEES in fact it would be Minato's only Semblance if he was taken in the beginning of Persona 3 or the bad end).
It definitely changed him in some fundamental aspect seeing his Dual-summoning prior to acquiring the Universe Arcana comes from the enhancement of his soul due to Death's residual energy being absorbed into his soul.
His Summoning Semblance can also help with his Persona abilities in a vein similar to an enhancement, though its more similar to an Evoker a basic tool to assist with bringing the Persona out with less stress and cost. Imagine them being used in conjunction, but I'll leave it to you to imagine the results.
If it helps you understand it these 3 abilities are "branches" of his True Semblance which is empty just like the Fool or Universe. And these abilities are the type of "possibilities" available at the time.
For a new possibility be born, he must fully understand the abilities before adding anymore to his repertoire. Most likely I'll limit him to these powers to not make Minato more OP than he already is. He has gone through Persona Q so that's why he has Zeus and the Sub-Persona ability.
Moving on to the Fusion weapon, this concept of having multiple Personas in one weapon was made by my friend Nightly7 so I'll give credit where credit is due. And before any of you say this is utter bull shit remember in the game allows you to refuse Personas in generic fusion weapons again and again so that's my reasoning. Plus In canon game canon Minato is a bit of a jokester and kinda an asshole. So i was thinking of combining the movie manga and game to make a bit more lighthearted lazy AF Minato. Seriously check out the dialogue choices in Persona 3 and Persona Q.
The Shadow gained a pure crimson flame-like outline as a gigantic sphere of fire and light formed directly in front of its many blades pointed at the first years taking the initiation.
The ground shook as if the gods of lightning and thunder themselves came and descended to the mortal plane to obliterate arrogant non-believers. The tree were starting to blacken as black snow like ash rained down on them irritating their lungs and eyes.
The orb twisted and rotated violently as more and more energy was poured into it threatening to incinerate everything in the immediate vicinity . Ruby could tell that energy was something similar but inherently different from aura just cementing the fact this wasn't a Grimm further. Yang her big sis, stood in front of her shielding her from the pulsating attack despite being knocked unconscious a few moments ago. Her Ruby safety instincts were something that transcended reason and it allowed her protect her much much more efficiently.
This isn't looking good, most of them including the protagonist herself was low on aura. In fact, the ninja martial artist looking guy Ren or Rin looked like he was running on fumes.
Jaune Arc and his redhead partner Pyrrha Nikos placed their shields in front of them in a last-ditch effort to protect the group. The blonde male look beyond terrified, just a step or two away from urinating himself but despite all that he refused to run away.
He might be weak and unskilled but he refused turn his back… to leave the others to such a fate. He would never be able to sleep at night knowing he did such a thing. The armored blonde took a few steps forward before widening his stance digging his shoes in the ground staring the beast in the eye.
It's molten bright metallic gold eyes burned with intelligence and dark maddening rage, it lacked the feral aspects a creature of Grimm but in a sense made it more terrifying. Grimm despite them looking like they would love nothing more than to rip you to shreds, it was little more than an animal in behavior.
Jaune had heard that older A-class Grimm were far more intelligent than their younger counterparts but he never encountered one before, would it hold a candle to the beast with an azure mask with a roman numeral I on it.
The stones on the ground started to melt into red hot magma from the heat radiating from the sphere of energy was being prepared to launch. Pyrrha have Jaune a slight smile before tensing her muscles on her shoulders and forearm. Ruby collapsed her Crescent Rose into its compact sniper rifle form and looked through the scope with her silver eyes narrowed giving depth perception.
They wouldn't run and that made them all so worthy of being saved.
A long white spear coated in blue electricity pierced the attack and went through the eye socket of the beast making an ugly water being splashed sound. It roared in agony as it dropped its knives to try and pull the pole arm out of its socked spilling a foul black blood like substance.
The spear head was jagged like a bolt of lightning making it fiendishly hard to pull out. A blue blur rushed down the cliff with his speed buffed by his semblance and Heat Riser and kicked the spear deeper into the thoroughly destroyed eye causing hairline fractures of the mask. The fool deactivated his semblance after the attack as prolonged use would have repercussions similar to Aigis' Orgia mode or Shura Tensei. The longest he managed to keep in one form was around 15 minutes before he needed to 'cool down' for half the amount of time used. It was much better than the 3 minutes initially and using this specific Semblance was much like exercising a muscle.
A wild swing from 2 of the Shadow's arm simultaneously tried to slam him into the ground but missed entirely with the casual duck downwards and sideways in one motion from Minato. With such a violent attack at such a speed, dirt was kicked up off the ground partially obscuring the Shadow's eyesight allowing the savior to wrap his left hand around the shaft of the ivory-white pole-arm and push kicked to the azure mask of the Shadow full force savagely ripping the weapon with a golden eyeball attached to the tip before the electricity that is constantly released fried it causing a foul smell to travel into the nostril of Minato's he didn't have any visible change in expression, one could tell the fool won't be forgetting the stench any time soon.
With a flick of the wrist Minato backhanded the Magician Arcana Shadow using his knuckles with enough force to floor it.
Heat Riser was such a useful skill seeing it applies all 3 stat enhancement buffs at once. In all honesty, it was just a better version of the Best Friend fusion spell. Not only did that spell require both Forneus and Decarabia, the spell costed more Spiritual power too.
Dual summoning by itself is already taxing and combining powers at just the right ratio and mixture was even more so.
"Thanatos. I am thou." The blue haired teen shouted while placing his right hand in front of the left and widened and bent his legs slightly holding the spear in a proper stance. A bluish-white fusion circle was created to make the illusion of it being similar to the Schnees' Glyph made it slightly more taxing as well as the constantly generating blue mist to cover up the Persona's body.
Thanatos materialized slowly into the corporeal realm forgo his usual battle cry roar under his master's command and settled on making an eerie chattering sound with his skull helm and making his chains rattle like the Reaper to announce his presence.
"Out of all my Personas, you are the only one I have any sort of pride in my friend… all of our enemies perish. Vorpal Blade."
Slashes of light erupted from the katana like blade of Thanatos after that order made by his master and all curved in an angular pattern and targeting the torso and limbs. The Shadow tried to dodge frantically but there was to many torrents of attacks to completely avoid. It dodged one slash only to be in the middle of another. Gallons of the putrid black ichor stained the ground as the creature was being decimated by the God of death.
Despite it being modeled after the Reverse Arcana Magician, it was far weaker than it. That was only to be expected since it was one of the 13 fragments of Death, despite it being the weakest, it was still a formidable opponent.
Weiss Schnee widened her eyes in shock as that azure circular sigil burned itself into existence.
It resembled her families blood dictated semblance too much for her to ignore. It was only due to her harsh upbringing that saved her from the disgrace of dropping her jaw right open, she had appearances to keep after all. The 'Grimm copy' was obscured by the blue mist and glassy crystals for the heiress to get a good look at it.
The white-haired girl could make out that bleached bone white skull helm and white legs. When she first met him, Weiss had an impression that Minato Arisato was a competent man based on the way he exuded himself.
His presence had a weight that she never experienced before, it wasn't something that could be described or be put into words. While his choice of acquaintances could use some work, she couldn't deny how efficiently he was at fighting the 'Grimm'. The bluenette moved swiftly and with graceful ferocity that wasted no movement or extra energy. She couldn't imagine why he wastes his time with that dolt Ruby or her blonde bimbo of a sister.
It wasn't as if she was jealous of the blonde's height or… her other more noticeable assets, nope none at all. Yang's mane she called her hair style could use some work. She could have combed and ironed it to make herself more presentable and lose that cowlick sticking out… oh! And that tan outfit needs to go too! If only she could have met with Pyrrha earlier.
There was a sort of beauty in Minato's raw power and technique, his spear moved as if it was a brush under the whims of the painter. Each thrust pierced the mask fragmenting it like glass hitting marble. Each deflection sliced and debilitated the arms of the beast, some were outright severed by the jagged blade. The question was how could he possibly have such a semblance?
Was he one of the members of a branch families or perhaps… one of her grandfather's accidents prior the establishment of the Schnee Dust company. Weiss' cheeks reddened slightly at the thought. "Well whatever the case I'll find out everything about you soon enough Minato Arisato." Her company and birthright was but a scroll call away.
The wildcard was starting to get bored from the battle, there was no special ability or trait that made this shadow a formidable threat. The strange fire attack at the beginning was interesting but he couldn't have allowed it to go off on the people already weakened and tired after going through initiation.
While he was confident Infinity or Surtr's innate absorb fire could have blocked it, there was simply no reason to after the hybrid spear made from the fusion of Odin and both Zeus variants pierced the sphere of flames That was one of the many weaknesses of magic based and spiritual based attacks, it heavily relies on the caster's concentration.
Minato widened both his feet and his hands on the shaft to prepare the killing blow. The stunningly pure white spear with a silver metallic skull constantly spewing blue electricity and flames as a counterbalance.
Inside the skull counterbalance was a whole bunch of golden gears and blue engine parts constantly spinning and clinking with each other. "Gungnir Keraunos." The fool said so lowly that it was barely considered a whisper.
Suddenly the skull counterbalance roared to life spewing electricity more actively, more harshly pushing the teen with its force. Minato was certain that if he didn't shift his stance beforehand then he would have almost certainly been pushed forward by the sheer force.
The Norse runes and Greek script etched on the spear glowed silver and gold respectively and Zeus' energy sword-lance made entirely of plasma sprang up extending far past Gungnir's spear tip.
Seven blasts of blue lightning erupted from the blade and raced towards the half-dead shadow. It was missing most of its limbs at this point and his mask was just barely being held together by its face at this point.
2 of the lightning bolts punched a hole on its stomach and still had enough power to blast a tree in half spintering it. 3 blasts slammed into the torso splattering black thick blood on the ground which soaked it up like water albeit on a much slower rate. The last 2 just exploded the head and core at contact, artificial electricity can travel to nearby conduits up to meters or around 13 feet without fail. Naturally magical lightning can travel for much longer distances and much more controllable. Odin's spear was renown for its almost assured killing strike which is an attack on destiny and fate as well as the individual. That skill would later be added on to its successor spear Gae Bolg which has a variation of the guaranteed fatal strike which is arguably more efficient.
The shadow melted into a pile of ichor just like they normally did at Tartarus and the labyrinth. He slowly gazed back at the 8 students seeing their faces full of shock and awe but settled on the knives the shadow dropped in an attempt to remove Gungnir Keraunos from its face.
The fool wondered if they could be used for weapon fusion or at the very least as materials to make a usable weapon. Persona users holding even regular or imitation replica of weapon can already damage a shadow because their 'souls' and minds are elevated to the same wavelength as a shadow and that alone makes almost anything a viable option against the hidden dark emotions of humanity.
These people however need something already pre-made at that wavelength to hope at doing any damage against them. That means the weapons made by the Kirijo Group, persona fused weapons, or weapons made from the byproducts of shadows.
Theodore was able to use shadow remains to make rather amazing and functional pieces of art and the fool is sure the black smith could achieve similar results.
The spear returned to its base sword form but large cracks were running along the side of the blade in an almost spider web like manner. Minato tapped his knuckles a bit on the flat of the blade and that slight touch was more than enough to shatter it into in-numerous pieces. He sighed slightly, he was almost sad that the blade was beyond salvageable.
Minato wasn't one to get attached to weapons, he wasn't like his fellow silvered eyed Ruby. He appreciated weapons as they are tools, he can't even count the number of times he switched one sword for another.
That was so awesome! That was the only thing going through Ruby's mind at the moment.
She had no idea Minato Arisato was that powerful, she knew that he was competent better than Jaune at a fight any way. While She wasn't saying, he could beat Uncle Qrow or anything because in her little mind no one could beat Uncle Qrow.
Ruby and Yang never saw Qrow's aura meter go down to less than 25 percent ever, there was this one time that he knocked out their father even though was still suffering from a hangover. Once her alcoholic uncle decides to use his scythe the red reaper could count the number of people that could go toe to toe on the fingers of her hands. One day she would be just as good with her Crescent Rose… though it might be a long while.
Ruby Rose was mesmerized by the spear-lance ray gun thing? It was so awesome, it was a strikingly pure white polearm with a lightning spear tip. When a 3-foot plasma blade erupted past the spear tip and flames/electricity spewed out from the skull, the red hooded teen had to bite her lips to stop making a complete fool of herself. She was already in bad-terms with her partner Weiss and she didn't want to add more tension to that already fraying string.
That weapon was an absolute master piece and she simply must ask how Minato made it. When she saw the weapon revert into a gray sword and shatter into itty bitty pieces her heart ached at such a sight, she almost felt like crying.
Turning her gaze back to the blue haired teen and exiting her slight daydream of the weapon, Ruby saw Minato crouching down to the ground pocketing the long daggers of the "Grimm". The other silvered eyed teen did the exact same thing to Roman Torchwick's hired goons too.
He had a strange habit of scavenging for items and to be honest it's only a step away from theft. It wasn't like his life depended on them right?
That reminds her, he promised to buy her new headphones but he totally didn't! Suddenly the spear glowed a bright blue forcing them to close their eyes from the blinding flash of light. Blinking the glare out of her eyes the 15-year-old girl saw the man single-handedly responsible of putting down that monstrosity casually walking towards them.
His white boots tapped softly against the ground in a rhythmic pattern only changing whenever it stepped on twigs and branches causing them to snap in half with that sound cracking the air slightly.
With his now weaponless hand, he flicked his bangs out of his eye only for the slight gust of wind to blow it back into its original position. Minato frowned a bit displeased, it was almost as if some greater force is out there preventing the teen to change his hair at all.
"Are you alright?" Minato asked once he was within talking distance. A trail of red rose petals and dust (regular definition) was left gently falling to the ground as Ruby used her semblance to close the distance between her and the blue haired male before he could blink.
"That was so Awesome!" Ruby exclaimed at the top of her lungs. That unfortunately caused some ringing on Minato's ear but he managed to keep his poker face and posture refraining from dispiriting the girl. Weiss however just scoffed, crossed her arms after sheathing her rapier Myrtenaster and rolled her paled blue eyes. She was obviously not that fond of her newly christened partner.
"That weapon! That thing you summoned!" Ruby grabbed the edges of her crimson hood in barely contained excitement pointing at the still materialized the ultimate form of the Death Arcana Thanatos with shaky fingers.
Fortunately, he was still covered from the blue mist like summoning miasma that most Persona Users have. The chain ring of eight purple, blue, and stone gray coffins decorated by marble saints and angels crying out blood were completely obscured by the azure flame like mist preventing any possible questions comparing how different Thanatos was to the native creatures of Grimm.
Despite how physically similar the Grimm were to some of the more bestial and organic based Shadows were, it was an only superficial resemblance.
The large humanoid torso with a bulging 8-pack covered by a coat of pure black darkness and very noticeable stich marks, crimson straps and buckles traveled horizontally and vertically to secure the coat in place like human overalls or just simply for design purposes, gunmetal gray steel studs and buttons.
A brownish belt with a celestial gold belt-buckle designed with human skull and crossbones secured the long ivory white katana like blade with a black hilt riveted by pristine silver nails. The 3-serrated jagged edge below the cutting edged giving the blade a more barbaric appearance.
The sword was sheathed in a black scabbard capped and decorated with the same celestial gold that reflected all light that made it almost resembled a star descending from the heavens into the mortal plane, aged bronze forming a cyan green patina and polished brass to give contrast to the green and compliment the radiant gold.
The sockets of the skull buckle glowed a scarlet light making it appear more demonic and deathly than it already was. White gloves and boots that extended past the knees and ankles as well as everything else that made Thanatos so threatening was completely hidden.
Only the black spherical ovoid that seemed impossibly dark called its head was exposed and the contrasting bleached white hinged jaw skull helm that resembled a creature with avian and draconian features.
Ruby lost some of her vigor staring at the persona user's hands that were now empty after discarding the shattered sword. "…What happened to that super uber ultra-mega weapon?" The petite rose looked at the reborn savior like he just murdered his own child… which could be her current thought considering how much she was a nut for weaponry.
"…Faulty battery," Minato finally replied after scratching the back of his head.
"The Lightning Dust made contact with it and well…"
It was a little white lie but what else can he say the truth? The notion of a magic weapon using parts of his soul in the form of gods, demon, and mythological beings as a source is utterly ludicrous.
"Forget the weapon!" Weiss walked forward with her arms crossed. Ruby stared at her as if she called her mother fat.
"What I am interested in is how in Dust's name did you summon it," The heiress pointed at the God of Death with shaky slim fingers in a similar manner to her partner Ruby. "The only people on Remnant that could have that Semblance are the ones with blood ties to the Schnee family… in other words my family."
"Hot damn Mina," Yang said wincing a bit as she stretched.
"Yang are… y-you alright?" Her sister looked at her with big worrying eyes.
"Yup! Bit sore is all." Yang replied placing a comforting warm hand at the top of Ruby's hood. "But in all seriousness, you guys look nothing alike."
The group gone silent. It appears no one wants to tell Yang about the irony of that statement. "What." "…" What!"
"Moving on, there's no rules that state Summoning to be a Schnee exclusive trait, the world is much vaster than anyone can truly grasp." Minato breaking the silence. "Merrow!" The blonde bosom girl blinked. "Is that a fuckin cat?"
"Yang language! I think it's cute." Her sister chastised. Ruby stared at the mostly black kitten that wore strange tribal like collar with 2 bells attached to it. His right ear was a light gray that contrasted the rest of his body and that made him very unique to any cat she ever saw before. The trait that stood most out the most was its silver eyes that practically reflected all light that was near it. She thought it to be a very special trait she inherited from her mother and here she was with two others with similar eyes as her, even if one's an animal but still. "Oh, I forgot about the little guy." Minato sheepishly admitted.
"You… forgot?" Blake lifted an eyebrow. She not very talkative and that often allowed her to blend into the background. Not that Minato minded, he often loved the silence as well, he responded when spoken too but he was not used to initiate it. "To be fair it has aura so it would have been fine."
"Perhaps we should return first and complete the initiation, It would be rude to keep the headmaster waiting." The redhead spartan interrupted.
She, Jaune, and Ren carrying Nora started walking back to the launch site. Jaune seemed rather nervous and kept to himself not saying anything but he supposed being in a near death situation does that to a man. Still the armored teen was the most shaken out of everyone around. Ren on the other hand like Blake seemed naturally less verbose. Weiss gave him a strange look with reddened cheeks but did what was asked by Pyrrha. Ruby looked at his cat Schrodinger almost wanting to pet it. Yang slapped him on the back playfully before returning to her sister's side as everyone started walking out of the forest. If they turned back they would have realized the plant life Minato walked past started to wither and rot away with his mere presence.
Social Links are scenes that I find a bit jarring to write but hear me out. Let's say there's actually good character development and bonding and then BOOM I am Thou, Thou art I in bold lettering just pops up in the middle of it. Philemon or whoever does the glass shattering noise and speech is a douche. So I will probably do the bonding scene whether in groups or as individual and just mentioned that it happened.
I don't have a copy of Persona 5 yet but can someone please explain why Demon negotiation works with Shadows? If it's compatible I might use it in this fic.
And also is Mage's Gift stack-able with boosts and amps type skills? Because if it is then its seriously broken. Persona 5 has Almighty boost and amp which is crazy that it took so long but imagine Minato with a Messiah or it's Picaro counterpart with Mind Charge, Magic Skill up (Still kinda salty that it's a Persona 3 Portable exclusive skill. Would have loved to be in Persona 5 would actually make the DLC worth buying for that Skill alone.), Almighty Amp, Almighty boost, Mage's Gift, Repel Dark, Spell Master, Morning Star. With the Sub-Persona mechanic of Persona Q he could equip Thanatos or Orpheus Telos which is basically his Izanagi-no-Okami in terms or resistances with all the regenerates invigorates and endures.
I am not too big a fan of the Picaro designs especially designs that were already complete and flushed out like Tsukiyomi, Thanatos, and Magatsu Izanagi. They were honestly fine as is and they look so ridiculous and over edgey. I love regular Tsukiyomi's design so you guys should expect him to get summoned by Minato at some point. If Persona 5 protagonist can get away with it so can I.
Just to let you know the cat has silver eyes but its for aesthetic reasons. It doesn't have any powers like Ruby but if you can guess why he has it then congratulations you win a cookie. He was based off of Schrodinger from Digital Devil Saga in terms of appearance and name but could be considered his opposite as well, that's the hint guys.
The cat wasn't based on Morgana despite me knowing he existed at the time. Though i might make it playful like it at the very least make it less serious than Schrodinger from Digital Devil Saga.
By the by do any of you actually like Morgana, Koromaru or Teddie? I really can't stand these types of characters that basically brings gags at every scene they're in.